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John Drake — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:05:32 GMT

Winfrey to announce Friday show will end in 2011 | Comcast.net

Finally some GOOD news this year.

I think she jumped the shark with Tom Cruise, though I haven't watched her since she was the female Jerry Springer.

Here in Baltimore we still have an anchor who had her as his second banana, before she went to Chicago and her own show. I still remember her interviewing local Flower Mart Presidents on Monday's Noon edition.

Jon Stewart explains Fox News vs Opiniotainment

Disillusioned_1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:14:32 GMT

The video from the daily show at this link has a rundown of the Whitehouse "War on Fox News". In the process, it does a great job of illustrating the problem most non-Fox-viewers have with Fox News, and the weakness of the "oh thats not news, thats an opinion segment" argument presented by Fox.

Jon Stewart explains Fox News - TV Squad

Any disagreements with the piece? I think it was damn near spot-on.

Britain's "Prime Minister's Questions" on CSPAN

Tim — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:44:56 GMT

Do you watch the Question Time in the House program on CSPAN (otherwise known as Prime Minister's Questions) ? The House of Commons debates and discussions are televised.

The entire series is available through their video library to watch on the site:

Prime Minister's Questions - C-SPAN

We should adapt the British system. Let's install a monarchy which will become the focus of all the projections and melodrama and desire for tradition and pageantry.

Then we can have a president who is the equivalent of the PM and has to duke it out with the other members and not get away with platitudes and empty promises.

The speeches given by the president here are accompanied by the solemnity and gravity usually associated with coronations. All of the members of congress compete with each other to see who can grin and look appropriately serious and/or moved and filled with good and loyal thoughts.

They also compete to see who can applaud the longest - like Stalin's followers.

In London they have real verbal brawls, and they even laugh at times; they really go at it and hold each other accountable.

That seems a much healthier system. :)

FOX Wins - Obama Interviews on FOX

jviehe — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:04:24 GMT

Score one for freedom of the press.

Quote:

NEW YORK (Nov. 16) -- President Barack Obama gave an interview to Fox News Channel's Major Garrett, perhaps signaling a thaw in relations between the network and administration.
The White House confirmed Tuesday that Garrett was among a round of network interviews that the president was giving Wednesday in Beijing.
On its Web site, Fox News said that the Obama warned that the nation's growing national debt would fuel a "double-dip recession." The president, Fox News reported, also said that he's looking at additional tax incentives for businesses to reverse the rising unemployment rate.

Fox News' Major Garrett Interviews President Obama

Ghadaffi hands out Korans to italian beauties

Voland — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:06:56 GMT

Lybian dictator Muammar al Ghaddafi, in Rome for a global conference about hunger, has surprised his italian hosts with his desire to have 200 beautiful women from all over Italy to be brought to his residence to "exchange views" with them. In return they got 50 Euros and a Koran

Girls for Gadhafi: Libyan Leader Hands out Korans to Hundreds of Italian Beauties - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Did Glenn Beck Rape And Murder A Young Girl In 1990?

Speakeasy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:51:25 GMT

DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com: Home Page

Now, I'm not saying that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl back in 1990. I personally don't really even believe that Glenn Beck brutally raped and then proceeded to viciously murder an innocent young girl in 1990. But, all of this could be put to rest if Glenn Beck provided some sort of evidence or at the very least even issued some sort of denial that he horribly raped a young defenseless girl before tragically ripping her life from her body, never able to see her friends and family again on one fateful night in the 1990's.

But Beck hasn't denied the allegations of the brutal rape and inhuman murder of this young girl. In fact, quite suspiciously, Glenn Beck got his lawyer to sue the website to have it removed from the internet and to obtain the name of the site administrator. Isn't it a bit unusual that Glenn Beck, king of free speech, would suddenly abandon these principals in order to shut down a website focusing on his extinguishing the bright future of a young girl who loved life, after forcibly penetrating her against her will as she hopelessly screamed for help before he silenced her for eternity?

He could easily offer an alibi. I'm sure he had friends and family that could vouch for his whereabouts during 1990. Heck, just acknowledging the charges and issuing a denial would go a big way towards putting this whole thing to rest. But all we get is silence and lawsuits (which he lost, by the way, free speech triumphed over Beck's attempted censorship). His suspicious behavior is just feeding the whole thing and the tides are turning against him.

So, come on, Glenn Beck, did you hide in the bushes one blustery night waiting for this young girl to come walking along all by her young self before pouncing on her and ripping her pants off and violently stripping her innocence and youth away through indescribably brutal sexual molestation all while ignoring her constant sobbing before smothering the flame of her life like the terrible good for nothing shit headed murdering rapist you are? I mean, I don't believe any of this at all, but I'm just asking. Because I have my suspicions.

Obama- interview with Fox/ Dobbs will move to Fox ( my take)

Imperator — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:11:22 GMT

After all of that, the hits they took etc. and for what? What poopy heads.

And I think good sense tells anyone with a passing knowledge of how things work nowadays that Dobbs will wind up on Fox, my guess, it'll be announced soon.

Obama to sit down for Fox interview

By Tony Romm - 11/12/09 07:55 AM ET
President Barack Obama will sit down with Fox News' Major Garrett for an exclusive interview next week, ending months of bickering between the White House and the network that kept the president mostly off its airwaves.

The news that Obama would join Garrett during the president's upcoming trip to Asia arrives hours after then-Communications Director Anita Dunn -- who first voiced criticism of the Fox franchise -- announced she would soon depart her position.

Obama to sit down for Fox interview - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Hannity admits using "incorrect" tape

goober — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:59:31 GMT

In showing how large the demonstration against the Health Care Bill was, Sean Hannity showed tape of a huge demonstration, it just wasn't the demonstration he was talking about, apparently tape of that demonstration made it look "not huge".
Bill Carter - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com

Gosh, no wonder the most misinformed people get their news from FOX.

Lou Dobbs quits CNN

Danny — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:29:22 GMT

Lou Dobbs QUITS CNN (Video)

I'm sorry to see him go. I find he was a highly intelligent newscaster and received much undue criticism for being anti-illegal immigration. People made him out to be anti immigration and anti Latino altogether which I find unfortunate.

According to the Left� The Only �Enemy� is the Right

tsquare — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:47:44 GMT

A leading light of the far left media Evan Thomas has this to say about the Ft Hood

Quote:

I cringe that he's a Muslim. I mean, because it just inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a nut case but, with that label attached to him, it will get the right wing going. And it just, these things are tragic, but that makes it much worse.

You can see him say it here

The �worse� part of all this is not, that he was missed by the Army chain of command, the FBI, and DOJ

The �worse� part of all this is not, that he killed 13 and wounded 30.

The �worse� part of all this is� the right wing.

Defend or reject�

Gun inventor Kalashnikov turns 90

Thorvald — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:12:58 GMT

Gun inventor, 'happy man' Kalashnikov turns 90
The Russian inventor of the globally popular AK-47 assault rifle celebrated his birthday Tuesday, receiving an award from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Moscow -- Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian inventor of the globally popular AK-47 assault rifle, declared himself a happy man with few regrets as he celebrated his 90th birthday on Tuesday.

"Age is not significant. I have plenty of life left in me. But still, this is a special date and it needs to be celebrated," the white-haired inventor said in remarks broadcast on Russian television.

Kalashnikov, whose tie was decorated with a metal pin shaped like an AK-47, smiled and read patriotic poetry to journalists in Izhevsk, his hometown and the site of the huge Izhmash factory which produces the rifles.

He later visited Moscow to receive an award from President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin.

Meanwhile birthday wishes poured in for Kalashnikov from across Russia and even from space, with two Russian cosmonauts congratulating him by video link from the International Space Station (ISS).

"Your name, like that of the first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, became a symbol of our country in the 20th century," ISS crew member Maxim Surayev said in the video message, which was broadcast on Russian television.

Kalashnikov is considered a national hero in Russia for designing the AK-47, a rifle whose name stands for "Kalashnikov's Automatic" and the year it was designed, 1947.

Also called the "Kalashnikov,� the rifle and its variants are the weapons of choice for dozens of armies and guerrilla groups around the world.

More than 100 million Kalashnikov rifles have been sold worldwide and they are wielded by fighters in such far-flung conflict zones as Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.

But their inventor, a World War II veteran, has barely profited financially from them and lives modestly in Izhevsk, an industrial town 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) east of Moscow.

Part of the problem, according to Izhmash, is that "counterfeit" AK-47s are produced in Bulgaria, China, Poland and the United States, costing the company 360 million dollars (261 million euros) annually.

Gun inventor, 'happy man' Kalashnikov turns 90 < European News | Expatica Belgium

Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1949

AK-47 Kalashnikov Museum

About the military Museum of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of AK-47

The Media is More Powerful then the President, Propaganda Daily 24/7 all Channels.

stinger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:09:36 GMT

The Media is More Powerful then the President, Propaganda Daily 24/7 all Channels.

The Media just says Obama, Not President Obama, Just Obama, even when they talk about Cheney they first say Vice President Cheney. They are all for taking power back and disrespecting the country and are president, every day, 24 hours a day.

Just like going after President Clinton, they didn�t care if it hurt the country or are ability to have good relations with are allies or are enemies as long as they got Clinton Out and Republicans in, to destroy economy and make Billions on wars to wall street.

Fox News propaganda vs. what really happened: Ted Kennedy and Medicare�s prescription drug benefit

Fox News propaganda vs. what really happened: Ted Kennedy and Medicare’s prescription drug benefit - Daily Kos TV (beta)

The only time republicans take responsibility is when they are lying about results that benefits them.

V: The New Series or Obama Takes Manhattan

jviehe — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:45:02 GMT

So, dont know if anyone saw this last night, but I felt a bit of Obama satire going on. Alien sleeper cells come to Earth to ruin it, then the aliens land and use propaganda to bring us hope and change, including...wait for it...universal health care! Theres also the legion of young brownshirts, the control of the media. This should be interesting with the shoe on the other foot.

And I didnt like it when BSG or Jericho did it to Bush.

the NFL and socialism

MeadHallPirate — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:18:22 GMT

mates,

i was goin' to put this in the "just for fun" part 'o the forums, but after a bit 'o thought, i decided that the NFL be a huge part 'o our culture here in our great land.

when i thinks about the NFL and how the monies and talent be distributed, it all seems to reek 'o socialism to me, aye?

first of all, ye have profit sharin' 'o TV revenues. that means them folks who are in lowly cities with grim media markets end up gettin' monies from the goliaths in markets such as the new york area. this ends up makin' each franchise viable.

then ye have things like the NFL draft. in case any of ye don't know how the NFL draft be workin', here be how it goes; ye get rewarded fer awfulness.
'twas in this way that a horrible franchise in Pittsburgh, the Steelers, got thar mighty quarterback Terry Bradshaw in the 1970 draft. the previous year, them hapless Steelers racked up the sterlin' record of 1-13.

fer all ye who follow the phenomenon that be the NFL, do them socialistic protocols bother ye....or do ye cheer when yer team gets a first round draft and survives due to profit sharin'?

aye?

*bows*

- MeadHallPirate

Woodstock Generation...WTF happened?

JDJarvis — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:47:36 GMT

I caught myself watching a documentary on Woodstock a couple of days ago and while watching I couldn't help but wonder when did liberalism separate itself from liberty? Would that crowd of kids support what has happened and what is looming on the horizon?

Coercive egalitarianism, central planning, rejecting personal responsibility and government oversight of free institutions are all part of modern liberalism that seem so very far from the ideals of Woodstock.

WTF happened?