good lord, the cable news is SO WEIRD lately!! this is my news thread

jonathan hunt reports that blue moon is a girl beer XD

they decide guinness is the answer. OBVIOUSLY.

crazy birther at the world net crazy has a problem with bill o'reilly.
One of the somethings he is undoubtedly hiding is his birth certificate.

oops. this guy
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105366

i'm kind of bummed that cavuto's people have redone his show graphics (maybe for HD?) and he no longer has a giant red pulsating space galaxy/sea anemone thing floating behind his head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWPY7b35vF4

http://i31.tinypic.com/2vkat5u.jpg

isnt all money spent on porn "stimulus" money??? eh???????

CNN: "beer chat"
FOX: "beer summit" or "beer diplomacy"
MSNBC: that awful ed guy calling sarah palin "caribou barbie"

ah, joe the biden is at the beer summit! dey better keep an eye on him dere

candy crowley lost a bunch of weight looks like

i kind of really like candy crowley for reasons that are unclear to me.

maybe it's because she seems kind of dour?

i like her. i hardly ever see her on. but that may be because i am weary of most of the regulars on CNN & they have too many talking heads panels with them, so i don't watch - borger, castellanos, even carville and brazile, honestly. though i really really like jeffrey toobin, somehow he stays levelheaded amidst the absurdity.

the CNN is doing another "national report card" thing on a special about obama's second 100 days, or first 200 days, whatever. i flipped on the last one briefly and it looked like people giving out ice skating scores and was daft and pointless imho.

the shep has said a la homer simpson "MMMMM, BEER" approx fifty times this week.

I fide for Chris Matthews and Keith and Rachel all day but The Ed Show is so terrible. Please bring back 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or give Eugene Robinson his own show or something.

ride

i can't watch the ed show either. call me superficial, but i might give it a little more of a chance if he had a pretty co-host. could be a man, mind you, but pretty. i'd be OK with them moving dylan ratigan to the evening spot, his show is quite watchable IMHO even if he talks over people a lot - he's got a crew with him (including spitzer, toure, contessa), it skews liberal and moves pretty fast.

i'd also like j0nathan capehart to be on tv more, he is the most debonair gentleman in all of journalism.

good grief, i actually read some of the comments to shep's post on facebook re: beer summit, and even the small part of the fox news audience who are shep fans on facebook.. are emphatically NOT liberals, it seems. unless the law of the interwebs, where the only people who comment are the complainers, is in effect here.

(his staff do the updates, he said on the air that he didn't do facebook or twitter, tv was enough, & someone off camera was like 'YES YOU ARE ON FACEBOOK')

the daily beast goes after judge napolitano

i haven't watched his show, aside from the episode where shep flipped the f out over torture. might check it out. i'm fascinated by fringe groups, cults, and conspiracy theories.

i don't think anything exciting or interesting has happened on tv today. mika brzezinski, the 'liberal' on morning joe, couldn't be convinced that health care reform wasn't dead.. who was arguing that it might happen and might work? john harwood from the wall street journal! at least scarbs declares that he's conservative.

the GDP didn't fall near as much as expected. to glenn beck and guest, this means.. WE'RE DOOMED

also, SHEP, age 16 it looks like, though he must have been at least late 20s by then XD

FOX/MSNBC peace accord fail, evidently.

obama was right, this stuff is totally like pro wrestling. though about pro wrestling, from what i remember, it is always more fun to root for the bad guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6H6n_onZI0

actual lols at that Andrew WK video

i know, right? ok i'm just going to repost this clip (was on the fox thread), from which the title of this thread was inspired. this is like a perfect ~one minute gem of cable news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkQQ7JkD1lE

i like this dylan ratigan guy. so chuck todd comes on to say something about this cash for clunkers program: hey you know, this is like health care and all this other stuff, we're rewarding people for good behavior! this fits in the white house philosophy!

they kind of ignore him & go back to discussing it the same way they did the previous hour, which is nassim ("black swan") taleb and ratigan agreeing that this is a completely terrible way of rewarding people for making BAD decisions.

seriously, this show should be on tv at a better hour, this is the most watchable daytime show that isn't studio b. ratigan is a very good interviewer. now if only he'd settle down a bit and not talk over people..

scarbs to ratigan: Just between you and me, how many lines did you do before coming out here today?

this seems to actually mean: "dude. we don't really feel like thinking about stuff."

there's this guy on now from politics magazine who.. waaau, is so particularly groomed and made up that he looks like he stepped out of a silent film & i can't tell if he's 45 or 25 and just doesn't get enough sleep.

okay so that Orly Taitz (sp?) dentist/lawyer/leader of the "birthers" lady was just on MSNBC screaming "LET ME FINISH" and "LISTEN TO THE TRUTH" for five minutes while the hosts tried to, you know, ask her questions. it was pretty chaotic and lol.

christ what a bunch cackling nitwits.

xpost to ratigan video

good grief, these birthers. there's really nothing you can do to convince them. i heard one person ranting away about it & in response to the point about obama's birth announcement being in a honolulu paper, said oh, that was just his grandmother calling in an announcement, he was really born in kenya. ??? the other thing is where rightwingers say they don't believe it, but then say well you should investigate and see if it's true, just dancing around and letting the story hang out there instead of declaring.. facts.

imo when purveyors of horseshit like Billo and NRO start calling you crazy, you might want to take heed.

xpost yeah i don't know what happened to morning joe, i used to like it, but quit watching for a while due to being beyond infuriated with scarbs thinking it's perfectly OK for the US to torture people & that right wing extremism is a big joke. (seriously, he laughed about that one.)

i'll put it on now in the early AM because the CNN is boring and i can't sit through the fox and friends. scarborough was just straight up rude to ratigan, really being a jackass. anyway i'm not even kidding about the dylan ratigan doing a pretty good show, it's pretty heavy on talk about the economy and wall street bailouts in particular, though i wish it didn't get interrupted so often by commercials and 'breaking news' that usually isn't.

<3 thraed

little green footballs is off the chain with attacking and making fun of the birthers, who they call 'nirthers' for whatever reason. that's saying something, because last i checked that blog was known in the lefty blogosphere as little green fascists.

i was thinking about cnn earlier. they are such a distant third in entertainment value when compared to fox & msnbc but i think that throwing themselves so headlong into social networks/the internet is pretty brave and dope tbh. i would watch rick sanchez every day if he wasn't on at the same time as shep. i haven't been watching as much shep tho lately. i need to get back in the swing of things.

howard dean hosting olbermann was O_O and the hilarious, tiny british man with the dumbo ears was pretty good

howard dean hosting olbermann was O_O

was so disappointed in how bland this ended up being ;_;

oh the pretty britishes guy is richard wolffe. talking points memo is on his shit & MSNBC's, because wolffe works for a PR firm now, he used to be/sometimes is a 'journalist.' worked for newsweek & wrote an account (Renegade) of being on the road with the obama campaign & apparently had a lot more access to the candidate than most of the reporters on the trail. also was on countdown pretty much every day nodding in agreement to whatever olbermann said.

yeah dean was all right, i watched some of it. they should put on some people he can argue with, maybe olbermann's bookers have no contacts any more who actually disagree with their usual host.

yeah i know all about wolffe but his name slipped my mind & i didn't feel like looking it up. my friends and i always make fun of him for being british so we yell "ALLO THERE KEITH!" a lot and shit - we're pretty cool guys - i def was a lil o_O about him writing an obama book tbh because i imagined it to be a pure cash grab and not like i care much about journalistic standards on cable news but yeah

i can't watch sanchez. i'm not thrilled with their current use of technology, i appreciate that they're trying new stuff, but from my POV it seems they get redundant with it. i don't need a shot of a screen in the studio when you can just as well put that screen itself right on the tv & not have the stuff i'm supposed to be looking at shot from a weird off-center angle and some dude trying to move it around.

also if i post stuff on the twitter it's already on my screen, i don't need to see it on the scrollbar on the CNN - it reminds me of that old VH1 pop-up video or .. jeez didn't they do that on The Box or something?

wau MSNBC replaying a few minutes of that, holy shit orly taitz is straight out of a john waters movie!

def one of the wackiest interviews i've ever seen, and i watch a lot of cable news!

should be a youtube classic imo.

thing is, this birther thing IMHO isn't even news. it's crap. it doesn't need to be on the news. i'm concerned that liberals on the tv news being all too eager to talk about the crazies & paint the gop as crazy is.. giving this way more hype than it deserves because the more this stuff spreads, the further it takes the REAL crazies down a scary road.

beck starts out by mocking liberal bloggers again, what with fake typing and talking like the comic book guy.
^^^
this is in fact The One Thing i appreciate about glenn beck.

oh he thinks cash for clunkers is a government conspiracy to make your computer government property and monitor everything on it.

that would be dope - i want to communicate directly with barack obama

looooooool

ok someone on the tv box here needs to recognize that if your track record is 75% crazy speculation and conspiracy theories to 25% fair points based in facts and reality, your reputation for being able to make a fair point might suffer a bit.

the thing is, there has to be a real patch of common ground between judge napolitano and his freedom watch crew, and organizations like the aclu & frankly a lot of liberal bloggers re: policies of the bush administration, the patriot act, surveillance programs, etc.

woooooaaaahhh beck's new thing is a segment called "Use Your Head" and the opening animation has these dope Wax Trax! graphics

http://i25.tinypic.com/bwiyw.jpg

glenn beck, front 242, what's the difference? the government = TYRANNY >FOR< YOU

huh. beck very deliberately telling his audience that if anyone resorts to violence it will destroy the republic and ruin everything they're doing. "there is no excuse for violence."

then says if anyone talks about turning violent it is "your patriotic duty to stop them."

??? wonder if it has something to do with this particular beck fan..

was banning mintice too much? those were two downright terrible posts

i hadn't modded in a while, maybe i modded too hard?

come as u r imo

like when you don't drink for a while & then get really drunk

MintIce

go shit up other boards as you are imo

go shit up other boards, as you are emo

you did the right thing jor

http://www.northernsun.com/images/imagelarge/Destined-Old-Woman-No-Regrets-2x3-Magnet-(2915).jpg

lol

LOL http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/07/27/fiu-hires-rick-sanchez-for-football-play-by-play/

dude is bonkers; i anticipate at least one youtube hilight per week

so these msnbc commercials are p much the worst right?

the earnest speaking to someone just off screen that is ostensibly the viewer?

yup

i like maddow's

larry & ed's are terrible tho

and matthews' makes me lol every time

lol yah the maddow hoover damn one is textbook "maddow otm"

the others are just like smdh @ u l0sers

part of it is that maddow actually seems to be speaking to someone off camera trying to convince them of her point

the others are just old men talking to themselves in diners, which you can see anywhere in america

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http://gawker.com/5827044/fox-and-friends-has-some-thoughts-on-obamas-ramadan-proclamation

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

yo

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ugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdsdlq42nE

:^O

right?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/17/odonnell-walks-out-of-cnn-interview/

*walks next door to own studio*

o nvm i assumed that was lawrence odonnell carry on

thought she handled that sorta well tbh

feel like i just said this on another thread--i hate everything christine o'donnell stands for but anything is better than piers morgan

yup

btw anderson cooper crying on tv obv

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/299838_261284667243892_107130565992637_694207_1242628557_n.jpg

lol

feel like larry odonnell is getting a liiitle bit carried away with this whole occupy the national restaurant association thing

alex wagner is really hot, also doesn't seem to be wearing a ring call me

apparently she's getting her own show?

apparently fox aired a CAR CHASE that ended very badly, live?

sad for shep... car chases brought him so much joy

Live with Kelly & Michael counts here, right? The doors that are opened in waiting rooms...

I understand the Morning Joe crew discussed Emma Goldman today; details plz.