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The Ever-Worse Establishment Media

Once again, the Media Research Center identifies the real haters.

If I had the lack of class and perspective that much of the establishment media has, I would call them all hateful, moronic, bigoted, murderous Stalinists.

Since I’m not, maybe I’ll just leave the “hateful” and “moronic” in place.

Such reflections come as smoke pours from my ears after considering this year’s ballot for the Media Research Center’s invaluable, annual “Notable Quotable” awards for the year’s worst reporting. The MRC asks about 40 conservative media folks each year to judge the contest, providing choices in 17 different categories such as the “Tea Party Terrorists Award” (for, yes, equating the Tea Party with terrorists) and the Obamagasm Award (for gushing, in chill-up-leg fashion, about how heroic the current Occupy the Oval Office leader is). We each rank the three worst examples of bias (or, worse, sheer hate directed at conservatives) in each category, and then also vote for the (worst) Quote of the Year.

To show just how low the lickspittle Lilliputians of the establishment media are, consider that none of the following examples even made it into my votes for “worst three” examples in any of those 17 categories. If these are the also-rans, just think how bad the others are.

1) Salon’s Joan Walsh: “These people, the Tea Partiers and their friends and their enablers and their corporate friends like Dick Armey, they have created this shrieking on the right…. They’re paying the lowest taxes in 50 years — more than 50 years, more than my lifetime — and they are still complaining. And some of them aren’t complaining. There are some good business people who know this game of chicken, in particular, is deadly and it’s wrong and it’s hostage-taking. And you shouldn’t negotiate with hostage-takers.
Host Chris Matthews: “I agree with you. I agree with you. I agree. It’s terrorism.” — MSNBC’s Hardball, July 5.

2) “I have a confession to make. I can describe the legal arguments and the judicial conclusions, but on a fundamental level, I just don’t get the attack on the federal law…. I don’t understand the moral compass of the owner of the fancy car I saw the other day that sported the bumper sticker: ‘Repeal ObamaCare.’” — Longtime New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse in a column for the Times’ “Opinionator” blog, Sept. 21.

3) “So when does SEAL Unite 6, or whatever it’s called, drop in on George Bush? Bush was responsible for a lot more death, innocent death, than bin Laden. Wasn’t he, or am I wrong here?” — Left-wing radio host and former CNN producer Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, May 2.

4) “The interesting question is: what is it about this President that has stripped away the veneer of respect that normally accompanies the office of the President? Why do Republicans think this President is unpresidential — unpresidential, and shouldn’t dare request this kind of thing? It strikes me that it could be the economic times, it could be that he won so big in 2008, or it could be, let’s face it, the color of his skin.” — MSNBC political analyst and ex-Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe talking about the brief contretemps over scheduling Obama’s speech to Congress, The Last Word, August 31.

5) “Hardball is absolutely non-partisan.” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in an interview with local Washington, D.C. host Carol Joynt, as quoted by The Politico’s Patrick Gavin in a Dec. 9, 2010 article.

And, while these last two aren’t mainstream media, it’s beyond contempt that the mainstream media gives a forum to such people… In MRC’s category called “The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award” for Celebrity Vapidity, consider these:

1) “America’s full of such hatred in terms of politics, and the politics of hate is so rampant. And now, the only kind of minority that can really be dealt with in that way is the gay population…. I think that the Tea Party have some very, very — some quite sensible notions, actually, when — on paper. But also that kind of seems to be an umbrella thing that just covers up a lot of real homophobia and racism.” — Actor Alan Cumming, who stars on CBS’ The Good Wife, on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, Sept. 22.

2) “The Scale of Right Wing sociopolitical sabotage necessitates a Nuremberg-scale trial for all the corporate agents and treasonous capitalisto-fascist architects of our democracy’s current and most pressing misery. From the blatant Republican policy doublespeak emanating from think-tank sponsored word doctors to the outright obstruction and lies expectorated by Republican congressional representatives and senators, the very concept of governance can only be considered once the culprits are removed. Driven to the real madness by unadulterated greed they have embraced an ideology, the success of which hinges upon the very ruin of this nation.” — Actor Steven Weber (from the 1990s sitcom Wings) writing at the Huffington Post, October 24.

And now, as a special treat, I will let you, the readers, help me select the Quote of the Year. I have particular criteria for my QoY. For one thing, except in rare instances I rule out entries in which the author/speaker self-identified it as opinion journalism rather than straight news reporting. The opinions may be more outrageous, but the journalistic sin is usually not as bad (unless the opinion is just so disgustingly hateful, or so cloyingly hero-worshipping of a leftist, that it shouldn’t be aired at all). (Actually, I am breaking my rule here for an Obamagasm entry, the first one below, because it’s so over-the-top. But if you, the reader, consider this criterion important, you may consider not voting for it for that reason.) For a second consideration, if the ludicrous statement actually has a demonstrable error of fact (in addition to obscene opinions), it gets bonus points in my mind for worst of the year. Third, I never use “celebrity vapidity” statements as my QoY, no matter how bad, because they aren’t even claiming to be journalists. That said, here are the three quotes to which I’ve narrowed down my choice this year. I’ll explain this how you can help me vote at the end:

1) “Can we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we’re going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph…. ‘I am large, I contain multitudes,’ Walt Whitman wrote, and Obama lives that lyrical prophecy…. Barack Obama is developing into what Hegel called a ‘world-historical soul,’ an embodiment of the spirit of the times. He is what we hope we can be.” Esquire’s Stephen Marche in a column for the magazine’s August 11 issue, “How Can We Not Love Obama? Because Like It or Not, He Is All of Us.”

2) “The House began debating a spending bill today that cuts $833 million from the WIC nutrition program, which provides healthy food to low-income women and children…. Now what was it that Jesus said? ‘Give me your poor and needy, and I’ll tell them to pound sand.’ That’s at least the Republican vision of Jesus.” — Anchor Cenk Uygur during the 6 pmET hour of MSNBC News Live, June 14.

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About the Author

Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (227) |

WickedDickie| 12.1.11 @ 6:22AM

Marche. Oy!

Vern Crisler| 12.1.11 @ 9:32AM

I agree. This allusion to Hegelianism to describe Obama (or any politician) is rich in its sheer moronism. Newt should also take care to keep his "Hegelian" vision of himself under control. An NR writer, Jonah Goldberg, referred to his fear that "world-historical Newt" would appear every time Newt starts letting things go to his head. Funny.

Quartermaster| 12.2.11 @ 7:05PM

We're supposed to make a choice between that sorry lot? It should be a draw as they are all pretty bad.

Jack Park| 12.1.11 @ 6:26AM

Marche!

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 12.1.11 @ 6:26AM

Matthews (Total scum)

Goofy| 12.1.11 @ 6:34AM

No comment

jo| 12.1.11 @ 6:34AM

Marche

farmboy| 12.1.11 @ 6:41AM

Marche

Pfred Pfremelgarn| 12.1.11 @ 6:42AM

Marche

Vivian| 12.1.11 @ 6:47AM

My vote -Marche

BcdErick| 12.1.11 @ 6:53AM

I understand your POV and I enjoyed your column. Unfortunate4ly you're just pissing in the wind. For now, at least, these losers should just be ignored.

old white guy| 12.1.11 @ 10:15AM

sooner or later these losers will have to be taken down. the time will come when their stoking the fires of communism, class envy or just the desire to control the lives of others will have to be addressed.

Richard Rogers| 12.1.11 @ 6:55AM

Marche

Richard Rogers| 12.1.11 @ 6:55AM

Marche

Timothy L. Pennell| 12.1.11 @ 6:56AM

But, it's always been this way. Can you say: Walter Durante?Liberalism is a Mental Disorder. You don't believe me?

A study was done, a couple years ago, that determined that roughly 20% of Americans suffer from a Mental Disorder. Gallup informs us that roughly 20% of Americans define themselves as Liberals, and in the 2008 Election, roughly 20% of the American People voted for this Marxist/Muslim, who was raised in the Muslim Schools and Mosques of Indonesia.

The Press loved Hitler. Joe Kennedy loved Hitler. They loved Lenin, and Franco, and "Uncle Joe" Stalin. They loved Mussolini, Castro, Mugabe, the ANC, Ortega, and Chavez.

By contrast, they HATED Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush. The Father and the Son.

They Loved FDR, Johnson, Carter, and The RAPIST.

Now, they stand firmly behind the White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating, Ex-Coke Snorting, Far Left Radical Marxist/Muslim, who has surrounded himself with Communists, Marxists, Socialists, Maoists, Anarchists, Black Panthers, and Terrorists, his whole life. Who has sealed all of his pertinent Personal Records, in a Vault, thousands of miles from the Mainland of this Country. And, has just now SEALED all of the Records pertaining to the U.S. AGENT, who was Murdered by a weapon that was Bought and Paid for, by THIS PRESIDENT, and then smuggled over the border, and delivered to the Mexican Drug Cartels by THIS PRESIDENT. Why? So he could Propagandize the inevitable MURDERS of Innocent Mexican Men, Women, and Children, in his quest for the LEFT'S Holy Grail: Uber Gun Control/Confiscation.
The "Media" has left the building a long time ago.

"Dave's not here, man. Nobody here but Me. Chris Mathews, David Gregory, Christiane Whatever, Ed, COW, and Ubie. There's only ABC, CBS, and NBC. CNN, PBS, MoveOn, Moveover, and Bendover. There's only George Soros, Warren Buffett, and Jeffery Immelt. There's only The WAPO, The Times (pick one), The Nation, The Huffington Puffington, and The JournOlists.

See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil, and PRINT NO EVIL. For HE has come. The One we've been waiting for. The MESSIAH. And the World will never be the same.

"And I saw the BEAST rise from the Sea. And he was given a MOUTH, to speak Haughty and Blasphemous words. And he was allowed to exercise Authority for forty two months." Revelation 13-5.

Go read your BIBLE. Look at the World. Look who is the Leader of the Free World. A MUSLIM, raised in a Foreign Land, who Hates the JEWS, and tramples on Freedom, with every utterance from his Lying MOUTH, Israel is surrounded by Islamists who have come to power ON HIS WATCH. The Terrorist Group - HAMAS - believes that he - ABU HUSSAIN - has been sent by Allah, to deliver them from the Scourge of the JEW INFESTATION.

Is the WORLD better off than it was 3Years ago? Is Freedom Safer, or Less Safe, than it was 3 Years ago? Is the World more PEACEFUL, since this THING won his PEACE PRIZE?

I'm just saying.

Mike D.| 12.1.11 @ 8:23AM

Forgot Che, worshipped in hollywood! Its constructive to watch the Government media, because the sheeps clothing is off them for good and there are more people coming to realize it and in the long run it will bear fruit. There is no "we are not biased" claims that anybody with a brain is going to accept anymore from the leftist media. They have been outed for good, they have threw all and any credibility(they had none to begin with) to the wind backing the Marxist now in the Whitehouse. So thats how they roll, anything to keep their Jesus and his cohorts in power at any and all costs, and gives new meaning to "lapdogs".

Seek| 12.1.11 @ 3:49PM

Che "worshipped" in Hollywood? That's a bit extreme considering that Stephen Soderburgh/Benicio Del Toro couldn't even get studio funding for their movie on Che of a few years ago. They had to go outside.

TGC| 12.1.11 @ 4:03PM

That's because the movie sucked and Hollywood is very greedy...it has nothing to do with thier love of Che.

mzk1| 12.3.11 @ 5:01PM

Hollywood did a movie called Che! decades ago. Considered one of the worst of all time.

russel| 12.1.11 @ 11:23AM

" Where ' progressives' came from " I think is the articles title , but in great detail it describes the coming and occupation of the Oval office by Woodrow Wilson and the press who worshipped him and his ideals . That's era and mindset is where the New Republic was born . Others naturally followed . But what we have today are no less idealogues than their ancestors - pure rock-solid socialists ' who really did have Mussonlini hanging on their walls . Now how to get rid of such an annoyance / threat that's been around for so long could concievably only be answered by God . But at least they're fully exposed now .

DWebs| 12.1.11 @ 9:18PM

You seriously need to consider getting back on your meds. Funny though...

Liz| 12.2.11 @ 1:10PM

Again proving some people cannot follow simple directions. You were specifically told to post the name of the person whose quote you wanted to nominate.

Therefore, I nominate all three of you for FAIL.

skip| 12.3.11 @ 2:27PM

. . . said Liz, emotionally prattling on without a shred of reason or experience based on any intelligence or honesty whatsoever, about other individuals not following a generic request she is not specifically following herself, exactly like a typical ordinary liberal, any and every one of them, since the rules are only subject to others, never them . . .

mzk1| 12.3.11 @ 5:02PM

You have serious problems.

Mainecore| 12.1.11 @ 7:14AM

Roberts.....

ScottM| 12.1.11 @ 7:15AM

Marche, by a country mile!

Monty.Crisco| 12.1.11 @ 7:31AM

Marche! (Sounds like he is singing a damn Sunday hymn to Jesus it is so godawful craven...)

Bill L.| 12.1.11 @ 7:37AM

Uygur

D. Singh| 12.1.11 @ 7:39AM

Marche

k962| 12.1.11 @ 7:42AM

I really don't listen to liberal blather anymore. Their bias is evident, they repeat his talking points! All I can say is I as an American will not vote for a guy who thinks that America should do is apologize to everybody who hates us! Sorry Obama you are a zero in my book!

RMartin| 12.1.11 @ 7:55AM

Like some others, I'm compelled to break your rules.

First, I'm trying to eat breakfast here. Reading this stuff is not conducive to good digestion.

Second, excluding opinion eliminates everything by Maureen Dowd who would otherwise be my first pick.

Third, and within the limits of the survey, I'd go with Marche (whoever he is) because it is such utter nonsence.

RMartin| 12.1.11 @ 7:57AM

Sorry, "nonsense".

career soldier| 12.1.11 @ 7:59AM

Uygur

Jay Pitsby| 12.1.11 @ 8:08AM

Marche

Old Soldier| 12.1.11 @ 8:19AM

The only one quoted in the article I recognize is Matthews. The rest I wouldn't know from Adam.

Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 12.1.11 @ 8:29AM

Marche!! Although for the life of me, I swear I've never heard of the guy before!! Esquire? Seriously, they're still in business? I didn't know that!!

Stammon| 12.1.11 @ 8:31AM

Marche

NH-Engineer| 12.1.11 @ 8:33AM

Marche

Braves Fan| 12.1.11 @ 8:35AM

Might want to edit that mention of "Christ" Matthews.

jothepro| 12.1.11 @ 8:36AM

Roberts

JohnM| 12.1.11 @ 8:37AM

Uygur

DJ Rush| 12.1.11 @ 8:38AM

Marche

Stan Nichols| 12.1.11 @ 8:43AM

Marche

Todd in Lakewood (OH)| 12.1.11 @ 8:46AM

Roberts

Petronius| 12.1.11 @ 8:47AM

I daresay Obamagasm is a misnomer. I'd call it Infolatio practiced by a corps, (not corpse) of gormless groupies.

Bob K.| 12.1.11 @ 8:55AM

Roberts.

Gene Stagner| 12.1.11 @ 8:55AM

Marche without a doubt!

Nina| 12.1.11 @ 8:57AM

Marche!
I think I threw up in my mouth!

Gary| 12.1.11 @ 9:00AM

Marche

Gary| 12.1.11 @ 9:00AM

Marche

Nancy in NC| 12.1.11 @ 9:01AM

Marche

Daniel Bethancourt| 12.1.11 @ 9:01AM

Marche

DaveD| 12.1.11 @ 9:02AM

Marche

mzk1| 12.1.11 @ 9:03AM

Roberts

(Conservatives ought to have our own sort of Godwin's law regarding people claiming we want to bring back slavery.)

Louis Jenkins| 12.1.11 @ 9:03AM

Marche is the vote, although "tingle running up my leg" Chris Matthews is running a close second and he ain't even in consideration.

tankrtrash| 12.1.11 @ 9:05AM

Marche

tankrtrash| 12.1.11 @ 9:06AM

Marche

chuck| 12.1.11 @ 9:17AM

Marche

I'm surprised he can still breath with his head shoved that fat up O's a$$.

Somebody| 12.1.11 @ 9:22AM

Marche

JT| 12.1.11 @ 9:27AM

Marche

Travelwise | 12.1.11 @ 9:29AM

Marche

Solo| 12.1.11 @ 9:30AM

Marche. Intellectual vacuousness of the highest order.

And he quotes Hegel....? Sheeesh!

David Coughlin | 12.1.11 @ 9:32AM

Marche

Rich Fisher| 12.1.11 @ 9:36AM

Marche

Anthony| 12.1.11 @ 9:43AM

As I said in the Barney Frank piece by RET, and to answer your last question, since the Left have lived in their cocooned bubble world for decades, it's easy for them to assign all plaudits to themselves and their way of thinking.
In their world, leftist assumptions are by their very existence correct and can never be challenged, hence, the hateful vitriolic comments about conservatives.
Now that the alternative media has begun to make serious dents in leftist hegemony, these folks have become even more vile and irrational.
OWS is just the manifestation of the great unraveling, and it's going to get a lot worse.

WHJ| 12.1.11 @ 9:47AM

Marche

TexasEngineer| 12.1.11 @ 9:48AM

Uygur

Terrible Ted| 12.1.11 @ 9:51AM

Marche

Terrible Ted| 12.1.11 @ 9:52AM

Marche

Terrible Ted| 12.1.11 @ 9:52AM

Marche

Terrible Ted| 12.1.11 @ 9:53AM

Marche

Terrible Ted| 12.1.11 @ 9:53AM

Marche
Early and often.

Smunge| 12.1.11 @ 10:02AM

Marche . . . It reads like one of those propagandistic paeans to Chairman Mao. It's beyond craven - it's sickeningly worshipful.

Filofox| 12.1.11 @ 10:06AM

Marche by a nose, but they are all morons.

PhilTheCapitalistPig| 12.1.11 @ 10:13AM

Wow... I can't choose. Where do you start?

steve b| 12.1.11 @ 10:18AM

marche

ABBY| 12.1.11 @ 10:19AM

UYGUR

Jacob R| 12.1.11 @ 10:22AM

Marche.

D2A| 12.1.11 @ 10:30AM

Marche

Cyndi| 12.1.11 @ 10:33AM

Marche

N. B. DuPree| 12.1.11 @ 10:38AM

Marche

John Graboski| 12.1.11 @ 10:39AM

Marche

Noah| 12.1.11 @ 10:43AM

Marche. Epitomizing the leftist pseudo-intellectual with a Hegel name-drop. (He forgot to work in the 'dialectical' that is usually paired with a 'Hegel.') Epitomizing the triumph of the subjective. Sounds like a stoner irked that we are harshing his buzz.

Jack Motter| 12.1.11 @ 10:44AM

Marche

Say Baptist| 12.1.11 @ 11:01AM

I am not sure that anyone on MSNBC qualifies as a journalist:however the one who is not a journalist (but plays one on TV) is Roberts

zenga| 12.1.11 @ 11:04AM

marche

PapaBear| 12.1.11 @ 11:04AM

Marche

Gregorio| 12.1.11 @ 11:05AM

Marche on!

Charles| 12.1.11 @ 11:06AM

Marche

Dave| 12.1.11 @ 11:07AM

Marche.

Peppermint Tea| 12.1.11 @ 11:10AM

Three way tie.

Jeremiah| 12.1.11 @ 11:17AM

Uygur

Seek| 12.1.11 @ 3:50PM

Uygur. Not only is this guy a jerk, but in departing acrimoniously from MSNBC several months ago, he made way for his replacement...Rev. Al Sharpton.

W.C. Wood| 12.1.11 @ 11:22AM

Roberts

Citizen Jerry| 12.1.11 @ 11:30AM

Marche!

g wayne| 12.1.11 @ 11:35AM

Marche

Hyacinthclare| 12.1.11 @ 11:38AM

Uygur

Wake 'em Up!| 12.1.11 @ 11:39AM

Marche

vhunter| 12.1.11 @ 11:43AM

Marche

Mike| 12.1.11 @ 11:48AM

Uygur

PetePatriot| 12.1.11 @ 11:49AM

Uygur

Nymph| 12.1.11 @ 11:51AM

Marche, by a narrow margin. I think I need a shower.

Oldefarte| 12.1.11 @ 11:52AM

[1] Marche
[2] ANY/ALL of the rest

Cynicon Implant| 12.1.11 @ 11:59AM

Marche

Cynthia Pestka| 12.1.11 @ 12:09PM

Uygur.

markenoff| 12.1.11 @ 12:19PM

Uygur

Underground Orphan | 12.1.11 @ 12:23PM

Marche

garydeeb| 12.1.11 @ 12:26PM

Marche.

theaccountant| 12.1.11 @ 12:27PM

marche

Carsten Stroud | 12.1.11 @ 12:29PM

Marche

Lynda| 12.1.11 @ 12:38PM

UYGUR

Nolanimrod | 12.1.11 @ 12:39PM

Roberts

Dagny Taggert| 12.1.11 @ 12:40PM

Marche. especially since that sounds very January, 2009. This prick is still cooing????

David Arseneau| 12.1.11 @ 12:44PM

Marche

Bill| 12.1.11 @ 12:54PM

Who cares about what those liberal media has to say anyway? CNN, MSNBC have become Obama's full time re-electiom media team, lying to the American people. FOX News is doing a good job bringing us the truth.

Piers Morgan=Keith Olbermann=Sexual Predator=Liar

Andrew B| 12.2.11 @ 1:15AM

Have to say that Cenk Uygur gets it.

And just remember Bill, the liberal media represents almost all of us. And they're not lying, though it does appear that many of your candidates are! And judging by your tone, you'd likely lie along with them.

You and the other 'dated' folks here, are now relegated to the past, where you should remain until you come up with a viable alternative. Doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon, does it?

And as you continue to get your news on Fox, the majority of people are getting the real story on the other networks. Much as the real story might not fit your ideals, or the people that want to better the country, not ruin it.

You may want to reevaluate your position. Just sayin'...

skip| 12.2.11 @ 2:17AM

. . . just sayin' nothing but emotional prattle, completely devoid of reason and experience based on intelligence and honesty, exactly like a typical ordinary liberal is capable of only sayin'. . .

Liz| 12.2.11 @ 1:12PM

Skip, the only prattle here is YOURS.

skip| 12.2.11 @ 4:03PM

. . . said Liz, in her emotional prattle, that was completely devoid of any reason and experience, based on any intelligence and honesty whatsoever, exactly like every liberal, who did not offer, based on any reason or experience, any intelligent or honest evidence, to prove the point she unintelligently and dishonestly made, in her posted comment, consisting of nothing more than emotional prattle, but who is more than welcome, to attempt a post of any comment, intelligently and honestly, about this statement issued by Public Policy Polling, at:

www.publicpolicypolling.com/pd.....al_126.pdf ,

or about this article, on the polling organization Public Policy Polling specifically, and polling organizations generally, at:

www.nationalreview.com/article.....-geraghty,

while we conservatives await, all this pending reason and experience, based on all this pending intelligence and honesty, from Liz, or Andrew B, or any liberal at all . . .

Ron| 12.1.11 @ 12:56PM

Marche.

William L. Gensert| 12.1.11 @ 12:57PM

Marche

And...I did like the "Christ Matthews," even if it was unintentional.

skip| 12.1.11 @ 12:58PM

1) Marche

skip| 12.1.11 @ 1:23PM

I can't resist.

This is from the archives in a Jeffrey Lord article, where I was ridiculing a typical liberal, who was whining about Rupert Murdoch's media entities being so biased.

Machiavelli has always just been too timid for my tastes.

"Are you serious? Mr. Tabloid Murdoch himself promotes salacious, prurient sensationalism as news and you defend this turd? Whether it's dirty tricks in the U.S. associated with Fixed News or actual law-breaking in Britain, the Murdoch Empire is teetering. I know they say want you want to hear, but they intersperse so much misinformation and downright lies, I find it amazing you never check up on their facts and find out the truth and bare the propaganda for what it is."
(Purpleguy | 7.12.11 @ 11:07AM)

"Stupledupe,

Look at this salacious prurient sensationalism I found on a Murdoch owned entity today.

"Can we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to comtemplate him the way we might comtemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we're going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph. Whatever happens this fall or next, the summer of 2011 is the summer of Obama.""
(skip | 7.12.11 @ 5:00PM)

Renaissance Nerd | 12.1.11 @ 1:01PM

Roberts

B Kay| 12.1.11 @ 1:03PM

Marche

Ground Control| 12.1.11 @ 1:11PM

Marche.

Bydand76| 12.1.11 @ 1:12PM

Marche

Carrie| 12.1.11 @ 1:22PM

Marche for sure.

Brian Wilson| 12.1.11 @ 1:28PM

Marche

ABNCP| 12.1.11 @ 1:28PM

MARCHE

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.1.11 @ 1:29PM

YOU! Quin!
You have become the "stupid" over these last weeks!
a copy paste in case you haven't seen it...

What Are You Thinking,

Governor Perry is "soldiering on" despite being labeled a dunce, and ridiculed...(or ignored)...on my former favorite web forum here.

I think..."how in the hell do you ignore the ONE solid conservative with a PROVEN track record?

" How in the hell do you ignore and/or ridicule the Governor of the only successful State government in the nation?"

Well, TAS has managed to do so, and it embarrases me for you.

I guess our country is doomed to stupid. (Can any of you even imgine Mitt admitting "he stepped in it"?)
In my mind, a little humility goes a long way in a President.

Kiss my arse, Quin! Screw your poll!

Liz| 12.2.11 @ 1:18PM

Darlin', I understand your love for Texas, but PLEASE! Perry successful? The success you tout is built on the shifting sands of counting prisoners as part of the general "work force", gutting the education system, destroying the government infrastructure and attacking women/children in general by gutting the systems designed to help them.

Texas is only "successful" in your world, but not to the rest of the world.

Wayne| 12.4.11 @ 9:41AM

"attacking women/children ..."? A bit over the top don't you think? Sounds like typical left-wing smear.

skip| 12.4.11 @ 11:45AM

. . . Liz sounds like a typical, ordinary, average, every day liberal, spouting nothing more than emotional prattle, devoid of reason and experience based on intelligence and honesty, perhaps?

PETER KILLIE| 12.1.11 @ 1:34PM

UYGUR

DGinGA| 12.1.11 @ 1:36PM

Marche.

Anyone but Obama| 12.1.11 @ 1:40PM

Marche

Mazzuchelli| 12.1.11 @ 2:05PM

Marche.

Curtis Rasmussen| 12.1.11 @ 2:06PM

I want what Marche is smoking. Truly astounding.

ROBERT| 12.1.11 @ 2:25PM

MARCHE

Patrick Muller| 12.1.11 @ 2:25PM

Roberts

Ken | 12.1.11 @ 2:32PM

Uygur

Texas Jayde| 12.1.11 @ 2:35PM

marche.... ugh...

happy feder| 12.1.11 @ 2:47PM

Roberts

FredB| 12.1.11 @ 2:48PM

Roberts

Paul Kuckhahn| 12.1.11 @ 2:51PM

Marche

Sugartown Super| 12.1.11 @ 2:51PM

Marche

SoBe Conservative| 12.1.11 @ 3:00PM

Roberts

Laura| 12.1.11 @ 3:07PM

Uygur

Defenz Engr| 12.1.11 @ 3:24PM

Marche

Fully substantiating the religious fervor of the libtard. This is why they win, while we're in the majority. It may be idiocy, but the passion is real.

Mike| 12.1.11 @ 3:35PM

Marche

Dick Nome| 12.1.11 @ 3:39PM

Marche must have been smoking crack with his Idol. He wins hands down, front and center, top to bottom.

Dick Nome| 12.1.11 @ 3:43PM

Sorry Quinn, the comments just came Spontaneously.

TimH| 12.1.11 @ 3:42PM

Marche

Ric Villa| 12.1.11 @ 3:49PM

Marche

Reagan Loyalist| 12.1.11 @ 4:01PM

Cenk Uygur

Marc Jeric| 12.1.11 @ 4:07PM

Marche - definitely!

Marc Jeric| 12.1.11 @ 4:10PM

When Mulah Obama said, in his inaugural speech, addressing the globaloney warming hoax: "Tomorrow the oceans will stop rising, and the planet will start healing", he believed himself to be the 13th Imam, or at least the second coming of Jesus.

K Beast| 12.1.11 @ 4:12PM

Marche

DNW| 12.1.11 @ 4:23PM

Marche

Joe D| 12.1.11 @ 4:33PM

"Marche," - The others are great as well.

College Kid | 12.1.11 @ 4:34PM

Marche

PEspada| 12.1.11 @ 4:41PM

Marche

Ms Jones| 12.1.11 @ 4:45PM

Uygur

Marche made me vomit, but Uygur (of whom I've never heard) gets extra points for confusing the Bible with The Collossus, and Jesus with Emma Lazarus.

Ms Jones| 12.1.11 @ 4:46PM

Correction: The New Colossus

Nancy in NC| 12.1.11 @ 4:45PM

I didn't do a tally, but Marche looks like a sure winner. I have never read such unadulterated crap in my whole life. It sounded more like a love poem than any form of analytical thinking. I would be embarrassed for the guy if I were so inclined, however I was too busy throwing up.

JP| 12.1.11 @ 4:49PM

MARCHE.

The other 2 are bad, but Marche represents the delusional suspension of reality by true Obama idol-worshipers

Marie Simmons| 12.1.11 @ 4:50PM

Marche!!!!!!!!!!!

sommers | 12.1.11 @ 4:52PM

Marche

vito| 12.1.11 @ 4:54PM

roberts

Chef Schnauzer| 12.1.11 @ 5:04PM

Marche

Bill Read| 12.1.11 @ 5:14PM

Matthews!

Dogchow| 12.1.11 @ 5:20PM

Marche

Jonathon| 12.1.11 @ 5:20PM

Bush really did kill a lot more people than Bin Laden

Mrs. Vito| 12.1.11 @ 7:58PM

Get a grip! Just answer the f*cking question!

Soundstorm| 12.1.11 @ 9:47PM

I would hope so. We shouldn't be losing to those terrorist vermin.

Wayne| 12.4.11 @ 9:38AM

We will never know because Obama made sure Obama was killed, not tried.

Wayne| 12.4.11 @ 9:39AM

oops, Freudian slip, I meant Osama was killed.

Bill Read| 12.1.11 @ 5:21PM

Quote of the year: By Chris Matthews on msnbc to wit: "Hardball is completely non-partisan".
Hmmm!Nice to know!!

Wayne| 12.4.11 @ 9:38AM

They aren't in a way. They Hardball belongs to something even higher than a party. they belong to ObamaNation.

Stan Allen | 12.1.11 @ 5:26PM

Roberts.

Thane| 12.1.11 @ 5:31PM

Marche

Tom McDonnell | 12.1.11 @ 6:08PM

Roberts

Willy| 12.1.11 @ 6:15PM

Uygur

David C| 12.1.11 @ 6:17PM

Roberts.

Kathy| 12.1.11 @ 6:25PM

Uygur

Die Fledermaus| 12.1.11 @ 7:38PM

Marche!

Susan| 12.1.11 @ 7:56PM

Marche

Mrs. Vito| 12.1.11 @ 7:56PM

Marche.

Jeanette Richards| 12.1.11 @ 8:18PM

Marche

George S| 12.1.11 @ 8:40PM

Another vote for Obama's bidet (aka Marche).

Jay Ruffing| 12.1.11 @ 8:43PM

Marche

Mike Hawk| 12.1.11 @ 9:01PM

Marche... all the way!

Should Have Impeached| 12.1.11 @ 9:36PM

Roberts.

chris123| 12.1.11 @ 9:44PM

I nominate Marche for the "Delivers News Analysis like Monica Delivers Pizza" award.

Soundstorm| 12.1.11 @ 9:44PM

Marche

Torestin| 12.1.11 @ 9:55PM

I hate to contribute to any liberal's ascent to their 15 min of fame or infamy, rather, i would assume to forget them all. However, Marche is the biggest loser here.

SCOTT MCCART| 12.1.11 @ 10:13PM

MARCHE

steponbugs| 12.1.11 @ 10:27PM

Marche. (Award to be presented the next time he lands on Earth...)

bluecollarbytes| 12.1.11 @ 10:36PM

Matthews, just for sheer consistent volume.

what were the rules again?

RandyM| 12.1.11 @ 10:51PM

Marche

AZspectator| 12.1.11 @ 11:31PM

Marche

Rowan91016| 12.2.11 @ 1:17PM

Marche

John C| 12.2.11 @ 1:27PM

Marche

terimwal| 12.2.11 @ 1:38PM

Marche.

missbosslady| 12.2.11 @ 1:58PM

Marche!

Cheri| 12.2.11 @ 2:12PM

Moronic Marche!

Big Java| 12.2.11 @ 7:21PM

Marche

LibertyAtStake | 12.2.11 @ 9:28PM

Roberts.

Because it's a "twofer" for liberal insanity - ascribes straw man motivations to conservatives *and* assumes legislation can mandate the impossible.

d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

JudyNM| 12.2.11 @ 10:14PM

Marche

POST American| 12.2.11 @ 11:08PM

---WE no longer have a TV, radio of PC
in our private space. One and all follow
suit.

For news, the papers are glanced at, but
the releases from the 'benny violent'
shadow government think tanks, along
with Drudge, the India Times, Guardian,
Times, Telegraph and Epoch Times are
good fill-ins.

ALEX JONES remains passionately
on the mark. He's now #2 ---in the world!

ALAN WATT provides unflinching and
detailed coverage of the unfolding.
Fearless and essential.

We tried watching FOX the other day
at the office. Even by its own T&A brain
dead standards ---it was UNWATCHABLE.

Margie| 12.2.11 @ 11:15PM

Guilty as much as the MSM?
The so-called Establishment Republican writers here and elsewhere who took part in, with glee and abandon, the bringing down of Herman Cain.

Wayne| 12.4.11 @ 9:36AM

I was not even a Cain supporter, yet I am very disappointed in how quickly these writers through Cain under the bus. Cain was hit with Chicago political tactics and they were too vested in their own candidates to see what was happening.

RedheadedTexan| 12.3.11 @ 7:31AM

Roberts

Andrew Terhune| 12.3.11 @ 11:48AM

Marche

Bebe| 12.3.11 @ 11:50AM

Hilyer:
"I would call them all hateful, moronic, bigoted, murderous Stalinists." Ironically you beat them all!

skip| 12.3.11 @ 2:44PM

. . . speaking of hateful moronic bigoted murder by socialists, communists, and/or fascists, I wonder if the number of 'sanctioned' brutal slaughters of innocent and defenseless unborn and/or partially born Americans ironically brought to us by liberal democrats is still in the 54 millions, or if have we surpassed 55 million by now, on also wondering if the author will let us vote with late write-in candidates or not . . .

Quin| 12.3.11 @ 4:01PM

Okay, thanks to everybody for your votes. Marche wins in a landslide!

Ranald| 12.3.11 @ 10:41PM

Roberts.

POST American| 12.3.11 @ 11:11PM

---------------------FINAL WORD-----------------------

AS Jeffrey I-Meltdown dances the world,
TAX FREE, as those GE reactors in FUKISHIMA
bring us into the kick-off of world depop-op

AS the latest 'SICK--CURE--'IT'--he'
SECTION 1031, passed days ago, calls for
abduction, tortures, exile and 'disappearance'
of citizens

AS the latest stealth merging of the NAU
is bringing with it further saturation of
the food chain with cancer engendering,
organ an 'FIR--till--'IT'--he' destroying
GMO

AS CHEM-trails knit our skies

AS an est. 30 MILLION illegal aliens
roam the landscape

AS the Christian religious establishment
is now, and has long been, infiltrated and
subverted by the forces of Rockefeller
'ECK--YOU--MEN--ICK--ALL--ism'
and countless 'SOD-dummy' opos

AS the 'YOU-femm--ism' of 'A--BORE--SHUN'
claims more than 51 MILLION of our unborn

AS the Globalist RED China sellout and
TREASON OP reaches for FINAL
CON-solidation

----------------WHERE'S THE PRESS?----------------

Wayne| 12.4.11 @ 9:34AM

Its not just left-wing media. We have Laura Ingraham scolding the Tea Party house members by saying they can't govern because they wouldn't cave on the "debt ceiling compromise". Now we are seeing where that compromise has lead us.

RICK| 12.4.11 @ 4:24PM

Marche

Dave| 12.4.11 @ 7:12PM

Marche

faxmatter| 12.4.11 @ 10:09PM

Marche. Ça ne marche pas.

Controse| 12.5.11 @ 12:20PM

Marche

Dan Fitzgerald| 12.5.11 @ 3:15PM

Marche

RichardM73| 2.16.12 @ 4:44PM

The MSM has caved and become the mouthpiece for Obama and socialistic ideals and principles. They have sold out their country. In order for the elites to accomplish their 'wet dream' of a NWO, America has to be subverted from within to enable a transition to a communist/socialist nation. The elites need America to come on line and join the world. How many times has it been said that we live in a 'global economy' now. Everything is about the state and globalism. Meaning, say goodbye to your time-honored, sovereignty. There is no such thing as a Constitution or Bill of Rights, or individual free doms if you want to be a citizen of the world.

You cannot achieve a world govt. without ALL the countries of the world giving up their individual sovereignties. This is the master plan for world global govt. The elite communists are seeking world domination and seem to be well on their way. The elites have masterminded the destruction of all the economies of the world. This is their moment in the spotlight, so to speak. They can smell it, taste it and almost touch it. Their wet dream of global domination is at hand! They are exuberant and in wringing hand fashion, are waiting for the final death knell to come upon America. As long as America remains a free and sovereign state, their wet dream cannot become a reality.

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