Comments on: Passerby tackled after ripping Fox News mic from anchor. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:48:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jim H http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3902136 Jim H Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:24:48 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3902136 I found this funny, oh so serious people. Yes, he will pay a fine or spend some time in the pokey. But Fox deserves it. However, I did find it amusing that Fox tried to say he was going after the iPhone. He could have grabbed that easily. He was reaching for the Fox microphone. I found this funny, oh so serious people. Yes, he will pay a fine or spend some time in the pokey. But Fox deserves it. However, I did find it amusing that Fox tried to say he was going after the iPhone. He could have grabbed that easily. He was reaching for the Fox microphone.

]]> By: gary http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3899690 gary Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:31:41 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3899690 Now this is the way to get stuff done!!! I think everyone who sees Faux News on the street should rip the mic out of the hand of the propaganda person or accidently bump into a camera. Now this is the way to get stuff done!!! I think everyone who sees Faux News on the street should rip the mic out of the hand of the propaganda person or accidently bump into a camera.

]]> By: Duncan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3899035 Duncan Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:31:36 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3899035 Reality bubble alert: "People have disputes with 'the media'..." "...This guy trying to grab the iPhone." Everyone watched the same footage I watched right? This was a guy that spotted a Fox News mike and decided to mess them around. He wasn't 'trying to grab the iPhone' and he wasn't embroiled in a dispute with 'the media' (a Fox news term usually reserved for everyone else; vis 'The liberal media'). He was deliberately targeting Fox News, presumably because he has the same view of them as most rational people in the country. Such a shame Fox News aren't willing to let this minor act of protest filter through their reality bubble. Reality bubble alert:

“People have disputes with ‘the media’…” “…This guy trying to grab the iPhone.”

Everyone watched the same footage I watched right? This was a guy that spotted a Fox News mike and decided to mess them around. He wasn’t ‘trying to grab the iPhone’ and he wasn’t embroiled in a dispute with ‘the media’ (a Fox news term usually reserved for everyone else; vis ‘The liberal media’). He was deliberately targeting Fox News, presumably because he has the same view of them as most rational people in the country. Such a shame Fox News aren’t willing to let this minor act of protest filter through their reality bubble.

]]> By: Tracy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3898135 Tracy Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:50:51 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3898135 Do you know who ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus is? He/she is the biggest hateful coward on this site. Do you know who ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus is? He/she is the biggest hateful coward on this site.

]]> By: intelligentone http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3898073 intelligentone Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:01:59 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3898073 Looks like all the conservative name-callers with cotton in their ears can do is just that: name call. Big hairy deal. Once they find they have no intelligence because they can not actually discuss in a civilized manner real issues in an ADULT manner, then they will eventually choke on their own venom. I am a former republican and a former conservative. If all you conservatives and repugs stand for nowadays is to call people names with no real intelligent basis and no real intelligent way to discuss in a civilized manner important issues, then you better believe that you are in real danger. Your name-calling marks you and you are easy to spot as an idiot. Also you are now tagged and watched. So much for intelligence. Conservatives have no concept of the meaning, because if they actually could talk in a real adult manner, they would not have posted their IQs in name-bashing on this board. From a former conservative and former republican who will never, ever go back to your party and many others like me. Looks like all the conservative name-callers with cotton in their ears can do is just that: name call.

Big hairy deal.

Once they find they have no intelligence because they can not actually discuss in a civilized manner real issues in an ADULT manner, then they will eventually choke on their own venom.

I am a former republican and a former conservative.

If all you conservatives and repugs stand for nowadays is to call people names with no real intelligent basis and no real intelligent way to discuss in a civilized manner important issues, then you better believe that you are in real danger.

Your name-calling marks you and you are easy to spot as an idiot. Also you are now tagged and watched.

So much for intelligence.

Conservatives have no concept of the meaning, because if they actually could talk in a real adult manner, they would not have posted their IQs in name-bashing on this board.

From a former conservative and former republican who will never, ever go back to your party and many others like me.

]]> By: ONE http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3897174 ONE Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:46:09 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3897174 BARTLEBEE is an ass. The forceful taking of one's property is called Robbery, dipshit. BARTLEBEE is an ass. The forceful taking of one’s property is called Robbery, dipshit.

]]> By: yeranalyst http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896750 yeranalyst Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:36:49 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896750 <em>It was a totally stupid act, followed by supplemental stupidity. But tonight, he’s learning it in the clink, while the rest of us play with our new iPhones. Doofus.</em> He may be learning something in the clink, but judging by your vacuous comment i don't think you have those capabilities and I don't think your little status symbol will help either. It was a totally stupid act, followed by supplemental stupidity. But tonight, he’s learning it in the clink, while the rest of us play with our new iPhones. Doofus.
He may be learning something in the clink, but judging by your vacuous comment i don’t think you have those capabilities and I don’t think your little status symbol will help either.

]]> By: Wretched Refuse http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896644 Wretched Refuse Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:36:54 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896644 Bush is almost out so libs need something to be deranged about. So now its fox news derangement. Comment by Injunjoe Yes, News Corp needs to be dismantled and sold for the crap that it is. Rupert Murdoch should be deported and stripped of all his wealth, which has been made unconscionably. He is the bane of true journalism. He stand for EVERYTHING that is bad with news reporting. He does not even have a news program, for Fox is entertainment, not news. Bush is almost out so libs need something to be deranged about. So now its fox news derangement.

Comment by Injunjoe

Yes, News Corp needs to be dismantled and sold for the crap that it is. Rupert Murdoch should be deported and stripped of all his wealth, which has been made unconscionably. He is the bane of true journalism. He stand for EVERYTHING that is bad with news reporting. He does not even have a news program, for Fox is entertainment, not news.

]]> By: Wretched Refuse http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896624 Wretched Refuse Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:25:18 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896624 All I know is that I have now made a BIG batch of Coulter Creme Brulee, and am looking for SCOTUS addresses to send out my "care" packages. Oh what is that you say FDR, the liberals are wimps, oh let me go tell the minutemen and the "treasonous" revolutionary fighters who were liberals, dumbass. I say, there is a quota, if you have NOT at least inconvenienced, at best killed a neo-con every day, then you are not being a true patriot. Kill the GOP. All I know is that I have now made a BIG batch of Coulter Creme Brulee, and am looking for SCOTUS addresses to send out my “care” packages. Oh what is that you say FDR, the liberals are wimps, oh let me go tell the minutemen and the “treasonous” revolutionary fighters who were liberals, dumbass.
I say, there is a quota, if you have NOT at least inconvenienced, at best killed a neo-con every day, then you are not being a true patriot.

Kill the GOP.

]]> By: Tankage http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896428 Tankage Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:55:14 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896428 That man is obviously an undocumented immigrant and should be deported immediately. That man is obviously an undocumented immigrant and should be deported immediately.

]]> By: sean heretic http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896413 sean heretic Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:40:23 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896413 well we are damned if we do and damned if we don't....if we don't kick ass the right think we're p***ies and if we do we are not being polite or patriotic or whatever....if you hate faux sleaze then the terrorist's win...they named the game and get mad if we play by their rules...like they can kick us in the jewels and no matter what we do....you get it liberals need to show the far right that they may be making a mistake....and possibly some may be in favor of dusting off the guillotine...they have been firing up the stake and the gallows for us....only fair and balanced...sean heretic well we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t….if we don’t kick ass the right think we’re p***ies and if we do we are not being polite or patriotic or whatever….if you hate faux sleaze then the terrorist’s win…they named the game and get mad if we play by their rules…like they can kick us in the jewels and no matter what we do….you get it liberals need to show the far right that they may be making a mistake….and possibly some may be in favor of dusting off the guillotine…they have been firing up the stake and the gallows for us….only fair and balanced…sean heretic

]]> By: I, Witnessblue http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896411 I, Witnessblue Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:39:54 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896411 I was right there when it happened. It was more like criminal mischief than any kind of mugging or robbery. He was not trying to steal the mic. He was trying to disrupt the broadcast. He and his wiseass friends were taunting and heckling whatsherface immediately prior to this live shot. They hated FOX news are were openly talking about messing with them. It was totally stupid. After initially being let go, it seemed that someone at FOX called over and asked for him to be arrested. Since he had stupidly lingered in the area, they just scooped him up and drove him off. He should have just gone home when they initially let him go and no one would have pursued him. It was a totally stupid act, followed by supplemental stupidity. But tonight, he's learning it in the clink, while the rest of us play with our new iPhones. Doofus. I was right there when it happened. It was more like criminal mischief than any kind of mugging or robbery. He was not trying to steal the mic. He was trying to disrupt the broadcast. He and his wiseass friends were taunting and heckling whatsherface immediately prior to this live shot. They hated FOX news are were openly talking about messing with them. It was totally stupid. After initially being let go, it seemed that someone at FOX called over and asked for him to be arrested. Since he had stupidly lingered in the area, they just scooped him up and drove him off. He should have just gone home when they initially let him go and no one would have pursued him. It was a totally stupid act, followed by supplemental stupidity. But tonight, he’s learning it in the clink, while the rest of us play with our new iPhones. Doofus.

]]> By: yeranalyst http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896391 yeranalyst Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:09:07 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896391 We're sorry about the string of obscenities. HAHAHAHA. That's all Fox is, a string of obscenities,voiced by disgusting obscene people. I don't care if he had a right. When we the people get our rights back that Bush and Fox news have stolen from us, then I'll listen to you trolls cry about rights. How about the right to Habeas Corpus or the right to due process, how about the right not to be tortured, how about the right to privacy, how about the right to not have our money stolen and handed to your friends at Halliburton, How about the right to elections that are honest and not stolen. Save your phony tears about your cherry picked rights. His only mistake was letting those leakers tackle him. We’re sorry about the string of obscenities. HAHAHAHA. That’s all Fox is, a string of obscenities,voiced by disgusting obscene people.
I don’t care if he had a right. When we the people get our rights back that Bush and Fox news have stolen from us, then I’ll listen to you trolls cry about rights. How about the right to Habeas Corpus or the right to due process, how about the right not to be tortured, how about the right to privacy, how about the right to not have our money stolen and handed to your friends at Halliburton, How about the right to elections that are honest and not stolen. Save your phony tears about your cherry picked rights. His only mistake was letting those leakers tackle him.

]]> By: Happy Clam http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896380 Happy Clam Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:51:41 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896380 Post 105 > posting long comments is supposed to be violation of terms of use. Just saying to be consistent in censoring posts. Comment by Jay Randal — June 29, 2007 @ 1:30 pm where does it say that!? NOWHERE! Post 105 > posting long comments is supposed to be violation of terms of use. Just saying to be consistent in censoring posts.

Comment by Jay Randal — June 29, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

where does it say that!? NOWHERE!

]]> By: Happy Clam http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896377 Happy Clam Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:50:16 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896377 Comment by Cleaning House at TP — June 29, 2007 @ 1:21 pm crap thats a lot of rules Comment by Cleaning House at TP — June 29, 2007 @ 1:21 pm

crap thats a lot of rules

]]> By: Happy Clam http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896374 Happy Clam Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:47:02 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896374 My thoughts exactly. There is a lot more going on TP, this isn’t worth your time or space. Comment by Chris L — June 29, 2007 @ 11:19 am I was happy to read about this important development. My thoughts exactly. There is a lot more going on TP, this isn’t worth your time or space.

Comment by Chris L — June 29, 2007 @ 11:19 am

I was happy to read about this important development.

]]> By: davefromqueens http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896369 davefromqueens Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:39:42 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896369 The guy had no right to take the microphone and the Faux employee had every right to use the force used to recover the property. Most of this thread concurs. But I guess that's the difference between good people and most conservatives. We apply standards consistently when RW Cons operate in an alternative reality which absolves their own of wrongdoing despite its blatantness. (Ex: Scooter Libby) The guy had no right to take the microphone and the Faux employee had every right to use the force used to recover the property. Most of this thread concurs.

But I guess that’s the difference between good people and most conservatives. We apply standards consistently when RW Cons operate in an alternative reality which absolves their own of wrongdoing despite its blatantness. (Ex: Scooter Libby)

]]> By: Injunjoe http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896331 Injunjoe Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:05:43 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896331 Bush is almost out so libs need something to be deranged about. So now its fox news derangement. I think a lot of leffties got dropped on the head when they were babies. Bush is almost out so libs need something to be deranged about. So now its fox news derangement. I think a lot of leffties got dropped on the head when they were babies.

]]> By: mystery boy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896211 mystery boy Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:39:04 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896211 While he was at it he should have slugged her, too. You know, good for broke and all. While he was at it he should have slugged her, too. You know, good for broke and all.

]]> By: Dave http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/comment-page-4/#comment-3896135 Dave Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:06:13 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/passerby-tackled-after-ripping-fox-news-mic-from-anchor/#comment-3896135 I can't stand Fox News, but the punk deserved what he got. I can’t stand Fox News, but the punk deserved what he got.

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