Once again, Bill
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Randi pointed this out in her first hour of her show, and I wanted to check it out. Tim Russert of Meet the Press said something that was very telling, and yet, Randi is the only one that spoke up about it.
From this Sundays Meet the Press…
MR. RUSSERT: And the reason Libby called me, for the record, was he was complaining about a report he had been watching on MSNBC.
Mr. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, on Friday said this about what Libby knew before his conversations with me or Matt Cooper. Let’s watch.
So Randi pointed this out, and I agree this is very disturbing. What Tim is saying is that this administration calls the press and bitches about what they are covering, and the press takes their call. This shows that YES, the media is nothing more than a shill to the administration. The right hand man of the vice president of the United States calls a reporter to BITCH about something on TV.
We are doomed…
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Josh Marshall at the site Talking Points Memo (Great Site) as found something every odd. A story that was posted on Washington Post website has changed from the original, and the change are very telling.
From the current Barton Gellman artical on the Washington Post reads this…
On July 12, the day Cheney and Libby flew together from Norfolk, Libby talked to Miller and Cooper. That same day, another administration official who has not been identified publicly returned a call from Walter Pincus of The Post. He “veered off the precise matter we were discussing” and said Wilson’s trip was a boondoggle set up by Wilson’s wife, Pincus has written in Nieman Reports.
Well according to Nexis database, that is pinged when a story is posted (A lot like a blog), the story read like this…
On July 12, the day Cheney and Libby flew together from Norfolk, the vice president instructed his aide to alert reporters of an attack launched that morning on Wilson’s credibility by Fleischer, according to a well-placed source.
Libby talked to Miller and Cooper. That same day, another administration official who has not been identified publicly returned a call from Walter Pincus of The Post. He “veered off the precise matter we were discussing” and told him that Wilson’s trip was a “boondoggle” set up by Plame, Pincus has written in Nieman Reports.
Odd, what else is missing from this administration, and it’s shill media.
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VolcanoJen over at DU posted
Appearing opposite Wolf Blitzer and Candy Crowley, he just elegantly summarized the way that the President is boxed in on every one of these issues. To summarize, here’s what he told Wolf, while Candy just simmered silently:
* Bush can’t blame the Democrats for Meirs’ failed nomination, because the Democrats held their fire and let the Republicans doom Bush’s pick.
* Bush can’t blame God for the hurricanes he was slow to respond to.
* Bush can’t blame anyone but himself for the Iraq War. It’s his war, his alone, and he has to take responsibility for it.
* Bush can’t blame Democrats for the imminent indictments of his senior staff, since Patrick Fitzgerald is not a partisan “Independent Counsel” as Ken Starr clearly was, and since the CIA pursued the investigation, not the Democrats.
* Bush can’t blame Patrick Fitzgerald, since he’s on the record having praised him, and since he was appointed by Bush loyalist John King.
Well said Wolf, Bush has no one to blame buy Bush, but we have learned this administration will not take ANY responsibility for anything, at all, ever, no matter how much a failure he is, or in what sad shape America is in because of his mess.
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From Media Matters for America…
On the October 24 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Neal Boortz suggested that a victim of Hurricane Katrina currently housed in an Atlanta hotel consider prostitution. “If that’s the only way she can take care of herself,” Boortz posited, “it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers.” The woman was featured in an October 23 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article; Boortz repeated her first name on the air.
From the October 24 edition of Cox Radio Syndication’s The Neal Boortz Show:
BOORTZ: Somebody just put a story in front of me. Let me tell you, aside from the looters, one of the things I was talking about earlier this morning was a huge article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which is a left-wing rag, about Hurricane Katrina evacuees in a hotel in Atlanta. Her name — the female is Rolanda. She has a 1-year-old baby and her boyfriend, who apparently likes to lounge around on the bed without a shirt on. Well, at least that was the picture in the newspaper. And the whole story was about how worried Rolanda is that she’ll be kicked out of her taxpayer-paid hotel room. She might get kicked out. I mean, it says right here, “Rolanda is worried about being evicted from the hotel. She says, ‘We have a place to stay. We have food. The only worry is how long it will last.’” That’s all she’s worried about, the only worry. And it goes through the whole article here talking about how fed up Rolanda is with FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] and how she spends all this time on a computer looking for more free housing. Not one mention in the entire story anywhere about the “W” word, W-O-R-K, work, job. I dare say she could walk out of that hotel and walk 100 yards in either direction on Fulton Industrial Boulevard [the street on which the hotel is located] here in Atlanta and have a job. What’s that? Well, no, no, no –
ROYAL MARSHALL (Atlanta radio host and former engineer of Boortz’s show): Watch out, Neal. Those people who know Fulton Industrial Boulevard think you might be suggesting something a little risqu
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I just love reporting on the musing of Bill
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66% of Americans think that the Republicans are moving this nation in the wrong direction, and the the GOP dominated talk radio is taking a hit…
From Knight-Ridder, via Yahoo.
Technorati Tags: MediaWhen the White House wanted to talk to its political base about a Supreme Court nominee this week, there was no doubt where to go: talk radio.
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A decade after Republicans credited Limbaugh with helping them win control of Congress - they called him the Majority Maker - they still look to his conservative-dominated medium for a lopsided communications edge over Democrats. Today, they count on talk radio to rally support for President Bush, attack those who criticize or question him, and stir passions leading into the 2006 midterm congressional elections.
There are signs that the Republicans could be losing some of their overwhelming edge, however. Ratings for Limbaugh and Hannity slipped this spring in some markets. Liberals such as Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller and Al Franken are carving out their own radio niche. And Democrats argue that they have an edge on the Internet, where explosive growth could dwarf the political impact of radio.
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Limbaugh lost 30 percent of his audience in Minneapolis-St. Paul this spring from a year earlier. He also lost 9 percent in Miami and 7 percent in Kansas City, Mo. He did have gains in some smaller markets, however, including Charlotte, N.C., and Fort Wayne, Ind.
Some of the loss can be attributed to listeners tuning out after an election year. But they also might be growing weary of the Limbaugh and Hannity format.
“They’re pretty much talking about the same thing every day,” said Holland Cooke, a Cleveland-based radio industry consultant who said the hosts tend to talk about the same subjects and interview the same guests over and over.
“Last week, Sean Hannity had Newt Gingrich coming on. I’ve already heard that show. Then he said he had Ann Coulter coming on. I’ve already heard that show. It’s a rerun. You already know what he’s going to say.”
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Bill O’Reilly said on his poorly rated radio show said the dumbest thing ever spoken on the air.
CALLER: Because of slavery. If you take someone’s language, someone’s history, and someone’s culture, and then you just release them out into the world, you think they’re going to be successful as a people?
O’REILLY: All right. But let me counter that, [caller], and you can comment on my comment. That’s the prevailing wisdom in a lot of the precincts, is that because blacks were in slavery in the United States, they were never able to develop an infrastructure of education and culture to compete with the white majority. That is the prevailing wisdom in lots and lots of places. Let me submit this to you, and then you can comment on it.
My people came from County Cavan in Ireland. All right? And the British Crown marched in there with their henchman, Oliver Cromwell, and they seized all of my ancestors’ lands, everything. And they threw them into slavery, pretty much indentured servitude on the land. And then the land collapsed, all right? And everybody was starving in Ireland. They had to leave the country, just as Africans had to leave — African-Americans had to leave Africa and come over on a boat and try to make in the New World with nothing. Nothing. And succeeded, succeeded. As did Italians, as did — and I’ll submit to you, African-Americans are succeeding as well. So all of these things can be overcome I think, [caller]. Go ahead.
Yes you pompous ass, the African Americans just leapt on the boats when they saw them, man the boats were standing room only. They were not forced, so don
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As the rating for the O’Reilly Factor continue to free fall O
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CNN via Lou Dobbs. has just reported that it has filed a law suit in Federal Court in order to be able to cover the Body recovery. The US Government has been confiscating cameras and such as reporters try to take photos and such.
Good for them, I am glad that SOME new outlet has decided to do some news…
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We know the truth, Sean Hannity is a right wing shill. Well he is starting to blame the left for something he KNOWS is a product of the evangelical whack-jobs of the ultra-uber-far-right.
From Media Matters.
On the August 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Sean Hannity falsely blamed “the anti-war left” for a protest at the August 28 funeral of Sgt. Jeremy Doyle of Indianapolis, who was killed while serving in Iraq.
Hannity read excerpts of an article on the website of Indianapolis TV station WISH describing the protest, adding, “I guess this is just another example of how the anti-war left supports our brave troops.” In fact, as The Indianapolis Star reported, the protesters were not anti-war liberals but, rather, members of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) in Topeka, Kansas, who claim that the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq are inflicted by God to punish the United States for its acceptance of gays and lesbians.
I have blogged on this before, you can see that here and here
So go to hell Sean, at best, you are a shill, but I suspect pathological liar with little to no member to speak of is more on the mark.
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CBS Affiliate Will Not Air Sheehan Ad Because There Is
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The number of soldiers that have died while Bush has been on vacation. His comment, “I have to move on with my life”, sound wisdom from a simple man.
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Robert "Traitor to the Nation" Novak went nuts today on Inside Politics apparently because the next question that was going to be asked by the host was about his role in the leaking of the CIA agent…
They were talking about Right Wing nut bag Kathleen Harris and her run for Senate.
Novak: Just let me finish what I'm going to say, James, please. I know you hate to hear me -
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Carville: He's got to show these right-wingers that he's got a back bone, ya know? Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching. You show
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I placed this in the “Media” section, but I by no means think that this show is real “Media”.
Maybe this is part of a larger trend, The Joe Scarborough Show is being placed on hiatus. Westwood one says it is going to relaunch the show in Jan 2006 in a “more competitive time period”, I guess 10am to 1pm EST is not that great of a time slot, so they are going to shoot for the 1am to 4am time slot?
Here is the small blurb from Radio and Record…
Technorati Tags: Media, republicansWestwood One says The Joe Scarborough Show is officially planning on taking a break and will be relaunched “in an even more competitive time period” in January 2006. Scarborough’s final program in the 10am-1pm ET live slot is set for Aug. 12. On Aug. 15, consumer advocate Tom Martino’s Troubleshooter Tom Martino program shifts its start time from 11am ET to 10am ET and becomes a four-hour program ending at 2pm ET. Scarborough’s daily program airs on such stations as WTNT/Washington, WALR-AM/Atlanta, KNTR/Phoenix and WWTN-FM/Nashville.
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