Media Thread

[Sigma]

Is Geraldo actually speaking sense here?

I always thought he was as big of a moron as the rest of them.

He's as bad as the rest of them when its not to do with Mexico. Very few I respect on Fox News (e.g. Shep Smith and Chris Wallace). Also can't believe I'm saying this but having watched some O'Reilly Factor on youtube, Bill O'Reilly could have interesting conversations with some (especially Jon Stewart).

 

[Rob]

Geraldo speaks sense when it's about Hispanic matters.

He's as bad as the rest of them when its not to do with Mexico. Very few I respect on Fox News (e.g. Shep Smith and Chris Wallace). Also can't believe I'm saying this but having watched some O'Reilly Factor on youtube, Bill O'Reilly could have interesting conversations with some (especially Jon Stewart).

Good, as I’m too old to change my views on anything anyway.

On a sidenote, Hannity really needs someone to stick a cactus up his rectum.

 

[langster]

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Typical Fox pas! (Baddum tish, sorry that was awful)

Technical difficulty my arse! Just shows they can't wait and are counting down the days. Disgusting shits, so disrespectful.

 

[MrMarcello]

FCC should fine FNC an outrageous sum for that, like $100-200M. It was blatant, disrespectful, and disgusting.

 

[freeurmind]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47201923

Fox News host Pete Hegseth has confessed on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing".

Hope he was joking.

 

[langster]

He said it's because you can't see them. Yet he's religious

 

[Pexbo]

He said it's because you can't see them. Yet he's religious

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

Darwinism is failing here.

 

[4bars]

This people is rich FFS. what is going on in the world? why dumb people reach those high up positions? why!!

 

[MrMarcello]

Was that Pete guy wearing a wedding band on his right index finger?

 

[KirkDuyt]

Jedediah, how is that a name. Also I don't think he's being serious, that's quite obvious. American media are morons on either side honestly.

 

[Raoul]

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[Drifter]

FEC gives Jeanine Pirro 24 hours to stop flouting law and come clean on 14-year-old campaign debt


https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/fe...ing-law-come-clean-14-year-old-campaign-debt/

 

[psychdelicblues]

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[Dr. Dwayne]

Hehehe just call him a glue huffing frat boy and be done with it.

 

[Maroon Lucifer]

Damn... Rutger Bregman is a badass!

 

[Carolina Red]

Rutger Bergman for Professor of the Year

 

[psychdelicblues]

That's the most brutal beating since Jon Stewart did a number on him all those years ago.

 

[Abizzz]

Should crowd fund to air it as commercial on Fox News.

 

[Tarrou]

i like this Rutger Bregman chap

 

[matherto]

The Dutch do not care for pleasantries.

Blissful.

 

[RedTiger]

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That. Was. Brilliant.

 

[Florida Man]

The Dutch deserve a World Cup just for this guy.

 

[KirkDuyt]

Just popping in here with a big nationalistic THE NETHERLANDS FECK YEAH, statement.

 

[psychdelicblues]

Tuckers response.

 

[Drifter]

Fox News anchor admits ‘we sound like people sucking up to billionaires’ for bashing Rep AOC’s tax plan

Fox News personality Jesse Waters admitted on Saturday that the network looks awful trying to defend billionaires from taxation.


“In her endless quest to take your hard-earned money out of your hands, liberal lightening-rod Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is sticking by her 70 percent tax plan on incomes over $10 million,” Waters complained.



Waters played a clip of Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, explaining marginal tax rates during an appearance on Showtime’s “Desus and Mero” show.


“In my opinion, I think what she’s doing when saying, ‘Isn’t $10 million enough?’ — I think that’s unAmerican,” Waters said.


“Do you agree?” Waters asked Fox News personality Maria Bartiromo.


“It is unAmerican, Jesse,” Bartiromo replied.


According to Fox News’ own polling, 70 percent of registered voters in America support increasing taxes on incomes over $10 million.

Later in the segment, Waters acknowledged the unfavorable optics of their position.


“Now, we sound like people sucking up to billionaires,” Waters admitted. “That’s how the Democrats are going to run, they’re going to run on attacking billionaires.”


“How does the Republican Party combat that smear that Republicans are just the party of the rich?” he asked.


“You have to address the underlying problem that the left is bringing up, and that is there is income inequality, still,” Bartiromo replied.

Establishment news organisation steps outside bubble shocker.

 

[Beachryan]

Given how much they love voter fraud, pretty interesting the NC situation has yet to make their website front page. There is time for a story about an 8 year old finding God in his US passport though .

 

[Raoul]

Tucker having a miserable week

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[Man of Leisure]

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Both come across as douchebags. I'm no fan of Tucker, but that Dutch guy sounds just as smarmy and obnoxious as Tucker does. Also, I'd wager many millionaires fall under the category of being "funded by" or working for billionaires.

 

[Drifter]

Love to see colleagues getting along with each other.

‘Oh shut up’: Watch Fox News hosts erupt in on air battle about Cohen

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/oh-shut-up-watch-fox-news-host-erupt-in-fight-on-air/

 

[cesc's_mullet]

fecker Carlson must be really struggling this week. This makes me happy.

 

[langster]

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FML!

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Cows are made of grass, now?

Also, I though the Yanks fed their beef cattle corn.

 

[entropy]

Meanwhile at CNN. What is wrong with you Jake Tapper?!

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[berbatrick]

Excellent

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[MrMarcello]

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FML!

 

[Raoul]

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[shabadu84]

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Quite a read this. The level of detail about how intertwined the administration is with Fox News, the lack of basic standards, and how much control FNC has over Trump, is still shocking:

To the astonishment of colleagues, the Fox co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle often prepared for “The Five” by relying on information provided to her by an avid fan: a viewer from Georgia named David Townsend, who had no affiliation either with Fox News or with journalism. She’d share the day’s planned topics with Townsend, and then he’d e-mail her suggested content. A former colleague of Guilfoyle’s says, “It was a joke among the production assistants—they were, like, ‘Wait till you hear this!’ She actually got research from him! It was the subject of hilarity.”

Townsend is a frequent contributor to the fringe social-media site Gab, which Wired has called a “haven for the far right.” (He has promoted the idea that “physically weak men” are “more likely to be socialists,” and has argued that it is not anti-Semitic to observe that “the most powerful political moneybags in American politics are Zionists.”) The server company that hosts Gab removed it from the Internet temporarily after it was revealed to have posted hate-filled rants by Robert Bowers, the gunman who killed eleven people at a Pittsburgh synagogue, last October.

When I asked Townsend about his e-mails to Guilfoyle, he said, “Mind your own business. I’m just a Fox fan. I’m a keyboard warrior. I’m a nobody.” He said, “I’ve sent stuff to various people at Fox for years, and I don’t get a penny for it,” and added, “I don’t know what tree you’re barking up but you better be careful.”

Given Fox’s status as a dominant source of information for Trump, some people argue that the network should be especially vigilant about outside influence. Aki Peritz, a former C.I.A. analyst who is an adjunct professor at American University, has written that Fox News has become an inviting target for foreign spy agencies, because “it’s what the President sees.” But a source who spoke to me about Guilfoyle and Townsend says, “It’s even worse than a conspiracy of the dark Web, or something trying to manipulate Fox. It was just a guy in his underwear in Georgia who had influence over Fox News! And Fox News influences the President!”

 

[GiddyUp]

Quite a read this. The level of detail about how intertwined the administration is with Fox News, the lack of basic standards, and how much control FNC has over Trump, is still shocking:

The comments page presidency.

 

[nimic]

“Mind your own business. I’m just a Fox fan. I’m a keyboard warrior. I’m a nobody.” He said, “I’ve sent stuff to various people at Fox for years, and I don’t get a penny for it,” and added, “I don’t know what tree you’re barking up but you better be careful.”

Truly the words of a man with nothing to hide.