I am SHOCKED SHOCKED to find journalism going on in this establishment.
Posted on 02/05/2015 2:16:13 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Say that Rush and/or Sarah had been telling a lie for YEARS about how they had been fired at by a Rocket Propelled Grenade while they were visiting troops in Iraq.
Go ahead.
Now imagine soldiers coming forward after this LIE had been told for YEARS AND YEARS.
Go ahead.
Now imagine how the media would let them get away with it.
Oh, wait.
But Brian Williams is special!!!
We know. I can’t even put in to words how much I despise the left.
“Hypocrisy, rampant in the American media.”
It’s not hypocrisy, it’s flat out lying.
I am SHOCKED SHOCKED to find journalism going on in this establishment.
Ha! The Inspector has been reading the bathroom walls again!
And Hillary, “taking sniper fire”.
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Dan Quayle spelled “potatoe” and it was looped every 15 minutes on every TV news broadcast for at least 4 weeks.
You really would have to pretend. Palin and Limbaugh would never abuse the valor of our military.
But were it to happen, all the dems and their media shills would be screaming bloody murder. They would wrap themselves in the American Flag and defend the troops. And Palin and Limbaugh would deserve to be vilified.
The dems and media would deserve no praise. They don’t care about the troops or the Flag, just the political opportunity to destroy.
And we see why the government fears the internet—it empowers the people by giving citizens the ability to discover and disseminate information showing how the powers that be have lied to the people they falsely claim to protect and serve.
The ‘internet regulation’ proposed by the FCC, who are another arm of 0bama’s government fascists, are dying to take control of the internet in order to limit journalism to only those who are approved by the government itself—just like China. They are dying to poke this camel’s nose of regulation under the proverbial tent flap, and that will be only the beginning. We’ve seen them in action before, they’ll find a need for more regulation which will smother freedom of speech in the name of national security, or it’ll be for the children’s safety—but hey, they’ll at least leave nature out of this argument...for now.
It would be the lead story on the network and cable news, the lead jokes on Tonight and the other late night shows and Saturday Night Live, and even worthy of commentary on the floors of Congress and that would be with two people who while national figures, give their opinions and not “unbiased” presentations of the “news’ nightly. Brian Williams will not be mocked, at least in those forums, because he is one of the Establishment and they fully expect their people to lie and dissemble if it is in furtherance of the policies they believe in. The objective “journalistic” standards of their media are about s objective of the Volkische Beobachter in 1930s Germany or Pravda in the old Soviet Union. Just like the aged crone Hillary Clinton claiming her parents named here after the New Zealander who first scaled Mt. Everest, Edmund Hillary. The only fly in the ointment was that she was born in 1947, Edmumd Hillary didn’t climb Everest until 1953 and prior to that time was an obscure beekeeper living in New Zealand. If Nixon had said it, it would have been the source of news and demeaning jokes for years.
Pretend you are an AG from a small state and you claim for years that you served in Vietnam. When it’s demonstrated to be a big fat lie, your political career is dead, unless you are a hardcore lib-fascist, named Blumenthal, with a (D) after your name. In that case, the LIVs of that particular state reward stolen valor by making you a Senator.
Which is why the POS will still be on the air.
That Stupid Potato(e)
By Carolyn Gargaro
Rightgrrl Co-Founder
February 19, 1999
Well, Dan Quayle recently announced that he his going to run for President. You know what that means...
Potato(e) comments. Everyone remembers that little incident, right? Dan Quayle was at the Luis Munoz Rivera School in Trenton, New Jersey. He participated in a spelling bee by asking students to spell words on the blackboard, based on some flash cards he had been given. One of the flash cards had the word “potatoe” on it. The student spelled the word correctly, then, with a little urging from Dan Quayle, the student added an “e”. Everyone applauded - and the media went crazy, claiming that, “Dan Quayle can’t spell potato!”
I hear the people again already. “WHAT? Dan Quayle? President? Why, he can’t even spell potato!” I have already received emails and guestbook entries to that effect because of a page on my site featuring photos from one of Dan Quayle’s books signings, which I attended.
Well, here’s what I have to say to those people!!
:-P
Ok, I have more than that to say, actually. I realize that this issue is a bit old and very trivial. However, due to the comments I have received about this incident, and the additional ones I am sure will pop up in the future, I thought this would be an appropriate time to set the record straight.
First, why has no one pointed out that Dan Quayle was given a card with an error on it? Who created a flash card with a misspelled word? Rather than focusing on the fact that children are being taught spelling with flash cards with misspellings, people focus on the fact that Dan Quayle didn’t point out this error.
Second, Dan Quayle had asked if the cards had been checked, and he was assured that yes, the cards had been checked for errors. So - who are the people who checked the cards and missed this error? So now we have the person/people who created the cards as well as the people who checked the cards, who missed the spelling error.
Third, when Dan Quayle came upon the famous “potatoe” card, he paused and showed the card to other people, and they nodded and agreed that the card was correct! So now we have the person/people who created the cards, the people who checked the cards, and the people around Dan Quayle at the time - all who missed the spelling error.
Fourth, after the student had paused, and Dan Quayle said “almost” or something to that effect, the student added the “e” to the end of the word potato. Everyone then applauded immediately! There was no silence or puzzled looks from the onlookers as they pondered why the student added an “e” to the end of the word. So now we have the person/people who created the cards, the people who checked the cards, the people around Dan Quayle, as well as the onlookers at the time - all who missed the spelling error. In light of this, I really have to wonder why Dan Quayle’s failure to question the teacher in the middle of a media event regarding the spelling on a flash card became a national incident? If we are to chide Dan Quayle for this “spelling error” then we should also make fun of all the people I mentioned above who also failed to point out the error!
In addition, how many people have been writing something, and they spell out a word and it doesn’t look right? You know how to spell the word but for some reason it just doesn’t look right that particular time. Now, imagine you are given a flash card at a school, one in a stack you have been assured has been checked. You come to a word that looks like it is misspelled. Would you question the teacher in front of the class and the media, or would you say to yourself “Hmmm...this doesn’t look quite right, but it must be - after all these cards have been checked” and just assume it is one of “those times” when a word just doesn’t look quite right? I bet if we examined all the other politicians we could find times when they spelled words wrong, yet people are still harping on this old “potato(e)” incident. Are people that desperate for comebacks that they have to dig this up? Is this the best thing people can come up with? In the age of “let’s just move on” it seems as if people can’t move on regarding certain issues, especially ones that have to do with a potatoe... I mean potato.
Some people also seem to reach the conclusion that this incident somehow indicates a lack of intelligence on Dan Quayle’s part. Well, I do hope that they hold other Vice-Presidents to the same standards. VP’s such as - hmmmm...Al Gore? :-)
This article copyright © 1999 by Carolyn Gargaro and may not be reproduced in any form without the express written consent of its author. All rights reserved.
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If IMUS can get fired for a politically correct joke, Williams should be sacked for a bald-faced lie!
hillary lied about being shot at when they landed somewhere. no one cared
the left controls the megaphone. they control the ‘outrage’ by fanning... or not fanning... the flames
And Andrea, too!
It’s actually worse than this. Sarah Palin said in an interview (correctly I might add) that there are parts of Alaska that you can see Russia from. A skit is done on Saturday night where Tina Fey (as Sarah Palin) says I can see Russia from my backyard and that’s what everyone now “remembers” Sarah Palin saying.
Not only would they be roasted for lying, the right is roasted for things they never even said!!
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