He explained that the conjecture from some in the mainstream that Fox News is somehow an arm of a political movement with contrived guests is incorrect.
“You think they say to you, ‘OK, you can have these guests on, you can’t have these guests on? You have to think this?’” Imus said. “What are you nuts? I mean, who thinks that?”
However, he ramped up his attack on one Fox News critic, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. In a few of her previous columns, Dowd has attacked Fox News for things said on two of Fox’s highly rated opinion programs – Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, failing to differentiate them between the actual news on Fox.
“Then I have to read this idiot, and she’s is a friend of mine, too, Maureen Dowd,” Imus said. “She takes an idiotic shot at Fox News, talking about things that Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck may say about the President. Well, those are opinion programs. That is not Fox News. Just a gratuitous, stupid shot. … And by the [way], Maureen is getting long in the tooth to be referring to girlfriends, OK sweetheart?” Imus continued. “Coming up on 60 years old, they are not going to the mall.”
Don’tcha just love it? Imus knows where his bread is buttered, but I believe he has more respect for ALL of Fox News, because EVERYONE at Fox News defended his free-speech rights during the Rutgers’ scandal with race-pimp, Al Sharpton.
Tuesday night on the Special Report panel, Charles Krauthammer weighed in on Obama’s dithering on Afghanistan while our troops are left to wonder what their mission is, fighting druglords, and wondering why their Commander in Chief won’t send them backup while they are dying in record numbers.
Obama, you’re really pissing me off with this one. I have friends in A-stan and they REALLY need backup! They dare not speak aloud of their disapproval of you, and that is another factor that feeds their frustration. At least Bush had the balls to stand behind our troops. You, sir, don’t have the nutsack to do what is right and necessary, as requested by your hand-picked commander, Gen. McChrystal. You told a bunch of Navy men & women in Jacksonville this week that you wouldn’t put them in harm’s way until it was absolutely necessary.
Hey, B-Ho… do you even know what our military men and women understand about their service? How many of those men and women at that event that day were secretly dying inside WANTING to be sent over there to help their brothers and sisters? You have absolutely no clue about the American military’s code of honor, and you are selling them short. They WANT to be in the fight, and they want to protect their own – something you obviously don’t. I’m beginning to believe, B-Ho, that you have an abject disdain FOR our troops! If you don’t, it damn sure seems like it. Unfortunately, they are paying the price for your political pandering and indifference for them and their families.
I’ve purposefully captured the majority of this video from Beck’s show today because other liberal sites are already selectively pulling out the “generation of would-be killers” segment. I want you to see/hear Beck’s argument en toto so you know the context.
I agree with Beck that we’ve raised a generation of whiner cry-babies who think they have everything coming to them, without any question or merit. Should we choose to continue down this path, our future generations will be unable to provide for themselves or their children, much less their aging parents should that be an issue for them.
Exit question/request for Beck-haters: Can you please refute one piece of Glenn’s stance on this issue from today’s show? I, too, want a simpler explanation to a question that sadly I know all-to-clearly has no simple response. I was brought up in the age of consequences for my actions, and I never received awards nor accolades that I did not earn or deserve. That’s what’s wrong with this new generation growing up today; dare I say the “Obama voters” we know all too well.
I am in my own personal position because of decisions I made in my life, so why should the new generation of folks be expecting anything different? The time for blaming others is over. You have to take responsibility for your behaviors, while also accepting praise for your successes should that be the case. You succeed because of YOUR actions; not because of the actions of the community.
The sooner folks realize that we as individuals are solely responsible for our futures, the better off we will be as a nation. Otherwise, Americans will constantly look to the Nanny State government to bottle-feed them, send them to school, and wipe their asses.
Today Glenn Beck interviewed Independent candidate for New York’s 23rd Congressional District, Doug Hoffman.
No need to editorialize here, but Beck’s right on – it’s time for principles over party; that’s the only way we’ll change Washington.
To all those in New York’s 23rd district, GO VOTE FOR DOUG – it’s a vote for conservative values! And PLEASE to everyone all around the country…go donate to Doug’s campaign so he can fight the ACORN-backed, Planned Parenthood-supporting ‘Republican’ candidate, Dede Scozzafava.
And SHAME on Newt Gingrich and other GOPers for standing behind this Rino.
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Listen…I’m no fan of Obama, and like Mark Levin, I’d vote for a can of orange juice before I’d vote for Obama in 2012. Somewhere along the way, just because our president is black, videos like this are becoming more mainstream and more acceptable on YouTube and other sites, and it should not be.
This is tastleless to the n’th degree, but if it’s okay for black people to do this, how is anything ANY of the Republican candidates do remotely deemed racist at all?
If this country ever truly wants to progress and become a more civilized nation, why is trash like this even tolerated? I’m not asking for this garbage to be censored, but I’d love to see at least SOME condemnation of things like this to be more prevalent. Can we please all agree this is unacceptable in a civilized world? You cannot condemn one group of people for being allegedly “racist” while simultaneously approving of another group of people for creating videos such as this, villifying a single race of people in the process of glorifying the creators of these videos? One need only search certain terms on YouTube to find thousands of videos like this one. And they’re all equally disgusting.
What say you, Eugene Robinson, Goldie Taylor, Donna Brazile, Marc Lamont Hill, etc., etc.? I’m waiting for you all to openly condemn videos like this on YouTube. If you don’t, then I have no reason to listen to your small and petty complaints of racism from Fox News, Republicans as a whole, and GOP candidates in the 2012 primary. Your silence about videos like this are tacit approval of them.
As is said in many places, “hilarity ensues” (h/t Mediaite):
Frances Martel does a fabulous write-up about it, and I couldn’t have said it any better, so here it is direct from the Mediaite post:
“Are you offended?” O’Reilly asked Harpootlian, who replied that he was not, but that he found the fact that Republicans had “no outreach to African Americans” a problem “in a state where we have an African-American Republican Congressman.” “Adding insult to injury, this debate ignoring Martin Luther King’s birthday!” he added, which made O’Reilly ask who was ignoring the debate and why. The Republicans, Harpootlian replied, because “no one has raised any issue with Fox about it being appropriate or inappropriate.”
O’Reilly then asked whether there was a reason for this– namely, something that happened in 2008. Harpootlian did not remember what happened in 2008 (a Democratic primary debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and who sponsored it (the Congressional Black Caucus), which prompted several awkward seconds where Harpootlian was obviously caught flat-footed. With this development, O’Reilly then told him that, “by injecting race into this, you do a disservice.” Harpootlian finally replied, blaming Republicans for injecting race into the matter by calling this “the most important election since 1860.” “We in the South have a little different version of that election,” he noted, suggesting that talking to Southerners in such a way was a sort of dog whistle. O’Reilly disagreed and just asked Harpootlian to give it up, adding, “you’re getting killed here!”
Today on Neil Cavuto, radio talk show host and constitutional scholar, Mark Levin was on to discuss his new book, “Ameritopia.”
Levin’s previous book, “Liberty and Tyranny” was a best-seller, as was another book before that titled, “Men in Black.” “Liberty and Tyranny” is a must-read for anybody who wants to know how we got to the point where we are in America today.
I’ve been stewing on this and stewing on this figuring out the right way to convey how I feel about it, and I’ve been struggling with just the right words to describe my sentiment. I read a fabulous screed by Deebow over at BlackFive, but it wasn’t until I saw the headline in a Weekly Standard piece today that quoted Lt. Col. Allen West (R-FL) on this matter. I couldn’t have said it better myself:
‘Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell’
Yes, you got that right. Congressman West has weighed in on this flap over the Marines taking a piss on dead Taliban terrorists, sending an email to the Weekly Standard, who got his permission to print what he said. Here’s a portion of his commentary:
“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?
“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
I’m not even quite sure that what the Marines did was wrong, but since when in the hell did we become so indignant and self-righteously outraged about treating killers like they deserve to be treated? Sure, they probably shouldn’t have videotaped what they did, but who the hell cares? And don’t give me this “don’t stoop to their level” B.S. either. Until you have been in the shoes of our warriors, or our first responders (cops, firefighters, etc.), or, heck, even ever been a crime victim yourself, you have no idea what you would do, given the same circumstances.
Dedicated_Dad: It HAS been going on long before King O'bummer, but has really kicked into OVERDRIVE since his coronation.
It has spiked just like every OTHER negat...
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First Amendment, beeeyotch!
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Fake_ear: If Chris did this he would be guilty of assault and battery, but he didn't. Looks to me like Fox, O'Reilly, and Kyle have opened themselves up to a m...
