SoonerBlue

Mostly politics, a few current events, a squirt of seltzer down yer pants .. a little blog for my rambles and rants.

2009/11/21

Bookstore crowd goes rogue, boos Sarah Palin

 

Wow -- since wingnuts, teabaggers and birthers have learned to protest about everything these days, they have no problem going after their heroine, Sarah Palin. In Noblesville, Indiana, several dozen of the 1000 lucky wristband holders got pissed when they didn't get their books signed. After all, they waited outside the bookstore for hours in the rain and cold.

When Palin tried to take the money and run, in 4-inch heels and Baby Trig on her hip, the crowd outside started booing, hissing and chanting "Quitter!" "She's a Quitter!"

Here's the video.

Read more here.

Too bad I don't do facebook - there seems to have been an awful lot of facebook bitching from devastated Palin fans.

But not to worry, Sarah will win them back after she blames the bookstore, her staff, the event organizers and the bus schedule.

Goodness knows, Fox News is doing everything they can to help her and promote her. They had to come out with another apology for using fake video footage - this time it was old Palin campaign footage, pretending it was film of the crowds who showed up to buy her book.

(Last time it was about the fake footage they used for a teabagger rally - splicing two events to make it look like the crowds were bigger.)

Don't get me wrong, I am rooting for Palin. I don't want to see her discredited because she does more harm than good to the GOP brand while she's out on the trail.

I want her to succeed, on the theory that she can never pull in more than a fraction of the GOP base - but one big enough to split the party and play hell with getting a rightie elected.

 

2009/11/4

For Fox sake!

 
If you only listen to Fox News. you'd think a couple of wins for Republicans last night will kill the chances of healthcare reform. Maybe someone should tell them that McDonnell and Christie are governors and can't vote on healthcare reform in Congress.

But, guess what? The two Democrats who won congressional elections yesterday in CA-10 and NY-23 CAN vote on the healthcare bill.

In fact, when they won both of those congressional seats, Democrats expanded their House majority. Yesterday, Democrats had 256 voting members in the House...after Owens and Garamendi are sworn in, they'll have 258.

2009/10/30

What the Fox!

My Fox News hero Shep Smith is going to lose his show one of these days for saying stuff like this. He got all ‘fair and balanced’ during his Studio B program the other day.

He apologized to viewers because a segment on the New Jersey Governor's race had "reporter" Shannon Bream only interviewing the Republican candidate...and nothing from his opponent.

Shep said -- "Wow, I didn’t know that was about to happen. My apologies for the lack of balance there. If I had had control, it wouldn’t have happened."

The look on Shannon's face is priceless.

Watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGefbh2osMQ

But I've grown to admire this bright spot in Fox's news jockey lineup...and wouldn't have expected anything less from Shep, he does this all the time. This is what a real journalist looks like.

2009/10/24

Man up and tell him to his face!

 

Or - when you lie down with dogs....

Last Friday media analyst Marc Lamont Hill learned that he had been fired by Fox News through a Google Alert.

A Google Alert.

Here is the audio and transcript of his interview with radio host Steve Malzberg.

"I got a Google alert at 11 o’clock [a.m.] that it had been announced that I’d been fired. After that, I guess someone followed up later in the day, you know because I was sort of trying to figure out what was going on…I found out that it was true but other than that I don’t have any other information…I haven’t had any thorough conversation with anyone."

Then, over the weekend, a possible reason for his dismissal came to light. Seems that Hill had once said some not so flattering things about Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Seems that News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch broke the news of the firing himself, at stockholders meeting Friday morning.

There are those who say that Fox is an arm of the Republican party...what if it's scarier? And the Republican party is an arm of Fox?

See, Hill was being gunned for by rightie propagandist Cliff Kincaid, who works for "Accuracy in Media", and had been trying to get Hill fired...he told Murdoch that Hill is a "left wing cop-killer apologist."

Isn't it ironic that the same news outlet that's playing the victim and crying about the White House trying to "silence them" is truly silencing liberal commentators on their "news" channel?

Hey Hill, consider this a bullet dodged...count your blessings. This is what happens to someone who gives off the slightest whiff of 'fair and balanced' at Fox News.....


2009/10/22

New spin on White House vs Fox News war

 
 
I can't find anything about this on Google News yet, but rumors are rampant on the internets that the Obama White House held a secret off-the-record meeting with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow...also Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gwen Ifill of PBS, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and Gloria Borger of CNN, among others.

Why are we not surprised that no one was there from Fox News?

Boy howdy, I'd sure like to know what that was all about...only time will tell.

And I don't know if it was very wise, Mr. President. I mean, Olbermann and Maddow are known as opinion journalists...just like those prime time guys over at Fox.

Of course righties are pissin' and moanin' that the meeting was a WH strategy session about attacking Fox. They say Obama is ruthless as he tries to marginalize and crush the “powerful opponents” of his "agenda."

You know it tickles me that last week righties were complaining that Obama wasn’t "tough enough," that no one was afraid of him....and now they're hollerin' that he's a streetbrawler who will crush his opponents.

Are their knickers in a knot because a politician is playing politics... or because he is just so damned good at it?

Marginalize the same folks who brought us two god-awful wars, a wrecked economy and the scorn of the entire free world? Dang, what an absolutely ruthless mean thing to do.

One thing I do know that's probably brilliant WH strategy - Republicans are losing members, down to 20 percent in the last poll, and their approval ratings have been tanking since 1/21/09...even lower than Bush had at his lowest.

Sooo...if the Obama administration can tie Fox being an extension of the Republican party around Fox’s neck, they can also tie that unfavorable rating around Fox's neck...and discredit whatever credibility Fox still has.

Hey, it worked when they touted Rush Limbaugh as 'leader' of the Republican party...which is when their approval ratings started to tank.
 
Not to mention that Fox News IS an extension of the Republican party ...and Republicans DO bow down to Rush, afraid of insulting him, etc.