FOX "News Analyst" attacks MSNBC for bias, especially the "lesbian Air America host"
By bluegal Monday Sep 08, 2008 5:00pm
Oh no! He didn't! Well, yes he did.
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This is worse than any pot/kettle analogy could describe. Brent Budosky at The Hill:
Even by the low standards of the Republican News Network, this morning's attack on Rachel Maddow, on the Fox News network, as a "lesbian Air America host" was a despicable new low. Those words, an open appeal to bigotry and hate, [were] said by an alleged media analyst named Tim Graham... This is sick and despicable stuff, even for Fox News.
Here is a message to Barack Obama: You need to spend more time fighting back against the lies and smears of a Swift Boat campaign more ugly than the campaign against John Kerry, and less time having sweet-talk meetings with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes followed by professorial discourse with Bill O'Reilly. This is war, Barack, and you had better fight back.
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I will not watch that sick fuck.
first!
those pathetic backed-up republicans -- it's always about the sex they will never, ever get to experience.
They're really threatened by Rachel Maddow - it's beautiful to see how desperate they are to discredit her and Keith.
shameless pigs
Great work by Rachel. In a short time she's made it to the Fox hit list.
It warms my heart when someone intelligent can scare the party of hypocrites and liars.
Fox aka Fixed Noise Channel is nothing more than the outlet for racists bigots to get their jollies. Led by the KKK's Grand Wizard, Sean Hypocrite, and followed by Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes Cal Thomas, and the other two (Jim? 9' tall & the moderator/host guy) radical, right-wing Repugnuts on Saturday's Fox News Watch. These people can't stand the thought of a black man in the White House. It is time for the Rush Limbrain Dildoheads to either get over it or move to a country where they'll find haters like themselves.
Obama/Biden will win in an over-whelming majority next Tuesday. Obama will end up with over 300 Electoral Votes and McNasty won't even get 200.
So...what were all of those complaints that the Right Wing spins masters were having about "sexism" when referring to Sarah Palin? Geez!
The truest measure of how well Rachel did last night. Too funny.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/
Go over to MSNBC and let Rachel know how much you appreciated her first show. Counter the Rovian tactics of Fox.
And you're surprised because...????
It is what I've come to expect from FAUX NEWS.
In his little mind he was talking about Olbermann.
And why is it we always seem unprepared for this crap? In 30 years, I have yet to see a basic strategy to counter this. Instead, we sputter. Why was it best for Dems to run from every issue for the last 8 years?
Fat, sloppy fuck Graham calling Rachel "A lesbian Air America Radio Host". Timmy, when nasty, disgusting pigs like you take your clothes off, it drives women to lesbianism.
Gee...what a shock.
Fox has been allowed to consistently lower the bar, and now we're all pissed off?
The airwaves don't belong to you anymore. Don't you get it?
Shit. Have you been asleep for the last 28 years?
News flash to all minorities: Do not vote for the Republicans because they hate you.
I would love to meet this loud mouth idiot. I bet I could get him to shut the hell up!
These lying sacks of shit and are as ignorant as anyone can get.
fox is so full of crap but I quit watching all the so called news networks in 2003.
When they turned into the GOP/corporate propaganda machine.
I think we need to clean these people out of our country, they are traitors and should be treated as such!
I will never waste my watching this scum on any of the MSM. they are all paid liars, all owned, bought and paid for by their corporate masters. I hope if there is a hell these people have a special place waiting for them.
What a donut eating, puffy, gas bag, idiot, jerkoff, with horrible hair. Who let this flat faced butt sniffer on cable television.
Oh, and since the public airwaves no longer need to have decorum...here goes.
I hate Palin and that pathetic little tramp daughter of hers.
Country First!
Condoms Second!
If this is indeed war, why is your candidate consoling the enemy (RM and Bill'O)? I've always suspected that Obama was a closet Neocon..
Shan @ 16:
Amen Brother!
And so the phony hypocrites at Faux News continue their crusade against the "far left liberal" NBC/MSNBC .. Their next target of course "the lesbian Air America host"
I wonder if it is drafty in his closet.
Shamalam @ 24:
No. He keeps warm by putting on his "bear" coat.
Gee, I wonder if he would like to buy a deck of cards.
http://gayrepublicancards.com/
If there ever was a reason to go lesbian, he's it.
(I know, I know. It's not a choice. I was just making a joke.)
WTF does Rachel's private sexual orientation have to do with anything?
I swear....I wish every single one of those A-holes from that clip would go on a hunting trip with DICK Cheney after he's just downed a bottle of Scotch.
P.S. I just flushed a "Doucey" down the toilet more intelligent than Steve Doucey.....
cg @ 5:
that's a very important point. olbermann was having an impact -- and that influence was growing. hence the allout gop effort to discredit him. i'd love to know how many times that short little nantucket sugar daddy jack welch registered his displeasure with the msnbc executive offices.
notice how there wasn't a peep from the rnc/gop about the ascent of karl rove's bitch -- dancin' dave gregory. you know, that fearsome former white house reporter. heh. their silence says it all...
The gap between the rich and the middle class has been getting wider and wider.
But the wider the gap, the more money the wealthy one-percent of us have to spent hiring right-wing hate spewing screed aimed at bending weak minds. Its no wonder they want to dismantle our education system.
These people never want a fair fight because they're just a bunch of chicken shit morons.
Screw this guy and the rest of MRC.
My parents raised 8 kids as Catholics; none of us practice any more, including my parents....because of people like this.
My parents taught us not to hate anyone; we now all hate people like this.
These so-called "Christians" are hate mongers; they're screwing up this country.
So ... lesbian is left-wing?
News to me.
The rest of the media should have been reporting about Fox bias for the last decade at least. If the rest of the media was doing it's job and exposing Fox for what it is then maybe Fox wouldn't be the force it has become. More people would recognize it for being the right-wing hack channel that it is.
How could anyone be surprised by this? After 8 years of open, blatant, criminality, and sneering, purposeful lies, hate mongering, fear promotion, cultural-divide promotion, by both the party and it's "news" channel, we are "shocked?" Really?
Here a really good wake-up call... "We're Going To Lose This Frickin' Lose This Thing."
I'd rather have my daughter look up to an intelligent woman like Rachel than any of the bims on Fox or Caribou Barbie...
Fox News "Anal Cyst".
Letting a lesbian have a show is evidence of bias? I guess an objective news channel would not allow gay people on the air?
Liberal AND Proud @ 19:
I hate Palin too! I actually kinda like the daughter. I'm hoping she has the baby but refuses to marry the dad and runs off to join a hippy lesbian commune in SF all the while publicly refuting her mother.
Surprise Obama Endorsement... Guess Who?
QUIT calling Fox a news organization, I don't care what they call themselves.
They hire these Pillsbury gas bags to do a cheap imitation of Joseph Goebbels.
Rupert Murdoch's propaganda machine is aimed at dividing America.
Shan @ 16:
News flash Log Cabin Republicans. Do not vote for the Republicans, because they hate you.
Dave
Viet Vet
& Fucking Gay thank you
is she a lesbian?
Bio...
Tim Graham is the MRC’s Director of Media Analysis. He is responsible for supervising media analysts and researching and writing regular Special Reports on the news. In 1997 he created and served as editor of the Media Reality Check, a weekly blast-fax report on national news stories that are distorted or ignored. He now shares those duties with Research Director Rich Noyes.
In 2001 and 2002, Graham served as White House Correspondent for World, a national weekly Christian news magazine. He wrote cover stories on taxes, abortion, cloning, and other issues, asked questions at briefings with Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, and interviewed members of Congress and administration officials like then-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill.
Graham is the author of the book Pattern of Deception: The Media's Role in the Clinton Presidency (Media Research Center, 1996), which critiques the media's coverage of Bill Clinton from 1991 through 1995. From 1989 to 1999, he was associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly and then bi-weekly newsletter of the MRC News Division, where he was responsible for the Study and Janet Cooke Award articles.
Seven of Graham's studies were published in And That's The Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media Bias (Media Research Center, 1990). He also assisted in writing the book How To Identify, Expose and Correct Media Bias (MRC, 1994) and the broadcast news criticism section of Jude Wanniski's 1990 Media Guide. Eight of his essays on public broadcasting appeared in Public Broadcasting & the Public Trust (Second Thoughts Books, 1995). Other articles on media analysis have appeared in National Review, The Wall Street Journal, Reason, Human Events, Diversity & Division, Comint, Chronicles, The World & I, The Washington Times, World, Heterodoxy, and The Detroit News.
Graham is a regular talk-radio spokesman for the MRC and has made television appearances on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, The 700 Club, and PBS's This is America with Dennis Wholey.
Before joining the Media Research Center, Graham served in Washington and St. Louis as press secretary for the campaign of U.S. Rep. Jack Buechner (R-MO) in 1988, and in 1987, he served as editor of Organization Trends, a monthly newsletter on philanthropy and politics by the Washington-based Capital Research Center. Before coming to Washington in 1986, Graham served as a news reporter for the La Crosse (WI) Tribune and local radio stations in Wisconsin. Graham is a 1986 cum laude Honors Program graduate of Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota, where he majored in political science and minored in mass communications, and founded and edited the Bemidji Student Review, a conservative student newspaper.
A lesbian Air America host is worse than hypocritical gay male politicans from the GOP , how , you porcine piece of shit ?
It's that old Republican obsession with what other people doing in their bedrooms. What sad lives they must live sitting around wondering if others are doing things they don't approve of and wondering if their pal big government can come in and stop it.
Fux is nothing but scumbags. Top down to the lowest dregs. All of 'em.
Barrett D @ 43:
Is every conservative homophobe* a closeted homosexual?
*Yes I know the phrase conservative homophobe is redundant.
MRC is a 501 (c)(3) non profit research and education foundation.
ya..."education"
It's scary that the segment was about 'bias', and that fat bastard spews out a bigoted comment, and he and the other bigots on that show didn't flinch.
Sick, just sick.
Isn't one of Cheney's daughters a lesbian? Didn't she write an autobiography that made that plain? Wasn't Dick Cheney forced to acknowledge her sexuality but then refused to discuss it in context of the anti-gay GOP platform? Didn't Dick and Lynne Cheney then attack John Kerry for mentioning Mary's sexuality as a relevant fact of general interest without then constructing an election issue out of it?
DOes Rachel Maddow preface everything she says with "Well, speaking as a Lesbian..." and should MSNBC indetify her as a lesbian no matter what the subject?
Jeebus H. Christ!
If only Rachel were closeted, she could work for Fox
Tammy Bruce is a fixture on Fox but he's too ignorant to know that.
Of course, as you know, this means war!
I think Olbermann and Maddow both will have some fun with this steaming pile.
Whaddya wanna bet?
8-)
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Rachel is a decent person...
Why would anyone in the world want to attack her?...
Especially on that level....
Geesh....
I think the media is trying to start a civil war in this country. Imagine the ratings!
#1) She's a Lesbian Air America Host .. so?
#2) I know this isn't a popular view, but Olbermann never should have been an anchor. He's a commentator and should stick with that.
Darth Hater @ 28:
We don't have privacy. Only "conservatives" have privacy.
Wasn't her agent in talks with Fox...which is what prompted MSNBC to give her her own show?
HAHA!
If it was "The Mary Cheney Show" this guy would be stepping all over his miniscule dick to get on as a guest.
I bet he has a nice wide stance.
Well he just solidified the frozen 23% on Fox, who are the only ones watching. If C&L didn't put these strange folks on now and then I'll bet few of would ever see it.
My biggest complaint with MSNBC is that they have spent the whole day allowing Repub to interrupt again, again and again! Dems etc must be hitting nerves, or the interrupters are following marching orders.
And while I'm thinking about it I wonder how the Repubs get the daily talking points from the office? Every day they say the same thing in the same way, from dawn to midnight.
But we MUST be respectful and deferential to Scarah! Hypocritical/lying/hateful REPUGS!!! PLEASE tell me WHY it is that McShame and Palin get away with continuing to scream the lies in their memorized speeches despite the fact that they have been shown to be UNTRUE!!! Call them out you stinking bastards at CNN/MSNBC/FAUX and others!
SouthTxMan @ 49:
C'mon!!
What do you expect from a Fox Expert on Bias ??
Is Sarah Palin's daughter a "typical" Alaskan girl?
My son is begging me to let him move to Alaska.
Rachel is clearly next on the hit list.
The fact that this guy refers to her as a "Lesbian" in such a sneering derogatory way without comment or reaction from the hosts of this FOX travesty says all you need to know about these characters.They now "embrace the hate" right out in the open:Obama and his wife are "uppity",Maddow is a "Lesbian" all stated as mundane fact,free of self consciousness or shame.
Dancer @ 61:
We HAVE to be respectful to Sarah because:
A. Is conservative.
B. Is christian.
C. Has a disabled baby.
D. Is partially covered by McCain's POW-ness since he picked her for veep.
Any attempt to smear her equates with smearing christians, conservatives, the disabled and POW's. Its just the way the system works.
Judging by the physical and moral shortcomings of this "media analyst," it is no wonder than an intelligent woman like Mrs. Maddow does not want anything to do with the male persuasion.
wow, wow wow wow, and wow.
Some of you know that we don't get the TV out here so my exposure to MSM is through clips online. Not surprisingly I don't watch many clips from FAUX News so this is a bit over the top for me.
You may have noticed I can have a bit of a sharp tongue, I don't suffer fools gladly but I'm really a pretty peaceful guy. This election cycle is testing that quality, I find my hands balling up into fists as I read, listen and watch this pathetic drivel.
Add water and get "sea monkeys?" This boy's been reading the back covers of way too many comic books. (Don't get snarky and ask me how I know about that LOL)
Keep the faith sisters and brothers, stay positive, vent on the trolls, who knows maybe Timmy boy will show up here and remember.
"Ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary things" Obama/Biden '08
Keep doing what needs to be done. We need to take our country back and become the shining beacon of light to the world we are capable of being.
Liberal AND Proud @ 63:
That would be a nightmare....would you really want that brand of fundie in your family?....
I dont mean to be coy.....but...... isnt she?
I'd like to ask Tammy Bruce of Fox what she thinks of that comment?
Rachel is a smart, intelligent, funny, subtantive commentator. FOX news does nothing but barking like dogs. Nobody has any substance. They lie, lie, lie.. .and lie some more. No fact checking. If someone questions the veracity of their claim they will shout you down or cut off the Mic.
Hey Brent?
Call us when you're a Rhodes Scholar and have a Ph.D. in political science. Oh and an IQ of like, 23495270 and are gorgeous. Not gonna happen anytime soon? Yeah, didn't think so. Scrotum.
Liberal AND Proud @ 63:
Make sure he uses protection...
I'm surprised that the gay guy on the left didn't object to that homophobic screed.
PorridgeGun @ 40:
YAY !!!
Filthy Harry @ 65:
Respectful yes, but there are a plethora of clips that show the true strips of these skunks that should be very useful....like McCain talking like Grampa Simpson and Palin's insightful interview about what a VP does....
Oliver Dreams @ 34:
That video was fucking unbelieveable. Can anyone, with any common sense
believe the crap that ALL of the Faux Noise folks spew? "They" have the balls
to talk about slanted/biased news coverage of MSNBC, when of ALL the MSM
outlets, Faux Noise is the most downright horrible 24 hr cable news(?) on he
air. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...Faux Noise is sickening and if
the FTC is really interesting in doing a responsible job , it would BAN that piece
of shit called Fox and remove it entirely from the airways. Fuck "freedom of speech".
When persons like Hannity, O'Liely, Barnes, Gibson, Chas. Karthamner, et.al. are
permitted to tell lie after lie after lie, what the Hell good is the FTC. Time for the
Dems/DNC to commence playing hardball and start using lies/distortion. Shit if
Faux Noise can do it, so can all the other MSM outlets.
MountainMan23 @ 56:
When referring to people in their professional capacity, sexual orientation usually isn't the first descriptor applied.
Tyler Durden @ 72:
He better use protection....could get some moose cooties...
Looks like someone needs a ruler about now.
So very threatened by our own Ms. Information!
Keep at it Rachel - you've already got 'em running scared!
jay @ 69:
I have to ask again...because wasnt that the correct terminology? I mean, its not like he called her "The Hippie dyke from that commie radio show..."
Seems like an awful stretch to get upset about...and who the hell is this guy anyway? Never heard his name.
FOX news complaining about bias, is like a NASCAR driver complaining about his grandma's speeding problem with the hoveround.
All women are lesbians! Go Rachel!
Is the Coast Clear?--- @ 68:
Hmmm...it's the great poonanny conundrum, isn't it.
Georgia Eliot @ 82:
Isn't that what Mcsane said about Georgians?-----
Go Rachel!
jay @ 80:
What exactly is your point, or are you going to "treat" us to more self replies until someone baits... oh, shit... never mind!
Is the Coast Clear?--- @ 78:
This is why we can't make headway! I mean..."moose cooties"?!?! C'mon mon!
LOLOL!
Tyler Durden @ 85:
Just dont see what the big deal is...
fighting against the lies time is on. the Obama/Biden gloves need to come off once and for all, to combat this whole movement of conservative/Republican lies and nonsense. this kind of crap is like a poison to the ears and consciousnesses of American viewers, and only reinforces the arrogant self-righteousness of ignorance, narrowmindedness, bigotry and other 'conservative' values.
ENOUGH.
ENOUGH.
ENOUGH.
(and Obama/Biden should be shouting ENOUGH at every turn.)
I believe we have found our new turd blossom.
This is amateur hour stuff.
Listen to Mark Levin on the radio...and hear the real venom.
jay @ 80:
Ah, wait a minute. You don't think that was an attack? Fox news plays to the talking to the fundamentalists. He is using that word to discredit her.
Get it?
Dave
Viet Nam Vet
And Gay to Boot
Liberal AND Proud @ 86:
I am so glad you enjoyed-I got to go now--too much sh*t to do---
Peace-----
Um, well, as a lesbian, I've got to say, thanks for being offended on behalf of one of us, but actually naming a person a lesbian shouldn't be in and of itself offensive. She IS a lesbian air america host. That shouldn't sound like a smear, unless you think there's something wrong with that.
The 9/11 video tried to tie Iranains to the 9/11 attack by invoking the hostage crisis, if thats not exploiting 9./11 that what is ? .
Dave @ 91:
Sorry, dont see the slur. Homophobes usually use much more descriptive terminology.
810expat @ 93:
Exactly
In a world where integrity was valued over FEAR and HATE, Dick Cheney's daughter might stand up and speak. She would say something to the effect that PRETENDING TO BE SOMETHING YOU ARE NOT IS DAMAGING TO EVERYONE...............and a fool like this guy would LISTEN.
STAND IN YOUR INTEGRITY EVERYONE............the days of DARKNESS ARE ALMOST OVER.
LOVE & PEACE TO THE PEOPLE.
810expat @ 93:
And I repeat:
Ah, wait a minute. You don’t think that was an attack? Fox news is talking to the fundamentalists. He is using that word to discredit her.
Get it?
Dave
Viet Nam Vet
And Gay to Boot
McCain & Palin = Bush's Third Term.
Everything the Fox Windbags say is aimed at making that happen.
Dave @ 98:
Fox news also has the largest market share...right or wrong...and I doubt they're all fundies...dont be paranoid
Fox/Murdoch = Joseph Goebbels but without the conscience.
eric @ 52:
Yeah, I forgot about Tammy Bruce. She's a whack job if I've ever seen it, and a lesbian at that!
I just fired off an email to MRC about Tim Graham. I cannot stand those f'ks.
MRC is headed by Brent Bozell, one scary, religious, conservative dude. He is a member of the Council for National Policy, a quite secretive, very conservative think tank. C&L had a posting about them about the time Palin was announced as McCain's running mate.
They're scary; they're ignorant; they're hateful; they are downright dangerous to this country.
Rachel Maddow is the best thing that’s happened to the American news media in years. The mainstream media for the most part, have become a collection of corporate chimps and bootlicking, suck-ups.
http://blogoffanddie.wordpress.com
I don’t care who wins anymore, just as long as they all have nice hair and flag pins on their lapels.
Uppity Blue Lensman @ 77:
Yeah .. that's obvious .. but that's not my point ..
My point is that it's stupid of Fox-boy to make an issue of this ..
810expat @ 93:
Of course, and point duly noted. Howevah................the agenda and demoralizing of everyone and anyone who doesn't get in lockstep with a certain way of thinking is the bottom line here.........IMO.
jay @ 100:
Fine. Pick your ass hole term, Republican's watch that show. And it was a slur to use it on air. And you know it. So cut the crap.
Dave
MountainMan23 @ 104:
I dont think he has. I think some here have made it an issue.
People, are you really so thrown into a tizzy by Fox News as easily as this?
Don't feed the trolls.
Wild Weasel @ 99:
Bush's third, fourth, fifthe and sixth terms.
After that, there won't be anymore...
Dave @ 106:
Its only a slur if you take it that way. My father use dto say, as many fathers did, "Only you can allow someone to debase you and yours".
to think ex-ceo carly f. came out and lectured everyone
on how it would sexists to ask palin about her shared
parenting and how campaigning to be vice president with
a possibility to be president will affect her children.
i would demand an apology.
Rachel is brilliant and I'm certain she could verbally and intellectually dismantle just about anything this idiotic homophobe could throw at her.
Yes, this IS war! Somebody needs to tell Obama to stop "respecting" McCain/Palin. He needs to go on the offense... attack... ATTACK! And there's beaucoup points to attack with that they will have trouble defending.
They haven't called the Democrats pansies yet. That's unusual. What else would you expect from fux-- the only non-partisan "news" on TV? If Americans buy into it, they are more stupid than I thought, but we've have bu$h twice, so...
I'm frustrated with Obama's lack of "fire" in fighting back. He needs to realize that there are incredibly STUPID people in America who will fall for the lies of McCain/Palin and the REpublicans, because he is not hammering them hard enough. Joe Biden and Jon Stewart do a better job of calling out the repub lies than Obama has thus far.
I'm getting depressed at the way they are handling Palin with kids gloves, just because she is a woman.
CULTURE WAR!!
Respecting people's choices is not political correctness. It is CHRISTIAN. It is MORAL. It is RIGHT.
Intolerance is a SIN. Intolerance is WRONG. Intolerance is UNAMERICAN.
jay @ 69:
Yeah, and she's white and 35 years of age, neither of which have to do with anything, either.
She holds a D.Phil. (equivalent to a Ph.D.) from Oxford in political science from her time as a Rhodes Scholar--which would be a relevant stat to bring up, one would think--except nobody at Fox know that people other than physicians get doctorates.
Check out this clown's resume. Boy, Fox can sure pick biased reporting. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/bios/graham/welcome.asp
I am sure Billo will condemn that remark tonight............HA!
If McPOW wins this election, America is toast in my books, along with another 5,000,000,000 on the planet, who feel likewise. We already think you are insane liars. (*not C&L-ers.)
810expat @ 94:
Like I said, she's also a Rhodes Scholar and a Ph.D., but you didn't hear Fox calling her Doctor Maddow didja? Naw, she's that lesbian from that failed radio network.
jay @ 97:
When they talk about other journalists do they call them "straight" or "breeders" in their descriptions?
810expat @ 93:
Oh...I get it. It's just a regular adjective. Like.....(clearing throat)
"and now by hiring that TALL Air America host"--nothing wrong with that, the person must be tall.
"and now by hiring that short Air America Host"--nothing wrong with that, the person must be short.
"and now by hiring that nappy haired Air America host"--nothing wrong with that, the person's hair must be 'nappy'. If it "IS", then it's ok.
He was just using a harmless adjective, not meaning any harm.
(shaking a bottle of yoo-hoo)
That does it. I never thought I would say this but Obama sucks and I want Hillary and Buba back.
Sirhotspur @ 44:
Well there you have it. "bi-weekly" Says it all doesn't it? The guy is bi.
Please, please, put this in the time capsule. Let the people of the future know how perverted, unjust and jingoistic our society was in the early 21st century. There is no more perfect example of hypocrisy than this clip. I just hope someone is there to open up the capsule.
jay @ 97:
Not exactly -- there's a context. Even Colin Powell gets it:
"Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' "
I wonder if he'll make "Worst Person" tonight..
She holds a D.Phil. (equivalent to a Ph.D.) from Oxford in political science from her time as a Rhodes Scholar–which would be a relevant stat to bring up, one would think–except nobody at Fox know that people other than physicians get doctorates.
It's actually a much better--more prestigious--degree than any awarded by any Murkin University. Much harder to accomplish. Fuck, even I got a ph.d.
mjULTRA @ 21:
Chr*st, I feel like a Republican, because I've said this ad nauseum: "Obama plans to be the president to all Americans, unlike McCain who plans to be the president to special interests and is in the back pocket of the Radical Right-Wing Clerics and the other American Taliban members.
My, oh, my, my, my, that glass house dwellers should hurl stones might seem foolish to a rational person. And, 'David Gregory doesn't have an agenda?' Not even they could keep from laughing at that whopper!
What's unbelievable is that they could sit there and make those statements with straight faces - on FOX! The white houses own personal pr network, fair and balanced my ass. Olberman may be a firebrand but at least he's honest.
Gawd these people make me physically ill.
I dunno. I said this before.
Rachel IS a lesbian Air America host! I know what people are saying about using the words to be inflammatory but all this kind of reaction does is help move those words further toward insults.
Instead of throwing a hissy fit and calling them bigots or whatever, we should all be saying "Yea so what? She IS a Lesbian and she IS an Air America host. You say it like it's a bad thing. What's your problem?"
We need to wear these words as badges of honor (well as much as a straight guy can anyway) rather than helping to turn them into insults. They already won with the word "Liberal." How many more of words do we want to give them?
Old-school-red-rubber-hangin-on-the-hanger-smelling-like-vinegar-hoses-coming-out.............
Douchebag
RancidVenison @ 118:
Yeah, and she's hot. I'd do her in a minute. Woo Hoo!! (Don't worry friends I'm doing my brain dead, FAUX News watching, Lazy Boy sitting rightie impression with a lefty twist)
Kinda' what we'd have to turn into if we want to compete on their level. Sorry folks, made me queasy just expressing it as satire. Not going there, we can help elevate the discourse, we don't need to go down to their level.
Forge @ 72:
Corrected to the name of the FUCKS host, not the blogger commenting on his asshole drivel.
You know, watching this again, it is hit job on KO, and free speech. I won't stick up for any teevee network, but if they don't bring a hammer down on Fox ASAP, MSNBC is going to regret it.
The motives and implications behind this are too obvious............WOW, where the hell do we live anymore?
Darth Hater @ 28:
C'mon now people, settle down. We had God and guns all of last week. Gays were due. Those are the only 3 issues American truly care about; didn't you know that. God, Gays and Gods, with a little sex scandal on the side.
Wingnuts give themselves away in ways they can't even comprehend. Heterosexual guys love lesbians. Conservative Christian men? Not so much.
810expat @ 94:
No you're right. It's not. Naming a person as a Lesbian is not, in and of itself, offensive.
But over at FOX it's being used as a pejorative, as a put down, as if it's evil perverse and nasty. And that, my friend IS very offensive.
But I expect no less from a load of He-Man Women Haters with penile size issues.
jay @ 96:
Its not a slur, thats why you don't see it. It is irrelevant, dismissive and completely inappropriate, the fact that you don't see that says a lot about you. Name any other person on a tv news show who is described by their sexuality?
Did you see heterosexual Charles Gibson last night on his show? See? Its stupid and out of place.
It's gonna get worse as the election gets closer, just watch. The Klanners with start to ooze out of the woodwork, into the light and onto the tv.
graham is just a tick on limbaugh's ass, and brent is great but he, like many dems/progressives these days, actually thinks obama can fight this shit. as long as the GOP has a talk radio monopoly and as long as progressives ignore it, twits like graham will continue to get TV air time because what he says in the evening has already been pounded into the earholes of tens of million all day long, maybe all week long, making it acceptable.
DMS @ 33:
Is a Left-Wing Lesbian like a Jew for Jesus, just wondering?
woody, tokin librul @ 130:
OK, so perhaps there was something lost in translation, and as such my point may have been understated.
miss_kitty @ 141:
No, pointing out that someone is a lesbian is not per se offensive. Pointing out that now MSNBC even has a lesbian host doing its left-wing material proves how unfair its programming is is what's offensive.
to me the question is WHY do they need to identify her
personal sexual orientation? that's OFF limits there is NO
logical reason for that. this is exactly why this country will
have a difficult time going forward......they want to pass
judgement......people are getting killed everyday
afghanistan, iraq, angola just to name a few and have this
dweeb voicing his two bit b.s.
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