@seyswho: His constituents? Certainly you can't be referring to the people in New York's 23rd district, whose desires can't possibly be represented by Hoffman, due to the fact that he's a carpetbagger.
@skt.smth: Well, I was trying to think of another word to use but couldn't find the proper way to say "morons who voted for him" without sounding petulant. I guessed people could figure out what I meant. Thanks for the nitpicky lecture though, I always enjoy those so very much!
The only solution to Mr. Chen's dilemma where Stewart and Hannity are equal parts of a big, evil corporate pie is to drop out altogether and not consume any media of any form remotely linked to big, evil corporations.
To do that I'd have to be a smug-crunchie living on an organic farm in Vermont bragging about how I don't watch TV and get all my "indie" news from rinky dink anti-neoliberal websites run by Zapatista sympathizers at California liberal arts colleges.
And I really don't want to be that person. #seanhannity
What's sad to me is that things have decayed to such an extent that the thought that somebody (especially when that somebody is in the media) might actually be doing something right, might actually be speaking truth to power because they believe it to be a right thing, that they are really nothing more than half of some serio-comic conspiracy to make us believe it is so.
Call me naive but I do believe Stewart is the real deal. Unequivocally so. I think on some level he is still incredulous over the tantric mindfuck that his show has filled the void that the "legitimate media" use to hold. What started out as a comedy show has become something else due to factors no one could have foreseen. It's like going to a Halloween party dressed as a cop and when an emergency arises being pressed into duty because the powers that be have failed to show up.
As for Hannity, the dickless wonder did what all of these fatuous shitheels do: when he is exposed as the rank hack that he is he just gives that smug shrug of his shoulders and says "Hey, what's the big deal?" Then in a brazen attempt to embarrass the people that have exposed him, he thanks them for watching, as if that was the plan all along.
In antiquity he would have been left on the side of a mountain and we would have rained stones own on his sorry ass.
@Cunning_Linguist: Dear Cunning, (words I never thought I would type into a computer that was traceable) Thanks for your kind (if not cunning) words. Given your moniker, I am honored... #seanhannity
Hmm, you may be overthinking this. Hannity is an asshole and a liar, and Stewart called him out on it. The end. Don't let Hannity's weird apology get inside your brain! #seanhannity
My guess is that Hannity's ratings bump, if there was one at all, was minor and one-day-only. But his faking the footage forever adds to the file that critics of Fox news can pull out to support their argument that it's not a legitimate news source. #seanhannity
@Pick-me-a-winner: Can't see how, and I would be surprised if there was any measurable difference. Stewart fans know there are other ways of getting the info. #seanhannity
@naugahydeinplainsight: What, there needs to be a Fox is "not a legitimate news source" argument. What makes you think that is necessary at all. Fox stopped pretending it was legitimate a long time ago. #seanhannity
Well, now that Hannity says they did use footage from a different protest, it makes me feel that they didn't.
My mind grapes are being squeezed so tightly just trying to resolve reality (Sean Hannity is a filthy truthless liar) with reality (Sean Hannity said something honest).
Is this what it feels like to have a stroke? #seanhannity
Hannity was so gimmicky in announcing that he'd mention TDS on his show, I think most of the TDS audience knew what was coming: a bid to boost ratings, with a reference in the last seconds that wouldn't nearly justify the time spent waiting for it.
If you get your hands on the ratings, I'd be surprised if the traditional Stewart audience fell for it. Any interesting bits were guaranteed to be posted online within minutes, without having to suffer through Hannity's show. I'm guessing most of TDS's audience just waited it out online. #seanhannity
@limber: you pretty much summed up exactly how I felt. Would not want to give Hannity one more pair of eyeballs were he the last show on the tube. #seanhannity
Hannity is so full of it. He tried to pass it off as a mistake....a mistake as if he made a typo on a term paper or something....
No Mr. Hannity, you deliberately cobbled together video from different events to create the impression of something that wasn't true. You LIED. It's not as if your video editing team pressed a wrong button....they went out, found Beck's footage, and inserted it into the story.
That's not a mistake. That's a willful misrepresentation of the facts. #seanhannity
@OneViewHere: If you worked in news you wouldn't be such a conspiracy theorists. When news outlets make mistakes you view as counter to your agenda or belief system, 99% of the time its just a mistake. Its only a couple stones' throws away from 'OMG MISTAKE DELIBERATE' to 'WHY WONT OBAMA RELEASE HIS BIRT CERTIFICATE' and 'BUSH DID 9/11' #seanhannity
@oneinsixbillion: Yeah, it could be a mistake, even if they are taking film from two months prior, from a separate digital reel and most assuredly dated as such (if not also labeled), and splice it with film from the actual event, which was assuredly dated (if not labeled) as well (and probably not even in the same archive since this was supposed to be new footage from the previous day and not from archives), while not acknowledging the dramatic environmental change in the footage during review, at a network that has a history of doctoring... perceptions... of events, while demonstrating a totally unapologetic attitude about the whole fiasco... it could still be an honest mistake...
...nothing dubious about this at all... #seanhannity
@OneViewHere: I was thinking the same thing. Did he apologize for his team inadvertently mixing up video footage (aka being incompetent) or is he apologizing for getting caught (aka he wouldn't have apologized if he had not gotten caught) purposefully clubbing together propaganda to give a false impression (aka lie) for overt political reasons (aka being an evil partisan prick).
Is he apologizing for being incompetent or because he got caught doing something that a partisan prick would do? #seanhannity
@WFROSE: See you probably don't work in TV news either. I don't think any major news network uses "film" or "tape" anymore. And anyone who's worked anywhere in TV knows that labeling always sucks. None of the networks have footage of WTC 7 on 9/11 not because the CIA came and took it but because news divisions have an endemic lack of perspective in what they do, so those tapes were never marked appropriately and in this past decade of digitization got lost in the shuffle. There's also no such thing as "archive" because everything's digital so its just videos in a system that doesn't actually physically exist anywhere, like YouTube for TV Newsers. There's not a shelf in any of the national news networks marked "today's footage." Not to mention nowhere do producers regularly edit footage themselves, they leave it for editors usually physically separated from the production teams that drive editorial content. This is a case of incompetence not news bias. These things happen on the other networks but because the other networks aren't so heavily type cast as being biased, their mistakes aren't seen in the framework of media manipulation. #seanhannity
@oneinsixbillion: note I said *digital* reel, they still refer to recorded video as reels. And I'm pretty sure they store all their footage digitally (as in, you know electronically, most likely on solid state drives now, in fact), and have been doing so for probably the past half decade since it's much easier (and cheaper) to edit it that way.
Your point on 9/11 is irrelevant, as that was during a time when they were not all using time stamped digital recording, stored on digital (not analog) magnetic media (which, BTW, many agencies still use). Nowadays, video, even if not named, is marked by time as soon as the video camera stops recording.
As for archiving, you may want to look up the definition of archives, as any back stored information is archived. The 9/12 rally may have been stored with Hannity's [little] protest, but I assuredly doubt the same folder. And even if stored in the same folder (I dunno, I'll just presume the media editing department at Fox News is just this insipidly incompetent to the point that a middle school video club could run it more efficiently, and just saved those videos in a folder called "Fox protests FTW") You still have the time stamp issue.
But, okay, we then assume that none of the videos are time stamped, or named, that means no one in review or fact checking (presuming, of course that it doesn't just go from the video editor's hands directly to show, particularly if they have a day to get the footage up) caught the rather obvious difference in not only the sky, but the foliage as well. For a 'news' network that prides itself on 'fair, balanced, and accurate' information, this is going well beyond incompetence and into the area of gross and criminal negligence.
So, to make a long story short, what you're saying exists in the realm of probability, just as Sus domestica can develop atmospheric buoyancy of their own capacity through natural evolutionary means within the next couple of years... #seanhannity
@WFROSE: You are mistaken in many of these assumptions. No news organization is so organized as you imagine, which is why mistakes do happen in the 24/7s. Only when it comes to Fox News you expect the worst. Remember CNN was the first one to mistakingly identify Obama as Osama. If FNC had done it (and when it finally did do it) the response in the blogs was a lot more forceful than it was to the initial CNN flub. Hannity ought to explain how the mistake happen, but I suspect they don't want to seem to scapegoat anyone, jobs are tough to come by so why expose someone to the possibility of having teh internetz calling for their heads. Remember while the so called 'liberal leaning' NBC News has laid off more than a thousand people in the last three years, Fox News in fact has a culture of trying to retain their employees and give them 'second chances.' Sometimes things aren't what they seem. #seanhannity
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Hmm, on second thought, go for it.
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Six pregnancy scare, eh Adrian?
<== My friend here would like a quick word. #jonstewart
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What's that thing he's carrying when he comes in? It looks like a kid's toy bugle or something. #jonstewart
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To do that I'd have to be a smug-crunchie living on an organic farm in Vermont bragging about how I don't watch TV and get all my "indie" news from rinky dink anti-neoliberal websites run by Zapatista sympathizers at California liberal arts colleges.
And I really don't want to be that person. #seanhannity
11/12/09
Call me naive but I do believe Stewart is the real deal. Unequivocally so. I think on some level he is still incredulous over the tantric mindfuck that his show has filled the void that the "legitimate media" use to hold. What started out as a comedy show has become something else due to factors no one could have foreseen. It's like going to a Halloween party dressed as a cop and when an emergency arises being pressed into duty because the powers that be have failed to show up.
As for Hannity, the dickless wonder did what all of these fatuous shitheels do: when he is exposed as the rank hack that he is he just gives that smug shrug of his shoulders and says "Hey, what's the big deal?" Then in a brazen attempt to embarrass the people that have exposed him, he thanks them for watching, as if that was the plan all along.
In antiquity he would have been left on the side of a mountain and we would have rained stones own on his sorry ass.
Here's to the good old days. #seanhannity
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My mind grapes are being squeezed so tightly just trying to resolve reality (Sean Hannity is a filthy truthless liar) with reality (Sean Hannity said something honest).
Is this what it feels like to have a stroke? #seanhannity
11/12/09
If you get your hands on the ratings, I'd be surprised if the traditional Stewart audience fell for it. Any interesting bits were guaranteed to be posted online within minutes, without having to suffer through Hannity's show. I'm guessing most of TDS's audience just waited it out online. #seanhannity
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No Mr. Hannity, you deliberately cobbled together video from different events to create the impression of something that wasn't true. You LIED. It's not as if your video editing team pressed a wrong button....they went out, found Beck's footage, and inserted it into the story.
That's not a mistake. That's a willful misrepresentation of the facts. #seanhannity
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...nothing dubious about this at all... #seanhannity
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Is he apologizing for being incompetent or because he got caught doing something that a partisan prick would do? #seanhannity
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Your point on 9/11 is irrelevant, as that was during a time when they were not all using time stamped digital recording, stored on digital (not analog) magnetic media (which, BTW, many agencies still use). Nowadays, video, even if not named, is marked by time as soon as the video camera stops recording.
As for archiving, you may want to look up the definition of archives, as any back stored information is archived. The 9/12 rally may have been stored with Hannity's [little] protest, but I assuredly doubt the same folder. And even if stored in the same folder (I dunno, I'll just presume the media editing department at Fox News is just this insipidly incompetent to the point that a middle school video club could run it more efficiently, and just saved those videos in a folder called "Fox protests FTW") You still have the time stamp issue.
But, okay, we then assume that none of the videos are time stamped, or named, that means no one in review or fact checking (presuming, of course that it doesn't just go from the video editor's hands directly to show, particularly if they have a day to get the footage up) caught the rather obvious difference in not only the sky, but the foliage as well. For a 'news' network that prides itself on 'fair, balanced, and accurate' information, this is going well beyond incompetence and into the area of gross and criminal negligence.
So, to make a long story short, what you're saying exists in the realm of probability, just as Sus domestica can develop atmospheric buoyancy of their own capacity through natural evolutionary means within the next couple of years... #seanhannity
11/15/09