Howie Kurtz: FOX is "entitled" to cheerlead for Bush, misinform.
By bluegal Friday Sep 14, 2007 11:14am
KURTZ: I think the argument that I've heard Olbermann make in the past about Fox News -- it's not an argument that I embrace -- is that, because it poses as a news organization and puts out dangerous misinformation --
BECK: But that's what he's doing!
KURTZ: -- and is -- is a cheerleader for the Bush administration, that it's misinforming our society. But you know what?
BECK: Howard --
KURTZ: They're entitled to do that.
BECK: Let me ask you this question. Who makes you weep more for journalism: Keith Olbermann or me? That's quite a question.
KURTZ: I think you both have plenty of opinions and are both paid to spew them on the airwaves.
BECK: At least I admit it. Howard, thank you very much.
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Olbermann is a program. Fox is a network. But otherwise, exactly the same.
/Beck is a maroon
//so is Kurtz
Kurtz is a mealy-mouthed weak putz. Could you find a more milquetoast guy to put on TV?
please please please give us email addresses to get both of these vile propaganda sycophants off the air. let's mount a HUGE campaign
Oh that liberal liberal media. Can we ever escape their Communist, socialist, gay, women-loving, progressive agenda? Man, if only we could have some balance...you know...some conservative bullsh*t. |end snark
"Opinion Gone Wrong"?
Can anybody point to me the Federalist Paper that explains the remedy for incorrect opinions?
Alan Colmes
Glen @ 5:
I believe it's entitled Mein Kampf.
Glenn Beck: "Former drug addict losers of the world unit!"
It's pretty simple the key for the Post Bush world is to get Americans back in their ‘comfort zone’ of having job security and plausible prospects of gaining the illusory ‘American Dream’ of two cars in the garage and chickens everywhere, or some such.
Glenn Beck, The next closeted gay Republican to fall out of the Closet!
With the exception of Olberman, the 'News' Whores all need to be "Brought 2 Justice"!
an enabling media leads to this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gU5gA6IcIpk
The difference between Olbermann and Beck is, of course: talent, humor, insight, morality and wisdom.
Olbermann has those qualities. Beck... well... hard to figure out what Beck brings to the table to justify his paycheck.
Isn't it wonderful that Kurtz takes journalistic integrity so seriously?
We need more media critics like him, lest the Olbermanns of the world hurt Fox's feelings even more.
Kurtz = Broder = Toooooool
The deep seated ugly is showing on Kurtz's face now. Can't keep that much vile hatred for truth and justice hidden.
People watch Olbermann.
Yes, dangerous information. All information not cleared by MiniTruth is dangerous.
Olbermann is a spy for Eurasia. He is friends of Goldstiens and much be arrested for sedition.
BECK: At least I admit it. Howard, thank you very much.
Fascinating, Beck seems to believe that Olbermann doesn't present himself as a liberal.
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Glenn Beck:
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I never thought I'd see the day where they would allow an offensive, ignorant, jackass like beck on the air let alone give him his own hour long soap box to proselytize from. Where'd they get him? A KKK cable access show?
Oh, so Beck admits he's a racist homophobe neo-nazi thug waving the flag for a morally bankrupt administration?
And it's laughable to see an idiot like Beck question Olbermann's credentials.
And, um, Howie, no - FOX isn't *entitled* to mislead the public. There's no right to be a pack of lying sacks of dung enshrined in the Constitution. Except maybe in the copy the Bush Administration swore loyalty to.
I'm not one to wish harm to any human being, so...
I hope Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace have non-life threatening, career ending injuries that lead them to doing something else with their lives, off television, off any form of media, like, say... becoming born again Wal-Mart associates.
Yeah.
FOX is entitled to misinform our society? I've heard it all! Kurtz's ancestors must be rolling over in the grave.
Dotty Gale @ 19:
What Kurtz and Beck will doubtless insist upon is that the 'liberal media' and the George-Soros-funded-assassins at Media Matters are taking them out of context, and that they're questioning Keith Olbermann's journalistic credentials.
Seems to me Keith has more factual content in his program than Beck has ever had with his burkas-in-the-backyard Shari'a-in-your-hometown crap.
Shadowgm @ 21:
Make sense on our blog you jerk. Beck is a neo-nazi? Frig, who interviews Jewish people more than this Beckerhead?
Fox has as much right to slant their propaganda as Pravda. The difference is that everyone knows Pravda is slanted. Fox just muddies the water – that’s their goal.
This has been stated so often that it’s almost useless, but Fox is the “World is Flat” network. In their goal to be “Fair and Balanced” they would bring in one “expert” to point out the world is flat, and one to argue it is round…then you decide.
It’s not their goal to report to everyone the world is flat (or prove anything), it’s just to convince enough, and impose enough round-Earth doubt to influence a position. This format is much better than propaganda.
And as far as Back vs. Olbermann…BECK WISHES. One is an intellect, the other an imbecile…you decide.
Lone Rogue @ 22:
Under no circumstances should they be allowed to hold any job that requires representing or selling anything to the American public.
I'd favor hard labor, but face it – if these clowns built bridges and roads, they'd collapse in six months.
Cleaning toilets is appropriate. They could even remain in the same circles as more and more of the 'values crowd' in the GOP. *swish* *wipe* 'Why, hello there, Senator! Could you get that piece of paper for me? Thanks!'
did beck really try to equate himself with a journalist??
and howie is an asshat
Kurtz + Beck = Two-person circle jerk.
Fox is not a "news" organization. They choose to mislead as they have admitted. Beck and Kurtz are right wing ass rimmers. Their god is the almighty dollar as is Bush and Cheney. No doubt Murdock gets a great many blow jobs from these two and you can be sure he whips them properly with his huge supply of crops and chains.
majicman @ 25:
Oh, you're absolutely right. Glenn Beck is an upstanding, wonderful patriot. How silly of me to believe otherwise.
Or are you saying that Mr. Some-of-my-best-friends-are-Muslim gets a free pass for subsequently questioning Rep. Keith Ellison's loyalty?
And why does a neo-nazi have to be just about hating Jews? It's quite clear Beck hates a religious minority and blames all of America's problems on them. If Beck were part of a Zionist conspiracy, would it make throwing Muslims into camps okay, just because a guy who interviews Jewish people couldn't possibly be a neo-nazi?
I wonder if Howard thinks that Fox should be entitled to present the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as fact. I'd like to see him draw a line, any line, and defend it.
They're also entitle to have Olbermann kick Faux News' ass in the ratings.
Yeah, but sadly, Kurtz is right.
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/10/fox-news-sued-for-the-right...
"Let me ask you this question. Who makes you weep more for journalism: Keith Olbermann or me?"
Too easy. Journalism in its proper function is a search for truth.
By this criteria Beck should be tarred and feathered.
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Fox News sued in court and won their right to spew Faux News.
justabill @ 34:
As a strictly legal matter, apparently so.
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Perhaps we can figure a way to add watching this stuff to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product.
Thats the ticket.
Since cable came into being, the requirement for unbiased news reporting disappeared. Of course it's all biased reporting and opinion depending on the cable show. People can choose either way how to reinforce their already biased opinions. There is no law that says cable news has to report both sides of a story. The days of Edward R. Murrow are long gone.
AConfederacyofDunces @ 37:
As a tort issue, however, isn't there a reasonable expectation by the public for honest and correct information?
Any lawyers want to weigh in?
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Shadowgm @ 27:
Six months? I wouldn't give it six minutes. And when it did collapse they'd point their fingers at everything liberal as the reason why. Not their fault of course. It's the liberal bias of life that makes them look bad.
Then a shrub co. rep would give them a medal for surviving the collapse. Sure they caused it. But that's not relevant.
Big Smackdown Today
WASHINGTON — Thousands of opponents and supporters of the U.S. presence in Iraq will converge Saturday in the nation's capital for a day of demonstrations.
great job beck - helping fox news leave cnn in the dust
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fCutvXccFlA
AConfederacyofDunces @ 35:
By that criteria beck doesn't even qualify as a rep for muppet news.
this is what one can expect from a state run news media outlet like Fox News. Thats why I never watch them. They are going to cheer for any and all policies the Administration puts out no matter how bad they are.
Lying is perfectly okay if you're lying for God's Own Party.
If we had this kind of Television programming back in the early 70's Nixon would have never had to resign he would have finished his second term and we'd still be in Vietnam.
Fox News is no different that watching a state run chinese station or reading the old Soviet Pravda.
As to a non-life threatening injury for all the 'Reichwinged' pundits and talking heads whatever their network affiliations: I would suggest a virus that strikes them dumb; that is unable to speak. They already qualify for that title regards their intelligence quotient.
Don't worry another easy credit (debt) bubble will somehow manifest in a few years. The Medical Bubble or something.
A bright future rapidly approaching!!!
LA Confidential-good lookin' out. Yeah, no doubt there will soon be a market for miraculous medical treatments for diabetes bought on by years and years of overeating and ill-advised eating. All you gotta do is devise some sorta method to counteract years of bad eating in about, oh three hours. And it'll only be available for the uh, poverty-challenged.
Yeah, bubbles have been so good for the country.
Olbermann is notably biased and doesn't hide it. He doesn't claim to be 'fair & balanced'. He finds the current admin disgusting because it is disgusting. I'm convinced he would do the same with a comparably inept Democratic admin. He doesn't lie, he doesn't distort, he just focuses on obvious shortcomings and proves Colbert right, for time being anyway... "The truth has an overwhelming liberal bias."
And yet another American pundit (Beck) who thinks he is a journalist.
There are clear differences between news and editorials/opinion pieces.
Most people in the industrialized world are aware of these differences, Americans seem to get a bit confused about the difference though.
L.A. Confidential @ 47:
And women and minorities would know "their place" in society...
Howie Kurtz is a WaPo neo-con putz shill. He wouldn't know unbiased news if he fell over it.
When Olbermann gives his opinion he labels it as a "Special Comment" or he makes a remark here and there. FUX Noise channel doesn't bother with labels except when they are left off or the wrong ones. (I.E. Mark Foley). This idiot Beck would feel right at home on FUX, or in a mental ward.
Why did Olbermann have to be the one to become the liberal voice of cable television? He's just so damn annoying and has been ever since he was on ESPN. I can't watch the guy for more than 5 minutes without turning it off. I enjoy his show more when he's on vacation.
Olbermann's got these neocon clowns spinning like tops, they're so confused and upset over the ascendancy of progressives and the complete collapse of the conservative house of cards.
Does anyone know how to get a list of firms advertising on Fox?
Keith Olbermann is my hero.
I don't like and disagree with Kurtz's comments, but I cannot stand Glenn Beck. Why is that idiot moron still on the air?????
Kurtz loves the neo Pravda. He loves the daddy fetishists
MargeAggedon @ 20:
Conservative Talk Radio
Yes, because "Special Comment" poses as news instead of op-ed.
Also, the blatant insecurity displayed by Beck is sad and hilarious. 'Yeah, well, uh, at least I admit it! So I win and I am better!'
Olbermann certainly expresses strong opinion. The difficulty for conservatives is that he backs up his coverage and commentary with verifiable, measured, informed FACTS and DATA rather than the stuff that Colbert returned from break to dub "gutly."
KO is a KO for the side of reason, and the right hates and fears him for it. How dare he inform and provoke, intellectually, an electorate!
Long live KO.
Jumpy @ 13:
Lets not forget, the most important thing:
Olbermann actually uses... well... facts. *Gasp*
These two swine have about as much purpose in media today as she-man coultier. They are nothing more than "an act". Their opinions are simply that...their opinions. Why they have a platform to speak is beyond me. Are they informative or entertaining?...I think not. They are simply more vile outlets for distortion and lies from the neocon right. I don't see anything from the left that is based on such flimbsy credentials....nothing more than their right wing opinions and bullshit lies.
Fox "News" is very patriotic, flag waving, support the troops...so long as a Repub is President.
But the second a Democrat becomes President, Fox "News" becomes very subversive, actively trying to destroy the President and very anti-war/against the troops.
Hey, Beck! What makes you think what you do has anything to do with journalism?
The whitehouse has the right to misinform us?
Jesusmaryandjoseph. how much longer do we have to put up with the putz in the WH, and people like glenn beck, whose raison d'etre is to spread divisive statements on anything his little brain comes up with that serve only to divide this country.
Do you ever feel like your on an island, a very small island, surrounded by alligators whose only intent is to grab you as their next meal.
Like someone said above, KO serves up his opinions based on the facts at hand, GB serves up innuendo and falsehoods based on nothing, zilch, nada, i.e. bupkis.
I think he's actually saying Olbermann and MSNBC are entitled to call out Faux News for what it is, which is why Beck appears on the defensive.
This was a necessity. Olbermann's willingness to speak out means he has to be marginalized in the traditional fashion, which in itself is rather amusing. They take one of their most ridiculous figures--in this case Beck himself--and create a false equivalency. IE - He’s as bad as me, if not worse! The same thing was done ad nauseum with Michael Moore and Ann Coulter, despite the obviousness that their approach couldn't be any different. Knowing that Coulter is a shrieking harridan despised by anyone with a brain, they tried to hang the same label on Moore through association.
And, since our entire media is more or less in on the game, it usually works.
Have you seen Beck's ratings? They are even worse than Tucker Carlson's!
Jeff @ 39:
Nor should there be. If you are a fact based news program and you actually do report substantially all of the facts then there is no issue of "sides" to deal with.
If, on the other hand, you pick and choose the facts to match the narrative that you want to make then you are no longer a news program as an ordinary person (OK me) would define it. You could be "current events" but you are not news. Is Olbermann news? To be honest I do not watch his show often enough to know but I know that he is a whole helluva lot closer to news than is anything on Fox "News" Channel which I would put firmly in the category of propaganda.
justabill @ 34:
Olberman is pointing out lies and propaganda by FOX/News Corp. Olberman is not lying, deceiving, disinforming, manipulating or otherwise propagandizing when he does that. He is truthfully and accurately informing. That's called journalism.
God help News Corp if the FCC is ever restored to integrity.
Boycott all advertisers on FOX channels.
Everybody in the world knows that pro wrestling is fake...except those that watch it. The same with assholes like Beck and nitwits at faux. They preach to the choir. While it annoys me to no end, I just have to remind myself, those who believe Becks filth are as intractable in their position as I am in mine.
"At least I admit it." Admit WHAT? And where does he "admit" "it." Please show me.
"This idiot Beck would feel right at home on FUX, or in a mental ward."
I put it 2U they R 1 in the same.
wmholt @ 72:
No shock there. Beck is just another reichwing retard paid to catapult their bankrupt propaganda. Thinking you are great and being great are quite different, as Beck will undoubtedly discover.
I had never heard that "GOP TV" .. I like it!
The ONLY reason Fox is No.1 is that people in the know no longer get their news from the T.V. media = fewer people... spread out over other news shows. Bet if they polled on all news sources they would get a very different outcome. I rarely watch news anymore.. just the local stuff. I surf the net and check a bunch of news sources... including overseas.
Apologies if I'm parroting anything above. But the comment by that piece of shit, "But that's what he's doing." That doesn't sit well with me.
If there are any wealthy people reading this, please do your best to organize a function, a fundraiser or something, where we can get that fuckwad in the room at the same time as Olbermann so they can debate in public.
My e-mail to Reliable Sources on CNN.com:
Howie, I saw you on Glen Beck's show. He made a good point. Keith Olbermann lies all the time and accuses the decent journalists at CNN and Fox of lying when that is exactly what he does. Please arrange to have Keith Olbermann and Glen on your show together so they can debate each other. I know you can come up with a format where you can require facts so Olbermann can't do his typical spinning and bloviating. He won't be able to hate America with you there to head off his spin and lies. Thanks!
I used to actually watch Headline News a while back from time to time for the quick current events wrap up.
Nancy Grace was bad enough but I still can't believe that CNN has sunk so low as to put that blatant blowhard propagandist hate monger Beck on the HNN channel of all places.
If it wasn't for other family members and Keith Olbermann, I would just unplug the damned noisybox anyway.
Why is the FCC sitting on their hands on this? Because some BUSH flunkie is in charge of it? You bet. Now you know that Fox will only get more desparate as they see there corrupt business model headed for the rocky shore.
"KURTZ: I think the argument that I’ve heard Olbermann make in the past about Fox News — it’s not an argument that I embrace — is that, because it poses as a news organization and puts out dangerous misinformation – and is — is a cheerleader for the Bush administration, that it’s misinforming our society. But you know what? They’re entitled to do that."
Yes, because of the first amendment, but only a fool would laud it as a good thing.
A misinformed public will never lead and will follow only fools and opportunists. Rather than make it simply easier to manipulate public opinion it rushes our nation (and the corporations our military props up and protects) headlong into the jaws of disaster.
Mr. Kurtz and Mr. Beck - you may both go to hell.
Why does cnn have these two dumbasses talking to each other when they answer their own questions?
Beck is like Michael Savage MEATS Patrick McHenry.
Howard Kurtz makes Mitch McConnell look butch.
The only Beck that matters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3PGqDRNg
That line about "I'm a loser, baby"? That's you, Glenn.
Why is it that Fox news destroys MSNBC and CNN in the ratings?
Not only does O'reilly beat Olbermann in the ratings, but oreilly's RERUN beats olbermann too.
The american people have voted with their remote controlls
justabill @ 34:
That is true, but the more people that see and hear Keith Olbermann and others exposing Fox as liars, the better. When they hear "Howie" say, "Hey, its O.K.", it only make Fox seem legitimate. Sooner or later the Kook-Aid drinkers will stop watching Fox and listening to their stable of propagandists. When it becomes generally accepted that it really is Fixed Noise, comments like Howard Kurtz's will seem even more naive than now. As it is, over 50% of Americans now think the Iraq war was a mistake. Some of the wing nuts would have screamed bloody murder if anybody predicted that to them over two years ago (and I suspect that they did).
Randy @ 89:
like nascar and the nfl, just because it's popular doesn't mean its better
/champcar and colorado avalanche fan
ctk in ky3 @ 91:
F-1 if you want a real race, ovals are for losers.
Randy @ 89:
Yes, it only goes to show how gullible many people really are.
Ladies and gentleman take a good look at what a completely compromised "journalist" looks like.
You see Howie's sucking up to FOX just in case he looses his gig at CNN.
I can see it now. Oh BillO you're so big and strong.
And Glen Beck well hell he's just the future of journalism.
The PUBLIC, not anyone with enough capital to buy a station, owns the airwaves. If an organization appears on the airwaves they have one mission, educate the public. We, theoretically, have a democracy and for a democracy to function we need factual information to make correct decisions.
What the right wing thinks, like usual, is that if someone has enough capital to buy a station they have the right to do with their "product" what they please, no different than buying a factory and polluting the environment. It's THEIR factory right? The commons doesn't exist in these people's minds. It's part of their ideological make up and if liberals or anyone to the left want this situation to change they have to confront their own biases. Are liberals willing to challenge the free market fundamentalists even if it means on some levels challenging how capitalism functions? Are they willing to admit there is such a thing as the commons and, if so, how far does it reach? Can corporations, which under US law cannot care for anything other than their own bottom line, ever be trusted to deliver information if that information isn't in their best interest? It's obvious why NAFTA and "free trade", healthcare, education, social relations, the power and effect of the financial markets on democracy, fractional reserve banking and the Fed, amongst other things aren't analyzed honestly. What do liberals want to do about it? Simple reform, or breaking up the monopolies, won't change a thing if corporations are in charge of giving the public information.
Actually he's right, the freedom of speech includes the freedom to lie. However, there's always a price to pay for lying. Say like you lie under oath, to various federal agencies etc. No right is unlimited. It seems like news organizations should be discouraged to lie, particularly by viewers who would learn to distrust the network. However, if any news organization could lose their license or face trials for their lies, one could imagine any "offended" official trying to make a case for lying, and to close down the source, which the I amendment was trying to prevent.
Of course I was referring to network news, because I'm not sure what laws are in place for cable.
Randy @ 89:
Many Americans don't even watch television. I bet if you did a poll of those who don't watch television and instead get their news from the Internet, Keith would crush O'Reilly and most people would say "Glen WHO?"
PopeTodd @ 92:
F-1 if you want a real race, ovals are for losers.
... and with real engines too, some peeps in the mid West tend to think that the noise due to bad compression and poor exhaust is a good thing when all it is a cry for help by the engine (case in point most Harleys)... oh and drivers that can manage more than left turns, what a concept!
Give me F-1, a GT race, or a rally any day over a bunch of maroons doing the mechanized equivalent of dog racing.
NASCAR and drag racing pretty much the automovilistic counterpart of the sex life of some of the men who enjoy them: obnoxiously loud, with no turns, boring, and with most of the "action" happening in a blink of an eye.
I don't think people are too stupid to decide for themselves where to get their news (or noise) from.
I would rather trust PEOPLE to decide where they get their news from than trust GOVERNMENT to decide, even if it means many people will make a bad choice.
If the government regulates where people get their news from, or what is a fair variety of news sources, you run into 2 problems.
1. If one day we have a republican congress and president, we might get conservative voices on all the news networks, we might get rush limbaugh doing the 6 o'clock news.
2. Who gets to decide what "FAIR" is? Everybody's opinion is SUBJECTIVE. The closest thing to OBJECTIVE fairness is to let the free market and free people to decide.
Randy, the government doesn't have to do a darn thing. We could, democratically, decide who gets access to OUR airwaves. As of now, the choice is between two centralized bodies, comprised of a small, powerful group of people. The capitalists and the government. If we decentralized the decision making process it would go a long ways towards solving the problem.
Your sollution is basically to treat citizens as consumers only. What if the option we'd really like isn't available to us? Then what? Like everything else in capitalism, where who owns capital has all the power, we have to choose between two or three inferior choices.
Beck couldn't hold KO's jock strap
Beck is a fart bag who goes after people in the most mean spirited dishonest way. His mother killed herself when he was a boy. Maybe that's why he is so servile and wretched.
They just wanna collect their big fat pay cheques. None of it is real. Olberamann is by far the better. He dares to say what others only think. (I wish I had a TV programme, but then again, I don't!!!)
Olberman deals with reality..................................Beck on the other hand deals in .........................................Oh.......I don't know....................somewhere out there...
These guys should be the last people to talk about "Liberal Media." I'm really getting tired of the Becks, O'Reillys and Coulters of the world throwing it around. If the media was so Liberal, why are these fools pulling in millions of dollars every years. Doesn't Miss Hannity have a 125 million dollar contract over 5 years or something, while liberal talk show host Mike Malloy still only makes a 6 figure salary? Gimme a break.
Not to say Olbermann doesn't have a slant, but at least he comes off smarter and doesn't sound like just an Archie Bunker type they got off the street.
John the Elder @ 49:
I don't wish any injuries, but I'd love to see them working at McDonalds, and not as managers.
The FoxNetwork is speaking to a dumbed down America.
Beck is a hopeless lightweight, Hannity is a hopeless lightweight, what else do you expect?
Kurtz has his moments of good reporting — he's actually had several in the past two weeks — but he also spouts this sort of crap. After reading him for several years, my take is he leans conservative, and tries to be fair, but often fails. His starting point of reference and framing for most issues is from right-wing hacks. And he's too much part of the suck-up chattering class.
Why suck up to Glenn Beck? Because he's on the same network? He's a hack. It's an embarrassment CNN has him.
Fox News does have a legal right to say whatever they want. But prestigious media critics such as Kurtz should be calling BS on them, not giving them a pass! Kurtz has seen Outfoxed, too, but he dismissed it as well. Despicable.
Doctor Who @ 99:
... and with real engines too, some peeps in the mid West tend to think that the noise due to bad compression and poor exhaust is a good thing when all it is a cry for help by the engine (case in point most Harleys)... oh and drivers that can manage more than left turns, what a concept!
Give me F-1, a GT race, or a rally any day over a bunch of maroons doing the mechanized equivalent of dog racing.
NASCAR and drag racing pretty much the automovilistic counterpart of the sex life of some of the men who enjoy them: obnoxiously loud, with no turns, boring, and with most of the "action" happening in a blink of an eye.
i'd watch f1 if it weren't on so damned early in the morning most of the time. i prefer champcar because i can see it (most of the time). f1 is second, although with this ruling they just made i don't know.
ctk in ky3 @ 110:
i'd watch f1 if it weren't on so damned early in the morning most of the time. i prefer champcar because i can see it (most of the time). f1 is second, although with this ruling they just made i don't know.
Yeah, it does suck that it's always at like 4am EST!
I was laughing my a** off when Gordon was whining about Infinion having that dog leg in the course, causing him to lose to the SCCA driver last year. Then the SCCA driver goes on to win the next race an hour later as well! Awesome!
Gordon said something to the effect that racing means you don't use your brakes, what a maroon.
But then NASCAR is the perfect sport for Beck/O'Reilly/Hannity fans, a whole lot of right turns around and around in a circle over and over and over and over and...
Block quoting is broken, it's leaving the first tag off.
Beck sounds like Sylvester the cat off the cartoons, 'cept he's real angry tryin' to get that damn Tweety.
Glenn Beck should be shot out of a cannon in the general direction of a large body of water.
Looking forward to KO's bitchslap of these two moral midgets - it will be thorough too.
Glenn Beck's got a face for radio.
The problem with FOX is not that they have opinions.
The problem with FOX is they are dishonest.
The difference is that people watch one of them.
Kurtz in a nutshell: Fox News can lie to its audience and it's ok because it is "entitled" to mislead the public.
Randy @ 89:
"American People"? Until they add up all the ratings and it equals the population of the US the rating for these shows does not reflect the will of the "American People". More republican math, I see.
Watch the heat build up against "Far Left Websites". They know their goose is cooked.
The median age of Fux- er...I mean..Fox viewer is 70 years old. The important demo is the 24 - 49 year old demo...which is what KO gets.
Doesn't Kurtz get paid to "spew" his opinion too? Kurtz likes to portray himself as above the fray. He's not and he has long ago lost any credibility. Like most of those on CNN with the refreshing exception of Jack Cafferty.
Kuntz is just another O'Riley only on CNN, FOX'S other net work. The only one that I watch is Jack Cafferty. Kuntz is just a sock-puppet to the Bush Crime Family and the Republican Party....
You heard The Beaver - at least he admits it...so there!!
Clever fella, The Beaver.
Randy @ 89:
So the 25%'s are now the "American People? OK.
Keith Olbermann:
Worst
Person
In The World!!
What a dork!
The problem is that most Americans (neo cons mostly) are too stupid to seperate opinion from fact. For most Americans, if its on the news, its true.
If you want free speech, then you want everyone to be "entitled" to say what they want. That includes the people you disagree with. In a democracy, it's the individuals' responsibility to be informed.
I heard Glenn Beck say that he had never thrown a baseball in his life. EVER. How does a boy in the USA grow up without ever throwing a baseball?
Could it be Glenda?
My son is an A**HOLE!
So its ok for the liberal media, (ABC, CBS, NBC, NYTimes, PBS,,,etc, etc) to give their biased side of the story but when FOX news or Glenn Beck or other conservatives gives their side of the story, it is racist, a lie, or misleading.
To only give one side of the story is just misleading. To, at least try to, give the other side is being fair minded and lets the public decide for themselves what is right or just. We have been brained washed for such a long time by the media, I can see that it is hard for anyone to see things from a different perspective.
MargeAggedon @ 20:
He was doing local AM radio in Tampa (WFLA) for several years, misinforming and cheerleading for Bush, touting his "integrity as a man".
This same station also had the "Hooters" Radio Show, hosted by "famous" Hooters Girls earlier in the day.
It was a good show, to his credit, so he was syndicated, and went National.
Ironically, the guy who's show they tacked him on after (Bob Lassiter) was a great radio personality, and one of the last 'good' local market guys left.
Kurtz is correct. Fox has a right to lie. We have a right not to watch their slanted crap. You can even delete that channel. Both Beck and Olberman are opinion oriented shows.
The difference in my opinion, is that Beck is just plain stupid and pandering, and Olberman, while sometimes overbearing, is usually witty and entertaining.
The part that made me laugh was when Beck described himself as a journalist.
I should also say that Lassiter retired shortly after Beck came on the air (from Chicago, was it?).
He picked up a lot of listeners as a result.
So much bias goes on in the media, its sickening. You go from CNN to MSNBC and its the same story at the same time, yet.... different spins on it!
Glenn "Racist" Beck is not a real journalist. All he does is make shit up and bashes the liberals. That's all he does! He's a disgrace to journalism and I'm still scratching my head as to how he's allowed to be on the air.
Whoa! Wait a minute...did I miss something? FOX actually did a public service???
Beck is just another little punk to appeal to little punks.
CNN has sunk deep when they pander to little punks but hey money is green no matter where who wastes it.
CNN has one or two programs worth a sh^t Lou Dobbs is one and I am sure there is another somewhere. Beck is just one of the many reasons to turn off corporate pandering media!
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