Comedy | January 18, 2012 | 43 comments

Jerry Springer To Fox News: ‘You Guys, Every Single Day, Bash President Obama’

source: http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/01/18/406343/jerry-springer-to-fox-news-you-guys-every-s...

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Newsweek made this week waves once again, this time for the lead story titled, “Why are Obama’s critics so dumb?” Today, on Fox and Friends, host Gretchen Carlson asked her “fair and balanced” panel to discuss whether her outrage over the headline is justified. While most made the point that the headline is predominantly a sales-pitch, the “liberal” guest, TV talk show host Jerry Springer, opted to note the irony.

“It is a little disingenuous,” he said. “Here we are at Fox, complaining that Newsweek may be a little partisan.” Noting that magazines and other media outlets often take — or sell — opinions, Springer pointed out that Carlson’s outrage might be misplaced considering that “you guys, every single day, bash President Obama”:

SPRINGER: If the point of this discussion is to be upset with a magazine that — even if it took the position that they’re pro-Obama — again, everybody in the media is doing things like that. We’re here on Fox News. Every single day, in fairness, you guys, every single day, bash President Obama.

CARLSON: I’m going to take you to task on that because on this panel right here, we have a fair and balanced panel right here. And I’m the independent.

SPRINGER: But, what’s the rest of the show? The rest of the show, every single morning, you guys are slamming Obama. You know you are. I’m not saying you don’t have a right to. But every single conversation is something bad about Obama.

Carlson’s “independence” must be seconds old. After all, Fox and Friends has never missed an opportunity to blast Obama, be it over the Iraq War, recess appointments, terrorism, income inequality, Christmas, or for generally existing.

The fair and balanced Carlson herself has unloaded on Obama, claiming he is putting “politics ahead of jobs for the American People,” or that he is “grinching 15 cents out of your pocket,” or that he is “working overtime now to raise taxes.” She’s even offered advice to GOP candidates on exactly how to campaign against the president. But Carlson insisted to Springer, “you obviously don’t watch our show.” “Quite frankly, we present both sides of the story and leave it up to our viewers to decide where they fall,” she said.

By Tanya Somanader on Jan 18, 2012 at 4:15 pm
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43 comments // Jerry Springer To Fox News: ‘You Guys, Every Single Day, Bash President Obama’ // Video

  • Barb_Bricker
    • -2
      Barb_Bricker  

    • The rest of the media is busy bashing Fox and campaigning for Obama. Fox doesn't bash Obama to be bashing him. He just happens to constantly be doing something that's damaging to the country. They don't attack him as person. They stick to the issues. Somebody has to tell the truth about his policies.

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
  • nanac
    • +1
      nanac  

    • Long before Jerry Springer got down into the gutter for fame/fortune, he was a normal guy.
      Springer use to be a politican, therefore he knows the game. It was good to see him put the Fox propaganda squad on notice. They acted as if they were shocked to be rebutted.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThirdSection
  • chew_chew
  • Kilnsapper
  • noxidereus
    • -4
      noxidereus  

    • The criticism of Obama from Fox is dumb, but there are real reasons to be critical of Obama for sure. Personally, I think he's a total piece of shit.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThirdSection
    • +3
      ThirdSection  

    • I like how they referred to Newsweek, which put out its first issue in 1933, as a "fledgling magazine". This is the sort of accuracy that we have grown to expect from the fair and balanced folks over at FOX News.

    • 1 year ago
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
  • ThirdSection
    • +2
      ThirdSection  
    • Truthitswhatsfordinner:

      fledg·ling also fledge·ling (fljlng)
      n.
      1. A young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers.
      2. A young or inexperienced person.
      adj.
      New and untried or inexperienced: a fledgling enterprise.

      From thefreedictionary.com

    • 1 year ago
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
  • ThirdSection
  • maasanova
    • +1
      maasanova  

    • We shouldn't even be bashing Obama. Obama himself admitted early on in his administration that because he had no experience that he would have to rely heavily on his team of "experts."

      In my opinon, these "experts," mostly Clinton retreads and a few Bush holdovers got us to where we are today, not Obama, so we should be bashing them.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThirdSection
    • 0
      ThirdSection  
    • maasanova:

      Well, we should certainly be holding his experts to account, no argument there, but Obama is still the President, and he is ultimately responsible for the conduct of his expert hirelings. I think that 'hireling' is the key word here because a President should deal with them the same way any executive deals with his employees.

    • 1 year ago
  • JustZ
  • ThirdSection
  • AreOh
  • Anonmaly
    • +2
      Anonmaly  

    • That's okay every single day on c u r r e n t . c o m they try to convince us simply because Obama is on the "left" he is "progressive" or a "liberal"....

      Thankfully, every now and then you can tune in Chenk, and much to the chagrin of even the establishment puppets that work with him, he tells it like it is.

      But Jerry Springer...? I have more respect for an honest smut peddler (Larry Flynt comes to mind) than that sicko.... I sat back and watched a generation sitting back getting high and watching that program of his like it was a daily religious thing....

      I can think of few people that have done as much for dumbing down Americas youth than Jerry Springer.....

      So really, his opinion is... Invalid, another predatory capitalist that saw money as more important than a generation who's brains are malformed, and loaded with SHIT.....

      (Faux News, isn't really better, but the only people watching it are the elderly who mostly already have dementia so who gives a shit?)

    • 1 year ago
  • fiberbundle
    • +2
      fiberbundle  
    • Anonmaly:

      "Faux News, isn't really better, but the only people watching it are the elderly who mostly already have dementia so who gives a shit?"

      Boy, have you got that right. Watching Fox, collecting their social security and medicare benefits, sitting in their VA mortgage home, that they paid for with the money they earned because they were educated on the GI bill, or maybe they're watching from their VA hospital bed. But Fox tells it like it is.

    • 1 year ago
  • grammabet
  • nashkildare
  • northernexpat
    • +7
      northernexpat  

    • I bet they don't invite him back to be on their so called "fair and balanced" panel. Do you think that people who have fried their brains watching FOX News actually had a sane moment when he made his comments or did they just look at each other and ask "what did he say?" because they wouldn't know the truth if it hit them in the face.

      SUNTV in Canada is trying to be Canada's version of FOX. They are out to destroy the CBC because they don't like hearing "fair and balanced". If we don't stop them the world will soon be controlled by rich conglomerates that lie to keep people in line. 1984 anyone?

    • 1 year ago
  • joeredford
  • coolplanet
  • coolplanet
  • joeredford
  • joeredford
  • jimstoner
    • +8
      jimstoner  

    • You can't really expect them to say "of course we do. We are the propaganda wing of the far right. It's our job to sell the far right agenda even if we have to lie to do it". It's not as though they are to stupid to know who they really are or what their purpose is. After all these years, I think even their viewers have a pretty good idea that Fox lies and distorts to further the far right agenda. I think that the Fox viewers believe so adamantly in that agenda, that they think it's okay for Fox to do that. They just don't realize that if you have to lie to get your ideas accepted, then your ideas are, by definition, bad ones.

    • 1 year ago
  • Varex_Sythe
    • +7
      Varex_Sythe  

    • I never liked the Jerry Springer Show, or Jerry Springer for actually doing that show, but I'll be damned if he didn't earn at least some respect from me for saying that.

    • 1 year ago
  • warman1138
  • mikeadempsey96
    • +5
      mikeadempsey96  

    • As soon as that woman said the words "And I'm the independent" I literally burst out laughing. I've actully watched a lot of FoxNews, partially because I like to know what the opposing side believes, but also because my father watched Foxnews every morning for as long as I can remember.. After a lifetime of being exposed to their material, I can say without any hint of a doubt in my mind, they are ANYTHING BUT "fair and balanced".

    • 1 year ago
  • coolplanet
  • coolplanet
  • SFirman
  • coolplanet
  • budsnews
  • ahonnet
  • tverdell
  • coolplanet
  • KB723
  • coolplanet
    • +6
      coolplanet  
    • Image

    • "I’m going to take you to task on that because on this panel right here, we have a fair and balanced panel right here. And I’m the independent."

    • 1 year ago
  • warman1138
  • coolplanet
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