On This Week, Laura Ingraham claims White House more "impassioned" about Fox News than "jihadists," drawing laughter from rest of panel
October 25, 2009 11:35 am ET
From the October 25 edition of ABC News' This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Stephanopoulos: "You don't believe that they've been softer on Islamic jihadists than they have on Fox News. Come on."
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Next week we'll we be seeing one of the hosts of "Fox and Friends" on a Sunday morning news show?
Why on earth would anyone ask this right-wing talking point bleating lunatic about anything?
http://mediamatters.org/research/200905070031
Such gravitas. The woman is a force for truth, justice and the American way.
Seriously, nothing is beneath these people.
Maybe ABC did us a favor in putting her in that panel to show the world what a hate-filled blithering idiot she is. I'm sure that most people who saw that program and had never heard of Laura Ingraham before now look upon her as Ann Coulter with shorter hair....
Ms. Ingraham came off looking like a Horse without Blinkers.
She tried so hard to be Witty, which i'm sure would come off sharp on Fox News with little or no Drama.
But at a Table of Grown-Ups Ms. Ingraham looked like those Cute Babies during the Presidential Campaign screaming Obama, Obama, Obama.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
Its an outrageous comparison by any measure.
Ed Gillespie, President Bush's counselor, says there is an "increasing blurring" of the line between NBC News and MSNBC's "blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann."
Here's the article where these quotes appear.
So, out of curiosity Ms. Ingraham, considering senior officials attacked MSNBC for factual, albeit left leaning, reportage, what do you think the reaction from the Bush/Cheney administration would've been had MSNBC spent 10 months lying every singe hour of every single day about every thing they tried to do?
While we're talking about jihadists and how seriously they are taken, can you explain how serious President Bush took al Qaeda, considering the fact he invaded Iraq, where there was no al Qaeda and no connection to terrorist attacks on the U.S.?
Laura comes off as less crazy than some others but is actually a rabid partisan. What's the point in having her on ?
She's only slightly lass crazy than Malkin
Oh yea.....the picture of the wicked witch looks good compared to that bleach blond lying zealot-ingraham
Perhaps because it's all liberals on the panel they don't need to invite any liberal guests!
Now clean up the coffee that spurted out your nose. I warned you.
Always nice to see reality shed on these theories.
Obama: "No I'm not."
Ingraham, et. al.: "Why are you ATTACKING us? Your unnecessary and unprovoked Nixonian war against us is proof that you're a dictator."
What Ingram tries to pass off on a main stream Sunday news show, is a reflection of what the tone is among the hair brained fringe with which she associates on a daily basis. It "seemed" like a plausable statement among the FOX/Rush/Coulter crowd.
In living in such a vacuum,over time, only that to which you are exposed seems "normal". Ideas outside of that seem 'delusional'. Because there are now so many right wing propaganda outlets, in listening to only them, people like Laura think they ARE listening to "main stream" rhetoric.
When I find myself sitting in a dr.s waiting room, and the person sitting next to me attempts to engage me in conversation about the Fox "news" program on the waiting room TV, I often nod in full agreement when after giving me their corresponding viewpoint of "Everyone I know feels the same way". Yep! I'll bet that's the only type of people that they do know.
She's just been at Fox too long.
It's sad to see the demise of American objectivism in journalism. But this new model was part of larger scheme. In the eighties, Roger Ailes. Reagan and Bush explored the notion of creating a "conservative news bureau" led by the White House -- to get their message out. It was quickly shot down, but they created a more stealthy version of it --namely Fox News.
Note to wingnuts -- media cannot be conservative in nature since the very idea of conservatism is based on laissez faire ideologies and a restrictive world view. Media has to be inclusive, expansive, objective and non-ideological, in other words liberal.
The media is made up primarily of white men and corporate interest. As their power wanes, it is only natural that they would circle the wagons and entrench. It's futile though. Ingraham and her ilk are grasping at straws. Thus the low self-indentification of Americans with the GOP.
She's a partisan hack, as are most that work for Murdoch and Ailes. Note that few liberals praise our exisiting media -- including MSNBC, but conservatives praise and worship the talking heads on Fox. That's scary. And stupid as are the people that beleive it's a legitamite news outlet.
Sorry for the above - I must have hit the wrong button-(again).
Agreed, Fox News is similar to the 'yellow journalism' of the the 19th century. Well, OK, you win - very much like. And like you, I think the media should be "inclusive, expansive (not so sure what you mean by that one)objective, and non-ideological)."
However, I hardly think of the world in manichean terms. I don't see the world in evil /v good, or black/v white, or liberal v/conservative. Darth Vader/v Luke Skywalker. I don't think true conservatives honestly follow the junk on Fox. However it is an outlet, let those people speak. The rest of us can get down to business, and set new course for the nation. Heavens knows, the last eight years haven't worked for us.
BTW: I still like Laura Ingraham - I just wish she would get off Fox News (as you are, I'm sure) :?
I believe that is where most Americans are.
Ever watch (or play) basketball? The instigator rarely gets called out. It's the reaction that gets called. It's all drama.
Thing is - sports fans supporting the instigator KNOW it was instigating. And they quietly think "good job".
Thing is, a lot of people in the US don't see it as "sports". They see it as real life. If Fox is going to refuse to admit they are an arm of the GOP, then they need to at least start playing a little more responsibly. There are plenty of REAL issues to disagree with Obama on, but those get very little coverage on Fox.
FauxNoise and talk radio treat politics like it's professional wrestling, as though it doesn't have consequences for the electorate. We need to end this construct and view it as a damn serious business with consequences as serious as a heart attack, and as lasting as bankruptcy.
I'd be very pleased if they'd all go back to sports reporting - and I'll include Keith Olbermann, who I think is a great sports reporter. Limbaugh couldn't make it as a sports reporter because he couldn't take off his ideological blinders.
Every kid, when she is little, has her mother say to her, "Now, don't be a smart alec"
Either Laura's mother never said this or she did and Laura ignored her.
This is why Laura speaks in that sing-songy, smart-alecky way.
While that is an insult to witches, she's heads and shoulders
above the 'wanna bees' like Ingraham, Malkin, and Crowley.
The actions of this lefty administration is to silence its only real critic and threaten the others to stay away from the same subjects reported.
Iranians, jihadists, taliban, kim jong il, al quieda: These are people that obama has said he would sit down and talk with.
Fox News is not given any accommodation or opportunity for dialogue, negotiations.
Now unless the thought czar in the whitehouse has issued a request for more lefty administrations members to NOT speak with FOX, a request say more than 5 months old, or unless obama has not spoken to the media czar since hired, then I'd say that more effort has been put into the war against FNC than any terrorist.
Speaking truth to/about progressives
How have the Obama Administration silenced ANYBODY? Calling out the Faux News Channel for their incessant and reality-denying attacks on all things Obama is NOT SILENCING THEM! You seem to be engaging in a classic wingnut mangling of logic by claiming that RESPONDING to dishonest and smearing speech is the same as CENSORING it. Responding to dishonest speech is, in itself, the PRACTICING OF FREE SPEECH. Nobody is STOPPING the Faux News Channel from shoveling their cheap, dishonest propaganda on the public air waves. The 1st Amendment, however, does NOT PREVENT others from RESPONDING to reich wing lies, smears, and distortions. There is NO Constitutional guarantee of EXCLUSIVE speech.
And, by the way, LYING, DISTORTING, and SMEARING progressives is NOT, in fact, "speaking truth to/about progressives".
How about rewriting that so that it makes sense?
She did did take a couple of swings and promptly slipped on the canvas.
I would like to see her back in the future. I have long observed that these right wing talking heads will back down usually when confronted with raw facts. On Fox News she is totally a zombie.
This tells me that most of these so called right wing folks are on a vaudeville circuit and the act changes a little when they play a different city.
Every child, at one time or another, has her mother say to her, "Now, don't be a smart alec"
Laura never heard this.
That's why she talks in that sing-songy, smart alecky way.