From the home of "Fair and Balanced" this evening, we had noted liar Bill O'Reilly ranting about Netroots Nation. We were the topic of his famous "Talking Points."
Two thoughts:
- Who says we are not influencing the public debate?
- I much prefer these Talking Points.
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We all learned about his expose this morning from this friendly tweet:
What really happened at the "Netroots Nation" convention in Pittsburgh last week? We'll tell you about it tonight.
To which I replied:
CasualWednesday@oreillyfactor So are you actually going to interview anyone who was at #nn09 or just make stuff up? Just curious.
Care to take a guess who was more accurate?
BillO teased this story by claiming that they did an "undercover investigation." For all the hype all we got a few seconds of panelists arguing that torture is wrong. For that obvious transgression the progressives were called America haters. Lovely.
I have my serious doubts that Fox "News" or any local affiliates got in by honestly representing their media affiliation. Any Netroots organizers can feel free to correct me on this. If I am correct (and I think I am; I didn't see any Fox cameras there), that must mean that they got their footage from one of any number of sources that do have video like YouTube (good job, team) or C-Span.
That was the entirety of the epic expose of our coven of evil. Hey, Bill:
You should have come to Karaoke night.
In the spirit of Fair and Balanced, BillO interviewed that paragon of centrism, Karl Rove on something or other. Why is that jerk still relevant?
Next up BillO argued with an African American Columbia University professor. BillO claimed that the birther claims have absolutely nothing to do with racism. Sure. I'd like to meet just one African American (other than possibly Michael Steele and Alan Keyes) who actually believe that our president was born in Kenya. Incidentally, this started out as a discussion about CNN "lying" about the incident at Claire McCaskill's town hall. The basis of BillO's argument is that there is no confirmation that any signs actually used the N word to refer to the president. Since CNN claimed there was, they were obviously lied.
Project much?
Push polling up next. This one is for real and copied directly from his website.
Which news agency do you trust the least? Select one.
New York Times
CNN
PBS
MSNBC
Odd that the third major network is absent from the poll.
Next we had a discussion with two lawyers. One said that Obama "caved" to the "special interests" (LGBT activists) on DOMA. What actually happened, of course, is that the president is sticking to his conviction that we should not discriminate against LGBT.
Another lawyer went off about an unnamed organization posing as teenagers to find adults who meet kids on-line for sex. Since no actual children were involved, according to this lawyer, this creep should not have to serve 17 and a half years. No names were mentioned but it sounded suspiciously like this organization that has worked with this MSNBC show. Nice try, BillO. Thanks for playing.
Finally, those of us on the "far left" are hurting poor widdle Glenn Beck for saying this:
This president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people ... this guy is, I believe, a racist.
Gee. I wonder if "the far left" could possibly include Color of Change. Cry me a freaking river, Beck. To the "far left": keep up the good work, folks. Keep the pressure on those advertisers. It is free speech to refuse to fund hate speech.
Incidentally, the Beck interview -- taped last week -- made zero mention of the advertisers pulling their ads from Beck's show.
To top it off, we were treated to Blago singing.
I hope everyone appreciates this. I watched all of The "Fact"or Fiction to see if we would get further mention.
Now for a real poll: