Al Gore's Current TV Calls Sarah Palin a 'Gun-Ho' and a 'TWILF'

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Days after announcing another huge layoff, Al Gore's Current TV referred to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a "Gun-Ho" and a "TWILF."

These disgraceful, sexually-charged epithets were part of an attack on prominent conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, and came in the form of a cartoon ironically titled "The Stupid Virus":

When a lab-monkey declares that President Obama wasn't born in America, he becomes Patient Zero for a new brand of fear-based news virus - Fearus Ignoramus. We watch as the virus goes ear-borne, spreading from Rush Limbaugh to CNN to the mainstream-media to the general public. America devolves into panic, convinced its President is an illegal alien anti-Christ.

In the end, this was just a lot of conservative bashing in very bad taste, especially the shot of Palin's Twitter page and her astonishingly offensive screen name "Gun-Ho" (video embedded below the fold, vulgarity alert, h/t Breitbart TV):

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Did you notice Palin's screen name at Twitter was "Gun-Ho?"

After Palin tweeted, Brian Williams of NBC's "Nightly News" reported it as the "Top Story," and in the right of the screen was the word "twilf" with a question mark after it (h/t Amanda Carpenter):

This appears to either be a take on the acronym MILF with the "TW" standing for "Twitterer," or an urban dictionary reference way too disgusting to address.

Regardless, is that what a former Vice President and Nobel Laureate believes is acceptable to call a former Governor and vice presidential candidate?

Lest we not forget the vulgar attack on Beck at the end.

And these folks wonder why they're continually having to lay people off!

Screencaps courtesy of Story Balloon.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


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If a tree falls in the

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there.....

Who watches the Boeracle's network? In fact, who carries it???  

Sadly Direct TV carrries

Sadly Direct TV carrries it. I have it blackout so when I channel surf I don't have to watch it.  

Semper suprene nitens 

There is no point dwelling on all the foolish mistakes we have made in our lives. For one thing, it can be very time-consuming. Dr. Thomas Sowell

 

Wow. Painting political

Wow. Painting political opponents as mentally ill. That's a highly fascist approach.

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obama's birth

Yeah, and original

Yeah, and original too.

They've never done that before.

\sarc

ATT-U-Verse...

...Also carries it.  Too bad they won't let me opt out of this channel so I don't have to pay for it.  Come to think about it, there are several channels I'd like opt out of.   Unfortunatly, if we were able to pick and choose the channels we wanted, then there are alot of channels that would be canned.

(1) Current TV; (2) Logo TV; (3) CNN; (4) Any and all Spanish Stations; (5) Most MTV channels.

There are more, but these are at the top of my list.

"Your right to Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Happiness ends at my front door, and my wallet!"-Me!

SAD Example

What would happen to say a typical high school male who said (posted, or twitted) these things about a female student or teacher?  Zero tollerance? Expulsion? Hate Speech? Jail? But Cable is A-OK

Getting to Them

They're afraid. And mocking is the only weapon they have to fight back. No logic, no facts -- like high schoolers, it's all emotion for the modern "liberal". Sad sacks!

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Sorry, ISA

Sorry, ISA, but I think you're giving them waaaay too much credit.  The high schoolers I know are much more mature and logical than that.

These folks are like 5 or 6 yr. olds on the playground, who, unable to actually sustain logical discourse, finally resort to, "well, your momma's fat!" 

Does anyone actually

Does anyone actually receive this - er - news station? Where is it shown - other than here? It seems like it's not much more than a college-type TV station.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

We get it on our cable

We get it on our cable system. It is absolutely unwatchable. Lousy production values, chaotic, skin crawling. Looks like it's put together by high school sophomores.

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

Definitely

Sophomores in the true sense of the word!

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Absolutely disgraceful

:)

And artwork is pretty good.

You get that "Educate the monkey, educate the world"/ Heroes connection ? 

I'm sorry, but Glenn Beck just lends himself to caricature and parody.

No we don't get your monkey heroes connection.

 Nor do we understand how Beck lends himself to parody. We do know you lend yourself to parody.

nwahs: The real culprit is monkeys. Reeses monkeys. Thats the culprit. Aids is a pandemic. Its a virus that jumped from monkeys to man.

Is the nwahs retard referring to RHESUS monkeys? A monkey not indigenous to Africa?

Rhesus monkeys have the widest geographic distribution of any species of non-human primate, occurring naturally in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China.

Only a walking talking parody like the retard nwahs can be that sorry.

 

Heroes line

"Save the cheerleader, save the world."

I got hand it to you, Popeye, you'd played your part well.

Method acting? 

;)

Now JWF. That should be

Now JWF.

That should be nwahs drater.

"no matter how low you set the bar, liberals can never quite measure up." -Me

http://gjresult.com

 

It should be "indoctrinate

It should be "indoctrinate the monkey, indoctrinate the world" 

I left the Republican party because the Republic party went to the LEFT of me.

That's a really funny

That's a really funny concept for an episode, considering that neither FOX News, nor any of the fake news chanels in the MSM promoted the conspiracy theories about Obama.

calling palin a ho

look, these dolts are bottom feeders and this is the only way they will get any hits on their web site or anyone to watch any of their stuff...

my advice... ignore them and let them sink into obscurity...

they are useless crap anyway

ManBearPig and his

ManBearPig and his infantile drones at "Current" (those that are left) have a lot to learn about animation and humor...perhaps they should review old episodes of the Simpsons and South Park to see how it's done.  No doubt, they'd still miss the point.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Nobody watches this

Nobody watches this channel.

This helps explain why. 

 


خال

This just in: Current TV has

This just in: Current TV has just announced they'll be hiring little Johnnie Libski, 12, of Northwestern Middle School, as the chief writer for the entire Current line up. Johnnie will be tasked with combining the thoughts and ideas of the existing writing staff - Susie Demoff, 9, New England Elementary School; Markie G. Warming, 10, Chicago School for the Misinformed; Sally Capentrade, 6, Manhattan Day School and Julitard; and Nancy Pelosi, 69, Washington DC School of Intimidation by way of the San Francisco Liberal Farts Program. Mr. Libski is expected to elevate the overall intellectual platitudes of programming on Al Gore's network to a 4th grade level; a threshold heretofore, unattainable. Al Gore is said to be pleased, but refused to take questions from anyone.

Lessons learned from watching this Stupid video

1. Education is like slapping the monkey. Hmmm. Why aren't boys smarter than girls?

2. I can't quite get the scene where Rachel Madcow mentions a phallacy.

3. If you are a big-time, staff-trimming, Al Gore owned broadcaster and you show a video about two wild and ka-razy dedicated scientists, you don't have to follow the Nanny-vision guidelines and show them wearing seatbelts while they drive around in their pickup truck, which, of course, is a non-green vehicle used by louts.

fearus ignoramus

hmmm the "fearus ignoramus" virus that is of course fictional, could EASILY and APPROPRIATELY be said of ALGORE'S "falling sky" propaganda: environmental hoaxism-- too bad that ALGORE isn't himself fictional-- disappointingly, he's all too real-- it's what comes out of his mouth that's fictional-- so he is attempting through his lame attempt at satire to, once again, accuse others of the very thing he's guilty of-- satire, like comedy, is only effective when it is based on fact-- NOT fiction--

2 points... One. They may

2 points...

One. They may have lost their jobs, but their self esteem is at an all time high now that they're not forced to listen to the crap they had to put out to keep their jobs.

Two. algore the greenslut may want to watch his back if Todd ever gets turned loose.  Prayers may help too if I'm on the jury.

"no matter how low you set the bar, liberals can never quite measure up." -Me

http://gjresult.com

 

Al Gore AKA Captain Planet is a JOKE!!!

Despite Gores harsh criticism about going ‘green’ and
conserving energy, his humble abode (20 room mansion with 8
bathrooms) right outside of Nashville, TN uses more energy in one month
than an average American home uses in an entire year. So of course he also owns a T.V. station also! Gore is a total hypocrite and should get his "Nobel Dork Prize" shoved up his butt. click here to read more about Gore http://thedailyzing.com/356/an-inconvenient-zing/

These mutants are trying to

These mutants are trying to make some noise so they can get a few more viewers. A pathetic attempt to be "important" to the extreme left-wingnuts.

Ah, a new era of civility

Ah, a new era of civility and bipartisanship! 

I thoiught the same thing

and I wonder if the cowardly press will show these folks for what they really are - lame, adeled brained dummies - but I  wish for honest reporting - I wish for lots, don't I??

 

Proud member of the MOB - Move Over Barack, we want our country back! 

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

WTF is a TWILF

Bad details--at least give better hints.

 

Star---

As stated, the TW stands for "twitterer".

The rest is crude.

MILF is a pornographic acronym for  - Mom I'd like to F---.

My cousin Bert told me that.

MD

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

10Q--had heard of MILF

Maybe I sort of was, I heard tell, in the Wayback. So that's why I like Sarah!

 

What does JWF mean?

What does JWF mean?

JWF means

 "Always on Nwahs mind!"

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Meaning JWF..

lol.. he's right up there with Rush Limbaugh! He should be flattered.

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

I have to ask?

Who in H-LL believes anything that lying maggot gore says????

??

NO wonder current is laying off people...they put crude sexist crap like that on.........is al gore insane......sorry that was a stupid question

mother

Al Gore has a TV network

Does it do lies about AGW 24/7?

Why would anyone watch.

liberals are giving away the fact that they objectify women

With these acronyms, liberals are giving away the fact that they objectify women.

Just sayin' 

 


خال

Rong, rong, rong

TWILF doesn't mean what you think! "(Where do you spend you time on the Internet?)

 It means "Twitterer I'd like to fail." Rush started this by referring to O"Bama as a PILF (the "president I'd like to fail").

Come on, you guys. Do you think that liberals would stoop to a crass sexual reference? I don't think so. That idea is so preposterous it doesn't have a teabag's chance in hell of being right. Liberals uphold decency, on TV, in interpersonal behaviors, in sharing of fluids, and many more ways of human intercourse. 

Yeah. Of course they

Yeah. Of course they wouldn't stoop that low. 

You know, the sad thing about Current TV was what it used to be. Before Al Gore bought it, it had been NewsWorld International, a channel started by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) which used to show foreign newscasts such as CBC's "The Nation," Deutsche-Welle out of Germany, among others. For this guy, it was an interesting channel because it showed the foreign news we typically didn't get here (this was before the Internet really went big and before I got more than a dial-up connection).

So you can imagine my disappointment when I got the news that Gore had bought the channel with plans to turn it into some "citizen journalist" piece of trash that showed little snippets of videos the younger crowd. This stunk, even though I was still in that 18-30 demographic the channel should have appealed to.

It's pretty pathetic that the channel has continued to get even worse than it was, which I didn't think was possible.

"You just don't get it." - Pa Grape, "Veggietales"

Check out my blog.

No...seriously....

I think Sarah will be making a phone call to Al, (if she hasn't already), and putting the boy in his place.

Public apology, especially when it is between those on such a public stage.

Let's see if Al is man enough for it, and fires those who composed the script.

How about it, Al?

An answer from Big Al

John WI: Let's see if Al is man enough for it, and fires those who composed the script. How about it, Al?

His Holiness the Goreacle: (After exaggerated sigh) Mr. WI, for you to ask such a thing--well, obviously, you don't know me. And one more point. . . the Goreacle does not answer questions!

(Handlers step forth aggressively and stand in front of Gore to block him from John WI, as well as the advancing Bjorn Lomborg and Phelim McAleer.)

Gore should not attempt satire..

He is better at the funny scientific stuff like Global Warming.

 

Stay Free!!!

Anybody else notice among

Anybody else notice among the tweets "MWF seeks MBM for S&M"?

My, these "Current" writers have such a keen wit!  Please don't let them run with scissors--we might never see such funny stuff again. /sarc 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Typical Democrat

When facts fail, personal attacks are all that's left. I wonder what "carbon footprint" a TV station leaves? This language associated with a former vice president, inventor of the internet, model for Love Story and total moron who thinks the most severe threat to America is the combustion engine is living high off the hog based on his lies about climate change - and anyone should care what this truth-challenged moron thinks? Is it 2012 yet??? You know what they say, "birds of a feather flock together." His TV station, his problem.

Uh, am I missing something...

...or does Noel Sheppard not know that the Twitter page in question is NOT Palin's?

My confusion stems from the fact that Mr. Sheppard refers to it as if it was, but it's obvious it's not, so that being said, I would think that this piece should be updated to reflect that fact by refering to it correctly as a "faked Twitter account in Palin's name", and again, NOT Sarah Palin's official Twitter page, if she even has one to begin with.

"A man who reads nothing is far smarter than a man who reads nothing but newspapers." -- T. Jefferson; 1789

Who Watches This Crap?


His network is following the same tail-spin as AIR America.  Other than the MSM and Hollywood, liberal broadcasting is a bust.

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