Teabaggers should be happy no one like Edward R. Murrow is around today.

WhyteRaven74: Teabaggers should be happy no one like Edward R. Murrow is around today.

yeah. he'd smell really bad.

and he's be spinning at a velocity of 1000 rpm if modern journalism is defined by the interview that woman gave

albo: and he's be spinning at a velocity of 1000 rpm if modern journalism is defined by the interview that woman gave

...or Fox News promoting the events for weeks beforehand.

albo: WhyteRaven74: Teabaggers should be happy no one like Edward R. Murrow is around today.

yeah. he'd smell really bad.

and he's be spinning at a velocity of 1000 rpm if modern journalism is defined by the interview that woman gave

I saw the full clip on youtube. She sure got told afterwards.

CNN reporter going Fox ad a Fox promoted rally.

I fart better journalism.

albo: and he's be spinning at a velocity of 1000 rpm if modern journalism is defined by the interview that woman gave

I've seen the clips of Murrow totally owning McCarthy. I can only imagine how he'd own the teabaggers. Hell H.L. Mencken would have a field day with them, and he was a print guy. He was the one journalist that when Wilson implemented a censorship office openly defied the policy and basically dared the government to arrest him. Do I need to say he was never touched and never was a word of one of his pieces at the time altered?

I'm just glad that this incident of bad journalism will be used to deflect any and all criticism of teabaggers and the apparently widespread misinformation amongst them.

"We're not stupid! It's your l-l-lib media!"

PS, your headline sucks, subby. "Reporterette" instantly discredits anything of value you might have to say.

Why should CNN cover this Fox News publicity campaign?

She must be hanging out with ED Hill.

WhyteRaven74: Teabaggers should be happy no one like Edward R. Murrow is around today.

But he never would've made himself part of the story. Personal politics yet again trumps journalistic responsibility.

/good night
//good luck

WhyteRaven74: I've seen the clips of Murrow totally owning McCarthy. I can only imagine how he'd own the teabaggers.

I can't believe you're using this as an example. That's brainfreezingly stupid.

Murrow would certainly not treat an average citizen expressing his first amendment rights in a public place as he would a sitting US senator abusing his considerable legislative power in a clearly anti-constitutional way.

RocketRod: But he never would've made himself part of the story

He very much made himself part of the story when he went after McCarthy. He wasn't just talking about what McCarthy did, he took him directly to task for what he was doing.

albo: I can't believe you're using this as an example. That's brainfreezingly stupid.

Oh don't worry, Murrow would've gone after the people organizing the whole farce not the people actually out holding the signs. But not like he viewed jingoism very well.

WhyteRaven74: the whole farce

???

generally speaking, it's a bad idea to go to a protest and taunt the protesters. They already showed up to the event being a tad irritable and it ain't smart to rile up 'em even more.

WhyteRaven74: RocketRod: But he never would've made himself part of the story

He very much made himself part of the story when he went after McCarthy. He wasn't just talking about what McCarthy did, he took him directly to task for what he was doing.

and what's really hilarious is that McCarthy's claim of the State Department having communist moles in it was 98% correct. hahahahahahahaha.

Dancin_In_Anson: ???

dissent is not longer patriotic because it's now being orchestrating, unlike the totally spontaneous and absolutely grassroots protest rallies that emerged organically from the progressive movement during the previous administration.

Dancin_In_Anson: ???

People using words they don't know the meaning of, expressing ideas that are historically false etc, pretty well is a farce.

WhyteRaven74:
People using words they don't know the meaning of, expressing ideas that are historically false etc, pretty well is a farce.

Stop making fun of people expressing their first amendment rights!

WhyteRaven74: Dancin_In_Anson: ???

People using words they don't know the meaning of, expressing ideas that are historically false etc, pretty well is a farce.

but shcaoliast facism obama=hilter I pay $480000 in taxes john birch society did 9/11 no turn on red shrugged atlas!

WhyteRaven74: People using words they don't know the meaning of, expressing ideas that are historically false etc, pretty well is a farce.

yes, those poor peasants are certainly not like us enlightened progressive elite.

they should be quiet and stick to making our fries

So the big issue that every conservative in America is walking away from this even with is that this reporter is a bad person ?

This is the point of it all ?

sloppy shoes: WhyteRaven74:
People using words they don't know the meaning of, expressing ideas that are historically false etc, pretty well is a farce.

Stop making fun of people expressing their first amendment rights!

What? Were they not trying to be funny on purpose...

Oh my!

albo:
yes, those poor peasants are certainly not like us enlightened progressive elite.

they should be quiet and stick to making our fries

LOLwut?

How are they poor peasants who should stick to making fries? Who said that?

How about this? Why wasn't the guy at the rally able to defend his picture of Obama looking like Hitler while calling him a fascist? The reporter asked him a simple question and he couldn't answer it. Nor could the guy with the baby.

albo: WhyteRaven74: People using words they don't know the meaning of, expressing ideas that are historically false etc, pretty well is a farce.

yes, those poor peasants are certainly not like us enlightened progressive elite.

they should be quiet and stick to making our fries

No, actually they can stop making fries long enough to insist that the top earners in America need tax cuts. Then it's back to the fries.

Code_Archeologist: What? Were they not trying to be funny on purpose...

Oh my!

You sound like a fascist. Fascist. Why don't you go kill some jews!

albo: yes, those poor peasants are certainly not like us enlightened progressive elite.

I dunno, all my conservative friends were pretty disgusted by the whole thing. Then again, they don't like the GOP much either. So there's that.

Mordant: This is the point of it all ?

Pretty much.

If the fight is so worthwhile then couldn't they have used the time and energy to find and promote a solid republican candidate who would have won the election and be running things sensibly right now ?

Is that such an absurd idea ?

How many of the more sensible conservatives here were out there with misspelled signs chanting idiotic slogans ? Not many, I'm guessing. But now they are compelled to defend the team even though they're probably embarrassed by yet another crock of idiocy.

Is "vacation" shorthand for "hiding in an undisclosed location in fear for her life"?

albo: Dancin_In_Anson: ???

dissent is not longer patriotic because it's now being orchestrating, unlike the totally spontaneous and absolutely grassroots protest rallies that emerged organically from the progressive movement during the previous administration.

Yeah, I remember all the media promotion of those anti-war protests. Oh wait...

Pants full of macaroni!!: Is "vacation" shorthand for "hiding in an undisclosed location in fear for her life"?

Go post that in one of the threads blasting the DHS report about right wingers being dangerous... I'm a huge fan of good irony.

sloppy shoes: albo:
yes, those poor peasants are certainly not like us enlightened progressive elite.

they should be quiet and stick to making our fries

LOLwut?

How are they poor peasants who should stick to making fries? Who said that?

How about this? Why wasn't the guy at the rally able to defend his picture of Obama looking like Hitler while calling him a fascist? The reporter asked him a simple question and he couldn't answer it. Nor could the guy with the baby.

The GOP should promote these folks like they did with Joe the Plumber.

Mordant: So the big issue that every conservative in America is walking away from this even with is that this reporter is a bad person ?

I'm having trouble parsing that.

sloppy shoes: Why wasn't the guy at the rally able to defend his picture of Obama looking like Hitler while calling him a fascist?

My question would've been simple "Why are you saying he's a fascist when everyone else is calling him a socialist?".

the crowd treated her like the enemy before she even got started. you know how the Fox Fundies are. They deride everyone who isn't to the right of Mussolini.

She deserves some vacation time after dealing with the idiots on parade.

WhyteRaven74: My question would've been simple "Why are you saying he's a fascist when everyone else is calling him a socialist?".

Well, actually "Nazi" meant "National Socialist Party."

7of7: but shcaoliast facism obama=hilter I pay $480000 in taxes john birch society did 9/11 no turn on red shrugged atlas!

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Hobodeluxe: the crowd treated her like the enemy before she even got started. you know how the Fox Fundies are. They deride everyone who isn't to the right of Mussolini.

She deserves some vacation time after dealing with the idiots on parade.

Yeah. Of course, she definitely did break proper decorum, and on principle I think journalists should be more thick-skinned, but damn... that avalanche of stupid would've been hard for anyone to deal with.

Good. That's not reporting.

/thinks the teabaggers are morons

Standard operating procedure.

Get the lightning rod out of the line of fire in terms of both her personal safety and the image of the network.

It would be pretty damn hard to be unbias or unaffected by the negativity in that crowd, so i don't blame her. I wouldn't be able to handle it... but i'm not a journalist. And she wasn't that pushy, at least not compare to people like Rush or BillO.

So yeah, she deserves that paid vacation.

And at least CNN tries to be fair. Something that can't be said for Fox, even though they like to claim it.

GreenAdder: Mordant: So the big issue that every conservative in America is walking away from this even with is that this reporter is a bad person ?

I'm having trouble parsing that.

Ok, how about this. Instead of talking about the issues that were supposedly behind the protest, this thread will probably go to 1000+ responses with people arguing over this one reporter.

Yeah, great way to promote the conservative agenda. With winning ideas like this we'll see last year all over again.

albo: WhyteRaven74: Teabaggers should be happy no one like Edward R. Murrow is around today.

yeah. he'd smell really bad.

and he's be spinning at a velocity of 1000 rpm if modern journalism is defined by the interview that woman gave

This.

Hender: albo: and he's be spinning at a velocity of 1000 rpm if modern journalism is defined by the interview that woman gave

...or Fox News promoting the events for weeks beforehand.

And this.

WhyteRaven74:
My question would've been simple "Why are you saying he's a fascist when everyone else is calling him a socialist?".

These people never made it to the compare and contrast section of middle school. You have to take it slow and parse one idea at a time.

Hobodeluxe: the crowd treated her like the enemy before she even got started. you know how the Fox Fundies are. They deride everyone who isn't to the right of Mussolini.

She deserves some vacation time after dealing with the idiots on parade.

I just rewatched the video- she was actually pretty nice and reasonable to the guy with Obama's face on Hitler's body. She really only started to lose it after that when the crowd supported him and started chanting other asinine crap as well.

I mean, she did lose her cool and was unprofessional- or less professional than she could have been- but what was she seriously supposed to say? I don't recall any journalist taking seriously liberals who compared Bush to Hitler. Why are we always expected to take every conservative argument like it's the word of God?

I mean, seriously, have we bitten off the tree of knowledge and angered him. Is that what you're telling us conservatives?

GreenAdder: WhyteRaven74: My question would've been simple "Why are you saying he's a fascist when everyone else is calling him a socialist?".

Well, actually "Nazi" meant "National Socialist Party."

And the "D" in DPRK stands for "Democratic".

GreenAdder: WhyteRaven74: My question would've been simple "Why are you saying he's a fascist when everyone else is calling him a socialist?".

Well, actually "Nazi" meant "National Socialist Party."

And North Korea is the Democratic People's Republic so it must be a Democracy.

she heard shouts from the crowd including..."Shut up, biatch."

Funny stuff.

My contempt for her and her ilk, is only matched by her and her ilks contempt for me and my ilk.

/ilk

It is impossible for everyone in journalism to be biased (and "biased towards the truth" doesn't count). Still, this lady had a job to do and went after a guy holding a baby-pretty messed up.