1SGRet

I'm a little apprehensive here. On one forum I got a warning for too harsh a critique of pundits. In that post I merely quoted Rush, Sean and Bill. Bad liberal!

So, I won't do that - quote them, I mean.

Occasionally, I see or hear O'Reilly make an attempt at fairness. I always wonder when the other shoe will drop. OK, maybe he's a sincere guy who only occasionally likes to talk dirty to associate producers. (That was a nasty crack! Wasn't getting personal...)

Sean Hannitty is full tilt boogie conservative on his radio shows. Never has a Dem done anything right, or Bush or his supporters - wrong. He's a bit less harsh on TV, with Colmes to mitigate his viciousness.

We ain't mentioned Rush. Ah, Rush - who gets his 'white position papers' direct from the Oval Office. Maybe Bush doesn't know Rush is still on the Oxycontin - I can't prove that - for the pain...

LaMidRighter

[quote] Trust me, O'Reilly is an independent, he takes his own positions on issues and both sides are fighting over which one "owns" him

Come on now, you seem like a nice enough person, but that one was low.
Seriously though, I am a broadcasting major at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette about to graduate and have had extensive media theory training, What O'Reilly, Hannity, Colmbs, and Limbaugh do is editorial style reporting, they give you their opinion of current news, many people don't consider that going into consuming this form of news product, where most should have problems is straight news reporters on either side who edit down a story to slant the message, that is dangerous.

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I find it incredible that anyone would post that Democrats/Liberals would say that O'Reilly is on our side! That is insane, yes, insane! Here's a website that shows you how much we Dems love O'Reilly:

http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com/index.html

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Sean Hannitty is full tilt boogie conservative on his radio shows. Never has a Dem done anything right, or Bush or his supporters - wrong. He's a bit less harsh on TV, with Colmes to mitigate his viciousness."
Man, are you amazing, truly amazing! Zel Miller a Democrat? Did you miss his speech at the REPUBLICAN convention in 2004 trashing the Democratic Party.

This type of bull**** has to stop, it's so foolish. Think Hannity is fair do you?

Here's a website that we Democrats enjoy:

http://www.hannityisamoron.com/archives.html
I say let these rabid righties say whatever they want, no qualms from here. However....for anyone to suggest they are impartial reporters is ridiculous. Al Franken, Randi Rhodes? Equally prejudiced on the left, but they do not pretend to be "fair and balanced" and therein lies the difference.

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Democrats wouldn't enjoy those sites Champ, they have too much common sense. Those are for the left wing whacko's such as yourself buddy.

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You need to get out more, I was joking! Yikes!

GottaHurt

Uh um, ratings , yea, that's what I thought.FNC, 8 out of the top 10 spots.

People are tuning in because they're tired of all the Chicken Little reporting found elsewhere.

Dan Rather and CBS (not only will you CBS, but you'll hear some too) did a great service to the American public, with their "accurate" and "in depth" reporting, than any other news agency, ever.

Turn to any liberal station and you get the same sickening rhetoric.

Nazi's, gulags, collapsing economy and my personal favorite, the ever so sober
Ted "Cutty Sark" Kennedy sloshing out, "quagmire" to describe the status of the war in Iraq.

The best part, is watching the libs juke and jive as they dodge the bullets, from their own guns.

Howard Dean, you're my hero :smile:

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1SGRet

[quote=LaMidRighter]Ah, Lafayette. You know, I always loved Louisiana, despite the weather, and some of the biggotry, but then great people, and some vignettes, but later.

Colmes is the house liberal, I believe, and a sort of counterweight to Hannity. That Yankee lover gave some (true) quotes that Hannity made. I heard him with my own ears say, "War protestors should be interned like the Japanese (Americans) in World War II." My parenthesis. And I heard Rush say something to the effect that they oughta send all addicts to jail. (I could find the actual quote, but am much too lazy.) Oh, Rush is one of the 'good' addicts. O'Reilly said early in the Aruba investigation - a tragic case, but how in the hell could those parents afford the trip? - "She's at the bottom of the ocean, isn't she?" The very next day: "On this program we do not speculate (talking about the missing senior)."

Back to the other LA. We came to Fort Polk from Fort Hood to do some finance outprocessing, TDY, for a NG division. This was pre Vietnam, 'bout 62-63. I was the ops NCO. Had a guy, an E-6 who was married - like me, and some others - and who happened to be black. He had the only car, a recent Chevy model, and we all ganged up with him to save the TDY money. He decided to stop at a drive in near Leesville to grab some burgers. Served w/o any delay or comment. Three weeks later we nearly tangled with some college dudes who said we were running with a n------, and they were going to kick our butts. We had one old boy who was a load so we walked, after we explained things. I've always regretted not punching those dudes out.

Now, I've visited Louisiana every decade since, and I love it. Even then I loved it, what with Ville Platte, Opelousas and some other places I've forgotten about. One 'bar' outside of Monroe was named Murphy's. Turned out to be a wh*re house. The Parish Sheriff owned the joint and used his deputies for bouncers. We didn't partake of the place's products. Oh, no! And when you went to the john, btw, you had to shoot craps before you could actually cr*p.

Sorry for the travels down memory (or mammary) lane. What this has to do with media giants I don't know. Cheers...

LaMidRighter

[quote][quote=1SGRet]I'm glad you (mostly) enjoyed your experience here, we pride ourselves on hospitality, as far as the bigotry, there is some, but modern thought is to try to get away from that and hate only the appropriate people of all areas, not just the blind prejudicial way

I haven't watched the Fox op-eds in awhile so I really couldn't say one way or another about comments on those venues, but Colmbs isn't the only liberal(on that show, yes) you have Geraldo(I know, I know, bad ex.), Juan Williams, Greta Van Sustern, and I believe on of the Beltway Boys is a liberal as well, there may be more, but those are the ones that stick out in my mind. As far as the Op-ed stuff goes, I say, let them say whatever, that's basically their job, they do need to remind people though that it is their job to give their opinion and admit bias(Hannity will proudly proclaim that when challenged, Rush as well) I don't like slanted straight news however, as this style is supposed to show both sides and give equal time to all points.

LaMidRighter

[quote] Honestly, the blind right says he is on your side as well, my statement stands.


. I know I'm amazing, but thanks for pointing it out . Seriously though, Zel is a Truman Democrat, he has many a time said he wants the party to return to it's previous values and regrets what it has become, he has also refused Republican invitations to the party respectfully as he wants tradition to be restored to his party, Zel is, in fact, the ultimate Democrat along with Joe Lieberman. Also, did you miss his speech at the '92 convention praising Clinton, the party left him, he didn't leave the party.

Hannity is fair in that he doesn't hide his conservatism, he is fair in that he gives you his opinion on the news and qualifies it as that, he is even fair in that he invites plenty of liberals on the show to defend their views. I think he's biased but fair.



Never said that, I said they are editorialists which is by it's nature supposed to be biased news, it is news commentary,not reporting and people should not rely on just them to get their information, just like people can no longer simply trust one source for news, it's sad really, but true.