I just watched this front-paged video, entitled "Legal Expert Destroys FOX Pundit On GOP's Vote Fraud Fraud".
Oh, come on. Gimme a goddamned break, here.
I'm so sick of seeing videos posted in diaries and FP posts trumpeting that one of our guys "destroyed" one of their guys, only to click on the link and watch 2 or 5 or 10 minutes of nothing of the sort.
Sometimes, yeah, our guy is kicking ass and taking names, but most of the time our guy is getting shouted down, just as Laura Ingraham shouts down John Flannery in that video up there, and barely allows him to get a word in edgewise, much less make a complete point. Flannery might have debunked that harpy, had he been able to speak for more than a fraction of a second without being interrupted; as it was, the only 'destroying' I saw was on Ingraham's part. Her message, untrue and skewed and biased as it was, is the one that carried the day, simply because she yelled the loudest.
I'm not saying these videos don't have value. They do. I came away once again reminded of how biased and unobjective FAUX news is, and what a sleazebag Laura Ingraham is. But was she debunked? No. Flannery, bless him, did his best, but no.
So here's the video, with the Daily Kos name on it and a misleading title, out there for everyone to see. I dunno how that's supposed to impress anyone, particularly people who are still undecided about who they're going to support in the upcoming election, who happen to read that post and watch that video. They're going to look at the claim that Ingraham was debunked, they're going to watch the video, they're going to -- as I did -- say "Huh?", and then chances are they're going to think that we (those of us who think that Flannery is right and Ingraham is wrong) are delusional if we think Flannery kicked Ingraham's ass around the FAUX studio.
He didn't. And it's misleading of Daily Kos to suggest he did.
Let's save the cheerleading and victory dances for situations where it's actually warranted, okay? Because otherwise, we just end up looking stupid.
REALITY-BASED, guys. Let's live up to that.