DOWNLOADS: (100)

PLAYS: (420)

Embed

Bill O'Reilly caught a really bad case of selective amnesia on his show this Monday night, when he pretended he didn't have any idea that his fellow host at Fox had gone on the air, not once, but at least three times, blaming the shooting at the elementary school in Newtown, CT on the "removal of god" from our schools.

Bill-O had his regular guest, flame thrower Bernard Goldberg on and the two of them were very quick to attack MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell for supposedly politicizing the shooting because she dared to talk about the fact that maybe we should have some reasonable gun laws in the United States. But when Goldberg actually criticized Fox for doing the same thing and politicizing the attack to suit an agenda, and without calling out Huckabee by name, slammed him for his remarks about school prayer, O'Reilly decided to act like he didn't have a clue as to what Goldberg was talking about.

If O'Reilly needs a refresher as to Huckabee's remarks, someone can tell him to go watch what he said here and here. As much as O'Reilly hates but follows Media Matters, who have had this on their front page for days now, I don't think there's a chance in hell he didn't know about what HuckaJesus said.

Here's your "fair and balanced" discussion on Fox. Goldberg with false equivalencies and Bill-O pretending he doesn't know about the hackery from the religious wingnut on his own network.

And if anyone needed any more proof that Huckabee is a blathering idiot, go read this article from this past April: Gunman Kills 7 in a Rampage at a Northern California University.

DOWNLOADS: (726)

PLAYS: (10834)

Embed

After first mocking Mitt Romney and his racist farewell, blaming his election loss on President Obama wanting to give those lousy, undeserving moochers out there some "free stuff," The Daily Show's Jon Stewart took Bill O'Reilly to task for his remarks bemoaning the "end of the "white establishment" as a majority and of "traditional America."

Stewart took O'Reilly and his fellow hate monger over at Fox, Bernard Goldberg through a little history lesson of the United States and a reminder of the way Bill O'Reilly's Irish ancestors who first arrived here were treated.

STEWART: Bernie, Bill, Fox... you don't need to worry so much. What you are demonstrating is the health and vitality of America’s greatest tradition, a fevered, frightened ruling class lamenting the rise of a new ethnically and religiously diverse new class -- one that will destroy all that is virtuous and good and bring the American experiment crashing to the ground.

Except you're forgetting one thing. That is the American experiment -- an ethnic group arriving on American shores to be reviled and hated, living in squalor, or if they're lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.

So enough! Enough! Relax. Enough with the lamentations. Unless your real name is Sitting Bill, you've got nothing to complain about.

DOWNLOADS: (260)

PLAYS: (1294)

Embed

From this Monday evening's The O'Reilly Factor, flame thrower Bernard Goldberg apparently isn't the only one wanting to discourage people from voting: Fox's Bernard Goldberg: "If You Don't Know How Many States There Are" Or "What The Capital Of The" U.S. Is, "Don't Vote".

Goldberg was spouting similar nonsense in a column he wrote back in May: Going After the Stupid Vote:

According to a recent poll by the Gallup organization, more than six in 10 Americans (63 percent) think the United States benefits from having a class of rich people.

There may be something in this for President Obama to consider since his campaign for re-election is be based on dividing Americans based on how much money they make.

Despite all the shots he's taken at the so-called rich, despite all the times he's told us they're not paying "their fair share," most Americans not only think the country benefits from having rich people around, but a majority of Americans (another 63 percent) — who do not consider themselves rich now — would like to be rich if they had their choice. None of this should surprise anybody. Of course most people would like to be rich. Why wouldn't they? And what kind of dolt would think the United States does not benefit from having rich people around.

Continue reading »

DOWNLOADS: (86)

PLAYS: (455)

Embed

While opining over Andrea Mitchell's coverage of the Iowa caucuses where she made the statement that they were too white and too Evangelical to be representative of the rest of the country and weren't always good at selecting the eventual GOP presidential nominees, Bill O'Reilly guest Bernard Goldberg could not argue that her coverage was an example of media bias as some on the right have done, and Goldberg even called her statements "factually correct."

That didn't stop him from taking a swipe at MSNBC's upcoming prime time coverage of the Iowa caucuses and of MSNBC in general with O'Reilly trying to paint them as some "far left network."

GOLDBERG: Fox is going to be covering this with journalists. CNN is going to be covering the election night with journalists. MSNBC is covering it with five commentators whose views range from far left, to really, really far left.

Yeah, unlike that "fair and balanced" coverage we get from Fox that just loves President Obama and Democrats. And here's part of O'Reilly's response.

O'REILLY: They know their only hope tomorrow night is to get the people who hate the Republican Party...

GOLDBERG: Bingo.

O'REILLY: ... to watch them hate the Republican Party. But I'm not offended by that because there's no false advertising on MSNBC, I've got to tell ya'. They just flat out say, we're the far left network. We're going to get our couple of hundred thousand viewers an hour and that's what we're do and blank you if you don't like it. That's it.

GOLDBERG: That's exactly right.

I hate to break it to both of them but if they think MSNBC's coverage at night is "far left" then they don't know what the "far left" looks like, or they're pretending they don't at least. They lean towards the Democratic Party, but far left... I don't think so. I've got a few Socialists they could talk to around here if they want to know what the "far left" looks like. And calling CNN and Fox's pundits on election night "journalists" is a joke. They're pundits just like the rest of them in our corporate media. The nerve of either O'Reilly or Goldberg to be criticizing anyone else in the corporate media for biased coverage is simply laughable on its face. Sadly the two of them are counting in the misinformed Fox audience to not get the joke.

They did hit on one point I actually agree with, which is the corporate media's obsession with the horse race instead of actually covering the issues and where these candidates stand. Sadly, their own network isn't any better (and usually worse) at that than the other two they were criticizing.

Continue reading »

DOWNLOADS: (270)

PLAYS: (2665)

Embed

Ever since the news broke of the sexual harassment allegations made against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, the good little water carriers over at Fox have been doing their best to try to make excuses for him with claims that he's being unfairly attacked by the "liberal media" we all know doesn't exist, claims of racism and even going so far as to call Politico either a "news" outlet or "liberal" for breaking the story, both of which are laughable.

Politico, or Republico as we like to call them around here has pretty much been a Drudge Report/Republican propaganda recycling mill since they first came on line and in all likelihood, they got fed this story by one of Cain's rival campaigns.

Watch Goldberg twist himself in knots here trying to pretend that our tabloid, lazy, corporate media which is as much about sensationalism as they are reporting doesn't go after sex scandals when they involve Democrats as well. And his ridiculous claims that the only reason the media is going after Cain as hard as they are is because he's a black conservative which they consider to be some kind of traitor.

When asked to explain why black people being conservative supposedly drives liberals crazy, Goldberg plays the "black plantation" card here which is of course the popular conservative canard where they insult black people for their penchant to vote for Democrats, as though there are no real reasons for them to do so.

GOLDBERG: It's not just people in the mainstream media. I think it's liberals in general. For whatever reason, and I know I'm going to be criticized for using this term, black people are not allowed to stray from the liberal plantation. As long as they stay in line, as long as they let their liberal politicians tell them how much good they want to do for them and how much they care about them, then everything is okay. But when you have a black man present his case to America and it isn't a case for big government and it isn't a case for being protected by big government, it's... I think it's a little chilling and frightening to the liberal establishment and not just in the media, to liberals in general... don't like that kind of black man.

I can't speak for individuals which there are plenty of who don't understand why any black person in America would vote for Republicans because their policies don't promote civil rights and because of their use of racism as a wedge issue and the Southern Strategy that they've been using for decades now to win elections, but our media, not so much. They love to bring on black conservatives every chance they get for commentary and back and forth in their debate boxes where two sides are always treated as equal, even if one of those sides is still arguing that the earth is flat.

And naturally Goldberg couldn't allow himself to get through the segment here without bringing up the right's favorite African American boogeymen, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and of course their other favorite newspaper to beat up on, The New York Times, claiming that if Cain were a liberal, they'd be crying racism.

If you can say one thing for the right-wing media over at Fox, it's that they've got this whole feigned victimhood game while simultaneously viciously attacking anyone they want to go after down pat as we saw from Goldberg here. What's really shameful is that someone who's inspired as much hatred as Goldberg has is allowed on the air in the first place.

DOWNLOADS: (264)

PLAYS: (970)

Embed

Project much guys? Smear merchants Bill O'Reilly and Bernard Goldberg had the nerve to call Keith Olbermann a "character assassin". Actually, they didn't call Keith Olbermann that per se since they refused to even mention his name during the segment, not that there was any doubt who they were talking about.

Of course a good portion of the segment for O'Reilly was all about him and his ratings at Fox, with Goldberg egging him along, calling Olbermann "the tallest midget in the room" at MSNBC.

To hear these two talk about "character assassination" is pretty rich considering the flame throwing that they've done on the air as Dave has documented.

We can see why Bernie Goldberg's book was an inspiration to the Knoxville church gunman

Bill O'Reilly has Dr. George Tiller's blood on his well-stained hands

If anyone knows something about that topic, it's these two birds. Say what you might about Keith Olbermann's style or if he was given to hyperbole, but he wasn't literally inspiring nut jobs to go out there and murder anyone. And he didn't come on the air and lie night after night like O'Reilly does. O'Reilly and Goldberg can take all the cheap shots at Olbermann they want, but it won't change the fact that there was a world of difference between what Keith did on the air night after night at MSNBC, and the lying, fear mongering, false equivalencies, race baiting, and just generally insulting crap that O'Reilly puts on the air night after night.

The fact that O'Reilly and a lot of his fellow propagandists on Fox has a bigger audience than Keith did or the others in MSNBC's prime time still do just shows how terribly screwed up this country is when hate merchants are still allowed on the air and Keith Olbermann, who tried to speak a little truth to power, no longer is.

Ratings don't make you right Bill. They just mean a whole lot more people are sadly being propagandized by your network and your show and that Rupert Murdoch pumping money into Fox News before it made a dime and most similar endeavors would have gone under has finally paid off for him.

DOWNLOADS: (203)

PLAYS: (314)

Embed

Listening to this much stupid hurts. Flame thrower Bernard Goldberg is asked by Bill O'Reilly to respond to Frank Rich's criticism of President Obama and his column where he says that President Obama is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and how does he respond? By blaming the imaginary "liberal media" for getting Barack Obama elected.

Forget the debates. Forget the primary race. Forget that he was attacked 24/7 on Fox News. No, the media got him elected and now that he's back tracked on campaign promises and looks like he's negotiating with Republicans for the sake of negotiating, the left has no right to be critical. And he's still using the tired "messiah" crap from John McCain's campaign ad as though anyone didn't realize that one, he's just another politician, and two, that he was never going to have an easy time getting a lot of liberal policies passed given the make up of the Senate he was dealing with.

President Obama has got some problems with his base but it's because he doesn't appear to be fighting for issues he campaigned on. It's not because the nonexistent "liberal media" made him into a "messiah".

O’REILLY: As we discussed earlier, the far left is turning on Barack Obama. One of your favorite guys Frank Rich, big Obama supporter. Here’s what he said.

RICH: I’m fairly distressed by the fact that that he doesn’t seem to have a clear point of view about most anything. It’s not even a matter of whether he’s too left or too right. It’s just… everything is negotiated away and he seems to be sort of held captive… my point was, my Stockholm Syndrome point was he seems to be held captive by his own political adversaries.

O’REILLY: Alright, forty five seconds. What do you make of that?

GOLDBERG: Well I think this is the irony of all ironies. The same so-called mainstream journalists who put on their short skirts and brought out their pom-poms and cheer leaded for Barack Obama during the campaign, these same journalists are largely, not entirely, but largely responsible for his fall from grace.

They took a mere Chicago politician and tried to elevate to the status of a messiah and when the people found out he couldn’t walk on water, the disillusionment was far, far greater than it would have been for any other politician. They brought this on… they helped Barack Obama get into the mess that he’s in now.

The back and forth continues between Bernard Goldberg and Jon Stewart. Now Goldberg's upset that people left hateful comments on his blog and calls them Jon Stewart's "sewer rats".

I have no sympathy for someone who's hateful book was an inspiration for the gunman that shot that church up in Knoxville. As Dave noted:

No one is blaming O'Reilly or Goldberg directly for the killings that resulted. But there is at least some level of culpability here that they need to face responsibly.

That means dealing with the matter forthrightly: Reporting the whole facts of the matter (particularly that Adkisson was clearly inspired by their own incessant scapegoating of liberals, often with violent language along the lines of "Screw them") and making clear that in no way did they ever intend these words to be taken as a call to violent action.

Not that they ever will, of course. These guys are big battleships, dontcha know. Why be bothered with such little spitballs as basic decency and integrity?

I won't defend anyone leaving hateful comments at Goldberg's site but that's a far cry from someone being whipped into a frenzy to the point that they go out and shoot up a church full of innocent people. He's playing the victim over what some anonymous commenters wrote at his blog and he says that the Fox viewers would never do anything like that. Hey Bernie, go take a trip over to Freeperville if you think conservatives don't leave hateful comments on the Internet. Also unless you're trying to encourage more of them to do the same thing, don't go calling them "sewer rats".

h/t Media Matters

DOWNLOADS: (1164)

PLAYS: (3833)

Embed

Well, Jon Stewart ignored Bernie Goldberg on his show tonight, but apparently Goldberg wasn't done whining to Bill-O about his treatment by Stewart on The Daily Show. He doubled down with pissing and moaning about how mean some commenters were on his blog and at least O'Reilly pointed out that this happens on all sides.

Bill-O also thinks that a comedy show is the "key component of left wing TV". So I guess a comedian ranks right up there with that mythical "left wing media" they keep harping about that doesn't exist. Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow do not a "left wing media" make and Keith's not some flaming liberal.

When MSNBC's lineup for the day consists of something along the line of Sam Seder, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Alan Colmes, David Shuster who they just booted, Nicole Sandler, Laura Flanders, Thom Hartmann, Cenk Uygur, Amy Goodman, Welton Gaddy, Mike Papantonio, Ted Kennedy Jr. and Ron Reagan Jr., along with Schultz, Olbermann and Maddow, then tell me there's an actual "liberal" television network out there.

Apparently the two of them are very upset that there is a lack of right wing comedians out there. I would imagine that might have something to do with conservative brains not recognizing satire. Case in point -- Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's Joking:

Last week, Stephen Colbert revisited a segment he had done on Florida Representative Bill Posey, who sponsored a bill that "would require future presidential candidates to provide a copy of their original birth certificate," in order to put insane rumors of President Barack Obama's birthplace to bed.

Colbert thought a similar measure should be taken to end the whisperings that Posey was a human-alligator hybrid. Posey, in response to Colbert, said, "I expected there would be some civil debate about it, but it wasn't civil...There is no reason to say that I'm the illegitimate grandson of an alligator." And one wondered, "Does Posey not realize that Colbert is not speaking in earnest? His reaction seems uniquely stupid!"

Stupid, yes. But apparently it's not unique at all, according to a study from The Ohio State University, which proves, with math and stuff, that lots of conservatives seem to not understand the intrinsic, underlying joke of The Colbert Report.

Here's Bill-O and Goldberg with their little cry-fest about how mean the commenters at his site were and bemoaning the lack of conservative comedians. Those damn liberal Hollywood elites keeping all of those not-funny nonexistent right comedians from having their chance to break out onto the scene! Damn them!...lol.

Hey guys, I'll give you a hint about what happens to comedians who used to be funny until they became flaming right wingers (or in Jackson's case, until she outed herself as one and started going to tea bag rallies). They end up being someone named Dennis Miller who isn't doing comedy tours any more, but O'Reilly's show, or this wingnut, Victoria Jackson. It's just amazing that no one finds them funny these days, isn't it?

I did actually used to like Dennis Miller back in the day when he had his series on HBO and he just strikes me as nothing but a shallow, angry shell of a man who no longer has anything of substance to say when I watch him these days. After he let 9-11 fry his brain and Bill Clinton was no longer around to beat up on day after day he's digressed to humor that the average 9th grader can relate to.

DOWNLOADS: (766)

PLAYS: (1714)

Embed

DOWNLOADS: (619)

PLAYS: (3188)

Embed

I said last week that Bernard Goldberg wasn't going to be happy after Jon Stewart ended his segment Fox News Pundits Don't Agree With Demonizing an Entire Group Unless it's the Liberals by telling Bernard Goldberg to go f**k himself. Well, here you go folks. Goldberg admits he was wrong and then attacks both Jon Stewart and his "incredibly unsophisticated audience", says Stewart needs to be going after black columnists "by name" who dare to write about racism, Bill Maher for his criticism of religious people and here's what he says about Frank Rich.

Goldberg: Because even though you criticize liberals as well as conservatives, congratulations on that, when you have Frank Rich on his show who generalizes all the time about conservatives and Republicans being bigots, you didn't ask him a single tough question. You gave him a lap dance. You practically had your tongue down his throat.

Nice...lol. Bernie's probably just going to get himself another go f**k yourself for this number from Stewart.

O'Reilly: So does Stewart have a point here? Are we being hypocritical by generalizing about some people?

Goldberg: I'll just speak about me. He does. I am pleading guilty and that's a sincere plea of guilty. I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I'll tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that. I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News and they were always throwing around the term "white trash, by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard.

Continue reading »