Cavuto Battles Frank: ‘Congressman, Is It Always Incumbent Upon You To Be So Condescending?’
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By on Jan 6th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Cavuto Battles Frank: ‘Congressman, Is It Always Incumbent Upon You To Be So Condescending?’
Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto had a fiery exchange with House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) this week. Early on in the interview, Frank criticized Cavuto for repeatedly cutting him off. “If you’re going to interrupt every five words, we don’t have a show.”
Frank also took exception to Cavuto’s suggestion that Frank was in favor of arbitrary caps on CEO pay. “I’ve never said that. I can’t deal with all of your distortions here,” Frank said. Cavuto hit back: “Congressman, is it always incumbent upon you to be so condescending or do you just want to answer my question?”
Watch it:
This isn’t the first time Frank has taken a Fox News anchor to task.
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I think the Democrats should just en mass boycott faux news. Let them stew in their own bile and lies. There is no point in showing up for an interview. Faux does not do interviews. They do ambushes. They manufacter lies and report them as fact. The are a constant stream of consciousness of the underbelly of distortions and falsehoods that underpin the reich wing and the Republican fascist corporate scum that are guilty for the national nightmare we have been dragged into. Just ignore them. To hell with them.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:27 amIt has never been clear to me why Democrats bother to appear on Fox News. I think they should take a public position that Fox News is not an investigative journalism program, but a biased propaganda outlet, and that no Democrat will appear on Fox News while they maintain that position. Its not like they’re going to lose a big audience, and I would think that publicly takikng that position would be a slap in the face to Fox and a wake-up call to the American electorate.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:30 amA democrat with a spine! Yay!
We should all write to Congressman Frank and implore him to use his rare-to-Congress spinal column to start hearings against the Bush Regime for their illegal invasion of Iraq.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:32 amIt is sad that a network claims it is serving the public,but in reality it is serving one group…anybody who does not see this need to examine his eyes…You will never see Cavuto questiong a GOP member with any criticsm like that. This network,not only should be boycotted by Democrats,but by all people who are brought to the station to be ridiculed by these pundits whether it is Cavuto,Hannity or O’Reilly for their beliefs…The Congress should examine their FCC license..whether they are serving the public or only serving one group that Rupport Mardock wants them to serve.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:40 amhe is a child and an idiot…ideal news for people with no attention spam and who are intelectualy lazy
January 6th, 2007 at 9:40 am“I think the Democrats should just en mass boycott faux news. Let them stew in their own bile and lies. There is no point in showing up for an interview. Faux does not do interviews. They do ambushes. They manufacter lies and report them as fact. The are a constant stream of consciousness of the underbelly of distortions and falsehoods that underpin the reich wing and the Republican fascist corporate scum that are guilty for the national nightmare we have been dragged into. Just ignore them. To hell with them.
Comment by HeartlandLiberal — January 6, 2007 @ 9:27 am”
I disagree. I think Democrats should go on these shows more often and confront these liars. Democrats can’t allow anyone on FOX, CNN or MSNBC to lie or distort their position without any challenge. If they do that, these lies and distortions will become fact to their gullible, obedient, unquestioning [or maybe just equally unscrupulous] audience.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:43 amCavouto: “I am seeking clarification; I’m not trying to be a jerk.”
Neil, you pile of steaming crapola, if you want clarification, let your guest speak and explain their position.
The only thing you are succeeding at is being a jerk. And it is laughable that you should accuse your guest of “being condecsending”. That’s the pot calling the kettle black.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:51 amSee, when they have a guest they plan to ambush, before they bring him on the air , they already had a plan on what to ask him, how to make him angry before the camera…and if they see that the guest is about to win, and because they contol the show…they call for a commercial..and they come back with another way to ambush the guest again..by interrupting him..and this is their style…and they have the last word…while the guest is talking they can show films..print on the screen whatever they want….they are in control. So the best advice is not to give them that opporunity…simply ignore their station….and let them bark alone.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:55 amGood for Congressman Franks. A man with a backbone to call his own.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:55 amhttp://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/06/cavuto-frank/
Israel’s Bad Influence :
By coincidence, an Israeli general has verified everything Ritter says. According to an article published in Today.az on Jan. 2, Israeli Brig. Gen. Oded Tira published a statement urging an all-out effort by Israel and its lobby to push a U.S. attack on Iran.
“President Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran,” the general is quoted as saying. “As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and U.S. newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iran issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure.”
The general urges the Israeli lobby to turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential candidates in the Democratic Party so that they support immediate action by Bush against Iran. The lobby must also approach the Europeans, he adds, so Bush won’t find himself isolated, and he calls for Israel to “clandestinely cooperate with Saudi Arabia so that it also persuades the U.S. to strike Iran.”
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=10276
January 6th, 2007 at 9:57 amComment by better live right — January 6, 2007 @ 9:57 am
And I’ll bet that you get off on how round Cavuto’s mouth is, pantload.
Neil probably sticks Roger’s and Rupert’s dicks in his mouth at the same time. That just tickles your fancy, doesn’t it, skidmark?
January 6th, 2007 at 10:00 amDear Israeli Lobby:
F*CK OFF.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:02 amLOOk AT THE COMMENT BY #!0
LOOK AT HOW MORONIC IT IS
I BET HE IS DEEP DEEP IN THE DARK CLOSET.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:02 ambetter live right
Erm, no?
Evidently you are projecting your own homosexual, and rather odd (A facial expression is a turn on for you?) feelings without bothering to even think about it. Come on, live right, just step out of that closet and stop trying to pretend to be something you are not.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:03 amComment by better live right — January 6, 2007 @ 9:57 am
Tell me exactly how, if we are all ‘homos’ that would be any of your business or hurt YOU in anyway?
Why don’t you get a real issue to champion… Something like Global Warming, corruption in the Republican Party or illiteracy? There are real problems in this world that need your attention. It’s none of your business what occurs between two consenting adults.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:04 amCAPTION:
Neil: “Barney,what are you doing after the show”?
January 6th, 2007 at 10:05 amI’m thinkin’ . . . look at the last election.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:06 amNo matter what they claim their ratings are,
I’m not sure anyone is watching their crap anymore.
This could help explain FAUX’s antics… And why most Americans are ill-informed about global or even national events.
http://www.galluppoll.com/ content/ Default.aspx?ci=26053&VERSION=p
Local TV Is No. 1 Source of News for Americans
Network and cable news viewership down
PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are robust news consumers, but, with the growth of the Internet and 24-hour cable television news over the past decade, traditional media outlets have been struggling to hold their market share. Gallup trends, based on self-reports of media use patterns, confirm that local newspaper readership has dipped in recent years and the once considerable nightly network television news audience has shrunk considerably. However, the latest update, from December 2006, is not all bad news for these outlets. The rapid growth in the Internet news audience may have slowed in the last two years, and cable news viewership has declined. Through it all, local television news has captured a daily audience that includes slightly more than half of Americans, making it the No. 1 source of news in recent years.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:08 amFinally, SOMEBODY is calling for more government regulation in big business..
CEO caps are a band-aid to a far larger problem, and thats a lack of domestic production in favor of the purchasing power of a weaker dollar.
Why has America forsaken the work-place? surely we don’t envision our children lineing up for factory work, but, can they ALL be doctors, lawyers, and more commonly, Starbucks employee’s?
Theres simply more profit when you squeeze out the competition, limit the right to domestic production, and then invest in some desbot’s program, like Hugo Chavez’s Citgo Gas Co.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:11 amThey were BOTH jerks in suits!!!!
January 6th, 2007 at 10:11 am#11..all what Israelis have to do now is get in touch with Rahm Emanuel..the Democrats Caucus leader…,and large number of their Democrats supporters and let AIPAC muster a plan for the Clean Break….the PNAC doctrine to start another war with Iran. If some people think that AIPAC can pull strings with NeCons only, they are mistaken….AIPAC has both parties in their ‘wish box’.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:12 amBarney “the pervert” Frank never would answer the question would he?
January 6th, 2007 at 10:14 amI like that and all but it really is insulting that Democrats go on FOX at all. FOX very clearly does not believe in Democracy and is a tool of Dictators. Shame on Frank.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:18 am“better live right”,
I wonder if you noticed that you were the only one to look at Frank’s mouth. The rest of us were listening to his words; must be too hard for you. I’d get some help for your confusion, you might try Foley, I hear he’s found salvation again…
Your Screen ID SHOULD be:
“I need to learn how to live right”
January 6th, 2007 at 10:22 am“incumbent upon you”?
January 6th, 2007 at 10:26 amAnother Vizzini moment!
(”You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”)
Not only a paid propagandist, but a borderline illiterate who stumbles over big words.
As long as they fight the way the Senator does, Democrats should take every opportunity to disrupt their echo chamber.
Why can’t the FEC get involved?
Fux nOoze is nothing more than an illegal, unregistered 527 group that should be fined for all the years of shilling for Repugnicans!!!
Hey, Neil Cavuto — STFU and DD!!!!
January 6th, 2007 at 10:28 amp.s. better live right — if you are really so into mouths, check this one out –> http://thumbsnap.com/v/6YvXAPG0.jpg
January 6th, 2007 at 10:32 amI’m right there with ya dixie blood. Why aren’t we following the money that is clearly flowing from Neocons to Murdoch and FOX shills????
January 6th, 2007 at 10:34 amAs long as they fight the way the Senator does, Democrats should take every opportunity to disrupt their echo chamber.
Comment by pbg — January 6, 2007 @ 10:26 am
He’s a Congressman…
January 6th, 2007 at 10:35 amslow joe, the question was “do you favor a cap on CEO pay”. Franks answered that in the first 45 seconds of the clip but Cavuto couldn’t accept his first, second or third time he answered the same way and got upset so he resorted to name calling. Brilliant reporting for him to throw his personal beliefs into the report. You don’t just get the news at Fox, you get how you should think.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:35 amEvery Democrat that goes on Faux News should set the tone for each interview by pointing out the fact that the Faux News stuffed shirt is a partisan, whose sole motive is to make Democrats look bad.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:41 amIf you try to play nice with these far right ideologues by silently participating in their group lynchings, then most viewers won’t realize that there is something very wrong with Faux News’ tactics, and they’ll except them as normal.
Expose the far right pqartisanship on every interview.
Faux News’ sole purpose is to destroy Democrats.
They are the “Patriotic” network now that they helped ignorant Bush into office, but they were against America when President Clinton was in office and they actively worked to destroy the President of the United States, a criminal act od sedition against America.
They got away with it once, but that will never happen again.
Isolationist left? Read about the Vista NWO success story yet?
In order to appropriately protect content, Vista will probably have to disable
any special device features that it can’t directly control.
Disable yourself, bitches, right-wing-whackos and other disabled mfs.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:48 amThe irony here that political candidates has to register the money they receive and how much they spent on political commercials..how can this be fair when you have a 24 hours network is supporting one party over the other…free of charge 24 hours called Fox Network?!!
January 6th, 2007 at 10:50 amThe confrontational approach on Fox is more than I can tolerate for more than a minute or two. Even the trolls here take their lead from the kind of ballistic and bombastic style of the Fox anchors.
January 6th, 2007 at 11:01 amOn one hand, I think reasonable people should boycott them and let them diddle their time spreading lies to their own kind; on the other hand, if one is able to reject and retaliate against their assault, like Frank, and call them out on it, I say more power to the Franks of the world.
The dimwits who masquerade as journalists on the fact-free Fox network are noted for their pomposity and self-righteousness, certainly not for their integrity and journalism.
They can (and should) all go to hell for their incessant attacks on the democratic process in this country, for their agreement with the destruction of the Constitution, for prostituting themselves as propagandists, and for their unfailing support for the most self-serving, anti-American president in our history.
Local TV Is No. 1 Source of News for Americans
Network and cable news viewership down
… local television news has captured a daily audience that includes slightly more than half of Americans, making it the No. 1 source of news in recent years.
Comment by unbelievable — January 6, 2007 @ 10:08 am
great news except for the fact that alot of “local” channels have been bought up by big corps like SINCLAIR and also FOX…
January 6th, 2007 at 11:05 amit’s all corporate propaganda it seems… even “local” newspapers…
…
I love it.
Look, here is a member of congress that knows how to deal with the propaganda.
I believe that not only should more of our democratic reps and sens. go on Fox news to discuss the issues, but they should demand it.
Many of them should probably receive training from Congressman Frank before hand, though.
If they deal with issues and demand respect and insist on not being interrupted like he did, they win every time.
I believe Mr. Frank jumps at any opportunity to go on Fox.
It should be considered a huge opportunity, for dems., to set the record straight.
I also believe, Fox will run from them.
January 6th, 2007 at 11:06 amand another point… much as it is annoying and exasperating, it is important that dems continue to make their points on the faux channel…
January 6th, 2007 at 11:09 amany little seed of truth planted into the fox-bots minds can only help…
as long as those dems stand up the way barney frank has done…
and, i think it is working…
oh, and, “better live right” (yea, right) -
January 6th, 2007 at 11:12 amit looks like cavuto is ready to manage your little peck*r in 2 ways…
hey! he’s giving you a choice - that’s unusual for a repug…
I just passed FOX while surfing. It was the Forbes show. They were discussing the cost benefit of executing Dictators…
January 6th, 2007 at 11:20 amCan we clone Frank and send him out to all the newsprograms? Or perhaps he can run some seminars on how to hit back at Orwellian/Roveist propaganda.
-GSD
January 6th, 2007 at 11:21 amIt’s one thing to be an a**hole because you can’t help yourself, just because you were born an a**hole, or because you had a crappy childhood and were raised an a**hole. It is another thing altogether to be a paid, professional, lying a**hole like Cavuto.
January 6th, 2007 at 11:26 amI just love Barney Frank. He’s always giving as good as he gets. He ain’t ascared of them there wingnuts and Bush cheerleaders/apologists.
Go Barney Frank, get the wingnuts and neocons pissed. They deserve it, they helped screw up America for decades to come. Frank is the greatest. He always gets their goat. Go FRANK!!!
January 6th, 2007 at 11:44 am“Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher who said a man can do what he wants but cannot will what he wants, would have understood W.’s nonsensical urge to Surge.
We don’t know if human beings have free will. We just know that human beings in Washington appear not to.†- Maureen Dowd, Monkey on a Tiger
January 6th, 2007 at 11:44 amcan’t you all do something about the poster with all caps who is nuts?just asking………..
January 6th, 2007 at 11:45 amI recognize Halbert from his profile, which is suspiciously similar to some of the other trolls around here: white male, 18-26 years old, unemployed, lives in parent’s basement, never had a girlfriend or boyfriend.
I bet the troll count around here would drop by half if TP required registration.
January 6th, 2007 at 11:48 am49. He has less to say than most trolls. He’s a typing contradiction. Just saw the piece Media Matters has put together concerning O’Rielly and Scarborough. It’s really worth watching. It shows the difference between a blowhard bully and a true conservative that won’t take any shit. Hopefully there will be more exchanges. Joe challanged O’Rielly to a debate.
To me, that’s must see TV.
January 6th, 2007 at 11:51 amcan’t you all do something about the poster with all caps who is nuts?
Comment by freebird9 — January 6, 2007 @ 11:45 am
i’m hoping that it will be IGNORED and that no one will dignify it with any kink of response…
January 6th, 2007 at 11:52 ami’m hoping…
Hello Katy, that’s the best answer. I give Franks credit for continuing to go on Fox. He knows they’ll throw there slants and cut him down. Franks beats them at there own game. Fox needs to show their “Balanced” so they need the likes of Franks. But he points out how unbalanced they are everytime he goes on.
With Fox’s ratings drop we’ll see more as they struggle to find a new edge.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:03 pmKeep up the intelligent conversation folks. Just step around the large piles of steaming crap from the underdeveloped wingnuts. Once you get used to the smell, it isn’t so bad. Reason will prevail! :) Speaking of reason, Al Gore’s new book The Assault On Reason is coming out in May. And I do believe he will run for president from what I’m hearing. I’m in a group in my community working to draft him to run. We’ll see.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:05 pmThis is a time of change and that means opportunity. Soon, if we the American people want it to be so, reason and common sense will reassert itself. There I said it. And I didn’t even need Caps!!! :)
AND YOU NEED TO KEEP YOUR CORRECTNESS QUOTIENT TO YOURSELF
No. People like you who spout lies and misinformation are polluting our country. I will not stop pointing out your inability to be factual, correct or fact check yourself before you ramble on.
You may not care about your inability to be correct, but when in a forum that debates over ethics, others do.
DAMN YOU ARE ANNOYING
Only to lazy people who can’t bother to learn something before they open their mouths.
YOU ALWAYS JUST HAVE TO CHIME RIGHT IN THERE DONT YOU
Project much?
Last I checked, I wasn’t banned from doing so.
This is the risk you take when you post on an open forum - others can point out the fact that you don’t know what you are talking about (and you really don’t hal).
ARE YOU PUBLICLY MAKING UP FOR CERTAIN INADEQUACIES ?
That’s what people who type in caps do…
YOU ARE NOT CERTAIN ABOUT THIS WHOLE POLITICAL THING ARE YOU ?
I’m 110% certain. But, as usual, when you cannot debate facts, you try to turn this personal and make ad hominem attacks to make up for the fact that insults are all you have.
No wonder you called him a Senator even though the word Congressman was the second one of the thread - and it was posted in BIG green letters…
LOOKS THAT WAY TO THE UNBIASED CASUAL OBSERVER
But you aren’t unbiased.
IT ISNT TOO LATE TO BACK OUT YOU KNOW
OF THIS POLITICAL THING I MEAN
I know, I backed out of being a conservative. I’m waaaaaaay happier. But this isn’t about me. Its about your lack of basic reading comperehension. If you can’t demonstrate that, you have no credibility. Or do you even get how that works?
IF POLITICS CAUSES YOU THIS MUCH STRESS PERHAPS YOU COULD FIND SOMETHING MORE TO YOUR LIKING THAT YOU COULD HANDLE
Comment by halbert holmert — January 6, 2007 @ 11:29
I’m not the one yelling.
LOL.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:10 pm#58. If Gore truly learned from his debating mistakes his last go around he will be a real contender. I’d like to hear more from him.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:10 pmHalbere, your only disability is your deficient brain.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:17 pm#19, One thing I find interesting in that poll is that 20% get their news from radio talk shows. Isn’t that what Bush’s approval rating is these days?
January 6th, 2007 at 12:17 pmOh dear….. Wow. That’s good. Halbert Holmert, true to neocon form, is playing the victim. Wingnuts love to do that because they think it gives them the right to produce their steaming piles….and he is threatening to close the site………..ok………( cough) moving right along here. I think something we should note is that human nature has many sides and once in awhile a group of people that share some of the more distasteful and sick characteristics of our nature come to power. That is unfortunate. But those that think and care about others, our planet, and Democracy have begun to reclaim postitions of power.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:20 pmWe should thank the emotionally underdeveloped Halbert for typing in all caps. It alerts us to skip over what it has written.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:22 pmMY DISABILITY ALSO PRECLUDES ME FROM ANY RATIONAL THOUGHT. PLEASE IGNORE MY RANTS.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:23 pmI SMELL A LAWSUIT PENDING HERE
KEEP IT UP
I LIKE GETTING FREE MONEY
Comment by halbert holmert
Now now Halbie bayybie. You know that would be liberal of you to sue these nice folks for free money. Son, bayybie, I thought I taught you to respect other peoples opinions, you can’t just run into their houses and start demanding things. I thought I raised you better than that son, Tsk Tsk. Your starting to sound like a crotchety old Archie Bunker.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:26 pmReally, who cares if Fox News is biased (which I think it is). Really, does it matter? Would you prefer if it was biased the other way? Honestly. that is a serious question. If you answer “yes”, then you are as narrow minded as those you vilify.
It is a know fact that other news outlet are biased one way or the other. People just need to chose where they get their news from and that is determined by their ideology. If you are more conservative, you look for a more conservative news outlet. Same as if you are more liberal.
The funny thing is, everyone wants to get a hair up their butt about shows that are really not news shows (O’Rielly, Hannity, and Cavuto). They are COMMENTARY shows and INTERVIEW shows. So they are more in line with things like “The View”.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:26 pmHalbere, your only disability is your deficient brain.
Comment by RUCerious — January 6, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
I’m putting together a lesson on Logic for my students. Think Hal would like a copy? :)
January 6th, 2007 at 12:29 pmOne thing I find interesting in that poll is that 20% get their news from radio talk shows. Isn’t that what Bush’s approval rating is these days?
Comment by cynicalgirl — January 6, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
Rush counts as news? More like noise, I’d say :)
I was assuming they meant actually news like NPR or those who count the morning radio news on tehir commute to work. But you could be on to something if those folks actually consider Rush to be a source for news…
January 6th, 2007 at 12:32 pmrobert, we want ALL news to be biased toward the truth… that’s all…
January 6th, 2007 at 12:33 pman educated electorate… aaaaaahhh… how nice would that be!
Robert,
The View is upfront about what it is, Fox and other biased “news” companies are not.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:33 pmMr Cavuto, and Halbie, are just plain rude, I apologize for my bayybie, Cavuto needs to suck on an egg, and well interrupting is a really old method to try and make it seem as if the interviewer has won a debate. Debates are not fair and balanced, never have been, but at least debates are stewed in facts, not blind lawyer stylized rhetoric.
Oh dear, if this wretched FOX news were truly fair and balanced they would ask a question and let the interviewee answer in full before asking another question, and Halbie bayybie, If i catch you watching it one ore time, I’m gonna have block FOX news AND the playgirl channel. Now get your fanny perpedicular young man and clean up that pig sty you have created in the basement, why I nearly broke my ankle on that KY jelly you left on the floor.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:36 pmReally, who cares if Fox News is biased (which I think it is). Really, does it matter?
When the role of journalism is unbiased presentation of facts, yes, it matters. If they want to be biased, they need to drop the word ‘news’ from their name. ‘Noise’ would be more appropriate.
Would you prefer if it was biased the other way? Honestly. that is a serious question. If you answer “yesâ€, then you are as narrow minded as those you vilify.
Robert, just because you view the world through absoultes doesn’t mean the rest of us do. There are many more answers than yes or no here.
It is a know fact that other news outlet are biased one way or the other.
A fact, eh? Then you have proof. Please post it.
People just need to chose where they get their news from and that is determined by their ideology. If you are more conservative, you look for a more conservative news outlet. Same as if you are more liberal.
I disgree - because what you defined is propaganda. The ideal is that the news presents unbiased FACTS and then people - of any political persuation connect the dots and form their OWN opinions.
They are COMMENTARY shows and INTERVIEW shows. So they are more in line with things like “The Viewâ€.
Comment by robert — January 6, 2007 @ 12:26 pm
Then be honest and call it that. Calling it ‘news’ is a lie, and subject to scrutiny. Like this thread.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:37 pmWay to go Barney Frank. Those media whores need to get slapped around like the punk bitches they really are
January 6th, 2007 at 12:40 pmDid my ears deceive me, or did I hear Cavuto call Frank Congresswoman at the very end of this segment? If he did, he is a bigger idiot than I had thought he was.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:50 pmWe hate when Democrat are ambushed by FOX, but they need to keep appearing at that channel, only because that is what freedon of speech is about.Only Republicans appeares at friendly places.We have higther standars about freedom of the press.We need to go and like President Clinton before unmask this people. Romi C
January 6th, 2007 at 12:51 pmCavuto went from a financial guy to a hit man, he is a phony like the rest of those goon at Fox. I agree with the post WAY up-thread, Dems or anyone with common sense should just let these Bush stenographers just do their thing without them, boycott the bastards. You know he just hate Frank because he is gay, or Cavuto is gay and is just one of those right wing gay haters that can’t explode out of the closet without loosing his job.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:55 pmHe’s a Congressman…
January 6th, 2007 at 12:55 pmA boy can always dream, can’t he?
Now, Halbie bayybie, I know you just love that terminator guy, so you should listen to what he he has to say, since I’m cancelling your Mad magazine subscription bayybie.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:55 pmCaps on CEO income would be a good idea.
Boycotting FAUX News would also be a good idea.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:55 pmI disgree - because what you defined is propaganda. The ideal is that the news presents unbiased FACTS and then people - of any political persuation connect the dots and form their OWN opinions.
What I defend is not propaganda, it is that they have a right to propagandize, and you have the right to change the channel.
Then be honest and call it that. Calling it ‘news’ is a lie, and subject to scrutiny. Like this thread.
I am being honest, but the ENTIRE network is not all biased news. How can you bias a Snowstorm in journalism? You can’t. Now when it comes to COMMENTARY, you can apply bias to it all day (Why it happened and causes,etc).
There is good in CNN and BAD in CNN. Good in NBC, BAD in NBC, etc, etc.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:59 pmTHE RUMOR ALL OVER THE FOX NEWS BUILDING FOR YEARS HAS BEEN THAT CAVUTO IS GAY (HIS NICKNAME IS GIRLIE BOY). IT IS SURPRISING THAT FOLKS LIKE CAVUTO ARE QUICEST TO CONDEMN GAYS.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:03 pmA boy can always dream, can’t he?
Comment by pbg — January 6, 2007 @ 12:55 pm
That he can… But it seems that Hal gave him the job without the election… :D
January 6th, 2007 at 1:03 pmFox is obviously not interested in news. And the Democrats don’t need to have their message or their new insights to be twisted into a far right distortion. But Barney knows how to make a fool look worse than foolish. And it’s niced to see real confrontation rather than kiss ass complements that the pukes used to swoon over each other.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pmFox is obviously not interested in news. And the Democrats don’t need to have their message or their new insights to be twisted into a far right distortion. But Barney knows how to make a fool look worse than foolish. And it’s niced to see real confrontation rather than kiss ass complements that the pukes used to swoon over each other.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pmWhat I defend is not propaganda, it is that they have a right to propagandize, and you have the right to change the channel.
Sure it is. Telling people what to think is not ‘news’.
Not if they are calling themselves news. Drop the word news and I will fully agree with you on the second sentance.
I am being honest, but the ENTIRE network is not all biased news. How can you bias a Snowstorm in journalism?
It’s about most of it being blantantly biased. I’m sure that sometimes thw View points out facts. Still doesn’t make them a news program.
There is good in CNN and BAD in CNN. Good in NBC, BAD in NBC, etc, etc.
Comment by robert — January 6, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
No one is talking about good and bad - we’re talking about bias.
Good and bad is subjective - and an entirely different issue.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:07 pm#69 un - He ought to have to eat at least three copies.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:08 pmRe: Barney Frank vs.Cavuto
January 6th, 2007 at 1:10 pmThose of us fromMassachusetts have long known that Barney Freank is the smartest person in congress. This is not an exageration and has nothing to do with liberal or conservative. For an idiot like Cavoto to try and ambush him with those inane Fox/ White House talking points is a bit like a having a conversation with an avocado .
#81, sm
January 6th, 2007 at 1:11 pmNo, capping the income of CEOs, as thrilling as that would be, is not a good idea. It is communistic. However, how about making sure that the CEOs pay proportional taxes on their income? How about paying FICA and withholding on all their income (instead of limiting it to the first $90,000)?
If the shareholders are happy to pay gazailion dollars to any person, they are stupid, but it’s their company and they do get the vote.
If you’re smart and ambitious and fortunate to make it big, then pay your share - if you made your fortune in America, then you owe something back to the country that allowed you to make your fortune.
Alas, most of them sit in their ivory towers and look down on the lowly serfs who work for their money and pay a tax on every dollar earned.
Oh and BTW, when the multi-millionaires come to collect social security, fine, let them have it, but THAT will be capped.
It is telling that Fox chose to caption the image of Barney Frank with the statement, “I’ve never said CEO pay should be capped,” which, true to FOX form, distorts his position. Wouldn’t a better summary caption have been, “I think shareholders should determine CEO pay.” That was his point and he expressed it over and over again ad nauseum. The published FOX’d summary cleverly manages to portray Frank as a supporter of unbridled CEO pay.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:12 pmwhat we need is a return to the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE…
[…]
The Fairness Doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters. Stations were given wide latitude as to how to provide contrasting views: It could be done through news segments, public affairs shows or editorials.
[…]
The Fairness Doctrine
How We Lost it, and Why We Need it Back
more about it at wik!, but TP will delete the link…
January 6th, 2007 at 1:13 pmthere’s good’n'bad in everything… but mostly, i think being honest and truthful is just so much easier in the long run…
Scarborough (R): And I challenge you (FOX news) to debate me anytime, anyplace, anywhere, and find one thing I have said on this program over the past year that is not consistent with the conservative congressman who was against military adventurism when I was in Congress, that was against exploding deficits, that was against reckless spending and against turning Congress into the type of swamp that we Republicans have turned it into over the past six years!
Now Halbie, bayybie, I’m going to cut off your internet access if you keep going to world net daily, sorry bayybie, but this is for your own good, you just keep wallowing in the same old fetid value swamp, and your calling people crawfish, and telling them to backpeddle into their Sh___y caves was just disgusting, we Holmerts are Christians and humans, you know better than to speak like you have here, what in the world has gotten into you Halbie bayybie? Your breaking your dear old mothers heart, you lock yourself into that dank dark odorous basement for days on end, and now this. Lord forgive my bayybie, he knows not what he does.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:16 pmCavuto is an umitigated ass. By constatntly interefring he is trying to make it appear that Frank is weasling. The only weasel in that interchange is Cavuto. Ailes will rpbably give him a raise for being such a sleazy weasel.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:17 pmNow that the Dems are in power Fox will have to give them more air time. They should all adopt Frank’s approach and stand up to the slimebags.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:20 pmYes, Katy, the Fairness Doctrine needs restoration — Reagan ripped it up and we are paying a heavy price today.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:20 pmReagan was an elitist who did not care about the poor and middle class — he thought ketchup was a sufficient vegetable for poor kids’ lunches.
He ought to have to eat at least three copies.
Comment by RUCerious — January 6, 2007 @ 1:08 pm
Just put it next to his stash of Cheetos… :D
January 6th, 2007 at 1:21 pmthat weasel Cavuto was just completely owned by Rep. Frank.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:21 pmDems have got to come up with a comprehensive strategy to deal with the Fox approach to “interviewing” as well as CNN-style interviewing.
Quite frankly, I think Howard Dean is great at this. The interviewer gives him an opening to answer a question, and he answers it, makes his point, and then boom, boom, boom - gets in another 5 or so points, rapidfire, before the talking head can get his breath. Dems could take a lesson from Howie.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:27 pmAmen Katy!!!!! Reinstate the fairness doctrine, and take the circus out of our news and politics.
Most folks don’t even know what the FD was, or what it was doing for us. It’s repeal (one of the GOP’s stealthier tactical coups) enabled everything sleazy that’s happened since, from the election of Ronnie (turkey-neck) Ray-gun to the publication of (M)Ann Coulter’s invective screeds.
Let’s get the FCC back in the hands of civil servants and out of the hands of advertising salesmen, beginning with a public push to educate and reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:28 pmMore power to Frank for taking these propogandists on…not enough people have read Al Frankens expose on FOX (Lies and the Lying Liars…) or watched the documentary OUTFOXED. Progressives need to understand how many people watch channels like FOX almost exclusively. If more people like Barney Frank (or Bill Clinton before him) aren’t willing to wade into the lions den and take on these thugs a certain slice of American society will never be approached with anything remotely resembling the truth. These folks, along with the Bush administration as a whole, are fascists plain and simple. If you look at fascism as a political movement historical it has always relied on a certain passivity from the left. Fascists lie, distort, bully, and browbeat. They cow opponents into silence and submission, and the ignorant public is left to only hear what they spin and pontificate. To not challenge the Cavuto’s, O”Reilly’s, Hannity’s, et al is to fall victim to their entire modus operandi. Speak power to the truth Barney Frank and all else who have had enough of this right-wing misinformation campaign.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:28 pmDennis Markham: Frank is indeed highly intelligent and an excellent and enlightening speaker. He is so grounded in reality, it’s refreshing.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:30 pmDid my ears deceive me, or did I hear Cavuto call Frank Congresswoman at the very end of this segment?…
Comment by monk — January 6, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
boy… he sure could have… right before saying he wasn’t trying to be a jerk… AND, then saying, condescendingly, “well, i don’t know about the clear part”… a real chump…
January 6th, 2007 at 1:31 pmKudos to Barney. He takes no crap! As soon as the new Congress re-enacts the fairness doctrine the talking heads on the FOM (as in foment) Network will be blasted off the air by truth and fairness!
And, to think these FOM guys all work for arch conservatives Roger Ailes and, FOM owner, Rupert Murdock (who btw, still votes in Australia).
January 6th, 2007 at 1:35 pm“But, [some people are saying] there’s some fear out there that you want to get a gang of thugs to hang CEO’s while being filmed on a cellphone, then disembowel them and eat their liver raw on live TV.”
January 6th, 2007 at 1:47 pmBarney Frank actually doesn’t have to give them anything. They should be nicer to him. Their ratings are still high but they’re slipping steadily.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:52 pmCavuto is NY ass boil and I’m not sure why Frank gives him the courtesy of appearing on his show?
January 6th, 2007 at 1:52 pmI must confess, I watch Fox “News”. ..not for their content but rather so that I know which of their commercial sponsors products to not purchase.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:54 pm“LOOK AT THAT PHOTO OF FRANK
LOOK HOW ROUND HIS MOUTH IS
I BET YOU HOMOS REALLY GET OFF ON THAT PHOTO DONT YOU”
Comment by better live right — January 6, 2007 @ 9:57 am
ACTUALLY, CAVUTO’S MOUTH LOOKS LIKE A DICK JUST FELL OUT OF IT, NOT MR. FRANKS.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:55 pmFrank is a weenie and was being interrupted because when asked a question, he dodged and tried to spin like a top. Talk about “greasy as a car saleman!”.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:58 pmBoycott all Fox sponsors! Hit ‘em where it hurts!
January 6th, 2007 at 2:04 pmI agree, boycott Fox ‘News” Who needs them? We’ve got the power now, let’s make them irrelevant.
January 6th, 2007 at 2:08 pm…so that I know which of their commercial sponsors products to not purchase.
Comment by wayne v — January 6, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
well, that’s the only reason that would make sense… but aren’t their sponsors the same as any other network?
there is a great website: http://www.newshounds.us/
January 6th, 2007 at 2:19 pm“We watch FOX so you don’t have to.”
Just make note of which ones cross tne networks.
January 6th, 2007 at 2:25 pmTo me, if I see a Fox sponsor, there or anywhere, I buy some other product, or do without.
You people ALL make me want to puke. Glorifying Barney Frank who can’t get any farther to the left. Villifying Fox News who can’t get any farther to the right. The fact is Fox News is doing what their audience wants to hear. The fact is Barney Frank is doing what his supporters want to hear which is paint US businesses as the GREAT SATAN. You know what? Neither is correct.
For some schlub to make $210 million on the way out for doing nothing for the shareholders other than doubling sales and profits during his tenure is not right. But what is right? His contract was negotiated by the board of directors. Should his contract be approved by a majority of the shareholders? Certainly not. What would be next? Maybe the contract for office supplies at Office Depot could be approved at the annual shareholders meeting by a majority vote of the shareholders. Absolutely ridiculous.
On the other hand Fox wants Barney Frank on all the time because he is a babbling idiot on video. I have never seen him make any sense on any show because he just babbles. On Fox he can just play the indignant misunderstood Congressman without ever answering a question.
You people are all just freaking numbskulls. I can’t wait for the next election for some more quality entertainment. Oh, never mind, Mother Sheehan is going to give us tons of quality entertainment by bursting into every Democratic news conference and interrupting the dog and pony show. At least the Republicans don’t have to worry about her for two more years. The joke is on Democratic Leadership now.
January 6th, 2007 at 2:27 pmI agree with some of your other readers, DEMOCRATS SHOULD BOYCOTT FAUX NEWS. Appearing on that networks gives people the notion that they are a valid news organization and they clearly are nothing more than a RIGHT WINGNUT propoganda machine. News is supposed to be regurgitaion of the FACTS and this is clearly fiction based on facts as a book novel is fiction based on facts.
Appearing on that network only validates them, DON’T DO IT!!!
January 6th, 2007 at 2:33 pmRe: halbert holmert. If you’re walking down the street and see a piece of dogshit on the ground, do you pick it up in your hands, taste it and smell it? No, you step around it and keep going. Treat halbert holmert’s posts the same way.
January 6th, 2007 at 2:36 pm#90
“No, capping the income of CEOs, as thrilling as that would be, is not a good idea. It is communistic. However, how about making sure that the CEOs pay proportional taxes on their income? How about paying FICA and withholding on all their income (instead of limiting it to the first $90,000)?”
Here is a different idea. How about all the employees of said company get paid in proportion to the CEO (benefits, bonuses, health plans, etc.), since all the workers in said Co. made it what it is, and some of this employees work harder and longer hours than the CEOs.
January 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pmdemocrats should no longer feel they should appear on fox television.
it is a shithole of a network.
we don’t need them anymore.
fox new is washed up.
let it be another christian broadcasting network. idiots deserve idiot.
barney frank is too smart for ms. neil cavuto…
jack jett
January 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pmhttp://jack-e-jett.wowtv.tv/
Hmmm…I see the trolls are back.
But troll or no troll, there is a point to be made, which is that Democrats are well aware that an interview on Fox News is really a partisan attack. So, why are they going there? They should boycott the likes of Hannity, O’Really and all other Fox attack dogs, thereby neutralizing their attempts to get answers to stupid questions, or vie for control by interrupting anything a Dem tries to say that would make a point for which the news slugs would have to come up with a logical counter point.
January 6th, 2007 at 2:53 pmCavuto is nothing more than the Faux News butt boy. What a putz!
How many different ways could Rep. Frank say what he said and still Cavuto would ask another version of his distortion.
We need more Barney Franks.
January 6th, 2007 at 2:55 pmok…start with boycotting these sponsors…tell your friends and family and tell them to tell others…the snowball will grow and Fox will quickly get the message.
January 6th, 2007 at 2:59 pmOrajel-and all products made by Del Pharmaceuticals, Uniondale, NY.
ING (see ing.com) -personal finance/insurance/asset management…close all acounts.
I totally agree with the first comment above.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why reasonable people continue to appear on Fox. It only gives them an air (however small) of credibility.
Quit going on Fox !
January 6th, 2007 at 3:06 pmJust for their survival, the Dems have to hold hearings about the right wing AM talk juggernaut, lest they be rolled once again with the steamroller of lies. Same for Faux. Just call them before Congress, present their worst lies, which led this country to war and the ruin of it’s world reputation, on big screens, and then see if they can tell the truth in order to save themselves for a Federal perjury charge for repeating their lies to Congress.
It might sound radical, but these are PUBLIC airwaves and the bare minimum rent for using them should be the truth and balance that passes the laugh test.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:16 pmCavuto is a spokesmen for Mammon. The entire Fon ” News ” operation is for the rich and powerful, while pretending to be ” poplulist “.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:19 pmHere are two more that deserve to be boycotted:
Activon (the head ache…directly to the forehead)..buy other remedies.
TD Ameritrade..there are other ways to trade.
Give these corporate sponsors a loud and clear message…
IF YOU SUPPORT LIES, WE, YOUR CONSUMERS WILL NOT SUPPORT YOUR PRODUCTS!!!
It won’t take long to shut them down.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:21 pmStart with your next non-shopping trip.
These weird “newscasters” from FOX News are boobs (a foolish or stupid person).
They talk but they only hear themselves, trying so hard to be demonstrative, but without a point or merit.
Mr. Frank is smarter, more articulate, more thoughtful and more than that, he makes sense.
Whoever the shmuck is with the glasses barking him down is ridiculous. He should sell cars…used ones at that. He’d be more in his element.
G.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:24 pmDid you see Conan’s clip with a talking mouth photo of Bush?
Conan tells Bush that the RepubliKlans no longer control the House and Senate.
“Damn!”, Bush says, “do we stil control Fox News?”
brilliant.
anyway, Frank and Clinton have the RIGHT idea.
Go on and then tell the turth and POINT OUT the lies and manipulation.
They only get away with it because people place nice and LET them.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:25 pmI disagree as well about boycotting Faux News, O’Reilly, and the other orcs. For many years, the left stood by and simply gawked at how idiotic these commentators are,but in the meanwhile a large sector of Americans continued to watch only one side, and became dumber and dumber for the experience. Democrats should confront misinformation with reasoned discourse. The recent elections have shown that Americans are progressively noticing the contrast between dumb-down politics and real ideas.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:26 pmFox is making itself irrelevant. True, it’s red meat for those 30% that still think Bush is doing a good job as pResident, but for the rest of America, it has no relevance at all. Fox will continual to decline, as long as they play to the only demographic that seems to watch it, dumb white people with lots of bigotry and bias issues. So will they further solidify their commitment to a dwindling audience? If so, expect more ridiculous, pro-Republican talking points and biased coverage that even a child can see through. Or, if the stockholders of NewsCorp get tired of the ad revenue/market share decline….well, you’ll suddenly see a whole sea change in the attitudes and presentation of the news. And that would be fun to watch…that 30% backwash having their heads explode as all of the Fox talking points suddenly change, as they try to catch up with what the majority of Americans already know.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:30 pmCEO pay is obscene, but it is consistent in the culture the Republicans have been fostering for the past 25 years, which is that it doesn’t matter how you make money as long as you make it. The vaunted unrestrained free market is supported by the rethugs because it promoted this culture, and they have convinced a not insignificant number of citizens that this is a good thing.
Regarding negotiating CEO salaries: We have forgoten what it means to earn something. No one on the planet can “earn” $210M/yr. They may take it, and laught at the fools who gave it to them, but they didn’t earn it. Isn’t that contrary to some sort of rethug ideal?
January 6th, 2007 at 3:30 pmThe Economist has Barney Frank’s back. Nov 25th issue said:
“The battle against [Sarbanes-Oxley Act]’s excesses looks well on the way to being won. This should mean efforts can be directed… towards the shareholders, to begin with. They have too few rights in their dealings with company boards; they have less power than their British equivalents when to comes to electing directors, for instance.”
Evidently, they also have less power in deciding who gets the $210m bonuses. Go Frank!
January 6th, 2007 at 3:48 pmThat clip is hysterical. Fox talking heads are so dumb it’s almost beyond belief. I was watching another Fox dumb a*s today who asked the same question over and over again to an avalanche expert in Denver.
The expert tells her that the wind probably caused the avalanche. So she asks him if the snow caused the avalanche. And she proceeds to ask several more times what could have caused the avalanche.
Wind, the wind! It’s a really difficult thing to understand I know, but jeez.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:49 pmI AM A PAID PROFESSIONAL
I HELPED IMPEACH BILL CLINTON
MADE ALOT OF MONEY TOO
Comment by halbert holmert — January 6, 2007 @ 11:31 am
I believe you on the 1st 2 out of 3 statements. Your 3rd point is quite relative, I guess. For some people, like you, $5.15/hr is probably a lot of money.
Hal, don’t get me wrong…please keep posting here. You provide the entertainment. Nobody does dickhead quite like you. Every good progressive/liberal blog site needs their own funnystupid pets, and you are ours.
Nothing we can say could convince people that the right is wacky and devoid of serious thought, better than your own comments. Reasonably intelligent conservatives must cringe with embarrassment when reading what passes as intellectual statement and witty insult as consistently demonstrated in your ramble-posts.
Please, keep up the good work and, by all means, keep that cap button on!
January 6th, 2007 at 3:58 pmcavuto uses the same tactic as o’reilly, hannity, etc.
they ask the same question, a different way, over and over again…always hoping for a glimmer of change in the nuance or substance in the response. (how many times did franks say the “shareholders should decide”)
then…they pounce on it as if it is a glaring contradiction in the interviewee’s argument or opinion.
interrupting and talking over is just a strategy to disrupt and aggravate.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:06 pmWell, I suppose that a middle, yet confrontational ground would be for any Dem guest on a Fox “News” show to stipulate before s/he arrives that there will be a topic for discussion from which the host or hostess will not stray, and that there will be a discussion connoting mutual respect. Further, the second that a Fox showman/woman “ambushes” or leaves the terms of the agreement, the guest will walk off the show, live. The terms of the agreement should be announced at the beginning of each interview as the only terms in which an interview will take place.
So many of us are plain tired of witnessing the abject disrespect that is shown Democratic congresspeople and advocates for the Democratic party on Fox. Enough is enough.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:12 pmIt’s always funny to me how transparent homophobes are. Who would even notice the gayness of someone’s expression if you yourself weren’t turned on by it. Absurd. Anyway, Barney Frank is a bigger man than any homophobic closet republican anyday. He has integrity and speaks the truth. What is wrong w/giving dignity & decent wages back to American workers. CEO’s salaries have increased by the hundred % in the last 10 years. Something’s wrong here. Free market my ass. It doesn’t exist, never did.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:12 pmAM A PAID PROFESSIONAL
I HELPED IMPEACH BILL CLINTON
MADE ALOT OF MONEY TOO
Comment by halbert holmert
Yes Halbie Bayybie, so was Monica Lewinsky, you make me so proud!
January 6th, 2007 at 4:13 pmBTW Halbie Bayybie, I never could get that stain out of your trousers, should I send them to Starr?
January 6th, 2007 at 4:14 pmHal’s mom - your the skirt from GA, the one that made all that money, millions upon millions upon millions of dollars. Aren’t you the lucky shit. We, here at TP, don’t really give a f**k about your money.
Now, back to topic. Gotta love Barney Frank. What’s with these people at FOX? Are they always so rude to their guests? Didn’t their momma’s teach them manners?
Impeach the frat boy cheerleader and save the world.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:20 pmCoffins,
It appears the troll HH has a troll. It’s adorable.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:35 pmFinally someone is taking on Fox Spews. I saw that interview and it was great. Frank is intelligent, knows their BS ambush and put Cavuto on the defensive. Cavuto didnt want him to say that shareholders should have a say in what a CEO makes, at the same time Fox Spews talks about voters having a say in politicians salary. How hypocritical. The same network is cheering Donald Chump. Remember “T stand for TRASH like TRUMP”. This is what I have been railing at for years. Where are the Franks, James Carvilles, Naders and the rest? The leadership is so worried about playing nice they get run over. When people were upset with Kerry’s statement, I said he didn’t go far enough? He should have came back and said Bush’s daughter’s are the perfect example of the rich and privliged not condidering war, but the low income are being targeted by recruiters. Find out where all the recruiting offices are in this country. Put a map of zip codes of Soldiers being enlisted and the income disparity of those zip codes. So fight on Frank!!
January 6th, 2007 at 4:37 pmLove Barney Frank!
January 6th, 2007 at 4:59 pmWith the democrats now controling the legislative branch their first impulse might be to say the hell with faux/fox. Let them interview that bunch of losers from the other party. But I think it’s an opportunity to go toe to toe with the hysterical, crazy, loony section of the country. I think the country could end up with a few less crazy mfs when all is said and done.
January 6th, 2007 at 5:13 pmIT’S THE BILDERBERGS, STUPID!
Folks, it’s all about the Bilderberg Group. It’s the elephant in the room. They’re the super-rich, the super-powerful…
HOW DO WE SUCCESSFULLY OPPOSE THEM?
Until we address this, we address nothing. Right now they’re pulling most of the strings.
How do we fight back and take America’s policies and future away from their control?
Can it even be done at this point?
SOMEBODY TELL ME IT’S NOT TOO LATE, AND WHY IT’S NOT TOO LATE!
January 6th, 2007 at 5:26 pm*
this is hilarious! … another faux snooz jewel… check it out:
FOX NEWS wastes no time in attacking Pelosi
http://www.crooksandliars.com/ 2007/ 01/ 05/ fox-news-wastes-no-time-in-attacking-pelosi/
rich!
January 6th, 2007 at 5:35 pmReading ‘better live right’s’ comment made me laugh. It sounds like the stupid shit used to hear in high school. I’d rather have a ’round-mouthed homo’ speaking truth to power than some fake man-of-the-people apologist in one of the highest offices in the country.
Barney rocks.
I’ll never understand how so many self-professed “God fearin’” Americans can be so tolerant, no, encouraging of greed. (See http://www.nytimes.com/ 2006/ 01/ 15/ nyregion/ 15prosperity.html?ei=5088&en=9d7efe139515771f&ex=1294981200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1168123745-yAwmFn15CpWbKq6OkisKyw)
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have the following two verses prominently posted at all entrances to the New York Stock Exchange? -
“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” - Matthew 19:23-24 (KJV).
January 6th, 2007 at 5:49 pmSorry about the 10 mile long link above! Didn’t realize it would spill over past the right margin. If the link doesn’t work, go to http://www.nyt.com and search for the string “Preaching a Gospel of Wealth in a Glittery Market, New York” It’s the first hit.
January 6th, 2007 at 5:57 pmCavuto is a hack. I wouldn’t bother. The people who watch him are not and never going to be persuaded to see the other side. Again: why bother?
January 6th, 2007 at 6:36 pmwe are very lucky to have a man like Barney Frank representing even a small portion of this country. DC should be full of guys like him, and we’d have alot less to worry about. Senator Frank, any chance you ever seeking higher office?
January 6th, 2007 at 6:39 pmThat’s pretty much what the Bush administration did to the other news programs and it worked well.
But I don’t think Congress has ever seen a camera shot they could leave empty.
January 6th, 2007 at 6:54 pmNiel Cavuto shows what a jerk he is time and again. Go Barney, go. Your intelligence and academic acumen serve you well to show up those , like Niel, who’ve reached far beyond their level of incompetence.
January 6th, 2007 at 7:03 pmI can’t stand that little neil cabooty runt. flunky’s news is full of piss mouth skank traitors.
Dems and all of us should always confront these stinky traitors, every chance we get. In their face tactics are the best way to go. Skanks at flunky new can’t handle it when their foolishness is exposed. am i mad? dam right. I am sick of this S***.
These are the worse kind of traitors. They profit from the death of our troops. While at the same time, not giving the troops what they need.
They don’t care a dam about the troops. These are greedy pigs.
January 6th, 2007 at 7:57 pmI want Journalists to ask the tough questions. But there is a way to question authority while still showing respect to an elected official. I do not know who Neil Cavuto is but apparently he thinks very highly of himself, so much so that he need not exhibit even basic courtesy to a U.S. Congressman. I continue to long for a world that practices civil discourse.
January 6th, 2007 at 8:08 pmHey, no one forces these people to go on faux.
Everyone that goes there knows what is going to happen, so if they want the abuse I say more power to them. It is their choice.
It would be no loss if no democrat appeared on faux but for some reason they feel they have to keep going.
I would not be caught dead watching anything on faux. AND I MEAN ANYTHING.
January 6th, 2007 at 8:23 pmDear God, please, force Hal to let my grip on his “little Barney” loose and have him use me to type all those large letters instead.
I’m cramping up from all the repeated squeezing and it smells really bad down here.
January 6th, 2007 at 8:39 pmThe Dems - and anyone else with an iota of integrity - should simply ignore the propoganda wing of the RNC (Fox “news”). I’ve mapped it off my TV listing entirely.
January 6th, 2007 at 8:51 pmAll I can think of is Barney Frank doing Chris Farley as the motivational speaker Matt Foley, to Cavotuto ” Shut your pie hole!”
January 6th, 2007 at 9:02 pmThere should be caps on CEO salaries!
January 6th, 2007 at 9:07 pm[…] You can pretty much see them all on this segment here. No wonder USA’s all messed up. […]
January 6th, 2007 at 9:14 pmit smells really bad down here.
Comment by halbert’s other hand
Cry me a river.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:30 pm