I originally found it on I'm not Ann Coulter, I just play her on MySpace
Posted on 10/21/2009 3:06:35 PM PDT by Syncro
THE GRATING COMMUNICATOR
October 21, 2009
The Obama administration has attacked Fox News in order to prevent government corruption stories broken on Fox from bleeding into the other media, which are all-consumed with daily updates on Levi Johnston's Playgirl spread and Carrie Prejean's breast implants.
That's understandable. But I think the administration should have picked someone other than David Axelrod to deliver the claim that Fox News is "not really news," inasmuch as Axelrod was behind the leak of scurrilous allegations in Jack Ryan's sealed divorce papers when he was running for a Senate seat against Obama. Talk about vicious personal gossip.
Now that Fox has been branded an untouchable, the teacher's-pet media are jubilant.
In Newsweek, Jacob Weisberg wrote a column saying liberals should refuse to appear on Fox News, pointedly concluding, "And no, I don't want to come on 'The O'Reilly Factor' to discuss it." Considering that Weisberg is a 107-pound weasel with a speech impediment, this is on the order of Weisberg's announcing that he's not interested in appearing in the next "Ocean's Eleven" movie with George Clooney.
The strangest thing about all the invective against Fox is that it is happening in a world that contains MSNBC. At least Fox News primetime hosts, and many of their guests, know something about politics. MSNBC's primetime lineup presents an array of people who sound like earnest college kids who just walked up to a Common Cause table, and the sum-total of what they know about politics is what they read in the brochures.
In the past week, both Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann have rolled out the Willie Horton ad, claiming that it marked the beginning of vicious personal attacks in politics, as opposed to what it was: The most devastatingly relevant campaign commercial in all of American history.
You can always astonish college kids by telling them the true story of Willie Horton. Among the jaw-dropping facts are:
-- In the '80s, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that a prison furlough policy had to be extended to convicted murderers, who were ineligible for parole.
-- Even the Massachusetts Legislature, which contained about three Republicans, realized this was insane, and quickly passed a bill excluding first-degree murderers from the weekend furlough program. But in a desperate bid for the ACLU's Brain-Dead Liberal of the Year Award, Gov. Michael Dukakis vetoed the bill.
-- Horton, who was later released under this program, was in prison for carving up a teenager at a gas station and then stuffing his body into a garbage can. (He had already been convicted of attempted murder in South Carolina -- through no fault of his own, the victim survived.)
-- Even after Horton used his Dukakis-granted furlough to rape and torture a Maryland couple in their home for 12 straight hours, the Greek homunculus issued a statement reaffirming his strong support for furloughing murderers.
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The Obama administration has attacked Fox News in order to prevent government corruption stories broken on Fox from bleeding into the other media, which are all-consumed with daily updates on Levi Johnston's Playgirl spread and Carrie Prejean's breast implants.LOL!
It would be interesting to actually the horrible Willie Horton ad. Is it available anywhere on line?
My favorite riffs from her column:
“In Newsweek, Jacob Weisberg wrote a column saying liberals should refuse to appear on Fox News, pointedly concluding, “And no, I don’t want to come on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ to discuss it.” Considering that Weisberg is a 107-pound weasel with a speech impediment, this is on the order of Weisberg’s announcing that he’s not interested in appearing in the next “Ocean’s Eleven” movie with George Clooney.
“The strangest thing about all the invective against Fox is that it is happening in a world that contains MSNBC. At least Fox News primetime hosts, and many of their guests, know something about politics. MSNBC’s primetime lineup presents an array of people who sound like earnest college kids who just walked up to a Common Cause table, and the sum-total of what they know about politics is what they read in the brochures.
“I don’t blame Keith personally for this blatant distortion: He gets all his research material from Markos Moulitsas and other left-wing bloggers, so he can’t be held responsible for the content of his show. Keith’s principle contribution to the program is his nightly display of self-congratulation and pompous douche-baggery.
“In his coursework, he learned such skills as: Dramatically Turning to Camera, Hysterical Self-Righteousness, Pausing Portentously and Gravely Demanding Apologies/Resignations From Various Public Figures.
“The bloggers and Keith bring different skill sets to the game. They provide the tendentious half-truths, phony opinion polls and spurious social science, while Keith provides his booming baritone, gigantic “Guys and Dolls” suits and gift for ridiculous, fustian grandiloquence. Keith is far better equipped than, say, the pint-sized, girly-voiced, Frito Bandito-accented Markos Moulitsas to deliver the party line.
“Again, in fairness to Keith, he’s never been a “content guy.” He was a communications major. “
According to Anne, the original Willie Horton ad didn’t show the race of Willie Horton.
Here’s a link to what purports to be and certainly looks like the original ad.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/40623/historic-campaign-ads-willie-horton-1988
Quite obvious that Willie is black, not to mention scary looking.
Wonder what Anne is talking about.
Ann Coulter: THE GRATING COMMUNICATORAnn does have a way with words!
See also, from www.encyclopedia.com:
grating • adjectiveYup. That about sums him up.1. a grating noise
synonyms : rasping, scraping, jarring, scratching, grinding, creaking.2. a grating voice
synonyms : harsh, raucous, strident, screeching, piercing, shrill, squawking, squawky, squeaky, discordant, hoarse, croaky.3. a grating personality
synonyms : irritating, jarring, annoying, vexatious, irksome, galling, exasperating, offensive, disagreeable, unpleasant.
The dictionary ought to have Obama's PICTURE beside that listing. :o)
What Obama has just done is to make Fox News the 21st Century version of Radio Free Europe or Radio Marti.The public at large knows, or will know, that the other news networks have become the ‘State Run Media”,as Rush Limbaugh likes to call them, and will only run government propaganda.
Ann’s smirking about the appalling Olbermann’s college major is beneath her.
Rush Limbaugh is a college dropout and Mark Steyn is a high school dropout. Criticize the content of what people say, not their academic history, which is pretty thoroughly irrelevant.
Also, Sarah Palin’s degree is in Communications.
Maybe she means when Gore used Horton in an earlier campaign.
I think you are right. That looks like the ad as I remember it from those days.
From Ann’s column:
“Every informed student of the 1988 campaign knows that the Bush ad didn’t show Horton’s picture. And yet in Keith’s discussion of Bush’s allegedly vile, racist use of Willie Horton, he used a phony version of the ad, doctored to include a photo of Horton.”
I remember watching the Bush campaign’s Willie Horton ad (the one with the murderers going through the revolving door) and assuming that the furloughed murderer Willie Horton was white, since I already knew a black Willie Horton (the great DH for the Tigers) and this obviously was a different Willie Horton, and one from Massachusetts to boot. It wasn’t until all the hubbub about the “racist ad” came out that I learned that the furloughed murderer was black, as was shown on a picture included in a Willie Horton TV ad that was produced not by the Bush campaign, but by an independent group that supported Bush (or at least opposed Dukakis).
So while I have no idea what ad that buffoon Keith Olbermann aired on his show, he may have aired an actual ad from the 1988 race (produced by an independent group) that showed Willie Horton’s picture, and not a phony version of Bush’s ad doctored to include a picture of Horton.
Do we know what ad Olbermann aired?
See the post to which I am replying. There were (at least) two Willie Horton ads, and the Bush campaign’s ad (as opposed to the ad from an independent group) did not show a picture of Horton. However, I think that Ann may be incorrect when she says that Olbermann showed a doctored version of the Bush ad with the picture added (unless he was stupid enough to do so instead of showing the independent ad).
A picture of Willie Horton never appeared in the original ad. (In fact, all of the criminals shown in it were white.)
OOOOH Ann. We are not worthy.
Yup. That about sums him up.Ooops!The dictionary ought to have Obama's PICTURE beside that listing. :o)
Next time, I better read Ann's ENTIRE column before posting!It appears that the "Grating Communicator" that Ann is savaging in this week's column is Keith Olbermann.
Sorry. I guess that HE is "grating", too.But, seriously, I cannot imagine that ANY dictionary would illustrate their listing with a "nobody" like Olbermann.
(I don't know. I never watch his show. Does ANYBODY?)
Maybe my memory is off, but wasn’t it GORE who first used the commercial against Dukakis in the primary fight for the nomination presidential nomination?
“Also, Sarah Palin’s degree is in Communications.”
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