Edited by Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) at 11/05/09 5:39 PM
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They're just mad because the Bushes didn't get asked.
And the only time I remember GWB reading to kids was on the day his press office told him the WTC and the Pentagon had been hit, Sept. 11, 2001. I guess he thought he could scooch down behind one of the kids' desks and no one would notice him.
"(This was later relaxed after it developed that 'Maria' lived in our neighborhood and I was starstruck.) "
Cuidado, Sadie! If you're not vigilant, those communists are going to have you singing "Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood" in Spanish.
@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: I think that Elmo has appeared with Ms. Bush. She was a librarian and I think that she was doing a bit about reading. It's pretty par for the course for the first lady to appear on the Street. I remember her in her nice southern accent talking with Elmo about how reading is fun. Infact, here is proof: [politicalhumor.about.com]
And more proof: [www.muppetcentral.com]
Shut up conservative crazies. All of the first wives make an appearance with Elmo. #sesamestreet
I don't doubt that Sesame Street has a subliminal leftist agenda. Once, I watched like three episodes in a row, and afterwards I befriended like four black people, two kids in wheel chairs, a deaf lady, a family of Central American immigrants who taught me about how to say color words in spanish, and went on a magical field trip to Thailand, where a friendly girl my age showed me what school was like there. Then I sang a song about getting along and helping others and how it's important to not eat too much candy. No wonder Fox News thinks it's terrible. Sesame Street is fucking un-American. #sesamestreet
@morninggloria: You know you only need to have 1 black friend, right? Notice other white people never mention their "black friendS", only their "black friend." You must be some kind of overachiever. #sesamestreet
@Pennyfeather: I know. If they want to live here, they should learn to talk American and worship Jesus in a way that makes me comfortable rather than with their creepy skulls and Dias De Los Muertos. #sesamestreet
Doesn't she realize America succeeds because of large agri-business? If we all shop at local farmers markets, the small family farms will be taking business away from the corporate farms. Then what? #sesamestreet
Listen, I'm as tired of these political slap-fights as the next person but I think it's completely reasonable for a political group to give the "angry mom face" to a predatory news organization like Fox. I think people honestly believe that this crap is news & it may seem ridiculous to us (because we're all informed, intelligent people here) but I think a lot of people honestly don't understand that what airs on that channel is not even REAL most of the time. The white house needs to distance itself from that crap in any way they can until people get it.
A big problem with the democratic party is that they've been in the habit of laying down & taking all sorts of ridiculous crap from the other side and it's time that they stand up for themselves and let it be known that what Fox is doing is running their organization like TMZ & passing it off like it's a legitimate news source. In fact, I won't be happy until Fox is somehow disallowed from calling what they do "news reporting" as long as they're making up this sci-fi shit that doesn't exist. As far as I'm concerned, they're the National Enquirer of TV news & shouldn't be put into the same category as CNN and the BBC. #foxnews
This seems like a proxy-war to me. Instead of actually challenging Republican leaders in the house and senate and their horrible policies, they're going after the talking heads. fox news doesn't create policy, they just create misinformed populist outrage. good policy and good results will give the fox-washed less to bitch and moan about, but attacking their psuedo-intellectual messiahs will only get them even more riled up and feed their narcisstic martyr complex.
and while i am no fan of fox news and only watch when i'm checking in with the enemy or need to feel smarter, it seems kind of silly for the obama administration to indulge them in this way. isn't all the attention this getting just giving them more relevance and legitimization as a political base? #foxnews
I agree with you Latoya about what you'd rather they be doing - but I cannot help the evil cackling that emanated from my lips whilst reading. #foxnews
I'm glad the White House is marginalizing them - people don't realize that Fox is making news, not just reporting it. That's wrong. It may not actually be illegal, but it needs to be recognized that when you have a massive protest (with no clear platform) and it's participants are nearly unanimous in saying that Fox/Hannity/Beck/O'Reilly are what influenced them to attend, there's a serious problem.
Did Fox even cover the G20 protests as it did the TeaBaggers? No. Did it encourage protests against immigration reform or troop surges in Afghanistan? No. When Fox says that protest is "your voice. Stand up!" it means "stand up" for your nostalgic fear and ignorance. Issues don't matter, emotions are all that matter. It's not libertarian, conservative, or fundamentalist, but a embittered mob of disaffected, orphaned sentiment, with no intellectual component.
"You need to take America back to a simpler time." This is the same rhetoric the Taliban uses in mosques around the world. And Rupert Murdoch has given it a soapbox.
I'm pretty sure William Buckley is turning in his grave right now. #foxnews
@Jack_Burton: "It's not libertarian, conservative, or fundamentalist, but a embittered mob of disaffected, orphaned sentiment, with no intellectual component."
I think it would be more constructive to go after the actual GOP rather than its lap dog. You know so we can stop neutering health care reform, prevent military contractors from covering up gang rapes and run a country instead of trying to be bipartisan, act like you won a damned election. #foxnews
On Morning Joe, Mika and Joe got into about the Fox issue and wow, you should have seen him attack her. He almost busted a vein in his neck. Wish I had a clip of it to show you all. He kept asking her how many conservatives worked with her at CBS (she admitted there was only one.) Her point was that Fox amps up the hatred, while the other networks don't, but he kept berating her. What I wish she said is sure, the other networks are not as far right as Fox, but they play devil's advocate and ask hard questions of their liberal guests and don't softball every interview like Fox does of conservatives. Plus Fox intentionally spreads outright lies being spun by conservative party operatives. It's like Machiavelli is running the newsroom personally.
Conservatives are nowhere near marginalized. They're going strong in the south and will probably pick up several Congressional seats in 2010 unfortunately. They won't have the majority, but I wouldn't be surprised if they won it back by 2012 or 2014. Right now, though, it's their punishment for screwing up two wars and the economy, not even counting humpteen craptastic executive orders. You don't get listened to for a while.
A hypothetical: let's say Obama wins re-election with a cousin in charge of a network first reporting that he won, you had better believe the Republicans would be going batshit over it.
The GOP may do a fine job of digging their own graves - but thanks to the dishonest, corporate, GOP ass-kissing mainstream media - we don't even hear about it. And I'm not even talking about FOX yet.
Last night I was stuck in a Fox watching situation. They're whining. O'Reilly and Hannity were both whining about "the White House hates us." They have a whole new "tough news" collage that they're showing, in an attempt to prove that they're a news organization, as opposed to being stenographers for the right, which is what they really are. We should ALL hate this - and we should ALL keep hating the fact that all of the mainstream media is guilty of feeding us bullshit instead of news. Instead of endless hours of balloon boy - why aren't we hearing health care stories? Why is there NO investigative reporting?
I'm perfectly okay with the White House pointing out that most of what happens at FOX is not news - it's opinion masquerading as fact. #foxnews
Fox news is conservative and Republican. Other networks are liberal and Democrat. On both sides are people claiming that the opposite side spreads lies and fear. I know many of you don't like Fox news because it doesn't espouse your personal beliefs, and I'm not a Republican, but I don't know exactly when being a Republican began to equal being a monster. I think it's an unfair accusation.
Whether you like it or not, many people do watch Fox news, and many people are conservative. If the president denies that being a conservative is a legitimate standpoint, and alienates an entire viewing audience, then he's not a real President of the People. I should like to think that the president who won a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE wouldn't try to marginalize people in his own country. #foxnews
@deeemer: I really think you have nailed it here. Denying that conservatives have a legitimate standpoint is just as extreme as stuff coming out of the mouths of the talking heads on Fox News. #foxnews
@Doreen DelPurgatorio: That's nowhere near what Obama is actually saying. Is he saying this about Jon Kyl or John McCain or Jeff Sessions? No, he's ripping those in the media who pretend to be "just asking questions" about the country's supposed hurtle toward socialism led by a fascist illegitimate president who's a racist black guy. Those are not legitimate questions. A legitimate news source does not actively tell people at a tea party protest to ramp it up for the cameras or actually sponsor a tea party itself. #foxnews
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How come they didn't raise a stink when it first appeared (and Obama wasn't president)?
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And the only time I remember GWB reading to kids was on the day his press office told him the WTC and the Pentagon had been hit, Sept. 11, 2001. I guess he thought he could scooch down behind one of the kids' desks and no one would notice him.
"(This was later relaxed after it developed that 'Maria' lived in our neighborhood and I was starstruck.) "
Cuidado, Sadie! If you're not vigilant, those communists are going to have you singing "Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood" in Spanish.
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And more proof: [www.muppetcentral.com]
Shut up conservative crazies. All of the first wives make an appearance with Elmo. #sesamestreet
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My God, won't someone think of the children?????? #sesamestreet
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Just. Sayin'. #sesamestreet
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A big problem with the democratic party is that they've been in the habit of laying down & taking all sorts of ridiculous crap from the other side and it's time that they stand up for themselves and let it be known that what Fox is doing is running their organization like TMZ & passing it off like it's a legitimate news source. In fact, I won't be happy until Fox is somehow disallowed from calling what they do "news reporting" as long as they're making up this sci-fi shit that doesn't exist. As far as I'm concerned, they're the National Enquirer of TV news & shouldn't be put into the same category as CNN and the BBC. #foxnews
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and while i am no fan of fox news and only watch when i'm checking in with the enemy or need to feel smarter, it seems kind of silly for the obama administration to indulge them in this way. isn't all the attention this getting just giving them more relevance and legitimization as a political base? #foxnews
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Did Fox even cover the G20 protests as it did the TeaBaggers? No. Did it encourage protests against immigration reform or troop surges in Afghanistan? No. When Fox says that protest is "your voice. Stand up!" it means "stand up" for your nostalgic fear and ignorance. Issues don't matter, emotions are all that matter. It's not libertarian, conservative, or fundamentalist, but a embittered mob of disaffected, orphaned sentiment, with no intellectual component.
"You need to take America back to a simpler time." This is the same rhetoric the Taliban uses in mosques around the world. And Rupert Murdoch has given it a soapbox.
I'm pretty sure William Buckley is turning in his grave right now. #foxnews
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Hearted. #foxnews
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Conservatives are nowhere near marginalized. They're going strong in the south and will probably pick up several Congressional seats in 2010 unfortunately. They won't have the majority, but I wouldn't be surprised if they won it back by 2012 or 2014. Right now, though, it's their punishment for screwing up two wars and the economy, not even counting humpteen craptastic executive orders. You don't get listened to for a while.
A hypothetical: let's say Obama wins re-election with a cousin in charge of a network first reporting that he won, you had better believe the Republicans would be going batshit over it.
10/21/09
Last night I was stuck in a Fox watching situation. They're whining. O'Reilly and Hannity were both whining about "the White House hates us." They have a whole new "tough news" collage that they're showing, in an attempt to prove that they're a news organization, as opposed to being stenographers for the right, which is what they really are. We should ALL hate this - and we should ALL keep hating the fact that all of the mainstream media is guilty of feeding us bullshit instead of news. Instead of endless hours of balloon boy - why aren't we hearing health care stories? Why is there NO investigative reporting?
I'm perfectly okay with the White House pointing out that most of what happens at FOX is not news - it's opinion masquerading as fact. #foxnews
10/21/09
Whether you like it or not, many people do watch Fox news, and many people are conservative. If the president denies that being a conservative is a legitimate standpoint, and alienates an entire viewing audience, then he's not a real President of the People. I should like to think that the president who won a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE wouldn't try to marginalize people in his own country. #foxnews
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