Cillizza: Van Jones and ACORN stories "suggest we better pay attention" to what Beck and Hannity are reporting "because they have power"
September 20, 2009 1:21 pm ET
From the September 20 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources:
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What I would like to know is how these circus clowns GOT this power in the first place??
They're not elected!
Those that follow them equal to less than 2% of the total population of this country!
So again I ask... how did these circus clowns get this kind of power to be able to dictate the (un)civil discourse in America??
They get their power from the simple fact that Americans want to see more than the usual liberal Big three and NYT spin on the news.
The question was what is the mechanism that is used to turn such a small group of people into such movers and shakers. To say things is one thing, The how of their ability to drag the rest of the nation into their personal vendettas is what is puzzling.
Still going with the liberal media myth um. Tell me what liberal issue they've sucessfully pushed into real liberal action. It took just days to take the census job away from ACORN via congressional action. Mr. Jones was gone in an equally short time frame. Yet they were so powerful and so dangerously dominate in your world view. I see no proof of that power and dominance.
ROFL . . . hell, if FOX is the ONLY network willing to cover "liberal scandals and abuses of power", there must not be very many of them.
Oh, I know; there was the hullaballoo about Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate, Vince Foster, Paula Jones, etc. . . but, that all turned out to be about one simple thing: a stained blue dress.
Other other hand, and the other side, we've had
Watergate
Iran-Contra
faulty pre-war intelligence
nonexistent WMDs
fired US attorneys
warrantless wiretapping
extraordinary rendition
enhanced interrogation
and so on . . .
BTW, you are aware that the actual TANG documents released the same week of the Rather story show that Rather's story was true, right? I never saw the Rather story, but I did see the documents released pursuant to the Associated Press's FOIA lawsuit. Bush was a deserter. He never completed his commitment to the TANG.
Fox makes nonsense up ALL the time and you apparently BELIEVE it. Sad.
Oh, and Amy Holmes remains an idiot.
A cable network's (FoxNews Channel) high "ratings" becomes very "powerful" amongst their competition's (CNN & MSNBC) "fact-findings" and "truth-tellings". Wink, wink. LOL
What a bunch of rationalized bullchit that is!
If these media hacks have such a 'popular following', then why did the Democrats (who those media hacks hate and slander 24/7), why did those Democrats capture Congress in 2006 in a truly stunning and historic wave of electoral popularity, and why did they again add to those Congressional majorities in 2008, in addition to capturing the administration of our federal government in an electoral landslide...
Just what is the definition of POPULAR anyway?
LORD do these people live in a media delusion, and when the facts contradict their political opinions, then they contradict the facts!
The hateful opposition to the Obama administration (and to Congressional Democrats) is a certified and proven MINORITY of the American People, and yet that MINORITY of the American People, and the media hacks who speak for (but mostly to) them, they're POPULAR?
LORD talk about these media hacks contradicting the facts to fit their own delusional beliefs about the political opinions held by the American People... political opinions registered and certified in the last two national elections!
The talk radio right may be able to claim some success for the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, but remember that, even at the height of the impeachment hysteria, Bill Clinton had a 60+% approval rating.
Popular= Correct to these clowns.
To these couple million viewers - hating the President has become their life.
That don't make it a legitimate news network. Clearly, it's not. It's just a gop-slop propaganda organ.
MSM folks are afraid of being labeled "liberal" if they don;t cover the latest made up scandal from the right.
These people are ruining america
I've highlighted it before but it bears repeating. Time's Klein was on the program and called Limbaugh a liar only to have Kurtz follow his statement by saying that it wasn't fair to use such terms.
Kurtz' final statement on this particular clip outlines his job and then he fails completely at doing it.
Ask Van Jones, (former Obama admin employee) how much power Fox has.
Actually word is he was thinking of moving on soon anyway.
I and many others are waiting for Fox to attack someone unwilling to accept conviction by Faux Gnues. It might be ACORN, it might be their next target. It'd be worth a lot to see Faux actually try to defend their lies in a civil court.
Better yet, let's ask Cass Sunstein -- whom Beck vowed to go after, after Jones -- how much power the Fox Comedy Channel has {Sunstein was confirmed as WHOIRA head anyway.}
Hell, let's ask Barack Obama: FOX spent the better part of a year repeating three things -- Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayres, and Michelle Obama's "proud" comment . . . did it keep Obama out of the White House?
Yes, because made up stories about a community organization are soooo much MORE IMPORTANT than the health care debate, the economic situation, two wars, international relations, etc. . .
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