There’s a free newspaper that is given out here in New York City. You can usually find them being handed out at train station entrances.
Now, this newspaper will not give the Old Gray Lady any kind of competition. But it’s free, frequently (unintentionally) funny and small enough that it can be read completely by the time your ride is over.
Is it any wonder that Bushco has picked the liars network (Faux News Channel for those out of the loop) for the majority of it’s early campaign commercials?
Yeah, it’s about time for an other Bill O-lie-ly pit thread. Notice the non-denial in the FNC denial. Notice also the vicious ad hominems launched at amNewYork for having the audacity to complain about O’Reilly’s thievery.
I keep thinking it’s got to be only a matter of time until O’Reilly has a complete meltdown and climbs a tower or something. He’s so clearly unbalanced, delusional and paranoid. I just hpe I get to see it when he cracks.
BTW, did O’Reilly ever give a number for the bulk sales he kept alleging that the DNC had made of Hillary’s book. He kept announcing a date for his big announcement but I missed it. Did he actually announce anything or did he just ignore it when he really found out the numbers?
I did it because I think he’s a total dipshit and I wanted to share with everyone my disdain. And because when I read that this morning, the Pit was the second thing that came into my mind. And because there are still many, many people who are convinced that good ole Bill is a straight-shootin’ son of a bitch who tells it like it is when, in fact, only one of those adjective clauses applies.
And when it’s all over, after the biplanes shoot him off the top of the tower and he plummets to the sidewalk, Sean Hannity will stand next to his broken corpse and solemnly claim that it wasn’t the airplanes, it was beauty killed the beast.
We have something similar to the amNewYork paper here in DC called Express. It’s like a dumbed down USA Today, but it’s a nice quick read on the Metro in to work. I wonder if they’re owned by the same company.
Not surprised by the disinvite. A professor of mine at college once told us a story about his experience with one of those shows a while back - it might have been Chris Matthews or CrossFire or something. Anyway, he received a call one evening from the producers of one of the shows saying that since he was an expert on some sort of Congressional function that they were talking about if he’d like to come on the show. Naturally, he said yes and then the guy said we need you to take this position because we’ve already got a guy coming in on the other side. My professor said he didn’t agree with the position they wanted him to side with on the show and felt it flew in the face of the evidence of what was actually going on. The producer quickly changed his mind and said that my prof maybe wasn’t quite what they were looking for.
I think SOP for most political “analysis” shows to work that way, so I can’t really say I’m surprised that O’Reilly didn’t want the guy when it was discovered he wouldn’t play the role the producers envisioned from him. Of course, I’d expect better from “The No-Spin Zone.”
OK, no I wouldn’t.
Stealing stories without attribution is a bunch of crap. What a dickweed.
Amen. It’s like someone on American Idol singing a three note ballad — something safe that everybody likes, while the backing vocals delightedly post the latest puns of “Fox News” that they’ve stolen from assorted blogs. Blech. Pit something daring. Pit CNN. Or Barbra Streisand.
Something that’s interesting to me — and I’ve been wanting to mention it, so this thread is as good as any — is the fact that the conservative network, Fox, has all this splash and pizazz with heavy metal music and eye-stabbing special effects and graphics while the liberal-progressive network, CNN, has this school-marm, Russian bun hairstyle battleship gray sort of Cuban minimalist thing going on. I would have thought it would be the other way around.
Isn’t it obvious? CNN aims at people who use their heads for more than dispalying the latest hairstyle; who actually pay attention and think about what’s being reported. Fox is playing to an audience with the attention span of a gnat on speed and the reasoning power of a rock.
