They NEED each other in order to have a villain, grow a following, build their ratings, and command high salaries. Don't believe the hype. #keitholbermann
@Gawkerati: CNN tilts to the left? You're kidding. What anywhere else in the world would be considered center-right at most gets considered "left" here. Meanwhile, yes, MSNBC skews mildly left in terms of its overall editorial viewpoint. But neither even approaches the level of totally ideologically-driven propaganda at which Fox News consistently operates.
However, even that is beside the point, really. Because my problem with Fox isn't that it's conservative. They have every right to be as conservative as they like, if they'd only be honest about it. What they don't have a right to do is to consistently misrepresent opinion as fact, misreport events, and create news, while pretending to be a "fair and balanced" source of information. #keitholbermann
@MissNormaDesmond: I'll agree with everything you said, but lately MSNBC has been more than listing to the left, especially in primetime and though CNN has lost some of their lustre due to budget cuts , I'd still put them closer to the middle of the road. #keitholbermann
@MissNormaDesmond: Totally agree. And keep in mind that both Shuster and Matthews routinely interview the most insane far right assholes as people having legitimate political opinions. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you former Bush/Cheney bag man and total nutcase Frank Gaffney, who famously said this year that Saddam Hussein was behind the Oklahoma City bombing. There is no corollary to that on the left, none. That's just insane.
@Mediahohoho: I've never seen Olbermann cry when discussing republicans, the way I see Beck cry when discussing Obama. I feel like crying every time that "person of color" John Boehner opens his mouth.
People can call MSNBC "left leaning" but they regularly give Pat Buchanan airtime for his crazy old time republican nonsense, and Joe Scarborough (un)Fair his own show. The best that Fox could do was let Alan Colmes meekly defend the left from time to time. #keitholbermann
@MissNormaDesmond: You are either blind, deaf and dumb...or I don't know what. MSNBC is 'mildly skewed' to the left? Have you ever watched the tv channel before? Olbermann is going to be getting the Nobel Prize in 2010 for "Righteous Liberal Indignation". Closely edging out Maddow. But not to worry, Ed Schultz, David Schuster and Chris Matthews are total right wingers. #keitholbermann
@Lance Uppercut: No, you're just someone who's bought into the insanity that is American politics, where right is now center and full-on reactionary wingnuttery is treated as valid commentary. What I said was that this is how these people would be perceived anywhere else in the world, and I stand by that. #keitholbermann
It's called Invidiocy, and it works. Sometimes. However, when Henry Kissinger had his 700-page alibi coming out at the same time as Eddie Fisher's autobiog, he sought to dismiss as a lightweight the former husband of Liz Taylor, and it didn't catch. Nobody read Henry's masterwork. Boo-hoo. #keitholbermann
@bluebears: Do you know, that's exactly the story I heard, too? He was working on his weather machine and when he came downstairs to look for his How to Cause Global Warming manual, there she was, examining his horrible, incriminating photographs.
This whole statutory rape without actual statutory rape thing reminds me of the Washington state coffeehouse prostitution sting without actual prostitution and celebrity sex tapes sans sex.
The worst thing about this jack-ass of a host is he pretense at the end of every clip of actually giving a shit. Dobbs will patiently sit in silence for a moment--as though deeply ruminating the implications of a breaking story and then pretend to be dumbfounded by the blather which his correspondent has just dumped on him, as though it is the first time he has heard it. The man needs to swallow and choke on his dentures, and take his phony populist outrage to the grave with him.
Remember when Sean Hannity was defending Mark Foley because the incriminating emails were "suspicious" in their origin.
And hey, now Mark "I want to fuck underage pages" Foley is getting his own conservative radio talk show! [www.politicsdaily.com]
So, just to be clear. Republicans get very upset if you tell a conflicted kid to wear a condom , but actually trying to fuck underage kids makes you a conservative media personality. Not to mention a respected member of Congress.
@braak: Absolutely. These wingnuts are the same people that get up-in-arms if a hot female teacher is arrested for having sex with one of her 15 or 16 year-old students. In those situations, they just think its "boys being boys," with the strength of their outrage directly correlating to how good-looking the teacher is. It's only when its boys-being-boys with other boys or men that the wingnuts get their hackles up.
@braak: When are conservatives ever genuinely concerned about the welfare of the human beings they claim to be defending? Look at their efforts to outlaw abortion. They fight to ensure the woman has to have the child, but cut funds to medical programs for unwed and underprivileged mothers. They also gut programs designed to provide health care and education for the children that they INSISTED be born. So what's new? They just want to get their cheap political points.
Let's leave "gay" & "truck stop" out of this equation for a moment and use 16-yr-old girl and public restroom instead. Sounds like a daily occurrence in the NYC public school system. Maybe telling the person to use a condom isn't ideal advice but wanting to save someone's life first before judging them isn't the worst place to be coming from either.
@once: agreed. I knew Jennings not long after this incident occurred, when I was a gay kid who benefited from his openness as a teacher. He's an absolutely decent guy who deserves his position. The Obama team simply needs better, more vigilant PR to combat media idiocy.
The Dems have GOT to stop giving into these whining, closet cases and date rapists. It's not like they'll ever be satisfied, and scattering drops of blood on the water only makes them hungrier.
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However, even that is beside the point, really. Because my problem with Fox isn't that it's conservative. They have every right to be as conservative as they like, if they'd only be honest about it. What they don't have a right to do is to consistently misrepresent opinion as fact, misreport events, and create news, while pretending to be a "fair and balanced" source of information. #keitholbermann
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People can call MSNBC "left leaning" but they regularly give Pat Buchanan airtime for his crazy old time republican nonsense, and Joe Scarborough (un)Fair his own show. The best that Fox could do was let Alan Colmes meekly defend the left from time to time. #keitholbermann
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I have proof!
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He once said something good about someone who didn't say something bad about NAMBLA.
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You get that? Guilt by association, by association! Just to get "Jennings" and "NAMBLA" in the same sentence, I assume.
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And hey, now Mark "I want to fuck underage pages" Foley is getting his own conservative radio talk show! [www.politicsdaily.com]
So, just to be clear. Republicans get very upset if you tell a conflicted kid to wear a condom , but actually trying to fuck underage kids makes you a conservative media personality. Not to mention a respected member of Congress.
Nope, nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with the relative danger or lack thereof that that student was placed in.
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