Comments on: Explaining the job of a real journalist, Shep Smith mocks Hannity.

By: gener

gener — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:17:32 +0000

I’m aware of Rahm’s history.

By: drogen

drogen — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:28:15 +0000

Murdoch is a predatory control freak and he wants to buy more media outlets like the Boston Globe.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:58:03 +0000

Someone like Robert Reich or Leon Panetta would send a better message to progressive America. However, they could still end up serving in an Obama cabinet.

By: belac

belac — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:10:20 +0000

It has been three days since the election… Emanuel hasn’t had time to pack for Washington D.C. yet, let alone dismantle Obama’s progressive agenda. How about you and the good Rabbi give Rahm a week on the job before you guys ‘resurrect the progressive agenda!’
BTW- who did you want to see at Chief of Staff?

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:59:34 +0000

You want to be the sole judge and jury.

No, I have an opinion. I thought it was more progressive. But since Rabbi Michael Lerner and I are concerned trolls, we’ll have to meet at a D.C. area residence and find a way to resurrect the progressive agenda!

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:47:09 +0000

stateofthedivision Says:
Rahm looks like a CorporaDemocrat to me. He joined the House in 2002. In 2004 he got the plush appointment to House Ways & Means Committee, a platform for big money fundraising. Not many newbies in the House rise like that.
I voted for change, not more corporafornication.

So, in other words, you don’t trust Obama to pick the right people to work with. You want to the the sole judge and jury on that. Too bad for you that Obama is going to be our new President then.

By: upside99

upside99 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:39:51 +0000

Whatever Shep is attempting to do, whether bring more ‘balance’ or just to stir things up, Faux will NEVER be a real news outlet when they hire someone like Beck and keep Hanitee-hee and the Blond Bimbo Brigade(TM) ranting ad nauseum.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:18:52 +0000

Mausium, most of my nearly 1,800 posts hammer Bush and his minions. A few blister CorporaDemocrats. But Bush has been notoriously quiet since Nov. 1, thus not much to comment on.

Looking solely at the last data point on a five year graph tells you what about the trend? Nothing.

I did learn you’re good at name calling though. You did it more than once.

By: freeman

freeman — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:15:58 +0000

Nausium ?

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:14:11 +0000

Contrast this with TP’s one sentence coverage:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/rahm-emanuel

By: mausium

mausium — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:12:32 +0000

Silly me, I thought this was a progressive website!

All I see there is a conservative blog posting a dem’s CLAIMS that someone not beholden to religious interests is also uninterested in enacting the plans Obama laid out in his blueprint.

So, in other words, concern trolling.

By: freeman

freeman — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:45:32 +0000

Great link SOV .Thank you .

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:32:11 +0000

Silly me, I thought this was a progressive website!

http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/11/first-religious-lefty-lambasts.html

By: freeman

freeman — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:26:24 +0000

How about a little piece on Sarah speaking at a separatist gathering .
How about the background on Johnny’s connection to the Keating 5 scandal .
How about John McCain’s speech at an acorn event .
Got integrity ?

By: freeman

freeman — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:24:18 +0000

FOX hides the fact that Palin believes Africa is a country till after the election according to their own admission , devotes countless hours to his association with terrorists and acorn tweaking or just leaving out facts in the process and calls him a socialist .No bias there .
Now they trumpet from the rooftops the claim that because 1 news person questions any portion of the obvious propaganda from the neo cons , that they really are fair and balanced .
GARBAGE !

By: gummitch

gummitch — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:21:06 +0000

Hannity is a journalist? I thought he always denied that when confronted about his complete lack of objectivity. Isn’t he, like Limbaugh, an “entertainer”?

By: mausium

mausium — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:43:44 +0000

I didn’t say Emanuel bought his committee assignment. I said it’s unusual for a new Congressman, even one with Clinton White House experience, to end up on such a powerful committee so early in their term of service. I’m aware of Rahm’s history. That’s why I’m concerned.

So in other words, you’re a concern troll.

Ignoring the well-known reasons why he’s there, what he’s intended to do there, and sowing distrust for no actual reason. I’m not happy about the DLC ties, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bother posting “hey guys, WHY AREN’T YOU CONCERNED?!!!!” because anyone with brains in their heads is going to be cynical already without the need for fictitious situations and concern trollery.

By: belac

belac — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:41:56 +0000

State of the Div.-
I think that Rahm is a pitch perfect pick… the needle didn’t skip, the tempo just picked up…

By: davemartin7777

davemartin7777 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:39:20 +0000

Rupert Murdoch is trying to steer his Fox News back away from the crazy Sarah Palin, “Joe the unlicensed plumber” crowd.

Rupert knows he can never buy an electable republican thug going that far right.

Rupert needs to buy electable republicans in order to eliminate conflict of interest issues.

Murdoch is a predatory control freak and he wants to buy more media outlets like the Boston Globe.

That’s why they are throwing Palin and “Joe” under the bus now.

It’s strictly a business decision.

(Also please do not suggest that Brit Hume is anything less than another Murdoch sockpuppet.)

By: Klem Kiddilehopper

Klem Kiddilehopper — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:37:54 +0000

According to this following site:
http://premierespeakers.com/sean_hannity/bio
Hannity donated $10,000,000 to Freedom Alliance from the 5 Freedom Concerts held last year (2007)! However reading Freedom Alliances Tax Form 990 for 2007, no amount in those numbers was ever received from Hannity!
Shouldn’t someone or anyone be asking Hannity on-air and live,what happened to the $10,000,000 you donated to Freedom Alliance? Going back to 2003 when Hannity started his so-called “Freedom Concerts,” there has been no record of Hannity donating even one penny from his much bally-hooed Freedom Concerts to Freedom Alliance!

Sean “SHOW ME THE MONEY!”