Posted on 09/29/2009 7:26:53 PM PDT by Talkradio03
Anyone who saw this tonight has to ask, WTH is he talking about here? Bernie is really bothered by the Foxnews Tea Party coverage and he keeps repeating this rant....The worst performance I've seen from him...
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He didn’t say he disliked the Tea Partiers, he just said it was inaccurate to call them a cross section of America.
I’m not sure I would agree with that. Certainly, most of the Tea Partiers did not vote for 0bama, but I bet there were some that did.
For some bizarre reason Bernie thought that it was all right for commentators to give their opinions about anything they wanted, but as soon as they started talking about the Tea Parties they had to become “journalists” and deal in straight facts - the Tea Party goers are closer to being a “cross-section of the public” than they are to being the Nazis and angry mobsters described to those who claim to be journalists in the fringe media - very poor......
Well Berny was a liberal before he was a “conservative”.
He had a blow-out with Hannity on radio a month or two back, when he tried to get Hannity to say “one good thing about Obama.” That referenced back to the Somalia pirate episode, where BG thought BO had performed admirably and SH demurred. BG was left stammering “we’re still friends, right?” and Hannity refused to endorse that. I think Goldberg was looking for more help pushing his book and didn’t get it, now is building a David Brock “Blinded by the Right” hejira to the left. I doubt it will work for him.
BTW, I agree with everyone who has said Fox was horrible Beck especially on 9/12, although with few exceptions, the series of two minute speechlets by people from all sorts of organizations did not make for compelling TV.
He's not incorrect about that- about 30% of the population are propagandized to the point that The One can do no wrong. Naturally they won't be in the mix. Of so-called moderates, many will not attend because of perceived danger to their livelihood or of potential social shunning.
I never liked Bernie. Even when bashing libs, he comes across as a slimeball.
I wasn’t impressed with Fox’s coverage of the 9/12 Tea Party, either. My reasons are different from Bernie’s, tho.
He was going after Glenn Beck, as not being a journalist, and being (in Bernie’s opinion) loose with his facts. Bernie seemed appalled that Glenn was a ‘cheerleader’ for the protesters.
BOR did make a point of saying Beck makes it clear he is NOT a journalist. The 9/12 march as, in part, his baby.
So Bernie has jumped onboard the anti-Beck movement bandwagon. Very disappointing.
Fox’s coverage was mediocre, at best. Since I was at the march I only saw the rerun of Glenn’s runup to it, and that wasn’t particularly good, either. Friends who watched on tv switched to C-Span. The Fox reporters/BOR, etc. continued the “75K” crowd estimate that was an MPDC estimate only of the crowd early in the morning, before the march. No one on Fox, to my knowledge, ever corrected himself or herself.
That’s what he said - the point is it’s not up to Bernie to decide when a commentator can give his opinion and when he must become a journalist and give strictly “facts” - if someone like Beck or Hannity wants to say the Tea Partiers are a “cross-section”, that’s their characterization and it’s not Bernie’s place to decide they must now suddenly provide a frequency count to prove how closely the group matches the population - besides, I don’t think I ever heard anyone call them a cross-section, so this may be a straw man - I did hear the Partiers described as “representative” of the public, and given the polls lately, that seems undeniable......
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