Looks like Hugh stepped on some Liberal toes with this one...
The Big Weenie is claiming that ABC is pandering to the right in an effort to draw off viewers from a cable news show, apparently totally oblivious (sorry for the redundancy here..) to the signficance this would have if it had the slightest basis in fact. For an old-time and once powerful network to have to try to steal viewers from an upstart cable network, one which bases its own success on what is evidently the radical concept of actually presenting both sides of a story, would be a telling commentary on the sad state of network television in the United States---if it were true. But the fact is, while Fox does enjoy success in cable land, because it does dare to present a conservative point of view to balance the Liberal perspective, ABC has no intention of doing the same thing. Why should thet start now?
("Broke the Foley story".? How? Did they say that a man had been pressured to quit after Republican leaders learned he had been exchanging salacious but consensual IM messages with an adult male who had once been a House page? With absolutely NO physical contact? Because that WAS the story. If ABC got the IMs confused with the earlier and benign e-mails, then they put a Liberal spin on the story and distorted it to advance a Liberal agenda. If they claimed there was a cover-up, ditto, because that would have meant they interjected speculation which was not only not borne out by fact but which was contradicted by fact. If they spent any time promoting the idea that Hastert would have to resign, or should resign, they were being Liberal propagandists and not objective journalists. If they refused to contrast the Republican house-cleaning regarding Foley with the Democratic adulation of Gerry Studds, who actually did engage in sexual activities with a 17-year-old page, they were not "breaking a story" as much as advancing Dem talking points.)
But of course it is just some goofy backpedaling from a goofy airhead weenie who, according to his nom de plume can't get ANYTHING right.
And poor pathetic ol' Danimal is still whining about Bush's military record---again totally misreprenting the facts and just burping up some old Airhead whining points that have been debunked so often that most of the Loony Left has given up on them. Not the Danimal, though---he jes' LOVES to trash Bush for not being, I guess, in the Dan Man's immortal words, "a troop".
Pukie---well, there is the new network TV show which throws in such gems as having Sally Field comment every week about Republicans being liars and so on. There is the constant reference on nearly every drama show to "torture", "loss of constitutional rights", "domestic wiretapping", "abuse at Gitmo", blah blah blah blah blah---without ever having a character balance those throwaway comments with a different perspective, such as the truth.
I turned off "ER" for good last year, when one of the characters constantly whined about her conviction (which she presented as absolute fact) that we were criminals to go into Iraq. And by the way, no one ever stood up to her and pointed out the obvious fallacies in her whimpering. When she came up with this crap at a support group for spouses of military in Iraq, the next scene had her sniveling some more about how she thought we had freedom of speech in this country---evidently she was not made welcome, but they certainly did not have the courage to show someone standing up to this misguided fool and giving her any facts. Nope, not on Liberal TV. On Liberal TV, those who were offended by her ignorance and narrow-mindedness were the villians, and the narrow-minded.
It is pervasive. It is in nearly every series show, at least any which pretends to address issues of the day. I've heard this kind of BS on shows like Law And Order, CSI, Boston Legal, and so on.
There is the refusal of any network show, ever, anywhere or at any time, to take on the mystery of Kerry's missing military records or his even more mysterious post-dated Honorable Discharge. Or do you think that Bush would have gotten a pass, as well, if it turned out that it took HIM nearly 30 years to get his discharge rated Honorable?
And so on. The media are trying to get the term "Swift-Boated" into usage as a pejorative, as an insult, defined as lying about someone's military record? ???????????? Talk about spinning to the Left!
If Diane Sawyer and Perky Katie Couric had Botox, to keep them from frowning in anguish as they emote over what are supposed to be news stories, they would lose their jobs. But they DO emote, and make their positions extremely clear, while pretending to interview or present news. They inject their points of view in everything they touch----and it is always, overwhelmingly, Liberal. Let someone come up with a non-Left comment or viewpoint and those frowns deepen and those voices drop in concern, as the "journalists" argue their own points---"But don't you think......" is usually the lead-in as they try to shift the discussion back to where they want it to be.
The problem is, you guys are so totally egocentric that you think the universe revolves around you and your silly little theories. So when a network regurgitates the crap you guys eat up with a spoon, you assume they are simply being correct. You hang out together, you feed each others' paranoid fantasies, you play on each others' fears, you applaud each others' ignorance, you wallow in your admiration of each other, and in general you live in a teeny tiny little bubble of delusion and paranoia. So when you see network "news" and uber-Left cable channels like CNN reinforcing those viewpoints and regurgitating the same talking points, from your extremely narrow point of view they are simply stating the obvious and only true facts. To you, that's not spin, or bias--that's simply the truth! And therefore, anything which veers from that absolute line of Liberal cant MUST be spin, bias, or outright propaganda. You guys simply do not get it.
Which is why you are always convinced that the elections are rigged. You just don't understand how many millions of Americans do not agree with you. When the truth is presented to you, in election after election, you just can't accept it, can't believe it. But you don't get out much....
What a bunch of crap. When there's a story in the NYT, or any MSM organization, that is beneficial to Bush or to Republicans, you are quick to cite it. Only on the bad stories do you scream about bias. How about a little intellectual integrity: if you think the MSM is biased and worthless, then ignore it completely, not just when the story goes against your opinions.
XCuse me for being Skeptical my most odorous friends, but do you guys think he may be tellin’ us what we want to hear, so that ABC may commandeer some ratings from our good buddies at Fox News? ABC was afterall the network which broke The Foley story, while Foxnews stayed loyal to our cause and kept it under wraps
I wonder how long Mark Helperin plans on keeping his job.
How is that Bush looks like the hero when he's the one who dodged military duty? Media bias??? Your nuts - the Rove machine made Kerry look like the un-patriotic one while Georgie boy was the one sniffin his mind out listening to Free Bird. Your comments are un-American.
I guess that the Disney/ABC gestapo, in their
efforts to become Fox News Lite, have gotten
to Mark Halperin . What a shame.
I'm still looking for all of those Liberal
shows on T.V. and radio, but the conservative
shows are crowding them out.
Liberal MSM conspiracy-theories abound! No real
proof, but they abound.Where's the Ministry of
Truth when you need it??
Looks like Hugh stepped on some Liberal toes with this one...
The Big Weenie is claiming that ABC is pandering to the right in an effort to draw off viewers from a cable news show, apparently totally oblivious (sorry for the redundancy here..) to the signficance this would have if it had the slightest basis in fact. For an old-time and once powerful network to have to try to steal viewers from an upstart cable network, one which bases its own success on what is evidently the radical concept of actually presenting both sides of a story, would be a telling commentary on the sad state of network television in the United States---if it were true. But the fact is, while Fox does enjoy success in cable land, because it does dare to present a conservative point of view to balance the Liberal perspective, ABC has no intention of doing the same thing. Why should thet start now?
("Broke the Foley story".? How? Did they say that a man had been pressured to quit after Republican leaders learned he had been exchanging salacious but consensual IM messages with an adult male who had once been a House page? With absolutely NO physical contact? Because that WAS the story. If ABC got the IMs confused with the earlier and benign e-mails, then they put a Liberal spin on the story and distorted it to advance a Liberal agenda. If they claimed there was a cover-up, ditto, because that would have meant they interjected speculation which was not only not borne out by fact but which was contradicted by fact. If they spent any time promoting the idea that Hastert would have to resign, or should resign, they were being Liberal propagandists and not objective journalists. If they refused to contrast the Republican house-cleaning regarding Foley with the Democratic adulation of Gerry Studds, who actually did engage in sexual activities with a 17-year-old page, they were not "breaking a story" as much as advancing Dem talking points.)
But of course it is just some goofy backpedaling from a goofy airhead weenie who, according to his nom de plume can't get ANYTHING right.
And poor pathetic ol' Danimal is still whining about Bush's military record---again totally misreprenting the facts and just burping up some old Airhead whining points that have been debunked so often that most of the Loony Left has given up on them. Not the Danimal, though---he jes' LOVES to trash Bush for not being, I guess, in the Dan Man's immortal words, "a troop".
Pukie---well, there is the new network TV show which throws in such gems as having Sally Field comment every week about Republicans being liars and so on. There is the constant reference on nearly every drama show to "torture", "loss of constitutional rights", "domestic wiretapping", "abuse at Gitmo", blah blah blah blah blah---without ever having a character balance those throwaway comments with a different perspective, such as the truth.
I turned off "ER" for good last year, when one of the characters constantly whined about her conviction (which she presented as absolute fact) that we were criminals to go into Iraq. And by the way, no one ever stood up to her and pointed out the obvious fallacies in her whimpering. When she came up with this crap at a support group for spouses of military in Iraq, the next scene had her sniveling some more about how she thought we had freedom of speech in this country---evidently she was not made welcome, but they certainly did not have the courage to show someone standing up to this misguided fool and giving her any facts. Nope, not on Liberal TV. On Liberal TV, those who were offended by her ignorance and narrow-mindedness were the villians, and the narrow-minded.
It is pervasive. It is in nearly every series show, at least any which pretends to address issues of the day. I've heard this kind of BS on shows like Law And Order, CSI, Boston Legal, and so on.
There is the refusal of any network show, ever, anywhere or at any time, to take on the mystery of Kerry's missing military records or his even more mysterious post-dated Honorable Discharge. Or do you think that Bush would have gotten a pass, as well, if it turned out that it took HIM nearly 30 years to get his discharge rated Honorable?
And so on. The media are trying to get the term "Swift-Boated" into usage as a pejorative, as an insult, defined as lying about someone's military record? ???????????? Talk about spinning to the Left!
If Diane Sawyer and Perky Katie Couric had Botox, to keep them from frowning in anguish as they emote over what are supposed to be news stories, they would lose their jobs. But they DO emote, and make their positions extremely clear, while pretending to interview or present news. They inject their points of view in everything they touch----and it is always, overwhelmingly, Liberal. Let someone come up with a non-Left comment or viewpoint and those frowns deepen and those voices drop in concern, as the "journalists" argue their own points---"But don't you think......" is usually the lead-in as they try to shift the discussion back to where they want it to be.
The problem is, you guys are so totally egocentric that you think the universe revolves around you and your silly little theories. So when a network regurgitates the crap you guys eat up with a spoon, you assume they are simply being correct. You hang out together, you feed each others' paranoid fantasies, you play on each others' fears, you applaud each others' ignorance, you wallow in your admiration of each other, and in general you live in a teeny tiny little bubble of delusion and paranoia. So when you see network "news" and uber-Left cable channels like CNN reinforcing those viewpoints and regurgitating the same talking points, from your extremely narrow point of view they are simply stating the obvious and only true facts. To you, that's not spin, or bias--that's simply the truth! And therefore, anything which veers from that absolute line of Liberal cant MUST be spin, bias, or outright propaganda. You guys simply do not get it.
Which is why you are always convinced that the elections are rigged. You just don't understand how many millions of Americans do not agree with you. When the truth is presented to you, in election after election, you just can't accept it, can't believe it. But you don't get out much....