Fox News lets the mask slip once again
This is not a Romney campaign ad. Not technically anyway.
It is a video produced by the Fox News Channel as a news product, a “fair and balanced” review of the Obama presidency to date. It was broadcast on the channel this morning.
Twice.
Since then, it has become such an embarrassment that Fox has made it vanish from its website.
UPDATE: The Fox PR folks emailed, asking that the following response be posted:
“The package that aired on FOX & Friends was created by an associate producer and was not authorized at the senior executive level of the network. This has been addressed with the show’s producers.”
–Bill Shine, Executive Vice President of Programming, FOX News Channel
– Jay Bookman
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F. Sinkwich
May 30th, 2012
7:29 pm
“Has anyone seen anything from the Republicans that details just how much their budget proposal reduces the debt.”
Maybe if you posted O’bozo’s plan we could compare and contrast.
Happy Walker
May 30th, 2012
7:30 pm
I recall
Brosephus™
May 30th, 2012
7:31 pm
josef
Muy amable!!
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dB
I gotta get caught up on this weeks posts. That blog is always good for a laugh or two, even when I don’t agree with him. It’s all in the presentation.
Thulsa Doom
May 30th, 2012
7:31 pm
Brocephus,
Are you still stewing after your swearfest? I’m over it bro- water under the bridge. Let it roll off your shoulders and relax. Hell I’m not even mad at Joe mama.
F. Sinkwich
May 30th, 2012
7:34 pm
“Since then, it has become such an embarrassment that Fox has made it vanish from its website.”
Jay, perhaps you could substantiate the “embarrassment” thing.
I have it on good authority that Fox had to take it down because so many people were trying to view the truth it overwhelmed their servers.
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:34 pm
Maybe if you posted O’bozo’s plan we could compare and contrast.
Nah. You can have your “O’bozo”. I think that is more your speed.
stands for decibels
May 30th, 2012
7:35 pm
I gotta get caught up on this weeks posts
if you read nothing else, make sure to read his piece on Chris Hayes. Great stuff…
(although his takedown of Obama’s kill list is devastating as well.)
Donovan
May 30th, 2012
7:36 pm
Oh, you silly Democrats! You are against such realism and you know it reveals your pathetic president as a fool and an inept leader, but you know in your heart that it is an effective expose.
No matter how Bookman moans and screams about it is a travesty or it is not a news piece, it is what it is and the American people know it. After all, Fox News is the most watched program of its kind in the country.
Your liberal counter news organization, MSNBC, has tried to do the same but no one watches this program but leftists, liberals, and lunatics. Funny how you all have all of the main stream media in your back pockets, but only Fox has most of the viewing public.
I say to you…tough luck! We are the common sense viewers of real news. Go take a cold shower and join the rest of your loser Occupy Movement losers.
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:37 pm
And did the Republicans ever get around to generating the final tally of jobs that would be lost by implementing their Keystone pipeline plan to benefit the Koch’s.
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
7:38 pm
“After all, Fox News is the most watched program of its kind in the country.”
And that was an impact how on the 2008 Presidential elections?
Exactly how did those stats overlap?
JamVet
May 30th, 2012
7:39 pm
“I have it on good authority…”
http://tinyurl.com/d767jhh
Louisiana
May 30th, 2012
7:40 pm
Plantations, Prisons and Profits
By CHARLES M. BLOW
“Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran’s, seven times China’s and 10 times Germany’s.”
That paragraph opens a devastating eight-part series published this month by The Times-Picayune of New Orleans about how the state’s largely private prison system profits from high incarceration rates and tough sentencing, and how many with the power to curtail the system actually have a financial incentive to perpetuate it.
The picture that emerges is one of convicts as chattel and a legal system essentially based on human commodification.
First, some facts from the series:
• One in 86 Louisiana adults is in the prison system, which is nearly double the national average.
• More than 50 percent of Louisiana’s inmates are in local prisons, which is more than any other state. The next highest state is Kentucky at 33 percent. The national average is 5 percent.
• Louisiana leads the nation in the percentage of its prisoners serving life without parole.
• Louisiana spends less on local inmates than any other state.
• Nearly two-thirds of Louisiana’s prisoners are nonviolent offenders. The national average is less than half.
In the early 1990s, the state was under a federal court order to reduce overcrowding, but instead of releasing prisoners or loosening sentencing guidelines, the state incentivized the building of private prisons. But, in what the newspaper called “a uniquely Louisiana twist,” most of the prison entrepreneurs were actually rural sheriffs. They saw a way to make a profit and did.
It also was a chance to employ local people, especially failed farmers forced into bankruptcy court by a severe drop in the crop prices.
But in order for the local prisons to remain profitable, the beds, which one prison operator in the series distastefully refers to as “honey holes,” must remain full. That means that on almost a daily basis, local prison officials are on the phones bartering for prisoners with overcrowded jails in the big cities.
It also means that criminal sentences must remain stiff, which the sheriff’s association has supported. This has meant that Louisiana has some of the stiffest sentencing guidelines in the country. Writing bad checks in Louisiana can earn you up to 10 years in prison. In California, by comparison, jail time would be no more than a year.
There is another problem with this unsavory system: prisoners who wind up in these local for-profit jails, where many of the inmates are short-timers, get fewer rehabilitative services than those in state institutions, where many of the prisoners are lifers. That is because the per-diem per prisoner in local prisons is half that of state prisons.
In short, the system is completely backward.
Lifers at state prisons can learn to be welders, plumbers or auto mechanics — trades many will never practice as free men — while prisoners housed in local prisons, and are certain to be released, gain no skills and leave jail with nothing more than “$10 and a bus ticket.”
These ex-convicts, with almost no rehabilitation and little prospect for supporting themselves, return to the already-struggling communities that were rendered that way in part because so many men are being extracted on such a massive scale. There the cycle of crime often begins again, with innocent people caught in the middle and impressionable young eyes looking on.
According to The Times-Picayune: “In five years, about half of the state’s ex-convicts end up behind bars again.”
This suits the prison operators just fine. They need them to come back to the “honey holes.”
Furthermore, the more money the state spends on incarceration, the less it can spend on preventive measures like education. (According to Education Week’s State Report Cards, Louisiana was one of three states and the District of Columbia to receive an F for K-12 achievement in 2012, and, this year, the state, over all, is facing a $220 million deficit in its $25 billion budget.)
Louisiana is the starkest, most glaring example of how our prison policies have failed. It showcases how private prisons do not serve the public interest and how the mass incarceration as a form of job creation is an abomination of justice and civility and creates a long-term crisis by trying to create a short-term solution.
As the paper put it: “A prison system that leased its convicts as plantation labor in the 1800s has come full circle and is again a nexus for profit.”
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:40 pm
I think there have now been a couple of studies that show that Fox viewers actually become more misinformed the more they watch the fairly unbalanced network and the cons posting here certainly do nothing to disprove those studies.
JamVet
May 30th, 2012
7:41 pm
As I’ve noted many times, Faux News is porn for lonely old Republicans…
josef
May 30th, 2012
7:42 pm
LOUISIANA
That’s news? I thought everybody knew that about the Pelican State…
Dutch59
May 30th, 2012
7:43 pm
Jay – are you saying that up until this point, you actually thought Fox News WAS fair and balanced? And this “editorial” segment today changed your mind about this? Is that what you’re so upset about? If that’s the case, then you are so much more uneducated and naive than your readers originally thought.
Or are you actually upset that the “editorial” used Obama’s words, Obama’s slogans, and Obama’s financial numbers to show the TRUTH about his performance as president? I’m guessing it’s the latter. You and other liberals seem to have a hard time handlign the facts.
F. Sinkwich
May 30th, 2012
7:44 pm
Louisanna must be doin’ some hard time.
Don’t forget to vote for O’bozo.
And don’t bend over in the shower I’ve heard, but you probably figured that out by now.
Sux to be you, I guess…
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
7:45 pm
Jam
The rating for Fox and talk radio mean nothing in terms of the overall electorate. It is good for those who follow and of course for the investors, but if the “ratings” were some end all of end alls in terms of elections then why do Republicans not win every election?
It is simple with all the ratings, it is still a small percentage of the electorate………………
But if somehow that makes someone feel good to tout Fox and talk radio ratings as if they get a “gold star” in the mail……. let them ramble
Thulsa Doom
May 30th, 2012
7:48 pm
Taxpayer,
Do you have the empirical data and detailed studies to prove this?
As for being unbalanced the opinion stuff like Hannity, Oreilly, etc. of course its opinionated. So what. So is Chris Matthews at MSNBC, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, the ugly fat redhead on the view who has a show of her own, etc. The hard news is a little different. They mostly all cover the same thing.
Kinda odd though that 42 major Catholic organizations suing the U.S. govt over the contraception issue warranted little or no mention on the 3 major networks though. Hard to believe that wasn’t a major story. But ABC did lead off its nightly news a few weeks ago with the Romney high school bullying story of 47 years ago.
Just outta curiosity do libs really think that a bullying story from 47 years ago is worthy of a prime time leadin story but 42 Catholic organizations suing the govt over a hot button issue like contraception and health insurance is not even worthy of a mention?
F. Sinkwich
May 30th, 2012
7:49 pm
“then why do Republicans not win every election?”
Cause they’re not conservative enough.
But thanks for asking.
stands for decibels
May 30th, 2012
7:49 pm
for MiltonMan via my favorite blogspot pundit:
So it was that this past Sunday, Memorial Day’s eve, just before we honor the dead with the Indianapolis 500, MSNBC host and Nation writer Chris Hayes said on his weekend show, Up with Chris Hayes, “It is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the word ‘hero.’ Why do I feel so uncomfortable about the word ‘hero’? I feel uncomfortable with the word ‘hero’ because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. And I obviously don’t want to desecrate or disrespect the memory of anyone that has fallen. Obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is tremendous heroism. You know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers, things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that’s problematic, but maybe I’m wrong about that.”
Is this that difficult to understand? You die shooting up children in a village in Vietnam, you perhaps don’t deserve to be called a hero. And to call you one not only degrades true heroism, but it also validates the war in a way that it doesn’t deserve validation. As Hayes points out, that’s not to take away valor and courage and all that s### that goes along with soldiers. But if you’re a dude in supply and you get killed because your truck crashed outside Baghdad, how does that turn you from pencil pusher to hero? And why should you get the same accolades as the guy who walked up to a nest of Nazis and died blowing it up so that his fellow soldiers could get off the beach?
The attacks on Chris Hayes from the right are as predictable as they are tiresome. Various blogging suckers of c### and Ann Coulter piled on, with the end result being that Hayes issued a written apology. By the way, these same suckers of c### and Ann Coulter had no problem attacking wounded veterans John Kerry and Max Cleland and denying they were heroes. Because f### you; they don’t need to support all the troops when they don’t want to.
Jm
May 30th, 2012
7:51 pm
Sinkwich 7:28
hilarious
–
“Now who cursed who first??? As I told you downstairs, if and/or when you come at me with some semblance of decorum, I’ll respond likewise. When you come at me like that, ^^^^ you get what you give out. As to Kool-Aid, I don’t drink it, and I don’t make snide references such as that. Jay lets you get away with starting crap with people, but bring it my way, and I’ll dish it right back. If Jay bans me, it’s no water off my back. I don’t disrespect anybody here, and I won’t let anybody disrespect me.”
In a word plus acronym: pure BS
Tundra Dude
May 30th, 2012
7:51 pm
I bet Fox Noise missed this one:
Mitt Romney’s new jobs plan: Fire 145,000 Americans
http://www.dailykos.com
josef
May 30th, 2012
7:52 pm
I gotta hone up on my cut and paste skills….
JamVet
May 30th, 2012
7:52 pm
BOTH, again it is part and parcel of their “us against the world” mentality.
And in some, albeit demented, ways they are correct.
Take for example this staggering statistic.
Take a wild guess what percentage of Republican members in the US Congress believe in the validity of the almost universally accepted among scientific experts theory of anthropogenic climate change.
11%.
Outside of villages in Zimbabwe and North Korea, I’m not certain that you could find a number close to that. And at least they have a legitimate reason.
THIS is the magnitude of willful stupidity as perfectly promoted by Fox News.
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
7:52 pm
“Cause they’re not conservative enough.
But thanks for asking.”
And as usual our top clown has made his appearance..
Thanks for clowning
The Truth
May 30th, 2012
7:54 pm
Great…we get to listen to a bunch of idiot, toothless rednecks with an IQ below 10 defend the phoney ‘fair and biased’ Fox News.
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:54 pm
In June of last year, Jon Stewart went on air with Fox News’ Chris Wallace and started a major media controversy over the channel’s misinforming of its viewers. “Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers?” Stewart asked Wallace. “The most consistently misinformed? Fox, Fox viewers, consistently, every poll.”
St Simons - we're on island time
May 30th, 2012
7:55 pm
after reading 3 pages of transcripts, I see
big problem for wingnuttia – echoes can’t vote.
whoa that’s gonna be a bad hangover this fall, mon
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
7:55 pm
By numerous measures, Santorum and Gingrich are more conservative than Romney…………..
They were shellacked by an overall center right Republican electorate
But don’t let facts get in the way of your fantasy land diatribes
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:55 pm
Iraq War
In 2003, a survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland found widespread public misperceptions about the Iraq war. For instance, many Americans believed the U.S. had evidence that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had been collaborating in some way with al-Qaida, or was involved in the 9-11 attacks; many also believed that the much touted “weapons of mass destruction” had been found in the country after the U.S. invasion, when they hadn’t. But not everyone was equally misinformed: “The extent of Americans’ misperceptions vary significantly depending on their source of news,” PIPA reported. “Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions.” For instance, 80 percent of Fox viewers held at least one of three Iraq-related misperceptions, more than a variety of other types of news consumers, and especially NPR and PBS users. Most strikingly, Fox watchers who paid more attention to the channel were more likely to be misled.
josef
May 30th, 2012
7:55 pm
ZamVet
Watch it with the Zimbabwe one, y’hear…Zimbabwe is a highly educated country, even out in the boonies…so, why did you choose it?
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:56 pm
Global Warming
At least two studies have documented that Fox News viewers are more misinformed about this subject.
In a late 2010 survey, Stanford University political scientist Jon Krosnick and visiting scholar Bo MacInnis found that “more exposure to Fox News was associated with more rejection of many mainstream scientists’ claims about global warming, with less trust in scientists, and with more belief that ameliorating global warming would hurt the U.S. economy.” Frequent Fox viewers were less likely to say the Earth’s temperature has been rising and less likely to attribute this temperature increase to human activities. In fact, there was a 25 percentage point gap between the most frequent Fox News watchers (60 percent) and those who watch no Fox News (85 percent) in whether they think global warming is “caused mostly by things people do or about equally by things people do and natural causes.”
In a much more comprehensive study released in late 2011 (too late for Stewart or for PolitiFact), American University communications scholar Lauren Feldman and her colleagues reported on their analysis of a 2008 national survey, which found that “Fox News viewing manifests a significant, negative association with global warming acceptance.” Viewers of the station were less likely to agree that “most scientists think global warming is happening” and less likely to think global warming is mostly caused by human activities, among other measures.
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:57 pm
Health Care
In 2009, an NBC survey found “rampant misinformation” about the healthcare reform bill before Congress — derided on the right as “Obamacare.” It also found that Fox News viewers were much more likely to believe this misinformation than average members of the general public. “72 percent of self-identified Fox News viewers believe the healthcare plan will give coverage to illegal immigrants, 79 percent of them say it will lead to a government takeover, 69 percent think that it will use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions, and 75 percent believe that it will allow the government to make decisions about when to stop providing care for the elderly,” the survey found.
By contrast, among CNN and MSNBC viewers, only 41 percent believed the illegal immigrant falsehood, 39 percent believed in the threat of a “government takeover” of healthcare (40 percentage points less), 40 percent believed the falsehood about abortion, and 30 percent believed the falsehood about “death panels” (a 45 percent difference!).
In early 2011, the Kaiser Family Foundation released another survey on public misperceptions about healthcare reform. The poll asked 10 questions about the newly passed healthcare law and compared the “high scorers”—those that answered 7 or more correct—based on their media habits. The result was that “higher shares of those who report CNN (35 percent) or MSNBC (39 percent) as their primary news source [got] 7 or more right, compared to those that report mainly watching Fox News (25 percent).”
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:58 pm
“Ground Zero Mosque”
In late 2010, two scholars at the Ohio State University studied public misperceptions about the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”—and in particular, the prevalence of a series of rumors depicting those seeking to build this Islamic community center and mosque as terrorist sympathizers, anti-American, and so on. All of these rumors had, of course, been dutifully debunked by fact-checking organizations. The result? “People who use Fox News believe more of the rumors we asked about and they believe them more strongly than those who do not.”
josef
May 30th, 2012
7:59 pm
St SIMON’S
“echoes can’t vote.”
That’s a good one!
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:59 pm
The 2010 Election
In late 2010, the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) once again singled out Fox in a survey about misinformation during the 2010 election. Out of 11 false claims studied in the survey, PIPA found that “almost daily” Fox News viewers were “significantly more likely than those who never watched it” to believe 9 of them, including the misperceptions that “most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring” (they do), that “it is not clear that President Obama was born in the United States” (he was), that “most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses” (it either saved or created several million), that “most economists have estimated the healthcare law will worsen the deficit” (they have not), and so on.
It is important to note that in this study—by far the most critiqued of the bunch—the examples of misinformation studied were all closely related to prominent issues in the 2010 midterm election, and indeed, were selected precisely because they involved issues that voters said were of greatest importance to them, like healthcare and the economy. That was the main criterion for inclusion, explains PIPA senior research scholar Clay Ramsay. “People said, here’s how I would rank that as an influence on my vote,” says Ramsay, “so everything tested is at least a 5 on a zero-to-10 scale.”
Wilmer "Redneck" Convert (R--and proud of it)
May 30th, 2012
8:01 pm
Well, I’m kinda late getting on here because I was caught up watching Fox News.
It figures a librul like Bookman would take out after Fox News. I watch it because they tell the Truth. And even if they stretched things a little, I’d still watch it because they say the things I want to hear. I feel like a real pointy head after I’ve spent the night listening to Sean and Bill and all the other right-thinking people because I always feel like I’m really caught up on what’s going on in this country and the world. Strange how it takes a Australian to make sure we get the straight scoop.
And it don’t sound like they take sides. The Truth don’t take sides.
Have a good night everybody.
Fox viewer
May 30th, 2012
8:02 pm
The media is biased. I learned that from Fox.
At least you liberals and jay agree with me on that.
Fox viewer
May 30th, 2012
8:03 pm
I learned we have a big deficit from Fox.
Is that a lie?
F. Sinkwich
May 30th, 2012
8:07 pm
TaxPayer is doing the Granny C&P two-step. Get an original thought, dude.
Quoting KOS ?!?!???
Bwahahahahaha!
Louisiana
May 30th, 2012
8:09 pm
F. Sinkwich
Louisanna must be doin’ some hard time.
Don’t forget to vote for O’bozo.
And don’t bend over in the shower I’ve heard, but you probably figured that out by now.
Sux to be you, I guess…
_____
Thank you for your kind words.
St Simons - we're on island time
May 30th, 2012
8:14 pm
wow, from the linguist, thank you
now, don’t go thinking we’re gonna cut our hands and tie em
together like on teevee, that looks like one o those dumb
ideas we need to lose…
besides i hid all the knives from mrsstsimons…you know why..
That Black Guy
May 30th, 2012
8:14 pm
stands for decibels
May 30th, 2012
7:17 pm
Roger Ailes should be force-fed Rush Limbaugh’s liposuctioned fat.
dB, that comment will do wonders for my diet.
____________________________________________________________
I won’t be eating tonight.
JamVet
May 30th, 2012
8:15 pm
Redact Zimbabwe to read Mali. (Damn teachers! Grin.)
Jm
May 30th, 2012
8:17 pm
“Eugene had a job detailing cars at a dealership and had been arrested a handful of times on marijuana-related charges, his brother said.
“I don’t understand any of this,” the brother said. “I know my brother, and anybody else who knows him knows he was a genuinely sweet person.”"
Oops. Don’t do pot. U might eat someone’s face.
Obama/Biden 2012
May 30th, 2012
8:18 pm
。☆ 。☆。☆
★。＼｜／。★
Obama 4 MORE
–Deal with it TroIIs–
★。／｜＼。★
。☆。 。☆。
Jm
May 30th, 2012
8:20 pm
I can see those pot legalization polls heading the other direction…..
That Black Guy
May 30th, 2012
8:21 pm
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:37 pm
And did the Republicans ever get around to generating the final tally of jobs that would be lost by implementing their Keystone pipeline plan to benefit the Koch’s.
____________________________________________________________________
Any idea Mr Buffet stands to make if the pipeline does not happen?
Because they would move that oil using HIS trains.
Mama Says
May 30th, 2012
8:21 pm
Jay,
I would like to give you a homework assignment please.
Tonight you have to watch 2 hours of MSNBC. That time can be spent on Rachael Madow and/ or Ed Schultz. After you have watched this you have to write a blog on the lies and half truths that you observed.
The up coming blog must have at least 2 quotes which are glaring examples of left leaning TV reporting. The quotes must be followed by the actual truth.
For extra credit you may review the Clayton State University study guide as it is presented to the youth who are taking history at that campus. I can make that book available to you if you like. A preview, ” President Carter faced a severe downturn in the economy. faced with republican oppisition on policies that would improve the economic outlook, Carter was forced to do his best via presidential directives. Of course once Regan took over those directives, put in place by Carter, did a great deal to enhance the illusion that Regan actually helped the country”
Then you can sum up which side is more ” liberal” if you will, in what they publish and which side skews the truth.
I await your presentation
Moderate Line
May 30th, 2012
8:22 pm
The FoxNews piece looked like a Super Pac advertisement. These types of pieces undercut the credibility of Fox or reinforces the lack of credibility. Just like statements like the Republican party is a threat to prosperity, logic and reason.
josef
May 30th, 2012
8:22 pm
BROSEPHUS
Gotcha!
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
8:23 pm
Any idea Mr Buffet stands to make if the pipeline does not happen?
Because they would move that oil using HIS trains.
Buffett owns all the trains! Damn!
Mama Says
May 30th, 2012
8:24 pm
By the way I know it spelled Reagan
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
8:25 pm
TBG
Your post earlier today about fingers in mouths just crossed my mind.
That was nothing short of hilarious……..
Bravo, Bravo
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
8:27 pm
Sinkwich,
Thulsa asked for the supporting evidence regarding the fact that you viewers of Fox are more misinformed than even people that watch no news and I replied. Do yourself a favor and read the non-KOS information that I provided. Become one of the informed. Okay, now that was funny.
josef
May 30th, 2012
8:28 pm
ZamVet
That’s better!
St. SIMON’S
Not the traditionally the most appropriate bodily fluids to exchange..
Mary Elizabeth
May 30th, 2012
8:29 pm
Enter your comments here
stands for decibels
May 30th, 2012
8:29 pm
that comment will do wonders for my diet.
My work is done, here.
stands for decibels
May 30th, 2012
8:30 pm
These types of pieces undercut the credibility of Fox or reinforces the lack of credibility.
let me think… The latter, I believe.
simple plan from a simple man
May 30th, 2012
8:31 pm
Let’s separate the country. The conservatives will take 1/3 and the liberals can take the rest. The liberals can take any 2/3 they want. The one catch is that neither side can take any action to dictate policy on the other side. We can still be friends and even allies, but totally separate. Let’s give it ten years and see which side is looking better. Who is with me?
After all, the answer to the question “Can’t we all just get along? is no.
Mama Says
May 30th, 2012
8:32 pm
You know what’s interesting. The words media bias never existed in the liberal vocabulary until Fox news came along.
Now it’s an everyday accusation, even your president has caught on to the liberal theme of ” they talk bad about us”
And Fox is only one out of 4 networks. Makes you wonder why libs never had a problem with CBS! NBC or ABC
josef
May 30th, 2012
8:33 pm
simple plan
Don’t either side want me, where do I go?
givememyfairshare
May 30th, 2012
8:37 pm
it gives me a thrill up my leg…
josef
May 30th, 2012
8:37 pm
Jm
I guess Eugene must’ve got the munchies…
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
8:39 pm
Don’t either side want me, where do I go?
Have you considered the middle.
That Black Guy
May 30th, 2012
8:40 pm
Any idea Mr Buffet stands to make if the pipeline does not happen?
Because they would move that oil using HIS trains.
OOPS, make that,
Any idea *HOW MUCH* Mr Buffet stands to make if the pipeline does not happen?
Because they would move that oil using HIS trains.
Mary Elizabeth
May 30th, 2012
8:40 pm
Instead of thinking in terms of “sides,” and in terms of taking a stand against an opponent, just listen to the data shared in this interview with President Reagan’s former policy advisor, which I had posted earlier. Don’t focus on the fact that the interview takes place on the Chris Matthews Show. That is not relevant. Bartlett was asked by Matthews to be on his show because of an op-ed Bartlett had previously written in which he presented these facts to the general public. Bartlett had served in two Republican administrations. He does not appear to be overly partisan.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#43917503
josef
May 30th, 2012
8:41 pm
One good thing about Fox news…the crawler. Seriously, I check in there several times a day
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
8:42 pm
“The words media bias never existed in the liberal vocabulary until Fox news came along”
In the words of a Republican Congressmen from SC
“YOU LIE”
Next topic
josef
May 30th, 2012
8:44 pm
TAXI
Heaven forbid! I’d still have to fall one way or the other when I lost my balance…
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
8:44 pm
Fox does have some HOT women………
Let me be the 1st to say…………..
Especially “the 5″
All three of the women who are regulars are smokin…….. including Bush’s ex Press Sec
F. Sinkwich
May 30th, 2012
8:44 pm
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) enjoys a 7-point advantage over Democratic challenger Tom Barrett among likely voters in Tuesday’s recall election. Fifty-two percent of likely voters said they would vote to retain Walker, according to a Marquette Law School poll…”
Walker 1
Union Thugs 0
josef
May 30th, 2012
8:45 pm
BOTH
Now, be nice to Mama. The short term memory is the first to go…
Ol' Timer
May 30th, 2012
8:46 pm
The Tea Party and the right-winger-dingers KNOW, but so much of what they KNOW just ain’t so!
josef
May 30th, 2012
8:46 pm
BOTH
And my man Shep ain’t half bad…!
That Black Guy
May 30th, 2012
8:47 pm
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
8:23 pm
Any idea Mr Buffet stands to make if the pipeline does not happen?
Because they would move that oil using HIS trains.
Buffett owns all the trains! Damn!
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Thank you for pointing out something I DIDN’T say. What would we do without you?
No, he doesn’t own all the trains. but he stands to make a lot of money if the pipeline isn’t approved.
Feel better now?
You silli nilli’s with your word games.
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
8:47 pm
Heaven forbid! I’d still have to fall one way or the other when I lost my balance…
I’ve found that when I lean forward while walking, I am less likely to fall to the left or right although I do favor the left, being a Southpaw.
Thulsa Doom
May 30th, 2012
8:47 pm
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
7:54 pm
In June of last year, Jon Stewart went on air with Fox News’ Chris Wallace and started a major media controversy over the channel’s misinforming of its viewers.
Oh my God. Taxpayer thinks Jon Stewart, a far left guy, is a credible voice on who and who isn’t informed. Damn that is funny.
F. Sinkwich
May 30th, 2012
8:48 pm
“Bartlett had served in two Republican administrations. He does not appear to be overly partisan.”
He’s a RINO establishment hack. All he wants is an invite to Sally Quinn’s parties in Georgetown.
JamVet
May 30th, 2012
8:50 pm
So how exactly is the rabidly right Faux News portraying Flip “180 Degrees” Romney?
Severely conservative?
An effete northeastern liberal?
A socialist RINO?
A champion of middle class Republican families?
Huge LOL!
Talk about screwed for a second straight time!
Recon 0311 2533
May 30th, 2012
8:50 pm
Watched it this morning on Fox and Friends and it was spot on. The problem of course is it comes across as a political ad. The left doesn’t like it because it tells the story of a failed presidency and Jay is only being a good lefty by criticizing it on his blog. A little bit of left wing whining here but the video itself is a home run.
Mary Elizabeth
May 30th, 2012
8:51 pm
And what is your evidence for making that statement at 8:48 pm, F. Sinkwich?
Titleist101
May 30th, 2012
8:53 pm
Truth hurts. When you don’t have anything positive to run on, you try to deflect any attention to your failures by attacking your opponent. We need change we can believe in and that will start in 2013.
Louisiana
May 30th, 2012
8:54 pm
for F. Sinkwich….I appreciate your kind words. Here is a video that I would like for you to enjoy. Once again thank you!
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html
That Black Guy
May 30th, 2012
8:54 pm
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
8:25 pm
TBG
Your post earlier today about fingers in mouths just crossed my mind.
That was nothing short of hilarious……..
Bravo, Bravo
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That’s the visual I get sometimes after reading his posts.
I USED to go after Adam about his posts, but stopped weeks ago. I don’t want to be seen as someone who targets particular people.
The only time I’ll say something is if he does it to me.
weetamoe
May 30th, 2012
8:55 pm
So it has come to this. One of Jay’s regulars demands that all republicans/conservatives just shut up.
As far as media bias (was that the point about Fox? ) Evan Thomas, venerable Evan Thomas, of Newsweek claims that the media give democrat candidates at least a 15% edge in all reporting. Polish death camps, quatro de Mayo, they do keep adding up. Since Fox viewers (don’t have cable, so don’t watch,) are evidently woefully uninformed according to some surely unimpeachable source, here’s a solution. How about requiring literacy tests to vote? Finally, I don’t know how to render it in English so have to try it phonetically, but I say to Obama plugi wapatch!
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
8:56 pm
That Black Guy,
Correct me if I am wrong but I seem to recall you claiming that “they would move that oil using his [Buffett's] trains” so I thought it only natural to call you out for that yarn given that Buffett clearly does not own all the trains that could be used for transporting oil should someone choose to do so, not that your comment really had any bearing whatsoever on my original post though. It was really just a convenient diversion that you decided to throw out. k.
JamVet
May 30th, 2012
8:59 pm
How about requiring literacy tests to vote?
Well, your right wing pals here are sure in trouble!
Too bad about Jim Crow not being around anymore though, huh? Then you cons would really be stoked…
TaxPayer
May 30th, 2012
9:01 pm
Oh my God. Taxpayer thinks Jon Stewart, a far left guy, is a credible voice on who and who isn’t informed. Damn that is funny.
Oh my God. Thulsa cannot even read far enough into my replies to his request for information to glean the simple fact that what I posted was not about Jon Stewart. That’s not funny though. It’s sad and telling. Now run along, Doom. Your Fox “News” surely awaits..
Mary Elizabeth
May 30th, 2012
9:01 pm
“In his book, The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward, Bartlett defends Keynesian economic policies, stating that while supply-side economics was appropriate for the 1970s and 1980s, supply side arguments do not fit contemporary conditions.
Bruce Reeves Bartlett (b. October 11, 1951, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American historian whose area of expertise is supply-side economics. He served as a domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under President George H. W. Bush.
Bartlett has written several books and magazine articles critical of the Bush Administration, whose economic policies he believes significantly depart from traditional conservative principles.
Bartlett was educated at Rutgers University (B.A., 1973) and Georgetown University (M.A., 1976). He originally studied American diplomatic history under Lloyd Gardner at Rutgers and Jules Davids at Georgetown. He did much work on the origins of the Pearl Harbor attack, doing a master’s thesis on the topic at Georgetown, the substance of which was later published as “Coverup: The Politics of Pearl Harbor, 1941-1946″.
Since 1995, he has written a newspaper column for Creators Syndicate, based in Los Angeles, and written extensively for many newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune magazine, and Commentary magazine. He currently blogs at Capital Gains and Games.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bartlett
F. Sinkwich
May 30th, 2012
9:01 pm
Thanks, Louisiana.
Here’s some good advice:
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
Too bad your momma didn’t tell you that.
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
9:03 pm
josef
Your fellow Mississippian.
I think I told you that I met him at an Ole Miss & GA game a few years ago. Very nice guy
josef
May 30th, 2012
9:03 pm
weetamoe
Ja już przeprosił w imieniu prezydenta Obamy. Co więcej chcesz, głupie gówno?
martin the calvinist
May 30th, 2012
9:04 pm
Jay, can you dispute the facts stated here, can you dispute the President said all those things, I’m sorry, I don’t see bias, I see reporting!
Besides, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR was just as hard on the former President and there were no “so and so network” lets their mask slip again articles on bias from you….
They BOTH suck
May 30th, 2012
9:04 pm
TBG @ 8:54
Understood, however there are times he gets what he deserves……..
Louisiana
May 30th, 2012
9:04 pm
Thanks, Louisiana.
Here’s some good advice:
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
Too bad your momma didn’t tell you that.
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You have given me the best advice that I have ever received. You are a wonderful person! Once again thank you.
F. Sinkwich
May 30th, 2012
9:05 pm
ME, he’s a RiNO, despicable as Olympia Snowe.
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May 30th, 2012
9:06 pm
DeKalb homeowner to school board: ‘We have no more money to give.’ Expect many others to agree.
5:28 pm May 30, 2012, by Maureen Downey
UPDATE at 6 p.m.: Getting word that new property assessments in DeKalb showing big jumps in some areas despite collapse of housing market. A neighbor saw a $300,000 jump — $400,000 to $700,00 — and has not added onto her house. Is there a glitch in the assessments? Anybody else seeing that sort of rise in their house’s value?
Louisiana
May 30th, 2012
9:06 pm
F.Sinkwich…oh thank you “Moma”.