CNN FAIL

[Pirate Smile]

Today in Journalism

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 5:13 PM | By David Weigel

This CNN screenshot comes via Arthur Delaney:

I'm just not sure why CNN's reporting team stopped there. They're missing all of these potential headlines:

- W.H.: PRES. OBAMA NOT BEATING HIS WIFE

- W.H.: PRES. OBAMA ISN'T SHAPE-SHIFTING LIZARD

- W.H.: PRES. OBAMA DID NOT WRITE SEX & CITY 2 SCREENPLAY

- W.H.: PRES. OBAMA ISN'T RELATED TO WILLIE HORTON


- W.H.: PRES. OBAMA ISN'T GIVING NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES TO KENYA

- W.H.: PRES. OBAMA DID NOT SHOOT MAN IN RENO, WATCH HIM DIE


- W.H.: PRES. OBAMA ISN'T POISONING YOUR EGGS ON PURPOSE

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2010/08/19/today-in-journalism.aspx

Anyone have the complaint phone # handy?

[BootinUp]

1. DIS IZ JERNALISM?!!

[impik]

2. New Development??????????????? Fuck them all.

Hang in there, Mr. president. two more years and this nightmare will be over.

[JuniperLea]

3. Aren't you happy he isn't distracted by this idiocy?

I sure am.

[impik]

8. I'm embarrassed and pissed that the WH even had to comment on this crap

And to sound so apologetic about how many times the president pray every day. This is madness.

[Whisp]

14. I am too.

But some would want Obama to spend all his time fighting these assholes one by one. He is a very wise to mostly ignore their ignorant asses.

[JuniperLea]

16. He can store it all up...

And use it for his campaign when he wins the second term;)

[Aramchek]

4. they are really pissed that MSNBC got the jump on the Iraq story

They have barely mentioned it on CNN.

This is their payback to Obama for cutting them out of the loop.

[jonnyblitz]

9. yeah you'd think they would be tripping over themselves to

scoop "Mission Accomplished" a second time since the first time Bush ended the war was so damn good!! :crazy:

[annabanana]

5. The bedbugs in Blitzer's beard have eaten his brain. . .n/t

[GodlessBiker]

6. President Obama still not married to Morgan Fairchild.

[Coexist]

7. President Obama is not Mel Gibson's bff

[Supersedeas]

18. So some say---the some that say not being identified at all.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. LOL

I had to do a spit take when I saw that.

Unreal.

Thankfully I don't watch news on TV anymore and haven't for well over a year.

I feel so much better.

[krispos42]

11. "- W.H.: PRES. OBAMA DOESN'T EAT HIS BOOGERS"

:eyes:

[Whisp]

13. Does President Obama eat his boogers? THAT is how they do it.

[krispos42]

17. PRES. OBAMA ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT EAT HIS BOOGERS

Nope. No booger-eating going on at the White House.

"Tonight, on The Factor... Obama SAYS he doesn't eat his boogers. We'll talk via satellite with Karl Rove, Fred Thompson, Representative John Boehner, and the ghost of Ronald Reagan about to discuss if Obama not eating his boogers is a realistic goal."

[butterfly77]

15. I emailed them today..

about this nonsense,I email Rick Sanchez regularly about his over dramatization

[Whisp]

12. Obama Christian or Muslim? what low life fuckers.

that was on the scroll not long ago.
thing is, why should there be anything wrong with Obama being a Muslim?


they plant this shit in the weakminded on purpose - they are going for the Fox crowd. Its a statement they want more to believe but that question mark is supposed to make them seem 'keeping them honest journalists just askin' questions, that's all'

[denimgirly]

19. What is surprising is why More Networks dont go full out to duplicate Fox? Can someone explain.

Fox has shown that when you appeal to the fearful (i.e. the right) the ratings are huge. And so i am a bit baffled as to why there arent more networks who will cut the cherade and say yes they are for the right and will lie/cheat/steal/kill to make the left look bad 24/7 for the sake of ratings.

Honestly, if it were all about the money it makes perfect business sense. And you can clearly tell the MSM wants to be more like Fox news but at times they are holding back a bit. Why dont they just go full in what is stopping them?

If we didnt have the prime time slots on MSNBC wow it would be a slaughterfest on the left 24/7.