Week in Review: November 13, 2009

[mw2000]

We've been too politically correct! We just need to start calling them niggers, coloureds, sand niggers, dune coons and fags again! Jesus Christ people, it's pretty easy!

-_-

[joeroxor]

I'm sorry, I think this video is being very inappropriate right now.

[TheNewVideo]

One thing is for sure, MediaMatters is a leftist as they come.

[perfectbark]

yeah but Sean, you've made this "mistake" how many times in your career?

[rexusdiablos]

All those guns and you yanks can't keep your media circus in line. What a grotesque collective of liars and frauds.

[AlvinHDavernport]

It's pretty naive from you to think that biased media only occurs in America. At least here we are pretty damn aware of it.

[rexusdiablos]

Trust me, Alvin. When it comes to a government fooling it's people, the whole world looks and laughs at the American people. I don't recall my own government having the audacity to stage an attack similar to 911 and if they did, we wouldn't have bent over the way your people did.

As you say Alvin, Americans are pretty damn aware and yet all of this is still allowed to happen. That's a sadder notion than not knowing at all. Everyone but Americans know that Americas days are numbered.

[AlvinHDavernport]

Stage an attack similar to 9/11? OK, enlighten me please. Did they also fabricate the moon landing, generate the HIV to control the world's population, made an agreement with the Third Reich to let them live on the dark side of the moon, made contact with extraterrestrial populations, and let Reptilians like George HW Bush come to power?

Sorry, pal, but I find it saddening that you pretend to be the enlightened one when you bring such bullcrap to the table and try to make arguments out of it.

[Dfanatic1]

"We could almost ... saaaaaay... that this is Obamas fault"

Oh Rush, you are a fucking idiot!

[byronhotson]

@ 0:40

Did Faux actually use a Clash song or was that you guys?

[bherring24]

That's MSNBC

[803brando]

that Carie prejean bitch needs to get the fuck out of California , this is a blue state bich

[iSAW7]

A blue state that voted in affirmation of her beliefs when they voted to pass prop 8 in 2008.

[803brando]

@iSAW7 so you think everyone voted on it?! if you do you are retarded and cant be helped. anyone can push an election or ballot in any direction they want if enough money is thrown at it. i didnt vote on the issue, as did millions of others, unimportant would best describe the "homo marriage" issue. it does not impact me or anyone i know. Think of a better example next time.

[iSAW7]

You are the one who said it was a blue state and she should leave, but it seems she is more in line with the voters than you pretend she is. As far "so you think everyone voted on it?" maybe you can point out where I stated that. Then you say "Think of a better example next time," but she is most famous for her position on gay marriage. So what could be a better example? I know its easy to call everyone retarded who disagrees with you, but the comment you made initially is contradictory, sorry.

[fromvnwithlove]

i think this was aimed to humiliate her.

[TheSavageisgreat]

Fuck the gay maffia and that ugly Larry King.

[obamadidit2008]

fuck the intellectual retards and selfish pricks who call themselves "teabaggers"!

[Kevron76]

George W. was the best president since the inception of the U.S. Barack is a great public speaker but we dont need zizg zigler running this nation. Media materrs emasculated infantile complainee ideas are the demise of this great nation. Have fun with your "change" mm i ll keep my freedom!

[Trump119]

*Laughs at Kevron76*

[imthecoffeecup]

You should check The Onion's website, they have a great new article about people like you thinking your freedom is suddenly in danger.

[asphyxiafeeling]

the Rush clip killed me. "We can ALMOST blame Obama!" he's just hilarious.

[Kille24sthlm]

Does anyone know what question Carrie didn't want to answer?

[asphyxiafeeling]

she did not want to answer why she gave up her little "crusade" against the beauty pageant. When all of this was unfolding she said she was standing up for her beliefs and was being attacked for being a christian and etc. but it's been revealed that the dropped her fight with the pageant after they brought to light a sextape she had made when she was 17 (or 20, depending on where you read it). youtube the full clip! i'm sure lots of people will be discussing and you can figure it out!

[Kille24sthlm]

thanks!

[Jesusoceanside]

as a soldier we cant kill ALL the Muslims thats why we must win their minds instead 2:03 ....ur an idiot for thinking of wanting to kill them

[Boomer1949]

Dobb's became boring news because of his constant reporting on illegals. Every night, same old shit, same old song, over and over and over again. I couldn't take it, so I stopped watching.

[JrDiNisi]

I watch CNN mostly just for Lou Dobbs, I feel he is the most fair and independent person in the news today, if he went to fox then I'd watch him there as well.

Seems like the forces he fought against threw enough money and pressure at CNN to win.. can't trust any news network these days to be objective.

[The6000Sabre]

Just as well, CNN is going out of business and soon to follow will be MSNBC.

[papalosopher]

HURRAY! WTF! How am I just hearing about this now?

Dobbs!  Gone! Christmas came early.

[j0hnwi11iams]

You mean the "former" miss america is nothing but a stuck up little bitch? Who would have guessed?

[NathanJames21]

These ridiculous splices of carefully edited soundbites reveal more about the insecure people who put them together, than they do about the folks they're targeting.

Stop projecting your own personal hate and fear onto everyone else.

[obamadidit2008]

what is so positive, so wonderful, so human oriented about conservatism, conservatives, or libertarianism. it seems to me it is all about profit,and power,and legitimate selfishness

[papalosopher]

Everytime I see your nick, obamadidit, I have to think: is this guy FOR obama (Obama MADE it!) or against (Obama RUINED it)

[obamadidit2008]

i am DEFINATELY FOR obama

[notaniceguy34]

oh yeah. someone misrepresents footage and the soundbites reveal more about those who exposed them rather than the people who misrepresented footage. THAT makes sense. LOL

[mclev]

Rush celebrates every time Americans get killed b/c it means he gets to blame Obama for it.

[CrapaudReste]

The news of Fox owned by the racist Australian Murdoch defends the dying capitalist vampire system, which will one day fall dead from the wrath of the workers. Then all right winger cannibals will pay for their crimes against the humanity.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

If only. We'll probably just end up killing each other while Murdoch's children sip fine champagne in some secluded resort.

[AlvinHDavernport]

Obviously you do not know what you're talking about if you think FOX is defending the capitalist system and other networks go against it. This is the United States of America; even the most "leftist" network (msnbc) is comfortably within the capitalist side of the spectrum.

FOX doesn't defend capitalism. FOX defends racism, bigotry, sedition, hatred, anarchy, and everything that's bad for America and the world.

[FlamingPineapples1]

Have you ever watched Fox? Fox reports stories the closest to the truth! CNN, MSNBC, and other stations take what people say, twist it around to make the person seem good or bad, and call it a story. Im not saying that fox is perfect, but it is better than anything else out there.

[AlvinHDavernport]

I'm actually right-leaning and I used to watch Fox News, but I got sick of their blatant, shameless bias. I don't watch the other two channels either, I read my news online, and it truly is appealing how much difference there is between a biased network and the reality.

[Nictusempra]

"I don't think we should speculate on one or any other options" is a really unfortunate, if predictable, position for the army chief of staff to take. I feel like the root causes should absolutely be studied and determined, and corrected.

[fatcharlie24]

These people have no shame. How can they sleep at night knowing that they make their career lying through their teeth. It makes me sick.

[Crextal]

2 min long blond joke at the end there, or what was that about?

[terrence0258]

No wonder those people are so angry, Fox News is telling them that the world is coming to an end any day now. Those people are probably scared out of their minds.

[FantasmaBAnco]

These people should be held accountable for the lies they tell... like in a goddamn court of law. What's the point of having libel and defamation laws if they aren't used? Someone needs to sue those Fox fucks!

[petehjr1]

Usapatriot is right. First Dobbs then Fox. Then they come for our precious bodily fluids.

[WadeBlazingame34]

I can't wait to watch Carrie's very appropriate s#x tapes when they go on sale...

[goog2k]

I heard he's retiring to Mexico.

[ReadmanJ]

bye bye Poo Blob.

[Aiden057]

Lou Dobbs is returning to his home planet.

[HomoCyborgZombie]

It's great to see main stream news people finally are waking up to see that Fox news and conservatives are just nut jobs.

[Bear5177]

Thank you Media Matters. Thank you for exposing the hateful, fear-mongering, ignorant, lies and bullshit from Fox "News."

[Aiden057]

Fox "News": We Deceive, You Believe

[HugeJohn51]

oh no! she's trampling her own first amendment rights! she should be arrested!

[adeleellie6]

CNN is trotskysist? Hello? on what planet?

[USAPatriot1966]

Earth---Whaere have been? On Mars!

[EziekielNightwind]

I can also assume you don't know the very basics of astronomy?

Earth is the blue one, mars is the red one, and Europa is a moon orbiting Jupiter where the GOP has been since Nixon.

[ytnbsa]

i'm so glad that that jon stweart clip got as much attention as it did because when i saw that on his show this week, i was totally shocked

fox news outright lied and got caught

hannity claimed it was a screw up but it obviously wasn't

[WKaliberr]

this week sucked major dick

[voyeurdug]

MM4A should take a LOT of credit for focussing media audiences on the advertisers. But (not taking anything away), it's something all viewers should do when viewing commercial media. It's subtle war on the viewers, guys. News media, especially, has been becoming more about entertaining their audiences than informing them, since John Cameron Swayze... and turning their semi-conscious, emotionally-functioning eyes and ears over to advertisers. Stay conscious, stay rational.  Don't buy crap.

[USAPatriot1966]

Mediamatters and Obama ---ON the same cadence step to marshall in communism.

[EziekielNightwind]

Replace communism with centrist conservativism, and you've got that spot on.

[obamadidit2008]

replace lassei-faire,freewheeling capitalism with social democracy then you have social and economic fairness

[USAPatriot1966]

Progressives are todays communists!

Just look at the members of the Congressiona; Progressive Caucus-ALL COMMIES!

[WadeBlazingame34]

USAPatriot1966 clearly rides John Stossel's mustache....

[obamadidit2008]

just like the members of the republican study group, HAYSEED CRYPTO-FASCISTS

[EziekielNightwind]

Replace Progressives with Conservatives, and Communists with Facists, and you're spot on.

It seems you can't tell the difference between an extreme left authoritarian philosophy, with a socially responsible libertarian one (one supported by Progressives.)

Then again, the propaganda double think common on the far right (known as the Republican Party) must have you confused.

[papalosopher]

What does socially responsible libertarian mean?

Don't you just mean Liberal?

PLease respond, I want to hear your ideas, I'm not just being a prick.

[EziekielNightwind]

To be a libertarian is to want less government involvement in your personal life (like telling you who you can, and can't get married to, how or if you can have sex, ect.)

To want to be socially responsible is to want to lend a hand to your neighbors if they should need it.

To be a socially responsible libertarian (IE a progressive) is to have government help and work for the citizens, without legislating what the citizens can and can't do too much.

[papalosopher]

This is repy to EzekNight's definition of socially responsible libertarian:

I call that being a Liberal. It's not a bad word.

[EziekielNightwind]

XD

I'm Canadian, and to be a Liberal is to vote for the Liberal party.

I actually AM a liberal, but not a Liberal liberal. I vote for the NDP, and NDPer doesn't have a nice ring to it.

[obamadidit2008]

Fox News and the g.o.p. on the big leap forward to FASCISM

[obamadidit2008]

to borrow the words of your hero cheney, who is a dick, "go fuck yourself"

[SgtSanchez]

USAPatriot1966 and the rest of the Republican party --- ON the same cadence step (???) to marshall (?!!) in fascism (and illiteracy, apparently).

[USAPatriot1966]

Understand this, as I hope you can read english asshole! Go FUCK YOURSELF!

[SgtSanchez]

Ah, now I see the error of my ways. Who knew just by swearing you could set the US on the right track again. One last question before I go and fuck myself, though: do you see the error in your spelling/grammar yet?

[USAPatriot1966]

Yes they were typos, Sure wish I had not damaged those fingers while serving this great country.

[SubmarinerAndroid]

No, YOU'RE being inappropriate, Carrie, by talking. The best place for you is a department store window.

[Toxxic88]

O'Reilly: "As a soldier we can't kill all Muslims"

Wow... just wow

[p00lman]

Wow, that stuff with Prejean at the end was shockingly infantile on her part. I'd like to know what question King asked that set her off.

[vince19811981]

Hannity, MISTAKE my ass, you stupid TWAT !

[nidodson]

With that camera work, is looks like CNN is trying to get rid of King too. Interesting... what is CNN trying to do?

[p00lman]

Huh?

[nidodson]

Having the camera on her while she was throwing her little fit. If they would have just ignored her, and said, well she decided to no longer participate, then it would have been so unprofessional.

[p00lman]

But they were highlighting how SHE was acting unprofessionally. That's reporting right there, that not only is she intolerant of same-sex marriage, but she has no tolerance for interviews that ask uncomfortable questions. It's a smart choice to show just how infantile she's acting.

[nidodson]

Meh, it was just unprofessional overall. I would fire the person in the control room calling the shots. I rather it "leak" online than be put on air like that.

She is a complete idiot, don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with that much. I just don't get why they would keep on her for over a minute. It almost looks stages to get some excitement and attention.

[p00lman]

Assuming that the scene would play out the same way no matter what the camera was doing, would it be fair to the audience if all we saw was King looking over and asking Prejean what she's doing and if she can hear him? We'd be too curious to know what's going on.

We got to see the whole story.

It makes sense to me.

I think your accusation that "CNN is trying to get rid of King too" is completely unreasonable and unfounded.

[nidodson]

The only reason I said that was because of being so unprofessional with what they were doing.

King can see what is on camera, if he knew the camera wasn't on her, and most likely wasn't going back to her, then he would have went on with the guy on the phone, and not focus on the child throwing a fit to the side.

I just don't get it... that is something a local news station would do, not a serious show.

[p00lman]

I still don't understand your accusation. Do you think King's show should have expected their guest would act like a child and stop talking? And that they should have taken steps to prepare for such an incident?

[nidodson]

They do have steps in place for that exact situation. That is exactly part of what it is of being a professional show. Doing what they did is like my not having an escape clause in a contract with a client, for me or them.

You plan for stuff like that to happen, and just hope it doesn't, and most times it wont when you are dealing with that level of company.

[p00lman]

I think it would be far ruder for them to carry on with the show and dismiss her immediately, not giving her another chance to continue the interview.

But you seem resigned to your belief that this is unacceptable for a show. That's too bad, because I find it very entertaining.

[nidodson]

I just think that if she decided to act like a grown up, and be part of the show again, all they have to do is go to commercial break, get things talked out, then say we are back with...

Then just continue as if it didn't happen. Yeah, it wouldn't let us know how much of a diva she thinks she is, but I don't care to know. It is sad that an adult acts that way, but I guess the republicans did in the final health care debate before it was passed. So what more should I expect.

[Myschly]

To be a terrorist you must be a Muslim, that makes a lot of sense...

Stay classy Bill O'Reilly, maybe time to grope an employee again?

[p00lman]

I guess O'Reilly is justifying the end of the war on terror, since "you can't kill all the Muslims."

[dopeskies]

DOWN GOES DOBBS DOWN GOES DOBBS

[killerbandit]

@dopeskies

Of Cooooooooooouurse!

[Propagandhi900]

Cenk? Is that you?

[okayillgonow]

Second.

But geez come-on conservative movement. Don't hit the Democrats with strawman's arguements. Grow some balls.

[okayillgonow]

Woops. My mistake. third.

[dkdoae]

WOW!! Thx Media Matters!!!