Fox Freaks Out Over Obama Rapid Response Group
Well, it appears that Fox has another fabricated non-issue to get worked up about this week: the Obama administration creating a rapid-response team to debunk falsehoods and respond to unfavorable stories in the media. Of course the talking heads at Fox -- being the leading purveyors of those falsehoods -- weren't happy.
Monica Crowley was asked about the new staffer, Jesse Lee, and what role he'd be playing for the Obama administration -- and of course she just had to get in a reference to the supposed "Chicago way" they play politics, think gangsters... wink, wink... and claimed that they were just trying to "intimidate their political opponents."
Sadly Fox proves every day why such a response team would be necessary since telling lies all day about Democrats is pretty much their stock and trade.
Media Matters has more -- Fox Accidentally Justifies Obama's Online Rapid Response Group:
Fox & Friends this morning reacted to a new effort by the White House to respond to reports that the White House had created an online rapid response team to debunk falsehoods about the administration, among other things, by doing what they do best: freaking out. Yesterday, the Huffington Post reported that White House staffer Jesse Lee would be filling a new position "for helping coordinate rapid response to unfavorable stories and fostering and improving relations with the progressive online community." Huffington Post further reported that "the White House will be adopting a more aggressive engagement in the online world in the months ahead." Fox, the leading cable news source for anti-Obama smears, did not care for this development. Read on...
If there were no crimes we wouldn't need police. If there were no fox news channel, the president wouldn't need a group to debunk what fox says.
This is like the criminals complaining about the police department showing up too quickly at crime scenes.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
If God had not taken Adam's rib we wouldn't be having these nasty debates about same sex marriage.
Of course we would probably be declaring left handed wanking aberrant if not perverse.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Monica STFU George stood in front of this country and said " You're either with me or against me " thereby turning this country against one another. Intimidation? Facist
Faux freaks out about something that is really NBD?
SSDD, eh?
I wonder is the "Chicago way" a gangster reference or somehow related to the color of some specific parts of the city?
Either way - it is funny they justify it by trying to trash it.
Poetic justice.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
It really does refer to a long-running dirty game, all the way back to Prohibition and Al Capone, up through recent times. Mayor Daley, anyone?
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
There's also a dog whistle element there. Remember when you weren't allowed to criticize the President's home, a la Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks?
say a single bad thing about the Rocking Brush Cut Ranch?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Maines#I...
Basically, she was crucified in the media because she claimed she was embarrassed to be from the same state as Pres. Bush.
Saying you are ashamed of the fact somebody comes from the same state you are from says nothing about the state.
Besides everybody down here knows the boy was from Connecticut. Just like his Daddy and Joementum before him. Some of us were pissed at little Natalie for not knowing that herseff.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
It was a ginned up, faux controversy, which makes it even more hypocritical to refer to "Chicago style" politcs.
As MaryK said, it refers to the long-running dirty political game in Chicago. These days, it's summed up nicely by Sean Connery in The Untouchables:
Chicago politics worked much the same way ever since Prohibition days, and it still taints it today.
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
I need their email address, as I get passed along all sorts of lies and distortions from many sources.
There was something like this in the 2008 campaign, but it really didn't get rolling until summer if I remember right. By then it was more of a reaction than a pro-active move like this one seems to be.
Plus, if K-K-Karl hates it, it must be a good thing!
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
A little OT but
DNC Chair On Top 2012 GOPers: ‘I’m Concerned About Their Commitment To American Exceptionalism’
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/dn...
I think I could really REALLY like the new DNC Chair! (I always liked her a lot but wow!)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
OMG!
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
You don't want to mess with C++ ORRG. They'll send a Cruise missive after you.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
They don't monitor my internet, they pay for it. The cruise missles deliver my "Paid per post"
checks,
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
That's one job they won't outsource. I don't get paid diddly as an Obmapologist and I'm damn good at it. Sort of like an intern. Speaking of which, what's this gunk on my blue shirt?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
on tape. Where's Doughy Pant Boy's Mom? Can't wait to spill the seed, or leak the juice, or whatever.
Great mornin, eh? Clinton, Palin, Big Ed bounced.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Oh My!
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I honestly don't blame him for doing this. If Fox came out and said that Obama sacrificed babies to the old god Baal in his youth I guarantee about 75% of Fox News viewers would believe it without question.
"The greatest threat to freedom of thought is intellectual cowardice." -George Orwell, 1946
http://christianfearinggodman.blogspot.com
denouncing his Baal worship while C&L commenters tut tut about Obama of for injecting religion in his defense of Baalism accusations.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
/laugh
"The greatest threat to freedom of thought is intellectual cowardice." -George Orwell, 1946
http://christianfearinggodman.blogspot.com
that Monica Crowley is at least some relation to Aleister.
But she missed out on the main prefacing tenet: "An thou hurt no one," and follows the "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" part.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
the one that Ed Schultz called a slut? Oh wait, that was a different slut. You can't dicipline me MSNBC.
but he was intelligent. Monica may have gotten the evil and misguided part down, bu the intelligence, not so much.
I can see why Faux news would be freaking out , God forbid that their lies are debunked . Take away their fabrications and lies ... they'd be outta business.
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
The Glen Beck boycott worked. Now it's time to extend it to the entire FOX enterprise.
They not in business in Canada, because you can't broadcast lies. Canada's right-wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, tried to get the law that forbids lying on broadcast news repealed, so that "news" organizations like Faux could broadcast there. Canadian regulators rejected it.
I may not admire the man but he did no such thing. The people who did in fact reject the basic cable application for a Fox subsidiary were appointees of the Harper government. And I have yet to see anybody prosecuted for lying though I have heard many untruths on Canadian television.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Oh yeah?
Regulators Reject Proposal That Would Bring Fox-Style News to Canada
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kenned...
As America's middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin barricades -- against various Koch Oil surrogates and the corporate toadies at Fox News -- fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice can take comfort from a significant victory north of Wisconsin border. Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.
Those regulators are Harper appointees.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Like I said in the first post, he tried ... the regulators wouldn't let him. It doesn't matter who appointed the regulators in the first place.
"Until the Obama admin outs a CIA officer and compromises her intelligence gathering network, he really can't be one of us, amirite?"
Besides their women are all bleach blonde
slutsbimbos anyway."Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
I'm sure they couldn't find one that didn't have one of those foreign, brown, possibly 'Mooslum' women in it.
"Until the Obama admin allows a male escort with a reporter alias unfettered access to the White House, he really can't be one of us, amirite?"
Monica Crowley makes a a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care. There is no question. The republicans should run Lassie for President. Lassie/Rin-Tin-Tin 2012.
was never properly adopted by the Martins and was left behind when the family fled to Australia to avoid a HUAC subpoena forcing them to reveal the boy's Soviet mole roots?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
The whole normal world knows Fox is a right wing political terrorist media outlet, spreading wingnut propaganda of Hate, Fear, Lies and violence.
Monica has a nice rack.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Kelly too.
'Talk to the hand'
Well it will start with rapid response for the basically irrelevant stuff, but it won't take them too long to rapidly switch from rapid response to the far right wackos, to rapid prosecution of the legitimate disagreements to Obama administration policies. It is all so Orwellian anymore.
bys1955
WATB's.
Q.Since when has browbeating been classified as a form of intimidation?
A.When someone other than R-W pundits use it.
Browbeating is only effective if someone actually "kowtows" to it, calling bullshit negates all attempts at browbeating.
Some scientist believe that browbeating is the weakest force in the universe, although it is debatable wether it is weaker than the universal force that bonds republicans to honesty.
'Talk to the hand'
By not turning the other cheek to Fox and their lies, Obama finally provides the proof that he's not a Christian!
Only Palin, Gingrich, Paul and other GOP hopefuls can fight back cause, after all, Fox is not attacking them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKZSqd5Y8nA
really followed 'The Chicago Way' that witch would be in the ground.
Roger Ailes, Monica and Fox in general would like nothing better than to hire people to use as plants in the social networks to create and spread lies about Obama and Democrats, and have no one challenge them. Incredible whining babies - they complain if someone pushes back against their attempts to dominate the media.
"Well, it appears that Fox has another fabricated non-issue to get worked up about this week: the Obama administration creating a rapid-response team to debunk falsehoods and respond to unfavorable stories in the media."
OK. Nows what say that O''Bummer create a "rapid-response teamn" to do something about creating jobs in this country or the sky-high price of gas at the pump?
Or are these issues beyone the scope of O'Bummer's less-than-wide scope of abilities?
the republican 'leaders' have done nothing in Congress for the people that they can point to as accomplishment!
NADA- NOTHING- NO JOBS!@
'They got nothin'!!!!! But fabrication and distortion! Oh and bimbos..they have lots of those!
My being the pedant who is picking nits. Sorry.
The phrase isn't "stock and trade." It's "stock-in-trade."
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