CNN Dumps Michael Moore For Paris Hilton
CNN Dumps Michael Moore For Paris Hilton
Yesterday, CNN proudly announced that it has scored the first post-jail interview with Paris Hilton. To make room for Paris on Wednesday, CNN canceled its interview with Michael Moore about his new health care documentary SiCKO:
Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton will give her first post-jail interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Wednesday, the show’s spokeswoman said on Saturday.
“She will be on for the hour,” Bridget Leininger told Reuters. “We had (filmmaker) Michael Moore originally scheduled for that time.”
CNN, the “most trusted name in Paris news,” continues to sink to new lows in its “assault on reason.” Hilton is the latest “serial obsession,” though the network recently hired a reporter devoted to “covering things like Britney, as well as the Michael Jackson memorabilia.” Now CNN has ditched coverage of America’s broken health care system in favor of an hour-long interview of an incarcerated socialite.
ThinkProgress spoke with Moore’s team, who confirmed that CNN has not yet rescheduled the interview. SiCKO, which opens nationwide this Friday, sheds light on the health care crisis that the media covers poorly, when it covers it at all.
UPDATE: ThinkProgress has confirmed that Moore’s interview with Larry King has been rescheduled for Friday.
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This is not an accident, folks. Talk about deliberately trivializing an important issue.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:16 pmWhat’s more sick than Paris?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:17 pmIt’s all about ratings. They are just responding to what viewers would prefer. I blame the general populous.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:17 pmThis is not an accident, folks. Talk about deliberately trivializing an important issue.
Exactly spot on, why aren’t more networks than CNN interviewing Paris?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:18 pmHmmmmm — health care is irrelevant. Shallow socialites impact our daily lives. Up is down. Black is white. War is peace. Journalism is dead.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:19 pmIf ever anyone wanted to understand how idiots like Shrub could get elected in this country, look no further. We are a nation preoccupied with disposable culture, fifteen-minute celebrity, and instant material gratification. Add that to the anti-intellecutalism proliferating for the last three decades in the United States, and you have the recipe for an uninformed, apathetic, magpie electorate. Disgusting.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:21 pmI hate to think that this drivel is what the masses prefer! But, you’re probably right. I’m still going to e-mail CNN and let them know that they do have viewers with IQs above 40, and that we are highly disappointed. Please do the same- e-mail Celebrity News Network and tell them that you’re not watching this garbage. Maybe they’ll get the hint.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:22 pmOr maybe not…
Anyone who will watch this upcoming show is an idiot. But CNN’s ratings will soar.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:22 pmParis does look better in a mini-dress then Michael Moore. Just my two cents hehe
June 25th, 2007 at 1:24 pmmissmolly
Hmmmmm — health care is irrelevant. Shallow socialites impact our daily lives. Up is down. Black is white. War is peace. Journalism is dead.
I used to argue (in a friendly fashion) with the bouncer at my local pub on if politics or sports was actually more important in his life. He was a HS coach, and it was a sports bar, so his argument was sports was his day job, and that the crowd at the bar was dependent on the games that were on that night, and consequently his share of the tips. I couldn’t get him to see past that into taxes or wars or the bills/issues that the dominant party gets to bring up in the congress.
And the sad part was he was actually knowledgeable (as compared to the average American) in politics and voted regularly, he just thought sports was more important to his life.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:24 pmIdiots probably buy more of the products advertised on CNN than we do. It’s all about the green.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:24 pm*chuckle*
#1: Well, duh. Of course it is.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:26 pmI’d personally dump Micheal Moore for Paris also. But it likely wouldn’t last.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:26 pm**slits wrists**
June 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pmParis does look better in a mini-dress then Michael Moore. Just my two cents hehe
CORRECTION — Paris does look better in a mini-dress than Michael Moore. Just my two cents hehe
This is just one more small indication of how “dumbed-down” the population has become.
It is “a thousand small cuts” that has laid this nation low.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pmComment by SGT Higgins — June 25, 2007 @ 1:07 pm
After Mizz Hilton says, “That’s hot” what’s Larry going to do for the rest of the hour. Oh I know, drool and flip his dentures in his mouth just like every other day.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pmI had read that the tabloid news media was boasting that they were boycotting the latest P. Hilton event…but glad to hear that CNN had to cave, showing how irrelevant CNN is to real news coverage.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:30 pmParis who?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:30 pmForTruth
Interesting thing:
The paper where I work released a new daily not-too-long-ago. They did all the market research and all of that to tell us what people wanted.
The thing people identified as wanting most in a new paper was business news. Breaking news actually came second to business news.
The thing people wanted least, was celebrity news.
I get the feeling there might just be a reason why America’s news industry is losing money right now.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:33 pmWell, damn, folks. What’s more important than ParisNicholeSpearsBradJolieOJ? You all just got YOUR priorities mixed up. I mean, so what if the entire medical corporation maybe screwing Americans, at least Larry is taking the compassionate high road by allowing us a brief glimpse into this poor tortured soul’s ungodly hard time in such a horrible, make-up free place. Thank you, Larry. I’ll be sure to watch this life/death, meaningful interview. Hell, I may even record it.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:35 pmThe assault on reason by the corporate fascists continues.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:35 pmYes. Damn those businessmen and corporations who create jobs and wealth.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:36 pmMAF54
Non-sequitor much?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:38 pmIt’s official now: CNN is on its way to being FOX lite and LOSING MORE VIEWERS!
I will never watch them again.
MSNBC here I come!
June 25th, 2007 at 1:39 pmEveryone should jam his phone lines to ask why he dumped mike for paris.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:39 pmThis is what the American Idol culture breeds – mass stupidity.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:40 pmHey, Michael Moore knows how to roll with the punches,
I’m guessing he’ll turn this into another documentary….
Seeing as how PearAss has supposedly gotten religion,
shortly after receiving mental health counseling,
Mike can do an expose on the Evangelical Christian Mind-Wiping Control Conspiracy!
Any suggestions for the films title?
Psycho has been taken….
huh…
SiCKO….. PSyCHO…..
I never made that little connection before….
June 25th, 2007 at 1:40 pmMaybe it’s because they get more audience with Paris than they’d get with Michael.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:41 pmWhy watch ANY of it??? The only surprise here is that Think Progress thinks this is blogworthy. Why keep hanging on to the snapping turtle?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:41 pmIt’s funny, I remember a scene from Moore’s other film, “The Big One,” where the blimp was slumped in his car stuffing some burger or fish fillet down his throat. These days, he’s complaining about “health care.”
A good sequence of events. Inevitable, really.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:45 pmDear Larry King (submitted with cnn.com web site),
So. Michael Moore makes a movie on the health crisis facing this nation. Nurses nationwide show up to stand with him for improved healthcare. We have MILLIONS of Americans with NO health insurance. We have a crisis facing us that is out of control.
So you throw him off the show for Paris Hilton. Whose claims to fame pretty much boil down to 1) being born rich and 2) spreading her legs and humping her boyfriend in a video that was widely circulated on the Internet.
Why do I not watch CNN, or any of the mainstream media anymore? Perhaps because I, like the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, VOMIT at what I see you have turned the media into: panem and circenses, bread and circus to manipulate the ignorant masses, sexual titillation, tabloid journalism, nothing exists if there is not a picture of it being blown up or beaten or in tears.
History is not going to treat the role of the mainstream media during these dark hours of our history kindly. Nor is it going to treat the enablers of this descent into an Orwellian media nightmare kindly either.
Frankly, you make me want to puke.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:47 pmIt’s funny, I remember a scene from Moore’s other film, “The Big One,†where the blimp was slumped in his car stuffing some burger or fish fillet down his throat. These days, he’s complaining about “health care.â€
He’s complaining about health care for the poor. He can afford all the open heart bypass surgery’s he’ll ever need.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:48 pmlet them know how much we appreciate this….
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
June 25th, 2007 at 1:49 pmWould you expect any less from one of the propaganda wings of the right?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:50 pmMAF54
Market research would probably show the exact reverse.
Think about it: You can have a guy who is famous for stirring controversy, who puts forward solid arguments in the form of film, who has a way with words, and who is popularly considered one of the great influences of his era.
Or you can have a vaguely unnatractive girl who is famous for being famous.
Which do you pick?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:50 pmPriorities.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:52 pmIn case it has slipped anyone’s attention, CNN is owned by the same parent company as TMZ.com, the celebrity webloid that is hyping all things Paris.
Note also that King is also devoting tonight’s program to Paris. That’s 40% (so far) of his airtime this week. Look for King to make numerous citations of TMZ in both programs. It is all about cross-promotion. And be on the lookout for other news that is overshadowed by this tripe. I have been suspicious of this tactic and wrote a piece addressing it last week:
The Art Of Misdirection
June 25th, 2007 at 1:52 pmWhich do you pick?
Comment by Bruce Gorton — June 25, 2007 @ 1:50 pm
The man is a proponent of pedophiles, who do you think it’ll pick?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:52 pmWouldn’t you?
June 25th, 2007 at 1:52 pmIt’s official now: CNN is on its way to being FOX lite and LOSING MORE VIEWERS!
Comment by FunMe — June 25, 2007 @ 1:39 pm
Good point. CNN is going after the Faux News demographic, but Faux watchers will never trust CNN and will never shift allegiences. The only role CNN will play is to serve as corraborating “news” source for RW media.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:52 pmThat you thought of the latter speaks volumes.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:53 pmForTruth, This has NOTHING to do with ratings. Donohue’s revived show in 2003 proved that canard to be false.
Phil Donohue was given a talk show on MSNBC and it quickly became that outlet’s top rated show, because he was talking about important things in the lead up to Bush’s immoral war on the civilians of Iraq.
His show was cancelled in mid-season at the top of the ratings charts because the corporate overseers at MSNBC are not in the business of informing We, The People. They wanted propanagnda, they wanted to make sure the president’s lies about Iraq were pushed on us unchallenged by reality.
These media outlets are all in the busniess of diseminating blatantly false propaganda in order to prevent We, The People from demanding our government change ‘business as usual’.
CNN ordered Moore off the air and replaced him with Paris Hilton specifically to preclude any discussion of how egregiously wrong US health care really is.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:53 pmThe man is a proponent of pedophiles, who do you think it’ll pick?
Comment by Namtillaku — June 25, 2007 @ 1:52 pm
As a male human being who pays taxes, I resent your usage of the word “man.”
June 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pmit’s not like michael moore needs any more interviews either. he’s making the rounds just fine, and by the time his film is out, paris will fade back into her pampered existence, and no one will care.
all in all, this is not important. if you want a dedicated news outlet, why the f*ck would you turn on CNN? it’s ratings-driven television…..
June 25th, 2007 at 1:57 pmThe Republic of Stupidity
June 25th, 2007 at 1:58 pmParis Hilton is an Important Issue to the Liberal Masses that CNN Broadcast to you Liberal Dummy .
paris will fade back into her pampered existence, and no one will care.
Comment by bill
Good lord, man, are you stating unequivocally, for the record, that “Paris Hilton Wears Pampers”?
Quick, send a news crew!! We’ve got to get to the BOTTOM of this story!!!
June 25th, 2007 at 2:01 pmMSNBC here I come!
Comment by FunMe
You and Wesley Clark, baby!
June 25th, 2007 at 2:01 pmAnyone else catch his debut on Olbermann?
He was physically relaxed, and had this oh-so-”aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh” sense about him…
More people have seen Paris Hilton’s movies than Moore’s.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:02 pmbill
It was once, not too long ago, the best news channel in the world. It was America’s great homage to the truth, something Americans could be proud of. CNN was, and CNN International still is to some extent, a news institution respected worldwide.
Now it is turning into a source of national shame as the rest of the world slowly switches over to BBC and Sky, CNN International’s English competitors.
Is it any wonder that Americans, who once had this great symbol of America’s fight for the turth, are a mite bit annoyed at how it is being turned into a celebrity news rag?
June 25th, 2007 at 2:02 pmParis Hilton is an Important Issue to the Liberal Masses that CNN Broadcast to you Liberal Dummy .
Comment by FDR
Riiiiight, FDR, that’s why we all complain about this sort of “yellow journalism”. I’d suspect you’re probably quite familiar w/ “yellow stains” and I’d make a comment about “Depends”, but hey, they weren’t invented when you were alive? So, uh, what did you do about that nasty little incontinence problem?
June 25th, 2007 at 2:03 pmTeach them a lesson…just say “no” to watching.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:03 pmIs his audience demo the retired, pee-their-pants crowd only, OR WHAT?
He and his topics are TOTALLY IRRELEVANT.
Comment by Not Canadian
Absolutely, but I have to believe Michael Moore talking about health care would be more interesting to them than what’s kind of waxing and dye job Paris got as soon as she was released from prison. I don’t my mother is getting a bikini wax any time soon.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:03 pmMore people have seen Paris Hilton’s movies than Moore’s.
Comment by Unvarnished Truth
And this means what?
June 25th, 2007 at 2:04 pmSo CNN rewards bad behavior. There are people who get out of jail everyday. Whats to talk about? Stainless steel commodes? Iron bars? Soybean meals? Unsweetened Kool-aid? The lack of pillows? Using the mattress to force the water out of the commode so one can use it as a means of communications between floors?
I hate to think how many millions of young women that are gonna watch this wealthy welfare recipient be rewarded for breaking the law and possibly imitate such behavior. Will Madonna and Brittney will soon be re-inventing themselves as inmates as well?
What a non-story. What a travesty.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:04 pmBreaking News: CNN has cancelled the Paris Hilton interview to spend the entire hour reporting on the Downing Street Memos, the Loss of Habeas Corpus, Posse Comitus being rescinded, Karl Rove’s Voter Caging lists of minorities and Bush’s private right-wing Army Blackwater.
Damn, where are my medications? I gotta call my doctor and get a refill. I start hallucinating sometimes.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:05 pmI gotta call my doctor and get a refill. I start hallucinating sometimes.
Comment by Larry from C
You need to learn how to share, dude…
June 25th, 2007 at 2:07 pmSo they replaced one non story with another. Paris is just as interesting as some director looking to turn the USA into a new socialist state.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:08 pmAs a male human being who pays taxes, I resent your usage of the word “man.â€
Comment by Bruce Gorton — June 25, 2007 @ 1:56 pm
Sorry, yeah I got the it part at the end, but I didn’t catch the man part before I posted :(
June 25th, 2007 at 2:10 pmNo wonder 41 percent of Americans are ignorant stooges
June 25th, 2007 at 2:11 pmParis Hilton is an Important Issue to the Liberal Masses that CNN Broadcast to you Liberal Dummy. Comment by FDR
If Paris is a Liberal then I am a Holy Saint. I suppose FDR that you forget that CNN stands for Christian News Network. =)
June 25th, 2007 at 2:11 pmRight Wing Rebuttal:
“Well, Paris is much more attractive than Michael, therefore ratings will skyrocket!”
Let’s see. Health care crisis in America? Bad (for ratings)
June 25th, 2007 at 2:13 pmCelebrity whore’s tell all stories about prison? Excellent (for ratings)
Pregnant white female possibly murdered by African-American boyfriend? Excellent (for ratings)
Rich Asian female murdered for her necklace by a white plumber? Bad (for ratings), and no national exposure.
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070625/NEWS04/70625020
Sadly, our priorities are screwed up.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!! WAKE THE F’ UP!!!
More people have seen Paris Hilton’s movies than Moore’s.
Comment by Unvarnished Truth
But nobody paid to see Paris’ movie, except you I guess.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:13 pmDamn, where are my medications? I gotta call my doctor and get a refill. I start hallucinating sometimes.
Comment by Larry from C
If I had ppositive hallucinations like that I wouldn’t take the medicine. Hey, pass it over here.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:14 pmWhat about the missing white girl in Aruba? Why isn’t she being interviewed?
June 25th, 2007 at 2:21 pmComment by Larry from C — June 25, 2007 @ 2:05 pm
Larry: I’ll have what you’re having…
June 25th, 2007 at 2:23 pmwhat DOES the C in CNN stand for?
Corporate? Christian? Clinton?Crappy?
i forget….
June 25th, 2007 at 2:27 pmMore people have seen Paris Hilton’s movies than Moore’s. Comment by Unvarnished Truth
I never watched her movie or her Paris’ version of the Jackass show. I seldom watch TV and when Paris does come on I change the channel. I can know all about her and the Alien babies in the checkout line without ever reading the tabloid trash. And thats exactly where interviews with Paris belongs: In the tabloids.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:28 pmWow. A completely worthless story being continued by CNN and instead of putting Paris against someone who will ask her real, relevant questions about her spoiled sense of priveledge and why we should believe she’s “seen the light” after only 3 weeks of prison, she goes on Larry King, master of the softball question.
In fact, King’s questions are soft idiotic and pointless most of the time I wouldn’t even call them softballs. More like verbal farts. He’ll ask her awesome questions like “how are you”, “why is the media so fascinated with you,” “what are your plans for the future,” and “why are you so cool”?
June 25th, 2007 at 2:31 pmParis is just as interesting as some director…
Comment by Roger_Roger
We already know your priorities, oh shallow one. Too bad they took Capt. Kangaroo of the air, huh?
June 25th, 2007 at 2:33 pmListening to Paris Hilton talk about being incarcerated is more important than listening to Michael Moore (who has no relevance regarding governmental/economical issues). Michael Moore only want to degrade the GOP by stating that we are not doing enough about healthcare. Paris interview will be a perfect example for our future. Hopefully, her interview will influence other children, teenagers and young adults to walk the straighgt path, stop committing criminal acts, and to better educate themselves and help others in society. Michael Moore wants to spew his only filthy propaganda. Michael Moore, I have heard that you frequent numerous progressive blogs. If you are currently on this blog, Jesus does not like what you are doing. Also, the bible says that your body is God’s temple. Apparently, you are not taking care of your body. Gluttony is a sin. Mike, in order to be blessed, stop eating when you are not hungry and incorporate some cardio into your life. Once you begin this process, give your life to Christ and stop spewing irrelevant propaganda, Jesus will bless you. Mike, there is a divine reason why you were bumped by Paris.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:34 pmSNERK**
thanks Bruce. ‘preciate it.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:36 pm“Yes. Damn those businessmen and corporations who create jobs and wealth.Comment by MAF54″
You’re right, they do create wealth, for themselves. Most of the rich people in this country got that way off the backs of the American workers. But, when they found it was cheaper to take their business over-seas, they could care less about the American worker they just made unemployed. At one time Hewlett Packard was a great company, when Hewlett and Packard still worked there. They said that their employees were their greatest asset. Take away our employees and all we have is an empty building. And at that time they took very good care of their employees. They never had to advertise for new employees since they always had lots of resumes to choose from. But, HP is not that company today. They have joined all the other corporations who see their employees as a liability rather than an asset and threat their employees like dirt.
There is something very wrong with the direction this country is heading. Something 76% of the people in this country agree with me about. Now, it’s time for the 76% to get off their rear ends and do something about it!
June 25th, 2007 at 2:43 pmI can’t wait to hear Paris’ solution to global warming. I am sure that she will offer important insights on all the major issues of the day like the Iraq War and Lindsay Lohan’s stint in rehab.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:45 pmAccording to the Larry King website. Michael Moore is now scheduled for Friday. Think Progress did not print the whole story.
But it is obvious that:
June 25th, 2007 at 2:46 pmAnorexic, confused girls are not news just because they are rich.
Seriously, St.Daryll, I have no idea where to begin.
Slamming Michael because he’s overweight? Not mentioning the “sins” of Paris’ premarital sex? (oh wait, that would be heterosexual activity, which you obviously have no interest)
How so very (c)hristian of you to critique a movie you haven’t even seen yet.
Health care involves all of us, and is non partisan
You are funny tho. I imagine you only visit this site to dumb down the right wing talking points. you’ve achieved that goal!
June 25th, 2007 at 2:48 pmNow go find a man on man butt luv web site. We wouldn’t want to burden you with the thought of a poor child, painfully dying of cancer or any other treaded disease, just because his family can’t afford health care!
Comment by Daryll
Seriously, Daryll, God wants you back on your medication.
Where in your demented universe is there any evidence that Paris Hilton will be a role model for young women? Maybe the “accidentally” released porn video with her boyfriend? Or the drunk driving? Or the glorification of obscene wealth and privilege? Yours is a weird and unlikely God, Daryll, who cares more for a spoiled brat than for the health and lives of Americans.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:49 pmCNN and the others know just how to “dumb down” American society. This dumbing down is just an extention of George W Bush’s “no child left behind” university. Paris before health care. Wow! No one wants this, but the powers to be see the need to keep people uninformed of the important issues that face this country. And just who is twisting the arm of the media to remove Michael? I wouldn’t be the pharma insurance types would it?
In your face nonsense like this may well backfire big time. Most people are savy enough to see right through this and demand better.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:55 pmLet’s see, Michael Moore wants to make everybody aware of the Health Care issues and looked to CNN, Corporate Network News, to help spread the word. Silly Mike–a corporate whore like Larry King is going to welcome a fellow whore before allowing an important American issue to be discussed. I, like Bernie Shaw, used to admire CNN, but if I want corporate news now, I’ll log onto TMZ.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:58 pmMost of the rich people in this country got that way off the backs of the American workers. But, when they found it was cheaper to take their business over-seas, they could care less about the American worker they just made unemployed.
First you blame the “rich people” for getting all their money off the backs of the American workers, and then you cry about them leaving the country. So which way do you want it? Do you want them in America or not?
Besides, don’t you think that the people who take the risks by setting up a business and actually give people jobs should be rewarded more richly than the people who’re doing their jobs? That’s what’s always irked me in the “money off the backs of the workers” argument. A boss should get more money than an employee.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:58 pmSeriously, St.Daryll, I have no idea where to begin.
Slamming Michael because he’s overweight? Not mentioning the “sins†of Paris’ premarital sex? (oh wait, that would be heterosexual activity, which you obviously have no interest)
How so very (c)hristian of you to critique a movie you haven’t even seen yet.
Health care involves all of us, and is non partisan
You are funny tho. I imagine you only visit this site to dumb down the right wing talking points. you’ve achieved that goal!
Now go find a man on man butt luv web site. We wouldn’t want to burden you with the thought of a poor child, painfully dying of cancer or any other treaded disease, just because his family can’t afford health care!
Comment by DRxJ — June 25, 2007 @ 2:48 pm
DRxJ, Mike’s obesity problem is because of personal issues. Also, Paris has sinned, but she has recently found Jesus. When was the last time Mike ceased the excessive consumption of food? When was the last time that you saw Mike on a treadmill? On a serious note, he is one burger away from a heart-attack.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:00 pmYo, Daryll!
Remember the other day I mentioned the fact that the christ has been continually returning in the form of selfless, courageous, intelligent, and evolved (oops, I used the ‘E’ word) persons who are persecuted for standing up for the light and the rights of the common man?
And who are eventually murdered by the authoritarian regimes he/she battle against?
That’s right Daryll, the Lord has returned…
June 25th, 2007 at 3:03 pmand…
it’s Michael Moore!
Who’d a ever thunk it, huh?
Paris will never find me, never!
June 25th, 2007 at 3:06 pmDaryll’s objection to the movie Sicko boils down to:
“Yuck! Michael Moore is fat!”
Deep thinker Daryll is not.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:09 pmCNN — the Fox wannabee channel.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:11 pmHow low they have sunk.
If you are currently on this blog, Jesus does not like what you are doing
Ooooh, I scared!!!!
June 25th, 2007 at 3:18 pmParis has recently found Jesus?
Then Larry should put him on his show – I’d phone in to that one.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:19 pmSounds like Daryll is mooning over An Evening in Paris…
June 25th, 2007 at 3:19 pmLetter sent to CNN:
June 25th, 2007 at 3:21 pmSo CNN Guys and Gals,
Paris Hilton is the best you folks can come up with as a “News” item?
I can understand why you consider Paris Hilton to be a far more relevant news item to Americans then a discussion of the state of the Health Care system here in the U.S. After all, reportedly 61 millions Americans don’t even have health insurance coverage so why would they be interested in what Michael Moore might have to report on the subject. After all it’s a subject which doesn’t even affect them. Right?
And here’s a hot tip for your reporters there!
This morning about a dozen skanky chicks got let out of The Multnomah County Jail here in Portland Oregon . If you hurry you might be able to get one of them to appear on your Internationally televised “News” show too?
Good Bye CableNewsNetwork.
Hello CableNoiseNetwork.
Sincerely,
Citizen Twenty
Paris has recently found Jesus?
Then Larry should put him on his show – I’d phone in to that one.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
LOL!!!!!!
June 25th, 2007 at 3:25 pmIt’s all part of the “Shineeee!” mentality.
The masses don’t want thought provoking real journalism. All they want are bimbos with boobs parading around drunk and occasionally flashing their “assets”.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:26 pmIf you are currently on this blog, Jesus does not like what you are doing.
Comment by Daryll — June 25, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
Umm, Daryll, it’s a little awkward to point this out but… aren’t YOU “currently on this blog”?
June 25th, 2007 at 3:29 pmIf America thought Healthcare needed fixing, Mz Clinton would have passed her healthcare bill and Michael Moore the liar would be of interest. I’d rather hear about Paris Hilton if I had to pick my poison.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:33 pmI really don’t care who he has on, because there isn’t anything worth my time on tv anymore anyhow. They are all worthless crud.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:35 pmIf you are currently on this blog, Jesus does not like what you are doing.
Comment by Daryll — June 25, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
Er, like ‘words into my mouth’, dude!
All they want are bimbos with boobs parading around drunk and occasionally flashing their “assetsâ€.
Comment by Proud Dem — June 25, 2007 @ 3:26 pm
Oh I don’t know – there’s a certain ‘Je ne sais quoi’ (learned French when I escaped there after the fake crucifixion – great film that Da Vinci Code).
June 25th, 2007 at 3:35 pmDRxJ, Mike’s obesity problem is because of personal issues. Also, Paris has sinned, but she has recently found Jesus. When was the last time Mike ceased the excessive consumption of food? When was the last time that you saw Mike on a treadmill? On a serious note, he is one burger away from a heart-attack.
Comment by Daryll
Michael Moore recently lost about 30 pounds having discovered “fruit and vegetable”. Paris found Jesus having found a judge who was not buying her crap. You bible thumping, closeted gays are the worst hypcrites out there.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:36 pmTo squegeebooo –
Sorry it took awhile to get back to you (real work intruded). I can see in your example of the pub owner how sports would matter more to him, and I suspect that there are those who are genuinely more vested in the doings of Paris Hilton than of Michael Moore — especially those who are impacted more by drunk-driving and probation violation laws than by the current state of health care.
I suspect, though, that it’s a matter of what’s more entertaining and what people will watch. And entertainment junkies would rather watch Paris Hilton describe her life behind bars than watch Michael Moore describe his investigation of health care in the United States. Just as more people will cast a vote for the next American Idol than will cast a vote for their next congressperson.
I guess I’m just a little disappointed in CNN — I thought Fox News was the pandering network.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:38 pmThen Larry should put him on his show – I’d phone in to that one.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle — June 25, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
Dude, not happening – the Savior needs a bit of mystery and Bosox play the Mariners tonight.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:39 pmDude, not happening – the Savior needs a bit of mystery and Bosox play the Mariners tonight.
Comment by Jesus Christ — June 25, 2007 @ 3:39 pm
JC, can you tell us how you felt when Paris found you? Were you very frightened. Did she touch you? Are your shots up to date?
June 25th, 2007 at 3:42 pmfor those like little eric, who hide behind one post to slam MM as a liar, I send you here:
http://www.nndb.com/people/554/000024482/
and quote here (bold is mine):
His interviews, they say, are edited to let Moore win the arguments. Possibly, but these are the same tactics used by Fox News. Moore makes movies, not legal documents, and they are his perspectives, not “objective journalism”. The debunkers do not generally attack his central themes. He has said his staff vetted every line, every word in Fahrenheit 9/11, and that anyone can disagree with his opinions, but the facts as presented are facts. Nobody has yet won a lawsuit claiming Moore had his facts wrong.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:51 pmEVERYONE should e-mail CNN! It’s outrageous that they believe we’re all THAT superficial. The name of the game is “keep your eye OFF the ball” and they are succeeding with one sensational story after another. WHO CARES ABOUT A SPOILED ROTTEN RICH KID??? I WANT AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE! Let’s get back on subject to what Americans really care about.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:57 pmgood dump the fat bastard. maybe he has time to eat some more chicken
June 25th, 2007 at 4:01 pmHmmm, Paris Hilton or Michael Moore? It’s hard to decide which of the two is contributing more garbage to American culture. ;)
June 25th, 2007 at 4:03 pmDR J: Hiding behing nothing……..I’ve yet to meet a TP poster who doesn’t give up on arguing the issue because. Michael Moore is a sociopahic liar and that is actually a moderate view. I have plenty of links:
http://www.moorewatch.com/
The first of many lies:
Viewers are taken to London’s Hammersmith Hospital, held up as a shining example of socialized care, where doctors are well-paid and patients well looked after. Moore ambles through the corridors interviewing patients that acclaim the NHS’s ‘free care,’ and express horror at the barbarism of the American system. Indeed, the facility’s “cashier†exists to give money to patients—for travel reimbursements—rather than taking it from them. But as is often the case with Moore’s films, the reality is more complex.
In 2005, London’s Evening Standard reported that Hammersmith Hospital would slash hundreds of jobs; the hospital, the most debt-ridden in Britain, was hemorrhaging money and desperately needed to cut costs. And while the hospital was “downsizingâ€, Hammersmith’s CEO—yes, even the NHS has an executive class—collected a year-end bonus of close to $20,000. Small beer by American standards, but enough to provoke tabloid headlines in Britain.
Much like the American hospitals Moore excoriates, Hammersmith Hospital, the Evening Standard reported, faced pressure from administrators to limit the number of patients treated in order to cut spending. In a country where the government promises to winnow down queues to 18 weeks, this isn’t an anomalous problem. A recent BBC documentary accused the NHS of using dangerously high doses of radiation on patients “to save time and money.â€
June 25th, 2007 at 4:04 pmokay eric. You’ve just given me a debunking of a movie that is yet to be released.
Interesting, since I haven’t seen the movie yet.
I can’t debate what I don’t know.
You clearly can, because your hatred towards Michael blinds you from reality.
so, I’ll offer it again.
If Michael lies, where are the lawsuits?
June 25th, 2007 at 4:10 pmI mean, come on… the proof would be right there in the friggin’ movie. If he lied, he would have his arse sued, wouldn’t he?
…..still waiting
Bottom line: Our healthcare system is far from perfect but far exceeds any socialist system out there hands down. All socialist countries suck. I’m well aware of my use of the work “All”. There is no socialist country that can touch the US in healthcare or economy. If you want to trade our free enterprise system for a third rate socialized system, then you’ll have to move to those countries.
Now if you come at it with the idea of reform, I have open ears. As soon as you start showing Cuba as the model to go after, I’m not listening.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pmGuys please go to CNN and let them know how you feel about this. Obviously there’s not enough outrage over the turn CNN has taken, or they’re just not listening.
Please let them know it’s BS! http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
June 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pmComment by eric — June 25, 2007 @ 4:04 pm
In 2005, London’s Evening Standard reported that Hammersmith Hospital would slash hundreds of jobs; the hospital, the most debt-ridden in Britain, was hemorrhaging money and desperately needed to cut costs. And while the hospital was “downsizingâ€, Hammersmith’s CEO—yes, even the NHS has an executive class—collected a year-end bonus of close to $20,000. Small beer by American standards, but enough to provoke tabloid headlines in Britain.
I see. And Moore said this was NOT the case? In other words, Moore said that Hammersmith Hospital had NOT cut jobs, and the CEO was NOT given a bonus at the same time?
See, those would be examples of “lies” as the term is conventionally recognized — you know, if Moore made statements that were demonstrably false.
Much like the American hospitals Moore excoriates, Hammersmith Hospital, the Evening Standard reported, faced pressure from administrators to limit the number of patients treated in order to cut spending. In a country where the government promises to winnow down queues to 18 weeks, this isn’t an anomalous problem. A recent BBC documentary accused the NHS of using dangerously high doses of radiation on patients “to save time and money.â€
And Moore in his film (which you have presumably seen, right?) must have said that the hospital did NOT “face pressure from administrators to limit the number of patients treated”. If he said something like that, then the statement you quoted above WOULD constitute evidence of “a lie”.
Oh, wait, maybe I’m overlooking something… maybe you don’t really know the definition of “a lie”?
June 25th, 2007 at 4:13 pmYou’re not making any sense. I don’t know if anyone has sued MM. If the answer is yes or no it is irrelevant. It doesn’t make his obscuring the truth any less valid. If you’re open minded, peruse the web link I provided and counter the plethora of evidences he’s packed lies throughout his career. I don’t hate MM, at times I think he’s funny, but that doesn’t mean his lies are any less than what they are.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:14 pmbut that doesn’t mean his lies are any less than what they are.
Comment by eric(theMooreHater) — June 25, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
See spit take above regarding “lies”
June 25th, 2007 at 4:16 pmoh, and one other thing eric,
why don’t you “peruse” Michael Moore’s web site, with an open mind, and read his “fact check” section. You may be surprised that he backs up everything he films (something your little campaign site cannot)
(see? two can play this game)
June 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pmIf you’re open minded, peruse the web link I provided and counter the plethora of evidences he’s packed lies throughout his career. I don’t hate MM, at times I think he’s funny, but that doesn’t mean his lies are any less than what they are.
Comment by eric — June 25, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
You throw around the term lies” pretty freely in conncection with michael Moore. Do you consider it a lie when George Bush said that we’re in iraq because we’re fighting the people who attacked us on 9/11?
That’s not explicitly saying that Saddam was behind the attacks (he wasn’t; even Bush agrees that’s true) but it certainly leaves that impression in the minds of someone who wasn’t paying close attention. That sounds pretty damn close to what you accuse Michael Moore of doing in his films — crafting truth and rhetoric to leave a false impression.
Seems like you should be just as willing to accuse the President of lying, since that appears to be your definition of “a lie”.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:21 pmCNN is using this as an excuse to not have Michael Moore talk about his documentary “SICKO.” Health Insurance Industry CEOs must have called up CNN to cancel the interview. Paris Hilton is an air-head and not worth the time to watch her say baloney on Larry King show.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:33 pmJesus Christ = Mr. pResident PRIME ANGVS augustine, etc.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:35 pmDump Michael Moore’s documentary so we can follow airhead Paris?
Talk about SICKO.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pmNice to see where the America media’s priorities lie. Shameless.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:37 pmFunny though that as much people comment on this being a travesty to journalism, look how much traffic is generated just commenting on the subject. I see that CNN is now just as yellow as most media, but as long as it generates traffic, nothing will change.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:40 pmWell thank God. I mean Paris is stupid, but nothing is stupider than a big fat white piece of crap named Michael Moore.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:41 pmAd Man shill Larry King has finally found his intellectual equal.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:41 pmI must say I’m a bit disturbed by the vitriol directed at Paris every time she’s in the news. Let’s face it. She’s a rich, spoiled young woman who likes attention and sex a lot – what’s wrong with that? All this “slut” and “skank” name calling really is unbecoming of the progressive community.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:42 pmCNN = Certainly Not News anymore…
June 25th, 2007 at 4:42 pmJesus Christ = Mr. pResident PRIME ANGVS augustine, etc.
Comment by Fred Ricksburg — June 25, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
“Jesus Christ for President”? Nah, Ralph Nader would get more votes. My social, crime and defense platform don’t cut it in today’s America.
I mean: “Judge not that you might be judged” and “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” doesn’t play well in Texas and “Give to him who begs” well, Panhandlers don’t get to the polls much either.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:46 pm… as bad as it sounds… i’m wondering which interview would be more useless…
at leasts Paris can’t spread bullshit. M. Moore is no kind of journalist. Shame one those who buy his crap.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:57 pmI don’t really care to watch either one!!!
Moore is a dumbass who is just wanting publicity the same as Paris.
No CNN Tuesday or Friday for me.
June 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pmWow its amazing what non-news a news network is showing.
There is a real problem, in America with health care; yet CNN feel that it is more important to talk to her about her time in jail instead of talking about something that is actually news.
No wonder why the main stream media is getting turned off and the internet is being used for people to get real news from.
Hey news channels, if you start ignoring Paris, she isn’t going to be important anymore. Or sorry, I forgot that this is just another one of your distractions so that this government can strip us of our freedoms while you talk to Paris.
What was that line in the second Star Wars from Queen Amidala And this is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause?
June 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pmToday, we the people, can start a movement. We can hold CNNs feet to the fire. Contact CNN and tell them, instead of Paris Hilton, on Wednesday, you want them to spend the entire hour reporting on the Downing Street Memos, the Loss of Habeas Corpus, Posse Comitus being rescinded, Karl Rove’s Voter Caging lists of minorities and Bush’s private right-wing Army Blackwater.
Let them know that spending an entire hour interviewing a bimbo seems to be at odds for an organization that calls itself the Most Trusted Name in News. Especially when they haven’t covered ANY of these five ultra-important stories at ALL!
Here’s CNNs contact page:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form11b.html?2
Post this ad on every website you visit and include it in all your e-mail. If we push hard enough we can make it happen!
June 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pmFoxnews is the shizznit
June 25th, 2007 at 5:03 pmWell thank God. I mean Paris is stupid, but nothing is stupider than a big fat white piece of crap named Michael Moore.
Comment by SickoisStupido
This is your argument? Against Michael Moore? It would be a bit more compelling if you could back that up with a little more data. Yeah, the guy is white, and he probably tips the scales at a bit more than he should (this is fairly evident from looking at any photo of him – although not terribly relevant to his work). However, the descriptive terms “piece of crap” and “stupid” beg for a bit more information — not to mention your handle, which appears to be a condemnation of his latest movie.
Did you see “Sicko” at one of the sneak preview screenings, and you are basing your remarks on that? Or are you rejecting “Sicko” before seeing it? Or maybe you’re accusing him of stupidity as a result of his earlier work? And what did he do to earn the “piece of crap” moniker? You don’t have to like the guy or his movies, but calling him names won’t sway too many to your view.
C’mon — even trolls bring intelligent discourse to the table!
June 25th, 2007 at 5:14 pmBOYCOTT CNN!
It’s almost all crap anyway.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:20 pmSitting here shaking my head – once again, stupidity and greed win out.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:21 pmMoore’s next film should be on just how crappy the state of television journalism has become. He could start with Edward R. Murrow in the 50’s and work his way down (way, way down) to present day CNN, MSNBC, Faux, etc.
If Bernie Shaw were still alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:23 pmTo Philbert –
Great idea for MMs next project — but I don’t have much faith that the American people would be able to tell the difference (or if they did, they’d prefer the current version). They’re too accustomed to being pandered to, having their information dumbed down for their short attention spans, and being able to select their “news” slanted to the ideology of their choice. Those who still like some intellectual content in their information and welcome having their minds challenged already know that broadcast journalism has gone downhill, so MM would just be preaching to the choir.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:46 pmAlot of it is the short attention span theatre. Paris is uncomplicated and a juicy psuedo-scandal. paying attention to politics is hard work
June 25th, 2007 at 5:54 pmMichael Moore is not exactly a TV ratings-grabber, so from a completely capitalistic standpoint, it was a “good” business decision. However, from a sane standpoint where news companies should not just be solely for-profit entities but should provide reports that educate, inform, and inspire — this is an absolute tragedy of epic proportions. Welcome to Media Consolidation. You can thank the Regan generation of republicans for starting this train…
June 25th, 2007 at 6:03 pmTED TURNER COME BACK SAVE YOUR OLD NETWORK!!!!
June 25th, 2007 at 6:05 pmNo kidding. I don’t know if Ted is progressive, conservative, or middle of the road, but CNN had scruples before he left. Yes, they had their fair amount of tabloid too, but it’s a 24 hour news network, so you have to fill up time. At least they reported news back then most of hte time! Since AOL pwned Turner though, whew… it’s been down hill big time…
June 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pmJust shows how stupid 90% of America is including our pathetic group of “news reporters” we call the media.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:09 pmAmerica’s most rusted name in news! snark.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:34 pmAmerica’s most rusted name in news! snark.
Comment by candideinnc
Heh.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:52 pmAt least Paris is far more creditable than Michael Moore. He is one revolting and untruthful individual.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:53 pmI think everyone here has made some valid points, for both arguments, but let’s consider everything carefully. Who is Paris Hilton really replacing, but none other than another superficial, attention-hound that has risen to fame by telling half-truths, pretending to be a government watchdog, and always falling short of actually getting a strong message across in his films. Mainstream documentaries have in fact been filmed that focus on Mr. Moore’s and his tendencies to sell-out when it comes to his films. On the hand, at least Paris Hilton’s family can be respected around the world, she’s at a cross-roads in her life, and wants to tell her story. Hopefully she never drinks and drives again, but at least she’s been legitimate in her professional endeavors, even as far as being a trend-setter and fashion mogul (after all though, nobody’s perfect). Mr. Moore, frankly, should be ashamed of himself for not being all that he could have really been to a movement (the truth movement and/or 9/11 truth movement) that continues to experience growing support and momentum around the country – if you want to learn the real facts about healthcare or any other major issue in the world, look to the alternative media. My favorite is http://www.prisonplanet.com. Don’t look to a con artist that put his own motives ahead of absolute truth. Botton line, Paris deserves the spot more than this bum. If Larry King wants to focus on the “big issues” he should have guests like Ron Paul (despite being a Republican, he supports the truth movement) or Alex Jones, a real filmmaker and investigative journalist. Moore, thumbs down tonight… Paris Hilton, thumbs up.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:24 pmWhat a suprise, American media dropping the big issue for an interview with exactly whats wrong with America, the rich, materialistic, upper class American. It’s no wonder your entire society is plagued with poor health, education, and crime problems. Superpower? If your American and you think your country is the most advanced and wealthiest in the world your kidding yourself. There are third world countries that look after their people better.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:29 pmRe: Larry King jerks around Michael Moore for Paris Hilton.
That’s sick!
June 25th, 2007 at 7:31 pmI have just removed CNN from my favorite url’s, and removed the channel from my satellite option screen. You are truly dead for me.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:44 pmHard to believe people still slam Moore. What has he ever been wrong about? Maybe he’s gotten some insignificant details wrong, but about the big issues, he’s been proven right over and over. The FBI just released documents proving that the bin Ladens had something to do with getting Saudis out of the country after 9-11. How much grief did Moore take for that assertion?
Even harder to believe corporate tools will still rush to their keyboard to defend our system. Facts and figures? Forget it. We’re the best!!!
But the kicker is the guy who would actually rather sit and listen to Paris Hilton. Could our society get any dumber?
June 25th, 2007 at 7:50 pmAt least Paris is far more creditable than Michael Moore. He is one revolting and untruthful individual.
Comment by zev goldmfan — June 25, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
Prove it won’t you, knobcheese.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:00 pmSlam Michael Moore all you want, but the US health care system is a fucking disgrace and whatever his agenda is he is pushing a REAL issue. Once again the US media decides not to show people about real issues but rather more celebrity worship bullshit.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:24 pmRe: Could our society get any dumber?
You have to wonder. The fact that Larry King et al, beat a path to the door of a sociopathic, parasite while leaving real newsmakers, like Moore, in the dust, is as discouraging as it gets.
America seems more and more like Rome, circa 07 AD, than the birthplace of modern democracy.
June 25th, 2007 at 9:18 pmAs I wrote CNN yesterday; Larry King is their Maury Povich. Ad the constant, fake editorializing by their news bunnies, it’s become the People Magazine News Network.
June 25th, 2007 at 9:48 pmNo alarms and no surprises. It’s all in 1984, by George Orwell. Welcome to the Doublethink. In case you don’t know, the USA had incorporated it, along with totalitarian regimes founded on religious or other utopian (please read ‘dystopian’) ideologies. If Paris substitutes Moore, then Moore equals (at least) the relevance of Paris. And your brain can’t deny it. Can he?…
June 25th, 2007 at 10:08 pmCNN is DEAD (or rather their credibility, the last of it)
June 25th, 2007 at 10:11 pmDoes this whore’s mother have any control over her ? Shut her up and keep her off the roads. She is the worst product of this country – an arrogant idiot.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:15 pmParis Hilton is much easier on the eyes, tells far fewer lies and makes much better movies. Certainly more honest and more compelling movies.
But either way–Paris Hilton or that fraudulent slob Michael Moore–it’s good to see CNN adhering to their pledge of offering a more sober, serious alternative to Fox News.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:17 pmThey dropped one idiot for an even bigger idiot. So what.
June 25th, 2007 at 11:19 pmKing’s a bum! I used to have great respect for this guy, now he’s just a crotchety elder looking for handouts and afraid to bite the hand that feeds him. I respect elders who are not afraid to stand for what they have come to believe, and carry their pride to their graves. Put King down as a great disappointment, and change the channel to Oberman.
June 25th, 2007 at 11:42 pmTed Turner, look what they’ve done to your honest news. You need to jump into the fray and repurchase CNN and reestablish your once well respected TV news media. Hurry, please.
June 25th, 2007 at 11:58 pmHey, you really want to shame CNN and Larry King? E-mail Olbermann’s show “Countdown” and beg him to put Michael Moore on the same night that the Paris Hilton debacle takes place.
That way we still get high quality refined journalism and CNN can keep it’s Faux Noise lite style of journalism.
TED TURNER PLEASE BUY BACK YOUR NETWORK AND FIRE LARRY KING.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:02 amThis, is CNN?……………….
June 26th, 2007 at 12:21 amThis, is CNN?……………….
Comment by THANKallahITSfriday — June 26, 2007 @ 12:21 am
And that’s how Mr. James Earl Jones should announce it.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:36 amIf Bernie Shaw were still alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave.
Comment by Philbert — June 25, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
I wholeheartedly agree, a movie about the msm is long overdue.
BTW: Bernard Shaw is still alive, however, it’s the msm’s credibilty and Larry King’s that’s dead.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:40 amHey, we’re preaching to the converted. CNN is irrelevant. Watch BBC World or the CBC News. I think CNN now stands for False News as opposed to that other valid type, Fake News. America is heading for a revolt. How many inanities do The American People have to put up with until they blow their top and behead the overseers?
June 26th, 2007 at 5:53 amNeither one should get any press. But while you are all laughing, do a search on TP. I think since Paris got arrested and Mike “the pig” Moore put out another lying propaganda flick, TP has had more Paris threads than Moore.
ROTFL
June 26th, 2007 at 7:32 amI do not watch TV “news” because it is manipulated and opinionated. I read news on-line using the real news sources. Long before Al Gore pointed out that people were not using their reasoning skills, I had already seen the truth and sought out sources to keep myself informed.
As an American citizen and a mother of teenage children I make certain that I tell my children about what is going on with these fake news stations and where they can find real news.
I have read for months now that Americans want this stuff which is why the fake news stations put this on for people to view. I think that is a very big lie that needs to be exposed.
I do not want to view the garbage that has been spewed at me 24/7 and called news when it is only opinionated non-factual crap. I do not watch American Idol, Survivor, Dancing With the Stars, or any other mindless drivel so generously pushed at me.
When I look over the TV schedule and I see nothing worth viewing, I turn OFF the TV and pick up a book to read, such as A Tragic Legacy by Glenn Greenwald.
I wonder, are there other Americans whom are turning their TV set off and finding meaningful activities to do? I would like to hear about that. Anyone?
June 26th, 2007 at 9:33 amOh, and about Michael Moore and his new film? I plan to go see it when it opens here and take my children too.
June 26th, 2007 at 9:36 amPor lo menos tienen una persona sensata como Michael Moore en vuestro paÃs. Millones de EEUU preocupados de una mujer anorexica y alcoholica mientras sus niños matan y violan los derechos humanos en Pakistan, Irak, Guantanamo y otros tantos lugares que la CIA mantiene en secreto. Aún no se olvida en Chile su negra historia gracias a la CIA.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:03 amSo why not just DUMP CNN (Completely NOT News)
Why so surprised? Nearly every commercial break intruduces you to a completely new disease you probably didn’t even know you have!
Hmmm…Paris Hiltonitis – Mind Numbing Disease – (Ask you doctor!)
June 26th, 2007 at 10:31 amIt ain’t them, folks. It’s us. Put the blame where it belongs.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:17 amEverytime I hear the name Paris Shillton, I change the channel. Saying that….I would sit through a Paris marathon 24/7 so as not to be subjected to the disingenuous fraud, Michael Moo-re. If that dirty, fat oaf (whose greatest act is pretending to be a working shlub) and his friends want to buy health insurance for the down and out, live in a place without Second Amendment protections and unionize every job in socialist nirvana – - go right ahead. I suggest we invade Canada give it to the lunatic Left and let you live among the politically-progressive neighbours to the north.
Tooodles…….
June 26th, 2007 at 12:23 pmI would rather listen to Paris Hilton any day over Michael Moore anti Americanism speeches.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:38 pmOh, and about Michael Moore and his new film? I plan to go see it when it opens here and take my children too. As my name indicates, I am a sheep and intend to raise sheep, who mindlessly swallow propaganda and lies. And who better to swallow lies from than Michael Moore?
June 26th, 2007 at 12:42 pmThese kind of decisions are made because these 24 hours news networks are CORPORATIONS. They aren’t treated as an important public service news broadcasts used to be. Paris Hilton will draw more viewers, thus more advertising dollars, thus more profit for the corporation. The importance of the discussion and it’s relevance to U.S. citizens is NOT relevant to the decision making by corporations whose goal is purely profit.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pmJesse
Would it? Paris Hilton is the most boring person on Earth, elevated to national interest by her wealth.
Concerned citizen
Funny thing about Moore’s “Anti American” speeches: They tend to be about how to make things better, for Americans.
But then again, you righties seem to think that being pro-soldier means sending soldiers off to get shot at in essentially meaningless wars, and then denying them benefits when they come home – so I am not entirely sure about what you would consider to be PRO American.
June 26th, 2007 at 1:10 pmHey Alex – Watch BBC?? I do have to give self-flagellating Brits credit for noting the “liberal bias in reporting which the BBC unabashedly displays….No wonder you think they are an objective news source…
June 26th, 2007 at 2:15 pmthis is ridiculous!! paris hilton does not concern us at all, whereas the health care system concerns everyone.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:12 pmJesse:
funny how people talk against an opinion in a blog. haha. get a life.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:18 pmRemember the movie “Network” ? This is what American media has come to. Who is as mad as hell & not going to take it anymore ?? Answer = no one in America. Why = too f##cking stupid to rationalise anything anymore!!!
June 26th, 2007 at 3:32 pmEven FOX applauded Moore’s movie. (Mein Gott.) But it can’t be more important, than a spoiled brat getting out of jail…
This country is being lobotomized. If people woke up, and looked around, the “ruling class” (gosh, that sounds so Marxist… but how else do you call them?) would be in a great trouble -possibly involving tar and feather. I guess their only option is to ride the tide, and try to keep the population as ignorant as possible.
June 26th, 2007 at 4:55 pmWhen I first heard “Bullet in the Head” by RATM, I thought they were exaggerating. I think, they might have underestimated the problem.
I know i am from another planet (as you guys from the States tend to think of Europe), but i’ll never understand the kind of self-centered and childish patriotism that most americans seem to have for their country. Can’t understand how a country with so many musical, literature, cinema, architecture or science record, over the centuries, managed to get such a progressive, widespreaded and general lobotomy. Please wake up.
June 26th, 2007 at 9:30 pmI know i am from another planet (as you guys from the States tend to think of Europe), but i’ll never understand the kind of self-centered and childish patriotism that most americans seem to have for their country.
Yeah, it’s so much more… “progressive”… to put your own country down.
You know, you can find fault with your country and still love it.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:25 pmYeah, it’s so much more… “progressiveâ€â€¦ to put your own country down.
You know, you can find fault with your country and still love it.
I’m not putting my country down. I simply don’t have to declare my love to it. I see all countries as a mid-term way of peoples organization and need for identity. Nation-states are social engeneering, less harmful than the marxist vision of the world, though. Let’s say that, altough Portugal contributes for my identity and the well-being of portuguese, as my friends and enemies do, i don’t feel the need to think in my country as a ersatz for some kind of religion-need. Because that’s what i think when i read people who says that Moore is an anti-american, for example: altough i dislike his demagogic way, i think he is no lesser american than the ones who always stand by whatever their governments do, as if everything were a patriotic act.
June 30th, 2007 at 3:44 pm