BillO the Clown and Bernie the Hack honk their horns at "far left smear machine"
Bill O'Reilly decided to take off after his liberal critics yesterday, devoting his Talking Points Memo to the "far left smear machine" -- ostensibly headed up by MoveOn.org and George Soros, underneath whom is David ("a guttersnipe") Brock's Media Matters. On the next tier are the evil liberal blogs, MSNBC, and the liberal media.
Hoo boy. It must be nice, on Planet Wingnuttia, to be able to throw a bunch of people who have no connection to each other up on a chart and say that's proof they're conspiring.
My favorite part of the rant came when (stealing from Patterico without crediting him) he trotted out a poll from August 2006 (conducted by Fox News, natch) suggesting Democrats did not want George W. Bush to succeed then.
Um, guys? In August 2006, George W. Bush had been in office the better part of six years -- by which time he had already made a complete bollox of things, his approval ratings were in sharp decline, and his further success might mean electoral success for a Republican in 2008.
It's now only March of 2009 -- less than two months into Obama's tenure. And Republicans are already openly announcing his desire for him to fail. Opposition is natural and to be expected, but the Right will not even give Barack Obama a chance out of the gate.
In any event, O'Reilly then brought on Bernard Goldberg, who proceeded to list the five top components of the "far left smear machine":
They are, in order:
5. "The Hollywood Glitzocracy"
4. Bill Moyers
3. Daily Kos
2. The New York Times
1. MSNBC
About Kos, there was this:
Goldberg: They have one of, if not the biggest, left-wing political websites. They are rabidly anti-conservative, yet its founder, Markos Moulitsas, has so much clout that not only does he get on the most mainstream of shows, Meet the Press, to talk politics, but the Democrats who are running for president of the United States went there and made speeches to the Daily Kos convention, that's how afraid they are of offending the Daily Kos.
O'Reilly: And it's about as hateful as you possibly -- you can't get a more hateful website than them.
Um, guys? The 2007 YearlyKos convention to which Goldberg refers was connected to Kos only in name; it was run by an independent organization now called Netroots Nation. It was in fact the national gathering of liberal bloggers, not merely those from Kos, and those candidates came to try to garner support from bloggers, not out of fear of Kos.
As for Kos being a "hateful" site -- one of O'Reilly's oldest and most specious charges -- he evidently wiped right out of his memory cells the recent revelation that there are indeed many sites significantly more hateful than Kos -- and they're right-wing sites.
Indeed, don't be surprised if one of the hard cases from Stormfront winds up reading Bernie's latest list and drawing from it the same kind of inspiration as David Adkisson did.
Not to use the mirror argument, but maybe you ought to be looking at your own smears before you criticize the Left, Bern. Some people would still be alive if you did.
I've been trying to get on BO's enemies list forever. I didn't make it again!
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If you've gotta EXPLAIN why their lies are lies, then you've lost.
If, that is, you have to explain the the "Yearly Kos" is "Yearly Kos" in name only, they you're losing...
Liberals are NOT loosing, conservatards are.
Cows go mooo
sheep go baaaa
Republicans go "blah blah blah"
Fish gotta swim
birds gotta fly
conservatards cry cry cry
Donkeys bray
Chickens cluck
Wingnuts go hyuck hyuck hyuck
Glen Beck, Billo and Hannity. So much noise. Must plug ears.
The left doesn't need to smear; they just replay clips of this and other right-wing dunderheads back to them. But then, righties have a huge problem with the truth.
Uh wait...these are the guys who're afraid of honking off rash limpballs?
They call Obama everything from Communist, Socialist, Fascist, Nazi, everything but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZF_zPkWbhY
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
How come that intern death in Joe Scarborough's congressional office received so little attention in the press, while others stories like Chandra Levy gets wall to wall coverage. Not enough independence in the press I guess. Because Jeff Gannon and his white house press pass received a free pass as well. It's a conundrum. Just like how the detainees at Gitmo recently confessed to the 9/11 attacks. Amazing how gullible and uninterested and incurious the American citizenry are. I guess when everyone is stressed about month to month or even day to day living, its a lot of effort to focus on the federal government and its crimes. Anthrax doesn't get brought up much either in the 24 hour news cycles. Ashame.
You know while the citizenry are laid off or stressed out, there are people who make a living doing the task and taking the responsibility of the press. These are the people who get paid to inform the rest of us. Or misinform us depending on who's paying the paycheck. It's a sad state when journalism in this day and age is reduced to this shit.
a big game show.
... can we give Bill-O his case of Rice-a-Roni ("The San Francisco Treat!") and his lifetime supply of Preparation H, send him on his way and never hear from him again?
In his own mind, BillO is Ken Jennings.
Tue, 03/10/2009 - 10:16 — Shadowgm
... can we give Bill-O his case of Rice-a-Roni ("The San Francisco Treat!")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKoCqKYBEMo
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I'm not actually impressed that detainees that suffered years of torture have confessed to something.
Shall we look with equal seriousness at the "confessions" of our captured troops in various wars? Vietnam, perhaps?
If you LOOK at their poll.
They don't say where they polled, or anything else.
900 people. 42% say they're Democrats = 398. Of that number, 51% or 192 people say they don't want Bush to succeed.
So out of all the millions of Democrats in the US, 192 are supposed to be representative?
And the cooberating polls for this are where?
Notice it's a Fox News poll (duh!).
Of 900 ppl a margin of error is +/- 3%.
But there were R's and D's and I's - therefore maybe 300 D's.
Margin of error for pollof 300 ppl is at least 9-10%.
pffffft!
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
reaching higher and higher heights in the stupidity index.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
they bemoan the "far left smear machine" and thus smear others...
and, might i mention bernie goldberg's coloring book: 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37) by Bernard Goldberg
but now he is against "smearing"
what a moron
...is kind of cool now. This "fear" bullshit is so stupid and tired...this crap only works with old people afraid of change, ignorant hillbillies, lying ass rich fucks, bigots, etc. Obama is really fucking up Conservatives game plan.
And they are fucking scared shitless!
HA!
... that in Bill-O Land, a poll which asked:
"Is President Bush a failure?"
... is the same as, "I hope Bush fails."
But, okay, Bill-O, we'll say something that isn't a smear promulgated by George Soros or Media Matters. Ready?
ANDREA MACKRIS. Loooooooofah. Falafel.
... we in the reality-based community didn't WISH or HOPE for Wanton Boy to fail.
We KNEW he would fail, simply by virture of who he is: an incompetent loser and major screw-up.
BIG difference.
..that a vote for W was a vote for the end of the economy. I'm sorry I have nothing written from that time because if I said it once, I said it a hundred times. I remember Imus saying how big a John McCain fan he was and that W would be good for Comedy during his presidency. It was right about then that I knew we'd be in for a rough ride. I was hoping it would only be four years but...
Not once did I want W to fail though. I wanted him to be to prove me wrong and be the President and indeed, be the President this country needed after 9/11 but he f(*&-ed that up too. By 2006, I had already had more than enough of Neo-cons, republicans and especially W. But I never wanted him to fail; I just sorta' knew he would and he didn't disappoint.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
for my taste. you make it sound like DKos is some kind of hate site, but that there are just more right-wing hate sites. ridiculous! and there may be a separate group handling the details and finances of the Kos convention, but really, it was a convention convened by Markos and those working with him. its bigger than Dkos, but no need to downplay the association. it is obvious, and its also fine. there is nothing wrong with it, and there's nothing 'wrong' per se, with DKos as a website.
Sorry, but I've written at length previously -- and linked to that above -- about how DKos is anything but a hate site. I also mention that it's one his "oldest and most specious" claims.
Please open comments in Amato's post:
Sen. Richard Shelby wants the banks to go out of business: Incompetence
Thanks!
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
They're just propagandists of the first order for the Right. I have my doubts that they believe the B.S. that they spew (I mean, does B.O. really think that Daily Kos is hateful in ways that exceed Little Green Footballs or Townhall?), but I'm sure they like the steady paycheck that their corporate overlords give them for saying what they do.
Sure twere better when the typical FAUX audience was more like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNOg-9YiEKU&pl...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...seeing Johnny Cash in overalls.
What is up with the twins hair?
That's uh...yeah....whoa...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfS4XVYYazw
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE
How can someone who's such a total jerk think so highly of himself?
my brother is kinda sociopathic, and he thinks he's awesome.
In order to gain the political power they’ve enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives made a pact with the devil (the religious right and Limbaugh racists, fear-mongers and hate-baiters) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. It was a conscious political decision to manipulate and exploit emotions in order to win rather than being intellectually and morally honest and lose.
Today, those Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the devils they empowered, and the karmic reality that they don’t have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without accepting and even advocating values that are dividing and destroying their party. The survival of the Republican Party has become so dependent on radicalism, that they have no significant political power WITH or WITHOUT the support of America’s lunatic fringe.
The idiom about choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are reaping what they have sown.
I agree with you except it goes back much longer than 10 years.
this is about fear. And tax cuts for the rich.
I don't even think it's about fear or tax cuts. This is more of an "Us vs. Them" thing. They do it. We do it funnier. (And then we make fun of each other's lists.) This list is just a vendetta more than anything else. Who does BillO & B.G. think has insulted them the most.
If Bill Moyers weren't on PBS, he would have probably been "rated" higher and MSNBC is listed as #1 only because Olbermann is "He who must not be named." This is no poll, this is an opinionated list.
By the way, did anyone other than me notice how far Michael Moore has fallen. In his 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, he was so obviously #1 that Goldberg (him again; see, it's just his schtick) did not even write an explanatory text, he just printed his picture. Oh, how the mighty of fallen?
Now he deserves his high position on the Blow-hard's stupid list.
How dare Moyers speak up and say what's what! The nerve of him! And he is soooo hateful!
What a laugh.
Bill Moyers has been one of the few rays of light and hope in America for many years. He really is one of the few who always speaks truth to power.
Someone should start the rumor that evil liberals with money from George Soros are trying to clone a million Bill Moyers. Bill the Blow-Hard would have a heart attack!
The graceful, intelligent, cogent Moyers has more integrity in his dental flossings than the whiny loser Goldberg has in his entire pitiful corpus.
What an ass.
...KKK.
They must be so proud.
It's hilarious in the light of all the Reps who've recently bent over for Rush Limbaugh that Goldberg is whining about Dems being afraid to cross DailyKos. I can't remember ever hearing any Dem trying to kiss Markos' ass the way Steele, et al have been kissing Limbaugh's. Or at all.
projection.
The right wing uses it all the time.
When you watch the right wing pundits and hear the talking points...ask why they are saying it...and look at what issues are affecting THEM and THEIR Party.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
And yet not a word from Bill about Glenn Beck and Chuck Norris on his network discussing armed rebellion and running for president of Texas...
That top picture looks like billo's mistaken his stirrer for a straw again in his m****r-f***ing iced tea.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
and it aint because of liberal bias
hey bernie....the rumors of trig palin not being sarah's natural born son...started in alaska...not on kos
you dumbass
that elected dems have ever crawled to begging for forgiveness?
the sounds of silence............
These guys?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Ever notice how the right(poorly) copies the left? Say for instance the Fox comedic news show the 1/2 hour news hour, which was like a kid trying to imitate his hero by making a fake tv show with mom's camcorder. Then the parents watch it for years and say "wasn't he so cute trying to be the Daily show". That's how this comment (that's how afraid they are of offending the Daily Kos) comes off, and it seems like a sad copy of some reports that point out apologies must be made to Rush if his sensibilities are hurt by another repugnican. Nice try Goldberg, I'm sure you've made Fox proud.
Fact is these Sleaze-icans haven't had an original thought or progressive idea for over a decade. And it doesn't threaten to change any time soon.
The only reason they've backed off a tad is because of the horrendously shocking poll numbers labeling them as "obstructionists" to the progress of this country - at a time of national crisis. They should be ashamed of their unamerican ideology right now. They've become a gang of criminally treasonous thugs.
Any democratic smear machine has to wake up pretty early in the morning to catch up to the reichwing extremist 'sleaze machine'. The GOPtards have a monopoly on S-L-E-A-Z-E.
It has declined in the past two weeks, this we know. I wonder what they can possibly number at this point with their ever-shrinking base.
I'd say that by the time the midterms roll around, they'll be looking at losing more seats than they will be keeping. They've lost the House totally and will soon lose the Senate.
that includes the washington times
20 years ago, newspapers were in prep for the coming of the internets
thing is, they wanted to charge...just like for their hardcopy versions
they all had a bad biz plan
then came craigs list and others, which removed a large revenue stream from the papers
its bad business plans that have done them in...not liberal bent
Why don't we stop giving these liars free air time for their BS ,, when democrats like Kucinich and others have a hard time getting any..
O'Reilly the clown , Fox the comical news? and other corporate bias news media are attacking Obama so they can blame him for the disaster which Bush's administration has cause and the disastrous fall out which is getting enormous and they do not want Bush and the republicans blamed for it..
This BS which is being propagandized 24/7 to the American citizens is to keep the real news facts from attaching these disaster which Bush & Republicans has caused and has not yet peaked..
The news media should be saying can Obama's programs stop the down slide and disaster which the Bush administration has caused in the past 8 years..
Beside that O'Reilly , Rove , Dobbs , Fox news? is a bunch of misstatement , BS and propaganda and should not be giving all this news coverage.. The corporate republican news media knows if you keep throwing mud on a wall that some will stick... They are reaching out to the un-informed so they can add them to the right wing corporate republican base...
What we need to do is purge these republican-democrats like the blue dogs from our party.. If they believe in the republicans policies which have destroy our country then they should run on the republican ticket and we should make sure that only democrats run on our democratic ticket... These republicans-democrats have cause a disaster to our party's policies.
Even a crook like Joe the plumber that has lied , not paid his taxes for years , performed plumbing without a license and continual goes around spreading BS in which he has no clue about what he is talking about..
None
They got Bernie and we got Arianna......Sweet!!!
The classic line is Goldberg's finale: "MSNBC has sold their journalistic soul"
You oughta know Bernie. No wonder CBS dumped this lying prick years ago.
They're warming up the hell fires for ya, you piece of shit.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
I am beginning to wonder if the train wreck that is Beck (hey that rhymes!) is starting to get to him, and he's starting to REALLY lose it!
Bernie was always nuts. He hasn't changed any. Now Bernie's paranoid rants are starting to make more sense to Bill.
Far Left smear machine. When you look at BG's list-it's crazy. Literally crazy.
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