O'Reilly blasts "smear merchants" and "vampires" criticizing Mel Gibson; Rivera smear - Page 2

hipsterdufus · 08-04-06, 07:10 AM

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Having said that, I think the media exploits issues like this because it gets ratings. It's what their viewers want to see. Personally, I don't care anymore about Mel Gibson. I don't care to see his drunken pictures nor hear about his apologies. Boring.

Mel Gibson is the "distraction du jour"

Anyone notice how coverage of the Iraq occupation is way down these days in the corporate media?

Are we still in Iraq?

tryreading · 08-04-06, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by hipsterdufus

I think Geraldo is referring to the clip of TDS showing HIM slipping and sliding while covering one of the hurricanes.

Right, he is a pandering hack-always has been.

More importantly though, do you have a large animation of the 'Machine Gun Kitty' I can download? My wife loves cats, and would get a kick out of it.

Picaro · 08-05-06, 12:15 AM

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Right, he is a pandering hack-always has been.

Since he's never taken himself seriously, I fail to see why this makes him less honest or credible than 99% of the rest of them; in fact he's more honest about it than most, and makes fun of himself often. I'm not annoyed by Geraldo nearly as much as I am the so-called 'serious' journalists who feign 'objectivity'.

Befuddled_Stoner · 08-05-06, 04:26 AM

Schmuck gets drunk, and makes a gaffe railing against jews.

Dip****s give 24 hour news coverage of this tripe.

Morons criticize the dip****s for being too harsh.

Retards are so stupid they find schmuck’s antics noteworthy enough to vindicate both the dip****s and the morons.

Of the dip****s, morons, and retards, who do you think is the most pathetic?

hipsterdufus · 08-05-06, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by tryreading

Right, he is a pandering hack-always has been.

More importantly though, do you have a large animation of the 'Machine Gun Kitty' I can download? My wife loves cats, and would get a kick out of it.

lol, sorry the Machine Gun Kitty exists only in it's current size.

tryreading · 08-05-06, 10:24 PM

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lol, sorry the Machine Gun Kitty exists only in it's current size.

Thanks anyway.

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Originally Posted by Picaro

Since he's never taken himself seriously, I fail to see why this makes him less honest or credible than 99% of the rest of them; in fact he's more honest about it than most, and makes fun of himself often. I'm not annoyed by Geraldo nearly as much as I am the so-called 'serious' journalists who feign 'objectivity'..

He's an outright liar. Read the articles below.

Picaro · 08-08-06, 09:43 AM

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Thanks anyway.

He's an outright liar. Read the articles below.

I don't care much what some article says, as it had little or nothing to do with what I said. He hardly lies more than the vast majority of 'news' anchors and reporters, who constantly throw unsubstantiated stories and falsehoods on the air and onto front pages just on hearsay, sometimes for days on end, only for us to find out later that they had it wrong. They just want to 'scoop' everybody else and don't care what they throw out there as long as they're 'first' with some story.

I would call repeating mere rumors and such as lying and blatant distortion, and I doubt Geraldo is any more of a pandering hack than any you can name from the major networks. When so-called 'serious news stations', CNN, MSNBC, all three majors, and all the papers et al, carry hours of 'stories' and 'backgrounders' on frigging Mel Gibson's drunk driving arrest, you know they're desperate and feckless gossip mongers and hacks, and there is now no major difference between them and 'Entertainment Tonight' or Bill O'Reilly's old gig at that show biz tabloid he came from.

Deegan · 08-08-06, 01:34 PM

What everyone should be focused on is the Colmes comment later, where he attempted to compare the Kennedy drunk driving debacle, to that of Mel Gibson situation. Of course these are entirely different issues, one actually makes laws, the other makes fiction, to compare them is ridiculous.

Caine · 08-08-06, 05:37 PM

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Of course these are entirely different issues, one actually makes laws, the other makes fiction, to compare them is ridiculous.

Agreed.

tryreading · 08-08-06, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Picaro

I don't care much what some article says, as it had little or nothing to do with what I said. He hardly lies more than the vast majority of 'news' anchors and reporters, who constantly throw unsubstantiated stories and falsehoods on the air and onto front pages just on hearsay, sometimes for days on end, only for us to find out later that they had it wrong. They just want to 'scoop' everybody else and don't care what they throw out there as long as they're 'first' with some story.

I would call repeating mere rumors and such as lying and blatant distortion, and I doubt Geraldo is any more of a pandering hack than any you can name from the major networks. When so-called 'serious news stations', CNN, MSNBC, all three majors, and all the papers et al, carry hours of 'stories' and 'backgrounders' on frigging Mel Gibson's drunk driving arrest, you know they're desperate and feckless gossip mongers and hacks, and there is now no major difference between them and 'Entertainment Tonight' or Bill O'Reilly's old gig at that show biz tabloid he came from.

You said that Geraldo is more honest than most. He admits in one of the articles below he lied about saying the Lord's Prayer over American soldiers killed in the Middle East in a fire fight he was party to. But he was not there, and did not say the prayer. He is not more honest than anybody.

I usually watch ABC evening news, then The News Hour at 7PM. In the mornings, I watch Fox News before going to work, then listen to talk radio here and there to keep up with political issues. I think you have to have several sources and a personal BS filter to get a decent picture of what's going on.