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NBC – Lamestream’s poster child

George Rebane

NBC (National Bamboozle Company), one of the premier leftwing media outlets, has been a main motivator for the widely used ‘lamestream’ label.  Now it turns out they have achieved a new level of sleazebag journalism.  This week’s Congressional contempt citation to Attorney General Eric Holder has the network presenting extended background coverage as they scramble to tell its viewers about the ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-walking scandal.  Otherwise their loyal audience wouldn’t have a clue as to what all the sudden fuss is about between Holder and Congress that now includes President Obama claiming ‘executive privilege’ for Holder’s zipped lip.

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While consumers of the more comprehensive and professional news outlets – both broadcast and web-based – have known about this disgraceful and inept cover-up for well over a year, viewers of NBC have received just ten seconds of FaF coverage over the last 18 months.  That’s not a typo, Fox News reports research showing NBC‘s TOTAL mention of that ill-conceived and executed DoJ program took an entire TEN SECONDS over the last year and a half, while the rest of the country was being continually updated on the dirtbag tactics, denials, and retractions coming out of the administration.

As these pages have pointed out over the years, this leads to an extremely uninformed and ignorant constituency of Americans who get their only (credible?) news from lamestream outlets.  It explains away their outrage when they arrive at conservative blogs like RR to discover major happenings and issues that their pabulum purveyors decided to deny them.  I’d be pissed too, and damned ashamed to admit my ignorance.  In those cases a good offense is always the best defense, especially in the eyes of the equally blinded.  But the informed just shake their heads and go on with their lives – timely and accurate information is now another line that divides our nation.

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62 responses to “NBC – Lamestream’s poster child”

  1. Earl Crabb Avatar
    Earl Crabb

    It’s not just NBC. None of the major networks present a “fair and balanced” view of the news, and it’s pretty sad when you have to watch comedy programs like “The Daily Show” to see what they aren’t telling you. After Sean Hannity showed the clip of Obama saying that he couldn’t change the immigration laws without congress’s approval, Stewart showed the follow up where he says that he can direct the agencies involved to enforce or not enforce certain policies. Whether you agree with that or not, Hannity should have showed the entire clip so people could decide for themselves.
    There was a program on the History Channel (I believe, but it’s early so it might have been another channel) on the relationship between the press and the government. I was amazed at an old interview of JFK by Huntley and Brinkley. At the end of the piece, Kennedy decides that his answers on certain issues weren’t quite the way he wanted to say them, so he demanded that they re-shoot those segments. Huntley and Brinkley look shocked, but agree to redo the shoot.
    Finding the truth is a full time job. Most people don’t have the luxury of sifting through a hundred websites a day to find it.

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  2. Douglas Keachie Avatar
    Douglas Keachie

    “More trouble coming every day…” ~Frank Zappa~

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  3. A Facebook User Avatar
    A Facebook User

    George,
    I haven’t seen anywhere on FOX or RR where and when the program started? Here is an idea – decriminalize drugs and take the huge profitability of dealing prohibited substances out of the picture. Prohibition doesn’t work.
    By the way, NBC is General Electric company. Doesn’t general electric manufacture guns? I think this angle is a more likely scenario than a liberal agenda.

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  4. Scott Obermuller Avatar
    Scott Obermuller

    Bob – you are correct that we need to view all sources to get a good over all view of the news, but the stark reality is that without Fox News and the commentators and analysts on Fox, there wouldn’t be any news at all about a lot of topics. I remember Glen Beck showing that the NYT wouldn’t even cover the story about “Green Energy Jobs Czar” Van Jones, until he left the White House. Fox forces the other major networks to report things they otherwise would not. Remember the “non story” about “that woman”, Monica? Drudge forced the story out because the other news orgs were sitting on the story. How can we have different views of a story if we aren’t told the story at all?
    The point about Obama and his using the Hispanic vote as a political football still stands. He kept saying he was going to “reform” immigration laws but did nothing for years. Here’s a link to what he said in March 2011.
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/28/remarks-president-univision-town-hall
    Why didn’t the Dems pass the Dream Act when it would have sailed through with no problem? Why wait until now, when his poll numbers are poor to start complaining about the Rs not cooperating? Why didn’t he issue this Executive Order back in 2011, when he was complaining he couldn’t do anything? The conservatives’ contention that Obama is a hypocrite on this issue stands. The man who was going to be different and not play Washington games has been shown to be the same sort of conniving, scheming lying thug we knew he was before he was elected POTUS.

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  5. Earl Crabb Avatar
    Earl Crabb

    Lying, scheming and conniving is sort of a prerequisite for climbing to the top of the heap of American politics, and Republicans aren’t any less guilty. But before we get into the tit-for-tat of partisan posturing, remember that I only pointed out that all the news is tainted to reflect what the its audience wants to hear.
    I remember seeing the story of Juanita Broderick by NBC’s Lisa Myers only after the impeachment of Bill Clinton. It was pretty damning material, but the network shelved it until Billy was out of danger. A true example of chickenshit journalism, for sure. I watch a fair amount of Fox News in an effort to see the other side, and usually it is only the other side. So while I appreciate their presense, I don’t accept their word as gospel either.

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  6. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    EarlC 855am – Bob, in your zeal for the symmetry of the middle, you imply that two side-by-side columns of America’s lamestream leftwing media and the more conservative outlets would contain equal amounts of biases and non/un/mis-reported stories. I challenge anyone to substantiate such a claim. My claim is that such media are highly asymmetric in their ideology-driven reporting, and that is the point of my post.
    Were I restricted to just one TV outlet and one newspaper, there would be no question as to my choices – Fox News and the WSJ, both owned by News Corp. While not perfect, these two stand head and shoulders above the rest, and the news informed public seems to agree.
    Nevertheless, I continually frequent major liberal outlets to confirm this assessment and update the degree of its verity. Unfortunately, I am among the few who can afford to do that. Those with day jobs and extensive family care responsibilities cannot afford such a luxury, and therefore most are relegated to the flock of sheeple that are grist for the political mills.

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  7. Earl Crabb Avatar
    Earl Crabb

    Spoken like a true partisan.

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  8. Douglas Keachie Avatar
    Douglas Keachie

    If you look at http://stateofthemedia.org/2011/newspapers-essay/data-page-6/ you’ll find a wealth of newspaper readership data, and I note that the print editions hardest hit are the San Jose Mercury News and the Chronicle, where the Internet is the new King.

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  9. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    EarlC 937am – An unabashed ideologue and partisan I am, the long record on RR attests to that. I hope that you are not using partisan in its politically correct pejorative meaning.
    My prime concern is that, partisan or not, my claims and propositions are not blatant propaganda to foster a viewpoint, but have a discernible basis in fact and reason.
    And I want to again propose that in recent years America’s ‘purple middle’ has become a vast ideological wasteland. Given the now dominant polar ideologies, there exists no reasonable public policy middle ground that would be productive to the public weal. This conclusion has long been held by both collectives and conservatives, even as the former continue to troll the muddled-middle with their purple lures.
    Dan Henninger in the 21jun12 WSJ says it well – Only the most obtuse “pragmatists” persist in believing the solution lies in a mystical center, somehow combining elements from this ideological oil and water.

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  10. Earl Crabb Avatar
    Earl Crabb

    And as we have debated endlessly, there’s the rub. Neither side will ever concede or accept “my way or the highway.” Neither will either side ever give up their turf in a mystical Great Divide.

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  11. A Facebook User Avatar
    A Facebook User

    George,
    Where and when did the program start?

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  12. Scott Obermuller Avatar
    Scott Obermuller

    re: Bob’s 8:55. Bob starts with a tit-for-tat and then says let’s not start with a tit-for-tat. He brings up a 3rd grade sand box argument of “Billy did it too!”. I didn’t say no one else does it Bob. I pointed out that Obummer made a major and on going claim that he was as pure as the driven snow and wasn’t that sort of person. The left and the middle of the road ate it up and the LSM reported it as fact. Well, it turns out that some of us knew the facts well before the rest of the country. The story about Obama is that Fox is showing that he is using the Hispanic vote for political advantage and that he obviously could have done what he did years ago if he really cared about the issue as he claims. The other news outlets are not reporting it. There is no “2 sides” if one side doesn’t show up. “remember that I only pointed out that all the news is tainted to reflect what the its audience wants to hear.” If Fox reports something and the rest of the LSM doesn’t report it all, how does that square with your claim?
    I started my post with: “Bob – you are correct that we need to view all sources to get a good over all view of the news” Who says Fox’s word is “gospel”? Not me and no one I know, but If I had to listen to only one news outlet, I would listen to Fox and at least I would be aware of the issues and would take in mind that it was being presented with a certain slant. That wouldn’t make it false. But if I got my news only from NBC or NYT, I wouldn’t even be aware of what was going on. You don’t need to tune into a hundred stations or web sites a day to stay reasonably informed. Finding the “truth” is pretty near impossible with some stories, but let’s not start making excuses for the fact that most Americans just don’t give a damn. If you spend even 1/2 hour a day watching some idiot TV show when you could be informing yourself, you are deliberately ignorant. That goes for all political affiliations and viewpoints.

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  13. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    The start of F&F is ascribed to a 26oct09 DoJ teleconference. F&F was the latest in a series of “gun walking” operations out of the DoJ’s ATF and DEA agencies that began in 2006. The putative purpose of “gun walking” was to identify and locate Mexican cartel members so as to interdict them. The collateral, and some claim prime, purpose was to provide a basis for stricter gun control laws by pointing to (government co-operative) gun dealers selling guns that cross borders and abet drug violence. The latter appears to be the real motivation for launching F&F, and explains why it must remain hidden.
    But the scandal and the point of the post here is that the administration wants to inhibit discovery of what really went on in F&F by denying Congress access to documents that have nothing to do with ‘executive privilege’ whose exercise is to protect the confidentiality of pre-policy communications between the President and his advisers. The sought for documents are not in this class of communications.

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  14. Scott Obermuller Avatar
    Scott Obermuller

    re: the 3 photos. There is no information given as to what text (story) went with each photo, so the way Keachie presents this has already slanted the story. I would say that absent all other information, the Fox photo is the most accurate. Hint: the rifle is not pointed at his head, but appears to be by depth distortion in the photo. They are giving the man water, so the Fox photo tells the most accurate story. Notice I didn’t say truth, because I haven’t got anywhere near enough information to ferret out the truth.

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  15. Douglas Keachie Avatar
    Douglas Keachie

    I did not say Fox was wrong, I merely lifted the image to show how easy it is to give three different views from on photo. If I were the guy with the golden star, I would NOT want the guy with the gun pulling the trigger. I’d call that a battlefield, “Trust but verify,” and perfectly acceptable.

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  16. David King Avatar
    David King

    Yep Scott,
    Here is a black tea partier with a gun at a healthcare protest.
    http://joshtom.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/black-protester-with-gun.jpg
    Here is the same man and the selective editing and call of “racism” from MSNBC.
    http://www.mrctv.org/public/checker.aspx?v=Gdnz8z2Geu

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  17. Douglas Keachie Avatar
    Douglas Keachie

    Given all the black on black murders across the country, I suppose this dude could bring new meaning to equal opportunity.

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  18. A Facebook User Avatar
    A Facebook User

    George,
    Thank you for answering the question. 2006 and once again the Obama administration is continuing a republican policies of both the arms and silencing of the truth. Until we wake up and stop voting for the big two the people will never have a say in our nations policies because everything is done in backroom non-transparent deals. We are left fighting amongst each other in which fake US corporate news outlet is telling the truth, the answer is none of the above.

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  19. David King Avatar
    David King

    George said:
    “The collateral, and some claim prime, purpose was to provide a basis for stricter gun control laws…”
    This is the same logic that they use when raising fuel prices to make green energy seem attractive.
    Start with stupid and end up there!

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  20. Brad Croul Avatar
    Brad Croul

    Here is the clip that EaRL referred to.
    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-19-2012/democalypse-2012—pander-express-edition—obama-s-immigration-reform
    Watch from about 3:25 on the timeline. Stewart illustrates how Fox viewers are repeatedly being duped. But, of course, you all seem oblivious to this reality; or, you have your suspicions, so you try to do the old, “a good offense is the best defense” thing and attack other news organizations to take the scrutiny off your sacred cow, Fox News.
    I don’t watch much of partisan news programming from outlets like Fox, NBC, etc. I don’t know who does. I watch NBC in the morning to see what the headlines are, then I head over to Good Day Sacramento for local news and weather. Then I take in a few newspapers, the Bee, SF Cronic, Union, etc. or whatever else is laying around, then there are the Internet headlines that show up in my email inbox, etc. Then I head over here to see the latest feigned outrage that Fox, Limbaugh, et al. have been trying to drum up and into the conservo echo chamber.
    This NBC witch hunt is no different than the Fast and Furious witch hunt – not especially newsworthy. The idea behind F&F started with the Bush Administration. No news there. So, why the big brouhaha now? Drug dealers are going to buy guns from whoever wants to sell them, or whomever they can steal them from. If they didn’t buy tagged weapons from the FBI, they would have killed their enemies with weapons from some other source (perhaps corrupt Mexican military officers). No news there.
    Of course the Republicans want to work up any outrage they can in the election election season.
    So, what else is new(s)?

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  21. Brad Croul Avatar
    Brad Croul

    BTW, guess what was on the Today Show this morning…Fast and Furious!

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  22. Scott Obermuller Avatar
    Scott Obermuller

    re: Keachie’s post. “I did not say Fox was wrong, I merely lifted the image to show how easy it is to give three different views from on photo.” OK, Doug – who claimed you said Fox was wrong? I thought it was a great illustration and merely continued the theme.

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  23. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    BradC 1217pm et seq – It appears that you are immune to the point of the post and its subsequent discussion. At this stage all we can hope for is that it is induced immunity and not auto-immunity.
    And yes, now that it can no longer be swept under the rug, NBC is doing a lot of coverage of F&F to get their audience up to speed. This is one of the points that eluded you in the post. However, the corrective for your “So, why the big brouhaha now?” would be too long to attempt in this comment stream, since it apparently is not accessible from the above record.

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  24. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    The referenced clip in BradC’s 1217pm is a clear red herring given the WH announcement. There is nothing in its extended version that turned anything broadcast by Fox News on its head. All the last part explains is that Obama will use his pre-announced ‘prioritization of enforcement resources’ to allow a class of illegal aliens to avoid the strictures of our immigration law.
    The thing that predictably escapes Daily Show viewers and their ilk is that it was the WH that ballyhooed this purposeful prioritization through an executive order for the sole purpose of timed political gain – which is the only point that Fox News and other conservative commentators have made.
    In many ways such an announcement, by the branch of government charged with enforcing our laws, is the more reprehensible because, in the face of the claimed paucity of resources, our law enforcement officer gives the fugitives a heads up so that they can continue breaking the law with impunity. Were that the case, then a responsible law enforcement official would do everything possible to keep secret the areas of minimal or no enforcement so as to continue at least the appearance of an effective law remaining on the books.
    Fox News had the courtesy not to point out such a scumbag policy from the WH. My hope is that they will correct themselves.
    In any event, this action is of a piece of the overall progressive plan, one of the elements of which is being carried out in Florida –
    http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/06/01/meet-the-radical-doj-lawyer-forcing-florida-to-keep-foreigners-on-the-voter-rolls/

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  25. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    So the Daily Show clip of Obama saying he cannot or would not do a act as asked then in the same string a moment later saying he can parse the law and do want he wants apparently does not trouble BradC. That is aazng!
    Regarding FOX. They are very contextual and in my view responsible people. Hell, even their people apologize on camera when they are wrong! So, BradC, get some more clips for us would you please. I am really interested in the liberal accusations and their veracity.

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  26. billy T Avatar
    billy T

    I get all my news from the liberal leaders of our great Nation. This lets me know what is really going on and sheds light on the true motivations behind the lying Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. I am most thankful for the pearls of wisdom bestowed upon the listener by our insightful highly educated liberal movers and shakers. When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/nancy-pelosi-eric-holder-voter-suppression_n_1616490.htmlelected

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  27. billy T Avatar
    billy T

    If I remember correctly, it was Fox News that broke the story on George W. Bush’s arrest for drunk driving as a youth just days before the election. I think more important is that a couple of hundred elected representatives from one party chose Nancy as their leader. Would you trust anyone who says “We have to pass the bill to see what is in it.” And they call that leadership. While the main stream media was focused on the First Lady’s Obesity Crusade, a few in the media were focused on petty things like 170 Mexicans dead and a US Border Patrol agent gunned down by guns supplied to drug cartels by our government. Big yawn, now back to the dress the First Lady is wearing on her latest vacation. I felt sad for our Commence Secretary who had some unknown health issues and crashed his car 3 times last week or so. I think it may be contagious. He probably caught it from the Lib’s leader Nancy: http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/rove-pelosi-mad-queen/2012/06/21/id/443041

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  28. Douglas Keachie Avatar
    Douglas Keachie

    “OK, Doug – who claimed you said Fox was wrong?”
    “There is no information given as to what text (story) went with each photo, so the way Keachie presents this has already slanted the story.”
    So I slanted it so that Fox was coolest news source out there?

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  29. Brad Croul Avatar
    Brad Croul

    GeorgeR, are you second guessing NBC? How do you know NBC is “scrambling” after a coverup? Maybe NBC doesn’t want to have to publicly acknowledge CBS (the competition) for breaking the story. Of course, Fox will make a big deal out of it as they attempt to spin their web of negativity around the present administration. But Fox didn’t uncover anything. Fox regurgitates.
    Fox did not break the news of GW Bush drunk driving.
    http://www.salon.com/2004/07/23/fox_dui/
    Do anyone believe NBC viewers are unable to change the channel, or that they don’t read other news; and that Daily Show viewers think that show is real? The video segment pokes fun at BS Fox spinmeisters like Hannity. The segment is an illustration of, “the rest of the story”, regularly left out by the spinmeisters.
    What was being covered up? That the DoJ lost track of the weapons? Fire the DoJ department heads.
    When you refer to “Congressional contempt”, aren’t you referring to the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives’ Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Maybe that is “the rest of the story” here – timed political gain.
    Your stated point of informing us about the outrageous behavior of NBC and Fast and Furious is also predictably heard bouncing rapidly and rabidly off other various reflective surfaces of the right wing echo chamber.
    BTW, I recently found another cable news source, RT, Russian Television, cable channel 103. Fair and balanced?

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  30. billy T Avatar
    billy T

    Mr. Croul, NBC did mention fast and furious months ago, describing reaction to a baby announcement.http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/13/nbc-swallows-pride-and-lot-crow-to-report-on-fast-and-furious-scandal/

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  31. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    BradC 848pm – have a hard time extracting the point of your comment. In any event ten seconds coverage in 1.5 years, and now devoting lots of time reviewing stuff that’s been public knowledge for over a year does indeed invoke ‘scrambling’ as the best word to describe their behavior. None of the outlets that have covered this developing scandal have had to do this kind of review.
    Each news outlet attempts to promote its comprehensiveness cachet; NBC is among those who failed. Nuff said. As to who covered what first over a year ago, that is diversionary fluff, since all the heads up outlets were on the story more than twelve months ago and are not now having to take their audiences back to day one.

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  32. Ryan Mount Avatar
    Ryan Mount

    Privately owned (and even funded “public” ones) media business are primary interested in the sale of their product to other businesses which are typically advertisers. There is no, from my estimation no societal purpose for the mainstream media beyond it’s entertainment value. You’re gonna get more intellectual nutrition from watching American Idol.
    Arguing the merits of Fox News or MSNBC or any of the mainstream outlets is pointless. You’re gonna have to go the periphery of our media outlets (alternative mags/internet sites, scholarly literature, etc) to get anything of substance. Of course that takes work for the average lazy American.
    Why is this? Easy. It’s easy to understand.
    1. Who owns these outlets and what do they have to benefit from ownership. Running life insurance ads during 24 hour gratuitous disaster coverage makes sense, eh?
    2. Related to the above, you can’t run stores that bite the hand that feeds you. Advertisers are not going to give you revenue if you’re attacking their products and services.
    3. Media coverage and scope is limited. Most mainstream outlets, ironically, do not have the budgets to send reporters all over the place. So they focus their efforts in bureaus in “popular” (see #2) topics, like the White House, the Pentagon, etc. These leads to a lack of real investigation and questioning, and makes journalist ostensibly plagiarists for elites.

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  33. A Facebook User Avatar
    A Facebook User

    Ryan,
    I will post a link again that shows the interlocking boards of the 6 major media outlets and the all the major companies/ industries that influence the content and message of their news divisions.
    1) Go to http://www.theyrule.net/
    2) Click on popular maps
    3) Scroll down and click on the 5th map called Big 6 Corporate Media
    4) Follow the connection to each media goliath and see who shapes the “news” we get

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  34. A Facebook User Avatar
    A Facebook User

    This facebook user is Ben Emery

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  35. A Facebook User Avatar
    A Facebook User

    Here is a good interview with Phil Donahue about the concentration of media and reduction of choice.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgF9ZPRj0ns

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  36. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Thank you BenE for taking off the sack, and welcome back. Is there any way you can go back to your own name like you did before when you commented?

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  37. A Facebook User Avatar
    A Facebook User

    When I try and log in with typepad it doesn’t redirect back to the RR, repeat. So I use facebook to log in. I will give correcting typepad a shot later this afternoon. Had a break this morning and decided to get online.

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The less you know, the funnier The Daily Show becomes. The more you think you know from watching The Daily Show, the dumber you are. A vicious circle.

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  39. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    GregG that is so true. There are acrually people who belive the crap on that show. I never watch it, I am too smart I guess.

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  40. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Good points GregG and ToddJ. And since we’re bringing up the Daily Show again, I’ll just reprise my 324pm so as to highlight the difference in the logics of the Left and Right.

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  41. Earl Crabb Avatar
    Earl Crabb

    I guess you Brainiacs missed Stewart’s takedown of Holder and Obama last night. I remember when Fox tried to do a conservative version of the Daily Show. Nobody watched, probably because most writers on the right are humor-challenged. P.J. O’Roarke being a notable exception. Ann Coulter can be funny on occasion, but is usually too shrill and mean spirited. What makes Stewart and Colbert work is a softer approach that still gets the message across without being bloodthirsty.

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  42. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    EarlC 347pm – Were I included in the “Brainiacs”, I would point out that Stewart’s comedy totally missed and (purposely?) softballed the role of executive privilege which is not being violated by Congress asking for F&F documents internal to the DoJ. Congress is not asking for communications between the DoJ and the President, which is the only legitimate use of executive privilege by a President. Perhaps you do have to be a brainiac to ferret this out from Stewart’s hilarity. Here, give it a try.
    http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-june-21-2012-bassem-youssef

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  43. Scott Obermuller Avatar
    Scott Obermuller

    This whole mess with F&F is becoming more and more like the Watergate Break In and subsequent cover up. The hilarity is that both sides are now using the same lines as used in 1972-4 but with a few role reversals. Even Jay Carnival is using lines lifted from Nixon’s mouth piece, Ron Ziegler. Proudly, I was was for the truth then and cheered Nixon’s exit and will hopefully cheer The Obscurer-In-Chief’s exit as well. Nixon couldn’t play the race card and didn’t have the LSM on his side, but this deal is of more consequence with actual fatalities. Holder is a boot-licking quisling of the first order. How this plays out will be fun to watch. I’m already wondering who will be Martha Mitchell and have agents break into her hotel room and shoot her full of Thorozine. Eventually, there will be the need for a Rose Mary Woods to demonstrate to reporters how 8 & 1/2 gigabytes of data were accidently deleted from the White House servers. Some sort of comical gymnastics will be demonstrated and the lefties will walk away agreeing that it seemed completely normal that a person could think that 3 layers of secure govt documents could be whisked away to data oblivion by a volunteer intern thinking it was her Face Book profile. Already we have testimony that emails labeled fast and furious don’t have anything to do with fast and furious. This will not go away. Obama needs to review the news clips and see what happens. “Sir, Marine One is on the lawn…. sir? sir?”

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  44. Bonnie McGuire Avatar
    Bonnie McGuire

    Here’s an interesting thought. If they don’t do something about this abuse of power it will get worse.
    http://godfatherpolitics.com/5798/house-could-send-holder-jail-without-approval-senate-us-attorney/

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    While I don’t think libertarians are conservatives, here’s a list of comedians/comedic writers with various degrees of libertarian leanings:
    Jason Alexander (CA/NY)
    Dave Barry (FL)
    Sandra Bernhard (CA)
    Dick Boddie (CA)
    Ernie Brown (NV)
    Dean Cameron (CA)
    John Cantu (CA)
    Drew Carey (CA)
    Adam Carrola (CA)
    Tommy Chong (CA)
    Ozell Daniel (HI)
    Paul Driscoll (TX)
    Brett Erickson (IL)
    Jeff Foxworthy (GA)
    Chip Franklin (MD)
    Kinky Friedman (TX)
    Abdul Hakim-Shabazz (IN)
    Kaui Hill (HI)
    D.L. Hughley (CA)
    Jeff Jena (MN)
    Penn Jillette (NV)
    Reginald Jones (NJ)
    Paul Kelly (IL)
    Kennedy (WA)
    Kenny Kramer (NY)
    Denis Leary (CA)
    David Letterman (NY)
    Andy Levy (CA/NY)
    Norm Macdonald (CA)
    Damian Mason (CA)
    P.J. O’Rourke (DC/NH)
    Doug Powers (CA)
    Joan Rivers (NY/CA)
    Chris Rock (CA)
    Joe Rogan (CA)
    Tim Slagle (IL)
    Doug Stanhope (CA)
    Rich “Jackie Vegas” Stein (NY)
    Doug Stanhope (AZ)
    John Swartzwelder (??)
    Teller (NV)
    Sheryl Underwood (CA)
    Jeff Vachon (MA)
    Jimmy J.J. Walker (NY)
    Robert Anton Wilson
    Tim Wilson (GA)
    Some famous, some not so famous.

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    Scott Obermuller

    Nonsense – Holder will never see the inside of a cell. It’s an appealing thought, I’ll admit. His track record of being a bag-holding toadie to the rich and powerful is legendary. But you don’t create legends without some actual cred. He may end up like Ron Brown, but he’ll never reveal a thing. He knows his strong suit is complete loyalty to those who pay him and that isn’t the House. My prediction – Holder ends up being viewed by history as a clueless, but dutiful victim.

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  47. A Facebook User Avatar
    A Facebook User

    Greg and Todd,
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-uninformed-npr-listeners-not-poll-suggests/
    “A poll by Farleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey showed that of all the news channels out there, Fox News viewers are the least informed.
    People were asked questions about news habits and current events in a statewide poll of 600 New Jersey residents recently. Results showed that viewers of Sunday morning news shows were the most informed about current events, while Fox News viewers were the least informed. In fact, FDU poll results showed they were even less informed than those who say they don’t watch any news at all.”

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  48. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Ben Emery: That is a great article on NPR and illustrates the strengths of NPR versus Foxnews (and MSNBC). It makes total sense, as the questions asked of the people dealt exclusively with international current events. NPR does great work internationally – far better than Foxnews, CNN, and most others (except maybe BBC). So, NPR listeners will learn more about international current events than those that watch Foxnews (or MSNBC).
    On the other hand, Foxnews focuses primarily on domestic events. I would bet that a viewer of Foxnews would be far better at explaining BOTH sides of a domestic issue rather than an NPR listener. While NPR is great at international events, you must concede that their domestic coverage is highly biased to the left. Foxnews does a good job of presenting both sides.

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  49. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    A bizarre non sequiter, AFU/Ben Emery, since the issue was Jon Stewart, comedian, vs Realty, not NPR vs Fox according to a couple academics at a college om New Jersey most would have never heard of were it not for one study they made of folks in New Jersy. It gets repeated over and over by folks who hate FOX News.
    A liberal but fair group, Pew, have a better track record for opinion polls:
    http://pewresearch.org/pubs/993/who-knows-news-what-you-read-or-view-matters-but-not-your-politics
    Primary viewers of the TV broadcast media are no better or worse than each other with the exception of CBS News/Couric fans, who were statistically tied with National Enquirer readers for being the least informed.

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  50. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Wow! Nice statistics Gregory, and they prove my point. Look at Hannity and NPR. They are almost tied overall with Hannity viewers doing better domestically and NPR views doing better internationally. It is sad that CBS/Couric viewers are tied with the National Enquirer readers. They used to be great. Surprisingly Hardball viewers did well overall.

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