By GottaLaff
Again, thank you for being patient with my abbreviated/light posting today. I'm dealing with major tech issues.
With that:
[Kim] Kardashian claims the only news on in her house is - nope, shockingly not E! - but good old Fox News. She says it's the only news channel on in her home. "It's just a very reputable news channel," she said.
By GottaLaff
This will be a lighter posting day. Still struggling with a few computer issues.
That said, here's your ClusterFox of the day:
"Three of the top five choices in the Southern Republican Leadership Conference's recent straw poll on favorite 2012 presidential candidates had more than one thing in common: They're all on the Fox News Channel payroll," the AP reports.
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ClusterFox gets the Trudeau treatment:
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Thank you profusely, Heather (at Crooks and Liars) for this tasty morsel:
Oh, this is too delicious.Who else could be as blatantly idiotic as OpenWide McFootInMouth?
This was one of her biggest ClusterFoxes ever:
OpenWide finally got something right: Faux is synonymous with "lamestream media".
Hey ClusterFoxers, how does it feel to get blasted by your favorite new spokesDeeJay?
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ClusterFox just keeps topping itself in its efforts to remain the most tasteless, repulsive organization in the world:
"Lovely speech, but what's going on with President Obama's accent in this video?"
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Levi Johnston has a story to tell. You know that, I know that, everyone knows that. The question is, what will he say, will what he says be credible, and when will he say it?
According to Levi, he will tell the "true story of the Palin household."
A brief excerpt from Mike Allen: "Sarah Palin is a singular national industry... This January, she signed a three-year contributor deal with Fox News worth $1 million a year, according to people familiar with the deal... Nowadays, for both poles of the political spectrum but especially for the right, politics is a business -- the entertainment business... It was Fox's Roger Ailes who had the insight that the American right was an underserved market, one with a powerful kind of brand loyalty."
“When she lost, I knew exactly what she was gonna do,” he says. “The whole time she was getting big-money offers for book and TV shows. I was like, All right, she’s gonna pick that up. It was just a matter of time before she quit."
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Aren't BushCo and ClusterFox synonymous?
"George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are long gone," writes the NY Times' Brian Stelter. "Fox News Channel is Jon Stewart's new enemy No. 1."
Stelter says that in 2010, Stewart has devoted 24 segments to FNC, compared to five segments on CNN.
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Ed Schultz went on a hard core rant just now, and I liveblogged; paraphrased some:
People on Potomac River are embarrassing Caucasians in this country. We have people of color advancing in America, we should be proud of this. They're a bunch of phonies. Obama has done nothing to take anyone's guns away!Whew!
Why didn't they do this in the last eight years? Why now? What has Barack Obama done? What have the liberals done?
Wall St: Where do the Tea Bag nut jobs stand on R's being responsible for it?
Fox fueled all of this stupidity.
[Shows clips of Palin, Bachmann, Beck, Hannity... others...]
6 idiots you can always count on.
[Plays clip of Clinton opining on Oklahoma City parallels]
That got the Drugster's attention today. [Plays Boss Limpdong clip].
Rush, there's no such thing as gov't. run media. They all want you to believe that gov't. is the problem. Let me give you something real easy to understand: Obama has an F rating, meaning suck, bad, from Brady campaign against gun violence.
Obama does NOT want your gun. He hasn't proposed a single thing that would infringe on 2nd amendment rights.
If we face another anti-gov't. attack, we could spiral out of control re: civil unrest. Media must focus on this. [Laffy Note: Thank you!] I do.
They're playing with the emotions of Americans out there who are easily misguided. ... who just live by a little bit of information...the 'two word culture.' We read less, don't have all the facts.
O'Reilly couldn't let his ego get out of the way, his own people called him on it, but he didn't back down. What does that tell you about responsibility in commentary?
We don't get the facts.
I think Palin is flat out stupid. Bachmann irresponsible. I feel good that I was angry, because I'm calling them out on it. I'm a lefty. I hunt and fish more than any of 'em. ...
Why is it that some people have a hard time with what's really happening out there? What's happening is that we are fed lies every day. There's a difference between debate and lies. O'Reilly lied.
Tea Partiers are misguided, mostly racist, afraid, clinging to their guns/religion, and in many respects are what's wrong with America, and sometimes we the media are what's wrong with America... because we COVER the Tea Party. That's a huge story? It's outta whack.
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It's with a heavy heart that I must report on the disappointment ClusterFox has expressed in one of their biggest stars, Sean Hannity. He and his ego have gotten themselves into a pickle, and there could be major repercussions. I'm saddened. I'm speechless. I'm...
... kidding! I am so loving this!
Sean and his ego forgot to tell the Big ClusterBoss that they were using their little Tea Bagger Sean Show to sell tickets for and to benefit... the Tea Baggers. Oops.
Now Roger Ailes, the Mother Foxer himself, is not amused. Check that. He's pissed. It's not nice to blindside your boss:
This afternoon, conservative commentator Debbie Schlussel wrote a lengthy blog post about the behind-the-scenes trouble Hannity and staff had gotten themselves into over the incident (via Johnny Dollar). [...]
[...]You have to read between the lines on the LA Times Hannity story and know the background. The order to cancel Hannity’s Tea Party broadcast came from FOX News Chairman Roger Ailes, not Senior Vice President Bill Shine–a shameless Hannity toady.
Schlussel closes with, “Yes, the once-hot FOX News property, Sean Hannity, is not only self-destructing, he’s proving to be a liability and a headache not worth the male diva prima donna act,” and continues to speculate about Hannity losing his timeslot. That’s overstating matters a bit.
This incident shows what can happen when major FNC personalities put their personal interests and side projects ahead of Fox News. As FNC grows into the unmatched powerhouse it has become, so too have their big stars become that much bigger.
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Jon Stewart does the "news"...
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Talk about an emotional roller coaster, I just got finished posting ClusterFox's first breaking news alert, and now, minutes later, I got this one:
Members of the U.S. Navy were denied access to FoxNews.com for hours on Friday before service was finally restored shortly before noon ET, the Navy confirmed.
Cdr. Danny Hernandez, a Navy spokesman, said he was unable to offer an exact reason why access to Fox News' Web site had been blocked, but he said it most definitely was a technical issue.
"This was not a policy issue," Hernandez said.
Fox News received e-mails from Navy personnel around the world on Friday complaining that they could not gain access to the Web site. They said they were able to view numerous other news Web sites.
When they tried to access FoxNews.com, the following message appeared: "Access to this site has been denied in accordance with Navy policy to safeguard the security posture and/or to maintain the operational integrity of the NMCI [Navy Marine Corps Internet]."
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UPDATE: It was a glitch, not a ditch.
Via an e-mail alert, so this is all I have:
U.S. Navy denied access to FoxNews.com
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When will the ClusterFoxers realize there are ways to reproduce and archive their lies?
After Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) told a town hall audience that they shouldn't believe everything they hear on Fox News, Bill O'Reilly had Coburn on his show to reprimand him for wrongly using Fox as a "whipping boy." [...]
Props to TPM's former video editor Ben Craw for putting together this reel over at Huffington Post:
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Based on the Nielsen numbers, here's a look at Beck's average daily rating over the last month. [...]
You'll note that aside from a temporary spike that came on March 22, the Monday after the historic health care vote, Glenn Beck has spent the last four weeks with between 2.5 million and 2.0 million viewers, which represents a downward trend.
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Earlier, Paddy posted a ClusterFox video in which there was much fretting and finger-pointing about our obviously Muslim president trying to sneak some ultra super duper secret brainwashing propaganda into the Nuclear Security Summit logo.
But oops, our pal Joeyess stumbled upon some extra special wholesome newsy goodness: the State Flag of South Carolina:
There goes the neighborhood....
By GottaLaff
How foxed up is this? Paddy linked to a piece over at SFGate earlier that deserves more attention:
There's something creepy going on at Fox, and it's not just the skewed way they choose to report the news. When a woman gets a job on the "fair and balanced" news network, she gets "Foxified." No matter how she looks or how old she is when she signs her contract, these female contributors transform, appearing on our screens strangely clone-like, blonde and so heavily made up they all look around 40.
After 9/11, she was hired by Fox News. The next time I saw her on TV, I only recognized her by her name in the byline.
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Jon Stewart, thank you for never disappointing. Ever:
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By GottaLaff
Just. Watch:
Slightly paraphrased:
"A majority of people at the middle level at Fox News don't believe a word of what they are saying."
Why are you saying it? "Whatever will sell is what we have to say."
Many staffers are considered "left wing", but if they found a message that would sell, the opposite of what they believe, they would do so. That's the Rupert Murdoch way.
Glenn Beck is only as good as his sponsorship. His message doesn't play into Fox News, and he's losing national sponsors, leaving only local, low-paying sponsors. (Thank you, StopBeck).
So how useful is Beck to ClusterFox? He's not. They're selling propaganda to sell products.
From the middle level executive's point of view, there is no political objective at Fox News [sic]. People are stupid enough to believe what they say, and ClusterFox reaps the benefits.
"They'll tell you whatever they sell, and they're only as good as their sponsorship.... at the national expense."
"They're a little annoyed at Ann Coulter... and Glenn Beck."
"CNN is just as guilty as Fox News of being an engine of propaganda... generating fear..." (regarding terrorism)
"News agencies are dangerous to freedom and liberty."
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My segment starts at about the 30 minute mark.
Nicole Sandler is a pleasure to talk to. It's like a couple of pals gabbing our heads off, a sort of stream of consciousness.
Thank you, Nicole, for putting me at ease and making a half hour fly by!
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