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VOTE: The Worst Media Moment of Obama's First 100 Days

April 23, 2009 1:52 pm ET by Karl Frisch

The first 100 days of the Obama administration are coming to a close, and there has certainly been no shortage of unhinged and outrageous media moments.

From Rush Limbaugh saying that "we are being told to bend over and grab the ankles ... because his father is black," to Glenn Beck imitating President Obama pouring gasoline on an "average American," conservatives in the media have wasted no time in stoking a culture of paranoia with extreme, vitriolic, and often irresponsible rhetoric.
Now it’s your turn to weigh in. Check out this video of the most outrageous media moments from the first 100 days, and then vote for which you think is the worst:



In addition to the examples referenced above, candidates for the Worst Media Moment also include:

  • CNBC’s Larry Kudlow complaining about Obama and Chavez's "Boyz N The Hood handshake"
  • Reporting on tea parties, Fox Business' Cody Willard asked: "Guys, when are we going to wake up and start fighting the fascism that seems to be permeating this country?"
  • Fox’s Dick Morris declaring that the “crazies” who “say ‘We’re going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.’s going to take over’ … [are] beginning to have a case”

Instead of focusing on substantive policy discussions, media figures have all too often launched relentless political attacks, and bypassed legitimate reporting and commentary in favor of demagoguery. You can help us bring attention to this troubling pattern by watching our video and participating in our poll.

We will announce the results here on County Fair next Wednesday, April 29, so please make your voice heard today!

Tags: Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, Dick Morris, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Program, CNN, Pat Buchanan, Kudlow & Company, Jim Cramer, Bulls & Bears, Rick Santelli, Mad Money, Larry Kudlow, Cody Willard, Attacks on Barack Obama, Propaganda/Noise Machine

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    • Author by magsthecat14083 (April 23, 2009 3:42 pm ET)
         

      I see you think on Fox and CNBC had the "worst media moments"; I think MBNBC, CNN and ABC had the worst.  Why aren't they in your votes?

      Did I stumble on to a bastion of left-wingnuts????? 

       

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      • Author by seeryer (April 23, 2009 8:54 pm ET)
           
        Did you know that this site highlights conservative misinformation?  Of course not, you are a conservative douche bag.  Did the Freepers site go down?
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    • Author by shaggles (April 23, 2009 4:52 pm ET)
         
      I voted for Morris' ATF comment.  I'm surprised it's only at 6%.  That was pretty outrageous.
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (April 23, 2009 6:43 pm ET)
         

      I went for the Beck Flambe.

      Lotta worthy candidates, to bad they couldn't include O'Really(?)'s history lesson.

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    • Author by seeryer (April 23, 2009 8:56 pm ET)
         
      I thought Beck mocking the aunt was the pettiest, crapiest moment so far this year.
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    • Author by LuvLuLu (April 23, 2009 10:41 pm ET)
         

      I agree that there were too many horrific comments to choose from. I would have liked an Instant Runoff Voting scheme, where you pick your top 3.

      I went for Beck's mocking of Obama's Aunt's limp. It's offensive for a number of reasons. It's a personal attack. It's an attack on a relative of his that has almost nothing to do with Obama, and he has had nothing to do with her Immigration hearings and the results of those hearings. He thinks it's funny that he's picking on her limp, so funny that he continues to mouth 'she has a limp' while the other guy is talking, and it was premeditated, which makes it even worse. Why else would they keep the split screen on Beck that whole time unless he planned on mouthing the comments about her limp over and over again.

      That's low. Limbaugh, bad. Beck dousing a guy with fake gas and then threatening to light him on fire and saying that Obama is inches away from doing the same thing to the American public, treasonous. Morris, disgraceful. But for me, Beck's rant about the crippled Aunt is beyond the pale.

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    • Author by CommonSense (April 24, 2009 6:54 pm ET)
         
      I thought Glenn's Flame clip was hilarious, I give it #1, I laughed for a good long time when I saw that.
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    • Author by In Your Dreams (April 24, 2009 8:40 pm ET)
         
      I voted for Santelli's comment about the "losers" in the mortgage crisis and that his co-workers on Wall Street are "real America."
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    • Author by jeditrader5293 (April 25, 2009 11:47 am ET)
         
      There's nothing outrageous about any of these vidoe/comments. You need recognize that listeners and hosts are coming together and exercising their first amendment rights to assemble.   Millions of Americans assemble to listen to pionts of views that thay agree most to.  If CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, and ABC weren't on a mission to promote a liberal agenda,  they too would have an assmebly of listeners. 
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    • Author by dadre (April 26, 2009 2:17 am ET)
         

      Wow....I think lying/personal attacks/misinformation/anti-american treasonous talk is more egregious than anything MSNBC let alone CNN or ABC can do. There was so much projection in most of these comments especially with the fascism claim....George Bush was closer to being a fascist than Obama. He was an oil tycoon, let go pretty much all regulations on business, scared us all s**tless with national security, and he made the under funded God forsaken tard  lapse that is "no child left behind" you have to be an idiot to think it would work the way he had it and they praised it liek it was the holy grail . That is why they are up for the worst moments. 8 years of cheerleading, misinformation, and promoting the trickle down method which only makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. Also now for playing to big business and tricking the common person to fight there battle for them.

      Also usually when something is wrong with everyone else in the world....that means you're the crazy one. Point and case fox....EVERY other news outlet is liberal along with all of TV.....blaming it on the culture?crazy.....look at o'reily's latest comments about Soros and GE which were clearly projection. Rupert Murdoch was the one in bed with the government getting them to give him more power and in term  money. Most media only shows signs of being liberal because it sells...it's taboo.  

      Funny thing is the conservatives lost minorities and most minorities are conservative. I myself am a liberal conservative. I'm open minded but I fall back on religion for ethics. I agree with some of the viewpoints but I can not go along with all of the hate that is coming out of those who are leading the conservative movement and others I know which focres me to a more conservative centrist.

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