Comments on: CBS VP On Batiste: ‘The Viewer Might Have The Feeling Everything He Says Is Anti-Bush’ http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:15:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: 'notheronebitthe dust http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3804618 'notheronebitthe dust Tue, 15 May 2007 20:51:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3804618

]]> By: 'notheronebitthe dust http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3804608 'notheronebitthe dust Tue, 15 May 2007 20:48:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3804608 CBS = FOX, no difference! CBS = FOX, no difference!

]]> By: pazooter http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799568 pazooter Sat, 12 May 2007 10:23:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799568 CBS, once a respected name in news programming. Now a sycophant of the Bush plutocracy. CBS, once a respected name in news programming. Now a sycophant of the Bush plutocracy.

]]> By: stealth http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799524 stealth Sat, 12 May 2007 06:07:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799524 When you have senior military lifetime rebubicans ragging on this administration, you know the wheels are coming off. And remember, it's not just one. How many former generals have criticized this admin? Unprecedented... When you have senior military lifetime rebubicans ragging on this administration, you know the wheels are coming off. And remember, it’s not just one. How many former generals have criticized this admin? Unprecedented…

]]> By: M. Peach Cheney http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799494 M. Peach Cheney Sat, 12 May 2007 05:01:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799494 Batiste remains a die-hard Republican? And I thought he was a pretty smart guy. I stand corrected. Batiste remains a die-hard Republican? And I thought he was a pretty smart guy.

I stand corrected.

]]> By: Bcre8ve http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799365 Bcre8ve Sat, 12 May 2007 02:49:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799365 More Bushie CBS history: <blockquote>When it comes to genuflecting before Bush, Viacom/CBS doesn’t have to take a backseat to anyone. CBS News Managing Editor Dan Rather cast aside all pretense of journalistic integrity when he told David Letterman, “George Bush is the President. He makes the decisions, and, you know, it’s just one American, wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where. And he’ll make the call."</blockquote> (<a href="http://makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/020131_Payoff.htm" rel="nofollow">From "Podvin on the Media 1/31/02"</a>) What we're getting from CBS is just more of the same - only now we're aware of it. More Bushie CBS history:

When it comes to genuflecting before Bush, Viacom/CBS doesn’t have to take a backseat to anyone. CBS News Managing Editor Dan Rather cast aside all pretense of journalistic integrity when he told David Letterman, “George Bush is the President. He makes the decisions, and, you know, it’s just one American, wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where. And he’ll make the call.”

(From “Podvin on the Media 1/31/02″)

What we’re getting from CBS is just more of the same – only now we’re aware of it.

]]> By: Uncle Ho http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799330 Uncle Ho Sat, 12 May 2007 02:22:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799330 anti-Bush = anti-Hitler. anti-Bush = anti-Hitler.

]]> By: marlow http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799285 marlow Sat, 12 May 2007 01:58:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799285 No, mister VP, Ihave the feeling everything YOU say is PRO-Bush. No, mister VP, Ihave the feeling everything YOU say is PRO-Bush.

]]> By: Susan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799276 Susan Sat, 12 May 2007 01:52:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799276 Then Ms. Mason and her cohorts are asses. General Batiste is a courageous man who is speaking from experience. Frankly, the way that Bush has bungled this ill-thought war, I think that the General is being kind. Then Ms. Mason and her cohorts are asses. General Batiste is a courageous man who is speaking from experience. Frankly, the way that Bush has bungled this ill-thought war, I think that the General is being kind.

]]> By: Bluedog49 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799096 Bluedog49 Fri, 11 May 2007 23:50:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799096 Valiant: "what you could learn in a book isn’t often taught - morality." How utterly, pathetically ironic that a defender of the most AMORAL administration in memory can presume to lecture us on morality. Valiant: “what you could learn in a book isn’t often taught – morality.”

How utterly, pathetically ironic that a defender of the most AMORAL administration in memory can presume to lecture us on morality.

]]> By: PrahaPartizan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799093 PrahaPartizan Fri, 11 May 2007 23:48:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799093 Why shouldn't anyone watching a consultant who praises Dubya's policies to heavens conclude that <i>"expert"</i> has quaffed way too much Kewl-Aid and is totally biased toward Dubya and the neocons. Doesn't that make such an <i>"expert"'s</i> opinion and commentary suspect too. Are we to understand that only one viewpoint can be believed? Why bother having any <i>"experts"</i> on at all? Just let Katie read her script. Why shouldn’t anyone watching a consultant who praises Dubya’s policies to heavens conclude that “expert” has quaffed way too much Kewl-Aid and is totally biased toward Dubya and the neocons. Doesn’t that make such an “expert”’s opinion and commentary suspect too. Are we to understand that only one viewpoint can be believed? Why bother having any “experts” on at all? Just let Katie read her script.

]]> By: Juan C http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799079 Juan C Fri, 11 May 2007 23:41:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799079 <blockquote>‘The Viewer Might Have The Feeling Everything He Says Is Anti-Bush’</blockquote> And that is wrong because ... ? Why dont you make him a King and impaled all people that want a Republic?

‘The Viewer Might Have The Feeling Everything He Says Is Anti-Bush’

And that is wrong because … ? Why dont you make him a King and impaled all people that want a Republic?

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799070 big papa Fri, 11 May 2007 23:39:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799070 I’ve read plenty of books... Comment by valiant venus #101 virulent venereal, "My Pet Goat" and "The Little Engine Who Could"... ...are not considered "scholarly" works... I’ve read plenty of books…

Comment by valiant venus #101

virulent venereal,

“My Pet Goat” and “The Little Engine Who Could”…

…are not considered “scholarly” works…

]]> By: Juan C http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3799035 Juan C Fri, 11 May 2007 23:23:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3799035 <em>I’ve read plenty of books - - UNFORTUNATELY what you could learn in a book isn’t often taught - morality. Comment by valiant venus</em> Whatever. I’ve read plenty of books – - UNFORTUNATELY what you could learn in a book isn’t often taught – morality.
Comment by valiant venus

Whatever.

]]> By: Bluedog49 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3798961 Bluedog49 Fri, 11 May 2007 22:46:15 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3798961 Bottom line: CBS News is last place in the ratings. Their corporate board is completely clueless. They are the ones who thought it might be a winner to make the evening news "cute" with little Katie. Their ratings have tanked. They WISH they had the same ratings they had when Rather was behind the desk. On another note, little M12 blames the 14th Amendment for the fact that corporations have the rights of individuals. Funny, conservatives always complain about activist judges. Does any sane person believe that the people who voted to ratify the 14th Amendment thought it pertained to corporations? Here's a modest proposal: if corporations want to be treated as individuals, they cannot own other corporations (that would be slavery) and they must cease to exist after about 75 years (individuals die). Bottom line: CBS News is last place in the ratings. Their corporate board is completely clueless. They are the ones who thought it might be a winner to make the evening news “cute” with little Katie. Their ratings have tanked. They WISH they had the same ratings they had when Rather was behind the desk.

On another note, little M12 blames the 14th Amendment for the fact that corporations have the rights of individuals. Funny, conservatives always complain about activist judges. Does any sane person believe that the people who voted to ratify the 14th Amendment thought it pertained to corporations? Here’s a modest proposal: if corporations want to be treated as individuals, they cannot own other corporations (that would be slavery) and they must cease to exist after about 75 years (individuals die).

]]> By: Fed the Fcuk Up! http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3798870 Fed the Fcuk Up! Fri, 11 May 2007 22:08:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3798870 #101, Great. Now go explain to Iraqis (the real kind and not the US puppets in the green zone) the morality of the US "business" there. Or, how about explaining to Africans the morality of ignoring the continuing genocide while "capitalizing" on the arms sales. Yes, morality is a wonderful thing. Too bad most Americans are so delusional that they think murdering innocent people for the sake of personal luxury is a moral act. But go on preaching your hateful brand of "morality", I'm sure some skinheads would agree with you. #101,

Great. Now go explain to Iraqis (the real kind and not the US puppets in the green zone) the morality of the US “business” there.

Or, how about explaining to Africans the morality of ignoring the continuing genocide while “capitalizing” on the arms sales.

Yes, morality is a wonderful thing. Too bad most Americans are so delusional that they think murdering innocent people for the sake of personal luxury is a moral act. But go on preaching your hateful brand of “morality”, I’m sure some skinheads would agree with you.

]]> By: erock http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3798839 erock Fri, 11 May 2007 21:59:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3798839 The most vicious anti-Semitism these days emanates from the Left…..I will give your tortured personality no further thought………. Comment by valiant venus — May 11, 2007 @ 4:27 pm Evidence for this == null. Not pro-Israeli != anti-semite. The most vicious anti-Semitism these days emanates from the Left…..I will give your tortured personality no further thought……….

Comment by valiant venus — May 11, 2007 @ 4:27 pm

Evidence for this == null. Not pro-Israeli != anti-semite.

]]> By: valiant venus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3798781 valiant venus Fri, 11 May 2007 21:44:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3798781 IMORGAN - Thanks for the tips on "clever" literary "devices" - so if I want to tell a joke about black slaves I should bring up the KKKK? Forgive me, some things are "funny" in ways I'd not considered....15 million in concentration camps - only 6 million Jews "hahahaha"...And can we tell a joke about the 21 million dead Russians????? And how about that pre-cursor to the fun-filled children's game "Hide and Seek"....they used to call it "Hde the Jew in the Attic". heh-heh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've read plenty of books - - UNFORTUNATELY what you could learn in a book isn't often taught - morality. IMORGAN – Thanks for the tips on “clever” literary “devices” – so if I want to tell a joke about black slaves I should bring up the KKKK? Forgive me, some things are “funny” in ways I’d not considered….15 million in concentration camps – only 6 million Jews “hahahaha”…And can we tell a joke about the 21 million dead Russians????? And how about that pre-cursor to the fun-filled children’s game “Hide and Seek”….they used to call it “Hde the Jew in the Attic”. heh-heh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve read plenty of books – - UNFORTUNATELY what you could learn in a book isn’t often taught – morality.

]]> By: Saywho http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3798765 Saywho Fri, 11 May 2007 21:39:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3798765 <em>Saywho - Probably true, but you read way too much into my very simple parody post. Comment by Parrotlover77 — May 11, 2007 @ 5:14 pm</em> It is important that we realize that terrorism is just a cover for... Hi, We will be taking your oil today and every day till there is just about none left. If you try to stop us we will tell the rest of the world that your religion is to blame or your skin color is to blame. Then we will kill you like the Spawn of Satan that you are. We will rape your women and even your kids! Sincerely Uncle SAM PS: Enjoy Democracy! Saywho – Probably true, but you read way too much into my very simple parody post.

Comment by Parrotlover77 — May 11, 2007 @ 5:14 pm

It is important that we realize that terrorism is just a cover for…

Hi,

We will be taking your oil today and every day till there is just about none left. If you try to stop us we will tell the rest of the world that your religion is to blame or your skin color is to blame. Then we will kill you like the Spawn of Satan that you are. We will rape your women and even your kids!

Sincerely Uncle SAM

PS: Enjoy Democracy!

]]> By: Parrotlover77 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/comment-page-3/#comment-3798720 Parrotlover77 Fri, 11 May 2007 21:14:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/batiste-cbs-update/#comment-3798720 Saywho - Probably true, but you read way too much into my very simple parody post. Saywho – Probably true, but you read way too much into my very simple parody post.

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