Is it just me or is the right wing media currently collectively heading off the cliff like a bunch of lemmings?
We all know that Fox News Radio's John Gibson (and that's his only gig currently, because his Fox News Channel programme, The Big Story, has been sidelined due to continuing election coverage) has a bias against Keith Olbermann, but I notice just recently, via the OlbermannWatch YouTube channel, a minor league talk show host in the states called Mark Levin get in on the act recently, refering to MSNBC as "MS-LSD".
LSD, as in the drug, you know, the one that causes 'trips' as they're known. Mark Levin is suggesting that the whole MSNBC network is basically on one big hallucenagenic trip!
All the common Republican talking points also came out, such as NBC being in the pay of the Democrats, such as Media Matters being a George Soros front group, and that Olbermann gets his talking points from the Daily Kos blog. It's like they hope we haven't noticed that a lot of their talking points come direct from the Republican party, and the Bush Whitehouse. It's been widely reported that Conservative talk radio hosts have regularly been invited up to the Whitehouse for briefings during this Bush presidency, a presidency that has made a joke out of the United States of America.
This kind of partisan hackery and propoganda has got to STOP! It does nothing for the political process, and brings an already disreputable American media only further into disrepute and shame. Is it any wonder that more and more Americans are choosing to look outside their borders for reputable news sources. The American media had better get its act together and realise we live in a global village, and the kind of partisan propoganda that is spewed by the American media is going to only further drive people away from American media to overseas media. It's time they listened and learned. I won't hold my breath waiting...
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Bill O'Reilly tries to link Phil Donahue to Barack Obama, via George Soros and MoveOn.org!
It's a long title for a post, but the latest column from Fox News Channel's bloviator-in-chief Bill O'Reilly is perfectly summed up by that title.
Bill O'Reilly is basically criticising Phil Donahue for being the producer and director of a film currently on limited release in the US, called "Body Of War". He remembers facing off against Phil on ABC News Good Morning America back in late 2001.
"...Back then, Donahue was routed by public opinion and retreated to his compound in Connecticut to lick his wounds. But after a period of quiet, the left-wing zealot is re-energized by the mismanaged Iraq war. To paraphrase Austin Powers: Phil has his mojo back.
Now, what Phil Donahue thinks is not important in the grand scheme, but what Barack Obama thinks is, and there may be some intersection here..."
Now those paragraphs above are the first set of key paragraphs in his column. He tries to link Phil Donahue to Barack Obama, and a rather shabby attempt it is too.
But wait, the shabbyness doesn't end there...
"...Recently, a far-left radio guy called John McCain a "warmonger" at a Democratic event in North Dakota. The senator was on the scene, but did not make a comment.
Since Senator McCain immediately chastised a far-right talk show host who insulted Obama at a McCain event, some believe Obama might have been smart to return the favor.
But, again, he did not..."
Perhaps he felt that to chastise the 'far-left radio guy' would have been giving him more creedence than he deserved. Without hearing it first hand, it's difficult to know or even guess what would have been going through Obama's head at that time. Never stops a conservative from trying though!
But even now, he is not done, cos then he tries to go even further and link both Donahue and Obama to George Soros and MoveOn.org, who O'Reilly claims are financially linked.
"...I believe the reason Senator Obama avoids criticizing the far-left is because he needs it. Phil Donahue's strongest ally in denouncing the U.S. action in Afghanistan was MoveOn.org, the organization that is now helping Barack Obama raise records amounts of campaign money.
MoveOn, of course, has received millions from far-left billionaire George Soros, who is a huge supporter of a "one world" foreign policy that demands the USA seek world approval before any aggressive action against another country.
It would be unfair to link Barack Obama's foreign policy vision to that of Donahue and Soros because we simply don't know what the Senator's overall world view is..."
It has been said many times before but I'll say it again. George Soros does not directly fund MoveOn.org. Bill O, your own graphic which you put up on the Factor some time ago, to try and claim that he did proved conclusively that he did not directly fund MoveOn.org. Yet you continue to vent this spiel as though it is fact. The TruthSeeker has caught you out!
Note that last quoted paragraph there. The whole of the article before then is spent linking Obama with Donahue, Soros and MoveOn.org, then says it would be unfair to do so. Pure hypocritical, fraudulent, schmuck!
Bill O'Reilly is basically criticising Phil Donahue for being the producer and director of a film currently on limited release in the US, called "Body Of War". He remembers facing off against Phil on ABC News Good Morning America back in late 2001.
"...Back then, Donahue was routed by public opinion and retreated to his compound in Connecticut to lick his wounds. But after a period of quiet, the left-wing zealot is re-energized by the mismanaged Iraq war. To paraphrase Austin Powers: Phil has his mojo back.
Now, what Phil Donahue thinks is not important in the grand scheme, but what Barack Obama thinks is, and there may be some intersection here..."
Now those paragraphs above are the first set of key paragraphs in his column. He tries to link Phil Donahue to Barack Obama, and a rather shabby attempt it is too.
But wait, the shabbyness doesn't end there...
"...Recently, a far-left radio guy called John McCain a "warmonger" at a Democratic event in North Dakota. The senator was on the scene, but did not make a comment.
Since Senator McCain immediately chastised a far-right talk show host who insulted Obama at a McCain event, some believe Obama might have been smart to return the favor.
But, again, he did not..."
Perhaps he felt that to chastise the 'far-left radio guy' would have been giving him more creedence than he deserved. Without hearing it first hand, it's difficult to know or even guess what would have been going through Obama's head at that time. Never stops a conservative from trying though!
But even now, he is not done, cos then he tries to go even further and link both Donahue and Obama to George Soros and MoveOn.org, who O'Reilly claims are financially linked.
"...I believe the reason Senator Obama avoids criticizing the far-left is because he needs it. Phil Donahue's strongest ally in denouncing the U.S. action in Afghanistan was MoveOn.org, the organization that is now helping Barack Obama raise records amounts of campaign money.
MoveOn, of course, has received millions from far-left billionaire George Soros, who is a huge supporter of a "one world" foreign policy that demands the USA seek world approval before any aggressive action against another country.
It would be unfair to link Barack Obama's foreign policy vision to that of Donahue and Soros because we simply don't know what the Senator's overall world view is..."
It has been said many times before but I'll say it again. George Soros does not directly fund MoveOn.org. Bill O, your own graphic which you put up on the Factor some time ago, to try and claim that he did proved conclusively that he did not directly fund MoveOn.org. Yet you continue to vent this spiel as though it is fact. The TruthSeeker has caught you out!
Note that last quoted paragraph there. The whole of the article before then is spent linking Obama with Donahue, Soros and MoveOn.org, then says it would be unfair to do so. Pure hypocritical, fraudulent, schmuck!
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