On the August 6, 2009 edition of Fox News, Beck stated:
BECK: So, Speaker Pelosi, I just wanted to -- you gonna drink your wine? Are you blind? Do those eyes not work? There you -- I want you to drink it now. Drink it. Drink it. Drink it.
I really just wanted to thank you for having me over here to wine country. You know, to be invited, I thought I had to be a major Democratic donor or a longtime friend of yours, which I'm not.
By the way, I put poison in your -- no, I -- I look forward to all the policy discussions that we're supposed to have -- you know, on health care, energy reform, and the economy. [Glenn Beck 8/6/09]
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Well these guys have never been about disseminating honest news as far as I can tell. It's all about the outrageous. The concern is how much encouragement they provide to their nearly brain dead, but bigotted audience. It would be easy to just ignore such ignorance, but then there was that disturbing poll the other day that supposedly showed them as considered the most reliable. Now that is scary.
ReplyDeletegive me a break
ReplyDelete"Outrageous"?
where was the outrage when a movie depicting the assassination of George Bush was released?
where was the outrage when a doctored photo of Joe Liebermann fellatiating George Bush was posted on the Daily Kos website for over a year?
who is really "brain dead" here?
the media organs of the smarmy left are slowly but surely rotting away. Air America is gone (no one listended) and MSNBC is down to a single digit market share (no one is watching)
FOX is interesting, informative and very watchable. Really, who would you rather invite into your living room, Megyn Kelly or Christine Amanpour?
John Lesow
John,
ReplyDeleteFrom it's first day, Latte Republic has been dedicated to the promotion of civil public discourse.
It's no secret that I routinely urge members of the media to treat elected and appointed officials (from both sides of the isle) with consideration and respect.
This is just one story. Let's not shoot the messenger!
So maybe brain dead as a little harsh. I tend to lump Fox news watchers in with Limbaugh fans and my comment would certainly apply to them.
ReplyDeleteThough when I listen to the pure potty waste that comes from the mouths of folks like Beck and Hannity and O'Reilly,,,, Megyn Ryan is an idiot...well I may have to go back to my first statement and just include the notice that I mean it a lot harsher than I stated at first.
As for the online weird stuff I would say that there are all kinds of humor. It's a personal choice. That picture was over the top, the sentiment was not. I didn't see the movie. Sounds like a collectible.
Your facts on MSNBC are bogus to obfuscation.
All that said, I was mostly speaking of the outright lies, editing to destroy context and
bubblebrained fact checking that goes on there on matters of serious import, not the usual pump up the challenged masses on the right stuff they use to create widespread delusion, anger and discontent.
As for smarmy, that is always the image that comes to mind when I think of Fixed Noise.
Oh, and I would take Christiane Amanpour, a scholar and reporter of serious note over any of the vacuous at Fox.
ReplyDeleteI meant Megan Kelly, sorry..not Megan Ryan...sorry Ms. Ryan.
ReplyDeleteI like Olbermann. I love his rants, even though it does make him more Foxish sometimes. The big difference is he uses facts to fuel his outrage.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what Fox uses to fuel their vitriol , but it appears to be everything else that lurks in the dark parts of the heart bolstered by a huge dose of hypocrisy.
It's all a lot of boys blowing hot air.
ReplyDeleteTo all First Name Anonymisters and Misses........
ReplyDeleteyou can rant and name call all you want, but the fact is that the market share of FOX dwarfs the other cable networks. Your preceeding comments are rather childish and effete.
You can continue to disparage viewers and listeners, but until you can point out true, documented instances of bias in news reporting at FOX, your arguments have little merit.
Megyn Kelly an idiot? What's with that? Proof?
John Lesow
Getting upset just feeds it, John.
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