When is this damn softball player going to quit playing coy and get a show on Fox News with which to spread her bile?
"A man of his word," Barack Obama appeared on the O'Reilly Factor last night to be talked over and rudely interrupted in the "No Spin Zone." The two discussed the war on terror, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan, and there is really nothing stranger than watching a bullying, impatient blowhard and a cerebral, wordy politician try to have an intelligent conversation. Never fear, though. We have all next week to get used to it. Fox is milking this one sit-down for all it's worth, and will stretch it over several episodes. O'Reilly promises that it will be "fairly extensive and provocative."
OK, we know that by now everyone's as tired of Sarah Palin as the wolves the Alaskan governor uses airplanes to chase to the furthest reaches of her snowy state. But this Daily Show clip – an infuriating tally sheet of conservative mendacity – is simply too good not to post.
And before anyone starts to complain about how we've grown into single-minded meanies, note that this clip knocks the media much more than it does Sarah Palin.
BARACK OBAMA TO MAKE BILL O'REILLY LOOK LIKE THE LOUSE HE IS
Fox News' efforts to cover the "far left" groups gathering in Denver were met with a bit of creative criticism, like a crowd chanting "Fuck Fox News." Hold onto your hairdo, Griff Jenkins!
We knew it was going to come out sooner or later: Fox New Channel sources are confirming that, in addition to threatening to cut Barack Obama's nuts off, Jesse Jackson also rattled off another n-word during his interview on the cable news channel: "Barack…he's talking down to black people…telling n***ers how to behave."
At this point, does anyone even consider Jesse Jackson a respectable public figure?
There are live on-air gaffes that news anchors wish they could erase, like the common Obama/Osama mix-up.
But when Jesse Jackson whispered that he wanted to “cut [Obama’s] nuts off” before a Fox & Friends interview on Sunday was set to begin, it was a reminder that public figures often have a hard time keeping their private conversations to themselves when they’ve got a hot mic pack clipped to their hip.
It should be a simple life lesson: When you have a media outlet’s microphone attached to you , by default you should expect other people are listening to your conversation, and very likely recording it. Herewith, some famous examples of people who should know better, but obviously didn’t.
Yes, it's true: Reverend Jesse Jackson is in hot water after being caught by Fox News microphones – which he for some reason thought were off – whispering to a colleague that he believes Barack Obama talks down to black people. Jackson, who has been publicly supportive of Obama in the past, also said that he'd like to "cut [Obama's] nuts off."
As you might imagine, Fox News is like a hog in shit over the recording, and they've been running the footage almost constantly since obtaining it yesterday. Jackson has since apologized for his comments but has yet to explain how he got stupid enough to discuss castration fantasies while mic'ed-up at a Fox News affiliate.
Click through for footage of Bill O'Reilly looking at the footage of Jesse Jackson.
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We don't know how they do it, but they do, and it. Is. Fucking. Astonishing.
The maniacs at Fox News somehow put together an earnest segment in which giggly hack Laura Ingraham talks to ACTOR Stephen Baldwin about just why the heck these loudmouth celebrities think they can go around expressing their opinions. We're pretty good at sensing irony, and there is NONE in either of their voices. Not even when Stephen, who, by the way, is the one not as smart as Alec, not as handsome as Billy and not as rugged as Daniel, says, "Here's what's freaky to me: The media and Hollywood is so convinced that mainstream America cares what it thinks." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God, we hope this guy's not kidding when he says he's leaving if Obama wins.
Clip after the jump.
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According to media research firm Magna Global, the median age of television viewers is now 50-years-old, older than ever before and one year outside the all-important 18-49 demographic. Of the top five networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and CW) CBS's viewership is the most crotchety, with a median age of 54. By contrast, the CW – home of Gossip Girl – has a fan base with a median age 20 years less than that.
Why are couch potatoes graying? Because the olds don't know how to "googlize" things, nor do they get what those darn "virus videos" are all about.
"The median ages of the broadcast networks keep rising, as traditional television is no longer necessarily the first screen for the younger set," [a spokesperson for Magna Global] wrote.
The absolute oldest viewership of all ad-supported cable networks is that of Fox News' daytime and prime time lineup. Presumably that's also the viewership most likely to be "sick of all your lip" and racist.
A 'PRODUCER ERROR' TO GAIN VIEWERS "Last night on Geraldo At Large, Fox news showed footage of the body of model Ruslana Korshunova, 20, who had died Saturday in a fall from her 9th-floor window in Manhattan's Financial District, an apparent suicide. … David Clark, EP of weekend programming, said: 'It was a producer error and we deeply regret it.'"
FoxNews.com gossip Roger Friedman, most recently seen finger-pointing Warner Music's way for leaking negative items about exiting client Madonna, is back on his usual Madge-hating rampage. Never one for cult religions like Scientology, Friedman has a special part of his tongue-lashings that he saves for Kabbalah and its red-string wearing celebrity leader. For one: She wore a baseball cap to a bar mitzvah.
Yesterday, Fox News used the word "cougar" in a headline to describe an older woman who dates younger men. This means the term is now officially over, as Fox News is where slang goes to die.
From now on, no more calling anyone or thing a cougar unless the thing to which one is referring is "a large American feline resembling a lion."
Thank God that's the end of that. It was misogynistic, anyway.
FAIR AND BALANCED "Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential hopeful, has been hired by Fox News Channel as a political commentator."
John Cusack is an actor, which, according to Bill O'Reilly, does not make him qualified to speak publicly about political issues.
Bill O'Reilly is a homophobic and racist blowhard, which does not make him qualified to speak publicly.
[Fox News] has released a statement saying it should not have referred to Mr. Obama’s wife, Michelle, as “Obama’s Baby Mama,’’ as it did on Wednesday in an on-screen headline commonly called a “chyron.”
“A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment,” Bill Shine, a Fox News senior vice president, said in a statement.
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as one “chiefly in African-American usage” that refers to, “The mother of a man’s child, who is not his wife nor (in most cases) his current or exclusive partner.”
Y'know, if you have to apologize for calling an historical black man's wife a tramp and his children bastards, maybe it's time to hang up the microphones. You fucking dicks.
Not because I'm surprised, but just because we should all stay abreast of these things:
While discussing ninth-grade students at a school in New Jersey who were suspended for distributing topless photographs of their classmates, Bill O'Reilly stated, "But it's an amazing amount of kids involved with this — 20 — in an affluent school district. This isn't, you know, the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system."
Simply “perplexed” that he would be dishonored with an award for defaming gay folk, Bill O’Reilly recently hosted Mikayla Connell of San Francisco Pride so they could go over his anti-gay ways. Holier-than-thou O’Reilly, of course, deflects all the criticism onto other people, like his guests. What a man.
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