Discussion: Media, The Press, Journalism, Cable News, Media Bias, and Other Media Issues

[Marvolo]

Why are the other new outlets not reporting this bombshell

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-kei...a-loves-world-cup-this-is-to-distract-people/

What it is with some Americans being suspicious and threatened by soccer?

Ann Coulter recently said "that America's increased interest in soccer is a sign of this countries moral decay."

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5534494

Ablow isnt wrong that Rome would distract the populace from issues with gladiator games, but those were random games that didnt come at regular intervals. The World Cup happens every four years and has been for many decades. Obama and world issues have zero to do with the Cup.

 

[SV Fan]

What it is with some Americans being suspicious and threatened by soccer?

Ann Coulter recently said "that America's increased interest in soccer is a sign of this countries moral decay."

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5534494

Ablow isnt wrong that Rome would distract the populace from issues with gladiator games, but those were random games that didnt come at regular intervals. The World Cup happens every four years and has been for many decades. Obama and world issues have zero to do with the Cup.

In general it seems that soccer has high interest with 1st and 2nd generation immigrants, so i think it's an indirect knock that people who watch soccer aren't "Real Americans"

 

[KevanG]

Soccer ain't 'Murican! Anyone who likes soccer is unamerican!

 

[SV Fan]

Soccer ain't 'Murican! Anyone who likes soccer is unamerican!

I think it's also a symbol of socialism so Obama is fooling all Americans having them watch Soccer, thus indoctrinating them with socialistic values unlike real football that isn't socialist having teams share all the revenue and get big handouts from government to build stadiums.

 

[KevanG]

Because the President is Unamerican. Go 'Murica.

 

[Kelly]

Meh, just proves that ***holes will ***** about most anything...

 

[HeyZeus]

It's hard to take Ann Coulter seriously when the only sport she plays is trolling.

 

[Destructus86]

What it is with some Americans being suspicious and threatened by soccer?

Ann Coulter recently said "that America's increased interest in soccer is a sign of this countries moral decay."

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5534494

Ablow isnt wrong that Rome would distract the populace from issues with gladiator games, but those were random games that didnt come at regular intervals. The World Cup happens every four years and has been for many decades. Obama and world issues have zero to do with the Cup.

This is real? No one actually listens to her do they?

 

[Kelly]

People do listen to her, and they even post her stuff on message boards....

 

[KevanG]

I'm sure she has her die hard followers. Even the dumbest ideas have their supporters.

 

[Bwahaha!]

It's hard to take *** ******* seriously when the only sport she plays is trolling.

I hate to even type her name. Gives her more power.

 

[Kelly]

I hate to even type her name. Gives her more power.

Yeah, that was pretty much my point as well...but it somehow missed the mark...lol

 

[Bwahaha!]

Yeah, that was pretty much my point as well...but it somehow missed the mark...lol

She's like an attention monster, the more she gets, the bigger she (thinks she) is.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I like how she implies that white (Anglo Saxon) people can't like football.

Somebody forgot to tell the Anglos and Saxons.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Fox News Reporter Trolls Women's Conference, Is Kicked Out by Police

"Watters' World" is The O'Reilly Factor's Daily Show-esque segment wherein reporter Jesse Watters attempts to skewer issues and ideas capturing/distracting the American conversation. In this edition, Watters crashes the 2014 National Organization for Women conference in Albuquerque to figure out what the hell these broads are even talking about when they say there's a "war on women."

A theory: Might the "war on women" include men producing segments about women's conferences that open with the disingenuous use of Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman?" Segments that interpolate clips from classic films (Sean Connery: "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?") as kickers as you attempt to debunk (and belittle and demean) the viewpoints held by the women you interview? What about inviting a woman to feel your bicep? What about asking a woman if her favorite movie is G.I. Jane? Who knows! They kicked him out.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/06/3...-kicked-out-now-conference-albuquerque-police

It's hilarious how this guy tries to copy Jon Stewart yet fails miserably every time with dated references and often proves the point of just how stupid these views are even though he is trying to do the exact opposite.

Vid at the link

 

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[Dr. Evil]

They are father and son? I did not know that.

 

[Xantusia]

I watch Fox News.

For fairy tales.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Uppity Doctor Is Having None of Hasselbeck's Ebola Border Lunacy

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"Why not just shut down the flights and secure the borders?" Elisabeth Hasselbeck asks about Our Ebola Nightmare on Fox & Friends today. Unfortunately, she asks not a fellow anchor but Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institiute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases at the NIH.

Fauci: From a public health standpoint, that really doesn't make any sense...

The best way to protect America is to suppress the epidemic in West Africa. And if we completely isolate them, don't let anything in don't let anything out, we know from experience with public health, that marginalizes them, and you could have civil unrest, the governments could fall. And then you could wind up having the spread the virus to other countries in west Africa, which would only compound the problem.

Hasselbeck: What about something perhaps less extreme…

Fauci: Like what?

Hasselbeck: …Not a complete closing. I don't think anyone who has a heart wants some—a group of people to just suffer alone in the world, and there are those that want to go and help, and my heart is with them. But what about a partial ban? A closing of our borders of travel?

Fauci: A closing of our borders? I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean by that…

I'm sorry, but that doesn't work. If you look at the newspapers, if you look at the TV coverage, you think that West Africa is this nation of the people that you see on the front page of the New York Times sick in Ebola treatment units.

It's a much much larger—this is a nation of millions and millions of people—multiple nations, not one. You have Americans there, you have businesspeople there, people of dual citizenship, who have to go back and forth. It's completely impractical, and from a public health standpoint, not helpful, to [shut down borders]. And I think every public health official feels that way.

Yeah, but what do public health officials know about keeping us safe from infectious disease?

This Gretchen Carlson Word Salad Is The Ultimate Obama-Ebola Theory

"And now, for 'My Take™.' So: Should we trust the government to keep us all safe from Ebola?" With these words, Fox News head-on-a-stick Gretchen Carlson offered 56 seconds' worth of historic, Brobdingnagian "Take™," replete with Obamacare IRS Secret Service Benghazi, does she have to spell it out for you.

Perhaps afraid that Elisabeth Hasselbeck was bogarting her Monday-afternoon monopoly on crazy, Carlson explained as simply as possible yesterday why she and her viewers could be forgiven for thinking Ebola might kill them dead. In so doing, she managed to score bingo in 47,865 distinct ways on everyone's Obama universal conspiracy theory card.

Via TPM, here is a verbatim transcript of said "take." But really, treat yourself to 93.3/100ths of one minute of veritable live-action uhhhhhhm by watching the video at the link below, as well:

With the government's recent track record not being so hot, well, we learned we couldn't trust the IRS after the targeting of conservative groups, the Secret Service after an armed man made his way into the white house, the VA after reports men and women who served this country died waiting to get health care. We couldn't trust the promise that Obamacare that we could keep our doctors that we wanted. And do we trust that we know all the answers yet about Benghazi? What more and more people seem to be asking about Ebola now isn't that they are necessarily scared about actually getting the disease, but that they're scared the government agencies responsible with helping us if we do get sick might not be up to the task. So if Ebola becomes a bigger issue, the question still remains: will we be safe?

Here it is in a word cloud.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gretchen-carlson-ebola-benghazi

Spreading this much stupidity and fear really should be illegal. It's sad there are idiots who actually get their news from this POS network and think the whole freaking world is about to end

 

[SV Fan]

Not sure what makes me laugh more the fact that Obamacare Responsible are side by side of the words government targeting conservatives are one on top of the other. Also all the Obama conspiracy theories are one thing but how does the word "white" fit into this ebola scare?

 

[DeadPresident]

I'm pretty sure whites created Ebola.

lolspiracy.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

I'm pretty sure whites created Ebola.

lolspiracy.

Well, according to a column in Liberia's biggest paper that was written by a university professor, Ebola was a creation of the CIA so the US could take their resources. The problem with stopping Ebola in Africa is that many there are just so uneducated or fearful to understand it.

 

[DeadPresident]

Same thing is/was said about AIDS. While I'm not ruling out the possibility, I'm 99% sure it's unlikely some sophisticated nation created something that took as long to kill as AIDS as a method of genocide. I'm more likely to believe it of Ebola. But then, if that were their plan I doubt they'd let anybody back into their country who may be carrying the deadly illness they created.

You'll find fanatics that will believe and propagate any variety of nonsense because it furthers a basic ideological belief of "us vs them".

That's not solely an African problem btw, and not a problem I'd say is prevalent in all of Africa. Just most of it. You'll find similar reactions in a lot of South America and parts of undeveloped Asia as well. When it comes to medical problems the undeveloped world takes the cake, but it's not like unreasonable and unfounded beliefs are monopolized by those cultures. Some pastors in extremely right wing churches would like to blame natural disasters on the existence of homosexuality or the presence of a black president in the USA. What's crazier, believing you can cure a deadly disease with a shower, or that the earth wants to take vengeance on people who aren't bigots?

 

[Webfoot Hero]

I couldn't find an MSNBC thread so I thought this would be the next best place. According to an editorial on their website, they're claiming that Ebola crisis is worsening because the NRA opposed Obama's choice for Surgeon General. The opinion of many critics was that his choice, Vivek Murthy, was basically only getting the job because of his campaigning for Obama and not on actual medical experience and/or accomplishments.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-nra-making-the-ebola-crisis-worse?google_editors_picks=true

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Cheney is such scum....and he could refer to President Obama with the title President at least once in this dialogue, just like his commander President Bush.

That's the problem most republicans and citizens that don't like the president don't even give him the respect of calling him president Obama. They just say Obama which lame.