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Post by m52nickerson on Apr 8, 2009 6:28:31 GMT -5
It will end, or be reduced when these idiots start to lose advertisers. Bill'O already lost UPS.
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Post by gizmoturner on Apr 8, 2009 11:41:57 GMT -5
"I'd rather not curtail free speech myself, but it used to be a journalist could get in deep shit for getting her facts wrong. Now, it doesn't even need to be true to get on the news. There's something seriously wrong with that system. "
If you point this out to the RW talking heads, they say they are not "journalists," but talk show hosts and not held to that standard. We have a local idiot here, Peter Boyles, who does this. However, they all wrap themselves in the cloak of journalist when it suits their purpose.
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Post by Hades on Apr 8, 2009 13:48:12 GMT -5
Fuck Glen Beck, Sean Hannity and Chuck Norris for milking 9/11.
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Post by m52nickerson on Apr 8, 2009 14:03:44 GMT -5
Fuck Glen Beck, Sean Hannity and Chuck Norris for milking 9/11. Well hell throw in Bush, Cheny, Toby Keith, the GOP, ect,............
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Post by Old Viking on Apr 8, 2009 15:07:40 GMT -5
Beck and his ilk are simply self-inflated talking heads. I don't think even their groupies think of them as journalists. I've not listened to talking heads -- local or national -- for ten years or more. It seems like a silly investment of time when I know what they're going say.
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Post by ltfred on Apr 8, 2009 18:07:52 GMT -5
It annoys me that the actors who play journalists on TV have to be reigned in not by their advertisers. Not the networks, the advertisers. Which also puts the question: how much power, exactly, do these advertisers have over media?
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Post by Green-Eyed Lilo on Apr 8, 2009 19:54:33 GMT -5
My mom loves Glenn Beck and thinks he's worth listening to, and then she shares what she's "learned." She forgets that my bi Pagan same-sex married self and my environmentalist atheist brother and our wives are among the people Beck likes to blame for things. I fucking hate him, I really do. That man won't be happy until we're in a second Civil War!
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Post by ironbite on Apr 8, 2009 23:25:55 GMT -5
After what I saw of Hannity a few nights ago...I want him to die.
Ironbite-seriouslly.
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Post by Trevelyan on Apr 9, 2009 8:56:00 GMT -5
And then the GOP wonders why when the shit really hit the fan and all of their rhetoric proved to be just that and no more, they were voted out.
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Post by dasfuchs on Apr 9, 2009 9:17:28 GMT -5
Extremist "news" is not a new phenomenon. The "smear" tactics in news media are as old as the free press. Andrew Jackson was elected that way. To paraphrase Lincoln, you can fool some of the people, all the time, but you can't fool all the people, all the time. A vast majority gives no credence to the likes of Rush or Beck, and their marginalization increases each time they spew their vitriol, as does their credibility. If a commentator does actually violate the law, however, by advocating the violent overthrow of the government, ie, assassination or the like, there are laws against that. Silencing the anti-Obamo wing nuts through government action would give them far more credence then they are entitled to. I dunno, arguing to people there needs to be a second civil war and the like certainly sounds like 'violent overthrow of the government' As for the past, yeah, the media's been able to screw with people since the get go, but now days one news group can effect a large large population of people, as we see through Fox. Some accountabillity needs to be taken
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Post by wisechild on Apr 9, 2009 10:42:23 GMT -5
A few years ago, he had some kind of after prime time hour on CNN, and I thought he was some sort of amateur. He would try to get worked up about the issue-of-the-day, trying to ham it up, with phony outrage, then he would interview a guest. I wondered who this douchebag was, and why is this hack on television?
I think Fox News saw the change in power coming, and they needed somebody especially shameless and rather nutty to host a show. So, if things get too crazy, Fox News can wash their hands of Beck's insanity. He's a "morning zoo" DJ, with no discernible talent, who wanted to do something bigger.
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Post by Hades on Apr 9, 2009 12:42:52 GMT -5
He would try to get worked up about the issue-of-the-day, trying to ham it up, with phony outrage, then he would interview a guest. And that's exactly the way he was in the video machiavelli posted of Colbert pwning him. Fake outrage, fake sorrow, he's a very shitty actor.
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Apr 9, 2009 13:40:56 GMT -5
It's time to set up a betting pool. Odds of anything resembling an actual revolution? Chance the next 15-kill mass murderer confesses to be following the instructions of Glenn Beck?
*gets the calculator, Styrofoam hat and whiteboard out*
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Post by pdc1987 on Apr 9, 2009 21:17:05 GMT -5
Glenn Beck is heinous. It's either all an act or he's fucking insane.
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Post by devilschaplain2 on Apr 9, 2009 22:30:39 GMT -5
You should see Glenn Beck's special where he invites a bunch of military "specialists" and talks about what may happen. Not what will happen or is remotely likely to happen. But what may happen if everything that can possibly go wrong goes wrong, and the U.S. ends up like some Mad Max-style dystopia. Anything he can do to frighten idiotic, conservatard viewers like the WND/RR crowd.
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