Fox News 'is my favorite,' Lieberman declares
Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman isn't hiding his love for Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
In a Monday interview on Fox Business Network's Imus in the Morning, the senator from Connecticut declared that the Fox Business Network, Fox News and anything Murdoch owned were his "favorite."
Host Don Imus asked Lieberman if thought The New York Times should be prosecuted for reporting on secret State Department cables released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
"I don't know if you can prosecute The Times under existing Supreme Court decisions," Lieberman said. "But I'll tell you this, I wish The Times, just as an act of citizenship had said, 'No, we're not going to publish this stuff because it's going to do the country damage.'"
"I know they will probably will say once it goes up on the WikiLeaks website in the world you can't control it and they redacted, they blocked out some of the stuff in these cables," he continued. "But, you know, The New York Times, afterall, is The New York Times with all its stature and I wish this stuff had appeared somewhere else. I wouldn't be for prosecuting The Times, but I would say I wish they had shown better citizenship."
Lieberman then commended CNN for turning down the WikiLeaks documents because they were asked to sign a pledge of anonymity.
"Incidentally, I heard last night, I was watching CNN and Joe [Johns] was on and he was doing the 10 o'clock news show and he said that CNN had been offered these documents by Wikileaks or a third party, but had turned it down because they refused to sign a pledge granting the source anonymity, which The Times did. And I give CNN and whoever else turned it down credit for doing that. The New York Times' hands are dirty in this and they should have said 'no,'" Lieberman said.
"I hate CNN," Imus replied. "I wish you hadn't brought that up."
"I'm sorry about that! It just happened. But of course, really, Fox Business is my favorite and Fox generally, anything Rupert Murdoch owns," Lieberman confessed.
The liberal blog Think Progress first noticed Lieberman's comments to Imus.
The Connecticut senator may have good reason to love Fox News. During a tight 2006 Senate race, a volunteer for Ted Lamont accused the news channel of placing campaign signs for Lieberman in advance of an interview.
"All of a sudden, two or three out-of-state vans (accompanied by a Fox News crew) pull up and unload a bunch of Lieberman lawn signs, placed right in front of the Lamont signs that had already been planted," the volunteer said. "And, what do you know, after a few more minutes, who shows up but Joe himself, ready for the cameras."
Liberman and Imus: Two men hard to look at and even harder to listen to.
Obama not clocking Liberman for being a traitor to Progressives was his first mistake, emboldening Republicans.
The President clearly hasn't visited the parts of Chicago I work and live. When you are kind to thugs they think it's because you are weak.
Proof that LIEbermann is bought and paid for by global corporate interests. Thanks LIEbermann for eliminating any remaining doubt.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Yeah, but just let Lieberman try to get another term. The Democratic party in Connecticut doesn't want him, he can't run as an independent as the last time, and if he runs as a republican, they most certainly won't trust him. In fact, if he runs republican, he just might face off against a tea party candidate!
Everything Joe does is for the benefit of Joe. He knows he's out. He shopping for a job.
"Everything Joe does is for the benefit of Joe. And this is surprising about him how?
I would have to agree. Can't know for sure, of course, but it would make sense.
He's not likely to triumph in another Connecticut Senate contest, but these days, who cares? The real money and power come in the post-politician years, after you've done the bidding of your campaign donors. They reward you somehow with cushy positions.
The Religious Huckster got his own show on FUX. Sarah Pale-in-comparison-to-anyone got her own show on FUX. Why not Holy Joe Lie-to-Dems?
If not his own show, certainly a hefty contract to be a senior political analyst or something.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Joe expects to be US Senator (R-CT) in 2012.
This is the opening gambit of Joe's (official) transition to the GOP.
Lieberman likes Fox news because- you say the most ridiculous lie and the gullible viewers will believe you.
WOW, Lieberman and Imus, 2 dirtbags in the am, must've been a real ratings grabber for FauxBusinessNews
of when the base rose up and primaried this guy back into oblivion. A great moment in history.
Now it really IS news when this clown Senator Lamont defeated has the audacity to show up on a FOX news show, mention the competition, CNN, then backtrack and say he really loves FOX bestest of the best. Why Imus would even have him on is a mystery. That old yard sign rumor from a volunteer was over four years ago, back when he was still in the Senate. They dpon't owe him anything any more. Loserman.
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
NO ONE has ever stepped forward and said that JoeJoe Lieberwocky was the sharpest knife in the rack...
That means in street talk - Lieberman is an idiot.
WATCH: Simpsons mocks Fox News again: 'Unsuitable for viewers under 75' http://su.pr/63CE31
I belong to no organized political party -- I am a Democrat.
--Will Rogers
There is a term in the porn industry for this, it's called "fluffing". The French term is "fellatio".
this is news?!
Who's Ted Lamont?
that starred in "Cheers?"
or was it Best of the Base? No that was Ned Lamont.
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
Of course Liebman loves Fux. What other network licks his butt crack and pays him for the privilege?
far left loon >.<
5 minutes with Joe in a room.That's all I ask.
Oh-and a large mallet.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
*NED* Lamont ... just like his brother "Ted"? ;)
brothers, Red and Fred?
lieberman is a HOLE
of endless watery diarrhea.........
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ditto .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
I got your chicken soup right here, ya Schmuck's.
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
Will Connecticut finnaly give LIE-berman the BOOT along with the DEMOCRATS? He still has Obams Ear along with Emanual. How do we get Obama away from these people?
Hey it was my idea to give the Crypt Keeper his own news show
Deadline...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Good. He'll have plenty more time to tune in to FOX here in a couple more years. (that is, if the people of Connecticut choose not to screw themselves over - again)
I don't get mad...I get STABBY...
" but I would say I wish they had shown better citizenship."
you could say that about more than a few US companies....
for chasing the almighty dollar....
Leiberman, Imus, Rupert and Fox....
they all suck....
I can well understand why no one in the government approves of the Wikileaks. The more information made available to the American people about the shenanigans that our government goes through to justify its immoral wars, and illegal behavior the more we grow tired of it. So by all means, lets keep the American people in the dark because to illuminate our governments behavior only makes the people of this country stronger. To listen to this drivel about endangering our national security, merely makes me think about previous administrations who felt that to protect our national security we need to kill over 3,000 of our own military, kill hundreds of thousands of Muslims around the globe and God (and apparently Wikileaks) knows for sure. The New York Times has, for many years now, been the newspaper of record in this country. Now they want it to represent whatever news the conservatives see fit to print. The first amendment to the Constitution was designed to allow this sort of information to be given to the citizens of this country. So we could be aware of what is being done in our name. The ever delightful Sharron Angle pointed out that Thomas Jefferson stated that this country needed a good overthrow every 25 years. I am beginning to wonder.
Fux: the network of Lieberman, Murdoch, and Kristol serving the dark side for over a decade.
there is not two people who I would like to slap more than Imus and Lieberman. i realize this is my first post-i'm a dedicated C&L reader-but how can anyone not think Lieberman is a total douche?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
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