It's hard to say what was more disgusting about this "awards ceremony" hosted by Brent Bozell's right wing rag, The Media Research Center; the horribly bad jokes or the blatant dishonesty with the better part of the clips that they showed that were highly edited and chopped together apparently for the entertainment of the audience there.
For anyone who's up to watching the entire thing it's posted on C-SPAN's site here -- Dishonors Awards Ceremony. Here's their description of the event:
The Media Research Center held its annual gala to roast media they feel show liberal bias with "DisHonor Awards." Ann Coulter, Neal Boortz, Andrew Klavan, and a Who's Who of national conservative leaders will participate in the 2011 Dis Honors awards roast hosted by Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center. The Outlaws will provide live entertainment and Cal Thomas will receive the William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence.
And of course what would one of these events be without giving Ann Coulter a chance to pretend she's still relevant and to spend some time trashing Keith Olbermann. Ann's criticism basically boiled down to calling Olbermann a girl, stupid, getting in a fat joke on Michael Moore and trashing his new upcoming show at Current TV. She also gave him credit for contributing to Scott Brown being elected after he did one of his special comments about him, as though the terrible campaign run by Martha Coakley had nothing to do with that. Yes folks, Keith Olbermann apparently is presonally responsible for Scott Brown being elected in Massachusetts because he did a special comment on him at MSNBC if you live in Ann Coulter and The Media Research Center's world.
Ann apparently also confused who was watching Olbermann's show on MSNBC when she said the only people watching him were right wing bloggers, to laugh at him. Sorry Ann, but the show on MSNBC where the ratings suck and it's left wing bloggers watching it to debunk the crap said there, is Morning Joe. Keith didn't go off the air because he lost his audience. He went off the air because he didn't want to be hamstringed by the management there once Comcast took the network over. And I would guess his new show will be every bit as relevant as Bozell's rag you're out there carrying water for during this event.
And to wrap this segment up, they brought on wingnut Rep. Steve King to accept the award for Olbermann, who apparently still has a craw stuck in his neck for being made one of his Worst Persons way too many times.
And a final note on this, can anyone imagine a liberal group doing anything even remotely similar to this without being absolutely savaged by the "mainstream media" for it? I can't.
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What the effitty-eff-eff?
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From their Wiki page -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN
C-SPAN is a non-profit organization, funded by the affiliate fees paid by its cable and satellite affiliates, and does not carry advertisements on any of its networks, radio stations or websites. The network operates independently, and neither the cable industry nor Congress has power over the content of its programming.
...is not paid for by tax dollars. It is funded by cable money. If you have cable and get C-SPAN then part of your money from your cable bill supports C-SPAN.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
C-Span is not supported by our tax dollars.
.. are you guys trying to tell me C-SPAN is not funded by our tax dollars?
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.. whew!
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they are hard core right wing,for sure.......f.a,i,r, needs to do a new study,and compare it to thre one from about 3-4 years ago.....the one that showed a 80-20 % of guests and time given to con-'tarian-right wing spin....and it seems as though its a right wing caller that ends every q&a,pathethic.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
be accused of liberal bias then. Oh wait, 20%. My bad.
Even when she is making a joke, she has to lie. Skelator Coulter claimed that she went to the Ivy League Cornell while Keith Olberman went to the non-Ivy League Agricultural school. In the day of iphones, i am sure that many in the audience knew that she was lying before she finished talking. A quick Google search reveals that while four of the seven colleges at Cornell are privately endowed and three, including ag., are state supported, they are all part of Cornell and they are all Ivy League.
I heard the same claims about Cornell not being a "real" Ivy League school because of its state funding when I was at a ritzy law school many years ago. It is simply one-up-manship.
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Of course not Heather. It's why they do this. They can get away with this. Who is going to stop them?
My only defense is to not watch, yours too. Honestly, I can't watch. I know just how painful conservative "humour" is.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Listen to these sewer rats and swine ? Hell no , what for ? So I have to take an extra blood pressure pill today ? No thanks .
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
And God knows that Steve King doesn't have any other pressing matters to attend to. After all it's only the little people who's lives are literally being destoyed.
Because the same people who keep them afloat are the same people who have consolidated the MSM.
A pox on them all.
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I don't get it. What's all this shit? Where are the jokes? It's just not fecking funny. :s
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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don't you remember the "Half-hour Comedy Hour" patterned after The Daily Show with Limpballs & Coultergeist that lasted about a minute and a half?
Didn't think so.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
follows steven cobert....big numbers,idiot shit...but huge numbers.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
11:30 at night....Granny & Gramps are asleep in their Barcaloungers and the TV is still on....then they wake up around 1 a.m., turn off the TV and go to bed. Unfortunately, the Nielsons don't reflect that...they just count sets that are on.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
The clown car has arrived.
You were the first and only outlet to cover this "event" since it happened in early May except for the Washington Times, which "mentioned it" according to the MRC website.
That should answer your final question: "can anyone imagine a liberal group doing anything even remotely similar to this without being absolutely savaged by the "mainstream media" for it? I can't."
I can. I think they would ignore it like they did this. Maybe they already have. Depends on how you define "remotely similar." I don't know if Media Matters had a dinner or celebrities like Annie C.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxEcWFMU1s&fe...
Of course, maybe this wan't the real "Media Matters." It is a good video.
TFR
Everything that Media Matters said about Glenn Beck was the truth, based on his own words.
Everything that Ann Coulter and Steve King said about Keith Olbermann was based on..something else.
Mostly, something else closely related to unrefined horse manure.
And secondly....Media Matters didn't intend their info to be a roast or a joke. MRC and Coultergeist are jokes by definition, even when they don't even try to be funny.
Anthony
As I indicated, I thought the Media Matters video was good. Said exactly that.
So why would you think it is a problem that the MSM did not savage Media Matters for doing it?
TFR
It's not all or nothing.
The ClusterFox, NRO crowd?? You betcha.
And also...the Media Matters award was done in the form of a video, not a full blown media event such as what MRC did.
Either way, my apologies for the confusion.
Anthony
Remotely similar would be the "worst person in the world" wouldn't it?
You may have noticed that the corporate media was shocked, I tell you, shocked, over that exercise in mockery on a fairly regular basis. BillO became apoplectic on a fairly regular basis, and even CNN spent a great deal of time discussing if he had the right to be such a mean meanie.
He, Olbermann, not Brillo Bill.
Unless you put him within the definition of what Heather called "a liberal group."
I would define him more as a multi-millionaire media cable commentator.
A celebrity. And his "awards" were a nightly segment. A schtick. And ususally ignored by the media except when they were the targets. Which BillO
was frequently and deservedly.
TFR
Calling out the Crooks is MEAN ? WOW !!!
Especially in DARK times like these ... what do you propose we do - let them continue to LIE and PILLAGE ?
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
weird, disgusting event, not just the one portion here. If liberals ever put on something that was anywhere near as awful as this monstrosity I have a hard time believing that they would not be mocked for it in the press, but who knows, maybe they would just ignore them. I don't think a video by Media Matters compares to this over an hour and a half long "ceremony" with a ballroom full of wingnuts who I guess may have actually paid money to sit through this stuff.
That probably explains it all.
Of course, anything for these rich wingnut bastards to flash their asses and attempt their smack towards progressives who call out their BS and get free media via C-SPAN.
Anthony
to include "the whole weird, disgusting event" I would agree that Media Matter's video does not qualify. I think I noted that the first time around.
I would still bet the MSM would ignore it.
TFR
doesn't count since it was not in the MSM? OK I'll just have to google mainstream media and see if it includes CSPAN. Well maybe the mainstream media just will ignore a hypothetical similar event from the left. Maybe not. Maybe Fox will totally ignore such an event that claims that all media that does not toe the progressive line has a conservative bias. Maybe they will ignore a slew of gratuitious insults (Rush is fat, Newt is pudgy). Maybe chickens have lips. Oh wait, is Fox part of the mainstream media?
Ah, let'em spew. . Who would want to be associated with this bunch? They're embarrassing themselves and don't even realize it. The more they talk the worse they make it for themselves.
Can you say self destruct?
Keith was fired or,at any rate, did not have his contract renewed. I did not realize he had nobly silenced his own voice.
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he was allowed to make his own farewell address.
Hasn't the county fair circuit in the Midwest begun yet?
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First off....don't blame C-SPAN....they have to broadcast everything ongoing in Washington. Plus, it's on the cable companies' dime, not ours.
Secondly...any org who gives CAL THOMAS any award for "journalistic excellence" shows its stupidity right there.
And thirdly, on Coultergeist...spare us, Annie. KO eats O'Reilly for breakfast, Beck for dinner, and Brietbarf for dessert...so you think that he's gonna be scared by anything you lob at him?? All you've done is given him fresh material to kick your bony Skeletor ass even harder and deeper. (Figuratively speaking, of course.)
In fact....I smell a Current online essay coming this coming week, if not the next two days. Smells like fried chicken.
And BTW, Annie...getting PsychoNazi to accept the "award" on KO's behalf only makes you more of a laughingstock. Enjoy your moment in the sun, Annie, because the darknoss is a'comin'.
Anthony
This is a perfect example of how reich wingers have no sense of humor or understand satire. They're outraged or insulted at the most innocuous slights, real or imagined. Just recall Gingrich's temper tantrum over air force one. They assume that because something like this would really bug them it must really bug their enemies too. They hate it that Olbermann just laughs at them.
Pompous/Sadistic/Low-life like her AIN'T WORTH making her day by "getting worked up" ... after all Neanderthals like her FEEDS on your SUFFERING !
And C-SPAN what's next - airing REAL Nazis on your channel ?
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
if nobody gets worked up - then she is gonna be the one getting pissed off.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
Republicans are nice people , just misguided ? Some no doubt are , so frigging ignorant and stupid that they are indeed victims , but more than not are assholes who thrive on this shit , Limbaugh , Coulter , Malkin and the rest have gotten rich off of these people . I wish they'd all be raptured straight to hell , this world would be a much better place .
I would like to find out. A liberal group should put something together.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
is as bad as Fox and the rest of the right wing media. How is covering this event anything like news?
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
Ah man, conservatives just really don't understand what this "being funny" thing is about, do they?
They should have had Dennis Miller present the award. At least he's funny.
Used to be funny. 9/11 was a horrible day but it didn't cause me to shit myself, can't say the same for Miller.
It's not all or nothing.
What saddens me is to see a band I happened to like involving themselves in this mess. OK the Outlaws haven;t had a hit for sometime, but while I won't toss my copies of Rider or Hurry Sundown, I'm done with them. Was Ted Nugent unavailable?
of humor tingling in that house....
Too funny, watching the unfunny try and try...
Couldn't we have made an exception and paid CSPAN *not* to televise this?
I guess all the important republicans were too busy to present or accept the award...
Corporate sponsored comedy is no better than state sponsored comedy.
I keep waiting for the day when Mallard Filmore is funny. One day the author of Mallard Filmore will unexpectedly make one of his comic strips funny and I will write to the paper that on this day,such and such, Malard Fillmore was funny.
I have been waiting for about four years for the opportunity.................but, it has not happened yet.
'Talk to the hand'
Politics aside.........
wow, she's just bombing, thats a poor excuse for comedy. Olberman is a girl? I don't even get the joke.
i was hoping she would get some of the funny flowing, but it was pretty much just name calling.
... should be arrested for cruelty to animals. Horses need their tails to swat flies and other insects.
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
what Mooselini means by "lamestream media."
Has anyone clocked the amount of teevee appearances these Gooper moral regressives have befouled a mic and fuglyed up a camera lens in their pathetic, wingnut welfare driven "careers"?
Also I SO looked forward to KO obliterating these Teabagging America fuckers. You know he will too. Hence their big bad "brave" shiving while he's off the air.
After June 20, there will be another ratings redistribution.
In that freeze frame, tell me Coulter isn't the spitting image of Alice Cooper (circa '75), sans make-up and wearing a blonde wig.
Boortz announced the tea bagger founders as Jennie Beth Martin & Mark Meckler. Then continued with 'a couple of years ago the 'young lady' was "cleaning houses with her husband".
Unfortunately I didn't see any video of that.
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
Did you hear all the laughing in the audience? Me neither. Even the reich wingers couldn't cover for this lame event.
Once in awhile I see the lamest of lame jerk-off on bor's show....old what's his name?....from SNL? Loser. Didn't care for him then....can't stand him yet today....oh yeah, dennis miller. Talk about lame!
This is how they live in the cracks on the floor.....they just "exist". Such a pathetic life.
Is there a chance we can rid the House of king in the next election?
All they have are lies , hate and greed . They are not even free to speak their own minds , no honesty , logic or reason allowed , say the wrong thing ( the truth ) , step out of line ( tell the truth ) , their pals will jump on them like rabid dogs and disown them in a heart beat . A bunch of savages .
this probably most affects KO's family and friends, who will have to leave normal sized rooms when KO and his freshly puffed-up Ego enter same. I'll bet the award being named after him has him chuffed to bits.
And this part?
It's Ann doing jealous.
me-oww!
I'm glad to see that Ann took my advice and covered up her ugly upper arms.
So why not have a feature for several categories;
Most corrupt
Most ridiculous
Most transparent
Most misunderstood
Most likely to go to jail
Most mentally challenged
etc.
It was awful. Like a seriously gross car accident with just the most macabre visuals. I'd call it a stunt, a junior high school play's first rehearsal, a bunch of liquored up adults from a 60's party "getting away" with calling people dirty names and sort of a Can You Top This?
I caught maybe twenty minutes on C-Span - Bad remote! Bad, bad remote! - it was unwatchable but I couldn't stop watching. Fucking horrified. I now understand why Atlanta (and however far its radio station reaches in the Red South) is nothing more than a bunch of misinformed, immovable die-hard locksteppers after Neal Boortz' schpiel as emcee. If he's second to RL, it's a VERY close second.
The videos didn't translate to C-Span so it was watching through a dense North Sea fog. The songs that accompanied presenters and "winners" were just wrong on every level. Fortunately I missed The Outlaws.These people have spent their entire "careers" as fear-mongering juvenile delinquents so they have no concept of what humor is. I was embarrassed for them.
I truly believe that whatever they called it, it will get enormous play from Comedy Central and Letterman, etc. It should. Completely worthy of mass mocking and outrage. Treason on display.
Does it hurt when you do that? Then don't do that!
I certainly prefer Olbermanm rather than Coulter. As far as I am concerned, he is a gentleman and she is a
broad! A nasty, sarcastic broad! Her fine college education didn't put common sense in her skull!!
Annie, you are a turn-off!!
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