Thursday, February 16, 2006
Whiners
I like the emerging new term for the MSM: the "me-me-media". It reflects perfectly not only the hissiness let slip by the White House Press Corpse these past few days over the Cheney accident, but also that of the Kosturbators, the Huff'n'puffers, the DUmmies and everyone else enraged by the Cheneyan One having a mind of his own and speaking to the eeeevil Brit Hume.
Best take so far: NRO's Nathan Goulding, writing in the Media Blog. In its entirety:
CNN "Safe Haven" for Bill Clinton
Once again, there's a lot of anger in the media. Now, it's over Cheney's choice to do an exclusive interview with Fox, instead of a full-scale news conference with the White House press corps. Expose the Left and Newsbusters have the video of Jack Cafferty complaining about this, calling Fox the "f-word" network:
Besides the childishness of calling FNC the "f-word" network, need we remind Jack Cafferty of Wolf Blitzer's exclusive interview with Bill Clinton, where he conveniently forgot to ask Clinton about Able Danger, the story the NYT had just broken that day? Perhaps he should take a look at his own network's reputation of being a "safe haven" before criticizing Fox.
In fact, Brit Hume questioned Cheney on just about everything possible, including questions about Scooter Libby having been authorized to talk about the classified National Intelligence Estimate. The only thing missing from Hume's interview was the incredulous and condescending tone the mainstream press have perfected.
Like Brit Hume said, when asked by Shepard Smith if the public was as upset as the press about the disclosure of the accident, "If my e-mail is any guide [...] I don't think much of the nation feels particularly deprived that they found out about this on Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening instead of Saturday night or Sunday morning." Similarly, it is the press, not the American people, that feel betrayed by Cheney's choice of venue for this interview.
— Nathan Goulding[ 02/16/2006 12:31 PM ]
Brutally Honest: Ace Of Spades:
The Comedic Stylings of Brit Hume
– Ace
Over at the Huffington Post, Arianna reports:
TiVo Moment #1: After Cheney walked Hume through the specifics of the shooting, including a cataloguing of Whittington's injuries ("He was struck in the right side of his face, his neck and his upper torso on the right side of his body"), Hume inexplicably followed up with this jaw dropper: "And I take it you missed the bird?"
F'n' Brit Hume. Coolest cat in the news.
Arianna then screeches:
The VP has just painted a verbal picture of blasting his friend in the face and Brit is wondering about... the bird?!
I'm pretty sure Michael Huffington is the one homosexual who wasn't born gay. But the poor sonofabitch just never had a chance, did he? What would you have done?
Me? Had I married Arianna Huffington? I think I'd be blasting my own friend in the face right now, if you know what I'm sayin'.
Arianna fancies herself a wit, incidentally. I remember her trying her hand at comedy, when she was still a "conservative" or supposedly so, in a Playboy article. It was about Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton and other Washintonians all in a hot tub together.
It was not funny. It was so not funny it couldn't even be called not-funny. A scientist once described a theory that was so incomplete and nonsensical it couldn't be evaluated as being "not even wrong." It didn't even rise to the level of being wrong, you see.
Well, Arianna's humor is not even unfunny. She tried to be funny on that "Strange Bedfellows" segment on the old Politically Incorrect; shit, she made Al Franken look funny by comparison. Arianna trying to be funny is like listening to the Who's On First routine performed by Frankenstein and The Incredible Hulk. You're not sure what the hell it's supposed to be, but you're pretty sure you'd be better off somewhere else.
Slime... She also links a nasty rumor about infidelity.
What a rotten bitch.
She's the Yoko Ono of politics. About that level of talent, too.
[Recycled joke alert.]
Having to read Arianna Huffington's idiotic rantings is like having to sit through Yoko Ono's screechy atonal non-songs just to hear the decent John Lennon tracks on Double Fantasy.
Wait a minute, that's not right. I just compared the rest of the Huffington Post's writers to John Lennon, which plainly makes no sense at all. Let me reconfigure the analogy: Let's pretend that Yoko Ono was dating one of the guys from Foghat. Okay?
So having to read Arianna Huffington's insipid drivel is like having to listen to Yoko Ono tracks just to hear all that sweet Foghat.
How's about John McIntyre at RCP Blog:
Assuming Mr. Whittington doesn’t die and there are not contradictions in Cheney’s account of what happened, this story is over, and it will have no lasting impact on the Bush administration. Because once again the MSM and the left have massively overreacted to a story in an attempt to damage the Bush administration, and the backlash against their overreaction will counteract whatever political damage this story may have caused.
Now the Democrats are flailing about with the spin that Cheney's handling of the accident is suspect, invoking memories of Chappaquiddick, and that it all reflects on the government's culture of secrecy, which has apparently replaced the culture of corruption as their main concern.
Generation Why?:
So did the eeeeeevil Bush administration also cause the 3-day delay in the nation's most powerful elected Democrat's office issuing information about the Senator's stroke?
...
Was [Hillary Clinton's] failure to alert the media about the White House counsel's suicide part of some "tendency" to "refuse to be forthcoming" from the top all the way to the bottom as well?
Blogs For Bush:
Democrats were the ones who tried to suppress the Barrett Report because of its potential damage to the Clintons.
We all know John Kerry was not telling us the truth about his service in Vietnam... it took a book to force him to reveal that parts of his fabricated version of his service were indeed fabrications.
Democrats have been anything but forthcoming when it comes to their own ethics violations and corruption.
Of course the idiot left is upset about Cheney; try as they have to nail him, they've got NOTHING. And after his treatment at the hands of those babies whining from the WH press gallery these past few years, they deserve exactly what he gave the bubble-mouthed Senator Leahy: a great big fat Cheneyan "F**k you".
Best take so far: NRO's Nathan Goulding, writing in the Media Blog. In its entirety:
CNN "Safe Haven" for Bill Clinton
Once again, there's a lot of anger in the media. Now, it's over Cheney's choice to do an exclusive interview with Fox, instead of a full-scale news conference with the White House press corps. Expose the Left and Newsbusters have the video of Jack Cafferty complaining about this, calling Fox the "f-word" network:
JACK CAFFERTY: Well, I obviously didn't see it because it hasn't been
released in its entirety yet. But I would guess it didn't exactly represent a
Profile in Courage for the vice president to wander over there to the f-word
network for a sit down with Brit Hume. That's a little like Bonnie interviewing
Clyde, ain't it? Where was the news conference? Where was the access to all of
the members of the media? Whatever.
BLITZER: You still think he needs to do a full-scale news conference and
invite all the cameras, all the reporters and ask whatever they want?
CAFFERTY: That's never going to happen. But running over there to the Fox
network. Talk about seeking a safe haven. He's not going to get any high hard
ones from anybody at the f-word network. I think we know that.
Besides the childishness of calling FNC the "f-word" network, need we remind Jack Cafferty of Wolf Blitzer's exclusive interview with Bill Clinton, where he conveniently forgot to ask Clinton about Able Danger, the story the NYT had just broken that day? Perhaps he should take a look at his own network's reputation of being a "safe haven" before criticizing Fox.
In fact, Brit Hume questioned Cheney on just about everything possible, including questions about Scooter Libby having been authorized to talk about the classified National Intelligence Estimate. The only thing missing from Hume's interview was the incredulous and condescending tone the mainstream press have perfected.
Like Brit Hume said, when asked by Shepard Smith if the public was as upset as the press about the disclosure of the accident, "If my e-mail is any guide [...] I don't think much of the nation feels particularly deprived that they found out about this on Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening instead of Saturday night or Sunday morning." Similarly, it is the press, not the American people, that feel betrayed by Cheney's choice of venue for this interview.
— Nathan Goulding[ 02/16/2006 12:31 PM ]
Brutally Honest: Ace Of Spades:
The Comedic Stylings of Brit Hume
– Ace
Over at the Huffington Post, Arianna reports:
TiVo Moment #1: After Cheney walked Hume through the specifics of the shooting, including a cataloguing of Whittington's injuries ("He was struck in the right side of his face, his neck and his upper torso on the right side of his body"), Hume inexplicably followed up with this jaw dropper: "And I take it you missed the bird?"
F'n' Brit Hume. Coolest cat in the news.
Arianna then screeches:
The VP has just painted a verbal picture of blasting his friend in the face and Brit is wondering about... the bird?!
I'm pretty sure Michael Huffington is the one homosexual who wasn't born gay. But the poor sonofabitch just never had a chance, did he? What would you have done?
Me? Had I married Arianna Huffington? I think I'd be blasting my own friend in the face right now, if you know what I'm sayin'.
Arianna fancies herself a wit, incidentally. I remember her trying her hand at comedy, when she was still a "conservative" or supposedly so, in a Playboy article. It was about Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton and other Washintonians all in a hot tub together.
It was not funny. It was so not funny it couldn't even be called not-funny. A scientist once described a theory that was so incomplete and nonsensical it couldn't be evaluated as being "not even wrong." It didn't even rise to the level of being wrong, you see.
Well, Arianna's humor is not even unfunny. She tried to be funny on that "Strange Bedfellows" segment on the old Politically Incorrect; shit, she made Al Franken look funny by comparison. Arianna trying to be funny is like listening to the Who's On First routine performed by Frankenstein and The Incredible Hulk. You're not sure what the hell it's supposed to be, but you're pretty sure you'd be better off somewhere else.
Slime... She also links a nasty rumor about infidelity.
What a rotten bitch.
She's the Yoko Ono of politics. About that level of talent, too.
[Recycled joke alert.]
Having to read Arianna Huffington's idiotic rantings is like having to sit through Yoko Ono's screechy atonal non-songs just to hear the decent John Lennon tracks on Double Fantasy.
Wait a minute, that's not right. I just compared the rest of the Huffington Post's writers to John Lennon, which plainly makes no sense at all. Let me reconfigure the analogy: Let's pretend that Yoko Ono was dating one of the guys from Foghat. Okay?
So having to read Arianna Huffington's insipid drivel is like having to listen to Yoko Ono tracks just to hear all that sweet Foghat.
How's about John McIntyre at RCP Blog:
Assuming Mr. Whittington doesn’t die and there are not contradictions in Cheney’s account of what happened, this story is over, and it will have no lasting impact on the Bush administration. Because once again the MSM and the left have massively overreacted to a story in an attempt to damage the Bush administration, and the backlash against their overreaction will counteract whatever political damage this story may have caused.
Now the Democrats are flailing about with the spin that Cheney's handling of the accident is suspect, invoking memories of Chappaquiddick, and that it all reflects on the government's culture of secrecy, which has apparently replaced the culture of corruption as their main concern.
Generation Why?:
So did the eeeeeevil Bush administration also cause the 3-day delay in the nation's most powerful elected Democrat's office issuing information about the Senator's stroke?
...
Was [Hillary Clinton's] failure to alert the media about the White House counsel's suicide part of some "tendency" to "refuse to be forthcoming" from the top all the way to the bottom as well?
Blogs For Bush:
Democrats were the ones who tried to suppress the Barrett Report because of its potential damage to the Clintons.
We all know John Kerry was not telling us the truth about his service in Vietnam... it took a book to force him to reveal that parts of his fabricated version of his service were indeed fabrications.
Democrats have been anything but forthcoming when it comes to their own ethics violations and corruption.
Of course the idiot left is upset about Cheney; try as they have to nail him, they've got NOTHING. And after his treatment at the hands of those babies whining from the WH press gallery these past few years, they deserve exactly what he gave the bubble-mouthed Senator Leahy: a great big fat Cheneyan "F**k you".
