Tuesday, November 02, 2010
The crew at Fox and Friends display jealousy at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's ability to draw a larger crowd than Glenn Beck, anti-Islamic prejudice toward Yusuf (Cat Stevens), and their complete lack of journalistic integrity in one four and half minute clip.
You know given a choice I would choose to trust Jon and Stephen's version of the news over the stilted, purely partisan one provided by FOX News any day of the week. (Which I guess goes without saying since I DID traveled all of the way from Alaska to Washington to participate in the rally.)
Did you notice how these idiots pretend like they don't know who, or what they are talking about, in order to give the impression that it is beneath them to even notice the "faux" journalists? However since they ARE indeed talking about them, it just makes them come off as really, really bad at their jobs!
(Just for clarification, NEITHER Jon nor Stephen asked the crowd to vote. In fact the ONLY person to say the word "vote" was Tony Bennett.)
As for this idiot Stephen Crowder's assertion that he was asked for his "Canadian passport," number one that does not make any sense, and number two he would be the ONLY person that I have heard of who saw ANY anger or animosity at the rally.
I call bullshit until he provides the video that he claims to have. And then if I found that Andrew Breitbart helped him to edit the video, I would STILL call bullshit!
I think it is fairly obvious that the Right Wing and Fox News are extremely concerned that this rally will energize the populace to get out and do their part to restore sanity by voting against the divisiveness shown by their side of the partisan divide, and they are frightened by the sheer number of people who traveled across the country to participate in this rally.
So do you know what I say? Let's prove that they were right to be afraid and get out there and vote!
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I suspect that Comedy Central deliberately kept Yusef from singing the whole song just to keep the Teabaggers from going all out batshit crazy.
ReplyDeleteTo give a platform on Washington grounds of the greatest country on earth to a 'converted' American muslim was perhaps the biggest poke in their patriotic eye.
And Fox Opinion Network better rebrand itself, soon if they continue to allow Sarah to talk about her Journalism degree and her fundamental knowledge of the First Amendment.
That got a big LOL from me. When she commented on Jon looking fancy wearing a suit looking like a real newsman? Good Lord woman, Jon does wear suits. Is wearing a suit the only prerequisite to being considered a "real" newsman?
ReplyDeleteThis woman is beyond stupid.
That news clip was just pathetic really.
ReplyDeleteAnd pretty much shows Stewert was right.
Andrew Breitbart is going to be on the ABC News panel of analysts. I guess there was a little scandal when he represented himself as an anchor for the show. ABC rushed to disclaim that, but that it would give airtime to that bag of poop and lies is enough for me to swear-off ABC in general.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's good because I am watching less TV these days. I am so tired of corporate media using pundits to sway elections.
Is anyone else tired of all these polls, all the red/blue maps, and foregone conclusions being announced as fact?
I think all this "analysis" sways people from voting if they feel their elections - particularly on state and local levels - are a done deal.
I want investigative reporting. I want facts, not opinions, and I sure as hell do not want premature projections that dampen the turnout. Anybody else with me on that?
VOTE REPUBLICAN = KILL GRANDMA
ReplyDeleteCrowder is an A-H. He was born in the U.S. but raised in Canada and now lives in the US so this asking for his Canadian passport is BS
ReplyDeleteOh just pathetic.. they know darn well their fear-mongering "news" was the real target of the Sanity Rally and they are trying hard to be contemptuous and dismissive.
ReplyDeleteThat business about the crowd being more angry and "threatening" than the TeaParty groups is just a flat out LIE. Gryphen, did you see people in the crowd carrying guns and signs about "Second Amendment remedies"?? - I bet not!
Wow! Really reaching to find something subversive about the rally! Watch out, Fox News, the silent sane majority is waking up!
ReplyDeleteThe Republican party leaders are saying today, they are going to punish companies that worked with Mr. Obama. All I can say is, GET OUT AND VOTE IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite conservative response, and I don't remember if it was a blogger or a commenter, was a whining complaint about how the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear received so much more free publicity. As opposed to Glenn Beck's rally to Restore Fear of People Not Like Me.
ReplyDeleteLike, hello? Do these people take pills to be this delusiional or are they born this way?
1). The reason I haven't written about this rally is that early on I read that Yusuf Islam would be taking the stage.
ReplyDeleteI don't like defending FAUX News, but what their commentator said was "He [Islam] was involved in that fatwah against Salman Rushdie for years."
This is true. Yusuf Islam's endorsement of the fatwah against Rushdie is well documented. Rushdie still considers this to have been a serious matter that endangered his life:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens'_comments_about_Salman_Rushdie
2). Anon @ 6:59: Some of us have been fighting all weekend long to push back against ABC on the Breitbart stuff, hard enough to be able to watch Breitbart go bonkers over the past 48 hours. You can help. Go to Media Matters for details.
3). Gryph - if you want to go after a true Islamophobe, go after your buddy Bill Maher.
I was SO hoping that Jon would ask, in $P's voice, "Mind if I call ya Joe?" But yes, I agree with Anon 6:03, that interrupting Yusuf/Cat's song was a way of having one's cake and eating it, too...
ReplyDeleteWhere was the exposé on the terrible condition the participants left the Mall in, wherein they flash images of Hiroshima circa 1945 and claim they were taken Saturday afternoon?
ReplyDeleteBullshit, I know for a fact that you, Gryphen, pruned a large-scale topiary shaped like a polar bear with only two hands, a pocket knife and your MacGyver-like speed and acumen.
Here's a link to Mr. Crowder's video. What a prick. The confrontation with the alleged camera assailant is definately edited. Mr. Crowder seems very confrontational to me to get the kinds of reactions he wants. IMHO, his sole purpose of attending and video taping the rally was to try to get assaulted.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/user/StevenCrowder
went above and beyond this morn...went to 80 homes to get out the vote (great exercise too!)
ReplyDeleteGot some free time? Make some calls to get out the vote. OFA makes it easy
https://call.barackobama.com/campaigns/WI181
"'converted' American muslim was perhaps the biggest poke in their patriotic eye."
ReplyDeleteActually Yusuf is from the UK, but it was a good poke in the eye nontheless!
Wow. That is....that thing that comes out of the back of a chicken, that isn't for breakfast.
ReplyDeleteOMG, I am always amazed how dumb these people are. It's laughable that these airheads actually think they are the 'real journalists'. Midlife Ken and Barbie, plastic and not a brain between them.
ReplyDeleteThe Sanity Rally called-out a lot of Murdoch's bluffs;
ReplyDelete1. The Beck rally wasn't really such a big deal.
2. Fox is nothing more than a basic-cable channel.
3. The audience, and the performers, were more representative of "real" America than the race-baiting, bitter crackers who work at Fox.
4. Father Guido Sarducci demonstrated pretty conclusively that God doesn't prefer fascists.
As for the Muslins in attendance- Kareem Abdul Jabbar was also present. Why not pick on him?
Clasic example of 2 repug white superior males with a token female blond bimbo proving once again to the world that repugs have no sense of humor and not one iota of comprehension of political puns even though a number of hardcore political jokes and pervs are employed by their bosses as newspeople and commenters.
ReplyDeleteHow pathetic their lives must be, and no wonder they are obsessed with other women's crotches and reproductive organs.
Went to tyhe polls in Seward and it was jamming. Saw a few crabby faces and figured they were millerites. It felt good to actually vote FOR someone rather than against someone. Go Scott.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter and I attended the rally, and neither of us noticed anything untoward happening. The rally goers seemed very congenial and appeared to be there to have a good time. Of course, I would expect Fox PAC to "find" something negative to report on in order to smear Stewart and Colbert.
ReplyDeleteHow could anyone take that woman's opinions seriously. She seemed to be composed of legs and blond hair.
ReplyDeleteHow do these Fox people live with themselves?
ReplyDeleteI hope at some point they see this clip and realize how foolish they looked. Humorless and petty. Oh wait. That's the description of Fox.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that astonished me was how courteous, respectful and accomodating people were at the rally given the limited space. People said "excuse me or pardon me" if they needed to pass. Once a 20 something, big guy pushed through the crowd which knocked me backward. I said "you are the only preson out of at least 100,000 physically pushing your way through. Can you take it down a notch...ease up?" He stared at me so I repeated the line "take it down a notch".
ReplyDeleteThis Fox reporting is negative. I saw some signs about the tea party yet none calling members names. I saw the majority of signs were in the intention of this rally.
I can't believe the audacity to comment that Jon Stewart looked "fancy". At middle age I came to understand that persons who get a smirk on their face, a certain tone purring saying "fancy" have personal issues of inferiority. It is a put down.
The intent of Ysef, Cat Stevens, performing one of his most popular songs Peace Train in contrast to the extreme of Ozzie's Crazy Train and the compromise of Love Train went right over Fox's head, like a rocket they would not see as if hell bent on finding proof only they are anti islamic terrorists..everyone else is all for terrorists.
The point of the different train songs was to find a compromise, middle ground that both extremes (Colbert and Stewart acted out) to compromise on. This was for entertainment, using legendary songs, their orignal artists to represent finding a common ground to compromise on and get aboard. Duh. I doubt the mission was only to give a poke in the eye slipping in or to feature anyone of a religious faith.
I took a photo of what was a pignant reminder at the rally. A tall young man, handsome of a darker skin tone wearing combat fatigues carried his sign on the front about the Marines. On the back side it read
MARINES
the proud, the strong
A MUSLIM
That reminded me that people of different religious beliefs risk their lives to serve our country and that they defend our country.
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ReplyDeleteHow do these Fox people live with themselves?
10:40 AM
I heard that one gets used to the smell and blond bimbos (especially the repug ones) are too friggin stupid to realize the role that has been assigned to them.
Kind of like Stinky Sarah doing all those interviews this week thinking the interviewers are taking her seriously when everyone else can see they are about to bust a gut trying to keep from laughing out loud in her face. But the interviewers all know they have to fake a sincere looking interview for the sake of ratings,
so the brain damaged teabaggers will keep watching their female messiah, interpreting her ignorance and stupidity for wisdom from above.
The rest of us watch SP for the same ignorance, stupidity and idiotic remarks she spouts for the hysterical laughter it brings on.
I am surprised that the teabagging ilk didn't send some of Millers goons to rough up some 0ld lady and pretend it was Colbert's people!
Repugnant!
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand I just voted here in MA. My polling place is in the middle of three colleges - actually is physically located in one of the college bldgs. I was disappointed I was the only one there at 3:45. However they told me the traffic has been heavy all day. And as I was leaving a saw a young man, who to my old eyes didn't look old enough to vote, going in! I'm happy!
Yeee haw - it looks like we won, Phil Munger.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Breitbart,
We have spent the past several days trying to make clear to you your limited role as a participant in our digital town hall to be streamed on ABCNews.com and Facebook. The post on your blog last Friday created a widespread impression that you would be analyzing the election on ABC News. We made it as clear as possible as quickly as possible that you had been invited along with numerous others to participate in our digital town hall. Instead of clarifying your role, you posted a blog on Sunday evening in which you continued to claim a bigger role in our coverage. As we are still unable to agree on your role, we feel it best for you not to participate.
Sincerely,
Andrew Morse
@Phillip Munger - there is no way you could have "read early on" that Yusef Islam would be at the Rally... it wasn't announced until only a few days before. And Yusuf has repeatedly denied backing that fatwa, just describing what Islamic law said when asked about it.
ReplyDeleteEver hear of Salman Rushdie? The novelist in England that had a Fatwah (intention to kill) placed upon him? Well, Cat Stevens was in favor of it.
ReplyDeleteI put him in the same category as those fundies who want to institute Biblical law in the United States.