I like how people are trying to blame Deseree Rogers for these wack jobs showing up. Grasping.at.straws. I guess Bo should be blamed too because he didn't sniff their crotches when they showed up.
Man, these 2 are delusional. The hosts of the party (Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Robert Gibbs) are saying they were NOT invited, and yet they keep saying they did NOT crash the party?
Don't you get it? They didn't want you there! You ARE a party crasher!
did you have a paper invitation with your name on it? No? Then you ARE a party crasher.
GEEZZZZZZ!!!!
That they say they have emails that prove they were invited, basically tells you everything you need to know. I could be wrong, but I don't think the White House is sending evites for the State Dinner.
How is this allowed to happen? Seriously. I can't even get on a plane with a bottle of Pantene and yet these jokers shook hands with the president. The same president who receives a ridiculous number of threats against life on a daily basis. I really hope that this is a huge wake-up call to Obama's security team and they lock this shit down.
i'm still pissed about not being able to bring a bottle of shampoo on a plane let alone a bottle of lotion that won't be empty in 3 hours (travel sized my ass), yet a random, thin, photogenic blonde in a red sari can literally walk into a white house state dinner and feel up the vice president's pectorals.
whiskey tango foxtrot.
it ain't just the secret service to blame - it's anybody and everybody who works at the white house who never once stopped these asshat clowns to physically ask them for their documentation. FAIL!
@rednrowdy: I know. I went to Hawaii for 10 days and ran out of shampoo after day 4 and had to go to Hawaiian Wal-Mart and pay triple the price. Thanks, American Airlines.
Also, majorly epic fail, White House. Did we forget about the loonies at the Obama rallies with guns? Or the ones calling for his death? Or the ones hoping for a terrorist attack so they could be all "I told ya so?" I hate to be alarmist but....
@CurtCole: I've avoided any media coverage of these two clowns beyond Jez, so I really can't tell: is her name pronounced like Michelle? Or Michaela? Every time I see it in print I get Former Spelling Bee Kid Angry Twitch because I can't tell which way it's supposed to be and it looks Wrong.
@girlscoutcookie is back from hiatus: I honestly don't know. I've known two families named Salahi, neither or which pronounced their names like I'v been hearing recently.
I absolutely love that Jon Stewart has CNN in his crosshairs. Here is a really good piece he did showing, I think, the reluctance to get to the heart of any issues.
Kate, I LOVE your point about the 'fairness' thing. Pardon my cynicism, but that's all about ratings. I was in the US during the whole town hall slash birthers controversy, and watching a lot of MSNBC due to the house I was staying in. Obviously I freaking adore Rachel Maddow, but I couldn't help watching the 'news' part and thinking that the whole thing was a media construction. If crazy people who were denying the actual provisions of the healthcare bill or the facts on Obama's birth cert didn't get the oxygen of publicity, their views wouldn't spread so fast. It's one thing to have one talking head going 'Government is bad' and another saying 'Government is good', that's a matter of personal opinion. But it is NOT legitimate to spout stuff that is empirically untrue. Yet media outlets of all political stripes allow, indeed encourage, people to do just that, in the guise of 'fairness'.
It's the exact same thing as people who say 'well evolution is just your theory.' Yes. It's a scientific theory, which means it's based on empirically proven facts. If you choose to disbelieve it that's your business, but that is not a legitimate alternative to actual facts. #whitehousevsfoxnews
I'm really glad Jezebel is talking about this, because I was watching Sean Hannity last night (know your enemy) and my head exploded*, rendering me incapable of reasoned discussion. And all this Nixon bullshit is making me batshit - so, let's see, we've had Stalin, Hitler and Nixon; who's next? Oh yeah, SATAN.
THERE IS NO WAY ON EARTH that MSNBC is the Left's equivalent of Fox. It is beyond my comprehension that anyone can seriously regard Fox as a news channel. Please can't someone, or some organization sue them under the Trades Description Act? (or is that just a British law?).
Whatever, excellent post. I particularly liked this: "Getting "both sides of the story" isn't worth sweet fuck all, journalistic integrity-wise, when there are not actually two sides to that story." Hell, YES.
* He had Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin on, so that may have had something to do with it. And, sidenote, I don't think I have ever seen anyone look so hateful and self-loathing as Malkin. It's kind of shocking how fucked-up she is!
There is a complete lack of understanding of what "objectivity" means in the news in general and cable news specifically and especially. If there are two sides to a story, yes, both should be represented. But they should both be based in reality with verifiable facts to back them up, and if that is not the case, it should be the responsibility of a journalist to call bullshit. I mean if republicans declare the sky is green and the grass is blue, they present it like
"Leading Republicans today said that Barack Hussein Obama's inability to reach across the aisle and recognize Republican opinion on the color of the sky and grass is causing the stalemate. Democrats counter that the sky is, in fact, blue and the grass is green. We'll have a sane commentator and some insane kook in the next half hour to debate the issue. CNN, in its position as an objective news source, has no opinion on the matter. We present, you decide."
Nope, a journalist is not showing bias by calling bullshit bullshit. It's time they remembered that. #whitehousevsfoxnews
@Mireille is German for the Bart, the.: THIS. Thank you. This is what needs to be done to fix things. "A group of people led by a dentist/realtor believes that the President is not an American citizen. Though the group is fervent about their beliefs, there are no facts to back them up." instead of letting that lady talk for hours. #whitehousevsfoxnews
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Don't you get it? They didn't want you there! You ARE a party crasher!
did you have a paper invitation with your name on it? No? Then you ARE a party crasher.
GEEZZZZZZ!!!!
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i'm still pissed about not being able to bring a bottle of shampoo on a plane let alone a bottle of lotion that won't be empty in 3 hours (travel sized my ass), yet a random, thin, photogenic blonde in a red sari can literally walk into a white house state dinner and feel up the vice president's pectorals.
whiskey tango foxtrot.
it ain't just the secret service to blame - it's anybody and everybody who works at the white house who never once stopped these asshat clowns to physically ask them for their documentation. FAIL!
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Also, majorly epic fail, White House. Did we forget about the loonies at the Obama rallies with guns? Or the ones calling for his death? Or the ones hoping for a terrorist attack so they could be all "I told ya so?" I hate to be alarmist but....
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Please make these two clowns fade back into the woodwork by Christmas. I promise I'll be good all year if I get this gift.
Thanks in advance,
BabyJane
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It's the exact same thing as people who say 'well evolution is just your theory.' Yes. It's a scientific theory, which means it's based on empirically proven facts. If you choose to disbelieve it that's your business, but that is not a legitimate alternative to actual facts. #whitehousevsfoxnews
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THERE IS NO WAY ON EARTH that MSNBC is the Left's equivalent of Fox. It is beyond my comprehension that anyone can seriously regard Fox as a news channel. Please can't someone, or some organization sue them under the Trades Description Act? (or is that just a British law?).
Whatever, excellent post. I particularly liked this: "Getting "both sides of the story" isn't worth sweet fuck all, journalistic integrity-wise, when there are not actually two sides to that story."
Hell, YES.
* He had Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin on, so that may have had something to do with it. And, sidenote, I don't think I have ever seen anyone look so hateful and self-loathing as Malkin. It's kind of shocking how fucked-up she is!
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"Leading Republicans today said that Barack Hussein Obama's inability to reach across the aisle and recognize Republican opinion on the color of the sky and grass is causing the stalemate. Democrats counter that the sky is, in fact, blue and the grass is green. We'll have a sane commentator and some insane kook in the next half hour to debate the issue. CNN, in its position as an objective news source, has no opinion on the matter. We present, you decide."
Nope, a journalist is not showing bias by calling bullshit bullshit. It's time they remembered that. #whitehousevsfoxnews
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