We Get it: You Don’t Like FoxIn an interview with Playboy magazine, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann actually fulminated that "Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda." He then went on to compare his cable rival to the Ku Klux Klan and rail against Rudy Giuliani. And this is the guy who is hosting football coverage on NBC? Live?
Speaking of Fox News, the network proved this week that it’s not always "fair and balanced." FNC reporter Laurie Dhue anchored a segment entitled "Lavatory Lust" that re-enacted the infamous Larry Craig bathroom incident. Before ending the "Geraldo at Large" piece, Dhue editorialized that it was sad Craig "had to go to a public place, and that’s the shame of homosexuality in this country right, today — at least the shame that the Republican Party puts on it."
Charming Celebrities
According to MSNBC host Norah O’Donnell, comedienne Kathy Griffin’s acceptance speech at an awards show was censored after a mild joke about not thanking Jesus. However, the anchor helpfully left out the truly offensive line from Griffin’s rant. The "humorist" created an outrage not with a minor comment, but when she exclaimed, "Suck it, Jesus. This award is my God now." Over on HBO, hip hop artist, and "actor/activist," Mos Def told Bill Maher that bin Laden wasn’t behind 9/11 and called the United States "murderously meddlesome."
Couric Touts Talking Parrot; Ignores Fugitive Clinton Donor
"CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric certainly knows hot to prioritize. On Tuesday, the network host spent more time eulogizing a talking parrot then she did covering fugitive Clinton fund-raiser Norman Hsu.
According to ABC’s David Wright, a network poll finds that a "stunning" 100 percent of Iraqis in Anbar province are opposed to the U.S. troop surge. Perhaps this number should be taken with a grain of salt, considering that in 2002, Wright also credulously told viewers that Saddam Hussein received 99 percent of the vote in a 1995 election.
—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.
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It's resumé time Laurie Dhue
September 15, 2007 - 11:00 ET by CTGet your resumé over to CNN and MSNBC they are always on the lookout for unprofessional talent like yours. It would be even sweeter if you could cut a package deal with Geraldo as well.
I suspect...
September 15, 2007 - 11:24 ET by sarcasmoJudging from her own experience with him, Horendo's latest wife keeps a VERY watchful eye on any package deals involving him & Laurie...
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well i guess it's time i piss off folks here
September 15, 2007 - 11:01 ET by lunaticcringeradiofirst off i don't care about homosexuals, i have so many better things to worry about than what gay people do, for example i have to brush the alge off the glass of my reef tank today. that is infinately more important to me than gay people. but since the republican party has led the charge against a lot of issues regarding homosexuals, is what Laurie(i use to bump shoulders with her callogen pumped up lips back in the early 90s when i worked at WSB tv/radio)Dhue factually incorrect. you can't honestly say it isn't, although it was a dig, it wasn't wrong.
i just don't think homosexuality is a big damn deal, let them live thier lives without persecution and i do think these kind of bathroom games would go away.
as for kathy griffen, i heard the audio of her anti jesus comments on hannity the other day. i still think she may have been spoofing all the people, ball players, and anyone else who disingenuously praises jesus when they are in the public spotlight for indescretions, or catching a ball, or WINNING A NASCAR RACE(i highlight that since it's my sport). it's not an act on jesus part that a guy caught a ball or one car crossed the finish line first. it is a statistical probability to almost 100%(barring a comet hitting the earth i thank jesus for that not happening everyday) that a said number of teams going into a timed competition that one of them will be the winner and the other lose. it's not an act of god and i think that's what, even though she is a flaming liberal, was trying to joke about the disingenuous way that people praise jesus for the most mundane acts. i mean look at it really, al gore gets praise for his sycophantic global warming first endevour into film and the hollywood crowd praise him, that's not a wild act of god that they did that. that was shooting fish in a barrel.
do you want to see an act of god, make a super conservative film about how global warming is caused by the cycles of the sun and we have no real impact of causing or detering it, show how socialism and communism is crap and a representative republic is the best form of government and get the hollywood crowd to accept it and give that film an award and praise. then you should thank jesus, cause there was devine intervention for that to happen.
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September 15, 2007 - 11:14 ET by botgwho's persecuting?
let them live thier lives without persecution and i do think these kind of bathroom games would go away.
half of the excitement with the bathroom thing is that its 'bad' and anonymous. Complete legitimacy (ie: forcing others to accept their moral viewpoint) would only push the limit further
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well i can't say i've ever considered
September 15, 2007 - 12:09 ET by lunaticcringeradioi've never considered the idea of sex in a public bathroom as exciting. i can think of a thousand much better smelling and cleaner and romantic places to have sex than in the bathroom at acme truckstop.
the simple fact is the republican party has sided with the idea to stigmatize homosexuals, and when an group of people are stigmatized they will take their actions "underground" causing the problems that sen craig couldn't address in a more couthful manner. i just don't think that homosexuals are bad because of the sex they like between consenting adults. there are people that persecute homosexuals, this senator craig pushed legislation himself that was antihomosexual, probably overcompensating for hating his own inner feelings. but as i defend the rights of straight people to live their lives without discrimination by some groups of homosexuals that hate "breeders" i defend homosexuals who just want to live their lives as any other normal person just what they do with their genetalia might be a litl different. something that is private and i don't want to know about anyway.
ok now i want to pose a scenario, would you be uncomfortable to sit in a room and watch a heterosexual couple have sex or a homosexual couple have sex?
my answer is both. sex is a private matter that i don't want to get into or want the government to get into in either case.
i just disagree with you that to say homosexuality is ligitimate will push things to the limits. remember there was a time when it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry, that didn't run the world off it's axis when that ridiculous ban was lifted.
i just view sexual choice as a right to persue happiness issue just the same as a right to practice your religion of choice, just the same as the right to chose who you vote for.
but the simple fact of the matter is it's still illegal to solicit for sex in a bathroom no matter if it hetero or homo. that's still a legal statute that should be enforced. a abthroom is a place for the public to relieve themselves when nature calls, not to engage in sexual desires, there's no question a crime was commited.
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September 15, 2007 - 12:16 ET by botgyou have no direct experience of the sub-culture that is obvious in your post. I had a roomate who is gay, i dated his (bi) step sister and we went to the gay bars together on double dates. I worked in Hillcrest (down the street from gay-mart <actual name>) and partied with my gay bosses from work. You have a nieve perspective.
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i agree with you i have no direct experience
September 15, 2007 - 20:58 ET by lunaticcringeradioif you want to say direct gay sex is the qualifier, i never had an interest, but i have a couple of friends who are gay single and a few gay couple friends. i've had gay friends from the early nineties when i worked in talk radio, throughout my military career where my immediate NCO was a lesbian, to my current gay friends of today, that is the sum of my experience. but i don't see how you think i am nieve in my belief that homosexuality on the political table is, or should be, a non issue. maybe i should have made that my point, homosexuality should be a political non issue.
now after making my point, i am open to criticism, and i invite you to finish your point and explain to me why i'm nieve instead of just tossing out an unsupported accusation. please tell me where i'm wrong. i'm not mad in the least i'd just like to know what your point is. please support your accusation with substance.
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lcr
September 15, 2007 - 21:19 ET by BlondeI have to agree with you. Although I have had some gay friends here and there....I just kind of have to take a live and let live attitude. None are in the "gay rights" mode....they just want to be left alone to live a nice life. Fine with me.
I don't think that makes you naive at all...a realist maybe. As long as I don't have the San Fran or Key West form of gayness shoved down my throat, I could hardly care less. I'm against gay adoptions, gay marriages, etc. Because I believe in a nuclear family. And I hate the militant PC'ness of the liberals who rule the air waves, education, and social services.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
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September 16, 2007 - 11:48 ET by botgwe do agree that homosexuality should be a non-issue. It becomes an issue when legislation is proposed which forces others to adopt a moral stand that homosexuality is equivilant to hetreosexuality (note Canada).
The point I was making in saying you were nieve was when you claimed that legitimizing homosexuality would eliminate the annonymous bath-room sex stuff. Actually the gay community is legitimized already and the stuff still happens. Stay out of bathrooms on the west side of Balboa Park (by 6th) this is in the middle of the the popular gay area of San Diego. The behavior is done for the rush and to be 'bad' (a type of rebellion thing). Individuals should always be taken as such individuals. Groups of people can be shown statistically to have differences. As a whole gays (males) are much more promiscuous than any other sub group. There are other behaviors which are more prevalent in the community (oh the flair, the drama, the self-absorbtion) which is not true of all in the group. What i am saying is accept people yes but don't idealize the group as something it is not. Do a simple experiment go to the St Patricks Day Parade, then go to the Gay Pride Parade and compare. (and remember if this is the behavior in daylight in public then what is it like elsewhere?)
As far as having to actually have induldged in gay sex to not be nieve then i would also be nieve.
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additionally
September 15, 2007 - 21:03 ET by lunaticcringeradioi didn't exactly think about this at first, but i do tend to try and weave suttle sarcastic humor into my entries and i think maybe you might have misunderstood that angle. text entries lack the influx of a verbal interaction.
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Laurie Dhue
September 15, 2007 - 11:03 ET by pbthinkerAlthough I don't agree with Laurie Dhue, what are the chances that CNN would have a reporter on, openly saying that Democrats are wrong about anything? Her comments show there is more diversity, at Fox, than on the other networks.
Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Really?
September 15, 2007 - 11:52 ET by CTSo what?
It illustrates why FoxNews is number 1
September 15, 2007 - 13:59 ET by c5thenPeople don't just want one side of the ideological spectrum to continuously hammer them with thier propaganda. By having a ballanced editorial staff, and writers and anchor people, Fox delivers the "fair and ballanced" news better then any other news network.
If you want unfair and unballanced, watch CNN or any of the old three networks or MSNBC if you are a hard-core leftwinger.
If you want unfair and unballanced rightwing news, you are pretty much out of luck.
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Dhue editorialized that it
September 15, 2007 - 11:14 ET by sublight68Dhue editorialized that it was sad Craig "had to go to a public place, and that’s the shame of homosexuality in this country right, today — at least the shame that the Republican Party puts on it."
I think it's less about homosexuality and more about adultery. Would it have been better had he been cruising for hookers on the seedy side of town? Not in my opinion.
In either case I think he'd be treated as harshly by conservatives. The libs have just jumped on the homosexuality angle as a convenient way to score some quick cheap shots, Republicans as bigoted homophobes and all that.
like there are no
September 15, 2007 - 11:24 ET by botggay bars, bathhouses, markets, dating ads, or events in Hillcrest?
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It isn't the flavor of the sex that scandalizes.
September 15, 2007 - 11:50 ET by CTActually I think the idea of 'cruising' for anything in a public restroom is the issue.
FOX IS WORSE THAN AL QAEDA!
September 15, 2007 - 12:41 ET by CrashDo you realize how many bomshells they've hired? The other "news" channels can't keep up.
Huba, huba...
they still lag
September 15, 2007 - 12:48 ET by botgunivision 'Primer Impacto'
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exactly crash
September 15, 2007 - 21:01 ET by lunaticcringeradiohow fox news can be so much worse than al qaeda when fox has all those hot chicks and all al qaeda can do is beat and cover up their women because muslim men haven't been taugh any self control and decency for a thousand years(maybe a lil more than that jim).
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