Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

i hope the authorities are.. competent. what struck me abt that DHS report was that they pointed out that some of these groups might target returning veterans, and there was this instant screeching outrage.. newt gingrich on twitter wrote that the person who wrote it was obv against conservatives and attacking veterans and should be fired. excuse me? it's just a fact that this might happen, and that some people will come home from war with problems and might be recruited by these groups and might be dangerous. it's just a fact. all this tough talk about security and then there's a security threat they don't like and the answer is to cry foul and stick their heads in the sand. joe scarborough (surprisingly) was on the same tack this morning. wtf.

I'm reading Nixonland right now and that kinda stuff seems hand-in-hand with violent rightwingers complaining about the lawlessness of the left/civil rights activists/antiwar "communists" etc. when most of the violence was actually being committed by... rightwing racists. its a very self-serving ideology, transparently so.

^^^er shoulda appended "in the mid-60s" to my post there

i have not read the DHS report, so i can't comment on its tone or content exactly, but i have read excerpts. it seemed pretty clear to me that the report was about st*rmfr*nt and militia types, not 'staunch conservatives' as such. what i find interesting is that the malkin crowd immediately thought the report WAS about them.

when wobbly hippies and ANSWER and them were being kicked off planes in 02 you couldn't get an establishment democrat w/in 100 paces of them or their complaints. now, with the right out of power, its tea bag city. they're running toward this shit (notable exceptions of course)

btw i checked in at my favorite ex-puma obama hate site and they had this:

http://i43.tinypic.com/1z6dzdd.jpg

^^^critical commentary there lolz

when wobbly hippies and ANSWER and them were being kicked off planes in 02 you couldn't get an establishment democrat w/in 100 paces of them or their complaints. now, with the right out of power, its tea bag city. they're running toward this shit (notable exceptions of course)

the dynamic in play here is obvious - for the right the admonitions/threats from the left are to be worn as a badge of honor, as symbols of their true commitment to conservative causes. its a way of playing to the base, and solidifying their credentials. But the Dems have never shared this kind of rabid dedication to their base, primarily because their base is more fractured and made up of a weird agglomeration of mutual interests - so they feel vulnerable to attacks on their patriotism and the like. They see it as limiting their political viability, not solidifying it. By contrast, the rightwing persecution complex is kinda central to their identity, they have no qualms about fomenting it and reveling in it.

is there a thread about these tea party protests?

afaict it's been covered a little here and a little on the TAX thread.

TAX QUESTION thread, that is

I bet Newt Gingrich listens to Grateful Dead while he's planning these tea party protests. Stick it to the man, Newt! Yeah!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/04/obama_meets_privately_with_the.html

Shep shoots down Fox's idiocy about the DHS memo.

That Shep bit was pretty good.

yeah, i mentioned this upthread as well, this segment was on the day the report was released. he's done a couple reports to that effect. meanwhile the majority of shows on fox carry on as if this had never been reported.

also, something else i saw via related vids on youtube, this is after the election - carl cameron finally reports on all the crazy happening behind the scenes re: palin, and shep says his team looked at the polls & saw the point at which obama really broke away started *not* with lehman brothers crash, but after palin's couric interview.

i remember the shit hitting the fan pretty fast re: mccain camp attacking palin, but didn't know it was from fox. the rightwing blogs went apeshit over this.

haha, ok this. was looking up some particular examples of why people might be a little irritated with dana milbank, who devoted a whole column this week to complaining about haters on the interwebs who write him nasty emails and post rude comments. (? everyone in media gets hate mail.)

so, milbank basically fabricated an obama quote last summer and everyone on the tv news freaked the F out over it. but check the clip at the very end XD

shep narrating this tractor trailer thing is amazing

Just to back up a bit: R Maddow, at least, has spent lots of time covering EFCA -- actually she started covering Hilda Solis during the confirmation process, pointing out that Solis' support of EFCA was almost certainly the issue Repubs were delaying her for, regardless of what they were saying on the record. She has re-reported on EFCA many times since then, including what right-wingers are saying about it in the news, and how they're simply factually WRONG about what EFCA contains and what it would mean for employees in practice.

lol daria, that is amazing

xpost - hahaha i totally saw that! fantastic. one of my friends messaged me like 'ZOMG TRUCK CHASE! WATCH STUDIO B'

the talking points memo had a video the other day with every news program going nuts over this swine flu thing..
a-ha!

lol Buchanan calling Obama "America's Hot Dog"

shep seems rather pissed off at 1) people writing in blaming "illegal aliens" (the crazy emailers words) for the flu outbreak and 2) eric massa on studio b right now making this a thing about closing borders and free trade (what?)

you guys watch fox news

"there's a flue. forty people have the flu."

copneb returns

fuck i always mistype 'flu' what is the DEAL with THAT

i watch every news, effectively. fox is more fun to talk about

that's how they get the ratings

you guys watch fox news

this sounds like an Anal Cunt song title.

what's your estimate of the fraction of FNC's nielsen take that's curious/loling/aghast liberals

interjection: o'reilly remains a wretched scumfuck and is not worthy of "well, he's not as bad as the other dudes" shit upthread.

best of the car chase!

<3 <3 - "is he not wearing pants or is he wearing shorts. it's a hot day"

next completely off the hook moment, shep should get his own thread, i don't really want to talk about the other people on fox any more. studio b seems to have more of those. i can't believe that for all these years i was totally unaware of the weirdest show on television.

via josh marshall

^^ this went on for like 6 minutes. i hope someone posts the whole thing on the youtubes. started to wonder if they booked cliff may specifically so they could yell at him again for being such a fascist.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6598637&articleid=CA6655969#149323

Glenn Beck signed an international, multi-division deal with Simon & Schuster, oh fuck.

^^^awesome

srs lolz here

wow that was awesome

I don't understand. Was he drunk? Ill? I can't stand to watch these shows so I don't really get this thread but I try to y'know keep up.

afaik, just a random guest booked on the show who wasn't used to doing TV and got nervous/ill. that keyboard cat song is waaayyyyy too damn catchy

watching studio b @ the moment. interview with bernie madoff's secretary who is sort of getting cross-examined right here & doesn't seem to have expected it - which is very entertaining.

this was just on CNN!
keyboard cat and bristol palin's anti-teen-pregnancy tour are situations in that room over there at the CNN, i guess.

The thing I love about the Glenn Beck one is Keyboard Cat getting ready, waiting for the guy to eventually pass out before playing.

OMG those last two video clips were AWESOME.

LOL at O'Reilly becoming totally unglued.

Play him off Keyboard Cat is like the greatest thing ever, isn't it?

that O'Reilly thing is OOOOOOOOLD

Uh obviously! Just look at his hair!