Just another day over at Fox News
In which a commentator on Rupert Murdoch’s payroll refers to Obama as Osama and then jokes that they should both be killed. There’s your “liberal media” at work again.
In which a commentator on Rupert Murdoch’s payroll refers to Obama as Osama and then jokes that they should both be killed. There’s your “liberal media” at work again.
My first thought: Who in the H-E-double hockey sticks is Liz Trotta and why is she such an idiot? I’d can her immediately.
My second thought: There is a major difference between a “commentator” and a “contributor.” Trotta appears to be one of the hundreds of “Fox News contributors,” not one of the network’s commentators like John Gibson or Bill O’Reilly.
My third thought: We could have used you Howie, when the Guardian hoped for Bush’s assassination, or Gov. Steve Beshear (D) did the same, or Nobel prize winners did it, or entire movies are made about killing Bush, or Air America jokes about it, or Cafe Press offers a complete line of kill Bush merchandise, or Jon Kerry jokes about his assassination fantasy. Where were you?
Where were you when a global warming disciple said that the “silver lining” is that it will kill most of the right wing.
My fourth thought: Since those instances involve only Bush, the sitting president, and the “screechers,” and none of them occurred on Fox News, you weren’t concerned enough to actually say so.
This post was perfect length. It’s really all you need to know to understand how dumb people in this world can be(on both sides of the political divide).
So Mr. Tepoorten, looks like only one of those links of yours implicates an actual media outlet, and The Guardian is British media to boot. Is this supposed to make some kind of statement about the “liberal” American media you so often rail against? Is the Guardian more mainstream than Fox? Is CafePress (a tee shirt store) a media outlet along the lines of CNN?
As if that weren’t enough, you run out no fewer than four links to Michele Malkin’s Web site, in a single sentence. Does the search box at MicheleMalkin.com work as “research” in your world? My goodness, if the goal was to provide hyperlinks to the material of poorly educated skanks, any number of porno sites out there would have done the trick, and with far greater political acumen than your disturbing mentor Ms. Malkin might ever provide.
I guess I was right, the only assassination idiots that matter to you, Mr. Burke, are ones that appear on Fox and allude to your guy. Any other and it’s “attack the messenger” as usual.
So, is it talk of assassination that bothers you? Or just that appears on Fox News, your pet obsession.
I always find it interesting that the “poorly educated skank” (nice by the way, I guess its true, you Obama supporters are sexist) takes all the heat when all she did was document and link the examples. Are they any less valid because they appeared at her site?
An idiot at Fox makes a bad joke and you condemn all of Fox. Left-wing morons do this kind of crap all the time and you condemn Malkin for pointing it out. I see how this works now: Ignore any evidence that the left could act in such a way, and, at all costs, condemn the right no matter what.
In the end, my original point – that this is certainly not the first time assassination has made it into the mainstream- is totally ignored. Of course that would force some consistency on your part Howie, not exactly your strong suit.
Just keep those blinders on my friend. It suits you.
Malkin’s game shares the same work space as Ann Coulter. I make no apologies for trashing what is trash. And that “idiot at Fox” was with the Washington Times – a conservative favorite among newspapers – I’m fairly amazed you haven’t heard of her. Trotta also has a history with the Chicago Tribune – a major American newspaper that is very conservative, and sorta popular too. I guess my blinders peek out just far enough to see which way the wind blows. You PT, on the other hand, are a sentinel of objectivity. Darn consistent, too.
That’s our Howie. Anything to avoid the issue.
Let’s just pretend I never brought up any of those other examples of assassination rhetoric. Never mind that two came from prominent Democratic office holders. And never mind that one was a columnist pining for the death of an entire region and political doctrine.
You’re right. The ONLY issue here is what happened on Fox. Because Fox is the devil! And, unless it appeared on Fox, it doesn’t count. Because Fox is the devil! And Malkin’s a dumb “skank.”
Pardon me for a moment while I revel in the tolerance of the left…
Mmm. So tasty.
Face it How, you could care less about all of the unhinged lefties running around crying assassination, but are just laying in wait for someone on Fox (it’s the devil!) to make a false move so you can slime the entire “right-wing screeching machine.”
Problem is, the issue is much larger that that.
Again, let’s pretend I never brought it up. My instinct that you might have the intellectual honesty to admit the left is capable of like behavior and much worse was way off. Way. Off.
My thought that it was assassination rhetoric you objected to (rather than just DevilNews) was also way off. I’ll keep in mind that, as long as the only people I talk of assassinating are on the right, I have the official Howie B. seal of approval.
Utter a couple of “ohms,” try to forget that Fox is by far the most popular cable news network on television, make another donation to MoveOn (there’s a group that never engages in hate speech), and repeat after me: Fox is the devil. Malkin is a dumb skank. Fox is the devil. Malkin is a dumb skank.
There. All better?
Thanks for re-writing my post, to fit your needs. It’s a mere 21 paragraphs later now, and I feel refreshed and enlightened.
Sorry there How. Didn’t mean to burst your hyper partisan bubble with (shiver) reality. But I can’t take full credit. None of it would have been possible without your “Huh? What?” response to any behavior by the left you find so unseemly on the right.
Just think, a simple “Ya, those examples are pretty outrageous and stupid too,” just as I noted Trotta was an idiot and should be fired, and we could have sung Kumbayah and placed flowers in each other’s hair.
Still, it was all worth it just to hear you call Malkin a dumb “skank.” A real Hallmark moment, that.
Don’t you go changin’.
Could I just add that PT has yet to apologize for calling gays and lesbians a “chosen minority.” I think that’s an example of a dumb comment from a dumb skank.
Actually Matt, I referred to them as a “minority,” not a “chosen minority.” The “chosen” was in reference to the picking and choosing of minorities, not the minorities themselves; as in: “Your chosen field of research” or “the chosen few who were picked to lead the group.”
You might want to go back and re-read before you start calling me dumb.
If you can demonstrate that homosexuals (roughly 13 percent of the population), or women who get abortions (about one million a year in a population of 300 million), are not a minority of the overall population, I would be happy to apologize. Otherwise, I’ll continue to insist that calling a small sub-group of the overall population (AKA…a minority) a minority, is quite accurate.
How does this not compute with you?
Here is the complete quote Matt:
In other words, you make a stereotypical assumption about my positions that, at the very least makes me look like someone indifferent to the civil liberties of chosen minorities, and at worst, a bigot.
See? The “chosen” is a reference to the fact I was accused of picking and choosing groups to oppress (gays, abortion). Frankly, I’m not even sure what a “chosen minority” is supposed to mean or why that would suddenly become offensive, but I’m sure you can explain it to me.
Will an apology be forthcoming for saying I’m a dumb skank? Or will we just sweep that under the rug like your allusion that I’m a bigot?
Howie must have misread you post also then, because he agreed that you were implying gays and lesbians choose to be gay.
Matt, I finally understand what you have been trying to say. It’s absolutely wrong, but I get it.
I have no idea why people are gay. I would never begin to contemplate something I could never understand such as that.
My original explanation still stands, and I will not be issuing an apology because of what, after all, turned out to be an error on your part.
Perhaps if you could have explained yourself more clearly sooner, we could have avoided this whole mess.
Howie must have misread you post also then, because he agreed that you were implying gays and lesbians choose to be gay.
Stop the presses! Matt and Howie agree that the conservative blogger has bigoted intent!
You guys make quite a pair.
Why do you waste your time Pat?
These guys sound like me twenty years ago.