Posted on 11/16/2003 11:57:57 PM PST by RonDog
Well, he still has me and Doctor ZIn confused, and I think that he may have garbled what I said about Dennis Prager when he called Dennis for his response to what I said, but the REST of this article is fairly accurate.Thank you, Alex Ben Block!As they say, ANY publicity os GOOD publicity, if they spell your name right.And he did:I learned there were 10 of them and they were connected by a conservative Internet news site called Free Republic.
DOWN AND OUT (AND FREEPED) IN BEVERLY HILLS
[LA Chapter FReeps Dan Rather!]
Cinnamon Girl
Posted on 11/10/2003 8:26 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl
What have you got when a bunch of right wing extremists are standing on a corner in North Beverly Hills, in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, wearing crazy costumes and holding signs while a nearly endless stream of RICH, OLD, WHITE GUYS IN SUV's and luxury sedans pull up the driveway? Why it must be a GOP FUNDRAISER, RIGHT?!?!!?? After all, if it was a gathering of progressive, environmentally concerned, liberal people of conscience celebrating the achievements of DAN RATHER, they'd all be driving hybrid vehicles or riding their ten speed bikes up the driveway, RIGHT?
Welcome to the land of celebrity activists, and DNC activists-- otherwise known as journalists. Tonight was the big night for Dan Rather, who is being honored for his "steadfast commitment to fair and accurate news reporting" by the Museum of Television and Radio. How apropos that Dan's big night is taking place on SUNSET BOULEVARD.
Freepers RonDog, DoughtyOne, diotima, DavidDennis, absalom1, DoctorZin and Outraged were there with some fabulous signs: "CBiaS", "Losing Share? Try the Truth," and RonDog was dressed as Sadam being pitched "softballs." I was dressed as Blind Justice holding a scale with one side reading "left" and the other reading "far left." Hopefully, DavidDennis will be putting up the pictures soon, and he also took video.
We were standing right at the foot of the driveway, on the intersection of Beverly, Crescent and Sunset so we got a lot of traffic, and the attendees not only drove by us, but sometimes the cars on the driveway got backed up and they were forced to be at a standstill next to our signs. One lady started waving her hand at us as if to say, "oh stop it, just go away."
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Dan, cut the crap.
Third place, but there are only three teams in the division.
"Television has its uses," Mr.Sorry, Dennis.MetzSmith added. "Me personally, I'm like an alcoholic. If I get started, I'll watch it all the time, and it's just a bad thing for me. Especially TV news. It's too emotional."
He then told me you can't believe anything you hear on the network news in any case. He said he learned that on talk radio, from Dennis Prager: "If you have to stop one thing in your life, he says, stop television news."
The next morning, I called Mr. Prager and reached him at an airport in the Midwest, where he was on a book tour. "It's good you checked with me," he said, "because I have never said, 'Everything you hear on the news is a lie.'"
Mr. Prager told me he does believe CBS, NBC and ABC all have a liberal slant and that he had criticized Mr. Rather for his interview with Saddam Hussein: "I thought he prostituted himself by asking serious questions of a tyrant."
"If [Mr.MetzSmith] had said, 'Dennis Prager says it's a waste of time to watch the evening news,'" said Mr. Prager, "he would be right."
In the heat of the moment, I may have mischaracterized your position on television news somewhat, but I am fairly confident that I never said that YOU said:'Everything you hear on the news is a lie.'Not sure where THAT came from, unless it was a PARAPHRASE of what Alex Ben Block thought that I said about you.I intended to say what YOU said:'Dennis Prager says it's a waste of time to watch the evening news.'I guess that I will have to work on my CLARITY! :o)
What a sanctimonious suckup this "reporter" is. Could his nose be any further up Dan Rather?LOL!
See also, from www.lapressclub.org/board.shtml:
So THAT is why he knew about our PREVIOUS Rather FReep - which when the L.A. Press Club gave him a similar award in 2001:
ALEX BEN BLOCK
E-Mail Address: alex@lapressclub.org
He is Editor-in-Chief of Hollywood Star News, Box Office columnist for Bridge News, and since January 2001, Executive Director of the L.A. Press Club.He is an internationally known journalist, author, broadcaster, consultant and show business historian, and for seven years was Editor of The Hollywood Reporter.
He is also author of "Outfoxed: The Inside Story of America's Fourth Television Network," and "The Legend of Bruce Lee."He has also been Entertainment Editor of the Miami News, columnist for The Detroit News, City Editor of the L.A. Herald Examiner and Associate Editor of Forbes Magazine. He has won numerous honors, including the Hearst Award, the LA Press Club Award, and four times was nominated for a Publicist Guild of America Press Award.
SoCal FReepers: Don't know about you...
but this Saturday I'D RATHER BE FREEPIN'!!!
Posted by AnnaZ
On 06/05/2001 9:21 AM PDT with 50 comments
Plays no favorites? Who's he kidding? Dan's been wanting to get in Castro's pants now for years.
Someone had to say it.
Just why are people so upset with Rather, Oh Wise Writer? Because he doesn't know his frequencies, Kenneth? And, bottom line, what exactly DOES not having watched tv for years have to do with anything? Rather also does radio shows and other formats and his remarks are widely transcribed so as to be, well, laughed at. And maybe guys like this WOULD watch tv if it weren't a liberal wasteland caused by biased hacks like Rather.
The author just relays Rather's little self-promotions ("I'm just taking the heat" - yeah, right, Mr. Overpaid Saddam/Castro Lover) as part of his little hero-worshipping schtick. Some reporter!
Nice you Freeper folks got mentioned, but otherwise this tripe could have been written by the CBS PR department.
Stunned by that revelation, I soon learned the Free Republicans were abuzz about the event and my interest. In addition to some e-mail, I got a call from Matthew Sheffield, 25, an unemployed student in Virginia. He and his brother Greg, 22, operate the Web site Rather Biased, which began around the time of the Clinton impeachment. They focused on Mr. Rather, said Mr. Sheffield, who they felt "carried his [opinions] over into his reporting."Thank you www.ratherbiased.com for being the INSPIRATION for our FReep!
Mr. Sheffield told me he considered Fox News Channel biased as well, but to the right. "We're equal-opportunity," he explained.
I asked if he ever tried to contact Mr. Rather. Mr. Sheffield said no, although he did talk to someone at CBS once. "I really haven't thought of that," he added. "I would interview Dan Rather [for the Web site] any day of the week if he would have an honest dialogue about bias. He hates talking about it. If he had a real honest dialogue, we'd probably go away. That's all we want. We all want our voices to be heard."
Just because you asked.....
Well. Mr. Block isn't biased, is he?
He began the evening with sweaty palms for Rather, and worked really hard to poke holes in the protestors without once addressing the legitimacy of the charges. Did Mr. Block even visit RatherBiased.com? He doesn't say -- he just suggests that people who aren't TV news junkies should not be taken seriously, somehow forgetting that the crew at RatherBiased.com watch Rather constantly -- like a hawk.
Congratulations, Mr. Block. You are more honest than most journalists who seek to obscure the existence of Free Republic. But speaking personally, for what it's worth, you have joined Rather on MY list.
I was left saddened that Mr. Rather and CBS News might be hurt and the public might be misled by these silly, noisy, publicity-hungry protesters, some of whom don't even watch TV.O.K., THIS PART really chaps my hide. :o)What a contrast with a dedicated, hard-working journalist like Mr. Rather, who has spent his life serving the public and his profession.
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