Recently in California, a mother handed over her child, hoping that Obama had the ‘magic touch’….and at the White House a few months ago — the president hit a home run when he hugged a crying baby to “sleep.” Michelle couldn’t get the infant visitor to stop crying — when America’s father-in-chief took over the initiative.
Rev. Al Sharpton wonders why Obama has not been able to calm down big-baby and speaker (WEEPER) of the house — Ohio’s John Boehner. [ SEE VIDEO ]
‘Birther’ Rick Perry’s Buffoonery; Herman Cain Hires Fellow Black Uncle-Tom (Apostle Claver) To Call Dems Racists
Parting Shot: ‘You Will Pray For The Time When I Was Only On The Air For One Hour A Day’ — Glenn Beck, 06/30/2011
During his two and a half year tenure at Fox News, Glenn Beck did all the necessary spadework to position himself at the center of a brewing and increasingly paranoid right-wing insurgency. A savvy fraud, Beck knew exactly how to please his audience of conservative suckers — racist, conspiracy laden and in many cases utterly ignorant.
Beck like Limbaugh and other right-wing hate-talkers know that a lie, told over and over to their one-track brained audience ultimately will be taken as the truth. Nazi propagandists and the Russian Bolsheviks used this technique exhaustively, and Glenn Beck on radio and at Fox News has perfected it into an art.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep … will eventually come to believe it” — Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propagandist. “A lie told often enough becomes truth” — Vladimir Lenin.
Beck’s lies, race-baiting and conspiracy theories at Fox have been blatant, criminal, outrageous, comical and sometimes miserable fails. Even the master race-baiter, Fox chairman, Roger Ailes could not stomach them any more.
From challenging Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison to prove he isn’t working with Al-Qaida, to taking tearful stands against Barack Obama’s Democratic “Reich,” the self-described “rodeo clown” pushed his televised tirades closer and closer to his angrier, more unhinged daily talk radio show.
Then, he called president Obama “a racist” on TV — whereupon groups such as MMFA began hounding his show’s sponsors. The advertising dollars started shrinking and Beck became a liability for Fox.
FAT Roger Ailes grabbed the chance to get rid of him.
Early June Ailes explained why Glenn Beck would soon be an ex-Fox News host, saying it wasn’t just Beck’s rhetoric that ran him afoul. It was his wide-ranging business priorities. “His goals were different from our goals… I need people focused on a daily television show.”
End of a Crazy ‘Error’: Fraudulent, Evil Conspiracist Glenn Beck Signs Off At Fox (Part 1)
End of a Crazy ‘Error’: Fraudulent, Evil Conspiracist Glenn Beck Signs Off At Fox (Part 2)
Keith Olbermann Says Farewell To Beck With Media Matters’ Retrospective Of “The Crazy” From Beck’s Show
Boehlert On MSNBC’s Cenk: Beck Calling Obama A “Racist” Was “The Beginning Of The End For Beck“
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We must not forget most of Ailes’ projects have been utter failures or “stinking” successes — from being a hatchet man for Richard Nixon to the “hortonization” of Dukakis for George Bush Snr., and now even with the “successful” Fox, Roger Ailes has thrown up a series of stink-bombs – Sarah Palin and the death panels, Beck, Donald Trump’s Birtherism and now Bachmann.
Roger’s “successes” stink of feces.
Following Ailes’s comments, on July 8th, Glenn Beck revealed his new Internet channel GBTV in a hourlong free livestream. Beck apparently intends to “save the world” — while charging viewers between $4.95 and $9.95 a month to subscribe. Business insider has the details — [ CLICK HERE ]
Beck lists the problems he is aiming to solve with GBTV.
MSNBC, currently operated by right-wing owned Comcast Corporation (the largest cable operator, home internet service provider, and third largest home telephone service provider in the United States) — announced Wednesday evening that Ed Schultz is going on one week of unpaid leave as a result of calling loony bins right-wing talker Laura Ingraham — a ‘Right-Wing Slut.‘
Schultz was slamming Ingraham for her hypocritical criticism of President Obama for drinking beer in Ireland while a tornado was destroying Joplin, Missouri.
Said Schultz:
“And what do the Republicans thinking about?” Schultz said. “They’re not thinking about their next-door neighbor. They’re just thinking about how much this is going to cost. President Obama is going to be visiting Joplin, Mo., on Sunday but you know what they’re talking about, like this right-wing slut, what’s her name – Laura Ingraham? Yeah, she’s a talk slut. You see, she was, back in the day, praising President Reagan when he was drinking a beer overseas. But now that Obama’s doing it, they’re working him over.”
My man Schultz has crossed swords with his employer before. Page Six reported in August that he threatened to “torch this [bleep]ing place” after MSNBC failed to include him in election-night promos. Sources said that MSNBC brass threatened to fire him if he repeated the outburst.
A month later, TV Newser reported that he was reprimanded by MSNBC brass for calling New Jersey Governor Chris Christie a “cold-hearted fat slob.”
And, on Feb 27, 2010 Ed said he would like to take the heart of former Vice President Dick Cheney — who was recovering from his fifth heart attack — and “rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him.”
LOL!
He will return on June 6th.
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What’s Ed apologizing for? For calling a “spade a spade.?” I think he should have called her a “Right-Wing Hermaphrodite Nazi Talk Slut.”
Ingraham has a history of racism and media harlotry.
Examples include:
On page 32& 63 of her racist screed “Power to The People,” Ingraham asserts that true Americans are white, christian, southern and republican.
In 2008 while discussing Al Sharpton‘s visit to the White House Ingraham said: “I hope they nailed down the valuables,” an obvious reference to a racist black stereotype.
Racist Black Stereotypes
Back in 1986, Laura Ingraham, and then boyfriend, were both editors of “The Prospect” — which worked tirelessly to limit minority admissions to Princeton University. Additionally, Ingraham was a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton — a racist group that opposed affirmative action designed to increase minority attendance at the Ivy League institution.
Laura Ingraham was also the Editor of the ultra racist Dartmouth Review. During her tenure, articles were printed promoting KKK members- hanged African Americans — defending slavery and contributing to the stereotypes of the way black people speak. [ READ MORE ]
In May 2008, Ingraham insinuated that “Obama’s success” was proof that “racism is minimal” in America. Really?
During the senate confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor — Laura Ingraham attacked the Judge on the “Today Show.” Speaking with the show’s co-host Matt Lauer, Ingraham stated that Judge Sotomayor would use her “racial identity” when judging cases. Ingraham’s justification for this accusation was a piece Judge Sotomayor wrote for the Berkelely Review. She took Sotomayor’s 15 year career and bundled all of it into one essay — consistent with the shortsightedness of your typical racist. The fact is that when judging more than 50 cases, Judge Sotomayor ruled there was discrimination just three times. [ READ MORE ]
Media Matters For America has a boatload of incriminating videos featuring Ingraham.
Yes, Ingraham is a racist right-wing SLUT alright! A Horse!. I wonder what the brass at MSNBC hope to achieve by silencing ED while at Fox vicious racism is flung around 24/7.
[ By: William Rivers Pitt ] A quick confession that might not sit well with many readers: I was, on a personal level, quite ambivalent about the loss of Keith Olbermann’s show, “Countdown,” when he announced his exit last week. If “Meh” can sum up an emotion, then that’s how I felt when I heard the deal went down.
Don’t get me wrong here: I was, and remain, a great and devoted fan of Keith Olbermann and the work he did at MSNBC. I have been a devotee of Mr. Olbermann since his old-school moustache days anchoring the ESPN show “Sportscenter” during the golden age of that program. But I have spent the last several years experiencing his “Countdown” work in text form, i.e. reading instead of watching, and in ten-minute online video snippets, because I avoid all cable “news” programming the way cats avoid water. All of it, even the stuff I tend to agree with.
When “Countdown” first began in 2003, I watched it almost every night – the only cable “news” show I consistently tuned in to – but quickly soured on the whole experience. I just can’t stand it, any of it. I can’t stand the emotional manipulation that comes with all forms of televised “news,” and have for many times many a day now refused to let them in my head. I also never saw the point in getting all riled up at eight o’clock at night. What was I supposed to do with all that rage after nine? Punch the walls and kick the cat, maybe indulge in a little firebombing? Didn’t seem prudent.
The production of “Countdown” – the flashes, the music, the jump cuts – made me feel like I had rocks rolling around in my head. This was not solely an Olbermann problem for me; all cable “news” programming leaves me feeling the same way, which is why I swore it off years ago. If CNN or MSNBC played footage of puppies playing with baby pandas next to a pile of bunnies and kittens, it would still give me a headache. It wasn’t Keith’s fault. I’m just allergic to the medium itself, and have largely avoided it for more than a decade.
All that aside, there is no doubt that Mr. Olbermann’s “Countdown” was something very special. In a polluted sea of corrupted corporate “news” brainwashing, his was a voice of loud, angry reason. He paved the way for the excellence of Rachel Maddow to make its own impressive mark on the TV “news” landscape. He spoke a great deal of truth that had not been heard on the airwaves for far too long. By modeling himself and his show after Edward R. Murrow, even going so far as to use Murrow’s iconic “Good night, and good luck” sign-off at the end of every broadcast, he gave us a daily reminder that the “news” was not always like it is today, and that it can – nay, must – improve for the good of the republic.
His very existence became a thorn in the side of the corporation that owns his network, and the corporations behind all the other networks. He kicked some cash to a few Democratic candidates – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords being one – and it turned into a nine-day wonder of a debate about broadcasting standards and the hypocrisy of MSNBC’s upper management. It still cracks me up when I think about it: here were these corporate network owners who scream bloody murder about money equaling speech, but when Olbermann exercised his constitutional right to participate in the political process by way of that particular brand of “speech,” he got a two-day rip and a public scolding. The whole charade shamed his bosses deeply and publicly, and probably had more than a bit to do with his eventual departure from the network he pretty much single-handedly put on the map.
To me and so many others, he was a beacon of sanity during the bleak darkness of the Bush years. Remember the timeline here: the 2000 election catastrophe was followed by a ceaseless cable “news” refrain of, “This is an orderly transition of power, nothing to see here, go back to bed,” which infuriated everyone who knew that particular game had been fixed. This was followed by the push for war in Iraq ballyhooed by every cable network – “Navy SEALS rock!” – until the bullets started flying and the IED’s started going off. All throughout, the myriad scandals and crimes of the Bush administration went largely ignored and unreported…until Keith came along, reminding us that, “Today is the 521st day since the declaration of ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq.”
Mr. Olbermann was one of the only voices in broadcasting who openly discussed the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame by the Bush administration.
When the 2004 election results in Ohio were corrupted by brazen manipulation and vote fraud, it was Olbermann who raised the loudest televised cry. It was Olbermann who, day after day, hammered the awful truth about the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And it was Olbermann who pounded home the fact that the Bush administration was little more than a deranged criminal enterprise that threatened the very fabric of the nation.
For me, Mr. Olbermann delivered his most memorable, impassioned and important “Special Comment” in 2006, in the aftermath of George W. Bush’s press conference in the Rose Garden, in which Bush played the Nazi card and essentially implied that anyone who disagreed with him and his policies was an ally of al Qaeda. That night, Mount Olbermann erupted:
It is to our deep national shame – and ultimately it will be to the President’s deep personal regret – that he has followed his Secretary of Defense down the path of trying to tie those loyal Americans who disagree with his policies – or even question their effectiveness or execution – to the Nazis of the past, and the al Qaeda of the present.
Today, in the same subtle terms in which Mr. Bush and his colleagues muddied the clear line separating Iraq and 9/11 – without ever actually saying so – the President quoted a purported Osama Bin Laden letter that spoke of launching, “a media campaign to create a wedge between the American people and their government.”
Make no mistake here – the intent of that is to get us to confuse the psychotic scheming of an international terrorist, with that familiar bogeyman of the right, the “media.”
The President and the Vice President and others have often attacked freedom of speech, and freedom of dissent, and freedom of the press.
Now, Mr. Bush has signaled that his unparalleled and unprincipled attack on reporting has a new and venomous side angle: the attempt to link, by the simple expediency of one word – “media” – the honest, patriotic, and indeed vital questions and questioning from American reporters, with the evil of al-Qaeda propaganda.
That linkage is more than just indefensible. It is un-American.
Mr. Bush and his colleagues have led us before to such waters.
We will not drink again.
And the President’s re-writing and sanitizing of history, so it fits the expediencies of domestic politics, is just as false, and just as scurrilous.
“In the 1920′s a failed Austrian painter published a book in which he explained his intention to build an Aryan super-state in Germany and take revenge on Europe and eradicate the Jews,” President Bush said today, “the world ignored Hitler’s words, and paid a terrible price.”
Whatever the true nature of al Qaeda and other international terrorist threats, to ceaselessly compare them to the Nazi State of Germany serves only to embolden them.
More over, Mr. Bush, you are accomplishing in part what Osama Bin Laden and others seek – a fearful American populace, easily manipulated, and willing to throw away any measure of restraint, any loyalty to our own ideals and freedoms, for the comforting illusion of safety.
It thus becomes necessary to remind the President that his administration’s recent Nazi “kick” is an awful and cynical thing.
And it becomes necessary to reach back into our history, for yet another quote, from yet another time and to ask it of Mr. Bush:
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
The manner of Mr. Olbermann’s departure remains shrouded in mystery; the man himself has made no comment on the matter, which may have something to do with the deal that was cut to end his contract two years early. Many have opined ? correctly, in all likelihood – that the looming Comcast takeover of NBC Universal played a large role. As Buzzflash Editor Mark Karlin wrote over the weekend:
According to James Wolcott of Vanity Fair, the chairman of Comcast Spectacor, Ed Snider, is funding a right-wing cable channel/Internet site called “RightNetwork.” Wolcott sniffs at “RightNetwork” as a “pseudo-populist operation” starring an array of right-wing freaks.
Ominously, Wolcott notes “that it was Snider who invited Sarah Palin to drop the hockey puck at the Flyers’ season opener in 2008, and Palin’s been dropping pucks ever since.”
There’s little reason to doubt that Olbermann’s abrupt exit from MSNBC was the first puck to drop as Comcast slap shots MSNBC away from being a progressive beachhead.
In one man we find the confluence of so many pressing issues. Mr. Olbermann stands at the center of the dire need for ? and dire lack of ? progressive voices within “mainstream news” broadcasting; he threw his shoulder against the wall of corporate hypocrisy; he stood and bellowed against the misdeeds of those in political power; and, ultimately, he stands today as the likely victim of the continued right-wing domination of the “news” media.
People are understandably outraged and disturbed over his abrupt and ill-defined departure from MSNBC?so how, in the face of all this, can I justify my “Meh” reaction?
Well, I already explained the first reason.
The second reason is simple: Keith Olbermann is not dead. He was not beamed to Neptune, never to be seen or heard from again.
Write it down, carve it in stone, make a note, and bet the farm:
Olbermann will be back.
Somewhere, somehow, some day, in one form or another, Mr. Olbermann will be with us again. We will hear or read his own words on the matter of his departure, and then we will hear him again, and again, and again. Giants do not fall easily, and this particular era of political commentary is not over by a long chalk. Edward R. Murrow had his own troubles with management in the darkness of the McCarthy days, and it did not keep him down or silent one iota. So shall it be with Mr. Olbermann in these dark days of corporate hegemony.
About The Author: William Rivers Pitt — had been writing about politics off and on for several years, but became devoted to the practice during the impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton. Since President George W. Bush took office on January 20, 2001, Pitt has worked to fight what he describes as “the rising tide of conservative fundamentalism in American government”.
In 2002, Pitt wrote the book “War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know” — which consisted of an in-depth interview with former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter. In it, Pitt and Ritter examine the Bush administration’s justifications for war with Iraq and call for a diplomatic solution instead of war. In reviewing this book, The Guardian called it “the most comprehensive independent analysis of the state of knowledge about Iraq’s weapons programmes until the new team of inspectors went back.”
Pitt has worked as the managing editor at the liberal commentary website truthout.org.
The Obama administration just caved in to the right-wing smear machine, firing a Black USDA official after she was smeared by far-right blogger Andrew Breitbart and his friends at Fox News Channel. Sherrod’s dismissal was based on a selectively edited video that made it appear she was confessing to discriminating against a White farming couple. In reality she was telling the story of how working with that family to save their farm helped her to lose her racial preconceptions. [ READ MORE ]
The production of “Countdown” – the flashes, the music, the jump cuts – made me feel like I had rocks rolling around in my head. This was not solely an Olbermann problem for me; all cable “news” programming leaves me feeling the same way, which is why I swore it off years ago. If CNN or MSNBC played footage of puppies playing with baby pandas next to a pile of bunnies and kittens, it would still give me a headache. It wasn’t Keith’s fault. I’m just allergic to the medium itself, and have largely avoided it for more than a decade.
” — which consisted of an in-depth interview with former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter. In it, Pitt and Ritter examine the Bush administration’s justifications for war with Iraq and call for a diplomatic solution instead of war. In reviewing this book, The Guardian called it “the most comprehensive independent analysis of the state of knowledge about Iraq’s weapons programmes until the new team of inspectors went back.”
