‘Fox News All-Stars’ Bash Progressive Bloggers As ‘Pungent,’ ‘Profane,’ ‘A Pox’
‘Fox News All-Stars’ Bash Progressive Bloggers As ‘Pungent,’ ‘Profane,’ ‘A Pox’
Last night on Special Edition, the “Fox News All-Stars,” used this week’s Take Back America conference as an oppurtunity to bash progressive bloggers.
Describing bloggers as “a pox,” Roll Call editor Mort Kondracke compared them to right-wing talk radio, charging that they are preventing “American problems” from being solved:
KONDRAKE: They are the leftward pressure on the Democratic Party that the right-wing talk show hosts are on the Republican party. And between the two of them they manage to polarize even further an already polarized politics, making it increasingly difficult to get any American problems solved, like health care, or the war in Iraq, or sensible terrorism policy.
NPR’s Mara Liasson also compared bloggers to the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth because “that was on the internet too.”
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer added that conservative blogs are “more analytical and restrained” while “the more liberal blogs are a lot more pungent and profane.” Watch the entire segment:
During the Take Back America conference, the progressive blogosphere was given the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award. Watch video of the presentation, featuring a speech from Digby.
Transcript:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MATT STOLLER, LIBERAL BLOGGER: Traditionally it’s seen as Democrats who listen to these ideas, but Republicans listen to them as well. So, by arguing, and organizing, and engaging in intellectual debate, and elevating the level of discourse, I think blogs on the left are really changing the political landscape.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUME: Well, they certainly can attract candidates. And this conference, the “Take Back America” conference this week in Washington features what is called, I guess, blog boulevard, which is a comfortable place for the bloggers to sit. And there you see, you get a sense of it. There are plenty of them there, and they are influential with the Democratic Party. They attract prominent candidates, and a number of them, as you heard in Carl Cameron’s report earlier.
Some thoughts on all of this now from Mort Kondracke, editor of “Roll Call”, Mara Liasson, national correspondent for National Public Radio, and the syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, FOX News contributors all.
Well, they do turn out, and they do matter, these bloggers. I mean, the candidates turn out, and the bloggers appear to really matter, don’t they?
MORT KONDRACKE, ROLL CALL: Well, I think they do. And they are the leftward pressure on the Democratic Party that the right-wing talk show hosts are on the Republican party. And between the two of them they manage to polarize even further an already polarized politics, making it increasingly difficult to get any American problems solved, like health care, or the war in Iraq, or sensible terrorism policy.
And all of the candidates are pandering to them. I mean, the democratic candidates are pandering to them just as much as the Republicans candidates are pandering to the right. And they were doing it again today.
HUME: Which group, would you say, is more influential with in their respective party?
KONDRACKE: No, I think a pox on both their houses.
LIASSON: 4.27 Inside their own party?
HUME: Which party is most influenced by its bloggers?
LIASSON: I would say the Democratic Party is most influenced by its bloggers.
I think that the liberal blogosphere has become an important constituency group in the Democratic party, just like the labor unions, or the civil rights groups, the way that Harry Reid, the Senate Majority leader meets with them like he would any other constituency group in the Democratic party.
I think that they have, as Mort said, have been responsible for making the Democrats more partisan, more confrontational, and pushing the party to the left.
HUME: And the sources of their influence, is it their readership or is it something else?
LIASSON: I think it’s both. They have both been able to raise a lot of money.
HUME: The bloggers?
LIASSON: Yes, the bloggers and the internet–
HUME: Are you talking about the bloggers or the activists websites?
LIASSON: Well, I’m talking about both. The activist websites like Moveon.org– Moveon.org along raised $27 million in the last cycle. And Moveon.org members, there are three million of them, every cycle give about $100 million on their own to candidates, all of them, presumably, Democrats.
So they raise a lot of money, and they also create a kind of echo chamber, and they do keep stories alive that would otherwise die. And, look, we saw this on the right, the swift boat veterans, that was on the internet, too.
HUME: But they really started by purchasing ads, old-fashioned TV ads.
LIASSON: Well, Moveon.org purchases ads, too.
HUME: They sure do.
KRAUTHAMMER: Mort’s right that talk radio is conservative and the blogosphere tends to be more liberal. I’m not what that tells us other than conservatives like to talk, and liberals like to type.
But they have a disproportionate influence. It is interesting, there are conservative blogs, but I think, at least the ones I read, they are more analytical and restrained. The more liberal blogs are a lot more pungent and profane, but political. They are actually active in politics, raising the money, and mobilizing the base in a way you don’t have in the right-wing blog.
What is interesting is that this meeting, the “Take Back America” meeting, where all of the candidates have appeared, they have an annual award named after Paul Wellstone, the late liberal senator. It’s their Oscar, it is kind of the best performance by a liberal. And the man who presented it is Ned Lamont. Now who is Ned Lamont? A man who was a creation of the liberal blogs, found, recruited and financed by the blogs.
LIASSON: Or by himself.
KRAUTHAMMER: Yes. But they were the ones who went out there raising the–
HUME: He was the guy who ran against Lieberman.
LIASSON: Beat him in the primaries.
HUME: Beat him in the primaries.
KRAUTHAMMER: His job was to run against and destroy Lieberman. So what he did is he wins the primary, he loses the general election. Which tells you that the overall effect, I think, is that they will pull the Democrats left, which will in the end endanger their objective of winning general elections.
LIASSON: Well, talk radio didn’t endanger Republicans from winning.
KRAUTHAMMER: The country is more conservative than it is liberal. It’s angry with Bush, but, if you look at the ideological shift over the last 30 years, it is to the right, it’s not to the left.
KONDRACKE: Well, the fact is that there are more conservatives in America than there are liberals. The polls all indicate that–
HUME: Isn’t that why liberals refer to themselves now as something else.
KONDRACKE: Progressive.
HUME: Progressive.
KONDRACKE: But the swing group is the independents. And both the nominees, I’m afraid, are going to be so far out, that the independent are going to throw up their hands. Frankly, I would like to see Michael Bloomberg get into this.
HUME: Well, he’s acting like we knew he was going to, he’s reputed the Republican party, or at least disaffiliated himself. He is now unaffiliated as of tonight.
When we come back with the panel we’ll discuss the Energy Bill, what’s in it, what could be left out, and what are its chances. That’s next.
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Awesome! High comedy. Nothing more entertaining than seeing the Aunt Pitty-Pats run for their smelling salts. Especially Kondrake and Krauthammer—have they EVER been relevant?
June 20th, 2007 at 11:50 amBritt Spume leading an ‘intelligent discussion’?
This gives oxymoron a whole new meaning!
June 20th, 2007 at 11:52 amI almost completely agree! We can’t accomplish much since there is no “we” here. If we want to end matters today we would have a look at this, “Both Congress and the President have become “unresponsive†to the “will of the people†and as a result the responsibility of abolishing this government now falls squarely on the citizens shoulders. If Congress will not fire this president than both the entire congress and the President must be fired by the actual people of the land. I would imagine there are Supreme Court Judges that need to go as well.”
Pick a day to have a national strike and let’s do it. This is all circular and actually helps the establishment to continue unrestrained since they know that we are no threat to them from here!
June 20th, 2007 at 11:52 am“We are so tired of the American letting their voice be heard. Don’t they realize they are better off if they don’t have a voice.”
Nice reasoning.
June 20th, 2007 at 11:52 amOH… so THAT’s why the wingtards can’t solve any problems…
I think I finally get it…
June 20th, 2007 at 11:53 amWho gives them the $#&*# right to #$%&ing call me ##$%^& pungent and $#@$$%$ profane!!!
June 20th, 2007 at 11:54 amWho the ##$%$#&* do they think they are!?!!
KRAUTHAMMER: The country is more conservative than it is liberal. It’s angry with Bush, but, if you look at the ideological shift over the last 30 years, it is to the right, it’s not to the left.
Here is a bold faced lie for you.
June 20th, 2007 at 11:55 amIt’s fun to see Mara Liasson field every one of their little party-popper grenades and toss it right back in their faces.
June 20th, 2007 at 11:58 amThe “Left’s†polarization of government? Of the Iraq war? Of healthcare? Guess what: IT’S ‘BOUT TIME.
June 20th, 2007 at 11:59 amYep, it’s a real shame that real people with real opinions have a forum for discussion. Otherwise we would only have the assault on our ears from the truly enlightened commentators and others who would deceive with their agenda, hidden or otherwise.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pmI smell fear.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pmOf course you never hear Faux News going after wingnut talk radio as a “pox”…
June 20th, 2007 at 12:01 pmPungent?? Are these idiots talking about Fred Thompson again? Don’t they know when to leave well enough alone?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:01 pmYou want to know the biggest difference between left-wing blogs and right-wing blogs?
Left-wing blogs make it really, really easy to navigate to their archives and find what they were saying on a certain date, while right-wing blogs make it really, really hard.
If you want to find what the NRO people were saying on, say, Flight Suit Day, you literally have to click back week-by-week. That’s almost 250 mouse clicks!
Atrios, on the other hand, has a handy archives page that allows you to pick whichever week you want to read.
Gee, I wonder why that is.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:01 pmGosh, why didn’t they use all the other “P” adjectives and include putzes?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:02 pmNeorepublicons hates them some free speech.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:03 pmFor the liberal talking head, Mara Liasson could have done more talking…
June 20th, 2007 at 12:04 pmwell, maybe just a smallpox…..
(sorry, couldn’t resist)
Better than the chickenhawk pox which covers the entire body of the Republican party.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:05 pmIt’s fun to see Mara Liasson field every one of their little party-popper grenades and toss it right back in their faces.
Comment by heyzeus
Not true;she is a sellout and does more harm than good.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:05 pmRoger Ailes butters her toast.
Foxnews has NO CREDIBILITY.
Except with Nazi azzhole-lickers of MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL Bush.
Just PURE PROPAGANDA, and by the way, Natalie Holloway is STILL MISSING!!!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:07 pmFOX News… Guardians of free speech?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pmPOX NEWS?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pmFox news advocating for freedom of speech is like Mann Coulter advocating for the 911 widows.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:11 pm“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi
June 20th, 2007 at 12:11 pmLeft-wing blogs make it really, really easy to navigate to their archives and find what they were saying on a certain date, while right-wing blogs make it really, really hard.
If you want to find what the NRO people were saying on, say, Flight Suit Day, you literally have to click back week-by-week. That’s almost 250 mouse clicks!
Atrios, on the other hand, has a handy archives page that allows you to pick whichever week you want to read.
Gee, I wonder why that is.
Not only that, but people like Rush and Coulter and Michelle Malkin have NO FEEDBACK forums like THIS.
Because they SPOUT THEIR LIES, and then depend upon the MORONS to believe WITHOUT QUESTION.
FACTS would just “confuse” the MORONS.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pm“For the liberal talking head, Mara Liasson could have done more talking…”
Comment by NoOneYouKnow
A characteristic device used by neo-con talking heads is to talk firstly, loudly, constantly, and interrupting whenever possible another speaker.
They also begin a response before another particpant has finished their statement, choosing a single element to latch onto and divert the course of the conversation.
This is a mere bullying tactic, and oftentimes the best tactic another particpant can do is to chop each one of their ill-founded utterances out from underneath them.
And, of course, just let the fools have enough rope, and they’ll hang themselves.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pmHey Brit – Why the long face?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pmFOX is Fair & Balanced, right?
Here’s the most insightful investigative report they’ve ever done.
Why was it pulled off the air and “disappeared” from their web site?
The truth revealed:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm
June 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pmMara Liasson’s right wing bias has long been apparent. Even when reporting for NPR. Now she’s just a shill for the right like all the other Fox Noise makers.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:14 pmokay — slightly O/T
but ya’ gotta’ LOVE this!
scooter libby’s actual application for
release pending appeals includes,
IN THE PDF, a linked-video snippet,
hosted at lawrence s. robbins’ lawfirm
website(!) — of andrea mitchell
dissembling on valerie plame wilson’s
“widely-known” covert status!
[it is about 20 seconds long. . .]
let’s help mr. robbins out, and
play his video over and over and
over, giving his servers a good
“running-in“, yeah?
i’ve set an embedded video link
right here — see above. . . it
should autostart if you have windows
media player — it is a 388.wmv
file at his website, in the sub-
directory called /pdf/388.wmv. . .
he he!
oh — i also have some early reaction
June 20th, 2007 at 12:15 pmto the way he has framed the issues. . .
Not true;she is a sellout and does more harm than good.
Roger Ailes butters her toast.
Comment by ∞Ω
Oh, I didn’t know.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:15 pmIs she still with NPR, or not?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:17 pmMaybe I’d better listen to the radio more, instead of spending so much time here…………..
Pox News. I like it. It has a certain “ring” to it…
Gods! Why do ReichWingTards hate the Constitution and American Freedom of Speech???
June 20th, 2007 at 12:17 pmIn my limited experience, righty blogs are a bit more restrained than lefty blogs in terms of comments, but I suspect that is because righties tend to ban dissenting views much more quickly than lefties. More dissent means more conflict, which means more fireworks, ratcheted-up rhetoric and more vulgarity and abusive language.
I mean, look at the trolls here. they’re not interested in debate; all they’re here for is to stir things up and annoy progressives. Some of them even admit this. Yet TP doesn’t ban them. So what do you think is going to come from that? Try playing that game on RedState or Free Republic.
And Mara Liasson is a sell-out. She’s one of those paper liberals favored by Faux News.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:17 pmPungent? Profane? Pox? If I’m being called that by those assclowns on Fox Noise, I know I’m on the right track. Thanks for the encouragement, guys!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:17 pmFOX News… Guardians of free speech?
POX NEWS?
Comment by dantheman
Faux News seems to describe it well.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:17 pm#1 chisholm: LOVE the Aunt Pitty-Pat reference–just sublime.
“Fox news advocating for freedom of speech is like Mann Coulter advocating for the 911 widows.
Comment by dantheman — June 20, 2007 @ 12:11 pm
Yeah–or a biological female’s right to choose!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:18 pmCan someone please mail digby’s speech to The Gang of 500 Morons?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:18 pmMatt and assorted perpetually offended Progs,
You should be FLATTERED!! That conservatives consider the lunatic-Left blogosphere as influential to “progressive politics” as conservative Talk-Radio is quite a compliment. Now stop screaming and kicking, get up off the floor and wipe your runny noses……
June 20th, 2007 at 12:18 pmYpu clowns are falling for Islamic proppaganda.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:20 pmDon’t you realize that FOX is Saudi runned!
This site is Iranian owned.
Hence the Muslims pit Americans against each other.
Wake up AMerica!
Nolo–thanks for that Andrea Mitchell snippet. Fun to watch her get flustered in midsentence as she remembers the way her lawyer told her to talk about her role in the whole thing.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:20 pmDon’t you realize that FOX is Saudi runned!
Comment by The Joker
Which is more annoying… the bad attitude or the bad grammar?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:23 pmI happen to like the pungent part. what does morty bathe in?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:24 pmComment by The Joker
2 days in a row without your meds?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:24 pmYour doctor is gonna be pissed at you, Loon.
Comment by The Joker
Which is more annoying… the bad attitude or the bad grammar?
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — June 20, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
I’m still determined to find the Joker hilarious. The grammar only enhances the stupidity. The attiitude, well, that’s just comedy gold.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:25 pm#20 Natalie Holloway is STILL MISSING!!!??
Hurry! Put out a milk craton!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:26 pmOHH OHHH,
Looks like Joker’s Mom left for work and let him use her computer.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:26 pmIn my limited experience, righty blogs are a bit more restrained than lefty blogs in terms of comments, but I suspect that is because righties tend to ban dissenting views much more quickly than lefties.
Comment by spit take — June 20, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
I’ve tried posting at redstate.com. I made some comments that the Iraq war was a bad idea and was booted off within an hour.
Yes, the trolls here are pretty bad. However, they just show the true face of the opposition.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:26 pmblah, blah, drool, slobber, drool, blah, blah.
Comment by valiant venus
Do you ever actually post anything substantual?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:27 pmBeen booted off RedState as well. It’s a badge of honor.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:29 pmLeftwing and rightwing blogs are NOT the same.
heyzeus :
Having Mara at NPR. is about as handy as having Judy Miller at the NYT..
June 20th, 2007 at 12:30 pmHandy for the Neocons when they want to quote a ‘liberal’ source.
I have long-time friends who proudly claim the Neocon label. Just last night, we had a very lengthy “discussion” (2 neocons vs. me). They used all of the old tricks: straw men, misattribution, latching onto a single word in a statement (as if that were the gist of the argument), and outright refusal to accept what has been documented as being the “truth” (”truth” being the word we then almost haggled over).
The trolls who visit TP and other liberal blogs are like working out with sparring partners before a boxing match - it’s good practice and keeps you on your toes.
Bring them half-wits on!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:31 pmFox is the Pox!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:35 pmFOX is being skinned to the bone by bloggers. Maybe when it’s all over we can rid ourselves of Liasson, too.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:36 pm‘Pungent,’ ‘Profane,’ ‘A Pox’
————————————-
Heh…they went easy on you.
You nutbats are far worse….’Brain-dead’, ‘anti-Semtic’, ‘Hateful’, ‘Juvenile’ & ‘Just plain crazy’ is more like it.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:40 pmThe sooner the American people recognize that The “Republican Party” have for 6 years become the “Obstructionist Party” with no true concern for American, it’s people or the Constitution. Their accomplishers are now the so called media or talking heads and most of Corporate America.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:43 pmAmerica has always enjoyed the blessings and favor of God because of our faith and belief in Jesus Christ and the following of his teachings but the day we went to war under false pretenses (and everyone knows they were false) and the day we tried to envoke God and our empty words of faith as justification, is the day God turned his face from us. There is no way to make a right a wrong without asking the ones you wronged for forgiveness. Until these politicians and media pundits admits to the wrong and asks for forgiveness, no good will come out of what this government has done and “we the People ” have allowed it to do in our names. No matter how much lipstick you put on this pig, it is still a pig!
Nothing but the “righteous shall be saved”
Ringo sure is in rare form today, must be a post-psycho drug treatment energy boost.
It is soooo cute!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:45 pmthe truth hurts!!!!!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:45 pmBetween the two of them (right wing mediots and the “left wing” bloggers) we are polarizing the conversation? Why don’t those know-it-all bloggers just shut up!? Then we can have the conversation the way it was just a decade ago-when Limbaloney and his smear-merchant followers had the only podium in town?
No polarizing there…just one, sweet, wrongwing soliloquy.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:45 pmthey manage to polarize even further an already polarized politics, making it increasingly difficult to get any American problems solved, like health care, or the war in Iraq, or sensible terrorism policy.
Hmmm. Lets see if I have this straight.
The republicans are now blaming the last 6 years of their incompetence, bungling and utter failure, on liberal bloggers?
:|
It boggles the mind.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:46 pmHandy for the Neocons when they want to quote a ‘liberal’ source.
Comment by ∞Ω
got it, thanks!
re-reading the transcript, I see how she was being used as the foil…
June 20th, 2007 at 12:47 pmViolent Vagina,
When you actually have something to contribute, please drop your stool sample off at RedState.org
Thanks much.
We’ve received far too many stool sample this morning from other Neoturds, and are running out of specimen containers.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:48 pmRon Paul for President!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pmA Pox!?
It appears the progrssive blogosphere is on the right track.
Heh.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:50 pmJoker, move away from the keyboard. Good boy. Now fetch! Rollover! Play brain dead, Good boy! Here’s a scooby snack.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:50 pm“Hey, I’m a social disease!”
Great! As long as they are worried enough about us to put this crap on TV, we are on the right track.
Too bad VV is satirically impaired, she actually thinks we’re upset. One of those girls with absolutely no sense of humor. You know, no one like that kind enough to marry them.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:50 pm“I have long-time friends who proudly claim the Neocon label. ”
With friends like that, who needs enemas?
June 20th, 2007 at 12:50 pmYou nutbats are far worse….’Brain-dead’, ‘anti-Semtic’, ‘Hateful’, ‘Juvenile’ & ‘Just plain crazy’ is more like it.
Comment by Ringo — June 20, 2007 @ 12:40 pm
Yup, a classic example of a troll trying to get us to rise to a bait - in this case the label of anti-semitism. Luckily, we are all BORED to death with Ringo, and know a troll when we smell one.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:53 pmIt boggles the mind.
Comment by BARTLEBEE
Aw, com’on, Bartlebee. Look at how powerful we’ve gotten. We now control national politics. We don’t answer to Michael Moore and George Soros, they answer to us!
We’re bringing America to its knees as I type these words!
Bloggers uber alles!!!!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:56 pm“Profane”… they must be referring to one finger salute George W Bush and Dick “f**k you” Cheney.
“Pungent”… good description of Karl Rove.
“Pox”… that would be Fox News spreading lies like a infectious disease over the public airwaves.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:57 pmRoger Ailes butters her buns.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:03 pmI think watching Digby’s speech should be mandatory for these misimformed people. They might learn a thing or two, if they had open minds.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:04 pmWhy is it whenever a republican screws up, they blame it on a liberal?
June 20th, 2007 at 1:05 pmHA!
Sounds like some of the crusty old-guard are feeling the threat of competition from the new-fangled “Internets” tube thingie. No wonder Net Neutrality is becoming such a critical issue…
Wait, does KONDRACKE have a blog too?
June 20th, 2007 at 1:06 pmThink about it you hypocrites. When your talking about FOX news it alright. Only you people would not word things as courteous. I keep forgetting, biased is acceptable as long as it is in your direction.
ROTFL
June 20th, 2007 at 1:10 pmThe Katrina debaucle. The disaster that is Iraq. The prosecutor scandals. The Abramoff corruption. Mark Foley fondling interns. Illegal spying on Americans. The broken military. The over inflated debt to China. Scooter Libby being sent to jail for lying to investigators. The leaking of a CIA operative. Karl Rove under federal investigation for destroying evidence and violating the Hatch act. The President’s policy advisor arrested in a massive shoplifting ring.
All the fault of liberal bloggers…
:|
Who’d've thunk it?
June 20th, 2007 at 1:10 pmAnd if I really cared about being insulted by a bunch of dullards and obvious hacks like those parroting their blather on FOX News I’d be just, so, like, devastated
Poor babies, whiney AND thin-skinned, such heavy burdens to bear for the willfully ignorant and deliberately obtuse Gang Of Idiots AKA FOX “News” All Stars
June 20th, 2007 at 1:11 pmI’m so proud to be called those names by those neocon shills.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:14 pmJust sends goosebumps up my arms!
“Why is it whenever a republican screws up, they blame it on a liberal?”
They have the same psychosis as the Virginia Tech shooter.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:16 pmSounds like us “progressive bloggers” are making an impact… the neocons are fearful of us, but then again, these neocons are afraid of their own shadow. And blaming bloggers for the incompetence of the last 6 years of Republic rule just further demonstrates how these Republics can never admit responsibility for their stupidity and bad behaviors. It’s always about “them” and everyone else is the enemy. Too bad they won’t meet Jesus when they pass onto the other side because Jesus would not have supported these crooks and liars and all their hate mongering.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:18 pmThink about it you hypocrites. When your talking about FOX news it alright. Only you people would not word things as courteous. I keep forgetting, biased is acceptable as long as it is in your direction.
ROTFL
Comment by Happy Guy — June 20, 2007 @ 1:10 pm
Would you mind resubmitting this thought, only in English this time? I’m sure there’s a wealth of useful thought buried here. Thanks.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:21 pm“Thank you, Kondrake, for the compliments. I didn’t realize that I hold so much power over you that you had to make public statements showing your fear of progressive bloggers. WOW!”
June 20th, 2007 at 1:21 pmDear Cough’n - I hope Progs KEEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!! Let’s show America how progressive life is!! My only fear is that progs will contribute to Progs/Dems being defeated in ‘08 by ignorant and congenitally stupid Middle America. Don’t they know Progs desire mediocrity for all? Can’t they understand our goal of One World Peace & Love.
Goood luck progressive bloggers and blogettes - you’re doing a FINE job!
June 20th, 2007 at 1:26 pmDo these people ever tell the truth about anything? What God do they worship because it’s not mine.
It sounds that they want America to fail, how Un-Ameircan.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:33 pmoh yeah, exactly, it’s us that’s keeping things from getting done in this country… not a veto-happy president… not a Congress hobbled by Republicants who don’t care what the voters want, and stuck in the pockets of lobbyists… it’s us grassroots journalists and critics…
all of the profanity in the political world is coming from the right: Cheney, Bush, McCain, etc….
do your homework, a-holes…
June 20th, 2007 at 1:37 pmFunny, Fox News didn’t seem to have a problem with a polarized America in 2002-2005.
Finally figure out you’re on the wrong side of the Emerging Democratic Majority, Fox?
Quick, keep talking out of both sides of your moth about immigration! Maybe you can manage to hold 25% of Latinos for one more election cycle!
It’s ok, GOP. You always were more comfortable as a minority party.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:38 pmyup. fox is right. everyone who opposes bush, Fox, the wars, torture and the like are destroying america.
They want us to lose, they’re communists and with the terrorists.
Or, maybe it’s Fox that hates what America stands for? Peace, freedom??
“The America-Haters Strike Again”
June 20th, 2007 at 1:38 pmhttp://www.populistamerica.com/ the_america_haters_strike_again
The failure has happened. We are now in denial.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:41 pmFAUX NOISE is ignorable, just as the pro-FAUX NOISE trolls on this thread are ignorable.
All you get from FAUX NOISE and the trolls is lies and distractions from the issues.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:06 pmYpu clowns are falling for Islamic proppaganda.
Don’t you realize that FOX is Saudi runned!
This site is Iranian owned.
Hence the Muslims pit Americans against each other.
Wake up AMerica!
Comment by The Joker — June 20, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
Dude, you really do need some help. Are you halucinating yet?
June 20th, 2007 at 2:11 pmFox “News” and right wingers in general make the best whiners.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:12 pmIt’s really hilarious that Fox “News” has to have an on air special in order to “Swift Boat” those evil “Librul” bloggers.
You know you are having the desired effect when big bad Fox “News” has to sic their “All Stars” on you.
You nutbats are far worse….’Brain-dead’, ‘anti-Semtic’, ‘Hateful’, ‘Juvenile’ & ‘Just plain crazy’ is more like it.
Comment by Ringo — June 20, 2007 @ 12:40 pm
So, by using the ‘ before and after each word, isn’t he just paraphrasing somebody else? So, this dumb fu*k can’t even come up with his own insults. Yay for the NeoCons. They have raised a bunch of retards that can’t even call people names without help.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:15 pmThey’re really going to poop their pants when Hillary takes office.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:18 pmNoooo noo no no noooo, Mort. No.You.Don’t. What is obscene, intolerable, obstructive, irrational, counterproductive and destructive to America are the twice unelected felons and their lickspittle minions in our illegally deregulated media who have singlemindedly stolen our nation from us by wagging their hypocritical moralizing fingers at the victims of their constant greed for money, control and power, in order to institute a fascist nazi dictatorship on our American soil. Try selling your enabling apologist garbage to some other nation of sheep. Americans have had it with the criminal GOP Corporatist programme of usurpation through covering up lies by the blaming of the victims of the lies.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:28 pmthis only shows that the bloggers are having an impact and growing stronger. poor fox..they must be feeling the pain.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:39 pmHeres my response to Fox News…
Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgHEq33HHOg
Power To People, Our Rights,Our Health & OUR Public Airwaves
June 20th, 2007 at 2:53 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUERbWzviLc
Don’t have enough time to read all the comments but I’m sure they’re mostly intelligent and passionate as always.
Just wanted to say that it appears that Fox and “Friends” are feeling threatened! Good!!!!!
June 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm#93 - I broke down and read some comments and Perry makes a good point.
I myself don’t care much for Hillary (too hawkish) but if she wins it would be fun to watch all the good ol’ boys get all red in the face. But, remember, that Murdoch is going to do some fund-raising for Hillary.
Rupert Murdoch Loves Hillary Clinton
June 20th, 2007 at 3:10 pmhttp://www.cbsnews.com/ stories/ 2006/ 05/ 09/ politics/ main1600694.shtml
Perhaps it’s time for us to follow in the steps of Ghandi. The sit down by the Indians had an impact on the British occupation of India.
We, the people, might want to consider getting the “blue flu” for a day or two.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:18 pmNPR: Nice Polite Republicans
NPR: National Pentagon Radio
Mara Liasson: Sellout
Fox News: The disgrace of this great nation
June 20th, 2007 at 3:19 pmOMG! I never thought the Faux News crowd disliked liberals! Shocking!
June 20th, 2007 at 3:31 pmMan, they sure can dish the garbage on Fox Noise, but they take offense at the fact that nobody believes that garbage anymore. The fact is , a new reality has been created with free thinking, and well researched blog sites. Noise Fox should cop to a case of Blogger Envy.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:38 pmAt last the press is free again.
Be very very quiet we are hunting Liberals bloggers. It’s left season no right season no left season no right season no right season no left season.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:39 pmFNC the most watched cable news channel
June 20th, 2007 at 3:39 pmToo funny:
KRAUTHAMMER: Mort’s right that talk radio is conservative and the blogosphere tends to be more liberal. I’m not what that tells us other than conservatives like to talk, and liberals like to type.
Simple answers to simple question: It tells us that the idiot wing of the GOP can’t read and write….
June 20th, 2007 at 3:44 pmFNC the most watched cable news channel
Comment by Chris
And this supposed to mean what?
June 20th, 2007 at 3:45 pmsounds like those righties are thin-skinned sissies
June 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pmGoood luck progressive bloggers and blogettes - you’re doing a FINE job!
Comment by valiant venus — June 20, 2007 @ 1:26 pm
If we were doing such a “fine job”, you’d be gone by now.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:19 pmBut at least we got your panties in a knot.
I imagine thats worth something.
And it is fun to watch you guys cry.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:23 pmHey, look at me! I’m pungent! I’m profane! And all simply by posting this post on a blog site.
I actually do appreciate the Talking Heads on FOX selling us short and underestimating our intellect, our organization, our passion, our power.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:36 pmI smell fear.
Comment by smafdy — June 20, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
June 20th, 2007 at 4:42 pm“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.†Mahatma Gandhi
June 20th, 2007 at 4:45 pmFaux News = Faux Profits
June 20th, 2007 at 5:01 pmFOX is being skinned to the bone by bloggers. Maybe when it’s all over we can rid ourselves of Liasson, too.
Comment by LandSurveyor — June 20, 2007 @ 12:36 pm
June 20th, 2007 at 5:38 pm“And to the masters,
June 20th, 2007 at 5:39 pmWe are the rabble,
We are the swinish multitude,
But we can rearrange the Colors,
Of the Red and the White and the Blue”
- The Men They Couldn’t Hang
Ya gotta love it. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
June 20th, 2007 at 6:35 pmFalse News seems to be projecting.
June 20th, 2007 at 7:21 pmKRAUTHAMMER:
. . . But they have a disproportionate influence. It is interesting, there are conservative blogs, but I think, at least the ones I read, they are more analytical and restrained. The more liberal blogs are a lot more pungent and profane, but political. They are actually active in politics, raising the money, and mobilizing the base in a way you don’t have in the right-wing blog.
Seems to me, the “liberal bloggers” are the ones actually involved in politics, as opposed to just being cajoled into writing something to someone about some pet project they (think) they care about. “liberal bloggers” are the ones who actually have a sense of the real world, as opposed to an ideological concept.
June 20th, 2007 at 7:25 pmThe people at Faux are REALLY upset that the bloggers convinced the Dem’s not to have the debates on their station. Their undies are in a bundle, and it isn’t because the progressives use vulgarity. It is because there is an outlet on the news they don’t control. It is like the old comic book scene of the weakling on the beach. Faux has been kicking sand in our eyes for years, now they whine when the tables turn. (Did you see the NY Times is doing an expose on Murdoch? Oh, the joy, the joy!)
June 20th, 2007 at 8:06 pmPOX “news”
WE vomit, YOU lick it up!!!
June 20th, 2007 at 8:20 pmKeep making fun of FOX news all you want. They are laughing all the way to the bank.
ROTFL
Can you say ratings?
ROTFL
June 21st, 2007 at 8:07 amThe accusors are jealous. Calling bloggers, [ ‘Pungent,’ ‘Profane,’ ‘A Pox’ ] suggests the bloggers are a political faction.
in america, that is soemthing to be proud of. Congratultions bloggers, you’ve successfully annoyed the lazy establishment into noticing you and daring to call you names: What they should be doing to assert power, but have refused.
June 21st, 2007 at 1:52 pm“Keep making fun of FOX news all you want. They are laughing all the way to the bank.”
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:29 amPerhaps, but they aren’t having to make as many trips as they used to.
http://www.mediabistro.com/ tvnewser/ ratings/ aug_s_total_viewers_vs_aug_2005_42895.asp
Funny how conservatives don’t quite get this principle when it comes to the New York Times, for instance.
June 23rd, 2007 at 4:01 pmAs Atrios might say: “The stupid. It burns!”
These guys are like a bunch of senile cave men sitting around complaining about how that newfangled “fire” thing is screwing up their world.
June 25th, 2007 at 9:42 pmI may be a bit profane, but at least I’m not a pathetic babbling meat-stick on the FOX Propaganda Channel.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:42 am