Comments on: Hugh Hewitt Is Dumb

By: drpedro

drpedro — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:01:49 +0000

Elrod, (if you get to see this, Ollie has been expunging my posts), the left DID support the war in Iraq though, those papers were just reflecting that.

Remember, even the democratic standard bearer, J. “Flipper” Kerry voted to support it. It’s just that the papers can’t say things like, “we supported it, until we didn’t support it” like politicians can.

By: drpedro

drpedro — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:01:45 +0000

Ollie has taken to expunging my posts.

That of course is his right.

The funny thing is, he is particularly sensitive to the ones that suggest that most of the stuff he posts here is shameless toady’ing up to the democratic party, in hopes of a job in some future (FAR in the future I imagine) democratic administration.

I guess I am getting a little too close to home eh Ollie? Not all that happy to see your true motivations in print….you just want the Obermeisters in the Party to know that you are a good soldier and “on message”

Kinda pathetic Ollie, kinda pathetic…..

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:01:38 +0000

Please tell me you’re not trying to sell “the MSM is Conservative” line on the same week that the AP labels Osama Bin Laden as a “dissident” and the NYT stages a propoganda photograph in Pakistan.

By: elrod

elrod — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:01:10 +0000

I only wish NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, LAT, NYT, CNN, MSNBC and WaPo were as far to the left as Rush, Sean and O’Reilly were to the right. The Nation? Yes. Air America? Yes. Washington Post in the post-Kitty Graham world? The paper that vigorously cheered on the Iraq War and declared it a necessary response to 9/11? No. Some of the writers there help out liberals a lot – Pincus, Froomkin, for example. But that’s about it.

By: buma

buma — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:01:31 +0000

drpedro, you missed the point.
You are listing networks and publications that simply do not carry the three wingers I mentioned. But none of them features a regular, specific rebuttal to the talking points spewed by Rush, Sean and O’Reilly.

By: drpedro

drpedro — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:01:25 +0000

yea, not much rebuttal…

NBC,ABC, CBS, PBS, LAT, NYT,CNN, MSNBC, The Nation, The New Yorker, The WAPO….I think those are the biggies.

Thank god for Media Matters….!

By: buma

buma — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:01:02 +0000

I think Media Matters is a good site. There is precious little rebuttal out there to the diatribes of Rush, Sean, O’Reilly and their ilk. Of course, the rebuttal is usually boring because it demonstrates that the world is not as simple as those elite spokespeople of American conservatism try to make it.

By: The WB42 5:30 Report With Doug Krile

The WB42 5:30 Report With Doug Krile — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:01:27 +0000

Cafferty and Smith – Police Files

Hat Tip to Oliver Willis for coming to the defense of Jack Cafferty:

By: drpedro

drpedro — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:01:25 +0000

Media matters is a non-profit? Do they have a tax exempt status….?

Inquiring minds (and some attorney’s general) want to know….

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:01:44 +0000

I’m furrowing my brow over that one, Ian, especially since one is a job at a nonprofit and the other is sitting around doing god knows what to yourself listening to Hugh Hewitt.

By: Leroy Brown

Leroy Brown — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:01:43 +0000

Oh, actually I didn’t see it. Sorry.

Factcheck, no fat jokes. It demeans us all.

Better?

By: Lost Adam

Lost Adam — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:01:27 +0000

I furrow my brow. What I want to know is how that became funny or an insult. Come on, Hugh.

By: ian

ian — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:01:03 +0000

Oliver, you work for Media Matters, do you want to actually admit that in public?

By: JWG

JWG — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:01:37 +0000

Leroy, I notice that you criticized pedro in an earlier post for bringing up OW’s weight. Why didn’t you make the criticism against factcheck in this post? Is there a double standard at work?

By: Leroy Brown

Leroy Brown — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:01:01 +0000

I’ve never been furrowing. Does it hurt?

By: cellulose

cellulose — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:01:51 +0000

ian, is Joe Lieberman a Democrat?

By: drpedro

drpedro — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:01:49 +0000

holy crap you guys really are desperate?

Hewitt was making an ironic, admittedly mean spirited joke about this guy. Now “fact check” (god I wish he would) is bringing up Bennett and Limbaugh?

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:01:35 +0000

You sit around calling in to Hugh Hewitt’s show? You want to actually admit that in public?

By: factcheck

factcheck — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:01:29 +0000

Just like you cons cheer on drug abuser Lush Rimbaugh, Mr. Family Values with his 3 ex-wives, Bill Bennett and his racist statements, degenerate gambling, and obesity, need I go on?

By: ian

ian — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:01:51 +0000

Shep Smith has nothing to do with this. Cafferty said something stupid on the air LAST NIGHT. Oliver what does that have to do with anything? When smith says something stupid, I would that would be brought up.

BTW, Hugh didn’t even know about this until I called up the show last night.