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		Fox News reporter goes on O'Reilly and calls Obama supporters "zombies." Then he finds out that political campaign donation records are public. Hilarity ensues (politico.com)		44
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what_now		2012-12-11 11:49:51 AM

8 votes:

Obama's reelection is the best possible thing that could happen to Fox personalities.

hbk72777		2012-12-11 02:31:56 PM

7 votes:

Researcher: The average radio listener listens for eighteen minutes. The average Howard Stern fan listens for - are you ready for this? - an hour and twenty minutes.
Pig Vomit: How can that be?
Researcher: Answer most commonly given? "I want to see what he'll say next."
Pig Vomit: Okay, fine. But what about the people who hate Stern?
Researcher: Good point. The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day.
Pig Vomit: But... if they hate him, why do they listen?
Researcher: Most common answer? "I want to see what he'll say next."

Now I know why FOX has the ratings it does

Peter von Nostrand		2012-12-11 11:53:22 AM

7 votes:

Its almost as if Fox is prepackaged BS to keep old white people scared and uninformed

Deucednuisance		2012-12-11 02:43:45 PM

6 votes:

ampoliros: you have to tow the company line

TOE, Goddamit!

www.phrases.org.uk

Those red lines, right there. You can put your toe up to that line but not cross it.

It's "toe" for fark's sake!

browntimmy		2012-12-11 02:56:41 PM

5 votes:

I genuinely believe 24-hour news channels are rotting more brains than cartoons or video games ever did.

toraque		2012-12-11 12:30:43 PM

5 votes:

This is actually not very surprising, considering what happened to me last week. I was out shopping for bath towels when a campaign fundraiser guy started demanding I contribute to getting Romney elected, only the election was already over and Obama won. Don't you know it's over, I said, but he kept growling and tugging at my bath towels and hissing at me. Let it go, man, I said, but I think people all around me misunderstood because people were screaming and stampeding and pointing at him, and then Animal Control showed up because apparently he wasn't a republican, he was a rabid wolverine that had somehow gotten 'Romney 2012' stickers all over him and the next thing I know I'm in the hospital with shredded bath towels and needles sticking in me everywhere. It wasn't much fun.

So yeah, I can totally see this happening.

make me some tea		2012-12-11 10:34:57 AM

5 votes:

Of course. These people are actors.

HotWingConspiracy		2012-12-11 02:50:22 PM

4 votes:

mark12A: The fact that Fox News is dissident news drives the MSM batty.

Yeah that MSM sure had egg on its face on election night when everything they predicted came to pass. Fox getting it completely wrong and having a pig man have a pants-shiatting tantrum on live tv just drove them insane.

dracos31		2012-12-11 02:49:02 PM

4 votes:

CygnusDarius		2012-12-11 02:38:08 PM

4 votes:

doubled99		2012-12-11 02:39:46 PM

3 votes:

So even though he supported Obama, he still can't criticize him or democrats in general?

Makes sense.

Hey, Libs and Cons, keep having your little pissing contest together while you both fark the whole country!

Karac		2012-12-11 02:35:57 PM

3 votes:

hbk72777: Researcher: The average radio listener listens for eighteen minutes. The average Howard Stern fan listens for - are you ready for this? - an hour and twenty minutes.
Pig Vomit: How can that be?
Researcher: Answer most commonly given? "I want to see what he'll say next."
Pig Vomit: Okay, fine. But what about the people who hate Stern?
Researcher: Good point. The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day.
Pig Vomit: But... if they hate him, why do they listen?
Researcher: Most common answer? "I want to see what he'll say next."

Now I know why FOX has the ratings it does

There's a flaw in that arguement. By the time you've listened to Limbaugh, Beck, or Hannity for 18 minutes you've pretty much heard their whole spiel for the rest of the week.

At least the rest of the week.

The Jami Turman Fan Club		2012-12-11 02:33:10 PM

3 votes:

One week after the 2012 election, Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters told Bill O'Reilly that Obama voters were "zombies" who supported the president "as long as there was Obamacare, gay marriage and abortion on demand."

And we get out of Afghanistan...yeah. I'm going to support him on the other issues because no matter how bad he is (SOPA, USAPATRIOT, etc.) he can't be any worse than the Republicans.

thismomentinblackhistory		2012-12-11 11:24:16 AM

3 votes:

Anybody find his ManHunt profile yet?

Corvus		2012-12-11 02:59:36 PM

2 votes:

When a co-dependent woman is shown by others that their husband is a liar, instead of getting mad at her husband they will instead get mad at the person giving her that information that her husband is a liar and more desperately cling to her lying husband.

Lets see how a Fox News fan takes this news:

mark12A: Whoop-di-freakin'-do. The rest of the MSM are overwhelmingly Democratic and give their contributions to the Democratic party, as well as suppress stories unfavorable to their Obamessiah.

It is without question that Fox News is rightwing. And the entire rest of the media is in the tank for the Democrats. The fact that Fox News is dissident news drives the MSM batty. They *thought* they had total control of the media spin until Fox news showed up.

Wow it's the same exact way!

lordjupiter		2012-12-11 02:56:58 PM

2 votes:

How farking hilarious is it that the Foxers STILL show up in every thread about how full of shiat Fox is and complain about the supposed "MSM" and how Fox is a shining beacon of truth?

Do they put mercury in Chik-fil-a or something?

Corvus		2012-12-11 02:53:36 PM

2 votes:

mark12A: Whoop-di-freakin'-do. The rest of the MSM are overwhelmingly Democratic and give their contributions to the Democratic party, as well as suppress stories unfavorable to their Obamessiah.

It is without question that Fox News is rightwing. And the entire rest of the media is in the tank for the Democrats. The fact that Fox News is dissident news drives the MSM batty. They *thought* they had total control of the media spin until Fox news showed up.

What the fark are you talking about? That has nothing to do with the point. This person is obviously saying stuff on fox news not because he believes it to be true but that's what they expect him to say.

You sound like a crazy person.

unexplained bacon		2012-12-11 02:52:45 PM

2 votes:

doubled99: So even though he supported Obama, he still can't criticize him or democrats in general?

Makes sense.

Hey, Libs and Cons, keep having your little pissing contest together while you both fark the whole country!

I love it when 'above it all' farkers show up to chastise the finger pointing and acrimony on the politics tab by acrimoniously pointing fingers.

rufus-t-firefly		2012-12-11 02:51:21 PM

2 votes:

doubled99: So even though he supported Obama, he still can't criticize him or democrats in general?

No, we shouldn't listen to him because he's a zombie.

He says Obama supporters are zombies.

He's an Obama supporter.

Therefore, he's a zombie.

So we shouldn't listen to him.

CapeFearCadaver		2012-12-11 01:38:29 PM

2 votes:

Thus further confirming that Fox shills are Trollolios.

brap		2012-12-11 12:04:55 PM

2 votes:

Ever had the feeling you've been cheated?

L.D. Ablo		2012-12-11 11:54:04 AM

2 votes:

Weaver95		2012-12-11 11:42:11 AM

2 votes:

look, hating Obama is just his day job. off hours he likes the guy well enough to vote for him. or give him money anyways.

Lucky LaRue		2012-12-11 11:17:50 AM

2 votes:

He also attended a party at Brown University

mongbiohazard		2012-12-11 07:52:25 PM

1 votes:

mark12A: Whoop-di-freakin'-do. The rest of the MSM are overwhelmingly Democratic and give their contributions to the Democratic party, as well as suppress stories unfavorable to their Obamessiah.

It is without question that Fox News is rightwing. And the entire rest of the media is in the tank for the Democrats. The fact that Fox News is dissident news drives the MSM batty. They *thought* they had total control of the media spin until Fox news showed up.

Fox News is the most viewed News network. They have three times the viewers of any other cable news channel. They literally ARE the mainstream media. Fox. They are not dissenters, they are the industrialized mainstream news organ of our time.

Lee Jackson Beauregard		2012-12-11 04:16:51 PM

1 votes:

mark12A: The rest of the MSM are overwhelmingly Democratic and give their contributions to the Democratic party,

[Citation needed]
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More_Like_A_Stain		2012-12-11 04:02:27 PM

1 votes:

mark12A: It's nice to see that Obama's landslide electoral victory hasn't changed Hannity's talking points.

It was *not* a "landslide"

Reagan/Mondale? Now that's some good landslide...

It was bigger than the projected landslide.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/romney-landslide-here-are-the-biggest - names-predicting-it-how-it-will-happen/

/ ctrl-F for "landslide" = 4 returns in main article.

jst3p		2012-12-11 04:01:55 PM

1 votes:

Relatively Obscure: So... What hilarity ensued?

It must be boring going through life without the intellectual capacity to see why this is funny.

unexplained bacon		2012-12-11 03:50:07 PM

1 votes:

doubled99: Isitoveryet Smartest
Funniest
2012-12-11 03:07:44 PM

Jedekai: I'd be all for a Libertarian (which I am. Mostly.) News Channel...

...but it'd just feature four people staring, mouths agape at what The Fine And Upstanding Among Us (Whom We Put In Office) falls out of their mouths.

Then they'd slam their heads against their desks until unconscious.

but there's no T.V. in Libertarian paradise, i don't think... who finances that?

Few things here are more amusing than people mocking others for thinking.

"Ooooh, you think all different and shiat. Got some "new ideas" about how do get stuff, done, eh?.
Things have always been this way, and they're always gonna be this way. What's your fancy ass "third party " gonna do?!?" Dumbasses!"

/btw-how does Liberal Paradise and Conservative Paradise work? Figured they'd be a little closer by now what with all the time in charge.

libertarian ideas aren't new, they're outdated long ago shed bad ideas.

/spent a couple years in my 20s as a libertarian. just a phase.

ThrobblefootSpectre		2012-12-11 03:41:45 PM

1 votes:

Corvus: You said you saw no conflict. But back peddle on what you said, I'll let you.

I don't see any conflict in my position. No backpeddling at all. :) Stop being so frustrated about it.

nevirus		2012-12-11 03:21:24 PM

1 votes:

mark12A: It is without question that Fox News is rightwing. And the entire rest of the media is in the tank for the Democrats.

Since you watch Fox News so religiously, every other media outlet appears biased to you. It's an "afterbias" that only appears to Fox News viewers. They've spent so much time viewing the heavy Fox News bias that the rest of the world seems biased to them.

A similar thing happens if you stare too long at the color yellow. When you look away, the world appears blue. It's not that the world is actually blue, but just that you've spent too much time staring at yellow.

Try turning off Fox News for a couple of weeks and see if that changes your perspective.

Wayne 985		2012-12-11 03:13:33 PM

1 votes:

HotWingConspiracy: mark12A: The fact that Fox News is dissident news drives the MSM batty.

Yeah that MSM sure had egg on its face on election night when everything they predicted came to pass. Fox getting it completely wrong and having a pig man have a pants-shiatting tantrum on live tv just drove them insane.

I wish I could "Funny" this twice.

foxyshadis		2012-12-11 03:06:17 PM

1 votes:

toraque: This is actually not very surprising, considering what happened to me last week. I was out shopping for bath towels when a campaign fundraiser guy started demanding I contribute to getting Romney elected, only the election was already over and Obama won. Don't you know it's over, I said, but he kept growling and tugging at my bath towels and hissing at me. Let it go, man, I said, but I think people all around me misunderstood because people were screaming and stampeding and pointing at him, and then Animal Control showed up because apparently he wasn't a republican, he was a rabid wolverine that had somehow gotten 'Romney 2012' stickers all over him and the next thing I know I'm in the hospital with shredded bath towels and needles sticking in me everywhere. It wasn't much fun.

So yeah, I can totally see this happening.

That's what happens when you shop at Bed, Bath Salts, and Beyond.

make me some tea		2012-12-11 02:52:27 PM

1 votes:

Spade: make me some tea: Of course. These people are actors.

Yup. They all are.

Seriously, O'Reilly, anti-gun farkwad that he is, is really a very smart guy. Harvard I believe. He could easily and honestly debate everybody on his show.

But he knows shouting and controversy gets viewers. Hell, I know more lefties that watch his show than righties so they can get mad about something.

Stop watching TV news. It's bad for you.

The Harvard thing is questionable. From the Wiki:

In 1995, having established himself as a national media personality, O'Reilly was accepted to Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; he received a Master of Public Administration in 1996.[25]

Anyway, it seems every time he goes up against Jon Stewart, Stewart wipes him out. His tried-and-true method for "winning" debates is to intimidate his opponent, which isn't really winning.

Ctrl-Alt-Del		2012-12-11 02:48:05 PM

1 votes:

mark12A: Liberal media Democrat Party Obamessiah.

It's nice to see that Obama's landslide electoral victory hasn't changed Hannity's talking points.

/you forgot "Bengahzi"

halfof33		2012-12-11 02:47:35 PM

1 votes:

At the $500 donor level, you were placed on certain campaign distribution lists that included information not generally disclosed to the general public, which a media organization could monitor to determine if there was anything newsworthy.

I myself have used this same tactic in local elections, and would forward the Dear Valued Doner e-mails to my guy's campaign.

Of course I did not give $500 bucks.

Spade		2012-12-11 02:45:17 PM

1 votes:

make me some tea: Of course. These people are actors.

Yup. They all are.

Seriously, O'Reilly, anti-gun farkwad that he is, is really a very smart guy. Harvard I believe. He could easily and honestly debate everybody on his show.

But he knows shouting and controversy gets viewers. Hell, I know more lefties that watch his show than righties so they can get mad about something.

Stop watching TV news. It's bad for you.

birdboy2000		2012-12-11 02:40:49 PM

1 votes:

What will Fox keep people terrified about and glued to their TV screens if a white Republican is president? Complaining about congressional dems just doesn't give the ratings.

Zerochance		2012-12-11 02:39:50 PM

1 votes:

Well, that's pretty "Fair and Balanced©" IMO - you trash a guy in public, but donate money to him on the sneak. That's FOX News material indeed.

SN1987a goes boom		2012-12-11 02:37:11 PM

1 votes:

This is why people think Fox News viewers have lower IQs, because this kind of shiat just flies right over their heads.

Wayne 985		2012-12-11 02:34:14 PM

1 votes:

Mugato: what_now: Obama's reelection is the best possible thing that could happen to Fox personalities.

Really, Rush Limbaugh and all those other assholes too. It's like The Joker couldn't exist without Batman.

"You just couldn't turn me off, could you? You won't shut this channel down out of some misplaced sense of self righteousness... And I won't vote against you, because... you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever."

Taylor Mental		2012-12-11 02:33:03 PM

1 votes:

Seems like a reasonable gratuity.

TV's Vinnie		2012-12-11 02:30:40 PM

1 votes:

Ahhhhguh hur hurgglh hur hur hur hur hurllgh

Mugato		2012-12-11 11:51:52 AM

1 votes:

what_now: Obama's reelection is the best possible thing that could happen to Fox personalities.

Really, Rush Limbaugh and all those other assholes too. It's like The Joker couldn't exist without Batman.

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