Sure, I won't watch this. But is there anything I can do to not watch it harder? pic.twitter.com/SjKvw2RjvM
— Andy Cobb (@AndyCobb) February 24, 2015
If CNN’s not careful, Fox News is gonna sue for trademark infringement.
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Sure, I won't watch this. But is there anything I can do to not watch it harder? pic.twitter.com/SjKvw2RjvM
— Andy Cobb (@AndyCobb) February 24, 2015
If CNN’s not careful, Fox News is gonna sue for trademark infringement.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I got the guy who is spending the most time training me in to understand that I don’t really want to talk politics. He gets it and things have been going a lot more smoothly the last couple of nights. I learned that it really was 28 months in Iraq over a couple of tours that converted him from being basically apolitical to being a rabid right winger and I can at least be sympathetic without really understanding or approving. I really do like him 95% of the time, so I consider all of this to be a positive development.
wasabi gasp
Coming up next: hate-filled throat eruption…and you may be surprised by what she has to say.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
Stumbled on this article from late last year on the BBC’s website:
Gone WIth The Wind: Is it America’s strangest film?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141215-is-this-americas-strangest-film
The writer makes a pretty good case.
Major Major Major Major
wwwwq9
Sincerely,
Samwise the Cat
http://imgur.com/FP1w08F
patrick II
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
I would end up being the opposite of a right winger if I spent 28 months of my life in Iraq and found later it was all a sham and there never was WMD. I think one thing that happens though, at least for Vietnam vets I know, is that if you have actually been in battle and killed someone it would be hard to admit to yourself that you took a life for no good reason other than whatever crazy ideas actually drove the Bush administration to put you in that position..
wasabi gasp
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Sooth him with the gift of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFdVYtop1M
Jim, Foolish Literalist
good god, Lemon!
Tree With Water
“Mr. [O’Reilly]… told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter’s coverage was inappropriate. “I am coming after you with everything I have,” Mr. O’Reilly said. “You can take it as a threat.”
Didn’t that gasbag also level a public threat about ten years ago, involving unleashing FOX in-house security on a critic? I definitely recall one being made, and it involved someone at FOX (and I think it was that asshole).
I’m enjoying the hell out of this story. I particularly enjoy watching the chicken-shit reaction of American journalists in maintaining the fiction that FOX “News” practices journalism. They want O’Reilly to just go away, because they don’t dare rock the Murdoch boat. They realize the longer the story lasts, the worst they look for pulling their punches. Simply put, they lack the integrity to call the FOX network what it is, and want to change the subject. The damage done to their own credibility in perpetuating the dangerous fiction is total. They either don’t understand that, or more likely, they don’t care. By my lights, by maintaining the charade their credibility as journalists is irredeemably compromised. I mean, do those people truly believe they can implicitly endorse FOX as professional peers, and then expect me to take them seriously? Me, or anyone else..
Morzer
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
When life gives you Lemons (whether Don or Cleo), make a channel-switch.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tree With Water: He unleashed his producer/stalker on Keith Olbermann and Amanda Turkel about 10 years ago.
wasabi gasp
Favorite thing from last night’s show.
Glen Campbell – I’m Not Gonna Miss You
Villago Delenda Est
Someone at the NYT website commented, most astutely, that Faux “News” is to news as World Wrestling Entertainment is to sports.
NotMax
@Villago Delenda Est
And O’Reilly is to news reporting as Andy Kaufman was to wrestling.
srv
It’s different if you’re Obama’s VA Secretary:
Fred
In “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, Al Franken relates a story about O’Reilly getting in the face of a lady who worked on Franken’s book (editor?) and verbally assaulting and physically intimidating her because he didn’t like the photo of himself on a mock-up cover at a book show. The man is a real shit.
Fred
Edited: redundant copy. Oops.
srv
Some real heroism amongst Democrats:
Amir Khalid
This is nuts: holding the 2022 World Cup in winter? Three out of four World Cup players will have to leave their club sides for some two months or more bang in the middle of the season. FIFA should never have awarded the World Cup to Qatar.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Fred: Bill-o and Sen. Franken nearly came to blows at book conference at UCLA with poor Molly Ivins between them.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Isn’t that the stadium that looks like a huge vagina? The Daily Show did a great segment on it.
srv
Now we know why Sarah is Proud:
gene108
@Amir Khalid:
I wonder how much money Qatar bribed FIFA with to land the World Cup?
There are better choices.
If FIFA wanted to expand popularity, the USA would have been the best choice. People are beginning to follow the sport here, to some extent and hosting it here would bump up the popularity.
Japan and South Korea would have also been a way to reach out to places not typically thought of as soccer powerhouse countries and give them a shot to get involved.
Morzer
@gene108:
Japan and Korea co-hosted the World Cup relatively recently (2002 to be precise).
Bobby B.
Atop The Corporation’s My Olympus, Bill O’Reilly and Rachel Maddow bump beakers of Golden Nectar, and Chuck Todd and Anne Coulter are locked in an immortal embrace of passion, and the Gods do smile.
Or, “the animals looked from farmer to pig…”
Debbie(aussie)
@srv: Mr rAbbot is just trying to play catch up to his tea party sponsors in the US. The report into the siege said no such thing. He such an asshole!
Viva BrisVegas
@srv:
Abbott has just unconvincingly survived a spill motion and now sees his best bet at remaining in the top job as becoming a wartime PM.
Polling for the Liberal Party has been bouncing around in the low 40’s for months now, but an election is not due until late next year.
He’s just been found out for proposing to send 3500 ground troops to Iraq and another contingent to Ukraine, and probably would have if the heads of defence hadn’t told him he was crazy.
So he’s pulling out all stops and going the whole teabag retard. Kicking refugees, insulting Muslims, antagonising Indonesia, bugging the Internet, attacking the Human Rights Commissioner, are all in a day’s work.
It’s not pretty and will only stop when his party gets sick of the low polls.
raven
@patrick II: say what
gene108
@Morzer:
Forgot about that.
bemused
@Fred:
Have you seen the clip of Bill from his early broadcast days throwing a mega meltdown tantrum trying to do a promo? I remember him shouting “we’ll do it live” practically snorting like a bull. What a joy he must be to work with.
bjacques
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m surprised Molly (peace be upon her) didn’t deck his sorry ass. I’m sure he’s punchy in person, but from a distance it’s like being savaged by a dead sheep.
Sherparick
@Tree With Water: Ditto. Not to much to add. Murdoch does not quite dominate U.S. media as he does Australia’s, but he is huge. From a simple aspect of careerism in a industry (TV, Radio, and Print journalism) that is increasingly one of a few big winners (see O’Reilly and Brian Williams) and lots of “losers” (short term free lancing with no benefits), and winning is more about one’s “entertainment” value then journalistic skills, these guys and gals don’t want to burn bridges. And O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, and Murdoch really do wage intimidation war against any critics (not that O’Reilly immediately went full nuclear against David Corn and Mother Jones. Sadly, MSNBC has apparently realized that liberal millenials work during the day and are not watching cable news. Those that do, mostly retired, white, and over sixty, also think our President is a Muslim Agent about to implement Sharia law. So it looks like we can expect more programming like Scarborough during the day, and it also explains why CNN has become “the Muslims are coming to kill you in your bed network.” I tell my older friends (and I am now fitting this demographic myself, except for the retired part) to try to avoid both local TV news and cable news as much as possible. In the evenings, I am catching up with the Vikings.
SRW1
@Amir Khalid:
I think what that means is that all commercial leagues will have a winter break, No use to try ro compete with a World cup anyway. It will also mean that in the Northern hemisphere the seasons will beginn/extend well into the hottest months of the summer. Nice example of how an initial f*ck up snowballs.
But before we get to the 2022 train wreck, there’s still the 2018 affair in Russia. I have some doubts that event is home and dry yet. There have been predictions that Russia’s economy may do another 2008-2009 style financial crisis in the near future. I also wonder what Putin’s calculation is as to how much of Eastern Ukraine he can grab without triggering a boycott or even a reassignment of WC 2018. 1980 Olympics here we come.
SRW1
@gene108:
Japan / Korea hosted WC 2002, the US WC 1994.
PS: I think if Russia 2018 blows, up the US might be one of the strongest candidates to take over. The other alternative would probably be a consortium of European countries.
ETA: Morzer got there already. Sorry, saw that too late.
Morzer
@SRW1:
I wonder when Romanov in Portland will denounce the secret Obama fascist plan to steal the world cup for America by forcing Putin to defend innocent little Russia from the invading Ukrainian hordes.
SRW1
@Morzer:
I don’t think Vladimir will have WC 2018 brought up first. You don’t ruin your PR hits unless you absolutely have to. And WC 2018 taking place in Russia may already be somewhat tainted internationally, but if it does take place without a boycott from major countries it will still serve the domestic purpose of demonstrating to the Russian people that the world respects Russia.