A call to arms against Talk Radio (EDIT: Thanks Senator Shelby)

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Saturday February 21, 2009 · 11:06 AM PST

2009/02/21 · 11:06

EDIT: So Senator Richard Shelby has decided to follow Alan Keyes lead. This is great news. We needed to expose that nonsense and Senator Shelby is doing it for us.

For some years now I've been sampling various conservative talk radio shows just to keep up to date with their latest arguments and talking points. (Please don't tell me it's better to ignore them. As Tom Tomorrow says, these guys aren't going to go away just because you pretend they don't exist.) I've always known when to cut back for the sake of my sanity, but I can usually tolerate small doses without having it completely ruin my day. However, those doses are becoming more toxic now that these people are having to deal with a liberal non-white President.

Yesterday morning finally convinced me that I should no longer sit back and just shake my head in disagreement. I am going to start pushing back every little way I can. I'll go into what prompted this below the fold.

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Sunday January 25, 2009 · 10:45 AM PST

2009/01/25 · 10:45

So I log onto foxnews.com and a front page headline states "Pelosi: Alcatraz not an option". Can you believe it? That hypocrite liberal wants to shutdown gitmo, but isn't open to having the detainees shipped to her district. OK so I am thinking this is some kind of joke, not a funny one mind you, but a joke. So I click the link.

Check out this quote from John Boehner on Meet the Press:

"If liberals believe they ought to go, maybe we ought to open Alcatraz," Boehner, R-Ohio, told NBC "Meet the Press." Being reminded that Alcatraz is a national park, Boehner responded, "It's very secure."

OK it's probably a joke right? I visited Alcatraz 5 years ago. The toilets are filled with concrete. The buildings are safe enough only to allow tourists to walk through them. It isn't, you know, remotely close to being a fully operational prison. They might as well propose hosting the Super Bowl at the Roman Coliseum. Yet Fox News runs with it as a main headline, essentially saying "Pelosi won't agree to volunteer Alcatraz". So the question becomes, why is Fox taking this seriously? How many people actually will.

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 3:35 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 15:35

Every once in a while, a Fox News personality slips up and says something that reveals the whole Fair & Balanced thing is a joke, even to them. Media Matters used to like to call this the "Fox Freudian Slip".

In his "Talking Points Memo" segment last night, Bill O'Reilly had such a moment. Speaking about the election of Obama and what it all means going forward, O'Reilly stated

As for "The Factor," we will now ramp up our watchdog role........
Our focus now is to report exactly what President-elect Obama is doing and what it means to you. Let's be honest. The guy is still a mystery, so our oversight will be intense.

So in other words, now that a Democrat has been elected President, O'Reilly and his crew can "really" start to investigate what's going on in the White House again, not that such watchdogging was necessary the past 8 years or anything (Who was looking out for us then Bill?). It will be interesting to contrast what the media digs up on Obama, compared to what they ignored with Bush.

P.S.... There's a bit more

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 8:43 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 20:43

Look, I know Sarah Palin is already a national Joke at this point, but whatever sympathy I might have had for her (I feel she has been "used" by the GOP) is gone after she clearly refused to call abortion clinic bombers and doctor killers "terrorists". Jed L pretty much summed up it up well here.

However, I feel an obligation to the families of those who died as a result of these attacks, including some doctors who were shot in their home right in front of their own wife and kids, to point out why Sarah Palin, should ABSOLUTELY be finished because of these statements. So I want to provide some links to stories about the awful attacks perpetrated by anti-abortion extremists, of which Palin said "I don’t know if you’re going to use the word ‘terrorist’ there."

So I give you these stories below the fold.....

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 3:38 PM PDT

2008/09/05 · 15:38

One huge aspect of the Presidential race that seems to be getting overlooked by the media thus far is just how many "Red States" from 2004 have been put in play in 2008. Those who have listened to Conservative Talk Radio the past few days know that Sean Hannity and the other cheerleaders haven't bothered mentioning this fact to their listeners. Neither have Karl Rove or Dick Morris, who seem to be shielding the Fox News faithful from the hurt. However, a look at the race on a state-by-state level paints what must be an EXTREMELY frightening picture for the GOP.

Consider: 5 states that were double digit blowouts in favor of Bush in 2004, are toss ups at the moment. As electoral-vote.com notes about one such state, North Dakota:

This is a state George Bush won by 27 points in 2004 and 28 points in 2000. It is not supposed to be a tie. It is supposed to be a rout for any Republican. It bears watching. If Obama actually campaigns here at the very least it will force McCain devote some money and energy to a state he should win on autopilot.

(There's more.......)

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 9:23 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 21:23

I know there have been enough Palin threads already, and I know that picking on Hugh Hewitt can be like shooting fish in a barrell, but this quote from Hugh was just too rich to ignore. In a post titled "Memo to Team Obama", Hugh let's loose with this beauty:

Please keep talking about Sarah Palin's inexperince in foreign affairs. By reason of just her work with Canada, she's light years ahead Obama.

Yes Hugh Hewitt actually believes that just her work with Canada on some pipelines makes Sarah Palin more qualified than Barack Obama to deal with "Eye"ran and "Eye"rack as she calls them. What next? Will we be told that she is better equipped to deal with the Russia - Georgia conflict than Joe Biden because, after all, a remote tip of Russia comes within about 60 miles of a remote tip of Alaska? The party that claimed John Kerry wasn't serious enough to lead America in 2004 now gives us the governor of Alaska, who professes to care more about her rural state than what's going on in the rest of the world.

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Monday August 25, 2008 · 7:08 PM PDT

2008/08/25 · 19:08

Last week Kagro X posted an item regarding Karl Rove's weak attempt at spinning John McCain's mathematical adventures in house counting. Rove claimed on Fox News that by mocking this gaffe, Obama was actually in effect "attacking" John McCain's wife, since the houses in question also belong to Cindy McCain, and were bought with her money. Rove went on to essentially claim that this meant Obama had no business complaining about the treatment his wife was getting in the campaign. (Kargo X linked the video if you're having trouble believing it)

You'd think that this was really stretching it, even for Rove and the concern trolls on the right, but then that would mean overlooking the fact that they have Sean Hannity on their side. Today on his radio show, (ironically after taking another shot at Michelle Obama), Hannity showed that he got the memo from Rove. In summing up what viewers would see at the convention this week, Hannity noted that we will see lots of references to John AND Cindy McCain's houses. Not "John McCain's houses", or even "the McCain's houses", but rather John "AND CINDY's" houses.

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Tuesday January 03, 2006 · 6:39 AM PST

2006/01/03 · 06:39

In what is easily one of the best examples of Chickenhawking to date, Matt Margolis, founder of BlogsForBush and GOPBLoggers, chimes in with a gem this morning regarding Congressman John Murtha's claim that he would not join the military today.
http://www.blogsforbush.com/...

Rep. John Murtha proves once and for all that the Democrats do not support our troops.

Murtha just made himself a spokesman for anti-recruitment in the military, and in a time of war, that makes him a spokesman for surrender. I'm sure he'll be once again praised by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat "leaders."

More Spin from the right on Fitzmas

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Saturday October 29, 2005 · 2:54 PM PDT

2005/10/29 · 14:54

Some conservative blogs, including Michelle Malkin and Blogs For Bush, made it a point to highlight this exchange from the Fitz press conference.

Q: Did Libby know whether Valerie Wilson's identity was covert?
A: ...We have not made any allegation that Libby knowingly/intentionally outed a covert agent.

Blogs for Bush sees this and screams: "Game set match lefties. There was no underlying crime." Of course, if anyone cares to read what Fitzgerald said earlier in this press conference (about not making any allegations outside the indictments), you'd see that yet again, our righty friends have some mighty flaws in their argument.

Q: For all the sand thrown in our eyes, it seems you know the identity of the leaker. Why not revealed?
A: I can't. The law is the law...we cannot discuss information not contained in indictment. ...if you ask me any name, I'm not going to comment...I can tell you no one wants this over as quickly as I do...

Little Green Football's pathetic rebuttal

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Monday October 24, 2005 · 7:19 PM PDT

2005/10/24 · 19:19

Peter Dauo, Atrios and a few others brought attention to a disgusting smear by Little Green Footballs that was linked to by Michelle Malkin. LGF accused anti-war group American Friends Service Committee of planning "parties" to mark the death of the 2,000th US soldier in Iraq. These "parties" actually consisted of candlelight vigils and other various somber demonstrations. Dauo was especially ripped, stating "I spent years in Beirut, I lived and breathed war, I watched friends get blown to pieces, I've seen horrors I hope Malkin never has to see,.....Malkin should know better than to soil our public discourse with this kind of garbage."

How does Charles Johnson of LGF respond? He simply states, "[t]hey obviously don't like it when their sick plans are exposed." Nice duck.

Well Mr. Johnson, in case you didn't notice, you're being ripped for blatantly distorting and mischaracterizing the group's plans. You were caught red handed. Your response simply shows you have no shame. Same goes for Malkin, who not surprisingly applauded Johnson's response.

SNL rips into Hume, Fox News, scripted troop Q&A

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Sunday October 23, 2005 · 8:35 AM PDT

2005/10/23 · 08:35

I caught the beginning of Saturday Night Live last night and boy I'm glad I did. Daryl Hammond did an epic Brit Hume impersonation, scoffing about partisan Democrats "suggesting" that Bush's Q&A w/ soldiers was scripted. Meanwhile, a Fox News scroll on the bottom of the screen delivered such nuggets as "Fox Fact: Bush is greatest President since Lincoln." Hume(Hammond) then sent us over to a new Q&A with the troops to prove Bush does not script such events.

If you missed it, hopefully someone like Crooks & liars will post it.

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O'Reilly's Fox-Freudian Slip Very Revealing

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State by State polls show McCain in Deep Trouble

Hugh Hewitt: Palin more qualified than Obama.

Sean Hannity: No Talking Point Too Outrageous

Matt Margolis: The Ultimate Chickenhawk

More Spin from the right on Fitzmas

Little Green Football's pathetic rebuttal

SNL rips into Hume, Fox News, scripted troop Q&A