Feb. 4 episode of The O'Reilly Factor included a 20 minute interview of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. Following this edited interview, O'Reilly had guests Dennis Miller and a "body language expert" offer their analysis of Jon Stewart and how the interview went. Well straight from the No Spine Zone's official site, they have posted the full, unedited 42 minute interview! Here it is for all to see. Jon Stewart truly.... DESTROYS FOX NEWS!Feb. 4 episode of The O'Reilly Factor included a 20 minute interview of The Daily... more
Congressional Democrats are trying to move forward with health care reform bit by bit, contrary to their original plan to pass a massive health care reform bill. Chad Pergram from Fox News reports that, “On Friday, two freshmen Democrats plan to unveil a bill to lift the anti-trust exemption that many health insurance companies now enjoy. House Democratic leaders plan to put that bill on the floor next weeCongressional Democrats are trying to move forward with health care reform bit by bit,... more
Tackling Bill O'Reilly on his home turf is never easy, yet Jon Stewart more than held his own last night.
In a vigorous, policy-laden debate, 'The Daily Show' host blasts Fox's 'panic attack' coverage of Obama and the economy. O'Reilly says 'the narrative of a couple of guys' doesn't represent the whole network.
But most of all, Stewart used his second appearance ever on "The O'Reilly Factor" to levy a robust critique of Fox News and its coverage of President Obama.
"Here's what Fox has done, through their cyclonic perpetual emotional machine that is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: They have taken reasonable concerns about this president and this economy and turned it into full-fledged panic attack about the next coming of Chairman Mao," the comedian told his host.
"I think some people do that, but most people don't," O'Reilly responded, calling it "the narrative of a couple of guys."Tackling Bill O'Reilly on his home turf is never easy, yet Jon Stewart more than... more
Imagine, a wee little bit of honesty coming to Fox (News?). The "No" Spin Zone with its host, BallyHooey Bill-O, who wouldn’t know honesty if it ran up and hit him over the head, (which the intellectually witty Jon Stewart virtually did) welcomed Jon Stewart on February 3, 2010. Wow! The mental contrast of bright and dull, between the two, almost seems unfair to imbalanced O’Reilly. But believe it or not it was somewhat entertaining if you could overlook the childish name calling from O'Reilly. He is so use to his Romper Room Tactics that he would not be able to get through a day without them. Hats Off To Jon Stewart The Most Trusted Wit On TV! thinkingblue
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Tonight, Jon Stewart told Bill O’Reilly that the “no spin zone” ringleader had become the voice of sanity on the Fox News Channel, although “that’s like being the thinnest kid at fat camp.”
The host of “The Daily Show” and Fox’s kingpin exchanged some good-natured shots Wednesday during Stewart’s appearance on a network he relishes mocking. Stewart tossed off jokes but also criticized Fox for being a “cyclonic perpetual motion machine” opposing President Barack Obama.
“They have taken reasonable concerns about this president and this economy and turned it into a full-fledged panic attack about the next coming of Chairman Mao,” Stewart said.
In an interview Sunday, New York Times economist Paul Krugman hammered conservative talk show host Glenn Beck for spreading blatantly false information about the Democrats' health care bill -- and put the blame squarely on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.In an interview Sunday, New York Times economist Paul Krugman hammered conservative... more
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In President Obama's STATE OF THE UNION address, many things were said. So many things that of course, the common man and woman needs "experts" to unravel it all and help them shape their opinions. In comes Wolf Douglas and the crack WHACKO-TV round table of political analysts to get it straight. Catch the award winning coverage you just can't get anywhere else.In President Obama's STATE OF THE UNION address, many things were said. So many... more
A look at some of Obama’s claims in the State of the Union and how they compare with the facts…
WASHINGTON — President Obama, who once considered government spending freezes a hatchet job, told Americans on Wednesday it’s now part of his solution to the exploding deficit. He didn’t explain what had changed.
His State of the Union speech skipped over a variety of complex realities in laying out a “common-sense” call to action.
click here For A look at some of his claims and how they compare with the facts:http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/state-of-union-fact-check-obama-liar-liar-obamas-own-reality/A look at some of Obama’s claims in the State of the Union and how they compare... more
In this recording of a public forum Bill O'Reily says that if he were an advisor to Obama he would suggest to have the CIA kidnap Reid and Pelosi and to waterboard Pelosi.
Click on the image or link to listen to his actual statement.In this recording of a public forum Bill O'Reily says that if he were an advisor... more
You'd think Bill O'Reilly would at least be a little embarrassed that Fox News Channel was the only news entity on cable TV not to broadcast last week's "Hope for Haiti" concert.
But no. Instead of apologizing or even mentioning some kind of lame excuse why Fox didn't air it, on his show last night O'Reilly actually went on the warpath against the benefit and its organizers, demanding "transparency" and a full accounting of where all the money's going.
What really got his dander up? The benefit's organizers "wouldn't or couldn't" provide a spokesman to come on his show and explain himself.You'd think Bill O'Reilly would at least be a little embarrassed that Fox... more
Glenn Beck is being characterized by the establishment as the leader of the freedom movement and yet a closer analysis of his ideology reveals that Beck is nothing more than a fake revolutionary who has supported and is pushing policies that are diametrically opposed to those embraced by true constitutionalists.
Beck and Fox News have hijacked the patriot movement and are leading conservatives and libertarians down a meaningless partisan rabbit hole in a clear attempt to neutralize genuine opposition to the big government agenda of the Obama administration.
It is important to stress that we are not picking a fight with Glenn Beck or Fox News in general as a crude effort to garner attention. Glenn Beck routinely attacks real libertarians, Ron Paul supporters, and those who would define themselves as constitutionalists. We are constantly forced to rebut his smears against people in the freedom movement while Beck claims to be one of us.Glenn Beck is being characterized by the establishment as the leader of the freedom... more
The media love to talk about transparency and accountability when it comes to politicians and the government -- they should, it's an important subject. They, too, have such an obligation of transparency to the American people, particularly when it comes to who can and cannot advertise on their coveted airwaves. On that account, they continue to fail miserably.http://mediamatters.org/columns/201001260021
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Picking up where the network left off in 2009, Fox News jumped into its first political campaign of the year, this time setting its sights on the U.S. Senate to help elect Republican Scott Brown to the seat previously held by Democrat Ted Kennedy. Fox News and other media conservatives anticipated and celebrated Brown's election with a hyperbolic fervor that would redden the faces of the "Obamaniacs" they most despised in 2008. As conservative media saw it, in defeating Democratic challenger Martha Coakley in Massachusetts, Scott Brown took down Goliath, the 1980 Soviet Olympic hockey team, the Berlin Wall, and the British Empire. Before Brown assumed his seat in the Senate, he had been nominated by Drudge and Fox News to be our next president.
Fox News didn't simply cheer from the sidelines of this contest. Indeed, the network actively aided Brown's campaign. Fox News repeatedly hosted Brown in the days leading up to the election, and during each appearance, Brown directed viewers to his website to find out "how to help with donating and volunteering." Fox News political analyst Dick Morris took it upon himself to urge viewers to "go to DickMorris.com ... to help elect Brown," because if "we win this fight, then there will never be another victory for Obama." When asked at a rally about "ethical questions" raised by Fox News' advocacy for Brown, chief political correspondent Carl Cameron fled, saying he didn't have time to answer. But he did have the time to autograph "Brown for Senate" campaign materials and pose for pictures with Brown's volunteers, as Think Progress documented.
Fox News also did Brown the favor of repeatedly misrepresenting remarks Coakley made to portray her as incompetent. America's News HQ anchor Gregg Jarrett stated on January 17, "Martha Coakley is out of step when she says things like terrorists are no longer in Afghanistan, or in the debate saying, quote, 'We need to get taxes up.' " Interpreting Coakley's remarks in this way requires a willing suspension of basic verbal reasoning skills; and that was Fox's "straight news" programming. On Fox & Friends, Steve Doocy actually claimed that Coakley "suggested the Taliban [are] gone from Afghanistan," and Michael Scheuer declared that Coakley "doesn't seem to mind" that "we are losing there." For his part, Glenn Beck accused Coakley of "religious bigotry" for saying that those who would "deny emergency contraception to a woman who came in who had been raped" probably "shouldn't work in the emergency room."
In case boosting Brown while attacking Coakley wasn't a sufficient strategy, Fox News baselessly fomented fears that Democrats would "cheat" to steal the election. Warning Fox News viewers not to become complacent before Election Day, Beck stated, "[Y]ou can imagine how ugly this thing will get if -- oh God help us all -- if it's too close to call." Beck displayed the ACORN logo and added, "[T]hey have friends in low places." Invoking the Florida recount, Beck asserted that Democrats "were so incompetent they didn't even know how to cheat. But don't worry -- they've gotten good at it now."
Fox even told viewers that they could strengthen their 401(k)s by electing Brown.
The new audio tape from “Osama bin Laden” taking responsibility for the idiotic and childish incident in Detroit where moronic Nigerian armed with a useless “bomb” is simply too much. Now using audio tapes because, supposedly, nobody in Al Qaeda got a flash drive video for Christmas is even more of a joke. Please, with the hundreds of millions our Saudi allies have given to terrorists, a video camera the size of an Ipod might have been a nice touch. Even funnier was releasing the audio, using algorithm software probably illegally downloaded off the internet, and giving it to Al Jazeera, is even funnier.
Pundit Debbie Schussell, former Mark Siljander (VT staff writer) staffer, has bitterly complained about the strong ties between Fox News and Al Jazeera. Fox owner, Rupert Murdoch, is the most powerful “influencer” of the ultra-rightists in Israel. Attempts by the press to present Al Jazeera of today as the “pro-terrorist” media it seemed like many years ago is an epic misrepresentation.
A further abuse, of course, is not only that we are no longer seeing the easily debunked bin Laden doubles whose video tapes were “mysteriously” released by SITE Intelligence, the Rita Katz/Israeli group that seems to find them in trash bins behind delicatessens. The “new” audio tape itself contains statements claiming credit for 9/11 in direct contradiction to the real bin Laden videos, the only ones authenticated. If you wondered why the FBI doesn’t list Osama bin Laden as a suspect in 9/11, I think you have your answer. If they think the bin Laden “admissions” aren’t credibile, I wonder who the FBI is investigating or if they have simply been told to mind their own business.
The terrorist incident itself is the last thing Al Qaeda would ever take responsibilty for despite the claims by SITE Intelligence that they found an unnamed and unverified internet site that confirmed this. Who in the name of all that is holy would want to take responsibility for an idiot who was led onto an American bound plane by passing around searches, customs and passport control in an airport run by an Israeli security company but who carried a “bomb” designed by a three year old.
Who would be so stupid as to try to pass off this childish tape when reliable witnesses saw the terrorist being led onto the plane in Amsterdam in a manner that required full cooperation from security personnel, passport control and the airline itself. We don’t even have to go into the fact that the “terrorists” in Yemen that supposedly claimed responsibilty were released from Guantanamo under the personal signature of Vice President Cheney in 2007 or that before the incident, the government of Yemen tied these individuals to Israeli controllers thru captured computers.
I am only thankful that the duped terrorist, or as Lee Oswald had said, “patsy”, was the moronic son of a long time Mossad business associate in Nigeria. Mr. Mutallab, banker, but mostly head of Nigeria’s defense industry, DICON, managed almost entirely by Israelis, may have much more story to tell other than the one he told CIA Chief of Station on November 19, 2009. Do we want to follow former Homeland Security director Chertoff, not only a Jewish activist but currently representing companies selling body scanners to airports and the mysterious ability for someone on worldwide terrorist watch lists to be escorted onto a US bound airliner without passport or search?
Billions in profits were realized almost instantly after this incident. Companies tied to Chertoff, Israel and India were on the receiving end.
The only reliable information the world has on Osama bin Laden is that he was killed by American troops on December 13, 2001 and buried outside Tora Bora by his following, 30 Mujahideen.
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"A new study suggests that viewers worldwide turn to particular broadcasters to affirm — rather than inform — their opinions. It's a notion familiar to those dismayed by the paths blazed by cable news networks FOX and MSNBC — although the study finds one (perhaps unlikely) network may actually foster greater intellectual openness.
The study in the December issue of Media, War & Conflict by Shawn Powers, a fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and Mohammed el-Nawawy, an assistant professor in the department of communication at Queens University of Charlotte, found that the longer viewers had been watching Al Jazeera English, the less dogmatic they were in their opinions and therefore more open to considering alternative and clashing opinions.
Al Jazeera English is a global news network that "aims to give voice to untold stories, promote debate, and challenge established perceptions." Launched on Nov. 15, 2006, the network is accessible to more than 120 million households worldwide; it is currently available on only a handful of satellite networks in the United States.
The network is based in Doha, Qatar, and is funded by the Qatari government, a U.S. ally.
A 2006 study conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that many Westerners see Muslims as "fanatical, violent, and lacking tolerance," whereas Muslims in the Middle East and Asia see Westerners as "selfish, immoral, and greedy — as well as violent and fanatical."""A new study suggests that viewers worldwide turn to particular broadcasters to... more
Though the tea party movement has attracted criticism for its supposed lack of diversity, minority activists who are involved say the movement has little to do with race, and that it is attracting a more diverse crowd every day.
His family had just moved out of the “ghetto” to a brand-new high rise in Baltimore — within months, he said, the “dream come true” turned into a nightmare, as the building of welfare-collecting black residents became a den of crime.Though the tea party movement has attracted criticism for its supposed lack of... more
Glenn Beck will roll out his Fox News documentary today. It’s called “Live Free Or Die,” a motto taken from General John Stark and inspired by Patrick Henry’s famed March 23, 1775 speech to the House of Burgesses. Henry famously declared: “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Glenn Beck is no Patrick Henry. His latest book’s title is a direct rip-off of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense. Beck is no Thomas Paine. He is not a patriot. He is an Operation Mockingbird asset and his assignment is to take down the patriot movement. He is a Judas Goat. His task is to destroy the patriot movement and lead it into political irrelevance.
Although I must admit that I am more of a fan of Mike Huckabee’s television show, I have watched yours on multiple occasions as well and some of the commentary featured on your show alarms me sir. Upon my watching your show I have noticed that you have the propensity for bashing the hip hop industry at large and relegating its artists to “pinhead” status for reasons that myself and other followers of hip hop find both appalling and extremely biased. Since the inception of your show The O’Reilly Factor in 1996, it seems as if you have made it a personal crusade to vilify the entire hip hop industry while painting a subjective, blindly blanketed generalization that all hip hop is filled to capacity with crime, violence, and drug peddling. I must digress on this opinion sir as it can be no further than the truth.
Not once have you shown the positive side of the hip hop industry such as the multitude of charities created by hip hop artists to help poverty stricken children not only in the inner cities of America but in the war torn lands of Africa as well. Never have you taken the time out from your pessimistic, predisposed and preposterous opinion rants on hip hop to acknowledge the successes of numerous artists and industry leaders who grasped the concept of entrepreneurialism by the horns and became successful. People such as Russell Simmons, Jay-Z, P. Diddy, Master P, and countless others. I have yet to hear you mention movements like the Hip Hop Congress, Rap the Vote, or the Hip Hop Summit., all of which promote social and political change while teaching the youth how to become active in their communities.
Instead you decide to incessantly harp on the negative aspects of this great art form, proclaiming over and over again to your viewers that hip hop has nothing good to offer society and is populated by pimps, thugs, and drug traffickers. You incorrectly paint this picture while simultaneously turning a blind eye to the negative aspects and ramifications of other forms of entertainment from rock music to movies to your own books. I concur with you that some rap music glorifies the street life and paints a hyperbolic image of a life lived in poverty.
However,name one other form of media that doesn’t do the same. Why aren’t you criticizing the rock music genre for promoting recreational drug use and promiscuous sex? Why haven’t you spoken out on the superfluous amount of violence and adult content readily found on any television channel or movie screen? Why would you write a novel that contains graphic sex acts and multiple murders? This inability to offer the same disparagement to other industries for their practices that mirror those of a select few of hip hop acts is further proof of your unjust prejudice against the hip hop industry and community. How do you make statements like this- “"See, now, here's Britney Spears, who I don't have too much of it, she's dressed up like a dominatrix here, but that's just rock and roll nonsense.
There she is, it doesn't bother me.” and then denigrate hip hop for glorifying sex? Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this Britney Spears who dresses like a dominatrix, tongue kisses other women on TV and has the same target demographic as the Barbie corporation the same Britney Spears whom was a spokesperson for Pepsi? Yes that Pepsi, the same one you protested and lambasted for allowing Ludacris to be their spokesperson even though according to you he is “subverting the values of the United States”
