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Back then, candidates took real positions, respected one another, and didn't bullshit their way through softball questions while crowd hooted, hollered, and booed. There was still some honor among candidates and debaters. Now it looks like some twisted reality show. Ugh.
Megyn Kelly, FOX News mid-day infotainment anchor, is known for boldly claiming things to be fact when they are anything but. She is truly amazing in her ability to do this not ony with a straight face but with absolute conviction. It begs the question: Is she a really good liar, or just really doesn't care about having any shred of journalistic integrity? Perhaps it's both. I'm certain it's not a matter of intelligence, because she's not stupid. Just wrong. A lot.
Last week she boldly told a guest that no one on FOX News ever compared anyone on the left to being a Nazi... the other N-word. For the Jon Stewart and the staff of The Daily Show, to refute this claim was just too easy.
Indeed, the party of corporate America seems to have created an interesting franchise in the Tea Party. It's essentially a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GOP, just like it's promotional partner FOX News. And one has to give them credit where credit is due: once again they are playing low-information (or, frankly, low intellect) voters for fools as they sway them toward voting against their own best interests. Kind of a recurring theme. Of course, they found something that works (along with obstructionism), and they are sticking with it. I guess it's the best strategy given they don't really have any new ideas to move forward, only plans to regress, repress, and widen the income gap (see 2001-2008).
These nincompoops on FOX News, especially the clowns on the FOX & Friends morning program, are so often unintentionally hilarious that it's hard to keep count anymore. But the Daily Show does what it can...
It's not even worth pointing out their hypocrisy anymore, nor pointing out how they are so not credible in any journalistic sense whatsoever. Just point and laugh.
Good luck. This is a prime example of how the "journalists" at FOX "News" present "facts."
Funny in a way, especially when Jon Stewart is the de-bunker. But there are a lot of people -- sadly, many that are even somewhat educated -- that believe this shit.
Too funny. De Facto Republican leadership at FOX News and the Tea Party folks have done what the Democrats have not been able to do in 70 elections. They essentially lost the seat by forcing out the locally chosen Republican candidate in favor of a third-party conservative.
The list of supporters of Doug Hoffman includes Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Neal Cavuto, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, the Dick Armey, Rick Santorum, Geroge Pataki, Newt Gingrich and many more all lined up to trash regular Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava. They called her all kinds of things beyond just being a RINO, and backed the otherwise unknown Doug Hoffman.
Now, you know, this was a victory for real Republicans. Real Republican Michelle Malkin says so...
Hoffman may have lost narrowly, but NY-23 is a much
broader victory for conservatives who believe the Republican Party
should stand for core limited government principles ....This is a
victory of principle.
Better a donkey in office that acts like a donkey than a donkey in elephant’s clothing making a complete ass of the GOP.
Moreover,
NY-23 is a victory for conservatives who refuse to be marginalized in
the public square by either the unhinged left or the establishment
right. A humble accountant from upstate New York exposed the hypocrisy
of GOP leaders trying to solicit funds from conservatives by lambasting
Pelosi and the Dems’ support for high taxes, Big Labor, and bigger
government — while using conservatives’ money to subsidize a
high-taxing, Big Labor-pandering, bigger government radical. The
repercussions will be felt well beyond NY-23’s borders. Conservatives’
disgust with the status quo has been heard and felt. They have been
silent too long. They will be silent no more.
OK, Michelle. And you guys don't care about this stupid seat anyway. Forget about how the de facto leaders at FOX News harped on how important this election as, and how it would be proof that the Tea Baggers were now calling the shots and that's how the Republican party is going to reclaim the throne they so rightly deserve. That was before. Before Hoffman lost.
Jed Lewison posted a montage over at DK, under the headline Engineering Defeat, that is about eight minutes worth of the several hours FOX News gave over to promoting this race and their special candidate...
The last time NY23 was not held by a Republican, it was held by a Whig. Priceless.
Those videos of the central casting version of a white guy pretending to be a pimp and his pal doing her best to appear like a whore got a lot of people all kinds of worked up over ACORN. It gave FOX News fodder for weeks, and ultimately ACORN lost funding and government contracts.
For what those videos showed, ACORN deserved to be investigated. I have no disagreement with that at all. It may have been a little more appropriate to investigate before passing judgment, but such a process fall under the IOKIYAR rule I guess. (As an aside, though, props to RNC national chairman Michael "How We Roll" Steele for actually speaking up in favor of ACORN's CO. I wonder how many GOP heads exploded on that one. But I digress.)
That brings me to this video montage. I am shocked -- shocked! -- that FOX New hasn't been all over this hidden video sting operation. Can you believe it? Private gun sales do not require background checks even at gun shows and the like... unless the sells knowingly sell to someone who gives reason for the seller to even suspect they may not pass a background check. [18 U.S.C. §922(d)].
You can see more at GunShowUndercover.org,
plus video of "straw purchases," where a presumably prohibited buyer
makes the deal, then brings in someone totally different to fill out
the paperwork and become the "owner," right in front of the eyes of
federally licensed dealers.
Fake pimps. Fake "hos." Fake "brothels."
Real guns. Real crimes.
You tell me which one deserves time on the TeeVee, and a stampede to
the floor of the House and Senate with new legislation in hand.
This series of stings was carried out by weapons investigators for the City of New York. This wasn't a game of gotcha by a couple FOX wannabe operatives looking for a scandal. These are real investigators uncovering real crimes involving real guns... not just fishing with "what ifs." 94% of their attempted gun purchases by people admitting they cannot pass a background check -- enough to stop a sale by law -- went through anyway. (No word on how many of those ACORN "stings" didn't work. I guess that's the difference between real and play investigation.)
Help register Black people to vote? Evil! Must be shut down by any means. Sell assault weapons to people who could never pass a background check and openly admit it? Hey, go on ahead now, ya hear?
I'm not here to try to defend the ACORN nonsense. Much of it is indefensible based on what I know and read. I just want to see the same attention paid to real gun sellers breaking the law repeatedly and putting very dangerous (and needless) weapons on the street in the hands of people the law clearly says should not be packing heat.
Can you just smell those Republican values? Mmmm. Guns.
The White House online director, Jesse Lee, noted in his blog that Glenn Beck is ridiculing the attempts to bring the Olympics to the Chicago. Likely because President Obama is from Chicago, sort of, Beck is assailing the city's bid. And he seems to have good reason, don't you know:
Glenn Beck said, "Vancouver lost, how much was
it? they lost a billion dollars when they had the Olympics."
[Transcript, Glenn Beck Show, 9/29/09]
Yeah, about that. The Olympic Games in Vancouver don't take place until next year. 2010. In the future. But Glenn is so amazing! He claims he only speaks the truth, so he must have gone into the future, looked at the balance sheets for the 2010 games, and came back to warn us. Too bad he couldn't have used those powers to warn people in Samoa about the tsunami. Oh, right. American Samoa isn't really, you know, American. They look kinda brown and foreign down there. Silly me.
But, still: time-traveler! I want him to go forward again to tell me how George W. Bush will really be remembered by history. That will be good for a laugh.
Jon Stewart and the Daily Show do what they do best: expose hypocrisy and stupidity and make it funny. Well, it's kind of funny. OK, pretty funny. Yet still, this video captures what the Party of No seems to think are the key issues of the past week: The evil ACORN, the NEA, and kids singing a song about the first Black president during Black History Month.
Well, it's come to this. Venerable conservative "news" network FOX News has become liberal. Say it ain't so!
Jon Stewart does what he does best as he takes a walk through the video archives to prove FOX News now leads the pack of liberal media... if you use their own previous reporting to define "liberal."
Oh, FOX. How unfortunate that you have memory issues, no longer being able to recall what was said on your network in previous years... and even recent months. Makes me think that maybe their key editors and strategists have the reasoning capacity of ten-year-olds.
Pieces like this support polling data that places Jon Stewart -- a comedian by trade -- at the top of the list of most trusted newscasters in America. Just pointing out the rank hypocrisy of FOX -- and countless politicians and other news organizations as well -- is enough to make Stewart as the most honest. And why not? By doing so, he demonstrates every day how full of shit most of the media... and most often, FOX News... really proves themselves to be.
