• We’ll debate the impact of today’s key Senate Finance Committee vote in favor of health care reform.
• David Letterman’s longtime band leader Paul Shaffer, whose new book is We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives, shares a behind-the-scenes look at his life in showbiz.
• Spiritual guru Deepak Chopra, author of Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul, reveals his secrets for slowing the causes of aging, infirmity, and disease.
[Tues. 13th Oct.]
Alan Colmes -
“It would be smarter for Obama not to isolate a single news agency.
The smartest thing Obama could do is go on FOX News.”
Your news organization has gone to the dogs and become nothing but a smear-factory against Obama.
“O’Reilly is independent. He leans to the right, but he’s fair.”
Okay, it finally happened that I call Alan Colmes a “liar”.
You lie, Alan. On this point you are dead wrong about O’Reilly. He doesn’t “lean” to the right, he jungle-gym swings all the way over to “loon” category like he likes to label everyone else not nodding in approval of his blabs.
He is a Republican Conservative, not an independent. That is his “spin” for his neo-conservative ideals. O’Reilly is not fair. He shouts down people and uses bias in his line of questioning as a matter of course. He also defends himself in these ridiculous sound-byte fashions and it’s true be can be “fair” it tends to preclude anyone he decides is a “radical”.
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I support Obama in ignoring FOX News at this stage of events.
They are an organization spreading racism, bigotry and unpatriotic baseless claims.
The only way how I would support the president going on there would be to do the same thing I would if they put me on:
Say all these sort of things on the air.
Saying things like:
“You people backing up people like Glenn Beck or ush Limbaugh are liars and don’t have any value to the nation because of these lies to the American people you tell everyday.”
And if I were Alan Colmes they would have fired me a long time ago for attacking the credibility of the news organization I worked under.
That’s what I request of Alan, so it’s no surprise he doesn’t do it.
He has a good thing going. I’m asking him to throw away his job, basically.
Do you really think they would keep on a broadcaster who was making the case that bad news media is what is in part destroying America and most of it that is dangerous and gets people hurt or even killed originates from down the hall?
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In my world, Obama would be crawling up Ailes’ back-side on the facts getting out there because it’s important not frivolous to get it straight.
–
I’ll cut Alan this little bit of slack.
When you run with the rabid dogs long enough you start to think maybe they are not what they clearly are and start to believe the spin they weave around themselves.
I recognize this kind of filter-concept that Alan often talks about but the FOX News-Exclusive Bias is just so profound recently … it’s disgusting.
Unlike many people I actually have a serious beef with the CEO-at-hand: Roger Ailes.
This is the man who received many a letter from real-deal members of the GOP about having the persona of Glenn Beck not engage in rampant race baiting by having Beck recant his statements.
Did anyone learn a lesson here?
Glenn Beck the “rodeo clown” would be ordered by his “rodeo master” to say whatever he says he should say.
So who is pulling the strings?
Not Beck.
And certainly not Colmes.
It would be Ailes and his rejection of common sense and morality.
Remember that Alan has said he has never even met Rodger Ailes. I believe it. I’d never met the CEO of any corporation I’ve ever worked under. Chairmen and CEOs are not walking among us unwashed masses.
Alan Colmes is the kind of broadcaster that isn’t going to “go there” or he plain disagrees with me on this, which is also totally possible.
–
I’m always talking about “voting with your money” and if there was ten Colmes-like shows on Fox News Talk I would try to subscribe to ALL of them and subscribe to NONE of the other ones.
Another show I should find some way to throw a small capitalistic-vote toward would be “Beyond The Beltway” with Bruce DuMont.
Poor Bruce has the same problem Alan does with this like “let’s stick to the point” and “where are the facts on that?” that was come about since the FOX News Beast came to be.
–
I only really care about TV broadcasts, personally. Radio is radio.
It’s these TV-spinsters that are actually driving this nation into the dirt, the whole pack of the vicious right wing punditry.
For whatever reason more people chose to just “believe” in a TV-pundit.
If it’s on television, it must be true.
–
Corporate Bias.
PBS is a good way to avoid Corporate Bias, most all of the FOX News programming is not.
That’s it. It’s not absent from sources like PBS but it’s far less common.
If people just don’t care about facts they will only take in one single news media agency of any nature.
It’s just the unfortunate result of the New Era of electric night skies.
–
Who killed the newspaper, anyway?
Cable news and (I think) bloggers practicing journalism, or a close manifestation of this rare thing called “journalistic ethics”.
–
My entire argument to present to Rodger Ailes is this:
“The need for journalistic ethics and pride in all news-type broadcasting.” By EricG
Check this out:
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1354/social-conflict-in-america?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress
It may surprise anyone following the charges of racism that have flared up during the debate over President Obama’s health care proposals, but a survey taken this summer found that fewer people perceived there are strong conflicts between blacks and whites than saw strong conflicts between immigrants and the native born, or between rich people and poor people.
A majority (55%) of adults said there are “very strong” or “strong” conflicts between immigrants and people born in the United States. Nearly as many — 47% — said the same about conflicts between rich people and poor people, according to a nationally representative survey by the Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends project.
I don’t think that is the only reason Pierre.
Alan,
The man who called you about why Obama hates Fox news(hannity) was right.
Rev. Manning(the black pasteur) was allowed to call Obama’s mother a white trash and much more. And Hannity pretented to defend Obama.
But prior to be on Hannity & Colmes, rev Manning was
on with Hannity (on his radio show) saying the same crazy things; yet hannity did not defend Obama, then.
So why did Hannity put rev Manning on TV when he knew what he was going to say?
You going to talk about how the military met all its recruiting goals for the first time since the volunteer program was established thanks to low employment?
I guess Rocky can now make a comment about the new Rethuglikkkan white Christian capitalist platform inspired by Obamanomics.
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You going to talk about how the military met all its recruiting goals for the first time since the volunteer program was established thanks to low employment?
I guess Rocky can now make a comment about the new Rethuglikkkan white Christian capitalist platform inspired by Obamanomics.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Alan,
The man who called you about why Obama hates Fox news(hannity) was right.
Rev. Manning(the black pasteur) was allowed to call Obama’s mother a white trash and much more. And Hannity pretented to defend Obama.
But prior to be on Hannity & Colmes, rev Manning was
on with Hannity (on his radio show) saying the same crazy things; yet hannity did not defend Obama, then.
So why did Hannity put rev Manning on TV when he knew what he was going to say?
Budda Reply:
October 14th, 2009 at 1:24 am
I don’t think that is the only reason Pierre.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Check this out:
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1354/social-conflict-in-america?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress
October 14th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
[Tues. 13th Oct.]
Alan Colmes -
Your news organization has gone to the dogs and become nothing but a smear-factory against Obama.
Okay, it finally happened that I call Alan Colmes a “liar”.
You lie, Alan. On this point you are dead wrong about O’Reilly. He doesn’t “lean” to the right, he jungle-gym swings all the way over to “loon” category like he likes to label everyone else not nodding in approval of his blabs.
He is a Republican Conservative, not an independent. That is his “spin” for his neo-conservative ideals. O’Reilly is not fair. He shouts down people and uses bias in his line of questioning as a matter of course. He also defends himself in these ridiculous sound-byte fashions and it’s true be can be “fair” it tends to preclude anyone he decides is a “radical”.
–
I support Obama in ignoring FOX News at this stage of events.
They are an organization spreading racism, bigotry and unpatriotic baseless claims.
The only way how I would support the president going on there would be to do the same thing I would if they put me on:
Say all these sort of things on the air.
Saying things like:
“You people backing up people like Glenn Beck or ush Limbaugh are liars and don’t have any value to the nation because of these lies to the American people you tell everyday.”
And if I were Alan Colmes they would have fired me a long time ago for attacking the credibility of the news organization I worked under.
That’s what I request of Alan, so it’s no surprise he doesn’t do it.
He has a good thing going. I’m asking him to throw away his job, basically.
Do you really think they would keep on a broadcaster who was making the case that bad news media is what is in part destroying America and most of it that is dangerous and gets people hurt or even killed originates from down the hall?
–
In my world, Obama would be crawling up Ailes’ back-side on the facts getting out there because it’s important not frivolous to get it straight.
–
I’ll cut Alan this little bit of slack.
When you run with the rabid dogs long enough you start to think maybe they are not what they clearly are and start to believe the spin they weave around themselves.
I recognize this kind of filter-concept that Alan often talks about but the FOX News-Exclusive Bias is just so profound recently … it’s disgusting.
Unlike many people I actually have a serious beef with the CEO-at-hand: Roger Ailes.
This is the man who received many a letter from real-deal members of the GOP about having the persona of Glenn Beck not engage in rampant race baiting by having Beck recant his statements.
Did anyone learn a lesson here?
Glenn Beck the “rodeo clown” would be ordered by his “rodeo master” to say whatever he says he should say.
So who is pulling the strings?
Not Beck.
And certainly not Colmes.
It would be Ailes and his rejection of common sense and morality.
Remember that Alan has said he has never even met Rodger Ailes. I believe it. I’d never met the CEO of any corporation I’ve ever worked under. Chairmen and CEOs are not walking among us unwashed masses.
Alan Colmes is the kind of broadcaster that isn’t going to “go there” or he plain disagrees with me on this, which is also totally possible.
–
I’m always talking about “voting with your money” and if there was ten Colmes-like shows on Fox News Talk I would try to subscribe to ALL of them and subscribe to NONE of the other ones.
Another show I should find some way to throw a small capitalistic-vote toward would be “Beyond The Beltway” with Bruce DuMont.
Poor Bruce has the same problem Alan does with this like “let’s stick to the point” and “where are the facts on that?” that was come about since the FOX News Beast came to be.
–
I only really care about TV broadcasts, personally. Radio is radio.
It’s these TV-spinsters that are actually driving this nation into the dirt, the whole pack of the vicious right wing punditry.
For whatever reason more people chose to just “believe” in a TV-pundit.
If it’s on television, it must be true.
–
Corporate Bias.
PBS is a good way to avoid Corporate Bias, most all of the FOX News programming is not.
That’s it. It’s not absent from sources like PBS but it’s far less common.
If people just don’t care about facts they will only take in one single news media agency of any nature.
It’s just the unfortunate result of the New Era of electric night skies.
–
Who killed the newspaper, anyway?
Cable news and (I think) bloggers practicing journalism, or a close manifestation of this rare thing called “journalistic ethics”.
–
My entire argument to present to Rodger Ailes is this:
“The need for journalistic ethics and pride in all news-type broadcasting.” By EricG
October 14th, 2009 at 8:10 pm