Lady Boner would be an awesome name for a band.

thomps: Elzar: I noticed Hannity kept saying "In my heart of hearts" - wtf does that even mean?

It's supposed to mean you are speaking from the bottom of your soul but generally is accepted as meaning I'm gonna pull this one outta my arse throw it at the wall and see if it sticks. Same theory applies with, "in all honesty."

If you really need to preface an opinion with a statement validating your sincerity, you can bet it's completely fabricated hogwash.

"I'm in denial."

Truer words have rarely been spoken on Fox News...

pwhp_67: The Supreme Court upheld FOX's position that just because it was a news program didn't mean that they had to tell the truth. The case went all the way to SCOTUS after FOX fires a few people who made a stink about a segment FOX aired. They found out before the program went on that the info they had was a crock and wanted the piece pulled or at least updated. FOX liked the lie better and ran it. SCOTUS said that's fine, they have no obligation to report facts...

That was in the documentary The Corporation (new window). A Fox News affiliate in Florida was covering the effects of bovine growth hormone (rBGH) which was made by Monsanto. Monsanto threatened legal action and the pulling of their ads (which include products such as RoundUp and Splenda) from Fox, which caused the producers at the Fox News affiliate to cave. They told the reporters to rewrite the story, the reporters refused and were fired.

The reporters took the Fox News affiliate to court under the whistlerblower's protection act as they had proof from the Fox News affiliate's lawyer that they were fired in retaliation for not editing the story the way the producers wanted them to. They lost their whistlerblower claim as the court ruled that Fox News affiliate had no obligation to tell the truth when reporting the news.

Funny, I don't recall the outrage over these two?

skipsargent WTF is a lady boner???



A wide-on.

It is amazing to me that anyone takes FOX seriously.

How can you take seriously a 'news corporation' that employs Ann Coulter, Sean Hannnity, Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin??

Not to mention Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.

vernonFL: It is amazing to me that anyone takes FOX seriously.

How can you take seriously a 'news corporation' that employs Ann Coulter, Sean Hannnity, Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin??

Not to mention Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.

Don't forget Karl Rove.

mediablitz: Elzar: I noticed Hannity kept saying "In my heart of hearts" - wtf does that even mean?

He has his real heart in a lockbox?

Wait, he has a heart to begin with?

I watched a Fox news 'panel', and it was Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer and Mara Liason.

Who are they kidding? I mean, really?

GIS for "Lady Boner"

Eddie Adams from Torrance: Republicans: "He's a failed comedian"
Sane People: "Uh, he's had 30 year career that includes 3 Emmy awards and 5 best selling books"

Republicans: "He's just a partisan pundit with no qualifications"
Sane People: "Uh, he graduated cum laude from Harvard with a pol-sci degree. He also served as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government"

Republicans: "That Stewart Smalley guy sucks and is teh ghey"
Sane People: "Uh, that's just a character he plays"

Republicans: "Tax Cheat!11!"
Sane People: "Uh, he just hired a bad accountant and paid the taxes to the wrong state, a problem that he fixed"

Republicans: "LIBURL JEW BABY-EATER ARUGULA 9/11 AIR AMERICA!"
Sane People: Facepalm.

Also, apropos of nothing, here's Al Franken verbally slapping Ann Coulter.

Ahhhh, the sweet sound of victory. How it makes living worthwhile. :)

The "first vote tally" is an estimate.

They basically count all the easy votes to see if someone obviously won.

The real count doesn't happen until the recount.

Your Faith is Creepy: Flab: Your Faith is Creepy: How come the FCC gets to levy huge fines over the broadcast of so-called "dirty" words, or the accidental exposure of a female breast, but says and does nothing about the deliberate daily dissemination of blatant falsehoods, misinformation and propaganda that is Faux News?

a) Because Fox News is a cable channel and the FCC has no control over it?
b) Because there are no laws that say that news have to be the truth.
c) is for cookies, and that's good enough for me.

All right, you got me on a). And b) is correct too; I just hate that they're allowed to continue calling it "news". But c), well, since you put it that way...

LOL.

I can't be the only person that wants to smack Beck every time he does that "look up" thing he does?

"BECK: This is like having me in the Senate. You don't want me as a senator. This is -- what is that? I mean --"

Finally. Something I can agree with him about.

I was discussing this with a conservative friend at work. First he said, he wouldn't vote for Al Franken, but he was elected.

Then I mentioned the Glen Beck quote. My friend said, "Let me corrent that, I wouldn't vote for Al Franken, unless he was running against Glen Beck."

holiday_inn_in_cambodia: GIS for "Lady Boner"

Oh great. Now that image will be in my mind whenever I hear, speak, or even think the words "Lady Boner".

Thanks. A LOT.

mediablitz: "BECK: This is like having me in the Senate. You don't want me as a senator. This is -- what is that? I mean --"

Finally. Something I can agree with him about.

I don't want that guy as Railroad Commissioner. I don't think he's mentally stable enough to work in the post office. God knows how he got on television

brigid_fitch: brigid_fitch: Your Faith is Creepy: How come the FCC gets to levy huge fines over the broadcast of so-called "dirty" words, or the accidental exposure of a female breast, but says and does nothing about the deliberate daily dissemination of blatant falsehoods, misinformation and propaganda that is Faux News?

FL Appellate Court Rules that FoxNews Can Legally Lie (new window)

It's a 1st Amendment issue. If any gov't agency interferes with any part of their broadcast just because it's untrue, then you get a state-run media.

Stupid link: Fark won't attach it, so you'll have to copypasta:
http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_ t o_misinform_public.html

Yeah but we are not saying the government imposes censorship we are saying courts laws against fraud, it's different.


If I sell you a bar of gold and you find out later it's a brick of iron that is painted gold can I say "Well the court has no right to define what 'gold' is?" "They are taking my 1st amendment away of free speech"?


There is a difference from censorship and someone lying saying something is true when they know it is not.

Those are two different things.

Three years to get it rolling - grassroots campaign people, we can make it happen!

Eddie Adams from Torrance: Republicans: "He's a failed comedian"
Sane People: "Uh, he's had 30 year career that includes 3 Emmy awards and 5 best selling books"

Republicans: "He's just a partisan pundit with no qualifications"
Sane People: "Uh, he graduated cum laude from Harvard with a pol-sci degree. He also served as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government"

Republicans: "That Stewart Smalley guy sucks and is teh ghey"
Sane People: "Uh, that's just a character he plays"

Finally, something we agree on. I say keep Gitmo open, if only for the whoever is responsible for that awful movie.

Here is Wilford's stump speech: "John McCain--the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be."

Would like a word with Captain Diabeetus:

Your Faith is Creepy: holiday_inn_in_cambodia: GIS for "Lady Boner"

Oh great. Now that image will be in my mind whenever I hear, speak, or even think the words "Lady Boner".

Thanks. A LOT.

/hands you brain bleach. Trust me, it's worth it.

When are our Democratic Party overlords going to finish their woldwide gloat-a-thon and actually start working?

JQPublic: When are our Democratic Party overlords going to finish their woldwide gloat-a-thon and actually start working?

Awesome, so now the Dems have done nothing. So everything is still the Republicans' fault. Got it.

al franken is a self-righteous douche and all, but... he still won. no shenanigans or red flags like florida '00 or Iran 1388. you can cry about his policies and whatever, but it's legit. sorry. now stfu and gbtw.
/same people who think obama was born in kenya. no credibility whatsoever.

Precious Roy's Horse Dividers: Here is Wilford's stump speech: "John McCain--the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be."

Would like a word with Captain Diabeetus:

wat?

RevMercutio: JQPublic: When are our Democratic Party overlords going to finish their woldwide gloat-a-thon and actually start working?

Awesome, so now the Dems have done nothing. So everything is still the Republicans' fault. Got it.

I'm confused. I thought that Darth Pelosi and Obama were ruining our country, and going to turn us into a Communist-Terrorist State with Socialized Medicine and forced abortions?

Which is it? They're not doing a damn thing, or they're ruining us with their excess? You can't have it both ways. Get your stories straight O Wing Nuts, and get back to us.

brainiac-dumdum: Precious Roy's Horse Dividers: Here is Wilford's stump speech: "John McCain--the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be."

Would like a word with Captain Diabeetus:

wat?

Wilford plagarized from Bret. That was his motto.

/sports entertainment wrestling reference

From the Wall Street Journal. It's like randomjsa got a copy editor.

Gretchen Carlson responded to Kilmeade by again falsely claiming that Coleman "won in the original election."

Isn't this the same woman who compared Ahmadinejad's "win" to Obama's? What a twat.

Jeff73: Three years to get it rolling - grassroots campaign people, we can make it happen!

Oh Hells no. Ben Stein is a funny guy, but I think he did enough damage with his defense of Nixon, thank you very much. That, and this little blurb:

On August 18, 2007, on Fox News Channel's Cavuto on Business, Stein appeared with other financial experts dismissing worries of a coming credit crunch. The lone dissenter was Peter Schiff, who predicted that the mortgage sector would create a crisis leading to massive recession, a view that produced laughter from the other experts. Stein strongly recommended investing in then-troubled financial institutions.

Ben Stein: The credit crunch is way overblown. The [financial institutions] are being given away; they're so unbelievably cheap...The subprime problem is a problem, but it's a tiny problem in the context of this economy...It's a buying opportunity, especially for the financials, maybe like I've never seen before in my entire life.

Peter Schiff: This is just getting started. It's not just subprimes. This is a problem for the entire mortgage industry. It's not just people with bad credit that committed to mortgages they couldn't afford. It's not just people with bad credit who are going to see their home equity vanish... This is going to be an enormous credit crunch...

Neil Cavuto: You must be a laugh-riot at parties.
(LAUGHTER)


Ben Stein: ...subprime is tiny. Subprime is a tiny, tiny blip.

Peter Schiff: It's not tiny. And again, it's not just subprime. It's the entire mortgage market.
Ben Stein: You're simply wrong about that... Defaults for the whole mortgage market are tiny.

Ben Stein: I think stocks will be a heck of a lot higher a year from now than they are now.

hubiestubert:
Oh Hells no. Ben Stein is a funny guy, but I think he did enough damage with his defense of Nixon, thank you very much. That, and this little blurb:

Well, in all fairness, Stein worked as a speechwriter for Nixon long before he was known as a comedy figure. Not a surprise.

Your_Huckleberry: They're probably still smarting over all the shots Franken has leveled at them over the years, especially Hannity. He might be nuts (Okay, he is nuts), but Al Franken savaged him in his books, you really think Hannity is going to let that go? Come on.

And really, if someone like Bill O'Reilly ran for and won office(I know,scary), you think Olbermann would cover it straight?

No, but I also don't think O'Reilly would do that. It would mean he risked losing. The man can't even stand being interviewed on NPR without pitching a hissy fit, he can't stand the cold harsh light of an election. He's comfortable where he is, on his show, able to cut off anyone who comes close to beating him in an argument.

IIRC the only person to ever get him to admit he might be wrong was. . . Al Franken.

JQPublic: When are our Democratic Party overlords going to finish their woldwide gloat-a-thon and actually start working?

Yeah when are they going to pass a stimulus package, climate change bill, turn over Iraq to the Iraqis, or fix health care.


Oh wait!

Your Faith is Creepy: How come the FCC gets to levy huge fines over the broadcast of so-called "dirty" words, or the accidental exposure of a female breast, but says and does nothing about the deliberate daily dissemination of blatant falsehoods, misinformation and propaganda that is Faux News?

I think I'll write Senator Franken's office and ask that he look into this.

Because Fox News is not broadcast on public airwaves and the FCC has no authority to look into it?

Why is it that people don't get this? Besides the major networks, the FCC has no power. The other channels are censored because they choose to be censored because they don't want people biatching to their advertisers. It has nothing to do with the FCC.

Plus, there's very few things you can do to make someone look sympathetic than sick the FCC on them.

Franken was a comedian. He is now a senator.

Franken was an Emmy winner. He is now a senator.

Franken was cum laude from Harvard. He is now a senator.

Limbaugh was an idiot. He is still an idiot.

Bonanza Jellybean

This literally made me giggle. Not laugh. Giggle.

JQPublic: When are our Democratic Party overlords going to finish their woldwide gloat-a-thon and actually start working?

Ladies and gentlemen, today's Republican Party. Tie up the election results in court for months, then complain that Al Franken isn't working hard enough.

kronicfeld: Bloody William: However, it's not so much that the court ruled that way than it's that FOX News basically went to court to defend their ability to lie.

What, they were just about to hand over a bunch of money in a lawsuit against them in which they had absolutely no legal liability whatsoever? What do you EXPECT them to do?

Not air a segment they know to be false?

WFern: Isn't this the same woman who compared Ahmadinejad's "win" to Obama's? What a twat.

I can't say I really like that word... but if I had to apply it to someone, she'd be that person. She's so... insipid.

It's funny, but there is a serious side: A lot of the young children of Fox News Channel hosts and crew got molested Tuesday night. So yes, it's amusing to watch the far right take it in the shorts, but let's not forget who these people take it out on.

AntiNerd: Franken was a comedian. He is now a senator.

Franken was an Emmy winner. He is now a senator.

Franken was cum laude from Harvard. He is now a senator.

Limbaugh was an idiot. He is still an idiot.

You forgot fat. Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot. And that is the real crux of the matter for folks. Is that a sacred and Oxycotin munching cow was skewered years ago by Franken in such a way that it was really hard to combat the charges made against him--since he used Limbaugh's own words. And worse, Franken did so without being a member of anyone's campaign, so there was only a trail back to Franken himself, and unfortunately, Limbaugh never saw fit to have him on the show to refute any of his claims.

What's going to be fun, is that now you have Al Franken possibly sponsoring legislation, and Kumar working for the Obama Administration. And the grim spectre of Jon Stewart just floating out there and no one is going to be so bold as to put him on their shows right now.

Sadly, the Democrats really do have the better comedians. Dennis Miller sort of lost his edge when he started swinging for the fences for the crazier sections of the Right Wing. Worse, they seem to be putting these folks to work, as opposed to trying to draft action stars...

propasaurus: I love this whole "Franken is angry, insane and stupid" meme they're trying to create.
Once again, the Rovian tactic of project your own faults onto your enemy.

Have you noticed wing nuts call anyone they don't like "angry"?

Obama's "angry."
Michelle Obama's "angry." Actually, in this link she's "an angry black harridan."
Sotomayor is "angry."
Barney Frank is "angry."
Pelosi is "angry."
Jon Stewart is "angry."
Rahm Emanuel is "angry."

They haven't been calling Hillary Clinton angry lately though. Dunno why.

I don't know how Jon Stewart got in there. I think I was looking for a link for someone else. Looking for "angry" as applied to liberal-leaning people is like finding rainbows at a NASCAR race.

Lumi: I don't know how Jon Stewart got in there.

Probably due to the assrape he gave Jim Kramer.

I_Hate_Iowa: From the Wall Street Journal. It's like randomjsa got a copy editor.

FTFA:

"What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were."

The WSJ needs copy editors. Or maybe just people who can spell. Or know their homonyms.

FFS, Rupert, piss out a few grand to hire one.