Posts Tagged ‘Bill Clinton’

Welcome to the first installment of my personal hell. I watched the full hour, and it was painful. The way I’m going to do this is that I will provide an overall analysis of the show followed by a full posting of my notes. The notes follow the show chronologically, contain some quotes I either think are funny or ironic, and some thoughts. And the analysis is analysis.  Here is the first analysis and batch of notes.

What torture. Even if I was a conservative, I don’t think I could take this guy. He jabbers for the first ten minutes about why he has chosen this difficult profession that he never wanted, as though it’s not for the tens of millions of dollars and his ego. The opening was cringe-inducing, but it got worse. I’ll tell you why this particular hour of television was so horrible. Beck said:

“I wanna bring you the news of the day, but I don’t wanna bring you the news of the day. And the reason why I don’t is because I’m not the guy to do it. I’m just the guy who happens to be sitting in the chair. And it doesn’t seem to me that anybody else is going to do it.”

The news of the day? I sat through (more…)

You often hear that it is the opinion guys on Fox News that have an agenda, but I believe it goes beyond that. For instance, have you ever seen them “accidentally” label Republican politicians caught in a scandal as Democrats? A quick google search and in 15 seconds I saw they did it with Mark Foley (the sex texter pedophile guy) and Mark Sanford (the escape to South America for my mistress guy). And who could forget about the terrorist fist jab? Anyway, the Huffington Post (which is admittedly ideological) has a compilation of the worst Fox News reports (not from the opinion guys). You can sift through the ten videos and pick the worst of the worst.

My opinion is that the quotes out of context are just about as bad as it gets. Any news organization that uses someone quoting someone else and claims it’s that person’s opinion knows what they’re doing and just doesn’t care about how big of a lie that is. I’m specifically talking about them saying Biden claimed the fundamentals of the economy are strong when he was just saying what McCain had said. Same for the supposed Obama quote that was simply him repeating a question before he said the opposite. It’s dishonest and they obviously cut it for political reasons. But the rest were pretty horrible, too.

Here is a video by Media Matters (also admittedly ideological) about the supposed difference between Fox opinion and Fox News:

They even used the Russian music in the supposed “news” story. How is that unbiased reporting?

I’m not really sure what category Fox and Friends falls into (probably opinion) or if it’s even a news show, but remember when they doctored photos to make people that committed the heinous crime of saying others were catching up to Fox News to make them look much worse? Even if that’s an opinion show they actually narrowed faces, yellowed teeth, and moved back their hairlines. On a fair and balanced news network.

And how about when Fox News reported on Bill Clinton’s effort to save the American journalists from North Korean prison and hard labor? Their focus almost immediately turned to how bad it was for us and how good it was for North Korea. Not letting those women suffer was a huge mistake made by Clinton and the liberals.

I understand people like Fox News. But don’t tell me it isn’t ideological. That’s just not the truth. And don’t write underneath about MSNBC. This isn’t a defense of MSNBC, just as ridiculing that channel isn’t a defense of Fox News. I’m no fan of 24 hour TV news in general. I wrote this because it should be obvious that Fox News has an ideological agenda.

Enjoy some angry comments.

Adam Feser

If you haven’t heard, two U.S. journalists were arrested on the boarder of North Korea and China, and they were sentenced to 12 years hard labor. The journalists were accused of sneaking into North Korea and engaging in acts detrimental to the state, or some such nonsense.

Bill Clinton went on a fairly secretive mission to secure the release of the prisoners, and it worked. Clinton may have had to apologize and such, but at least he got the journalists home. North Korea claimed this was a sign of their peaceful intentions. I wonder what the bomb testing is a sign of. It also appears that Kim isn’t looking so hot. But, in the mean time, some journalists are spared twelve years of hard labor.

Enjoy a Dairy Queen blizzard.

Adam Feser

I received a response to my original Ted Stevens post that I thought warranted some attention.
Here is the comment:
Bill Clinton…wasnt he guilty too! Both republicans and democrats do wrong…get over it.

I think this warrants a response because it implies that we should just accept corruption as a part of the system. I disagree and think we deserve more. We should never accept it, that is why we have democracy. Here is my response:

First of all, Bill Clinton lied about fellatio, Stevens lied about gifts (bribes) form oil companies. Which do you think leads to more government corruption?

Second of all, why does that make it right? I normally support democrats, but that doesn’t mean I will be okay with one of them being corrupt just because republicans are too. That does not make it okay.

This is a terrible argument. You’re basically saying you accept large amounts of corruption because both sides do it. You also make a comparison to Bill Clinton’s ordeal, which is in no way analogous.

Why should I get over it? Why should I be okay with Senator Stevens being bribed? Republicans should hate this guy. He is the king of pork. He is dragging down the party. Why on earth would you try to defend this? Why should we get over government corruption? We should be pissed about it under any circumstances and any party.

Getting over it is exactly what shouldn’t be done.

I hope that more people share my sentiment.

Enjoy thousands of multi-colored maps, because they are a-comin’.

Always skeptical, never cynical
Adam Feser