Cable Nets Press 'Mute' When Pelosi Won't Talk Weiner

[dkkght46]

What Qadaffi thinks of Weiners upcoming resignation over his sexting his penis over twitter:

نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه. ر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه

دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما

I That pretty much sums up Weiner.

[AmericanResponses]

I call it media masturbation. Can't cover speeches about jobs and the economy....no

That is real news ... but they will give you the bias opinions of their payed idiots rather then the facts and news at the drop of a hat ...sigh

[THEMASTEROFYOU2000]

@AmericanResponses

because the leas=dership elected, especially from the dems, refuses to do anything about it, instead choosing to lay blame on the republican house, while NEVER accepting the ONLY law they passed was the socialist take-over job killing economy wrecking so called "health-care" bill, I am a healthcare professional and have yet to find one person beside a politician or an insurance or drug company that this Bill ( new nick for giv'em the ol' clinton) has helped!, can you??

[AmericanResponses]

@THEMASTEROFYOU2000 Why yes I can. Frankly the bill does not go far enough & most of it has not kicked in yet..should have public the option. It is time America stops pretending it knows better on such things & catches up with the rest of the civilized world & gets a cheaper more humane healthcare. We pay as much as twice as much for poorer healthcare and that does not even cover the 50 million who can't afford it or are un-insurable thanks to the heartless greedy fed machine here ..pretty sad

[THEMASTEROFYOU2000]

@AmericanResponses

pretty sad is the fact that the entire european union has found out exactly that, and each country has been thrashed by the excessive costs of their systems. Of course ours costs more, ans yes, in the name of cutting costs and monitoring each pt care set the costs are driven sky high. . Want to see what it takes to run a hospital? drive by on sunday, then on monday and compare emplyee parking lots. Of course the system needs fixed, it's on the billing end though, investigate

[THEMASTEROFYOU2000]

@AmericanResponses

and in France, for example, a Dr.'s working on a salary of right at 50k a year, nurses etc about 18k. SO if there is a time in America people can get by working for that then again maybe things will change. In south American countries a nurse is just what we call an aide here, and everyone(male) is a Dr., for about 22k a year. Hospitals are specialized in France, one does orth, another disease, another surgery, etc. Thsi saves tons, but well which to choose when in a wreck?

[THEMASTEROFYOU2000]

@AmericanResponses

One of the main concerns is how our government actuall sets the prices for healthcare costs, mostly based on the medicare system. They allow so much for every diagnosis, and they make it illegal to charge the government more than a citizen. example, most of the wait time in er is the provider triage dx, thn the office choosing billing codes, finding out how much they will get paid before your actually seen, how is that helpful? Insurance has been built around employers, why?

[AmericanResponses]

@THEMASTEROFYOU2000 Fact is government run health care is working everywhere and the cost is much cheaper with less tampering and interference then under the restrictions of the money hogging Insurance industry. Those are hard facts republicans don't want to face. They simply call it socialism and many people stupidly repeat it. Gov run plans like in Canada allow you to be seen for the same non chronic problem so many times then a referral or improvement is expected. It simply works

[rocketman6464]

stupidist bitch on the planet..............we would be better served if this filthy skank never spoke on any relevant topic..............

[jstncbllr]

@rocketman6464 You're fascinating, what a substantive remark there! Also, I love your artful use of the word "relevant". I mean, making sense is overrated. Amirite?

[blackturtleshow]

Did it really matter that Scott Brown posed nude for Cosmo? Why should it be different for Weiner? The press should have never pushed the issue to begin with. Most people lie defensively when blind-sided by embarrassing matters. The press should report on matters of real public concern, not private matters that really don't affect the nation.

[doc7474]

If there was one time I agree with Pelosi doing the right thing it was now, she actually didn't talk about tabloid garbage like Wienergate like all these garbage MSM news channels want to. It's funny/sad I have to run to a Kremlin led news channel like Russia Today to get real news.

[zachgre1]

Fox and regular channel news suck. We are screwed as a nation in the press.

[mikesadick]

It's time for Washington to put their Wiener back in their pants at get back to work on the real issues

[iugoeswest]

I NEVER WATCH CABLE ANYMORE!! MEDIA CONTROLS IT ALL... GOOD LUCK WORLD!

[AsAboveSoBelow01]

Pathetic.

FUCK YOU MEDIA

[ThisWeekInFascism]

Kill your TV with extreme prejudice. Stab it through the screen with an iron pipe and hang it from a tree in front of your house, dripping in red paint. Damn these fucking journalistic traitors straight to hell. And our dearest Pelosi... go fuck yourself off a table.

[MultiShadow1969]

Proof that to get onto the news your information has to be about dick.

[DeletedDelusion]

I can't believe how hard the democrats and the republicans are both tryinng to lose the next election to eachother.

....ah yeah I almost forgot, shame on the lamestream media.

[newdimensionfilms]

ATTENTION MEDIA: WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS WE ARE IN FOUR WARS PLEASE IGNORE THE CONGRESSMAN'S PENIS

[the1tigglet]

these people are like whiney babies trying to talk about everything else but the real issues no wonder we can't get anything done in this country and this is day what for unemployment crisis???

[yclepped]

This is why I do not watch the news. Ever. Ha ha!

[RacerEckss]

God damn it. Why did Dr. Hunter S Thompson have to leave us?!

[AndroidPhantom]

FUCK THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there isn't a font big enough or enough exclamation points available in 500 characters to accurately display how much i hate america right now at this moment. i'll go to sleep later in a bed in a house w/ ac & a full stomach at which point i'll appreciate things more. until then, though, ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Watchout5]

I feel so great every day knowing none of my money goes to these people. I hope they cry themselves to sleep at night.

[Euvari]

Fuck. Seriously, they're all children.

[Mxsmanic]

If the media think I'm more interested in a Congressman's sex life than I am in jobs, the economy, and the current depression, it is way out of touch with tts audience.

[TNANOBUYS]

Why is the media stooping down to TMZ level journalism? This Anthony Weiner story is Daily Show and Colbert Report material, not headline news on CNN. Are journalists on the endangered species list because with shit like this, they might be. Fucking hacks.

[bxeggy]

@Mendelevium146 Cable Networks press mute when pelosi wont talk about Anthony Weiner

[radiofreak56]

oh god please jon stewart i hope you are watching this childish behavior by the media

[andotech]

I cancelled my satellite TV subscription yesterday and I'm feeling really, really good about it :-)

[demmmmm1]

Yes, by all means. Republicans gutting Medicare, Medicaid, and taking food out of the mouths of 300,000 poor women & children - that’s just not as important, is it?

VOTE DEMOCRAT IN 2012 - but only if you’re interested in saving the middle class and having ANY chance of reigning in the rape being conducted on this country by the corporate elite & Republicans.

[2010GOP]

@demmmmm1:

If Cap & Trade passes & causes everyone's electric/heating bills to skyrocket & also increase the cost of everything we buy will only hurt the middle-class & poor even more.

The $50 light bulbs from Obama's good buddy from GE that we'll all be forced to buy in 6 months will hurt too.

FEC - Democrats received most donations from Wall Street past several years

Obama - gave Billions is cash to Executives of his favorite Corporations: GE, CBS News, Washington Post, AT&T, UAW, etc.

[demmmmm1]

@2010GOP What’s your alternative to cap & trade? Seems to me George Bush, Sr. signed a very successful cap & trade on acid rain. Something has to be done...so, what should be done? What’s the Republican plan?

I’ve already bought my bulbs. They’re not $50.

Dems have lost Wall St., due to Wall St. Reform, which Repubs fought all the way, and still are. Wall St. bankrolled Repubs in the last election. Millions and millions, ‘cuz they don’t like the Dem’s efforts to regulate them.

[2010GOP]

@demmmmm1: Brainwashed Idiot

Anyone w/any common-sense knows Cap & Trade does nothing to lower pollution; it's a money-making scheme that only idiots buy into. Other countries like Australia, Japan, etc. won't have anything to do w/it.

Lying asshole - the new bulbs will be $50 after standard bulbs are removed from shelves.  CBS News: "Light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January. The new bulbs will be expensive — about $50 each".

FEC: Wall Street gives more $ to Democrats

[2010GOP]

@demmmmm1: You're Democrats favorite type of voter --- brainwashed, gullible & stupid

LA Times: "Democrats are Darlings of Wall Street"

ABC News:  "Largest Hedge Fund Political Donations Go to Democrats"

Bloomberg: "Wall Sreet lavishing Millions on Democrats in the last 2 elections"

You bought the bullshit that the Fin Reform bill regulates Wall Street? LMAO!! Wrong dummy ~ it gives Wall Street & Govt MORE power.

Grow up & educate yourself or stay out of the fk'ing voting booth

[Henroidt]

@2010GOP All I read from your comment is, "Don't vote if you're not voting the same way I do."

[2010GOP]

@Henroidt: That's incorrect. My comment implies: "Don't vote if you don't know the facts. Don't base your vote on bullshit that's been fed to you. Be a responsible voter & educate yourself".

[demmmmm1]

@2010GOP "The Wall Street lobbyists said they would kill it before it was ever born. They lost," Elizabeth Warren said. "And they lost because this is an agency that really is there for middle class families.”

"Democratic campaign committees losing big Wall Street donors” - Wash. Post.

Elections are always funny things. The Koch brothers even donated to Dems.

Leader John Boehner admits that Republicans have opposed any reform in an effort to raise money from Wall Street."

[demmmmm1]

@2010GOP You should’ve seen the Wall St. Reform bill BEFORE Republicans stalled, filibustered, held, watered down...for months. Lost its teeth, for sure.

Look - you simply can’t get around the fact that the right-wing hates poor people and serves the rich.  Righties are protecting Wall St. at every turn. Every day.

[demmmmm1]

@2010GOP Talk about ‘gullible.’ How are these for you?

-Tax cuts for rich people create jobs (except the last 10 years of them, of course).

-Exxon needs billions of your dollars - so, uh...well, they just need ‘em.

-All Muslims are terrorists.

-Obama was born in Kenya and is a “secret Muslim.”

-Jesus wouldn’t feed the poor - he’d make ‘em get a job. He’d also ask for their health insurance card before healing them.

-God called us to kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s and torture people.

[demmmmm1]

@2010GOP "Wall Street Shifts Campaign Donations to GOP” - CNBC 2010

And why would that be, I wonder? Maybe because DEMOCRATS were actually trying to DO something to reign in their criminal behavior, which has been encourage by Republican deregulation, starting with Reagan (Savings & Loan).

[demmmmm1]

@2010GOP One more for you. From last year, when 52% of Wall St. contributions had gone to righties.

"Republicans may lose the fight over Wall Street regulations, but the fight has helped their campaign accounts. For the first time since 2004, the biggest Wall Street firms are now giving most of their campaign donations to Republicans.”

Can you say, “Wall St. Regulations?” Can you say, “Repubs don’t want any financial regulation?” Thought you could.

[2010GOP]

@demmmmm1: LOL ..What an idiot you are: "Wall Street Shifts Campaign Donations to GOP” - CNBC 2010".

Yea Dummy ~ I thought Republicans were always in bed with Wall Street fat cats? Isn't that what your little brain has been fed for years?

Not all of Wall Street are affected by the so-called Financial Reform bill. Many simply see how the incompetent Democrats are destroying businesses. Financial corps will BENEFIT from the Fin Reform bill -- Democrats know you're too stupid to figure it out

[2010GOP]

@demmmmm1: Use your damn head. I will explain in the most simple way possible.

Why do you think CitiGroup, Goldman Sachs & other large financial corps WANTED the bill passed? Doesn't it sound strange that they, of all people, would rally for the 'Consumer Financial Protection Agency'?

-Large institutions not affected

-Gives Congress a blank check to give large financial corps

-Smaller businesses most burdened; Larger corps eat them

-"Kickbacks" now legal

-Why are Fannie/Freddie not included?

[demmmmm1]

@2010GOP Smaller businesses are always burdened more by any regulation.

Just shocking that CigiGroup ceo’d want regulatory reform, national standards, reduced risk. It’s a company that has probably gone from financial funhouse back to being a bank. Some like it stable. I found this quote pretty interesting: "There is no question the rules governing the global financial system were in need of real reform. We were running high-speed trains on a rail system built more than 60 years ago."

[2010GOP]

@demmmmm1: LMAO! You're so ignorant & gullible. Absolutely amazing!

CitiGroup won't be held to the same standards. CitiGroup also knows that Congress has a blank check now.

The "government" can now come in & seize a small business who even so much as takes payments, such as a dentist's office with NO JUDICIAL REVIEW. Same w/medium sized businesses that those larger corps would like to eat. Does that mean anything to you?

[MrAlienalda]

@erwinthehamsandich It's tempting to say that Weiner's policies would not help the poor or the working class, and to set up that old political dichotomy, bu the truth is neither party gives a flying fowl about the poor or middle class. The Dems with their welfare solutions don't and the GOP with their tax cuts for the most wealthy don't either.The real issue is that in this age of internet and globalism, Weiner was too stupid to realize he couldn't get away with misleading his constituents. Oy!

[nin514]

This is so sad. The media is complicit is this country's downfall. Shame on them.

[Ematched]

@mw2000 That's why those of us who actually care stopped holding any regard for cable news. nightline, 60 minutes, nightly news: that's where we place our focus. These charlatans just go after ratings, turning a few fairly innocuous photos into a so called scandal. They're all but irrelevant.

[3GBlog]

Who cares what she has to say, I stopped listening when she threw a party member under the bus.

[foreveryoung1]

i tell you i am shocked, really shocked this is classified as 'news' in the USA.

NOT!

Well what do you expect really, it's about the money & ratings...........they let you watch what they 'think' you should watch. Talk about dumbing down a nation.

They want drama and conflict, it become a reality show.

Good luck America.

[MenaceFan]

This is more a fact that Pelosi conferences are worthless and she's no longer very relevent despite being minority leader

[Mendelevium146]

I dont get this video...

[bxeggy]

@Mendelevium146 you dont get that the media is obsessed with gossip instead of news that effects the country?

[Mendelevium146]

@bxeggy yea I do but I dont get the title

[3ssay]

sickening.

[Try2MakeSenseOrSTFU]

at least tpm isn't broken...good job

[frwgt350net]

Hey Wiener Rush called you a pussy which is it are you a PUSSY or a Weiner?

[mw2000]

And America, this displays 100% why you will never have control of the future of your country until you overhaul the broken media that refuses to serve or inform you.

[EdwardP88]

fucking sad.

[bigjstokes]

Wow. BRILLIANT TPM. these networks should be called cable TABLOID networks. They do this crap all the time and it's about time someone besides Jon Strewart calls them out. I stopped watching them long ago except on YouTube and get real news from real journalists. "...what she was GOING to talk about." <-which is????

[TheoMarkAllen]

this is so embarrassing.

[Eldrad235]

And that is why i feel sorry for all you Americans stuck watching all this BS news

[rubberneck39]

HAHAHAHA!

[pentium2028]

This is pure gold. I love it how you catches them right in the moment.

[swankymsp]

Fricking cable network news.... all 3 of them.

[PumaOPumaOPumaO]

Yeah it's bullshit. That's why I don't watch cable, all they care about are ratings.

[MaryJesusJoseph]

The media is actually damaging our country at this point. We're so distracted with this bullshit that we pay no attention to things that are actually important.

[erwinthehamsandwich]

@MaryJesusJoseph Funny how you don't care about how your main man Weiner is a sick pervert but if Palin messes up a word you just yuck it up. You don't believe a word you posted. Exactly like conservatives are when something like this happens to a Republican. You guys deserve each other.

[MaryJesusJoseph]

@erwinthehamsandwich Weiner fights for the working and middle classes of this country. Palin fights for herself. I don't care if he emails pictures of his junk. The media destroys him and follows this idiotic woman who lost the election for John McCain and then quit her term as governer early on around like slathering pupplies when she's barely coherent. I'll take Weiner even with the tweets--and you can have your barking chihuahua Palin in all her stupidity.

[erwinthehamsandwich]

@MaryJesusJoseph I loathe Palin. I hate hypocrisy and that is clearly the case. 95% of politicians care about themselves before all else. And if Weiner was fighting primarily for the working and middle classes he would not risk his career like that. However, the economic policies he supports would not be good for the poor any more than in the short term. Throw money at the problem.  Sure, sounds great. Incentive doesn't matter at all. Of course not.

[MaryJesusJoseph]

@erwinthehamsandwich Weiner never ran as a family values candidate so I don't know where your hypocrisy charge comes from. And the idea that somehow his twitting to these adult women invalidates his work for the poor and middle class is just idiocy. And your comments clearly show that you don't know anything about what his policies were. If he had his way we would all have good healthcare that didn't depend on big insurance companies. You're full of shit.

[erwinthehamsandwich]

@MaryJesusJoseph I was calling you, not Weiner, a hypocrite because you only dislike the focus on "bullshit" when it's about someone you like. Obviously he knew he was risking his career, so yes, even if he thought he was helping the poor and middle class, he put those priorities in the backseat. As for his support of "universal health care": TANSTAAFL. Obviously there's a trade-off between prosperity and equality.

[MaryJesusJoseph]

@erwinthehamsandwich You don't know what hypocrite means do you? If someone runs as a family values politician it's hypocritical when they're cheating on their spouses. I, personally, don't care what they do, but if they're putting themselves up as moral role models there is a problem. But the media focusing on this is all bullshit--it just distracts from actual issues.

[exsinor]

@MaryJesusJoseph VERY GOOD POINT!

[mrbhave]

@MaryJesusJoseph The media isn't forcing you to watch. Turn off your TV, your computer, and/or your smart phone and think for yourself.

[MaryJesusJoseph]

@mrbhave Yeah, that's it, just go on and support this idiotic media and get distracted into extinction.

[mrbhave]

@MaryJesusJoseph Yeah, because that's exactly what I said to do.

[bleunt]

Wow... just... wow... they're children. They honest to God little children, unable to focus on intellectual matters. I'm amazed.

[hollywoodt00]

Pandering, again ...

[sinecurve9999]

wow... just wow. The media showing it's true face... what a corrupt, backwards institution!

[AceHoale]

Let's talk about penises.

Resigning for "Schnitzel" must be like coitus interruptus, literally.

But like Tony the press doesn't get any...

Pathetic caricatures of journalists, not reporting, but TELLING stories.

Well. We know that by now.

So what's really News?

Something about fucking..... Fuck you or her or she.....

Fukushima!

Peas.

[Duckeieio]

You didn't miss much she goes on to tell us the same old talking points drivle we didn't beleive the last hundred times she spued it.

[SweetCash33]

@Duckeieio Yes she should not stick up for the middle class I agree

[DiceWarwick]

the media is really full of bullshit sometimes, it seems that right now all they want to do is bully Weiner until he comits subside in shame, all the wile real news gets pushed to the side.

[volumedealer1]

Established criminal Peloski stays,and wiener has to resign over showing his dick...

What a distraction.

[FixedNewsChannel]

oh for christ sake. Media substance fail as usual.

[volumedealer1]

This is bullshit. Our system has failed.

CNN LIES!

[hejcoze]

The great phallic-oriented US media. Great job, as usual.

[capriconss]

the sad thing is that the weiner thing is what most americans are interested in. and it is the reason the cable news only talk about it.

[volumedealer1]

@capriconss Oh yeah, this is all a sham.

[Zlibservacratican]

@capriconss No, no no. You have it backwards. This is all the media shows, and this is all americans ever see. Americans are not interested in Weiner. Most americans are interested in jobs, the corrupt economy, and the global police state we live in.

[starkweather444]

The failure of the mainstream media to address the issues that matter to us, never ceases to amaze me. Maybe it's because all of these people are gainfully employed and don't care.