Zerochance: I just found out one of the hot girls here at work is a Tea Partier and avid Breitbart reader.

She has immediately become exponentially less attractive.

/yes, I'm petty.

Nothing petty about that at all. Otherwise hot people can instantly become real dogs when everything out of their mouth is complete and utter shiat.

Conman: I read this yesterday and was pretty amazed. I'm not sure that the equal time is still in effect (although I don't know it isn't. I just know that the right wing radio brigade has been complaining for 3 years that Obama is going to reinstate the equal time rule), but I do know that Hannity doesn't claim to be news, Fox doesn't claim that Hannity is news, yet he's had Romney on a dozen times at least.

If I were Fallon, I'd be happy to invite Romney to slow play the news.

The Fairness Doctrine doesn't count for Fox even if they actually WERE news, since the FCC doesn't regulate cable the way it does broadcast. It's how Fox has been able to get away with their totally slanted partisan bullshiat, but it's also why we're starting to see stuff on cable with harsh language, violence and some nudity. I'm not even sure if they're actually required to use the content rating system, or if it's a self regulation/voluntary thing.

Besides, it doesn't matter anyway, since Romney isn't the actual GOP candidate officially yet, and Obama isn't the official Dem candidate yet. This should be a story about which primary candidate got unfair amounts of exposure on the broadcast networks at this int, and nothing more, but Breitbart wouldn't know the law if it gave them a free lapdance.

The My Little Pony Killer: Quasar: The My Little Pony Killer: Why is Fark still linking to Breitbart? The man is dead, let his echo-chamber pass into obscurity already.

You know how when people die, they can still fart? Basically this.

You'd think after a while the farting would stop though.

There's a mathematical formula out there somewhere that directly links the size of the blowhard in life to the amount of post mortem farting that will occur. Unfortunately, the solution I get says that this farting will continue for quite awhile, since Brietbart was such a blowhard. years, maybe...

What isn't being widely reported, understandably, is that less than 2 months after Andrew Breitbart's death, his "empire" is in total disarray. Abject embarrassments such as the much mocked "Obama: The Vetting" series (hastily discontinued), the fake Bono debacle and countless ignorant pieces such as Shapiro's have resulted in very angry investors and advertisers wondering what the hell is going on. Reportedly Breitbart staffers aren't exactly rising to the occasion; editorial meetings have been dissolving into angry shouting matches and finger-pointing. Prominent conservative bloggers such as Michelle Malkin and Powerline will not link to Breitbart stories anymore and conservative media outlets will not book Breitbart writers as guests.

DeltaPunch: Where do they get this energy from? Obama holds is fork in the wrong hand and they go into full-blown atomic butt-rage, every. single. day.

I mean, it's almost impressive....

Gotta keep moving from nontroversy to nontroversy before people have time to think about just what they're outraged about. If you have time to stop and think then you might just lose some respect for the GOP.

I didn't undertand the point of the headline until I found a picture of the author.



Uncanny

Bottled directly from the source...

Zerochance: I just found out one of the hot girls here at work is a Tea Partier and avid Breitbart reader.

She has immediately become exponentially less attractive.

/yes, I'm petty.

I know you're happily married and all, but you just shot to the top of my 'most respected man on the internet' list.

You are anything but petty, and your wife is a fortunate female. :)

oldass31: Isn't it only a violation of the law if the Jimmy Fallon show doesn't offer an allowance of equal opportunity to the remaining candidates, Romney, Gingrich, and Paul? It's seems to me the author is jumping the gun here by claiming it's already a violation... Besides, didn't Romney do something like this on the Jay Leno show? I don't remember people complaining about that.

Yeah, it's not like he could simultaneously air both of them.

And the reason nobody complained about Romney if he appeared on Leno? Because only the Right is this DerpTastic.

Word to the wise, don't GIS "Rowsdower rule 34".

/I don't really know why I did that, or what I was expecting.

TimSTP: What isn't being widely reported, understandably, is that less than 2 months after Andrew Breitbart's death, his "empire" is in total disarray. Abject embarrassments such as the much mocked "Obama: The Vetting" series (hastily discontinued), the fake Bono debacle and countless ignorant pieces such as Shapiro's have resulted in very angry investors and advertisers wondering what the hell is going on. Reportedly Breitbart staffers aren't exactly rising to the occasion; editorial meetings have been dissolving into angry shouting matches and finger-pointing. Prominent conservative bloggers such as Michelle Malkin and Powerline will not link to Breitbart stories anymore and conservative media outlets will not book Breitbart writers as guests.

That really isn't much of a shock. Outlets like Breitbart need someone at the helm keeping things under control while still being able to promote the derp. I imagine if Roger Ailes suddenly died FOXNews would have similar issues.

White People Citizen's United like this:
:)

Fascist, Socialist, Muslim Usurpers Citizen's United like this:
⋹/:-(

Don't they pretty much give wide berth to what counts as a "news interview" for these purposes? I remember back in 2003 that they were not going to allow Arnold to go on Howard Stern's show, but then they were able it get it classified as a "news interview" show. Same with other late night talk shows. If people want to complain these aren't really news interviews, then go ahead, but don't just get pissy because it's Obama and he's doing a segment where folks talk all like them urban people.

I think Mitt should be forced to slow jam the news.

*adds "Troy McGreggor" to the list of douchebags shilling for the GOP who "got nuthin'".

Now with picture goodness



KNOW 'EM? HE WAS DELICIOUS!

Conman: I read this yesterday and was pretty amazed. I'm not sure that the equal time is still in effect (although I don't know it isn't. I just know that the right wing radio brigade has been complaining for 3 years that Obama is going to reinstate the equal time rule), but I do know that Hannity doesn't claim to be news, Fox doesn't claim that Hannity is news, yet he's had Romney on a dozen times at least.

If I were Fallon, I'd be happy to invite Romney to slow play the news.

Since I don't recall Faux News having Obama in studio, much less as many times as they've had RMoney on, I guess they're in violation a few dozen times over eh?

And wasn't RMoney trying to get on SNL?

Does this mean his wifebot has to go on iCarly now and RMoney has to go on Mythbusters to see just how androids work?

Make up your minds right whiners, do you want to bring back the fairness act or not?

/not arguing with you, just using your post as a jumping off point

lennavan: The equal time rule states that if a licensee permits a person "who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station."

I'm sure Jimmy Fallon would be more than happy to have Mitt Romney on his program. Problem solved.

Except for the whole GOP killing the fairness doctrine (see FauxNews, Rush, et al) this rule no longer applies thing...

WizardofToast: jehovahs witness protection: I can't wait until Obama is out of the White House so we don't have to listen to this shiat anymore.

If a Democrat wins in 2016, you may as well shut off all contact with the outside world.

And nothing of value would be lost.

Bag of Hammers: The My Little Pony Killer: Why is Fark still linking to Breitbart? The man is dead, let his echo-chamber pass into obscurity already.

Breitbart dies and yet his festering zombie anus continues to pucker and shower us with fecal nuggets of maggot-ridden derp, lovingly dropped directly into the mouths of a waiting Drew and his Modmins to passionately chew up and try to spit into our mouths like some Whiskey soaked, welfare decrying, food stamp collecting, trailer slut-Hillbilly Mama bird trying to feed her baby tax right-offs.

Well, so much for lunch.

sigdiamond2000: Altair: Anyone posting about anything oher than Rowsdower is doing it wrong.

[zaprowdoser]

Rebochan: And just where the hell does Canada get off sharing a border with countries far superior to it?

(..."must disguise our hate!")

Why, you lousy, stinking, anglophonic, bacon-hating bastard, your country's just a giant piece of sh...

****CARRIER LOST*****

I don't know if it violated campaign laws, but it certainly was a violation.

So this just means Romney can get 5 minutes on Leno or Saturday Night Live... it's only in violation of equal time if such time is denied to other candidates. I don't see a stipulation that implies Republicans have to get their time first.

Disapproves

The thread may be a little stale right now, but a couple points should be made:

The Fairness Doctrine and Equal Time regulations are not the same thing. The former has indeed been eliminated and was in fact the target of a recent right-wing scare campaign, but it was broader in scope and really not a great law in the first place. It applied to equal time given to viewpoints (as if there were actually "two sides" to any argument.) Equal Time applies to candidates for office, which is a different matter and is also current FCC/FEC regulation.

In other words, today I can run an anti-fracking news special, but I don't have to give time to the pro-fracking industry. But I can't host a one-hour special where Candidate A gets to give a speech from my newsdesk and Candidate B does not.

Just to clarify some misunderstandings driving the discussion in the thread.

I'll be voting for Obama and like Jimmy Fallon (enjoyed this segment immensely.) But I'm also a Comm Law geek and my eyebrows raised at the format and content.

Tor_Eckman: jehovahs witness protection: I can't wait until Obama is out of the White House so we don't have to listen to this shiat anymore.

When that time comes you'll just spend all of your time submitting crappy headlines about President Hillary instead.

You're not fooling anyone.

Well, at least we wont have to put up with the Hillary headlines until at least 2017

Liberal_With_a_Gun: [the-final-sacrifice.trailertheater.com image 480x360]
Disapproves

Eh, just shoot him in the butt so he bursts into flames.

Polyhazard: The thread may be a little stale right now, but a couple points should be made:

The Fairness Doctrine and Equal Time regulations are not the same thing. The former has indeed been eliminated and was in fact the target of a recent right-wing scare campaign, but it was broader in scope and really not a great law in the first place. It applied to equal time given to viewpoints (as if there were actually "two sides" to any argument.) Equal Time applies to candidates for office, which is a different matter and is also current FCC/FEC regulation.

In other words, today I can run an anti-fracking news special, but I don't have to give time to the pro-fracking industry. But I can't host a one-hour special where Candidate A gets to give a speech from my newsdesk and Candidate B does not.

Just to clarify some misunderstandings driving the discussion in the thread.

I'll be voting for Obama and like Jimmy Fallon (enjoyed this segment immensely.) But I'm also a Comm Law geek and my eyebrows raised at the format and content.

So, does the time Romney had on Leno last month count as equal time? Why or why not?

Polyhazard: The thread may be a little stale right now, but a couple points should be made:

The Fairness Doctrine and Equal Time regulations are not the same thing. The former has indeed been eliminated and was in fact the target of a recent right-wing scare campaign, but it was broader in scope and really not a great law in the first place. It applied to equal time given to viewpoints (as if there were actually "two sides" to any argument.) Equal Time applies to candidates for office, which is a different matter and is also current FCC/FEC regulation.

In other words, today I can run an anti-fracking news special, but I don't have to give time to the pro-fracking industry. But I can't host a one-hour special where Candidate A gets to give a speech from my newsdesk and Candidate B does not.

Just to clarify some misunderstandings driving the discussion in the thread.

I'll be voting for Obama and like Jimmy Fallon (enjoyed this segment immensely.) But I'm also a Comm Law geek and my eyebrows raised at the format and content.

Rationality and facts in my Fark politics thread?

[quizzicaldog]

Interesting gambit. I wish you well with it.

It's an important distinction to make here.

You're quite right "Obama wants to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine!" *is* a perennial favorite with the RW fearmongers.

Not quite as popular as "Obama's coming to get your guns!", of course, or "Obama wants to kill your grandmother personally!" but definitely on the same list.

nothing is obscure on fark

The My Little Pony Killer: Why is Fark still linking to Breitbart? The man is dead, let his echo-chamber pass into obscurity already.

This!

The fat fark is dead, may he rot in hell. Lets ignore this bastard child of his.

Altair: Anyone posting about anything oher than Rowsdower is doing it wrong.

OH I wish I was bombing Prince Edward Island
And going on to bomb Ontario!
The destruction of Canada and all of its culture
is by far my favOURITE scenario!

Just where the hell does Canada get off sharing a border
with countries far superior to it?
Why you lousy, stinking, Francophobic, bacon-loving bastards,
your country's just a giant piece of...

/rowsdower?
//I do like Canada, but I might love that song more

lennavan: The equal time rule states that if a licensee permits a person "who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station."

I'm sure Jimmy Fallon would be more than happy to have Mitt Romney on his program. Problem solved.

That's how they've always handled/solved this from a legal perspective. They invite everybody. They can't force Romney to show up.

Rebochan: And just where the hell does Canada get off sharing a border with countries far superior to it?

(..."must disguise our hate!")

You lousy, stinkin', Francophonic, bacon-lovin' bastards! Your country's just a giant piece of SHIAT!

/Yay Fark filter (!!)
//Yay Rowsdower thread
///Apologies if someone posted this already, I'm feeling hasty

Actually, it means the current President is:



/hotlink

Mitt Romney was already on Jay Leno on March 27, 2012.