MSNBC's Contessa Brewer: Pie Attack on Murdoch 'Encapsulates What the British People are Feeling'
MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer on Tuesday insisted that a pie throwing attack on Rupert Murdoch, which occurred live on air, "encapsulates what the British people are feeling right now about Rupert Murdoch."
As the cable network aired live coverage of Murdoch's testimony to the British Parliament about the phone hacking scandal, a man appeared in the left corner of the screen and attempted to attack the media mogul. See video below. MP3 audio here.
Brewer described the event as the "attention getter of the day." She highlighted members of Parliament "looking on in horror and then oddly added, "And I think, in some ways, this encapsulates what the British people are feeling right now about Rupert Murdoch and those involved in this phone hacking scandal."
Considering that no one knew at the time what the man's intentions were and what contents made up the pie, it's odd to link such an extremist to the legitimate anger Britons feel over the hacking.
Thanks to MRC intern Alex Fitzsimmons for the video.
A transcript of the exchange, which occurred at 12:06pm EDT on MSNBC News Live, follows:
07/19/11
CONTESSA BREWER: Yeah, we're just being told a white substance. And that picture of the protester after he'd been taken into police custody. And the protester himself has it covering his face and his shoulders and neck. There he is behind the glass and we can see him his arms now cuffed behind his back in custody of police. It does seem like we've been told that Rupert Murdoch did get some of that white substance on him. And then, as you mention here, Wendy Deng jumped up to defend her husband.
We saw kind of an arm swat there many the video. I mean, the thing is we've been watching this testimony for the last few hours here. It's been compelling testimony in and of itself, Thomas. And then this has been the attention getter of the day. When you're standing here and you're listening to it and all of a sudden you hear the whole crowd, the MPs, the members of Parliament who have been involved in the questioning erupting audibly and looking with horror. And you can see that reaction from James Murdoch, you know, "What's going on here?" That was the attention-getter. And I think, in some ways, this encapsulates what the British people are feeling right now about Rupert Murdoch and those involved in this phone hacking scandal.
Richard Wolffe is an MSNBC contributor and has been following this as well. The testimony today though polite, though the questions and answers have been mostly civil. They have been tough.
RICHARD WOLFE: They have been tough. And this whole experience never mind actually what the Brits would call that is a custard pie confusingly with shaving cream. But, anyway, absent that, this is all a new experience for the British public and for the members of Parliament. These committees that you're seeing may be familiar over here, they're a relatively new phenomenon. They came up in 1979. They weren't given any teeth. And it's really since the expenses scandal in London involving some of the people around that table that these committees have taken on these new powers. So, the whole thing, you know, Rupert Murdoch said early on this was the most humble day of his life. And the whole experience is humbling for the people. At one end the Murdochs, never mind again this outrageous attack on him, but it's also interesting seeing these MPs, these members of Parliament trying to figure out what is the right approach here. Cross examining, trying to get at the story. There's legal disputes. And of course you have the Murdochs trying to say we knew nothing. We were running a big company, we knew nothing.
Update 14:40 | Aubrey Vaughan. Some more details on the attack. It occurred after over two hours of testimony, when a man in a plaid shirt ran towards Murdoch with the foam pie. Prior to the attack, Murdoch and his son had been answering a series of tough questions from the committee.
Murdoch called the hearing the most humble day of his life, a day which had been spent pushing back against accusations of wrongdoing in his company's News of the World phone hacking scandal. Murdoch insisted he was not responsible for the scandal, nor had his company turned a blind eye toward the alleged phone hacking.
As the UK's the Independent described the incident,
Mr Murdoch, 80, was apparently pelted with a plate of foam.
MP Chris Bryant condemned the attack in which he said the media mogul had the plate pushed into his face.
James Murdoch was in mid-sentence as the attacked was launched.
Wendi Murdoch, who had sat behind her husband throughout his appearance before the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, appeared to strike back at the assailant in defence of her husband.
Eyewitnesses said a member of the audience sat at the back of the room stood up and walked around to the front where Mr. Murdoch was giving evidence and threw what appeared to be a paper plate covered in shaving foam at him.
As the protester was being taken from the room, Mr Murdoch's wife threw the empty paper plate at him.
The attack, which follows yesterday's LulzSec hacking of two News Corporation websites for the British newspapers the Times and the Sun, came from a self-described activist named Jonathan May-Bowles.
Right before throwing the pie at Murdoch, May-Bowles modified a Charles Dickens quote by tweeting "It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat." His Twitter account also has a number of other anti-Murdoch tweets that appear to have been sent from the hearing. He is currently being held in police custody after being escorted out of the hearing.
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This is a moron projecting her
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 12:59pm.
particular illness on a stranger with a pie. Now that's journalism!
Furthermore
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:10pm.
Fox had on the Sky News feed....where the perp was identified as a comedian.
BIG FAT PUBLICITY STUNT.
So how does some guy trying to make a name for himself equate to "encapsulating public feeling" there, Contessa? Because quite frankly, I'm not seeing the connection.
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Let me just explain
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:17pm.
as she would that blah blah blah blah blah, next topic.
And if Tea Partiers
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:15pm.
had simply expressed their feelings to Nancy Pelosi, as she strolled along with her gavel, with a pie...
MORE WISDOM FROM TED BAXTER IN-A-BRA
Submitted by Sgthulka on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:22pm.
God, is she dumb. She releases these pearls without restaraint.
If Pinch Sulzberger got a pie
Submitted by d1carter on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:25pm.
If Pinch Sulzberger got a pie to the face, I wonder how she would respond...?
Brewer is the only person I
Submitted by Captain Repus on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:31pm.
Brewer is the only person I know of who should sit behind Mr Ed Schultz on the short-bus. What a bleeping moron and what a perfect example of of a liberal lemming woman. By the way, no thanks on the MILF front. Unlike liberals, I do have standards.
Brewer's statement is unprofessional, but innocuous
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:32pm.
She caveats her claim with "I think." She may be right, she may be wrong. In an era where reporters and anchors bless us with their opinions routinely, hers was pretty harmless.
Brewer wasn't encouraging or applauding pie-throwing.
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:31pm.
She insinuated it was a symbolic act reflecting the mood of the British public regarding News Corp and Murdoch in view of the burgeoning scandal. And that is not an unreasonable assessment.
"Politicians from all parties, who for more than three decades have sought the approval of the Murdoch press, finally abandoned him.
"The terrible revelations of the last week have shaken us all," Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said in parliament Wednesday. "The events of the last seven days have opened all our eyes and given us the chance to say: It doesn't have to be like this."
Wednesday's debate centered on a motion declaring that Murdoch's bid for BSkyB would not be in the national interest. All three main parties had vowed to back the nonbinding motion."
source.
Jer
One could also argue
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:41pm.
a gunshot could be considered a symbolic act. Or a beheading. (Sidebar- why is it "be-heading" and not "de-heading"?) Point being, it was an act of violence and civil disobedience and if that's the mood of the British public, then the BBC and the Guardian better hope this dies down quickly rather than have rank-and-file, former journalists start talking with impunity.
Symbolic expressions?
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:13pm.
So could carrying a sign and standing mute, or disrobing and shouting unpleasantries, or defacing the Union Jack, or a hundred other acts short of decapitating the target of one's ire. [Why is it dismembering instead of de-membering, and why isn't reattaching a severed limb re-membering? I do not know.] The point being, there are degrees of transgressions: jaywalking versus mass murder for example.
Jer
Yes, exactly Jer
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:50pm.
These are degrees of transgression; something Ms. Brewer seemed not to understand and instead determined to be the disposition of the entire nation.
Kudos on the incredibly mocking reply though. You aggravated today, or was that sarcasm?
bk...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:05pm.
As I said in my initial post, Brewer was neither advocating nor applauding pie throwing--simply suggesting it was emblematic ot the current mood in Britain vis a vis Murdoch and News Corps, and, if one follows the news reports from across the pond, it's not an unreasonable view.
Incredibly mocking? What are you referring to? My "de-membering and re-membering references? Having fun, the same as you. Lighten up.
Jer
No Jer
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 9:43pm.
the entire reply was in almost the exact form as the one I wrote including the "point being" line. Not a big deal though, I asked if you were being sarcastic. I'm light, I'm light.
Lighten up.
bk...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 10:17pm.
We could go around and around on the issue of symbolic acts reflecting public mood versus endorsing serious violence, etc. but I doubt we could change each other's mind at this point. [Let me try one more quick example, however: During the height of the anti-Vietnam war period, burning the American flag may have reflected the intensity and pervasiveness of the public sentiment against the war. But, that doesn't mean the general populace--or a significant portion thereof--would actively encourage the burning of the flag, much less engage in the practice themselves.]
More important, however, notwithstanding the form of my earlier reply, it was in no way intended to be mocking or malicious. I'm sorry if it came across as such. I'm light, too.
Jer
I get it Jer
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 11:07pm.
And I'm not trying to change your mind. My point is, that just like burning an American flag during the Vietnam War, causing a stir during a hearing of he British Parliament (or whatever it was) is probably emblematic of what some people in the United Kingdom were feeling. But just as those wanting to burn American flags during the Vietnam war was actually a very small segment of the population and generally isolated among those who stood to lose the most as the result of the draft, I suspect those truly wishing harm on Mr. Murdoch are those most directly effected by the past business practices of the NoTW paper.The rest probably see this for the theater that it really is.
The words "think" and
Submitted by richflanj on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:15pm.
The words "think" and "Contessa Brewer" should never appear together....
Unless they are prefixed with "she never does", "she cannot", or "she has never", etc., etc.
Contessa Brewer - Now among
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:33pm.
Contessa Brewer - Now among her other talents and self-anointed clairvoyance incudes an understanding of British psyche. Apparently the "Brits" are a nation of neerdowell exhibitionist who believe stuffing a pie in the face of an old man is the height of social commentary.
Feeling is not acting. She
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:11pm.
Feeling is not acting. She thinks that one action by one man is a symbol of how Brits are feeling. It's hardly anything at which to take offense.
hard news
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:18pm.
'journalist' now have their fingers planted on the pulse of another country's feelings. Doesn't have the same ring.
Contessa's job is to empathize with news subjects?
Submitted by lsudolemite on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:53pm.
I didn't know she was paid to act as a shrink to people she's never met, regarding a situation she knows little to nothing about. Thanks for clearing that up. Maybe she can get her own show and take over Oprah's old time slot.
No one said her job is to
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:17pm.
No one said her job is to empathize or "to act as a shrink".
Then she's a news anchor offering an uninformed opinion
Submitted by lsudolemite on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:26pm.
on an alleged news network.
That makes it much better.
Her opinion, yes. Uninformed,
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:14pm.
Her opinion, yes. Uninformed, no.
Uninformed, yes.
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:16pm.
Uninformed, yes.
Evidence?
Submitted by sentry_99 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:17pm.
I didn't read or hear any evidence that her opinion was informed by anything but the actions of one person.
Her opinion, yes. Uninformed, YES
This particular topic, rather
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:28pm.
This particular topic, rather the responses to this topic, are a bit amusing. There is nothing offensive or unreasonable about her comment at all. I think people are puffing out some phony righteous indignation not over what was said, but who said it, and due to network that employs her.
Amazing
Submitted by sentry_99 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:54pm.
Most people realize the point of this site by reading the top of the page. Incestmo has spent weeks here and still can't seem to grasp the concept.
Does a woman whose bias has been documented on this site numerous times, giving her uninformed opinion on a news story confuse you in some way?
You've just confirmed what I
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:01pm.
You've just confirmed what I said.
And
Submitted by sentry_99 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:06pm.
You just confirmed your continuing confusion.
So we should start throwng pies at o'bama?...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:43pm.
Is that what Contessa is advocating? If throwing pies: "encapsulates what the British people are feeling right now about Rupert Murdoch", wouldn't it be equally true if Americans "encapsulated our feelings right now about b. hussein o'bama by throwing pies at him and the administration?" Surely, Contessa would understand such behavior.
I really wonder if Contessa would then be able to relate why the Founding Fathers insisted on the Second Amendment should the government oppress the governed! Maybe she will soon advocate for the Second Amendment!!!
Think it through Contessa... The curly q light bulb full of toxic mercury will soon begin to glow above your empty head.
She wasn't advocating
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:56pm.
She wasn't advocating anything.
Yes, she was.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:13pm.
Nya, nya, nya, nya, nya.
It probably does encapsulate
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:53pm.
It probably does encapsulate what they're feeling. Any evidence that it doesn't?
Nothing like painting with a
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:03pm.
Nothing like painting with a brush the size of... an empire. You're jackass - any evidence to the contrary?
Are the Brits, broad-stroke exhibitionists who express disapproval by slamming a pie into the face of an old man? Doubtful.
Key words: encapsulates and
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:05pm.
Obviously, one of them did. Key words: encapsulates and feeling.
Key words: Satchmo = troll.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:09pm.
Don't feed the troll.
So far all I see from you, Pervmo, is blather
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:23pm.
....trying to incite another s***storm here.
IOW, you are trolling, yet again.
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And as usual from you, it's a
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:30pm.
And as usual from you, it's a post containing profanity, personal attacks, and nothing to do with the topic. There's a term for that behavior.
By attacks, you mean...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:00pm.
Like Maher, the savage Maron and the moron Savage?
What topic does sexually assaulting those you disagree with define a term of behavior?
Glad to get under your skin, Troll.
May the o'bama pies be filled with Savage and Maron santorum!
Oh yes there is
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:13pm.
But it's not in your vocabulary.
I see you don't deny the trolling accusation, just deflection and crying about "personal attacks". Everyone here knows you, Pervmo....even the bloggers call you "Incestmo"....you have earned all of your monikers all by your lonesome.
Would you like a little cheese with your whine?
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No whining nor deflection.
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:26pm.
No whining nor deflection. It's just an observation. It is ironic, though, that you would accuse someone of deflection after you made a post that had nothing to do with the topic and was instead an attempt to make the poster the topic. As usual.
Glad to be helpful in annoying you, Incestmo
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:04pm.
After reading three in a row of your trolling posts, I felt it was my obligation to point out your trolling.
I posted on this thread way before you even started your usual nonsense, but your extraordinary lack of reading comprehension is, as ever, apparent. You wouldn't know irony if it smacked you over the head, a la Mrs. Murdoch.
We now rejoin our regularly scheduled program, already in progress.
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I was referring to your
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:24pm.
I was referring to your replies to me, which had nothing to do with the topic and still don't.
Still not enough cheese for your whine?
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:50pm.
Too bad.
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I love cheese. There is never
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:02pm.
I love cheese. There is no such thing as enough cheese.
Dont seem to be enough
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:53pm.
Whine for you either
Boudin---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 9:00pm.
it is likely that Satchmo has eaten so much cheese that peristalsis does not take place.
That would explain his crappy outlook on everything.
MD
Yeah, Satchmo, it is called---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:44pm.
referring to said behavior, "kicking a stupid troll's ass".
MD
Satchmo = TROLL
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:52pm.
Do not feed the trolls.
Incidentally one cannot prove a negative.
I CAN prove a negative Beukeboom...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:06pm.
And here it is....
http://www.businessinsider.com/maher-gay-bachmann-video-2011-7
There is not ONE POSITIVE thing about these animals.
Right...
Submitted by paragrouper on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:37pm.
You have the 'hots' for Contessa?
In any case, you should really try to avoid driving that keyboard under the influence.
Maybe Contessa is his adult daughter
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:06pm.
You know, the apple of Incestmo's eye?
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Some words from Michelle
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:07pm.
Some words from Michelle Malkin:
"Heads are rolling in the News of the World hacking scandal aftermath. As they should be.
Several editors and London police officials have resigned. More are undoubtedly on the way. A former NoTW reporter-turned-whisteblower who suffered from drug and alcohol addictions has now tragically turned up dead — compounding a global media tragedy that has shaken countless murder victims’ families, terror victims’ families, celebrities, and politicians whose cell phones were allegedly illegally rifled through in pursuit of salacious gossip and tabloid fodder. …
As a proud Fox News contributor for the past 10 years, I have come to News Corp.’s defense countless times and will continue to do so when critics distort the facts and wage unfair attacks.
This is not one of those times. There is no defense for this godawful fiasco. …
Hacking is a serious crime and grave privacy invasion. PERIOD.
Yes, it is painful to see a great media champion/entrepreneur and a great media empire — of which NoTW was just a tiny sliver — under fire. The glee and double standards of News Corp. haters on both sides of the pond are hard to stomach.
But there is no one to blame for this other than those in News Corp. who let the scandal fester, and whose inaction handed critics all the ammunition they are firing now. These are the lumps and now every single rank-and-file employee and contributor at News Corp. is being forced to suffer them."
It would have been better if
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:49pm.
It would have been better if you had quoted a little more thoroughly rather than selectively quoting portions of Malkin's article which can be found here. By presenting carefully selective portions, you're being somewhat misleading which is further exasperated by your lack of a link to the article itself.
This is the bit that was
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:22pm.
This is the bit that was directly quoted on her own HotAir website. If you don't like it, tough.
Good evening Satchmo
Submitted by cocodrie on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:00pm.
You gonna hit him with your purse? The lace on your drawers must have gotten in your crack.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Good one, cocodrie---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:48pm.
Made me laugh.
MD
I second that, MD! Good one, cocodrie!
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:54pm.
[Coffee sputtered all over my desk!]
Read it again, Satchmo. I
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 9:36pm.
Read it again, Satchmo. I know reading comprehension is a difficult concept for you, but at least try:
It would have been better if you had quoted a little more thoroughly rather than selectively quoting portions of Malkin's article which can be found here. By presenting carefully selective portions, you're being somewhat misleading which is further exasperated by your lack of a link to the article itself.
PLEASE SOMEONE THROW A PIE AT CONTESSA
Submitted by Funbowhunter on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:28pm.
It would be just rewards for her and her company who have done underhanded things as well!
One would then ask, "Is this a sign of what Americans feel about liberal MSNBC and Contessa?
Contessa
Submitted by Curly on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:33pm.
She's like all the rest...to stupid to have a real job. Blah, blah, blah, Obama, blah, blah, great, blah, blah, business bad,.........and so on.
→ Contessa, You do know, don't you?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 2:55pm.
Contessa, you do know that according to Democrat pundits, assigning fulfillment to a "pie in the face" is a sign of homosexuality?
Blair, Clinton attacks, that's how USA felt?
Submitted by felizagain on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:20pm.
I think Tony Blair, Clinton, other Democrats & left wing figures have been hit with pies and dust and such.....and following this line of logic, that means WE the American public are angry w/all of them too...and it's ok?
So much for British security, like Congressoinal hearing security when a Democrat is grilling a Republican figure.........
This nonsense isn't right when it happens to anyone - for one reason: it will lead to one day a person being physically harmed by these stupid attacks. By making a physical assualt a joke, we're encouraging it. Right or left, this should not happen.
Murdoch has a lot to answer for. No two ways about that. The buck stops with him. Do I think Newscorp is the only one doing this? No way. It's a standard practice we'll find out soon. Wrong, and it should be investigated - fairly. An industry wide
investigation.
As Mark Steyn said today.....
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:24pm.
It just goes to show you that the private sector (Mrs. Murdoch) did a much better job of security than the government paid leeches (fat Bobbies).
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And that's the real issue . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 9:36am.
. . . Where the heck was the security?
They just finished up their
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 10:32am.
They just finished up their cup of tea and were just coming back from the loo.
Today it's a pie, next week
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:27pm.
Today it's a pie, next week it'll be knife. All of the hate speech against successful people from the liberal media and liberal politicians results in this type of behavior.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonI think getting your ass
Submitted by Thoreau on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:29pm.
I thought getting your ass kicked by a 40 year old Asian lady was the moral of the story.
I'm not sure it qualifies as the moral of the story, but
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:02pm.
it was pretty cool. Good for her.
Jer
So, if someone blows a hole
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:34pm.
So, if someone blows a hole in some Congressman, would that reflect how the American people are feeling?
Depends on who it is, Jesse
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:10pm.
I can't believe that the Brits' security was so lax, I believe they have had some really bad episodes in Parliament.
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Exactly...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:30pm.
The left did all that they could to pin the Giffords shooting on the TEA Party, as Bloomberg did with the propane bomber in NYC when he said it was a right winger upset with o'bamacare.
If it were a conservative wounded or killed, it would be a reason to suspend the second amendment. If it were a left wingnut that pulled the trigger, there would be no in depth expose about the shooter.
Lax security is a major concern, and an unasked question as of yet.
By the way, who throws pies in our country anyway? The left or the right?
Gosh, USMC
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:51pm.
I bet Ann Coulter knows the answer to your question. :)
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LSM is always interesting*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 6:10pm.
ONE pie thrower "represents the British people's feelings' hmmmmm
But this was dismissed as irrelevant by the main stream media. hmmm
A perfect example, cajun---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 6:24pm.
of why the word hypocritical just isn't nearly strong enough to describe the main stream media and their BS.
MD
Well, by Fox News at least...which axed him a few months
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 6:41pm.
later.
Jer
Jer*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 7:06pm.
I was not talking about Glenn Beck. His website is the only place that I could find those photos. Look at the half million people voicing their "feelings". The 9-12 project and the 8-28 project drew millions of people across the country and the media said zip, misrepresented the numbers and the meaning of these protests when they did acknowledge these events occurred. For 2 yrs the TEA Party has been deemed irrelevant now they are being called "evil" and wanting to burn down DC.
It is disappointing to realize that I must post a detailed explanation with my links to those who have such difficulty recognizing obvious bias and distortion of events by the lamestream media.
And people express their opinion of MSNBC by not watching.
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:51pm.
Contessa's ratings are lower than a Texas lake during a drought.
If Obama was hit with a pie,
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:10pm.
If Obama was hit with a pie, would the libMEDIA run the same storyline? Somehow I doubt it, but the press assures me they are upright, objective and unbiased.
If the publisher of the NYT
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:19pm.
If the publisher of the NYT were presiding over an operation in which staff and employees were engaging in the extensive telephone hacking of ordinary Americans, celebrities, politicians, crime victims, etc. resulting in a widespread national uproar, I would not be at all surprised at the similar characterization of a pie-throwing incident.
Jer
I doubt it
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:42pm.
They lie everyday, and there is no pie throwing.
The real issue from the incident is about security, not opinion
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 9:34am.
Not unlike the guy who threw shoes at then-President Bush, the fact that this guy was able to load up a plate with shaving cream and assualt someone inside the government hearing room ought to be alarming. With all the heightened security in the US and UK since 9/11, how did this guy pull it off?
As for the statement the assailant was making, I have no reason to believe that Britons aren't similarly angry. I think under similar circumstances in the US, Americans would be angry, too, and rightly so.
FROM THE DESK OF F. VENGENCE
Submitted by FVF on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 11:22am.
FROM THE DESK OF F. VENGENCE FLOOK:
I wrote this Monday night so it has lost some of its zip. Our liberal friends are worked into a frenzy HOPING this phone hacking scandal will bring down Rupert Murdock. (How many times did Brian Williams mention Rupert’s name in his last two “news” reports?) Let me tell you what this hubbub has caused me to do with my investments. I have, over the past few months, sold ALL of my stocks. I am assuming Obama will veto the Republicans’ final debt ceiling offer and will throw us into absolute financial crisis. Then I can buy stocks of good companies for very reasonable prices. But, this Murdoch deal may be an even better short-term opportunity. Someone said last night that News Corp’s (NWS) stock was down 30%. Let’s assume that is accurate. I’ll use make-believe numbers to so we can all do the math in our heads. NWS was selling for $10; now it is selling for $7. If I buy it at $7 and it goes back to $10, I have made 46%. ($3/$7) And, once Murdoch is cleared – as he will be – the stock will go back up and I will make my $46+%. Unless, of course, Obama has ruined the country. But, I’m a pig; I’ll wait for NWS to go even lower and make more than 50%. (WARNING, I AM NOT A FINANCIAL ADVISOR.)
Tues., PM – I watched Brian Williams again. I refuse to call what he does “news.” He spent even more time attacking Murdoch. Is Murdoch a conservative? Or do libs simply hate him because he owns FNC? And the attack on Murdoch’s wife!! No decent news person would have EVER done that! What has America come to?
Then the Michele Bachmann story regarding the migraines that will keep her from being president. Why try to hide the disgust you have for Rep. Bachmann, Brian? Why don’t you just say it the way you normally would when you are off the air, “When, Rep. Bachmann, did you stop hiring four swarthy guys to tie up your husband so you could force him to watch you have sex with those four swarthy guys”? (For those of you who did not notice, this is my variation of the “When did you stop beating your wife, Senator” story.)
And FNC and MRC meekly point out how awful the MSM has become. And conservatives sit around and complain about how awful it is.
F. VENGENCE FLOOK
If Pinch Sulzberger got a pie
Submitted by bagtree on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 5:36am.
If Pinch Sulzberger got a pie to the face, I wonder how she would respond...?
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