Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governor's Association: "By contributing $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, Fox has crossed a bright line. Fox can no longer pretend that it is a ‘fair and balanced' news organization when Rupert Murdoch greenlights a million dollar contribution to defeat Democratic governors."
News Corp. Spokesman Jack Horner: "News Corporation believes in the power of free markets, and the RGA’s pro-business agenda supports our priorities at this most critical time for our economy."
News Corp. "Standards of Business Conduct": "No payment shall be made to, or for the benefit of, any public official in order to induce or entice such official to: enact, defeat or violate any law or regulation for the Company’s benefit; influence any official act; or obtain any favorable action by a governmental agency or official on behalf of the Company. ... No gifts in the form of cash, stock or other similar consideration shall be given, regardless of amount."
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Don Siegelman didn't say this, but he could have: "The new politics -- it's no longer good enough to beat you on policy. They have to completely drown you and put you in prison and destroy your family and your reputation and finances, then dance on your grave."
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Peter Beinart: "In today’s GOP, even bigotry doesn’t spare you from bigotry."
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Alabama GOP, in a push poll "asking" about Joe Hubbard, Democratic challenger to incumbent Rep. David Grimes (R): "How do you feel to know that Joe Hubbard is a lawyer who has sued local businessas and has defended many corrupt Montgomery politicians?"
David Grimes (R), who with Hubbard, pledged to condemn negative campaigning: "I don't find anything personally offensive nor do I find anything that breaches the promise ..."
A good friend of mine told me they take their blood pressure medicine and watch Faux News every night. When I asked why they would do something stoopid like that, they replied because forewarned is forearmed and so they would know how and what righty's think (now there's an oxymoron for you). Prior to tuning in to the Faux News Talking Pundit Heads I started to pour a stiff drink of my favorite alcoholic beverage, but I didn't want my preception to be, cough, cough, impaired :). So, armed with an arsenal of sock bombs to throw at the TeeVee if needed, I settled in for an evening of watching Faux News. This is my report;
Only in Hannity's America. The highlight of Sean's show was reporting the Supermax Prision in Denver, CO tried to ban terrist Abib AckmanMohamed Mumbo Jumbo from reading President Obama's books because they were deemed a "terrist threat".. Yadda, yadda, blab, blab, blah, blah. Two sock bombs.
On the Record with Greta Von Sustern with Lil Lindsey Graham on Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearing. Lil Lindsey said he didn't know if he was going to vote for Sotomayor or not because of her "radical statement about abortion". Ralph Hallow from The Washington Times talking about Sarah Palins' plan to campaign for republicans and democrats (what democrat would want Sarah Palin to campaign for them and why?). Former Congressman Rick Santorum (r. PA) bashed Palin's almost son-in-law Levi Johnson, and defended Sarah Palin against the mean old media attacks. ( I wonder why Greta didn't ask him about the racist pool in Philly?). The only interesting story was about the Penguin Love Triangle where *gasp* same sex female penguins were a couple who even hatched an egg together until a male penguin appeared and made one of them ungay. 4 sock bombs.
Unreality check with Bill O'Rielly. He's still hating on Michael Jackson and Chris Brown with some Louis Farrakkan thrown in for good measure. Everyone who disagrees with him or questions him is either a moron or a pin head (where have we heard that before?). Speaking of things we've heard before, check out the God, Global Warming and Obama talking points. Race and the Supreme Court , according to BillO, the real deal is Sotomayor is the product of a system that celebrates her minority status and has created doubts about her ability to be fair, if she turns out to be another Ruth Bader Gingsberg we are in big trouble. Rut Roh! Karl Rove just made an appearance! Rove said congress wasn't briefed because the program was just an idea not a program and they didn't tell Congress because they might leak it to the New York Times, it's about protecting Nancy Pelosi and protecting our country in a time of war.
I can't take it anymore. I'm going to have a stiff drink after I deplete my sock bomb arsenal.
And we wonder why the rightwing is so misinformed?
Weeall, what do you know? While the country and the media were(ahem) distracted by Michael Jacksons' memorial service yesterday, Karl Rove was taking mini steps towards a frog march. I wonder if there was any waterboarding involved?
It never ceases to amaze me how Faux News does this:
Look closely. What is wrong with this picture?
In case you can't figure it out (in which case I pity your eyesight for being worse than mine), ol' smooth-voiced, Argentian ladies' man Mark Sanford is not a "D". He's one of them thare "R"s.
Now normally I can excuse a mistake like this. Hey, I have my "off days" too. It's like my old high-school science teacher once said, though, "The first time you do something, it's a mistake. After that, it's a habit."
And this ain't the first time Fox News has gotten their "D"s and "R"s "confused." (It's too early in the morning for me to look up other examples, but perhaps the most famous are Larry "Wide Stance" Craig and everybody's favorite explicit-text-messagin' pederast Mark Foley. Don't believe me? Well, Google is your friend.)
Now I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but methinks Fox News has a habit. And a very intentional one at that. Seriously, guys, why don't these folks get held accountable for this stuff? If us nutty moonbats had this "habit," do you think it'd just slide this easily?
(Oh, and by the way, howdy, I'm shykid! The real name's Donovan, but you can call me whatever you'd like. This is my first diary, but I hope to post many more if I can ever pry a minute or two of my time away from my job and college. I'm a really friendly dude, and I don't bite, at least not too hard anyway.)
I found this wonderfully witty commentary at the Guardian UK about the cable news commentators during the last day of convention coverage and the 'Big Speech.' It's spot on and quite funny.
"If Nora O'Donnell refers to the "optics of this event" one more time, I'll go on a killing spree. It's nonetheless an improvement on what's going down at Fox, where they're rehashing "the Jeremiah Wright scandal" and Brit Hume begrudgingly admits that Mile-High Stadium is 'pretty full.' It's full metal crazy over there."
War declared against MSNBC! Comcast is cancelling MSNBC in Pittsburg but keeping Faux Noose and CNN. (H/T) DailyKos
Effective Tuesday, July 15, Comcast customers in the Pittsburgh area awoke to find that MSNBC was no longer available on non-digital cable. I came home eager to get my daily dose of Hardball and Countdown, but all I receive is a black screen.
Faux Noose Talking TeeVee Pundit Head and Karl Rove groupie Chris Wallace says MSNBC is biased. (H/T WriteChic Press and Crooks and Liars)
Howard Dean is just what the Doctor ordered! Transcript of his TKO H/T Daily Kos. Hmmm, I wonder if that is why War has been declared on MSNBC?
Get on the bus!
This is what the people of the south are up against ... Bush & Cheney and McCain have scared the hell out of them ... about stuff like this and it hasn't served the people of the south or the rest of the country very well.
Our message is, "Let's worry about $4 gas .. Let's worry about the mortgage scandals ... Let's worry about Bush's & McCain's indifference to the victims of Katrina."
John McCain went and talked about education today. He voted against Head Start. This is a guy who'll say anything to get elected.
We've seen enough of that.
We don't need a third term of George Bush. We need real solutions to the economy. People in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Georgia need that just as much as people from Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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I hope you are sitting down to read this one. The Field Negro defends The New Yorker Magazine cover of Barack and Michelle Obama!
But isn't this a case of shooting the messenger? If you Obamaholics don't think that a significant number of your fellow citizens feel that the idiotic caricature on the cover of this magazine is accurate, well then I have a nice little antique bell with a crack in it to sell you from my hometown. Which, if you believe the Editors of this magazine, was the point of the cover: To make fun of the ignorant folks in A-merry-ca who actually believe that the pic is an accurate portrayal of his "O" ness. Ahhh field, come on, if this was FOX you would be all over them. I smell a double standard here. If you smell double standard, you have a heck of a good nose, because it probably is on my part. You see it's like this: FOX has a history of doing ignorant and racist shit, and they cater to the very folks this magazine happens to be lampooning. The clowns over at FOX are the ones who gave us the terrorist fist pump, the intentional mispronunciation of Obama's name, and the studio pundits who make fun of his wife and call her angry. So you damn right that if this was FOX I would have been all over their backwards ass behinds, and I make no apologies for that.
The Field says look past the cover and read the article. For those so inclined here is the link. Those that claim they don't know what Obama stands for, or don't know who he is will be informed. It's about the article, not the cover Stupid! I'm going to confess to being stupid on this one and falling for the Okey Doke,now that I've read the entire article I understand the context of the cover. Are you still sitting down?
THIS wins the award for the "Have They No Shame" catagory.
Apparently, even though I never talked about Troy King's wife or kids, nor did I allow anyone else to on this blog, my children are now being threatened because some anon poster is angry that they can't beat me in a battle of smart-assery on an internet forum.
I can only shake my head....
Disclaimer: Please overlook any typo's or grammatical errors, they are not intentional.
Thanks to Crooks and Liars I have an overview of what the Talking TeeVee Pundit Heads were "discussing" today. Of course it was All Reverend Wright All The Time, UNfair and UNbalanced. I mean who cares about the war, or our troops, or gas prices, or the economy, or health care when we've got Reverend Wright to bash and smear?
Rangel: It’s disgraceful that he has to make any explanation for anything. The intrusion of the media and Republicans into the sacred relationship that worshipers have with their spiritual leaders I think is going to come back to haunt us. To think that we have to go into the lives and the beliefs of Rabbis and Priests and ministers and Imams is absolutely ridiculous. We’ve got a war on. We’ve got an economy that’s splintered. I think the media should be more responsible and start dealing with those issues. I don’t think many people care what reverend Wright thinks and I don’t see why any candidate should have to explain what ..
Dean! Dean! He's our man, if he can't do it nobody can! Howard Dean blast Chris"Faux News" Wallace and calls them out for race baiting. I love Howard Dean. He is not afraid to tell it like it IS!
Wallace: Governor, are you suggesting that bringing up Jeremiah Wright is “race-baiting” and hate and divisive?
Dean:Yeah, I am suggesting that kind of stuff.I think when you start bringing up candidates that have nothing to do with the issues…uh when you start bringing up things that have nothing to do with the candidate, nothing to do with the issues, that’s race-baiting. And that’s exactly what it is.Just like Willie Horton was race-baiting so many years ago.I think we’re going to take…we’re going to turn the page on this stuff.I’ll tell you, there’s a lot of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats on issues, but the biggest issue of all is we don’t use this kind of stuff.We never have used this kind of stuff and we’re not going to start now.America is more important than the Republican party and that’s the lesson the voters are about to teach the Republicans.
*Snicker
Chris "Tweety" Matthews says who cares what the American people think, we, I mean the GOP are going to make Wright an issue. I guess the media is making Wright an issue so McSame and the GOP won't have to, you know, like fighting them over there so we won't have to fight them over here.
Matthews:Can a brilliant politician – Barack included, perhaps, perhaps – turn this around? Can he show that he’s different?So different from the Rev. Wright that he should be elected President?
*Guilt by association?
Bob Schieffer of Face the Nation is finally seeing the light, sort of:
But the $64,000 question that Schieffer refuses to address is how much responsibility should the establishment media take upon itself for unconditionally and unquestioningly putting out White House talking points with no context or independent fact finding. Where is the onus on the Fourth Estate?
*Where indeed?
Despite what the "Liberal" media would have folks people, Reverend Wright has support and supporters.
Like the so-called liberal ministers in Alabama who chastised Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he sat imprisoned in a Birmingham Jail, these news pundits charge Rev. Wright, and by extension the black church, with "mixing politics with religion" and misleading "ignorant black people" into an adversarial relationship with "their government." And like those so-called "liberal" white preachers in Alabama who attacked Dr. King, several have even quoted various biblical texts as evidence that Rev. Wright, and Trinity United Church of Christ are not following Christian biblical principles.
*It's the media.
You won't see anyone from the PCUSA on TeeVee but thank God for the Blogosphere.
“Without strong theology, preaching becomes entertainment, and there is a tendency to make church life center around the preacher.”
*You think?
"...if by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal,' then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal.'" --- JFK, NY Liberal Party Nomination, 9/14/1960
Your friendly fake consultant has been digging deep into the world of anonymous sources recently, which is why we were able to recently reveal the truth about Hillary Clinton’s Bosnian sniper story.
Today we take that effort further...which is why we are able to bring to light another exclusive peek into the past of a Presidential candidate...only today it’s Barack Obama.
We will examine his prior associations and as a result we will be able to draw new conclusions regarding his world view...and as we said about Clinton, you might be shocked...but probably not surprised.
Malik Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party utterly depantses Fox News tool, Sean Hannity for his relationship with white supremacist Hal Turner. Hannity brought Shabazz on the show presumably to heap hurt on the Obama campaign receiving the endorsement of the Black Panthers. Shabazz came prepared to call out Hannity's hypocrisy:
Are you to judged by your promotional association with Hal Turner, a neonazi?"
"Aww, you're screaming because you don't want the truth to come out."
Hannity's knee jerk response was to deny knowing Turner, but in nearly the same breath the Fox News host said that Turner was banned from Hannity's radio show.
Max Blumenthal yanked the skeleton from Hannity's closet in a June 2005 article in The Nation. From Hannity's Soul-Mate of Hate:
To area conservatives, he [Turner] was best known by his moniker for call-ins to the Sean Hannity Show, "Hal from North Bergen." For years, Hannity offered his top-rated radio show as a regular forum for Turner's occasionally racist, always over-the-top rants. Hannity also chatted with him off-air, allegedly offering encouragement to Turner as he struggled to overcome a cocaine habit and homosexual leanings. Turner has boasted that Hannity once invited Turner and his son on to the set of Fox News's Hannity and Colmes. Today, Turner lurks on the fringes of the far right, spouting hate-laced tirades on his webcast radio show. Hannity, meanwhile, remains mum about his former alliance with the neo-Nazi, homing in instead on the supposed racism of black and Latino Democrats.
Alternet had some good news today - Bush Broadcasting is on the ropes. I personally see this as the best indicator yet of eventual Democratic victory in 2008. You may be able to 'fool some of the people some of the time', but when they find out, they don't like you any more. Simple as that. No one, Democrat, Republican, or none-of-the-above, likes being lied to and manipulated. Fox News has been getting away with exactly that for a long time now, and the party is almost over.
The most obvious signs of Fox News' downturn have been the cable ratings for the big primary and caucus votes this year, as well as the high-profile debates. With this election season generating unprecedented voter and viewer interest, Fox News' rating bumps to date have remained underwhelming, to say the least.
Roger Ailes, the mastermind behind one of the most successful American Propaganda efforts to date, has a small problem now. Dan Cooper, a former inner-circle employee who knows him well, has written a tell all. Exerpts are available for your perusal online. According to Cooper, Ailes threatened Cooper's agent Richard Leibner that unless he dropped Cooper as a client, none of his other clients would ever get a shot at Fox.
While quite a bit of Cooper's writing is rather self-serving, it also rings true regarding his experiences with and knowledge of the Murdoch-owned Fox Broadcasting. Here's one quote I thought was pretty instructive:
Brandon Friedman tells the tale over at dailykos.com about Montel Williams being fired for telling Faux News the truth.
Here is an excerpt:
A former Marine and Naval officer, Montel lectured the stunned hosts on the stupidity of spending air time on the death of Heath Ledger, rather than covering the war in Iraq. It was a spectacle rarely seen on live cable television, as Montel exposed and condemned both tabloid "news" shows and much of American culture for what they have each become"
I am saddened and disheartened by the lack of interest in campaign finance reform. If America is to continue to fulfill its promise of 'liberty and justice for all' then we must make every effort to see that our candidates are not chosen by and for the Corporations, and that means more than a few little ethics adjustments. It means that we're going to have to get very serious, and very mean-spirited about creating a truly level playing field every candidate
One factor I think we can control if we want is the airwaves. The media doesn't own them; it leases them from US, the American People. Therefore, I think it should be bound to donate equal air time to every candidate. Ditto radio. Ditto newspapers. Equal column space.
Hillary and Obama started the campaign with about 30 million apiece. Now we're getting down to: Hillary and Obama. wow. what a surprise. The only reason Edwards is still trotting along beside them is because his personal fortune is probably making up a bit of the difference. I can't say I'll be surprised when he basically disappears before our eyes. It's what I expect, anyway.
Here are three examples of blatant media distortion. Please add others you come across. We can edit them into this post indefinitely.
Well, the Rupert Murdoch Ministry of Propaganda is on the offensive again. This time the guns are aimed at John Edwards. I can't believe Fox News has the audacity to accuse someone of talking "before all the facts are in."
Murdoch's corporate buddies must be pretty damn scared of Edwards. Maybe they should start to get afraid of the mass of people that John Edwards' views represent. He is only the mouthpiece of a growing movement in America and it is not going to go away even if John Edwards does.
"It is not clear at all that Cigna is to blame here," Kelly scolded. "And for John Edwards to make it a campaign issue before all the facts are in makes him sound more like the med-mal [medical malpractice] lawyer he was for years, and less like a presidential candidate."
Do you have family and friends who still watch Faux News? How about the TV in the waiting room of your doctor or dentist's office or a local restaurant or business? Maybe you should ask them if they like seeing all those barely clad (or pixellated) young women and listening to the racy talk.
This looks and sounds like soft porn with a "fair and balanced" fig leaf stuck on it. I suspect businesses will be very receptive to tuning Fox out if customers start suggesting that it is soft porn disguised as news.
The days of Faux as the default channel for public places may be numbered. My chiropractor's waiting room TV was tuned to Fox when I started visiting in May. In August it they put it on NBC and last week it was tuned to MSNBC. I didn't say a word about it, either.
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