“Reporters don’t have friends. They have sources.”

On a serious, non-movie quoting point…

She can have as many friends as she wants. However, when she starts interviewing these friends as part of her job, we get to question her objectivity.

Well, you (Lisa Grass) certainly are for a. viewing People magazine as a “news organization” and b. seeming to believe that news organizations, as opposed to individuals, have “religions” (“Don’t you wish to question their religion, too?”).

Translation: “LOOK OVER THERE!”

How’s this for an idea. Don’t like what topics Oliver chooses? Fuck off and start your own blog.

Too hard for you to do? Don’t care.

I’m pretty sure Ms. Van Sustern and Mr. O’Reilly are on the same network.

My Gosh! Her husband is a Palin advisor? Then that PROVES that Greta is his handler.

Well, that and her acting as a handler (minder). It also ought to at least raise a few eyebrows.

But nice try, Sparky. Maybe next time. Keep on keepin’ on defendin’ your dumbfuck party leaders Palin and The Plumber.

And by “facts” you mean a bullshit article that doesn’t even attempt to refute or even address Van Sustern’s statements why she intervened with the Politico reporter (i.e. he was her guest, she wasn’t his handler) other than saying “Whoa, she sounds defensive!”. Although it does try the “But Bill O’Reilly did it!” misdirection.

I keep forgetting that “facts” don’t have the same meaning to the reality-based community as they do to those of us in the real world.

Oh and I just love the update: “UPDATE: And, of course, Greta Van Susteren’s husband is a Palin advisor. She must have just forgotten to mention that.”

My Gosh! Her husband is a Palin advisor? Then that PROVES that Greta is his handler. I mean, what more proof would you need? Just like the fact that Obama got his political start in Bill Ayers living room PROVES that Obama is a socialist like Ayers. Or the fact that Michelle Obama saw her salary triple after Senator Obama steered millions in federal money to her employer PROVES that this was a “pay for play” backroom deal.

I see Oliver is still doing real cutting edge journalism.

What’s wrong, Oliver? No time for stories like Obama’s bungling of the Chrysler bankruptcy (threatening bond holders and screwing them out of their investments while moving the UAW to the head of the payout line) or Obama’s threats to withhold stimulus money from CA unless they restore $2/hour paycuts to SEIU workers (as requested by the union). How about the fact that the Obama White House now admits that there will be no jobs saved or created in 2009 (after several consecutive quarters of increasing unemployment) despite Obama’s boasts to the contrary? Or that the CBO now says that the Obama stimulus bill and budget will result in even higher (50% higher) deficits than originally forecast?

When are you and other liberals going to stop stalking the Palin family and Joe the Plumber and start holding YOUR party’s President and Congress accountable for the long term financial damage that they are doing to this country?

I’m not holding my breath.

Don’t you wish to question their religion, too?

I certainly don’t want to “question” scientology in any way; as ridiculous as most religions are, scientology is even sillier. Sea Org. Thetans. Xenu. Get the f*** out.

No, just the ones who acted like handlers, aka “minders.”

And then there’s this:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200905110009

How ’bout them genuine facts?

Did you know that the Politico reporter at the WHCD walked up to Todd Palin with a pencil and a pad of paper to interview him? It was a dinner, not a news conference, and Todd Palin isn’t running for any office.

Were all of the other journalists at the WHCD who sponsored guests called “handlers”?

I am convinced that Leftists have no use for facts at all and constantly participate in these double standards simply for the sake of destroying people they disagree with………and their families right along with them.

Lemonade anyone?
http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/05/11/palin-haters-now-mad-at-juneau-tourism-and-outrage-over-little-pipers-lemonade-stand/

My only concern, for which I remain vigilant, is that the freakshow is one *well-armed* freakshow….try not to be the one that sets match to the fuse before we sane ones can get them pointing their guns at each other—must minimize casualties, no?

Narcissists as extreme as Palin don’t join cults, they start them.

I would translate this as, ‘LOOK OVER THERE!’ but there’s not even a there to look over two.

As Calling All Toasters pointed out, there’s a real conflict of interest here that should be discussed. Not whatever the hell Mr. Thayer is babbling about.

J.