diamond
ONE love, blood, life
he's kinda cute.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace had an unexpectedly salty conversation with radio host Mike Gallagher on Friday, telling Gallagher that he knows how to "satisfy a woman" and suggesting that the host would hire an escort if he was "a man."
Wallace's first comment came after Gallagher said he hoped to have the "Fox News Sunday" host's wife as a guest when her book was released in the New Year. "This woman is a saint for putting up with you," he continued. "I gotta find out what the secret is."
"Maybe the secret is I know how to satisfy a woman. Has that ever occurred to you?" Wallace replied. He went on to say that "if I had my own pad and was a bachelor in New York, I wouldn't be lonely. It'd be party night."
A few minutes later, Wallace asked Gallagher why he was so "lonely" in New York, and told him to call one of the "advertisements for, like, gentleman's clubs and escort services."
"I'm not going to a gentleman's club," Gallagher said, "Are you crazy?"
"Because you're not a man," Wallace said.
Someone commented on him saying this so I looked it up. What a douche. He seems to think he's very desirable.
Wallace on whether Palin will be "sitting on [his] lap" during interview: "One can only hope" | Media Matters for America
"He just got kicked from Mumbai to South Korea, and he came home and attacked Republicans for it. He had to be told by the French and the Germans that his socialism was too far left for them to deal with."
People who don't know what they are talking about (and some who do) throw around socialist, liberal, communist, fascist, etc without knowing what they really mean. Whatever comes down the fax line with the talking points, you know?Why would Barack Obama even want to be a socialist? Democracy has been very good to him.
Anyone who thinks Obama is a socialist is an idiot.
From the second, just-released interview in that series: Ailes on NPR--In an interview, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes told The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz...
Well, duh! I mean, Soros is one of their biggest donors, and according to Glenn Beck, Soros was a Nazi as a kid himself!“They are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don’t want any other point of view. They don’t even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda.”
“These guys don’t want any other point of view. They don’t even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda.”
Well, duh! I mean, Soros is one of their biggest donors, and according to Glenn Beck, Soros was a Nazi as a kid himself!
Ailes knows perfectly well what socialism and fascism really are.
this is for real
Let’s get off Pop for a bit. Let’s get on to God. What’s God like, Colton? Apparently, he passed up a great basketball career to mind the metaphysical completeness of all known and unknown matter.
“Yeah,” Colton says. “He can actually fit the entire world into his hands.”
At this point, even Gretchen Carlson seems like she’s beginning to have doubts.
“Wow,” she says, after an embarrassed pause. “What about Jesus?”
“Well, Jesus, he had a rough but kind face, sea-blue eyes and a smile that lit up the heavens,” Colton says, which coincidentally sounds a lot like Jesus’s Match.com profile.
It’s also reassuring to know that Jesus is a Boston Celtics fan.
Well, just for starters, there's a lot of research suggesting that giving people 'more information' seldom changes their political views, and in fact may even reinforce them; that what really works is appealing to their emotional loyalties. With reference to "the media," one obvious corollary of this is the temptation to appeal to the basest emotions of all--YOU'RE doing everything right, it's just that your opponents are all evil and stupid!--while with reference to political parties, another associated problem is the difficulty of knowing which emotional loyalties you're supposed to appeal to when your voter base is quite different from what it used to be.Is it just due to bias, is it because it falls in line with what they've heard all their life, or is it just willful ignorance?
from the amazing Colton:
“Nope,” says Colton. “Just young adults.”
Will some Fox lover please come and defend this?
Study: Some Viewers Were Misinformed by TV News - NYTimes.com
December 17, 2010, 4:18 PM
Study: Some Viewers Were Misinformed by TV News
By BRIAN STELTER
News organizations can educate voters about public policy and economic conditions, but they can also misinform voters. As if to prove the point, a study released Friday found that “substantial levels of misinformation” seeped out to the electorate of the United States at the time of the midterm elections this year.
The study was conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a project that is managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland.
According to the study, which can be reviewed online, in most cases, the more a person watched and read the news, the less likely they were to have been misled about the facts. But “there were however a number of cases where greater exposure to a news source increased misinformation on a specific issue,” the study’s authors wrote. In particular, they found that regular viewers of the Fox News Channel, which tilts to the right in prime time, were significantly more likely to believe untruths about the Democratic health care overhaul, climate change and other subjects.
The study found other cases where greater exposure to media meant greater misinformation on a subject. Regular viewers of MSNBC, which tilts to the left in prime time, were 34 percentage points more likely than non-viewers to believe “that it was proven that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was spending money raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates.” Consumers of public broadcasting were 25 points more likely to believe the same.
But the study found many more instances that involved Fox News.
“Almost daily” viewers of Fox News, the authors said, were 31 points more likely to mistakenly believe that “most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit;” were 30 points more likely to believe that “most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring;” and were 14 points more likely to believe that “the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts.”
They were also 13 points more likely to mistakenly believe “the auto bailout only occurred under Obama;” 12 points more likely to believe that “when TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it;” and 31 points more likely to believe that “it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States.”
The study’s authors continued, “These effects increased incrementally with increasing levels of exposure and all were statistically significant. The effect was also not simply a function of partisan bias, as people who voted Democratic and watched Fox News were also more likely to have such misinformation than those who did not watch it — though by a lesser margin than those who voted Republican.”
Asked for comment on the study, Fox News seemingly dismissed the findings. In a statement, Michael Clemente, who is the senior vice president of news editorial for the network, said: “The latest Princeton Review ranked the University of Maryland among the top schools for having ‘Students Who Study The Least’ and being the ‘Best Party School’ – given these fine academic distinctions, we’ll regard the study with the same level of veracity it was ‘researched’ with.”
Mr. Clemente oversees every hour of objective news programming on Fox News, which is by far the nation’s most popular cable news channel.
For the record, the Princeton Review says the University of Maryland ranks among the “Best Northeastern Colleges.” It was No. 19 on the Review’s list of “Best Party Schools.”
The study was backed by two parts of the University of Maryland, the Center on Policy Attitudes and the Center for International and Security Studies.
Asked for comment on the study, Fox News seemingly dismissed the findings. In a statement, Michael Clemente, who is the senior vice president of news editorial for the network, said: “The latest Princeton Review ranked the University of Maryland among the top schools for having ‘Students Who Study The Least’ and being the ‘Best Party School’ – given these fine academic distinctions, we’ll regard the study with the same level of veracity it was ‘researched’ with.”
also, it wasn't a critique about the information on Fox, but about the VIEWERS themselves. so people who choose to find news that will confirm their biases flock to Fox, a station that gives them a product they love.
THAT's what the study showed.
So how is watching MSNBC any different with people like Keith and Rachel? As bad as Fox news is, they take this kind of journalism to a whole new level.