Try to control your incredulous laughter as Jim VandeHei of Politico heatedly explains to Bill O’Reilly that most MSM reporters don’t really hate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement.
VandeHei acknowledged that the mainstream was late to the tea party story, but said he didn’t buy O’Reilly’s research claiming there were just two positive reports in the entire mainstream press.
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“Teabagger!” A nasty pejorative that emanated right out of the press, “Anderson-Cooper,” I believe, and picked up by the press as a whole, the blogs, and every filthy mouthed leftist comedian across America.
James Hudnall came up with the best retort, call them another nasty pejorative, “salad tosser,” fight fire with fire! They are scared to death of us, and by using their childish potty mouth hope to run us off from their mud slinging. Your first inclination is to spank them and send them to their room, but no more ladies and gentlemen, we must engage these creeps, and never again cede the town square to the raging jackals of the left.
Those of us old enough to know, know that civil discourse with a frothing in the mouth ‘60s radical, is a complete, and utter waste of time. It’s time for us to be the “new volunteers for America, and the new, counter revolution…counter revolution!”
MSM = Lamestream Media = Sarah Derangement Syndrome = Lying Leftists = Dinosaurs Awaiting Asteroid = Q.E.D.
Umm…
Giggle…
Snirk…ahem…
Bwaa-ha-ha!
The next person who calls me a Teabagger, will be fed his own tea bag.
They don't hate Sarah Palin, they just hate us and Sarah happens to be in their way.
The dudes and dudettes who speak ill of Governor Sarah Palin take their shots at the Governor from different angles. Whether they ‘hate’ Sarah Palin or not is irrelevant: that is a turf war for the less educated.
The bigger point, the thing they all have in common, is that these dudes and dudettes (and their employers) have invested their reputation in Obama. Mostly because these ‘journalists’ who used to lean to the left, now work for the left.
They –the Media- sold Obama to the American People. This ‘Obama’ product was supposed to be ‘wonderful’. After one year of examining the product they knew little about the American People are disenchanted.
America feels cheated, and they are looking at these ‘journalists’ with the look that little girl gives the man in the commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qb0vquRcys
This is why the media can’t change course…to do it is to accept full responsibility for selling a damaged product.
Yes, I saw this clip and turned it off in disgust. How anyone can lie so blatantly is beyond me.
They don't hate Palin, they only hate people who speak plainly and want what is best for all Americans. They also hold me, you, and everyone else in the lowest regard possible.
Elitist snobs is about the nicest thing I can say about them. Hope they're happy in their Ivory Tower.
-whew-
Glad I got that off my chest.
the Mainstream media is DEAD…..they just don't know it yet.
They have themselves to blame. They had a monoply and now it is gone. Burn baby burn
I love the way the MSM just keeps on rolling towards the cliff along with this adminstration. I am just one single American but see as clear as day the disdain the MSM has for all things republican and the TEA Party. They are trying so hard to tag Palin as the leader that they are missing the whole thing. This is a groundswell of the American people who are fed up with all the Progressive BS and they want their country back. Illegals, taxes, deficits, bailouts stimulas, backroom deals, arrogance toward american citizens by our leaders, socialism, intimidation, treating terrorist like shoplifters, you name it the citizens have had enough. many "journalist" smile as they degrade, ridicule and mock the American people. You can see their hatred behind their sick smiling faces as they vomit BS after more BS everynight. But thats alright they just keep on inspiring the TEA Party.
Okay, so, am I supposed to hate you now? Guess I'll have to hate myself as well…
Suffolk County, NY, 2/9/10
"TEA-Party" candidate Dean Murray, backed by local 9/12 group and Conservative Society for Action, wins 3rd-assembly district seat against ACORN/AFL-CIO/Teachers' Union backed-Lauren Thoden.
Tea-bag THAT, Progressives. We have more where THAT came from.
The relevance of the "drive by media" has been diminished to a level only equaled by their lack of credibility. They pledged allegiance to the anointed one and blindly followed him off the cliff.
Yes, we're collateral hate damage. No hard feelings for all the hate.
does anyone know if the President or anyone in his administration has used the term Tea-bagger?
If so shouldn't they be called on it, and don't they realize they are using A nasty pejorative to describe a good poprtion of voters?
VandeHei had a magnificent performance last night with Bill O'Reilly, Esq. (or, as I am wont to refer to him, BOR(E)) – I'm guessing an Emmy nod for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy. I may not like BOR(E) all that much, but his research team is pretty darn good (most of the time, anyway), and yet VandeHei spent all his time arguing the unarguable.
Was listening to Quinn & Rose this morning (XM 158 or http://www.WarRoom.com ) and they made a point about CNN focusing on Dubya when his poll numbers were dropping, but when it comes to Der Schwarze Fuhrer's numbers, they focus on – Sarah Palin's hand.
Mr. VandeHei – I've got a message for you on my hand. However, it's not written down…
Do what I do and don't watch; instead, Fox and conservative talk radio take the sound bites of the liberals to interject comedy into their shows. Makes great entertainment. My suggestion, stay out of the liberals' way, for they will turn on their own now that this hatred is so ingrained in their psyche.
Of course the MSM hates Sarah Palin! Did this man not see the fallout of Sarah's hand notes? The way they viciously slammed her son Trig? The fact that they continually call us all "teabaggers"? Seriously. Man up and stop trying to be "non-partisan", the time for that is past.
DMW
Dead Media Walking…
The MSM will undoubtedly call you a mean-spirited, white, sore winner.
The hatred is really an Alinskyite calculation to marginalize Palin. They are too cold to really hate anybody. Some of the people that absorb the MSM are actually capable of hatred, however.
Fear not fellow patriots. The MSM isn't the only game in town. The New Media (Fox, internet, talk radio) now gives us a voice. But even when there was only ABC, NBC, and CBS, Ronald Reagan won in a landslide. If you give America an authentic American product, they will buy it in droves every single time.
Won't be nice to not have to listen to president whiner for two terms: “I’ve got one television station (FoxNews) that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration. Well, that’s a pretty big megaphone and you’d be hard-pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front.”
You mean Politico is still around…?
Wow….
I see dinosaurs at museums, too…or, really, what's left of them…
This hate of Sarah Palin is symptomatic of a failing liberal media who latched on to the administration full force….and now they are feeling the heat because no one is watching or listening! Palin is a threat to the status quo because she excites and engages the people of this country to take an interest in their government! This the liberal left wing cannot stand because they want the masses to be asleep like Rip Van Winkle and wake up when their country is no longer theirs…this is not going to happen…The people of this country are engaged, connected and sometimes more informed than our so called pundits and progressive Washingtonians…the people who make our laws and spend our money…So I don't care what you call the movement; Tea Party or anything else…it is out there and the administration is concerned.
1) few things suck worse than that moment in an argument when you realize you're wrong.
2) one of the few that does suck worse is openly admitting it. it is human nature to fight even harder to avoid making that admission.
there are a LOT of people walking around these days who were totally in the tank for 'The One' and they are not about to concede they screwed up without a real battle. hey, what's the fate of a great nation compared to a liberal's pride, right?
I find it amazing the disconnect between those on Left and US on the Right…
While we completely and instinctually know and understand them, they are so stupid, oblivious, vapid, and immature that they continue to misread and underestimate the power of the tsunami coming at them to such an extent that it is shocking to witness…but delicious…
They think we are stupid and willful. They think that if they pound the message again and again with the sword of the media, we will be converted. Of course after we're converted, we'll thank them.
In sex scandal, Edwards braced for media onslaught that never came.
Case closed.
While I still find the lies and bias of the MSM a bit terrifying (I can't, for the life of me, understand how someone can lead their life "feeling" something is right as opposed to good ol' logic or those pesky thing called facts) I take heart in the fact that they are not changing their ways. If they did see their errors and begin to finally understand us Tea Partiers they would come at us from a different angle and gain the trust back of some of the people who are finally seeing the light. The more ignorant and just plain stupid they remain, the more they continue to dig that 6 foot hole.
I'm thinking that the sword has become dull and rusty
Ignorance of cause and effect means emotions have to substitute for reason.
MSM has proven that to be a non-working system.
It's like watching a stand-up comic being stupid instead of funny.
The MSM "journalists" are all still lined up on their knees waiting for their chance to brew some fresh hot black tea. Mmm, mmm, mmm! And they just adore their cream mustaches once they're done.
Alice:
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
MSM:
In our world, everything is as it seems to us because to us it seems sensible. And contrary-wise; the Tea Party seems to be what it is not, and not what you think it seems to be.
Question: why do only a small percentage of republicans want Palin to run?
Advice to liberals/populists/progressives/Democrats IOW (I am elite and smart, you are dumb and stupid, therefore I will be your master)…
LEAVE SARAH ALONE!
I don't say this in defense of Sarah, she seems quite able to defend herself. It's just that these guys never seem to learn, they attack and she gives them a bloody nose. When they pick Sarah Palen as their target, she has a knack for shooting back… very accurately!
Sarah Palen takes it all and comes back with a beautiful smile, that has got to be extremely frustrating for these sour-grapes, anti-American, liberals/populists/progressives/Democrats. Actually, I hope they keep on attacking and Sarah keeps on smiling and chopping them up all while making big bucks and exposing them for the mean-spirited hypocrites they are.
Obama Mocks Christian Faith
http://usataxpayer.org/?0033881580
Dr. Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals
http://usataxpayer.org/?0028068146
Following is intended solely for those unemotional, independent thinking, among us:
Fact #1: Predominate [95%+] of the controlling U.S. media is predominately [95%+] owned or controlled by foreign persons or entities; and
Fact #2: In all cases [100%] this same controlling media are for-profit corporate entities; and
Fact #3: As corporations, the personalities that represent and work for them are "employees or agents"
Fact #4: In all cases [100%] these same "employees" are paid a significant SUM OF MONEY for the services they perform.
Taking the facts into consideration, an independent thinking person might conclude that this bought and paid for "talent" known as "the personalities" are akin to what is known as "the oldest profession on earth".
Who cares what these empty suits have to say? Who care what these empty suits do? Given the fact that the far majority of the 300+Million Adults in the USA are royally pissed off after decades of corruption eclipsed into the krishendo that is Obama; it appears at last…in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Brilliant point.
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And they didn't hate Bush, and they didn't hate Reagan, and they didn't hate Cheney and they didn't hate Rove and they didn't hate …
Frankly, I don't remember a Democrat they didn't lionize and a Republican they didn't smear.
Ever.
Can you imagine the months and months of condemning of Palin and her family if something 1/100 as sordid as Edwards story were to occur? Off the charts!
Exactly. It is US they hate! Sarah is our surrogate! That's why they hate and relentlessly disparage the Tea Party participants too!
Correctamundo! Just keep digging, LSM. Pretty soon there will be no where to place the dirt except on themselves!
This is what the Tea Party needs to do. Focus on winning your local and state elections.
Yup the arrogant Political Class, the MSM still has no clue. they are still stuck on stupid. Margaret Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady, one of our fellow bloggers has mentioned Sara has similar qualities, I agree.
Sara Palin is tough as nails.
The MSM keeps piling on Sare they are providing red meat for the base. November will be a very good month indeed…
The mainstream media is not just liberal. It is dangerous. They have no understanding of the dangers of Communism and/or they simply don't care about Communism's horrific history of mass murder, oppression, and suffering.
About a year ago, CNN founder Ted Turner appeared on O'Reilly's show. O’Reilly talked about Turner and Jane Fonda's active opposition to America's involvement in the Vietnam War and criticized him for ignoring the resulting murder of millions of innocent people by the Communists that took place after we left the region. Turner said without much concern, "You got me. I didn’t really think about it. You know, it didn’t make the news very much at the time."
He went on to say he admired Fidel Castro, deny that Castro was a killer, and noted that Castro "trained a lot of doctors, and they’ve got one of the best educational systems in the developing world."
(http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/1...
I wonder how many in the mainstream media are this extreme in their ignorance and denial.
I prefer to call them "fudgepackers" myself. I use that in my comments in response to the derogative use of "tea-baggers".
For example:
Hello Mr. Ebert, do you mind if I call you fudgepacker? Ok, good. Well, Mr. Fudgepacker…
Jim VandeHei is soooooooooo full of shit!
I keep waiting for one of the MarxStreamMedia to jump ship and admit that they made a huge mistate and start reporting fairly and truthfully. Still waiting, still just a little quote like, "Most MSM reporters don't hate Sarah…" tells me there is a glimmer of hope, yet. With their raings in the tank, their credibility gone, and everybody watching Fox, or the other medias, well, maybe, just maybe we wll begin to see more faires.
I feel for those that still do not have cable, and have to rely on them for tv news. I even know many who do not have the internet yet either, but everybody has radio!
Second stage of "consensus building": Choose one person to attack and marginalize to keep others who think the same way from speaking up, to enbolden those who disagree with the one being attacked, and to influence the undecided.
http://bigjournalism.com/kschlichter/2010/02/08/g...
Actually, they'll ignore this altogether. They want to keep TEA Party wins on the down-low.
Right on! I've been calling them the "Tea-BagEEs" but you're right, "salad tosser" is better for the likes of Anderson Pooper, Thrill Matthews, Keith Oglemen…. "Skunk-gut Snailer" for the likes of Rachel Madcow.
Shhh, don't give 'em any ideas. Let them put the nails in their own coffins.
Your first sentence sums up all of Modern Liberalism.
I guess they are oblivious to the fact they are alienating the independents and even Democrats who have some common sense when they mock Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. In a way, they may actually be helping to ensure conservative victories in 2010 by so openly displaying their disdain for anyone who is not a member of the liberal elite.
Good point! Liberals don't seem to have much loyalty when the going gets tough, and morals are not their strong suit either, so they don't mind lying and cheating – even if it against their own.
As i read the comments here, I am struck by the knowledge, civility, and logic of almost all of them. I would love to see a comparison of comments to a similar article on a liberal website like Huffington Post or the Daily Kos. Any bets on which would have the most profanity, personal attacks, poor grammar, misspelled words, incorrect information, etc.? Congratulations on the tone of this discussion. I love the humor, satire, and irony!
MarxStreamMedia…. yes sir, I like it.
I disagree. I believe they are using this tactic to persuade others from investigating the movement further. They are using this tactic to keep our numbers lower than what they could be. They know that a good 40% of the Country is politically ignorant and easily influenced, that is why the Democrats focus so heavily on making their candidate a "rock star". That is how they sell the politically ignorant dolts on who to vote for. They also use this tactic to keep their group think friends from straying out of fear of being ostracized. Socialists are weak minded and will stay in line like sheep if they believe they will be ostracized for thinking any way other than what the group tells them to think. This tactic will be effective if we do not continue telling everyone what the movement is and what we're about.
Also, I like being called a tea bagger. It gives me an opening to unleash a wrath of whit that leaves these Socialists speechless. They have tried so long to isolate conservatives as religious zealots in their relentless pursuit of persuading the weak minded, that they actually started believing it was true. They get a little different "taste" of who's in charge when I get rollin. They can taste my tea bags when I'm done with em and I never want them to forget the bitter taste of defeat or debags.
I think that for Anderson Cooper, Keith Olberdork, Tingle legs Mathew and other vaguely male lefties a better term is 'fistees'- the receiver in a "fisting" activity.
HPD- the chGermans call that Schadenfreude- and yes it is delicious.
Because the motto "The spin stops here" is just a marketing tool. Anytime that rev al sharpton is on he's doing about 100,000 RPM. Ellis Hennican was on and spinnin' at about a million RPM over the 'damaged' civil rights of terrorists.
Vandehei also claimed that "only a couple" of prominent press people (like Cooper) used the term "Teabagger." If you didn't already realize it, his appearance has to cement the fact that Politico is nothing but another Center-Left (to far Left) news organization that can't separate the facts from their agenda.
His appearance made Mark Lamont Hill cringe as being too ridiculously partisan.
msm = obozo media = America bashers = America haters
the msm cover for edwards is bad, but nothing compared to their cover of obozo
cant wait for the future date when the msm cover of obama incompetence/corruption is admitted to by the media
We are still waiting for Vanderhei's rebuttal to O'Reilly's claim. I am not holding my breath. Actually, the more the MSM attacks/dismisses the TP and Palin, the stronger both become. Americans know BS when they see it, the MSM is neck deep in it.
It worked great with George Bush, but it is not working anymore. These Tea Party people are tough, they have been working hard, and a little name calling is just fluff to them!
Had to dare me, didn't you?
Glad you liked it, I thought it up myself, I think…..we can never be sure anymore, ideas come and go, and one wonders from where??? Feel free to use it, I think it pretty well describes them
That last looks like my dog.
Anything that disrupts the delicate house of cards that passes for their ideology has to be destroyed, least reality sink in.
Actually someone did research and the virtol on the left sites is hundreds of times worse than any conversative site. But you have to know why. The Left follows Saul Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals, and his tactics tell them to use ridicule, name calling, anything to embarass the opponent. He says to forget values, the end justifies the means, so they will stoop to any level to win. The conservatives try to win an argument with reasoning, humor, and history. It makes for some interesting exchanges.
Sometimes I find it hard to stomach, all the vile vulgar stuff. Then I remember George Washington in 1776 marching with his troops in a fridged blizzard nine miles to attack the Hessians. His army was in rags, hungry, cold, many barefoot, etc. still they marched on for liberty. I guess being called ugly names is a small price to pay. And besides now much of their vile is just blowing back in their faces!
If I know O'Reilly he will have the facts to back up his claim. I think we all know he can be believed. They can argue, but show us the facts or hush!
Thanks! I probably will.
So far, based on their previous actions and arrogance, I don't think they would care even if they had.
That's always been by thought of O'Rielly as well. He preaches "no-spin" yet doesn't get some of the most blatant spin on his own program.
I think that explains everything perfectly.
VandeHei doesn't have to "buy O'Reilly's story" about only two positive stories. All he has to do is a little research it to disprove it. Which he won't do.
Proving once more that when it comes to research, digging and investigative work concerning their abject bias, the MSM is not very good. But running their collective mouth?
Absolutely Pulitzer-worthy!
They can't admit they screwed up, their credibility (or what they think they have left of it) is on the line.
There used to be an old saying where I worked, when some one was promoted to manager, they went to a special school where they forked their tongue and removed their spine.
How do you know that's not the plan?
Obama won on hope, change, and not being George Bush. He'll try the anti-Bush stuff in 2012, no doubt about that, but it won't work.
If the dems hold total control in 2010, the only thing he can run on is how Congress screwed everything, a.k.a against Pelosi and Reid. That won't work either.
How ever, should the dems lose one or both houses of Congress, then he's got an opponent he can run for re-election against. He can use the GOP as a scape goat for abandoning his lunatic far left fringe, which he can also use as an excuse for moving more to the center ("Pelosi made me do it").
Either way, I see only benefits for Obama and the dems if they lose not a lot, but just enough to justify their hubris.
Bill O' has made numerous representations that he has personally investigated the TWO newspaper blips posted in 1961 announcing BHO birth in Hawaii. However, I have it on firm account, that there is ONLY ONE newspaper blip in general circulation, if fact, there is ONLY ONE location to view the TWO he has represented knowledge about. So if Bill O' does have documented facts to back up his repeated claims, then he should present those as documents as proof in support of his claims, live on his nightly show. But alas', he has not presented the documents he has referenced as the PROOF backing his claims?
Why didn't Bill call VandeHei's bluff. Ask him to prove him wrong.
Just a little FYI. The add is from the biggest bailed out entity of all… the old GMAC is now Ally. Talk about not telling the truth
anderson who?
I hope they keep hating Sarah. She gets even more popular and more powerful. I support Palin for President.
Hell, they even tried to make up a scandal involving Trig. They'll do anything.
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Also, it is easier to be so vile when you don't believe in God or an afterlife of any kind. I suspect there are many more atheistic or agnostic liberals than conservatives. Even when they believe in God, many seem to assume anything they do or say will be fine since they consider themselves but a bit below any deity and because they need to get the poor, stupid jerks who don't believe in what they do over to their side – the only correct one.
Progressiveism is a religion. They replace God with their belief in their own superiority. They think they know better than everyone else, even God.
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