The most bizarre attack on Media Matters EVER
January 06, 2010 9:04 am ET
From the January 6, 2010 edition of Fox News Channel's Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld:
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Disgustingly stupid, huh?
Though Soros looks better here than in "real life" ;-)
And usually, humor is funny because it's rooted in reality. Like, when Tina Fey did her impression of Sarah Palin in her interview with Katie Couric and basically read a full quote that Palin actually said in the interview. That's why it was funny, cuz it was true.
I don't even understand what the humor is here. It's basically just like little kids calling each other "poopiehead". It comes completely from a place of uncontrollable anger where you just want to call a person as many sick and disgusting things as possible (I mean the spanking and breastfeeding thing, that's just gross juvenile stuff).
Name-calling isn't comedy.
you should tell the rest of the bloggers that. see below and well this intire site.
The other really important thing is that humor has to have a grain of truth in it, that gets exaggerated. Don't see anything here unless it's a window into the right-wing Faux mind that wrote the material.
Of course, Brain-numbingly stupid and pointless is what "Red Eye" is all about. I happened to catch a few minutes of this show once as I was packing for a very early morning trip, and I didn't realize till later that it wasn't just the usual Faux "news" bs, but a special brand of A-Quality bs.
Now I will say that the right-wingers are excellent at unintentional humor...Glen Beck screaming "get off my phone" in a uber-soprano voice, for example....
I watch a lot of their youtube clips because I love how obsessed they are with Olbermann. And, Keith does the smart thing by not even addressing their obsession with him. He has brought them up as many times as I can count on one hand, but only showing their stupidity.
"Look! I'm the bloody pope, I am! I may not know much about humor, but I know what I like!
Are you suggesting that liberals don't have a sense of humor?
That's strange-aren't most stand-up comics liberals? Chris Rock? Jon Stewart? Tina Fey? Who do the conservatives have? Some sellout apologist like Dennis Miller?
Yeah, conservatives have a sense of humor. That's why Sarah Palin accused David Letterman of being a child predator, right?
Hey, neoKKKons DO have a sense of humor -- when it comes to things like poisoning a sitting Supreme Court Justice, that is . . .
i will sell my soul to work for you and get health care
i can do a better in my sleep
Also, WTF? Glenn Beck will have a HARD time topping that one!
Apparently many of the viewers that are bolting olbermann are turning to Red Eye. I do wonder how James O'Keefe got the hidden camera into MMFA. Very clever!
My only beef with this is that the "men" in here were too butch to be MMFA workers
Maybe you need to go back over to RawStory . . . 'course, the time I saw you there, those folks were chewing you up and spitting you out.
You saw me at raw story? Please show the link, you are delusional again.
As for the rest of your "but, but, but" post, you posted a link to show that Red Eye was picking up Olbermann viewers [which, considering that they air HOURS away from each other is a ridiculous analogy to begin with]. NOTHING in the link you posted supported your claim; in fact, it actually REFUTED your claim. Also, the article was quoting numbers for 4 months ago . . . next time, you need to actually read the links that you Google and post to support your nonsense. Makes you look as stupid as the folks on RawStory thought you were.
No, it's not.
This ranks among the top 3-5 dumbest thigns you've evern said.
Olbermann is on a DIFFERENT CHANNEL and at a DIFFERENT TIME.
So... How have you shown ANYTHING?!
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FAIL. Seriously.
I don't really take that as an insult. When people always brag about how Fox has so many viewers, I just get this image of a conservative glued to the television 24/7, only watching Fox and not reading any other news source or daring to change the channel because they've been conditioned to distrust any other news outlet.
I get the image of nursing homes, where the residents simply don't feel like making the trek to get up and change the channel, as well as doctor and auto repair shop waiting room TV's preset to Fox.
Oh, and Dead Eye "gaining" so many viewers? When your "veiwership" consists of stoners and drunks, 3AM is the time they simply leave the TV on as background noise . . .
Here's an example of how a conservitard acts about their all-important source of "news."
I made an off-hand, negative comment to a relative of mine about Becky. She went ballistic because I was attacking Beck.
Um... He's a TV personality. He's an entertainer.
But, that didn't matter to her. To her, Becky is more important than family. She actually was prepared to start a feud over BECK!!!!
Goes to show you how conservitards treat FOX like some church, and Beck, Hannity and the rest are ministers of the truth.
It's a religion to them.
(Not WHAT they think, though that's also problematic, but HOW.)
Liberals, as I have known them, tend to evaluate the evidence, form a position and then that position becomes the liberal position and is incorprated into the liberal ideology.
Conservtaives start out by looking at the conservative position or ideology, assume it's right, and then evalute the evidence based on whether or not it supports that position or ideology.
To them, their is no objective truth or falsity to a given piece of evidence. The inherent truth is in their ideology, and evidence is judged as "true" or "false" ONLY by that ideology.
It IS a religion to them. To them, their ideology is not only inherently TRUE, but also inherently GOOD. (Again - the effects of policy are not judged to be good or bad by any objective standard, but rather by whether or not they help the Republicans and/or the Conservtaives politically.) And thus, just as with religion, they see anyting outside of their ideology as inherently FALSE and inherently BAD. And, just as with religion, they devote themselves to serving this inherentl good, even as it does them harm.
Modern, American Right-Wing "Conservatism" truly is a mental disease. And it no longer bears any likeness to philisophical conservatism, which has at least some inherent wisdom to it. It's become far more akin to madness. (Hence: Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh (and co.) are their most prominent voices.)
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Reality, apparently, has a liberal bias.
I wish somebody would get angry about a comment I made regarding Beck or Fox News. I would love a screaming debate with some nutty wingnut who devotes all their love to a bunch of partisan hacks.
I also have noticed that the conservatards like to say they are "just expressing their opinion", but go ballistic when a "liberal" view is expressed.
Just watch any Fox "discussion." If a point is being made that is counter to what the Fox host is trying to say, that host engages in "blusterus interruptus", and shouts the other side down.
The conservatard's way to win the debate.
As Olberman says, "just turn the volume up to 11!"
Who's FAILING?
CNBC? What does that have to do with Olbermann? What does a Fox show that's on at 3:AM gaining viewers have ANYTHING to do with a prime-time cable host?
And how is Olbermann FAILING, when the survey specifically excludes his timeslot from thier comparison?
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I think you're being overly generous here to say the least.
Of course, if he actually think this show on 3am on Fox News is doing better than Olbermann at 7pm, he may be just as silly and stupid as fakeliberal.
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I'm a loyal Keith viewer and I disagree . .
I'd rather watch paint dry than watch faux!!
How did you come to that conclusion, I'm curious . .
Is the crackhead / 7-11 night shift clerk demo really one that advertisers fight for?
I'm sure that's how most of the wingnuts even first heard about the show. Any other person who came across it was probably vomiting from the abundance of pathetic humor. Then again, you never know... most Fox viewers will watch anything that has hot blonds with nice legs and cleavage doing comedy.
I guess satire, like analogy, is difficult for Black and White thinkers.
The good news is that the FOXbots must be feeling the pressure from MMFA, since they're willing to spend time and money attacking it.
Keep up the good work.
That's what I was thinking, too... O'Reilly does it all the time. Not as much as he used to, but he has definitely given them a lot of advertising in the past. I doubt any of the Foxbots actually migrate towards MMfA to check anything out after seeing it on Fox.If they do, they probably see the amazing amount of facts, but sitll deny it is there. The amount of denial wingnuts suffer from is more than most normal people out there.
I used to think Red Eye referred to the late hour of broadcast but it is now clear that it's a reference to all the glue sniffing going on over there.
Every time I see the name of the show mentioned, it brings to mind the local definition of that term.
Then again, do Troglodytes really laugh... or is it just indigestion?
I was wondering what shows this was set to compete with then I saw that it is broadcast at 3AM EST....HA!HA!....
Insomniacs...it is broadcast to put troglodyte insomniacs to sleep, hence it is so stupid and boring.
But they have nice relaxing low lighting on the set to promote the audiences sleep.
In a word, Fox told them they were supposed to laugh, so they did.
This red eye bit is a classic combo of preojection (who's angry and obsessed, Mr. Gutfeld?)and childish name-calling / homophobia in place of humor.
And, as others have mentioned, the expected lack of truth that's so common in conservative humor.
Soros?
" Aren't we doing the same thing we accuse them of doing?"?
If this is an example of what appeals to those who are up at 3 am, it's just one more reason to not go out after 2 am. And more backup to the old saying that nothing good happens after 2:30 am.
"Curious dude..."
"Angriest left wing organization on the planet..."
"Enjoy, Enjoyers..."
Four quotes, only in the intro, that says it all. This was so lame that it would be taken to jail on Planet Lame. I'd love to see the curious dude's alcohol and coke consumption for the week.
Hey Fox-ites, GEORGE SOROS! Works better than a freakin' boo on Halloween.
Red Eye seems to have a very kinky sexual fixation on George Soros.
"It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."
"Put the f__king lotion in the basket! "
Silence of the Conservitards!
I wouldn't doubt that he lives in his mom's basement. In fact, he brought her on one of his shows a while back because she wanted to complain about Olbermann and how mean he is. If I could find the clip, I would post it.
One word - disturbing
"Hey, Lame-O, sniff your own butt today?"
Just another example of the arrested development that's necessary for far right conservatism.
The most bizarre attack on Media Matters YET
Very Bizarre!
It's like when I ask my dog "who wants to go for a ride in the car?".
At least my dog makes sense. I understand that he's giving me a response, conditioned by his enjoyment of going for a ride.
Conservative humor is an oxymoron... they don't understand the tenants of humor.
Jon Stewart has nothing to worry about, but he understands that showing a clip of Beck is funnier than anything that bizzaro Fox could come up with.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-16-2009/moment-of-zen---glenn-beck-cries
And funny is funny...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-4-2010/terror-2-0-by-yemen
Some wingnuts think he does... they actually think stuff like this is funnier than Stewart and Colbert.
It is not surprising at all that the raison d'etre of this film was missed by those who are so easily persuaded by the "Liberal Media Elite." The subtlty of its humor was sublime, the art direction was ce magnifique, and the story's twist in the end was reminiscent of M. Night Shyamalan.
Many of us have enjoyed a rich and full life shared with the likes of J.D. Salinger, Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picaso. We have all now been witnesses to the emergence of the future of animation and we should be honored to live in the same time period as... I'm sorry, who is this jerk again?
Take that somewhere else Frenchy!!!!
Don't lose the ability to laugh at your own foibles.
Even funnier to see all the same people who commented in other posts about Conservatives having no sense of humor now fluffed in indignation like a puffer fish.
Half hour news hours was, indeed, pathetic. But Red Eye rocks.
FOX just heaps it on themselves. The only think MMFA does is, well, just show it. Must be hitting a nerve. Why else would FOX make this story up too?
Never had a taker for my liberal "bias" challenge -
I challenge any conservitard to show how the MSM repeatedly lies and distorts in order to prove their point. All you have to do is to either post examples (with links), or just post urls of conservitard sites that does the same thing as MMFA. It's sooooo easy.
Who among the conservitards will take this challenge? Help us Obi-wan, you're our only hope!
What the hell was that???
"What a jerk. I'm going to write an anonymous comment about him on a blog" was pretty hilarious actually. haha.
On the other hand some of the comments here can be described only as juvenile or hateful, which in turn may lead to the way some Conservatives think of Media Matters.
If Democrats said half this stuff while Bush was in office they'd say that it was anti-American and they should be arrested for sedition.
Try to listen to Savage, Beck or Limbaugh for half an hour and you'll see that they want the government overthrown.
what! have you ever watched saturday nite live? poking fun at the right is a billion dollar industry. if it is close to the truth, and i think this parody was, its funny.
"Do you have blacks, too?"
~~~Bush--to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
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Where on Saturday Night Live have they ever had a sketch where Bush (or any other Republican or Conservative figure) was longing to be spanked or breastfed by someone? That's gross and I don't see any comedy in it.
Also, mind you, liberal comedians (like Jon Stewart or the SNL cast) tend to mock liberal figures as well (SNL has done hilarious skits lampooning Nancy Pelosi, Hilary Clinton, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, etc.)
Where is RedEye's "comedy" mocking fellow conservatives?
Craig, the entire thing is based on right wing fantasy, projection, juvenile slurs, and lies. If you "think" that's close to the truth, now, that's funny.
I guess one has to be in-the-closet in order to get it?
Or a right-wing ideologue? I don't know... George Carlin was funny. Jeff Foxworthy is funny. Even Glenn Beck is funny (in the sense of his wacky paranoia)...
This just was not funny.
Perhaps Not fair Nor liberal can explain why he/she believes this crap to be funny?
That's because the right is easy to mock. There isn't much to legitimately mock the left about other than some being hippies, tree huggers, wimps, etc. But, with all the ideals and morals conservatives claim to follow, they sure screw that up a lot. So, why wouldn't anybody make fun of them more?
www.xtranormal.com FTW.
Come on this was just made up as a New Years joke, wasn't it?
One would presume that Papa Murdoch started this show simply as a dare to see how much intentional comedy Fox News can actually broadcast on a channel full of unintentional comedy coming from propaganda artists and partisan a-holes.
Personally, I watch MSNBC and CNN and ESPN and many other things. I don't feel compelled to sit glued to one network all day.
I can't stand CNN... too much tabloid garbage on there, but I digress. However, showing my own brand of hypocrisy, I would replace CNN with MTV, which is clearly even more tabloidry. But, at least, as stupid as it can be, it is entertaining.
On the other hand, maybe others will wonder what MMfA is all about, do some research, and find reasonableness instead of stupidity.
Furthermore, MMfA spends day after day doing immaculate research on every other topic. It's not just posting videos like this... but, it was pretty hilarious to see such terrible comedy making fun of "the angriest left-wing organization in the world".
Read the Constitution, specifically Articles I and II. The President, as my children used to say, "isn't the BOSS" of Congress.
Well, seeing as Bubble Boy Bush said it was "just a g-d piece of paper" anyway . . .
Then again, neither Bubble Boy nor you have an IQ above shoe size, much less room temperature . . .
And it's false when you imply that liberals can't handle being made fun of. Liberal comedians like Jon Stewart and the cast of SNL frequently mock fellow liberals. And it's funny. Because it's actually comedy.
I, as a human being, have an aversion to people engaging in nasty, juvenile name-calling and trying to call it comedy.
Most of what liberals do is make fun of other liberals. Get a clue.
Starting with a base in reality helps.
That line made me think of the old show Max Headroom, where you could see the shows on the 10,000 channels including 'Lumpy's Proletariat', dancing dogs, "Missle Mike"(kids' show with lots of violence), and so on.
Also, consider the old MAD magazine article(s?) about When Commercials Take Over TV and switch to QVC, ShopNBC, and so on...
Ratings do not equal popularity. It just means that the TV sets are on that channel when the show is running.
By your statement, you're pretty much saying that the show with the highest ratings is the funniest show EVER. by your statement, if I get ten million people to watch static at 3 AM in the morning, then it is officially funnier than Red Eye.
Your logic...astounds me, Captain.
Do the ratings count the people who DVR programs, as well? I've heard that's the main reason why Beck gets his ratings.
Good grief. Do you even read what you type?
Red Eye =
He's a host of an irreverent show broadcasted during the early hours of the morning. Despite this, you feel so urged as to blog about it. Not only that, but you also title it "The Most Bizarre Attack on Media Matters EVER" as if his words have ANY weight to them.
Generally, when someone forwards a ridiculous JibJab video with photos of a friend on it, the friend, perceiving such a video as a "bizarre attack," doesn't showcase it on their website. I s'pose MMFA is more interested promoting silly late night TV programs to care.