These MUTHERFUCKING Media Pieces Of Fucking Garbage

[Beetwasher]

Had no problems whatsoever plastering pictures of Chimpy with a bulging codpiece and a plastic turkey. And they had no problem shoving these images down your throat until you spewed. But NOW...NOW they have problems with the legitimacy of White House images??? Oh, now, all of a sudden they get religion and have problems because they claim they can't verfiy the authenticity??? Really?? Oh FUCKING REALLY? They are going to fucking play it like that, are they? Mutherfuckers. If I could, I swear, I would bludgeon the fucking corporate media to death with a spiked fucking club. Those fuckers. Those fucking fucker fuckers.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/8/15/893279/-Oh-Get-Over-Yourselves.-

[jefferson_dem]

1. That's a bloody fine rant, right there.

I concur.

[Gman]

2. Yeah, nice rant... K&R

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Something bothering you, beet?

[Beetwasher]

4. No, Why Do You Ask?

n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Sometimes I get these strange, intuitive feelings about people.

[Beetwasher]

9. Must Be Gas

n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Well, I do usually just blow them off.

[Beetwasher]

12. Yours Or Mine?

n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

15. How do you blow off someone else's gas?

[Beetwasher]

16. You Tell Me

n/t

[Skink]

5. my company is in a proxy fight and I am seeing first hand the disinformation being spewed..

by the msn. CNBC's Faber reported the incorect CEO's name recently. And the lies about the company that are being reported are amazing.

[sandnsea]

6. They wanted another shirtless picture

That's why the White House controlled that particular photo. Do they forget they were all abuzz about it on Friday?

[Milo_Bloom]

8. Wow... Just wow.

It's amazing the times the corporate media decide to find religion.

[MadMaddie]

10. This is just more of the same garbage from the MSM

double standards for President Obama.

Hate him or love him you have to admit that this kind of shit is childish and amateur at best.

[babylonsister]

13. Rec'd, great rant, and spot on. This is the part of the

'mountain' Obama expected to climb, but even he couldn't have imagined this. For those who didn't click on the link...


So apparently the AP and NYT decided they couldn't share the picture of the President and Sasha in the water in the Gulf because THEY didn't take the pictures. They claim that they can't even trust that the picture is REALLY of President Obama in the Gulf. They "claim" it's about "transparency".

Lots more but you get the gist.

UGH.

[blm]

14. Got my KandR

.

[sandnsea]

17. lol, look at the NYTimes whine about beefcake

Fucking fucks is right.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=412502&mesg_id=412502

[Rosa Luxemburg]

31. Murdoch must have given the NYT orders

[NYMdaveNYI]

79. Murdoch doesn’t own NYT...

He owns WSJ and NY Post

and Faux News

----

The New York Times is a beacon of sanity in the world of newspapers, especially in New York. I read it every day, it seems like you don’t.

[unblock]

18. rules and laws and ethics were made for democrats to follow;

republicans have money.

[depakid]

19. Since many Democrats and particularly this administration have no interest in media reregulation

I suppose they get what they ask for.

[Beetwasher]

23. Bravo! Bonus points for shoehorning in a gratuitous & egregious Obama slam!

[babylonsister]

24. 'ignored' said something worthy of responding to?

:shrug:

[impik]

36. Yea, i always wonder what "ignored" had to say this time...

[tallahasseedem]

39. Ignored as well...

I can always tell from the comments that I made the right decision.

[SoxFan]

89. Iggy shows up in a lot of threads, doesn't he?

Always seems mad, too...

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[DevonRex]

49. Why don't you go attack a Republican instead of Democrats on this board, hmmm?

I've always wondered why you consistently attack people here. It just seems to me that you see us as the enemy and I wonder why.

[fascisthunter]

45. not so much a slam as a truth that is frustrating to most of us

[Beetwasher]

47. Of Course It's A Slam, How Ridiculous, Regulation Would Do NOTHING About Something Like This

How the hell would regulating media rectify this type of hypocritical bullshit? You think regulating the media would mean Obama could force them to publish WH photos? On what planet?

This has nothing to do with regulation, it has to do with an obnoxious double standard and hypocrisy of the corporate media.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

62. Neither did our founding fathers

In fact, they outlawed content regulation in the Constitution.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[populistdriven]

20. we ceased to be a democracy long ago thanks to these fucking fuckers

[Clio the Leo]

21. The issue of photo access is a sore point for them....

... there are lots of bill signings etc. where they use WH photogs and dont allow the press. Not a big deal IMO. .... this isn't just because this one event.

But, ultimately, you're right.

They need to get over themselves.

[smalll]

22. I had a bad feeling as soon as I saw that swimming pic --

"authenticity?" Or perhaps even, as a fellow-DUer posted,

"The place were this pic was taken was at a place called Grand Lagoon. It is a protected area that has limited Gulf water access and in fact has a positive flow rate into the Gulf. When the tar balls were coming ashore at Panama City Beach, they did so from a SSW direction. That direction is cut off from the Grand Lagoon by land masses."

[Beetwasher]

25. And what is yr point?

obama,s point is that there are still lots of safe, clean places in the region. In fact, most of it is clean and safe. Do you have evidence otherwise?

[sandnsea]

27. And there are many places like that

Places that were completely untouched by a tar ball or a drop of dispersant. Lots of hotels are offering a oil free guarantee. If there's a drop or whiff of oil, you get your money back. It's really irresponsible to the people of the gulf to act as if the entire thing is awash in black goo.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

30. Well

whose side are you on?

[NYC Liberal]

42. The WH was completely open about exactly where this happened.

It was the media that made a stink by claiming Obama was somehow being dishonest.

He said where he was going. He never claimed to have been anywhere else.

[Beetwasher]

43. I Think People Expected Obama To Toss Malia Off A BP Rig Into An Oil Plume

Anything less would not have been "gutsy".

[WatchWhatISay]

26. If he had allowed himself to be photographed shirtless again, the press would be comparing him to

PUTIN! If he doesn't go in the water he is too selfish to help the Gulf real estate owners who want to get back to charging ridiculously high rents for beach property. If he is photographed in swim trunks its an ego thing, or its NOT PRESIDENTIAL and he loses gravitas.

Be sure and set up the situation so that he loses either way.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. It makes the Media look like fools!

[impik]

28. I still remember how they were scrutinizing Bush on everything

especially when he lied us into a fucking stupid war.


Assholes.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

33. didn't someone photograph Bush at a castle in Ireland in his underwear?

but they were banned from showing it? Can't remember the details.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

29. You forgot something

you were supposed to say you also wanted hang, draw and quarter them and put their heads on a spike. (Of course we wouldn't do that literally).

[Duval]

88. No, but we can imagine and smile! :)

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

35. Recommending

Because I would not want to be the subject of your next rant if I didn't recommend this one....

[progressoid]

38. Well duh, that picture was clearly staged and photoshopped.

It was all planned back when he was a kid in Kenya...he persuaded his atheist mother to move to Hawaii where he could get himself photographed with a young actress pretending to be his daughter so that he could use it later when he knew he wouldn't actually be able to swim in the water bacause of the oil spill that he would cause.

[Blue Owl]

40. They've set a new record for stuffing corporate balls in their mouth

ABCNNBCBS and FOX have lowered the bar and dumbed it down even more than you thought was possible.

And then they go and do it again!

[KansDem]

41. THIS is the photo I'll never forgive the media for...

Bush was told by Card that the US was under attack, yet he sits and does nothing. NO FUCKING "REPORTER" ever asked him why he sat and did nothing while 3,000 Americans were dying...

[The_Casual_Observer]

44. The reason that nobody asked that question is that they were too

polite, since the answer was that he was too stupid to know what to do next, utterly and completely clueless.

[newspeak]

50. ahh public relations. Poppy used it for his war--Little Boots hired them

to "sell" his bogus war, just like some damn commodity. I really love how the media portrayed Little Boots as a hero standing on the rubble at the trade center--when he couldn't even be bothered to respond to the august PDB or even appear to raise security as a heads up. And, I really love how the media, especially Tweety, ooohed and aaahed over Little Boots in his flight suit. How every woman in the US was just enamored at the hunka hunka burning love. Then there were the talking heads comparing Little Boots to Eisenhower, Truman, and deity forbid, FDR. For what? For doing absolutely fekkin nothing. Oh wait, starting wars with bogus intel. And, PR industry made a big fekkin profit selling the people "the war on terror." So, catchy with the 9-1-1 theme.

Couldn't just take out the alleged terrorists, no, we had to terrorize a whole country. Couldn't cut off funding terrorism, no we had to destroy innocent civilians and infrastructure.

It's true our media today more than ever is in the business of making money. But, it's how some of them make money--remember they are giant corporations with other business interests, and some of those interests includes war profiteering. They are not giving the people what they want, they are giving the people what will enhance their business interests. As they "sell" political candidates to the public, and we eventually have a choice of Brand A and Brand B.

[KansDem]

51. "As they 'sell' political candidates to the public,..."

I'll never forget during Campaign2000 when Cokie Roberts "reported" on NPR how George W would use his "charm offensive": He would go to DC and get things done using his "charm." And he liked to give out nicknames, too.

Oh, and a majority of us Americans would rather have a beer with him than with Al Gore...

[Enrique]

53. after "Fahrenheit 9/11" came out, they treated it as new footage

as if Michael Moore came up with it. But I had seen that clip long before Moore's movie, on the Internet. The MSM simply chose not to show it. Remember, the movie came out 3 years after 9/11.

[BrklynLiberal]

91. The man's pants were filled with poop. He couldn't move until he had cover and a new pair of undies

[fascisthunter]

46. not surprised.... we always knew the media was biased...

that's why it needs to be REGULATED.

[Beetwasher]

48. How Would Regulation Rectify This?

Would regulation mean Obama could force the corporate media to publish the photos? Seriously, WTF are you people talking about. This has nothing to do with regulating the media.

[pleah]

52. K&R

[Enrique]

54. it's a good policy

it's also good to ask whether they applied it to Bush as well. Those codpiece photos, were they official White House photos or did they have journalists on the carrier taking pictures? As far as I know, they were normal press photos.

[Beetwasher]

56. It Was Never A "Policy" Until Right Now, Apparently

To question the authenticity of WH photos.

[Enrique]

58. it was policy during Bush

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/bush_wh_refused_still_photography_at_bush_speech.htm

White House Refused to Allow Still Photography at Bush Speech

PDN Online | January 12, 2007

Daryl Lang

NEW YORK The White House broke with tradition Wednesday night and refused to let photojournalists shoot still pictures of the president at the podium after his prime-time address on the Iraq war.

As a result, newspapers and wire services had little choice but to run low-quality frame grabs from the video of the speech. An official handout photo from the White House, which most news outlets rejected, was the only other option. Caught in a bind on deadline, some newspapers ran the official White House photo with no disclosure that it was provided by the government.

The Associated Press and Reuters, who refused to accept the handout photo, sent their members notices explaining that frame grabs from the White House video pool would be their only photo coverage of the speech.

"Reuters News Pictures regrets that due to restrictions imposed by the White House, Reuters will not be able to provide still photographs from President Bush's White House address on Iraq," the Reuters bulletin said.

(...)

[Beetwasher]

59. Not Really

Haphazardly applied at best.

"Caught in a bind on deadline, some newspapers ran the official White House photo..."

And they certainly weren't implying that maybe the photos weren't reliable.

[Enrique]

60. were they motherfucking pieces of garbage in 2007?

or was it ok then?

[Beetwasher]

61. Yes, They Were

They certainly weren't implying that WH photos couldn't be trusted or verified at that time.

[Enrique]

63. who took that picture?

my guess: it's a newspaper photographer's picture.

If they banned journalists from that event and that picture was taken by Bush's official photographer, and the AP sent it out for publication, then you have made your point. But I don't believe that's the way it happened.

[Beetwasher]

64. My Point Stands, Did They EVER Question The Authenticity Of WH Photos Until NOW?

Maybe sometimes they didn't print them, but they certainly never released statements questioning their authenticity.

", if they just hand us an image we don’t really know where the President was, we just have to take them at their word."

[Enrique]

65. AP photographer, not official Bush photographer

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-11-27-bush-iraq_x.htm



By Anja Niedringhaus, AP pool

[Beetwasher]

66. FAKE TURKEY

Did they question the authenticity of the scene? No.

", if they just hand us an image we don’t really know where the President was, we just have to take them at their word."

They had no problems taking Bush at his "word" when he walked out with a fake fucking turkey. They gobbled it up.

[Enrique]

67. Yes they did, and the Freepers were FURIOUS

how dare they question the turkey!!!

Just like you, Beetwasher. Those Bush haters like Mike Allen (later to found Politico) are out to get Bush!!!

Check it out, they went on and on for days about it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/thanksgivingvisit/index

[Beetwasher]

68. That's A Load Of Crap, The NYT PUBLISHED THE FUCKING PICTURE On The Front Page

Yes, it came out later and was revealed it was fake only AFTER it was published on the front page.

And that's just one example of the double standard. NYT had no problems being stenographers for Bushco. Remember Judy Miller? Now they're concerned about authenticity?

[Enrique]

69. "when did the liberal press ever dissect photo props used by Klinton?"

Back and forth, back and forth. They're mean to our guy, they were so easy on the other guy.

Just wait for the next GOP president, Pierce Bush or whoever it is, they'll be saying "how come they're questioning poor Pierce when they never questioned President (Malia) Obama?"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1034061/posts

When did the liberal press ever dissect photo props used by Klinton? Give me a break!

[Beetwasher]

70. Remember Judy Miller? WMD's? "Mission Accomplished"

Should I continue? My my you have a short memory. You really think the media treated Bush with the same "skepticism" they're showing Obama? What fucking planet do you live on?

[Enrique]

71. i could continue myself

Judy Miller and many other failures. As mentioned upthread, the failure to report what Bush did when informed of 9/11, for example.

[Beetwasher]

72. Ok, So You're Making My Point For Me

Thanks. Not sure what you're point is then. It's clear there's a double standard, or do you deny that?

[Enrique]

73. no, very different points

for me, media failures are when they do something that fail by journalistic standards.

For you and those freepers, media failures are when they do something you see as anti-Obama or they see as anti-Bush.

[Beetwasher]

74. My Point Obviously Is Over Your Head, It's The Double Standard

One unquestioning standard for Bush in which they regurgitated whatever the Bush admin. wanted them to and another skeptical standard for Obama where everything is questioned and put under a microscope or examined through the lens of Repub talking points.

You are apparently ok with that.

[freebrew]

80. Looks photoshopped.

Check out the top of *'s hairline...

[bobburgster]

55. I can't believe they refused...

to use the photo. Their reasoning is absurd. When you are talking about family photos.....the president has every right to limit access.

[mzmolly]

57. Hear

hear!

[harun]

75. Proper rant.

[Whisp]

76. It's going to get worse

as we near November and it's going to be worse yet as 2012 nears.

There is so precious little positive news on what Obama and his people have accomplished and what they have had to face in the many disasters Bush and his predessesors had left him.

Just this morning on CNN (they are non stop question Everything Obama - I expect them to catch a pic of him putting his socks on and complain that he PUts his Left Sock on First. That is Partisan!) Jessica Yelling (another mouthpiece that I just can't stomach, what a twister piece of shit reporter) got some treabagger list from somehwere about how Obama was the worst president ever and goes down the list to give them free advertising. One of which was that Obama is causing a race division.

I want a shotgun for Xmas. and an old tv that I can bust up.

Anyone who mimics the hours and hours of continuous obama bashing from CNN, and brings it here ought to be fucking ashamed of their stupidity.

[lillypaddle]

77. K&R n/t

[Jamastiene]

78. Ooooh boy! It's the Battle of the Bulge.

I love it!

:popcorn:

[mstinamotorcity]

81. Why I couldn't have

said it more eloquently. My hats off to you on such choice and astute observation points.:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[badgerpup]

82. I realize I'm good at missing the point...

...so of course I'm failing to see how a picture (or lack thereof) of Barack Obama in, out or in transit between of the Gulf Coast water affects the fate of the planet.

I'm sorry...I know I'm not bright. :shrug:




OK, just to make the point clear...:sarcasm:

[w4rma]

83. Obama lost his Teflon by attacking his base which would otherwise have helped protect him.

It's been pretty awful watching the DLC train wreck us, again, like it was 1996.

Everyone I know have grown to dislike Obama, and they all voted for him. And I never spoke to them about Obama once, before.

It's all about the honesty.

[Beetwasher]

84. Gratuitous And Egregious Obama Slam Noted

I'm simply amazed at the depraved mental gyrations that must be necessary to try and turn this thread into an opportunity to bash Obama. It must be exhausting.

[w4rma]

85. Rahmobama and the DLC started it. (nt)

[Beetwasher]

86. It's Off Topic Spew, But Please Do Continue With Your Depraved Anti-Obama Ramblings

n/t

[w4rma]

92. Brush it off and minimalize it, but his DLC cabinet has screwed us for this election.

And ignoring their failures won't help us fix them before the next election, and especially not this election.

[Beetwasher]

97. Minimalize What? Your Obnoxious Opinion?

Will do!

[Duval]

87. K&R n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

90. Like three-year-olds fighting in the sandbox...

[rhett o rick]

93. So we need to figure out how to fight them. We need a strategy and actions, not just ranting. nm

[Lagomorph]

95. That is the most intelligent comment in the whole thread...

I've been watching the Left & the Right trade shots since the 60's. I just can't get excited about it anymore. The same Democrats who gave Bush everything he wanted don't know how to change things because they've been doing it this way since they took office. They must have figured that redirecting some funding would solve everything, when they needed to clamp down on business as usual, entirely. The Republicans are too busy snorting coke off of hooker's asses to give a shit about the country. They are all in the same country club and the political drama is just the circus for the masses.

As long as the rich can get their luxuries somewhere in the world, and their personal on/off ramps near their homes, they have no motivation to fix anything.

Right now, if people hit the streets, I think they'd just let the cities burn. There isn't anything to protect, anymore, except people and, you know, who needs them?

[McCamy Taylor]

94. Why did AP photograph Michelle in Spain---and NYT run it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/politics/08vacation.html

Answer, because their corporate masters told them to.

Congrats on seeing through the corporate media lies.

[Highway61]

96. Just got home from work

and read this. Are you SHITTING ME???????????? Ya know, I really can't take this anymore. Yep, it's the Media...yep, it's the Repugs etc, etc, etc. I BLAME the American people! They are ignorant, Nascar loving, violent, People Magazine reading, gun toting, Reality TV watching (especially Jersey Shore Shit) with the attention span of a gnat! Fuck them all... the ignorant pricks who vote against their own interests. May they ALL get what they deserve.

[JNelson6563]

98. Oh snap!

Bitches.