Krauthammer: Fox News has ‘created an alternate reality’ for its viewers.
Krauthammer: Fox News has ‘created an alternate reality’ for its viewers.
Yesterday, Charles Krauthammer accepted the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, an annual award given by News Corporation. In his acceptance speech, Krauthammer lauded Fox News channel, which he said has “done a great service to the American polity” and for “single-handedly breaking up the intellectual and ideological monopoly that for decades exerted hegemony (to use a favorite lefty cliché) over the broadcast media.” But his praise took a strange turn when he extolled the “genius” of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes for creating an “alternate reality” for its viewers:
KRAUTHAMMER: What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.
A few years ago, I was on a radio show with a well-known political reporter who lamented the loss of a pristine past in which the whole country could agree on what the facts were, even if they disagreed on how to interpret and act upon them. All that was gone now. The country had become so fractured we couldn’t even agree on what reality was. What she meant was that the day in which the front page of The New York Times was given scriptural authority everywhere was gone, shattered by the rise of Fox News.
Elsewhere in his speech, Krauthammer tried to explain why his award was more valuable to him than the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is “awarded to those, from Yasir Arafat to Jimmy Carter, who give the most succor to the forces of terror and tyranny,” Krauthammer said. (HT: TPM)
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Sad, isn’t it, that the only time Faux News personalities tell the truth is by accident?
June 10th, 2009 at 11:24 amTruer words where never spoke . I just can’t believe they are coming from the mouth of Charles ( I think I just smelled do do ) Krauthammer. I wonder if he has any idea of the meaning
June 10th, 2009 at 11:25 amIt’s kind of scary when these guys go off-message and give us a glimpse into the way their minds work….
June 10th, 2009 at 11:25 amChuckie, that ‘alternate reality’ of Fixed Noise is nothing to be proud of. Your reality supports torture and killing children.
Your reality supports corporate citizenship over American citizens. Your reality supports lying to the public while covering up misdeeds and malpractice of elected officials.
Chuckie, I’ll stay with the reality I was born into, thanks.
You & Rupert, Billdo, Limblahblahblah and the other blowhards can stay in yours, mmmkai?
June 10th, 2009 at 11:26 amJune 10th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I wonder if Krauthamer’s reality is anything like the drug induced fantasies of George Bush, Rush Limbaugh or Charles Manson.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:29 amI hear you, Krautie. It’s always felt like a bad acid trip.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:29 amA few years ago, I was on a radio show with a well-known political reporter who lamented the loss of a pristine past in which the whole country could agree on what the facts were, even if they disagreed on how to interpret and act upon them. All that was gone now. The country had become so fractured we couldn’t even agree on what reality was.
So much better when you can just make stuff up.
Krauthammer has always been a fan of jackbooted “conservatism” but it’s increasingly obvious that he’s also completely unhinged.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:30 amCongrats, Inca Death Mask. You’re Rupert’s favorite toady of the year.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:31 amI never trusted or read anything by Krauthammer.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:33 amThis just goes to show that the folks perpetuating this BS know exactly what they are doing and why. The facts generally speak for themselves so to perpetuate a self serving agenda that can only succeed by changing the facts to get the public at large to buy in is obviously the goal of this entire enterprise.
Cunning
June 10th, 2009 at 11:33 amAlternate reality? You mean, kind of like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy?
Yes, when actual reality is either painful or boring, a made-up “alternate reality” can make things more palatable — a nice fuzzy false world people can cocoon themselves in.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:33 amKRAUTHAMMER: What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.
Was he drunk?! Well, that’s the most truthful thing I’ve ever heard (death mask) Krauthammer say.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:34 amThe best part of this is that when Krautenwarmonger used the word “hegemony” in his speech, 90% of his FauxSnooze-watching audience had no idea what it meant…
“Liberal elite” indeed…
June 10th, 2009 at 11:35 amWow, that’s the first thing he ever said that’s dead on. When reading that it took me a minute to figure out who Krauthammer was because I was thinking “totally nailed it; that’s exactly what’s wrong with them.”
June 10th, 2009 at 11:35 amHe might as well admit that Fox News just makes sh!t up as they go along. They went to court and won the right to lie over the airwaves. Once you’ve set a legal precedent, it’s hardly a secret anymore.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:35 amKrauthummer’s statement just proves to me that all the lying is done on purpose.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:36 am“alternate reality” = Bizarro World
June 10th, 2009 at 11:39 amThe Nobel Prize is “awarded to those, from Yasir Arafat to Jimmy Carter, who give the most succor to the forces of terror and tyranny,” Krauthammer said.
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I suspect Krauthammer still hasn’t gotten over the fact that Al Gore won the NPP, and so finds it necessary to diss the prize itself.
There are too many past laureates to list here, but anyone who wants to see a list can see one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laureates
I’m having a tough time finding anybody on there noted for giving succor to terror and tyranny. But I guess in Krauthammer’s world, anybody who doesn’t deal with problems by bombing somebody is a complete wuss, and therefore contributes to the problem. Sort of like the way Martin Luther King, Jr. gave “succor to terror and tyranny” by not fighting violence with violence.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:42 amwatchpuppy shows up with another intelligent response.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:44 amIt appears that blotchdog has gotten the memo from wipey, that you don’t need to type a lot to still get credit for a 5 cent post. Simply copy-and-paste a progressive’s comment, and a “(fill in the derogation) much?”
Bingo. Another nickel.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:45 amAlternative reality?
You mean an echo chamber of fear-mongering, chicken-hawk warlords of the uber-right, anti-American fascist party hell-bent on the forceful dumbing-down of an already pathetically ignorant base?
In the liberal-leaning World of reality, A.K.A. he blind-leading-the-blind.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:45 amPatting themselves on the back for making stuff up…
Just WOW.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:46 amHow fookin noble. These criminals created an “alternate reality” in which up is down and War is Peace. And the Inner Party controlled Oceania and . . . wait, wasn’t that someone else’s fictional reality already? So they didn’t “create” shite.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:46 am… we’ve been writing their script for years…
last night on keith, i heard clips of limpbone talking about “government media”, referring to msnbc…
uh huh…
June 10th, 2009 at 11:47 amThey should just change their name to 1984 News
June 10th, 2009 at 11:47 amGiven that “a senior Bush aide” (widely believed to be Rove) was quoted as disparaging the “Reality-Based Community” and now Krauthammer acknowledges that Faux News has created “an alternate reality”, it would appear that the conservative elites truly do recognize that Reality has a liberal bias.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:47 amGood point. How silly of us to accept that they had “created” an alternate reality.
Conservatives don’t create if they can help it. Their first choice is always to steal.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:48 amYears ago, I let my subscription to The New Republic lapse because I found Charles Krauthammer so odious. I’ve never regretted that decision. Although the man (for reasons I can’t begin to understand) has commanded a national audience, it hasn’t included me.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:48 amThey should just change their name to 1984 News
George Orwell has been laughing from the grave for years now.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:50 amHow come ThinkProgress hasn’t won this “Eric Breindel Award” before?
June 10th, 2009 at 11:51 amThey’ve been pointing out that FoxNews is in an alternate reality longer than Krauthammer!
Nevermind, that’s more “fact” than “opinion!”
Good dog
June 10th, 2009 at 11:51 amI think in 2010 we should make sure all these repug nutballs stay in their alternate reality. We really don’t need or want them in the real world.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:51 amthe Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism
Now there’s a prestigious award. Right up there with the Polk.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:52 amWho the heck is Eric Breindel anway?
June 10th, 2009 at 11:54 amOpinions, and the people who offer them without invitation, should be acknowledged and and taken into the mix but never recieve awards or prizes.
When the “real” reality becomes too much to deal with, and people choose an alternate perception, we usually seek professional help for them, prescribe drugs and even lock them up. This a very dangerous behavior about which to brag.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:56 amI don’t know. Maybe he was a guy who used to tell lies about FDR on the radio.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:56 amWell, I tried being a supporter of the GOP once, just to see what its like, and Krauthammer is right, the only way to do so is to live in an alternate reality, make stuff up, lie lie lie, use Luntzian framing, catapult propaganda, blame everyone else for everything thats worn, demonize people.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:57 amkraut hammer, i wouldn’t trust anyone with that handle.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am* worn should be wrong [eating lunch here]
June 10th, 2009 at 11:59 ammisscoleopteramolly Says:
The Nobel Prize is “awarded to those, from Yasir Arafat to Jimmy Carter, who give the most succor to the forces of terror and tyranny,” Krauthammer said.
Well now we can ignore anything Krauthammer says. Nobel prize helps terrorists? Alternate reality. Greeted with flowers? Alternate reality. Tell us what you think when you have an opinion on the real reality and maybe we’ll listen. Until then it’s just reports from a magical universe where their political situation is nothing like the one on planet Earth.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:59 amIts a great day for some toe tapping zither music and some great coverage by Fox. Just across the wires, the new band of “Obama and the Uighers” in concert at the fair grounds in Palau. Tickets will be free to those who payed at the gate as it cost US tax payers 12,000,000.00 per band member to enter the country and cover the cost of their extended stay. Future dates will be announced in the coming days according to White House jester Biden and the administrations new CEO of GM “I know nothing about cars” Big Ed Whitacre………
June 10th, 2009 at 11:59 amWhy did you quit? You had it down perfectly.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:59 amFox is certainly an alternative reality. It’s the alternative reality of lies, obfuscations and half truths.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:01 pmSo, Krauthammer gets a prize invented by an alternate reality and he thinks it is more valuable than a FACT BASED award?
Indeed, he and the rest of the Fox News inmates, er, respected commentators do live in an alternate reality.
Just look at the Baboon Beck, Billdo and KKKlannity.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:03 pmStalagtite of lies
June 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pmForms imposing incisor
One drop at a time
Lies are too hard to remember, just ask Bill O’Reilly =)
June 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pmwatchdog Says:
Project much?
No, that appears to be the exclusive domain of righties.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pmConservatism. n. The incessant repetition of that which is not true. More at fraud.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:06 pmEvery day when krauthammer or newt open their mouths, I wonder what world they live in. They refuse to see which party brought the United States to the brink of disaster in every way. Even when the ex VIP admits to lying, the gopers just nod an write a check. Incrediable !
June 10th, 2009 at 12:06 pmLol Cheeseflap, Krauthammer and crew should stay out of caverns.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:07 pmIf only they would all just go live in their alternate reality and leave the rest of us alone.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:07 pm…
alternate reality magazine for sale.
cheap.
:)
June 10th, 2009 at 12:07 pmwell, this is nothing new of course.. backward-thinking right-wingers have been living in a fantasy world for years (every since the 80’s, if you ask me.. when religious fanatics pretty much took over right-wing politics in this country.. thanks to that dunce RR.. my gosh, all the damage these retards have done to this country, in the name of religion and other fantasies…)
I guess Krauthammer simply articulated that now the pie-in-the-sky crowd has a place that caters to their fantasies and alternate universe…
at least he’s honest about it…..:) heh heh…
June 10th, 2009 at 12:07 pmAnd people ask me why I don’t watch Fox News.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:08 pmJune 10th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Eric Breindel?
June 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pmWasn’t he the main character in the movie “The Fly 2?”
He later became “Breindel/Fly” and tried to kill everyone; no relation to Barfly!
I could be wrong!
Woe be unto us that their fractured reality intersects ours.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pmCharles Krauthammer is full of it.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pmAt least krauthammer’s physical appearance meets his seriously challenged intellect.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:10 pmI am still in shock that newt’s speech netted $14 million, of course many gopers made money on the blood of America’s young.
Sorry I know the thread is on krauthammer, well the name fits the looks.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:12 pmWho the heck is Eric Breindel anway?
There is wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Breindel
and another article
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/06/tamar-jacobys-late-ex-husband-heroin.html
Not exactly a badge of honor. Rupert might as well rename the award as the Baboon Beck Honorary Turd.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:12 pmAlternative reality….LMAO! As the late Ronnie Van Zant used to sing “You got that right”
Lets go a bit farther and say the FOX entertainment channel has created an alternative universe, where there is no intelligent life that exists anywhere in that universe. Hey, but at least it gives all of the intelligence challenged Americans something simple to watch, where they don’t have to do any thinking for themselves.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:13 pmAhh, he was describing working at FOXs alternative reality.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:14 pmPandering to the least common denominator to sell advertising is AWESOME! -just ask the most arrogant man in Whoville.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:14 pmtigger Says:
If only they would all just go live in their alternate reality and leave the rest of us alone.
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LMAO!
Ding-Ding-Ding, we have a winner! My pick for best comment on this thread!
June 10th, 2009 at 12:16 pmYesterday, I asked a very knowledgable person if these pundits, commentators, really believed what they spouted each day. The reply was some people do anything for money whether they believe it or not. I think a republican would sell their own mother for 30 pieces of silver.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:16 pmshoeless Says:
He might as well admit that Fox News just makes sh!t up as they go along. They went to court and won the right to lie over the airwaves. Once you’ve set a legal precedent, it’s hardly a secret anymore.
Ah, the blight upon the news industry, or as it was formerly known, American journalism. Kos did extended commentary and links after FNC won the right to lie on the air in court:
In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a “law, rule, or regulation,” it was simply a “policy.” Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.
During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/30/201231/262
Caveat emptor.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pm….
the alternate reality of newt:
Ronald Reagan, addressing U.N. on June 19, 1982:
I speak today as both a citizen of the United States and of the world. … My people have sent me here today to speak for them as citizens of the world, which they truly are, for we Americans are drawn from every nationality represented in this chamber today.
…
Newt Gingrich addressing GOP on June 8, 2009:
Let me be clear. I am not a citizen of the world! I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous.
The great difference between Reagan’s rhetorical skills and President Obama’s rhetorical skills are [sic] that Reagan used his rhetorical skills to shine light on truths and fundamental facts, Obama used his rhetorical skills to hide from fundamental facts.
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ain’t life grand?
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from dkos.
:)
June 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pmFOX News
“You watch, we’ll decide for you”
June 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pmMay as well call it the Rush Limbaugh award for professionalism in tabloidal trash.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pmTheir reality is from the 50’s. They are so much like the TV show “Mad Men.” Totally consumed with their own avarice and greed, and perpetuating a bubble word mindset. Pierce the bubble and out oozes the most heinous of things, their true persons.
It has become apparent that their world consists of lawlessness, and has since McCarthy.
His beliefs (and those that supported him) outstripped the belief in the rule of law.
Iran-Contra and Raygun, His beliefs (and those that supported him) outstripped the belief in the rule of law.
Invasion of Iraq, CHeney’s beliefs (and those that supported him) outstripped the belief in the rule of law.
Torture, Bush et al’s beliefs outstripped the belief in the rule of law.
Even Dr. Tiller’s recent assination, The Reicht-wing’s religious beliefs outstripped the belief in the rule of law.
They are willing to subvert the rule of law if their own personal belief runs counter to the rule of law.
They are criminals. ALL REPUBLICANS ARE CRIMINALS. PERIOD. Yes, the liitle old lady down the street who voted for Goldwater is a CRIMINAL. The whole Republican mindset is a criminal enterprise and needs to be purged from society. It is a MENTAL DEFECT, unable to have compassion and empathy (Huh, Remember the “compassionate conservatives,” and now they mock “empathy”) THEY ARE ABSOLUTE NUTS AND SOCIETY NEEDS TO DO WHAT IT DOES FOR CRAZY PEOPLE…LOCK THEM UP SO THEY DO NOT INJURE THEMSELVES OR OTHERS.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:18 pm#69 texaslady Says:
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I agree! But those from both sides are guilty of this, it’s just that those on the right are more delusional.
I recall article I once read where (forget his name) a former politican basically said, we are all friends in congress. What we do is have a politician from one side, say something in the media so outlandish that it offends the supporters from the otherside, as the outrage builds, someone from the offended party comes back a day or two later to say something which will offend the supporters of the other side, and the public on both sides are furious and distracted and argue amongst one another, meanwhile the two politicians involved later get together for dinner and cognac and enjoy the spectacle that they’ve created.
The moral to this story is that we are being played by both sides and the media to further distract and divide us from the real problems facing us. It’s all a game to them.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:24 pmJoe,
“Newt Gingrich addressing GOP on June 8, 2009:
Let me be clear. I am not a citizen of the world! I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous.”
You can’t make this sh|t up.
Bye, bye Newtie the Lizard King.
[BTW, is it Newtie or Newty? I never could figure that out.]
June 10th, 2009 at 12:33 pmThere you have it- an oral admission that FoKKKs “news” is full of shit.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:34 pmJust read the bio on krauthammer, and I think Uncle has it right. Seems that krautie has many liberal viewpoints but keeps them quiet. He is also quite intelligent, probably enjoys playing headgames.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:34 pmAlecto @76 and the gopers lined up to shell out $14 million Can you believe it ? But, we see it daily, republicans would vote for the devil rather than admit President Obama is succeeding. Racism you are alive and well in America.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:36 pmFoxNews: Built by sociopaths, catering to the undiscerning sociopath.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:41 pmObamawipe$: My name is Obamawipe$. I am a brain dead republican troll who gets paid $3.50 an hour from my republican handlers to post idiotic drivel from the talking points of Rush Limbaugh and the republican party. I don’t care if 90% of what I’m for is actually against my own personal interests or have adverse affects on my personal life or our country. I, like most in my party are more concerned for the success of our party, not the success of my country or it’s people.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:43 pm“catering to the undiscerning sociopath.”
Cratering would also fit.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:44 pmobamawipe$ Says:
“AT a time when awards in the humanities are a near-monopoly of the left — Nobel peace prizes awarded to those, from Yasir Arafat to Jimmy Carter, who give the most succor to the forces of terror and tyranny; Pulitzers given to whichever newspaper can expose the more damaging national-security secrets — it is important for there to be an award to recognize and encourage journalism and, more generally, political thinking of a different kind.”
Congrats, Charles.
Yes, but that’s all from an alternate reality, so it doesn’t matter. In the real world, the opposite of everything he said there is the case.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:45 pmSays it all for the character of repubs doesn’t it when they applaud the likes of limbaugh, newt and devour the writtings of those who sell to the highest bidder.
Didn’t believe in evil til I have seen what repubs can do to civilization.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:45 pmUncle Fester Lurks, please respect the embargo on responding to trolls of a certain type.
We’re trying to control the infestation and if we get the queen of the time-wasting trolls, the others will be more manageable.
Thanks for your cooperation.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:47 pmObamawipe$ continued:
Obamawipe$: We on the right don’t really care about America or the average American citizen. We are for the wealthy, the elite, the mega-corporations. Yes, we want President Obama to fail, yes we want America to fail, yes we would be okay with another terrorist attack within our country, why? because it would be good for the republican party.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:47 pmSorry Ralph, I didn’t realize that you were all using restraint against responding to the a$$trolls. I will try and do a better but sometimes it is hard to pass up on kicking troll a$$.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pmPoor sham-wow, thinks Krauthammer meant what he said when talking about the Nobel peace prize. Bless his little heart, he doesnt understand Krauthammer is speaking Orwellian.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pm….
wipey,
fun at the college republican national committee convention:
“Elicia Huffaker, an intern at the GOP Youth Convention—an outfit set up to bring young conservatives together over pizza and beer—seems exactly the kind of person Howell will need to energize. Her assessment of the GOP? “We’re the dead-meat party,” she said. “We need to be the happy meal.” Adding injury to insult, Huffaker did not pay the registration fee and so was unable to hear the convention’s speakers; she was stationed at a booth outside.”
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read all about here.
very funny.
except for you wipey.
here’s a hankie.
:)
June 10th, 2009 at 12:51 pmThank God only 25% of Americans live in that alternative reality and these are the dumbest of the dumbest Americans.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:51 pm“The country had become so fractured we couldn’t even agree on what reality was.”
–Charles Krauthammer
I have no doubt whatsoever, Dr. Krauthammer, that YOU have NO IDEA what reality is. You prove it time and again, and are well paid for your trouble.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:52 pm“AT a time when awards in the humanities are a near-monopoly of the left — Nobel peace prizes awarded to those, from Yasir Arafat to Jimmy Carter, who give the most succor to the forces of terror and tyranny; Pulitzers given to whichever newspaper can expose the more damaging national-security secrets — it is important for there to be an award to recognize and encourage journalism and, more generally, political thinking of a different kind.”
amongst the stupidity of this quote- the only thing of interest is the REASON Nobel peace prizes are awarded to the left shows a consensus for left ideologies to be those most engaged in solving the challenges of the world, looking at the most hopeful aspects of us, not the most cynical and divisive, which is the job of the right.
Despite a monopolization of resources and power in its cynical greed, its constant attempt to re-write history, it might show with this quote that the right is bitter that its sad worldview isn’t lauded, except by gunpoint, bribery, or other coercion. They’ll take what they can get with pathetic awards like this.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:53 pmThe power structure of the alternative reality:
President: Rush Limbaugh
June 10th, 2009 at 12:58 pmFirst Lady: Sean Hannity
Vice President: Newt Gingrich
Head Of Gestapo: Bill O’Reilly
Minister Of Altered Truth: Glen Beck
B*tch At Arms: Ann Coulter
Secretary Of Insanity: Michele Bachmann
Secretary Of Stupidity: Sarah Palin
Edit:
An “alternative TO reality”
There, now it’s corrected.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:59 pmOops, forgot to include:
June 10th, 2009 at 1:01 pmOverlord: Darth Cheney
Well, this explains why our current crop of trolls is so stupid. It’s not that morons like C4P and Obamawipe$ don’t know anything or don’t understand anything or have no sense of logic and reason. It’s just that they’re correct and knowledgeable in alternate reality facts and alternate reality logic.
It all makes sense now.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:06 pm“God will send among them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, that they may all be damned.”
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
June 10th, 2009 at 1:06 pmTranslated from German, Krauthammer means “herbaceous hammer” or “cabbage hammer”
June 10th, 2009 at 1:07 pmIt does not surprise me that the fascist Republican Party has adopted an alternative to reality that they propagandize. It was quite common for nazi propagandists to have claimed that nazi Germany was winning the war despite the fact that, in the real world, Germany was being overwhelmed on two fronts.
Fox News is just modern fascist propaganda, plain and simple. Reality is not important when you are spreading propaganda.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:13 pmAlecto 74-
June 10th, 2009 at 1:13 pmyou left out Nixon, a practitioner of McCarthyism. He raised presidential criminality to new levels.
His disciples Cheney and Rumsfeld brought it to the Bush administration.
Have you ever heard the sound a mosquito makes when it flies into your ear?
I wish the whining our troll makes sounded that good.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:14 pm…
wipey,
alternate comedy.
prepare to laff your gop hat off!
:)
:)
June 10th, 2009 at 1:29 pmI can’t believe a troll is actually linking to a Glen Beck comedy tour. Duh, Beck is a very unfunny comedian, posing as a news commentator who has ADMITTED that he never fact checks his stories, so what does this tell you about anybody who listens to or watches Glen Beck.
At least Glen is honest about one thing, his comments are pure comedic theater and should not be confused as anything other than that!
June 10th, 2009 at 1:29 pmOnly the drug addled and the insane have any concept about what alternate reality is. The people at Fox should check their water supply for contamination.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:30 pmWorthy of a rerun.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:31 pmKristol should’ve gotten that award – he’s wrong more than anyone!!!
June 10th, 2009 at 1:38 pmYeah, but Kristol is too stupid to even know he is lying.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:40 pmA fake award started by News Corp named after a junkie that considered himself a failure for having to work for Rupert. And that’s a fact.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:52 pmMosquitoes don’t crap all over the place.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:53 pmNixon was a renowned anti-Semite. Funny that his successors pretend to be pro-Israel when their motives are money and power.
June 10th, 2009 at 2:06 pm#1 news source in America: FOX NEWS
June 10th, 2009 at 2:25 pmIOW, Krauthammer is a lying sack of shit.
June 10th, 2009 at 2:26 pmWe need to get screens up on this place.
June 10th, 2009 at 2:30 pmjimmy boy butts. #1 fake news source in America. There, I fixed it for you.
June 10th, 2009 at 2:32 pmJimmy Big Bucks Says:
#1 news source in America: FOX NEWS
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no link.
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June 10th, 2009 at 2:34 pmIn other words, if you shout something loud enough and often enough you can create a new reality. In that sense Fox has been a success. On the other hand, we had another shooting today by a white, right-wing nut job. That is the other reality that he conveniently fails to mention.
June 10th, 2009 at 4:07 pmA moment of truth. And from a man who represents those who do not deal in truth. And what kind of an organization would reward this man? Enough said.
June 10th, 2009 at 6:00 pmWar is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. Love is Hate. Truth is a Lie. Reality is what we say it is.
Conservatism has obviously reached a transcendental state. All Hail Fox News.
June 10th, 2009 at 6:42 pmThe WWE stopped referring to themselves as a sport and coined the term “sports entertainment” instead… Can we start calling what FAUX does “news entertainment?” That would make so much more sense.
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The country had become so fractured we couldn’t even agree on what reality was.
Yeah, but it was you guys that fractured it. Wedge politics didn’t come from the left.
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Doodlebug Shayne Says:
Nixon was a renowned anti-Semite. Funny that his successors pretend to be pro-Israel when their motives are money and power.
Well, they’re only pro-Israel until Jesus comes down on a cloud and smites all the Jews, along with all the other non-Christians. So they need Israel to start the big war that’ll set that off. The more belligerent Israel is to its enemies, the more likely the Rapture will come soon. If I was an Israeli, I’d be pretty damn insulted by such “support.”
Some of the stuff Nixon said to Kissinger’s face is pretty damn funny though. Can’t believe that guy didn’t just kick Tricky Dick’s stupid ass.
June 10th, 2009 at 6:53 pmThe neocons never get the moral of the story. They just see what the villians did and think it’s a great idea.
June 10th, 2009 at 7:58 pmIt’s called “Life inside a Fishbowl”.
June 10th, 2009 at 9:17 pmBut his praise took a strange turn when he extolled the “genius” of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes for creating an “alternate reality” for its viewers:
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Alternate Reality translates to the collection of village idiots.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:41 pmThe reality is this association is really getting scary!
Hmmm…let me take a look at the cable news ratings. Darn it my drone friends; can’t we sit still for one minute! Just enough to catch up with FOX? Oh and check this out, a glimpse into reality if you can turn off the ADD –> http://tiny.cc/AG1dG
June 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pmHere’s some reality for everyone, if you can’t sit still and watch the video in the link that I’ve posted above, then describe the contents to your drone friends…then you, my drone, are clearly promoting the denial of reality just like the MAINSTREAM media is doing to # 1 NEWYORKTIMES best selling author 7 straight weeks Mark Levin.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:00 amwatchdog Says:
Project much?
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While you are STUPID always
June 11th, 2009 at 12:31 amAnd SlappytheMoron is back doing the only thing he ever does. Begging us all to pity him for being so stupid and pathetic. He will never have any self respect or friends or anything but a pitiful lonely existance. So desperate for attention he tries to get it by coming here to beg us to pity him. Dont do it. He is an addict. I know he is pathetic. He certainly deserves our pity anyone as stupid as he is would but restrain yourself. He is addicted the more you pity him the more pity he begs for. Ignore him and pray he finds a sliver of self respect some day.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:36 amthinkhugegovernment Says:
Bite my bag you ignorant brainwashed punk. Look YOU are a moron WAY too stupid to be so condescending. If my GOLDFISH were as stupid as you are I would put him out of his misery. Fox is DWARFED in the ratings by the networks. If you want REAL news there is competition but if you want to be a brainwashed moron and be lied to Fox is the only choice. They get the biggest percentage of the loser morons like YOU who are so proud that a few million other people are stupid enough to be fooled too. If a miracle ever happens and you somehow develop the capacity for higher brain function I hope you will have the self respect to be ashamed of how staggeringly stupid you are.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:42 amNumber one MORON at this site? JimmyCrackWhore
June 11th, 2009 at 12:59 amAlright Debs, plug your ears so the steam can’t escape…just long enough to type this in a google search “cable news ratings” 2009. Oh, and then read the results. I’ll be watching Millhouse attempt to destroy our country with his media apendage slobering all over the place while blood shoots out of my eyes.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:03 am3 million Americans!!!
3 million Americans:
allergic to peanuts
struggle with stuttering
could have Barret’s esophagus
are affected by panic disorders
suffer from schizophrenia
have now been out of work for six months
are of Arab descent
are wearing the white band
have glaucoma
will seek medical care in the next 24 hours
have at least partial Lebanese ancestry
have an unintended pregnancy each year
are employed within the justice system
work for firms owned by foreign companies
suffer with Grave’s disease
Whoo hoo! Whoo hoo wee ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
June 11th, 2009 at 4:59 amRE – “KRAUTHAMMER: What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.”
FROM RON SUSKIND: “In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend – but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality…”
SOURCE – http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3822
June 11th, 2009 at 5:01 amHey thinkbiggovernment, since we’re trading links, how do you feel about this inconvenient fact?
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thinkhugegovernment Says:
Alright Debs, plug your ears so the steam can’t escape…just long enough to type this in a google search “cable news ratings” 2009. Oh, and then read the results.
FAUX Noise isn’t a cable news channel. It’s a “news entertainment” channel, like E! except more fake.
June 11th, 2009 at 3:30 pm