July 26, 2007 11:36 PM
Open Thread
Reporter quits White House beat over 'censorship'
and congratulations to Lowe's for making a thoughtful decision about where to spend their advertising dollar. Never let it be said that your voice won't make a difference. There are other advertisers to contact, if you're interested.



Yeah but see this. It may not be the first time they've "pulled" advertising off O'Reilly's show.
How long until Snow starts foaming at the mouth at the disloyalty of those who dare to question his total bullsh*t?
No one will notice because the white house press corpse' are spinless because they're afraid of being marginalized due to tough questioning. I saw the TS conference today and it was shameful how they let TS spin them all around. It was skillful on his part, making them too dizzy to follow his flawed logic.
The reporter who "quit" the press briefings is a certified right-wing nutcase named Les Kinsolving.
Nevertheless, he is executing a plan once proposed by Journalism professor, Jay Rosen, suggesting that ALL White House correspondents stop going to the the pre-scripted newsless propaganda fests hosted by Fox News personality, Tony Snow.
No More White House Press Briefings
And THIS! On Yahoo, just now, "Liberals pressure FOX advertisers."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070728/ap_en_tv/tv_fox_protest;_ylt=Agw1Qk6...
Yee-hahhhh. Go on and get yer email notifications of FOX advertisers at foxattacks.com!
was glad to read that Lowe's pulled their adds from the O'Rielly show cause they have great supplies for signs. lol
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fCutvXccFlA
Kinsolving is an idiot. I don't quite understand Snowjob jumping all over *him*, in particular, but he's useless anyway and won't be missed. Good riddance.
Dear Nicole & Others:
I must share this idea with all of you, since in Bush's America, these are very strange times, indeed. A lot of religion, yet, little thought is given to alternative ideas in the USA at this time. I offer you a perspective here which runs contrary to many who like to bash gays and lesbians, but, not allow gay marriage which I totally support. I support gay marriage and gay rights because I think there are things people are indoctrinated with that need to be challenged. Who is the final arbiter of life anyway and how do absolutists know about something---the afterlife they have never experienced yet? I am tired of the theocrats and their arrogance over everything in this orbit of life which to me is quite an illusory at best. Life is a mere illusion. Take a look at a picture of someone no longer here on earth and try to rationalize their existence now and where is that? Life is merely an illusion and anyone can claim this absolutist thought or another based on some book of the Bible which is also merely an illusion within the life span.
Are human beings an illusion or real? I say that the existence of human beings is based on matter and therefore, a lot more illusion than one thinks. Pictures and memories are also illusions as long as we grace this earth. Sex is part of the physical matter part of life and since humans are mere illusions when all said and done, sexual relations with the same sex if one wants to, is fine and okay. Matter is matter and the existence of human beings is an illusion which all occurs the day one dies. Death is real and human life based on matter, alas, water and molecules and some oxygen, is merely an illusion. Sex is sex and the only reason for heterosexuality is to keep life form in the physical sense going---ya know the illusion of unending life going, but sex in and of itself has never been limited to just sex to keep physical matter going in orbit. Homosexuality is as normal as it is to take a shower or go to the bathroom. What is unnatural, is to think that homosexuality is awful or not normal. If homosexuality was "abnormal" and "unnatural" there would be no "normal" way to perform gay sex. One can make the argument that marriage is not only "unnatural" but abnormal in the sense that it holds the physical self in a type of bondage which upon death of a spouse, shows the other what an illusion the entire deal was to begin with. Life is an illusion yet physical matter which makes up the human self is quite temporary. Once that artificial life due to physical matter ends its motion, humans are reduced the next mode of life which is the ending of the movement of those molecules and water which created the illusion of human life which is based on a sexual identity that in the end means nothing.
From now on I will be shopping at Lowe's fpr all my tools and home improvement needs.
Lowe's Rocks!
Lowe's pulled its advertising from FOX. Home Depot has, at least as of now, refused to do so. I won't be shopping at Home Depot. EVER.
Thank You Lowe's...for doing the right thing. I'll never shop at Home Depot ever again.
The sudden impact with Lowes is insightful.
And true, it takes a couple minutes to have an associate help you at Lowes
while it takes a quarter hour at Home Depot.
Service with a smile.
We want that from our media too.
Where the Buffalo Roam - 1972 Presidential Campaign @1:11.02
(I also want to note a prop to google for me being able to FF this clip without having to wait for a complete D/L. Interesting. Or maybe I don't get out enough.)
"The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize."--Saul Bellow
CBS " news " COULD have led with the biggest scandal happening right now, the accusation that Tillman was " murdered " followed by Gonzales , the top cop in the country lying in front of the world with his confident arrogance , take your pick, bush's military " murdering" one of their own, ( because the autopsy says he was shot within 10 feet, with 3 shots very close together, instead the complicit media finds the diversionary drug of the day scare, to divert attention or better yet, the frequent " PORT STORY" , bcs you know we have to spend billions on something that never works.
These degenerates possibly murdered , Pat Tillman , bcs WHY are we finding out that he was shot from about 10 feet, and NOT the over 90 feet and the fricken useless , complicit media isn't yelling at the top of the their lungs, ASKING what happen . These so called news channels make me wanna puke , these phony sob's masquerading as "journalist" are nothing more than sensationalistic , government sycophants .
CBS spent 5x the time on some fat kid that collected vacuum cleaners, more time thaN the Tillman scandal , a segment that was an apology for showing the WRONG pic of the General reprimanded , for screwing up the Tillman iNVESTIGATION .
CNN AND bLITZER THINK they are slick with his regular fabricated story or theme, currently some fabricated flare up between Hillary and Obama and concentrating on that all day, instead, of Covering the HUGE Tillman Scandal, involving a possible MURDER, it pushes it to the bottom, and contrary to CNN doing a good job covering the Billion Dollar Embassy WASTE , they regulated it to Cafferty, Because Blitzer doesn't have the JOUNRALISTIC
BALLS to ASK Cohen , the CFR'r , WHY do we need a BILLION DOLLAR Embassy, IF, IF we don't plan on occupying the country of IRAQ.
Blitzer doesn't have the journalistic balls to ask Tony Snow ANYTHING about the Embassy, established to occupy IRAQ.
And now about another important issue, YOUR VOTE (via Bradblog)
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The independent teams of analysts were able to bypass both physical and software
security measures in every system tested."
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.htm
"If the ends don't justify the means, I don't know what does."
-Saul Alinsky
The ongoing Bush scandal and war suggests we impeach.
That's nice i will definitely take my business to Lowe's.
These are crazy times. bill-o brought this on himself.
it's time we all band together and shut the bully up.
Following @1:24 - Snow clone saying to the press "Moving right along. No need to run. Just get on the plane"
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Saul Alinsky was the subject of Hillary Rodhams senior honors thesis at Wellesley.
Also a major influence on Hoffman and Obama.
A great American, he is the antithesis to Bush, Cheney, Fox and the neocon anti-American project.
In the era of vaudeville, Kinsolving would be called a "pants man" that is, if things weren't going well in the regular show, a guy would come out on stage and manage to drop his pants, getting a quick laugh from the audience.
My guess is that he knew just how ridiculous his questions were. A very useful relief tool when the real questions got intense. Same with the Indian fellow, can't recall his name...the subject is always arcane and supportive of the administration position.
I'd like to see a count of the reporters who function as plants in that room.
so this guy leaves and it means nothing. why not the Lowes' story as the lead with pictures. I don't give a schitt if a shill got chewed out. he was probably leaving anyway and led into the whole thing like a perfect foil.
the reminds me of the arlin sphincter threats. all hat no cattle.
"nothing to see here! move along now!"
lowes is definitely more important. I chalk up all WH blather as lies and more lies and I'm done with it.
Oh crap, how am I going to be able to root for Tony Stewart now? Worst of all, I've got to shop at Lowe's while they sponsor a Hendricks car, not that there's anything wrong with Jimmie Johnson, just hard to walk in there with all My Home Depot racing gear...
Oh the Pain, The pain of it all...
Great news about Lowe's. Time for the 2/3's of us who have caught on to start fighting back.
If it weren't for computers, blogs and people like you, America would be in real trouble. Blogs report news that the corporate media doesn't like to investigate.
Fox News is a big propaganda network. Conservative zealots love watching those guys reporting on Britney Speers while ankle hugging Bush/Cheney/Rove. Chris Wallace and Brit Hume have compromised their careers.
Barack Obama - Copacabana!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYJbKZlwM5s
We can only hope Mr. Garrison can get some f*ckin Poontang tomorrow night.
But Terrance and Philip say send the boy's home.
Straight Shooter @ 2:
I thought that was his rant!
Hey. Saw an ad about making my d*ck get larger.
Where is a product that makes Bush's brain get larger?
whizkid @ 32:
Therwe is no such product.
As noted in the Washington Post, Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers prepared a 52-page memo “that for the first time alleges specific ways that several administration officials may have broken the law during the multiple firings of U.S. attorneys.” 7/28
see the vote here Read the memo (pdf)
Bombs are flying.
Politicians are lying.
Children are dying.
Hey I'm super, thanks for asking.
The opening number at the 2008 GOP convention.
"An international conference in Jordan on the more than two million Iraqi refugees uprooted by war has pledged to help them with their difficulties. But it insisted the solution to the problem lay in their return home and that the Iraqi government was directly responsible for its displaced citizens." 7/28
The UN refugee agency, Unrwa, said some 50,000 more Iraqis were escaping the violence in their homeland each month.
Most are ending up in Jordan and Syria, which want help to ease the burden.
When your president can't bring syrup to the table while your pancakes are getting cold - that is a worthless president.
- Saul Alinsky
I always favored Lowes to Home Depot anyways now it's Official.
The right still thinks they enjoy a time when the left held LBJ in contempt to such a regard as to vote for Nixon.
And hope a few votes for Nader can help them.
Sorry. The Republicans have identified themselves as the devil child.
Should take forty or fifty years to clean.
Use your creativity and/or photo-taking ability to taunt Bill O! Collecting bad pictures of bill oreilly here. Send 'em if you got 'em (or will get/create 'em).
I've known for a while now that the majority (almost all, if I remember correctly) of Home Depot's political donations went to republicans (via buyblue.org, which is sadly now defunct).
I'm not that creative.
But I urgre anyone who is to taunt Billo, Russert and Matthews.
These buttplugs are responsible for the idiot president and the nonsense
our nation has endured.
FAILING GRADES ACROSS THE BOARD for electronic voting machines in (SecState Bowen-ordered) University of California-run technical tests.
Letter campaign to bring CRIMINAL lawsuits against owners of these companies by new CA Attorney General Jerry Brown in 5, 4, 3, 2, ....
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/ttbr/red_overview.pdf
[full report at: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.htm]
NOT TRUE, whizkid.
The system that has been counting the votes doesn't need anything but the APPEARANCE of a majority.
THAT is what Billo and the rest do -- they provide the condom for the electronic votefraud they've been screwing us with.
Hey, I suggest they give us a 2 inch by 2 inch piece of paper and a pencil then let us see
our ballot go into the box.
Remember Keith in 2004 on MSNBC while waiting for Ohio?
Paul in LA
Not sure if your comment had to do with me but it woke me up.
Now I have commented on vote count.
And Billo is the Coney Island White Fish we throw away.
Funny how Joe Francis is in jail and he still makes money showing my ex-girlfriend.
Like W.
Shake a lil' Somethin bitch.
I need to turn the television off and just hammer on the tories.
The shoe is on the other foot. Gorby is now calling us the Evil Empire!
Oh, and the market sucks again.
whizkid @ 45:
The whole country will be voting by PAPER ballot with optical scanner within five years, if not sooner.
Optical scanners can be hacked, of course, but there are ways to make them acceptably safe, SFAIK.
The electronic version of a vote, is dead. There will be paper ballots to recount, and there WILL be mandatory recounts, audits, etc.
We need new prisons. Not to fill with nonviolent drug users. To fill with conspiring Voter Registrars from around the land, who have promoted these falsification machines (for big fat backroom paychecks no doubt).
The girl was bad.
I would give anything I own to have her back.
Paul
Saw later your post.
Hope we can bring about a day when they count our vote.
(43)Paul in LA,
Thanks for the links. Here's one for you JICYHSI (just in case you haven't seen it): http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/330/video.html
(broadband and Flash 8 required)
I stopped shopping at Home De' Pot years ago when I found out they gave all their money to Repups, and I quit drinking Coors "Heavy" for the same reason. Man, I misses my Coors.
Seaside Bar Song has always been a favorite.
Let's see if O'Reilly names Springsteen as Un-American tomorrow.
Here is a favorite anti-war song from WWI, "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier".
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4942/
Maybe the Marines should now use the Original translation of their Hymn, "Les Deux Gendarmes" from the French(OMG) Opéra Bouffe "Geneviève de Brabant" by Jacques Offenbach.
Les Deux Gendarmes
We're public guardians bold yet wary
And of ourselves we take good care
To risk our precious lives we're chary
When danger threatens we're not there
But when we see a helpless woman
Or little boys who do no harm…
|:We run them in, we run them in
We run them in, we run them in
To show them we're the beaux gendarmes:|
Sometimes our duty’s extramural
Then little butterflies we chase
We like to gambol in things rural
Commune with nature face to face
But when we go back to our duties
Refreshed by Nature’s holy charms…
|:We run them in, we run them in
We run them in, we run them in
To show them we're the beaux gendarmes:|
When young men like to make a riot
And punch each other’s heads at night
We are disposed to keep it quiet
Provided that they make it right
But if they do not seem to see it
Or give to us our proper alms…
|:We run them in, we run them in
We run them in, we run them in
To show them we're the beaux gendarmes:|
An audiofile in English (which is slightly different from the text above) can be found here.
scroll in the comments here,
http://www.nationalanthems.us/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1142624493
Here is the link to the sung version, once again scroll down.
http://www.nationalanthems.us/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1144857882/1#1
Boobs & Balls
Everyone write Lowe's and say what you are saying here. THAT THIS DECISION MAKEWS YOU MORE LIKELY TO SHOP THERE.
Remember Jet Blue got bullied after they took their first stand against Fox NEws.
Jet Blue is one of the participating sponsors like 7-11 of the new Simpson's movie and painted a plane to advertise it.
Simpsons = Fox
Fox = O'Reilly and Hannity.
Are we supposed to boycott the Simpson's movie and all of its advertisers?
actor212 @ 56:
That article totally lost me at the end. It was going well then whhoooosh off to some strange, angry land that had nothing to do with what came before.
When the mendacious, lying propadanda hack Tony Snow presumes to lecture anybody about journalistic integrity, that's pure comedy gold.
There's an old proverb about liars that Tony Snow proves true: When God wants to punish a liar, the punishment is exacted by causing the liar to believe in, and be confounded by, his own lies.
Snow is a truly pathetic figure.
OH MY GOD...Bush is going to be president for a little while today while Cheney undergoes surgery....
Isnt it kinda hypocritical for Shithouse to be talking journalistic integrity ? The same crew that let an uncredited, no security clearance, gay hooker roam around the hallowed halls ?
Its hardly funny anymore but it still is. The piss and moan GOP would have crucified Clinton over Gannon alone. Nevermind the other 100s of scandals and miscues.
I love Lowes and always do my shopping there.
Home Depot is in very tight with Bush and the Repubs. I don't shop there.
Check this out... Hysterical!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7yDDqG1j80
Here in Phoenix 2 news choppers crashed into each other yesterday killing all 4 aboard while covering a stolen truck chase. Heart felt sympathy to friends and family.
Can the idiot who stole the truck be charged with their deaths, or would that only apply if it was a police chopper following the truck in the line of duty?
Any prosecutors or lawyers out there? Anyone want to weigh in? Thanks.
I took a look at the NewsHounds list of companies advertising on the Hate Factor and found Pactiv there. My mom actually works for Pactiv at their corporate headquarters in a moderately high management position (she is transitioning in to the role at the moment). I have passed along that they are hate sponsors now and hopefully she can open some eyes from within the company.
The Honorable Jerry Brown, Attorney General
Attorney General's Office
California Department of Justice
Attn: Public Inquiry Unit
P.O. Box 944255
Sacramento, CA 94244-2550
Please write to AG Jerry Brown (the former governor) and ask him to prosecute Sequoia, Diebold, and Hart for CONTRACT FRAUD, seeking refunds and damages for their laughably faulty equipment,
and also to open investigations into the business ties of Registrars of Voters in California who have abused their offices LOBBYING for these illegal votefraud machines, and for their violations of the California constitution and relevant voting rights statutes. Thank you.
Refer him to the study: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.htm
Here's the response I got from Home Depot. Seem to me they're saying "F**K OFF!" Seems I'll be shopping at Menards unless I hear that they advertise with those fine folks at FUX "news".
Dear *Godless SOB* (name changed to protect the innocent),
Thank you for contacting The Home Depot Customer Care.
We appreciate you taking the time to forward your concerns regarding
The
Home Depot's sponsorship of Bill O' Reilly's show on FOX.
The Home Depot has a strong passion for being environmentally
responsible both in the Company's operating principles and in
responsible retailing through our industry-leading Eco Options
initiative, a program that allows customers to easily identify products
that have less of an impact on the environment and empowers them to
help
make a difference in their own homes. We have led many initiatives with
interest groups to develop standards and set environmental goals for
ourselves and suppliers. Some of these at great expense and sweat
equity
to the company.
Our advertising campaigns have one simple objective to communicate with
audiences in the most effective way possible. The Company is receptive
to many forms and styles of media as we seek a balanced representation
of programming to reach our customer base. Unfortunately campaigns like
this one cause us to take time away from our sustainability goals and
address a variance of political views.
Sincerely,
Sanket
Customer Care
Original Message Follows:
------------------------
Contact Us Form Message From: *Godless SOB*
Submitted: 07-27-2007 05:26:06 PM EDT
E-mail: ***
Phone:
Zip/Postal Code: 55103
Subject: Company Feedback
Store Locator:
Service Number:
Comments: I would like to see you pull your advertising dollars from
all
extremist "news" outlets and web sites - obviously the first
should be Bill O'Lielly.
I've spent a lot of money at Home Depot over the years and
there's lots more to spend. I can just as easily spend my money
elsewhere, and I'm inclined to do that, especially given the
vicious hatred that the right wing spews and the fact that you
advertise
with them.
I'm not asking you to advertise on both sides - but it would be
nice to see you avoid the nutcases like O'Lielly, Limbog, and the
rest.
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