Thursday Cable News Links and Open Thread
Wednesday's numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3.
CNBC hits new lows. The Bubba factor.
O'Reilly meets Honest Abe. Twitter silence: day 15.
Coop redux. Video: Jennifer Griffin on Today.
Q&A: Jim Angle. Major's first. Party w/Mika.
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Lurker
The Insider is at Fox doing something on The Women of Fox. IMUS was talking about it with Jenna. It's going to be on Megyn Kelly, Harris Faulkner, Jenna Lee and Sandra Smith.
February 11, 2010, 10:07:17 AM EST – Like – Reply
Wenchie
My heart BREAKS for Jennifer. And her family
February 11, 2010, 11:18:53 AM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Megyn Kelly just said that she prefers a hand-written love note to roses.
Anyone got a pen?
February 11, 2010, 1:27:00 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mungo
I'm sure she'll be receiving plenty of those GOP valentine cards from her friends. The ones Fox&Friends thankfully promoted the other day.
February 11, 2010, 3:00:20 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Megyn prefers expensive jewelry most all, IM Right.
If you don't trust me on that, just nonchalantly ask your wife if she prefers handwritten notes, roses, or expensive jewelry.
You don't have to get back with me on that... I'm absolutely sure I know her answer.
February 12, 2010, 12:23:39 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mungo
Hello
been reading the site for a couple of days and thought it was time to post. this is really a test post to see if my login works.
February 11, 2010, 2:37:45 PM EST – Like – Reply
ImNotBlue
Hey, $... the loons at Mediaite spend a lot of time reading your site! You're very popular!
Hi Royal! Hi Same!
February 11, 2010, 3:15:01 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
You noticed that too, huh Blue.
They called us the "Koldys Klown Klub" or some such. Oh well, as long as the initials turn out KKK they are as happy as the pigs they are in sh*t!
February 11, 2010, 5:00:10 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Making a KKK reference is absolutely stupid on their part, I must therefore assume that these "loons" must be the li'l feller and John T.
February 11, 2010, 5:49:56 PM EST – Like – Reply
sarainitaly
They called us the "Koldys Klown Klub" or some such.
I didn't understand what they were talking about. (sorry johnny dollar!)
They finally drove me out of there. It was too gross and too personal. definitely the dregs of society hang out over at mediaite, and i don't need to waste time hanging out with those losers. haha
February 12, 2010, 8:28:59 AM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Sara,
I hope this means that you visit here more often, but are you sure you want to let those idiots drive you off a board where you are the most intelligent and analytical poster (which is why they want you gone)?
Mediaite is leftwardly tilted via the people who write the blogs for Dan Abrams and YOU are the person who rips to shreds their memes, false information, and unverified "facts".
The place needs you!
February 12, 2010, 11:18:10 AM EST – Like – Reply
sarainitaly
Thank you Cecelia! You are too kind! I just couldn't take it any longer. I agree about the need to stop false memes, but when it starts to make you want to go postal, it's time to just walk away. hahaah They can wallow in their hate, and become an echo chamber for all I care. blech - they are hateful dreadful people! I need sane, intelligent, NORMAL people!
February 12, 2010, 11:53:14 AM EST – Like – Reply
Tina
I hope you come back to mediate and you should visit and post at tvnewser too. Although the left gets unhinged at us conservatives who post on those sites, it's needed to provide some perspective to the lefties over at both of those sites. Plus its fun to watch them react to conservative opinions as they blow their stack.
February 12, 2010, 12:13:29 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Do know, Sara, that driving you off via insults and couched threats or implied "inside" information about you, is what The Real Royal King specializes in. He's is at THAT site in order to run off opposition.
This sort of internet commando is a coterie of imbeciles who couldn't get girl friends in high school or college. They're acting out their "super hero" fantasies via these tactics.
That's not to say that they aren't dedicated ideologues excusing their hatred and lying by telling themselves how marvelous they are for wanting taxpayer funded health care. The irony that the insults they use toward others encompass the very sort of socioeconomic group that would benefit from nationalized health care, assuages them.
They are control-freak misanthropes at heart.
February 12, 2010, 12:58:43 PM EST – Like – Reply
sarainitaly
just want to clarify i was talking about the commenters, not the writers at mediaite.
February 12, 2010, 1:22:29 PM EST – Like – Reply
ImNotBlue
I think you can't take them too seriously. When you find yourself actually getting angry, that's when you need a rest.
February 12, 2010, 1:00:26 PM EST – Like – Reply
sarainitaly
yes, i needed a rest. my last comment to rrk was to f.o. so i am probably banned anyway. HA
I figured that was their speciality, but like i said, it just drive me crazy. i wanted to debate, and provide the truth, they just want to attack and insult. maybe one day i will try again, but for now, those freaks can have each other. one of them started a fan site for planet of the apes... that's when i really knew i was in the wrong place.
i need to lick my wounds and take some time out. i will stay over here where people are nice. hehe
February 12, 2010, 1:06:57 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
"one of them started a fan site for planet of the apes..."
Tracing his recent geneaology, I suppose.
February 12, 2010, 1:43:05 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mungo
will Fox News use their (not scientific) online poll about "what is the tea party movement about" on any of their shows? If it had come out in favor of "small Govt...." instead of "fruitless mix of...." I'd say it would have appeared on every show, But as it came out by a large margin (77%) for the latter it'll be quickly consigned to the recycle bin.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/02/09/think-tea-party-movement/
February 11, 2010, 3:56:25 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
Hello Mungo....Nice to see that you got a warm welcome from ImNotBlue
Thanks for the link to the FNC poll...I missed that one.....to be honest I'm surprised its still there. It'll never see the light of day on any FNC programming....simply because it's way off their narrative.
February 11, 2010, 4:46:11 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Mungo, are you referring to the Reddit poll?
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/b0ek4/fox_news_poll_what_do_you_think_tea_party/
You can check it out in more depth here:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-online-poll-concludes-tea-partiers-are-racist-conspiracy-theorists/
February 11, 2010, 4:49:03 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mungo
No Grammie. The poll is on Fox news website. Reddit simply linked to it.
February 11, 2010, 5:06:57 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
I wasn't being literal, Mungo.
Check out my first link to Reddit and skim over the comments. Those lovable kids at Reddit appear to have hijacked what is already an unscientific poll and made the results totally meaningless.
February 11, 2010, 5:11:16 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
Sorry to jump in Mungo....But Grammie...surly those "lovable kids" also have an opinion on the matter and are within their rights to vote.....It doesn't say GOP members vote only.
February 11, 2010, 5:15:41 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
You are misrepresenting what their own ste says.
Read the comments before characterizing them.
February 11, 2010, 5:21:59 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
So a lot of these people don't like FNC...I should get them over here to give me some support ....only kidding Johnny....but they still have a right to cast a vote. it's like telling someone they can't vote in an election because you don't like their views....Grammie I wouldn't let this poll worry you....It's really not a game changer....FNC will still love the tea party movement and hang on every Palin word.
February 11, 2010, 5:50:55 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Read the comments at the site before you lie about what they did today or gracefully, if you are even capable, withdraw.
Their comments do not represent mere dislike.
If you are not aware of their motives and tactics, that they bragged about, you should be. At least you should be if you were an honest broker.
Well, I guess I got my own answer.
February 11, 2010, 6:04:00 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
But Haggis, your fellow haters are using the results as PROOF that FNC viewers are racist.
Don't you agree that it is unfortunate for the national dialog that the thoughts of non FNC viewers are assigned to FNC viewers by the haters at KOS and some of the other sites? It certainly goes to show how stupid the "loons" pointed out by INB and Grammie are using the results to attack FNC.
February 11, 2010, 6:05:00 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
Crums...you pair have got you knickers in a twist over an online poll...I brought one up the other week about Jon Stewart and it was instantly dismissed by Ashley.
I can highly recommend Reddit....it's a great place to find the next outrageous FNC moment.
February 11, 2010, 6:15:19 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Yeah I think we know where on reddit you hang out.
February 11, 2010, 6:20:07 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
You are an amazingly serpintine in your readiness and ability to writhe around interminably while refusing to address the point.
Read the site or admit that you've been blowing smoke about Reddit, not Ashley or FNC polls or my knickers.
If I have anything to do with it you won't be on the same continent as me and my knickes.
Be a man!
February 11, 2010, 6:20:54 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
"Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!"
(Sorry, I'll bet nobody knows what I'm referring to!)
February 11, 2010, 6:24:00 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
With the aid of Google, now I know too!
You are an amazing treasure trove of trivia, Johnny.
February 11, 2010, 6:32:07 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
The original "In'Laws", starting the great Peter Falk and the great Alan Arkin.
February 11, 2010, 6:35:30 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
(and I didn't google it). I love that movie.
February 11, 2010, 6:38:56 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
a friend of mine also played a bit part in the movie. Summer of 79 Haggy, you are right. Another great Falk flick from that time was released a few months earlier, "The Brinks Job", and Arkin was still riding high after that great movie "Freebie and the Bean" which came out about 5 years earlier.
February 11, 2010, 6:49:03 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
The perils of not distinguising movies from real life on display here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7rfgv_serpentine-shel-serpentine_shortfilms
February 11, 2010, 6:39:44 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
The Old Vince Ricardo quote from the in-laws....1979 if I remember correctly.
Grammie....I'm not sure what you want me to say...Online polls are meaningless...But but you've got me curious about those knickers
February 11, 2010, 6:40:00 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Still playing games, eh Haggy?
I wonder how many comments it will take before you address the point?
I'm tired of your constantly making a foolish claim and then wriggling out with all the nonsense as you have displayed here.
If you would read the site even you would know that you are blowing smoke.
February 11, 2010, 6:47:22 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
Grammie...there are some folk there that absolutely hate FNC...but just because I go there doesn't mean I condone all comments....Like wise I don't suppose you condone all comments on Fox Nation. just pick a topic and skim a couple of pages of comments and you'll see what I mean...all aloud by moderators.
February 11, 2010, 6:57:33 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
I addressed one specific link to one Reddit site in reference to one online FNC poll that was under discussion here and at Mediaite. Your opinion of any site or of my approval or disapproval of any site is totally irrelavent and you know it.
Read the site and quit lying about what the site said.
Very simple, very easy for an honest man to do. Why does seem so difficult as to be impossible for you to do?
February 11, 2010, 7:10:02 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
I did answer you...but my post has been deleted.
I've just noticed FNC are have problem with their arithmetic once again....that poll adds up to 101%
February 11, 2010, 7:39:38 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
What answer are you talking about that was deleted?
And the poll isn't run by FNC but by Poll Daddy, the same site that does my polls. So it looks like you're wrong about that too.
February 11, 2010, 7:46:32 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
The post that was right below Grammie's 00:10 post....was there....then I refreshed the page and it was gone.
February 11, 2010, 7:52:22 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
I don't even know what an 00:10 post is, and if you responded to it anywhere today it wasn't deleted by me. False flag.
February 11, 2010, 7:58:40 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
00:10 is 12:10am UK time....7:10pm US east cost time.
Well if you didn't delete it then you should kick up a stink over at the JS-Kit help centre....tell them their software is mysteriously making post vanish....you mentioned problem you were having with posts the other day.
February 11, 2010, 8:04:18 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
How dreadful for you.
When you finally decided to give me a straight (a girl can always hope) answer the gods swoop down and foil you.
Surely it won't be too taxing for you to answer the same question twice, will it?
As for FNC's arithmatic why don't you write them a letter or Email and copy us. That should be fun.
February 11, 2010, 7:47:14 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
I can't be bothered...If it had been the old haloscan? I could have gone back and reposted it....but you don't seem to be able to do that with JS-kit.
February 11, 2010, 7:58:09 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Whenever you are finished dawdling around with Johnny I'll be here waiting for your answer.
For some inexplicable reason I have hope that you are big enough to read the Reddit site in question and correct your lie.
February 11, 2010, 8:03:58 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
well you'll have to wait until tomorrow as I'm dawdling off to bed...Or you make get the answer earlier if johnny can find it and repost
February 11, 2010, 8:15:15 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Sleep tight.
I didn't realize before that all that bouncing, weaving and dancing to avoid admitting a mistake would be so tiring for you.
You know, you remind me of those drops of water thrown on the griddle to check the heat the way you keep hopping, bouncing and sizzling around.
I promise you that you won't melt or break by manning up to an error.
February 11, 2010, 8:28:49 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Online polls are not the same as a traditional poll using the statistical formulas based on population and sampling. One would think that Haggis would know that. File that under "Yet another simple thing Haggis does not know about".
February 11, 2010, 6:36:58 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
Ashley you obviously didn't read my 23:40 post....otherwise you wouldn't have made a fool of yourself....once again.
February 11, 2010, 6:47:15 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Ashley you obviously didn't read my 23:40 post....otherwise you wouldn't have made a fool of yourself....once again.
So Haggis, with your great analytical skills, with this great intellect you claim to have, you are criticizing me that I should have read your 23:40 post before commenting on online polls in my 23:36 post.
Haggis, if anyone made of a fool of himself, it was you.
February 11, 2010, 6:57:49 PM EST – Like – Reply
RICHARD SCHLOSSER
Haggis
LOL....fair point 1-0 Ashley
February 11, 2010, 7:06:01 PM EST – Like – Reply
Guest
johnny dollar
Mungo, we don't require commenters here to pre-register as we want to encourage participation. However we do have rules, and do try to enforce them as required. To do so we have to keep track of who is who.
Now out of four posts you made today, they have emanated from three different ISPs, in three different parts of the globe. Unless you are a master of time and space, you are apparently using subterfuge (internet proxies) to hide your identity and true location.
Please be advised that we frown on that sort of thing here, and if you wish to continue to contribute then I ask that you do what everybody else does:stop using proxies. You have your own IP address; you don't need to hijack someone else's. And unlike other sites, we never reveal an IP address without the owner's express permission.
February 11, 2010, 5:14:02 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mungo
Hi Johnny.
I understand you wanting to keep track of who is who. The reason for the random IP numbers is down to the work I do. I can't go into details about that work but if it's going to cause you problems then I'll depart.
February 11, 2010, 5:32:05 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
Mungo don't depart....With the two of us fighting this lot together...We'll soon whip them into shape. I also had problems with Johnny over IP numbers....I'm still hear...just probably. But you've got a perfectly good reason for using them....and I'm sure johnny will understand that and not hold it against you.
February 11, 2010, 6:22:48 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
"you've got a perfectly good reason for using them...."
And you know that how?
"I also had problems with Johnny over IP numbers..."
A shining example of understatement.
February 11, 2010, 6:24:55 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
I know that because I read Mungo's post...."The reason for the random IP numbers is down to the work I do" I know I'm not a lawyer but I thought Mungo made it perfectly clear.
February 11, 2010, 6:31:52 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
OK, I guess there's some reason you know what work he does and why it justifies hiding his identity. Not sure how you happen to know that but I'm sure there's a logical explanation. Carry on!
February 11, 2010, 6:34:26 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
I haven't a clue what work Mungo does....I'm only saying he/she gave a reason for using a proxy.
Johnny, everything isn't a great conspiracy....You've been watching to much Beck.
February 11, 2010, 6:43:27 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
You didn't say he 'gave a reason'. You said he had a 'perfectly good reason'. That's what puzzles me. And color me even more puzzled now that you are saying you have no idea what work he does, when moments ago you seemed to think it constituted a 'perfectly good reason'.
It seems there are people who just don't realize how pointless and silly this stuff can be.
February 11, 2010, 6:48:28 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
I notice you said "he"....how do you know this?....maybe your Mungo...I said he/she....but you seem certain he's a HE.
This is getting silly and I need some sleep you'll all be happy to hear.
February 11, 2010, 7:03:21 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Or perhaps News Hounds.
How conspiratorial of you to not blindly accept the word of a perfect stranger, Johnny.
February 11, 2010, 6:50:11 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
A shining example of understatement.
Perhaps Echo truncated the post and left off the part where Haggy wrote "and posting under a number of false names, and using those names to post comments that supported Haggis, and directly denying that I was was Haggis when I posted under those false names, and I used a false IP to say I was Haggis posting from vacation in Australia in order to support the comments made under my false "Chippy" name, and......."
Perhaps.
February 11, 2010, 6:46:02 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Is this latest evasion a back door answer to my question "Very simple, very easy for an honest man to do. Why does seem so difficult as to be impossible for you to do?"
Read the site and admit the lie.
February 11, 2010, 7:32:38 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
J$ - the Great Moments in Broadcast News over at OW was hysterical! I can't believe Cankles actually resorted to making a handpuppet over the Sarah Palin speech.
Unbelievable. The haters don't have a problem with the President needing teleprompters when he goes to an elementary school classroom, but let Palin write a few buzz words on her hand and they go ballistic.
PICTURES
Better than writing notes on his hand
FNC = Most Trusted
February 11, 2010, 4:45:27 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
Ashley you went on and on about the palin story being a non story...but you seem hell-bent on keeping it alive. Once again I point to the video of Obama shredding the GOP without a teleprompter....I know it''s difficult watching for you...but please watch and let us know where Obama uses little helper notes...I keenly await your reply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1-jasxb7NY
February 11, 2010, 5:06:58 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Haggis, one would think that with your great analysis skills, you would know that whatever went on between Obama and the GOP has absolutely nothing to do with Sarah Palin, the topic of my point was how you haters show such hypocrisy by making a big deal out of a few words written on Palins hand while ignoring the whole TOTUS thingy. But if you want to bring that subject up, it's just terrific that after months of not even talking to the repubs, the President has to now travel to go see them. It's good that he didn't take TOTUS with him like he did when he went into that elementary school classroom.
February 11, 2010, 5:35:09 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
FNC reporting that former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized. I hope it is nothing serious and that he is released quickly.
February 11, 2010, 4:47:01 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
Lets hope it's nothing serious...The BBC are reporting it's heart related.
February 11, 2010, 4:53:24 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Looks like Mr. Clinton had an angioplasty and had several stents placed in his coronary arteries. Very routine stuff, but still risky. I hope he recovers quickly. If it all went well, he'll be on his feet and out the door of the hospital within a day.
February 11, 2010, 5:36:36 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
So far things sound pretty good for him.
He is having a stent placed and that is a very safe and effective procedure.
February 11, 2010, 4:54:33 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Excellent FNC ratings! In the demo, everyone from Beck to Greta AND BOR's rerun beats HLN/CNN/MSNBC combined. Likewise, in total viewers, FNC beats tham all combined too.
By the way, I can't help that Haggis no longer discusses Olby's "demo" numbers. It doesn't seem that long ago that it was a daily topic of conversation for him (and Stan ).
February 11, 2010, 5:48:06 PM EST – Like – Reply
Haggis
I'm worried it's DARK here.....The sun must've been destroyed. I also heard it rained in the Sahara today and it's no longer desert but the lushest farmland ever seen. ....Once again FNC make utter fools of themselves over climate change.
Ashley...the demo is still the most important number for advertisers...I suppose your in agreement with me now?
February 11, 2010, 6:01:30 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
I've never said it wasn't, and the advertisers must sure like BOR's 1.6 million vs. Olby's <500K yesterday.
It just fascinates me how you used to go on and on about Olby, but now, not so much. Just an observation.
February 11, 2010, 6:08:40 PM EST – Like – Reply
Danny
Hagy: That assumes that all advertisers all target the same people. It also begs the question of why advertisers targeting younger people would choose cable news, since younger people typically don't watch cable news. Insofar as making a total and utter fool of yourself. . . you seem to know a lot about that.
February 11, 2010, 6:47:56 PM EST – Like – Reply
Olby Sucks
Happy mungo smoker, there was no "shredding" by obama, k?
February 11, 2010, 6:46:31 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Good, lively Culture Warriors segment tonite. And Blago was insufferably evasive.
February 11, 2010, 8:47:21 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
I missed it, Johnny.
So, in your opinion, should Haggis be giving Blago lessons or vice versa?
February 11, 2010, 8:53:40 PM EST – Like – Reply
Fox Fan
Blago: I can't answer because of a court order. I'll leave that to others to answer.
LOL
February 11, 2010, 8:55:05 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Five minutes after O'Reilly commended Biden for answering a Palin question with class and not taking the low road, Hannity comes on and attacks Biden for the very same answer!!
February 11, 2010, 9:03:39 PM EST – Like – Reply
Just wondering!
Is the small J$P avatar person the same as the large J$P avatar person?
If so I'd ask if you really saw the entire video of what Biden said! If you did, why the slam against Hannity?
O'Reilly and Hannity did not show the exact same segement of Biden's comments! If you had watched it, you would have known that! Or did you watch it, thus know it, and simply omit that fact? A longer segment is available on Breitbart Tv.
I watched the O'Reilly segment, and at the time, wondered why he showed such a short version that put Biden comments in such a good light, he omitted the part where Biden stated that [I'll paraphrase] "some of her comments are really out there" this coming from Biden!!!! Also stating that she does not represent a large segment of the people!!!!! It is this kind of dodging reality that is going to cost the dems at the polling booth.
February 12, 2010, 12:55:46 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
I didn't slam Hannity. I merely pointed out the irony that his criticism of Biden came five minutes after O'Reilly's praise. You're right that the clips were edited differently, but I wasn't writing a thesis with my comment. I was just giving an off-the-cuff reaction to something that just aired.
February 12, 2010, 12:58:47 PM EST – Like – Reply
Just wondering!
Ahhh, yea you did slam Hannity, "Hannity comes on and attacks Biden for the very same answer!!"
But you just admitted "You're right that the clips were edited differently, but I wasn't writing a thesis with my comment. I was just giving an off-the-cuff reaction to something that just aired."
So are you saying that when you're "just giving an off-the-cuff reaction to something that just aired." none of the following apply; accuracy, honesty, integrity, truth????
Perhaps you could use some sort of discalimer before those "off the cuff remarks" otherwise you come off the same as some of the posters that you take to task!
Something about rocks and glass houses comes to mind! Had I not seen all three clips I might have taken your comments differently!
I'll not be your fact checker, but when you commented on someting that I had just watched, and your comments didnt square with reality, I had to respond and hold your feet to the fire, just to keep your website to a higher standard than kos & huff!
February 12, 2010, 1:33:13 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Well that's what comments are for. To encourage discussion. Mission accomplished. I hope you continue to hold feet to the fire, including mine.
February 12, 2010, 1:34:57 PM EST – Like – Reply
RICHARD SCHLOSSER
Haggis
"Mungo don't depart....With the two of us fighting this lot together..."
Well I knew you were not here to be helpfull or truthfull but I only guessed you were here to start fights....well now we know I guess.
February 12, 2010, 12:08:03 AM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Sara, I'm sorry to hear that those contemptible wussy creeps have brought you to this point.
Just remember that their prime objective is to shut down any and all who don't march to their drummer. They have no interest in presenting an opposition point for others to consider. They are there solely to insult and sidetrack any conservations by constant blanket cries of racism, homophobia etc.
At any rate, good to see you here.
February 12, 2010, 10:58:48 AM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
They're trying to turn mediaite into their own little Reddit island.
February 12, 2010, 11:00:15 AM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
I think the problem with Mediaite isn't the commenters, but rather the predictable way they cover stuff.
If Olbermann has said something idiotic, then Glenn Beck's crying bout has to be invoked.
If it's a story about some irrationality at Kos, then we must mention Birthers, or Sara Palin, etc.
This sort of "balance" isn't offered in stories about conservative usual suspects...
Any story taking someone on the left to task is turned into mere window dressing for either baiting conservatives (as Tommy Christopher does) with the most illogical, below the belt rhetoric.
Here's an example of what I mean and it's my example ONLY rather than an actual comment--- 'You'd be hard pressed to find a more juvenile comment than Olbermann's, but since anti-gay rhetoric from conservatives led to death of Matthew Shepard, it's not difficult to understand the passion" (again my example ONLY of the sort of mitigating "facts" that you see at Mediaite).
It's just too predictable. They need to mix it up a bit with their writers.
February 12, 2010, 11:36:20 AM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
I agree with you totally about that.
I must be getting old b/c even though it is so blatant that it irritates me I just don't seem to have the energy to document and comment about it.
So, you think that even if they have noticed it they don't find it as offensive as it would be if we KKKers descended on them en masse?
February 12, 2010, 11:46:08 AM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
I'm taking a break and resting in the good guy goodness that is our Johnny Dollar and his place.
Too much time spent around Clucker and his aliases, causes you to lose faith in your fellow man.
February 12, 2010, 12:19:05 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
their prime objective is to shut down any and all who don't march to their drummer
and their primary accomplishment is to look like 5 year old boys throwing temper tantrums.
February 12, 2010, 11:33:04 AM EST – Like – Reply
ImNotBlue
Check this! I've gotten emails from a few of their haters. One from a poster... the other from Colby himself! Both of a, let's say... "threatening nature." HA!
You gotta just have fun over there. For a while there were folks who wanted to really talk. But, either they've given up... or have been supplanted by the liberal-bots... who just post the same things over and over again. It's a shame, but we saw this coming months ago.
My prediction... give it a year, and we'll see some big changes over there. Hopefully... for the better, but I'm not holding my breath.
February 12, 2010, 1:06:14 PM EST – Like – Reply
sarainitaly
what did Colby say?
cecelia - yea... i agree, the content is too one sided too. i had high hopes for the site, but between the huge liberal bias, and the vile bots, it became a waste of my time. IM right - you are right! complete five year old type stuff. blech. Thanks Grammie. It's all good. I just took a shower, and deleted my link. hahah
i like it over here!
February 12, 2010, 1:16:15 PM EST – Like – Reply
ImNotBlue
He sent me an email saying that I better “Check myself, before I wreck myself.”
I assume it was a thinly veiled threat, with an emphasis on me not having given him my email address in the first place (more or less a, “see I can find you” type of threat). I responded to his email... and sent it to every other Mediaite writer’s email address too... you know, since I thought they might be interested.
He responded incoherently saying, “I guess you did” whatever that means.
Seems they don’t like to be called out on their flagrant bias, and lack of objectivity. I say, tough.
February 12, 2010, 11:38:15 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
It does seem at times to be a concerted effort.
The Ersatz Royal King seems to statr the comments on about half the threads. Lately, he and Same2u have almost choreographed round robins with nothing to contribute except how vile some of the other commenters are.
I've wondered at Mediaite's seeming oblivion to the tactic.
February 12, 2010, 11:21:43 AM EST – Like – Reply
Tina
Glynnnnis has come around though over at mediate with her glenn beck moments; she isn't as snarky as she used to be. I can't read Tommy anymore at all. I'm still posting over there (TfT) and at tvnewser (TinafromTampa) because I so enjoy watching them crack-up over the conservative posts. Mediaite does need to mix it up though, but I will give mediaite kudos because they are pretty good about cleaning up the dung left by some posters.
February 12, 2010, 12:42:25 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
I have enjoyed Tina from Tamper at TVNewser and also TfT at Medeaite.
Good to see you here!
February 12, 2010, 12:54:18 PM EST – Like – Reply
sarainitaly
hey tft!! GAWD what is up with that psycho that follows you around at mediaite?? she was another one who drove me insane!!
February 12, 2010, 1:18:05 PM EST – Like – Reply
Tina
Sara: She is a sick stalker, she constantly attacks me at TVNewser and will probably show up here if she figures out that Tina is TinafromTampa. I would bet the same2u will jump over on TVNewser and tell NotsoAnonymous (the stalker) that I'm posting here now too. She is one sick person. That she posts at mediaite under my TVnewser identify demonstrates just how sick she is. She needs help and yes, she is insane.imho. BTW same has already posted at mediaite a big YIPPEE that you have exited mediaite. That is what they try to do, chase of conservatives by constantly attacking and posting foul commentary.
February 12, 2010, 1:51:51 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
I don't know for certain, because Johnny is an enigma surrounded by spicy proscuitto and wrapped in a marinated grape leaf, but I suspect that he would boot this crazy person off his site here.
February 12, 2010, 2:14:44 PM EST – Like – Reply
sarainitaly
well, if mediaite lets them drive people away, they deserve the psychos. when they become known for nothing but an echo chamber hate site, they will wish they would have booted hate mongers like same2u. the internet is full of sites to visit, i have no desire to wallow with those dregs of society! hahah I loved some of those posters though, but I think most of you are here. :O)
February 12, 2010, 3:26:14 PM EST – Like – Reply
