From a partial transcript, h/t Mediaite (I don’t know who did this transcript, but I tried to fix it as much as possible for spelling and punctuation errors.):
Barbara Walters: It’s why I sometimes have trouble here and don’t give my opinion because I’m also with ABC news. If you are a commentator and you’re giving opinions, you’re in one category.
Sherri Sheppard: Is that a pundit?
Walters: You can call it a pundit. If you are giving the news straight, you’re not supposed to give your opinions. Now, that’s changed so much. We’re in a whole other time now. Everybody has an opinion. If you don’t make more noise or scream louder or so on, you don’t get the ratings. So it is a funny blurred line. They said he’s a journalist, he’s a correspondent, and he’s not supposed to give opinions. But when he goes on another cable show like Fox and does it — so it’s a very blurry line. In the meantime, we hope he’ll come on with us and, if nothing else, give Joy and Whoopi 10%.
Sherri Sheppard: Bring your checkbook with you.
Joy Behar: I don’t need the money. But the thing of it is that NPR has been vetted by objective Media Matter type people and they have found that –
Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Media Matters?
Behar: I don’t know if it’s Media Matters. Maybe someone could find this out for me. They have found NPR is very balanced, unlike Fox, which is not balanced. Fox has now become the arm of the Republican Party.
Hasselbeck: That’s such a talking point, joy. It’s not true.
Behar: It is true.
Hasselbeck: It is not true.
Behar: People who are running for office are commentators on Fox.
This was classic Rove, and classic Schieffer, insofar as Bob picking and choosing what parts of a study and/or facts to include in a Q&A session. I don’t agree with everything Karl Rove does or says, but in this case, he’s spot on. And what does Bob do? Three times he says “let’s go back to my original question.” Excuse me, Bob, but some pretty formiddable and uncontrovertible facts were just thrown in your face, and you act like you didn’t hear them?
MY GOD, this man is pathetic. Face the Nation is an out-dated program with an out-dated anchor, and both should be put out to pasture to live out somewhat normal lives as they nurse their apparent Alzheimer’s.
But Fox? That’s just pure GOP propaganda. Sure, E.J. And the Washington Post is a bastion of “fair and balanced” news, as well. Oh, and yes, there are MANY people more conservative than David Brooke, E.J. Like… all of them.
The story of NPR’s firing of Juan is well known, as is Megyn Kelly’s take-down of CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper. CAIR and Ibrahim Hooper are just the same kind of race-pimps that we see in Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, NAACP and the like. The more they can keep their people down and dependent, the more they stand to profit. Dr. Jasser and men like Thomas Sowell are so far past the victimhood that is so pervasive in groups like the NAACP and CAIR. It’s refreshing to hear this discourse.
Only good things can come of this now-open dialogue. We cannot assuage our fears of Muslims in traditional garb on airplanes until Muslims themselves begin to admit it’s a Muslim problem and it has to be addressed in their community – fighting the extremists and destroying the Islamic theo-political ideology.
In case you’ve been on another planet the past couple of days, Juan Williams was recently fired from NPR for “offensive” comments he recently made on Fox News regarding having an uncomfortable fear of seeing Muslims in traditional garb, boarding airplaines he is aboard. Tonight, as promised, Juan Williams sat in for Bill O’Reilly. In Juan’s own “Talking Points Memo,” he took the fabulous opportunity to skewer his critics, most notably, NPR CEO & President, Vivian Schiller, for alluding to the idea that Juan might be “unstable” with her comment about him needing to work out this situation with his “psychiatrist” or his publicist.
Juan then proceeds to point out many other NPR staffers who are STILL in their employ, who have said far worse things than he ever has – only thing is, they denigrated conservatives, so that’s cool with NPR. Juan didn’t tow the liberal company NPR line, so he was tossed out. Oh, well, sucks to be NPR. But for Juan? He has two million reasons to be happy that he has a NEW contract with FNC; an employer who will actually have his back, and not jam him up when it’s politically expedient for the viewers.
And for those of you who say Ailes did the same thing? Remember, Juan was and is a liberal, and will ALWAYS be true to his liberal beliefs. He just now sees the light as to how the oh-so-tolerant Left can be.
Juan, you just increased your capital and cred ten-fold, and I’m happy to be able to continue to have you to watch on FNC. Yes, I’ll still be yelling at you in disagreement, but damnit, that’s what it’s supposed to be like – agree to disagree, but believe what you say, and say what you believe. Juan is one of those rare birds who will always be true to himself, therefore a proven asset for any company for whom he could work.
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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...
