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Fox News anchor OWNZERED on Live TV

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xsarien

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Incognito said:
Then, of course, he took offense at the fact that John Kerry wants Rumsfeld out of office. People like Gibson and the rest of the Faux-News Neocons should NOT be allowed on TV. They are not journalists by any strectch of the imagination, but instead parrots for the GOP talking points of the day. So fucking irritating..
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It always astounded me that around that around the same time FNC went on the air, it almost seemed to usher in the era of true Instapundits. People like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity - to me, at least - seemed to drop out of nowhere, all screaming about how Clinton should be impeached, drawn and quartered, and then burned at the stake for lying under oath about a blow job. But this also infected the other networks, accelerating what OJ started, which was a trend towards talking about the news instead of delivering it.

If I could do one thing that would instantly make this country better - for everyone - it'd be to shut down Fox News. Never has such a hostile, partisan, and divisive voice ever dared to call itself "news."


Chrono said:
http://www.oliverwillis.com/node/view/1695

It doesn't work in Firefox (picture doesn't show up). I viewed it in myie.
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Install the Flash player for Firefox, it's available at macromedia.com
 
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Pimpwerx

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xsarien said:
It always astounded me that around that around the same time FNC went on the air, it almost seemed to usher in the era of true Instapundits. People like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity - ti me, at least - seemed to drop out of nowhere, all screaming about how Clinton should be impeached, drawn and quartered, and then burned at the stake for lying under oath about a blow job. But this also infected the other networks, accelerating what OJ started, which was a trend towards talking about the news instead of delivering it.

If I could do one thing that would instantly make this country better - for everyone - it'd be to shut down Fox News. Never has such a hostile, partisan, and divisive voice ever dared to call itself "news."




Install the Flash player for Firefox, it's available at macromedia.com
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Fox News is super-partisan. I mean, they are the cheapest shills of this administration ever. All the networks feasted on Clinton's problems. Fox has defended everything Bush does, and they clearly feed their anchors and their "guests" talking points. But CNN and MSNBC are just as bad. They may not be as desperately slanted as FNC, but they do a piss poor job of reporting the news. and Headline News is almost as useless b/c with all the ads and other advertisements masquerading as news items ("...and in today's news, Company X is releasing a new..."), there's no useful source of info. The HN ticker is more useful than the actual video feed. PEACE.
 
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xsarien

daedsiluap
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http://www.oliverwillis.com/flashdata/fairandbalanced.flv

Try this.... it's downloading but I'm not sure if it'll work without the other player instructions in the html. It's basically a video that plays within a flashbased video player, hence why it's hard to source.
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Pretty much:
<embed scale="noborder" src="rivawebplayer.swf" flashvars="input=fairandbalanced.rvml....>

Basically, the .swf file is calling the .rvml file, which is likely to be the actual video, or possibly just a metafile. Where it's sitting on the server, that's anyone's guess.

In short, trying to strip the video out of the Flash/Riva player would be a lot more trouble than its worth. An easier solution would be to just send a nice e-mail to the guy who runs the joint, kindly asking for a downloadable version.
 
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The Shadow

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She did look pretty stupid. I really don't see how anyone could defend a $40 million inauguration when troops are dying on a daily basis because of the lack of proper armor. Fucking incredible.
 
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Lil' Dice

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FOX News is a goddamned joke, full of plastic looking on-air personalities spewing diatribe indended for the braindead masses.
Waching them 'perform' is an insult to my intelligence....
 
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Socreges

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sefskillz said:
The 40 million comes from private donations by investors. The real money being lost here by taxpayers is the money being spent by DC for the extra security.
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The Shadow said:
She did look pretty stupid. I really don't see how anyone could defend a $40 million inauguration when troops are dying on a daily basis because of the lack of proper armor. Fucking incredible.
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Something isn't adding up here.

The lavishness of the party came specifically from private donations, right? So there wouldn't be money for the military anyways? And whatever federal funds that WERE spent went towards security? So isn't any criticism essentially suggesting that the President's security (to whatever degree) should be compromised for that of the military?

Or am I missing something...
 
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Saturnman

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Socreges said:
Something isn't adding up here.

The lavishness of the party came specifically from private donations, right? So there wouldn't be money for the military anyways? And whatever federal funds that WERE spent went towards security? So isn't any criticism essentially suggesting that the President's security (to whatever degree) should be compromised for that of the military?

Or am I missing something...
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It's the symbolism of it all, I guess. It's not where the money is coming from, it's how money is spent for whatever purpose. The contrast of a lavish ceremony with a succession of rich men parties compared to cash-strapped military where soldiers are dying because of a lack of equipment (among other things) can be striking.

It just looks bad and seems to be a screwed-up sense of priorities.
 
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Socreges

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Saturnman said:
It's the symbolism of it all, I guess. It's not where the money is coming from, it's how money is spent for whatever purpose. The contrast of a lavish ceremony with a succession of rich men parties compared to cash-strapped military where soldiers are dying because of a lack of equipment (among other things) can be striking.

It just looks bad and seems to be a screwed-up sense of priorities.
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Yeah, but people don't seem to understand that this money is being donated by people with the mind that it will be spent on the Inauguration. Also that a significant amount of the $40 million has gone towards security, I believe, as opposed to the superficial elements.
 
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Teal'c

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If I were bush I would have done something to get myself a little bit of respect around the world. I'd say.. instead of my ass having a 40 million dollar parade/party.. I'll "tone it down" and only have a 10 million dollar party. The other 30 million will go into helping Tsunami victims. I don't care what the excuse is, it could have been handled better.
 
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Saturnman

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Socreges said:
Yeah, but people don't seem to understand that this money is being donated by people with the mind that it will be spent on the Inauguration. Also that a significant amount of the $40 million has gone towards security, I believe, as opposed to the superficial elements.
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You know, it's like going to a homeless shelter to tell them money is tight and you can't give anymore and then you leave the place in your limo. Even if you didn't pay for the limo, it looks bad.

Bush could repair part of his image by going to Iraq or Kuwait in the next few days, before the elections, and show some support for the troops.
 
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Bog

Junior Ace
The "Jack MAYhoffer" clip was played on Stern for about a month straight, and somehow it's still funny.
 
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Socreges

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Saturnman said:
You know, it's like going to a homeless shelter to tell them money is tight and you can't give anymore and then you leave the place in your limo. Even if you didn't pay for the limo, it looks bad.
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But you didn't pay for the limo. And that's a difference. I understand that this is a problem, but if the collective understood that the money being spent is from individual donations towards this purpose then they wouldn't be so up in arms.
 
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Belfast

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Yeah, but it'd be a bit of goodwill for Bush to say "no, thanks" to all the donations (wonder from what kind of crowd they're coming from, too, huh?) and just say he wants to keep it low key. A party isn't going to happen without him. Also, these jerks donating to the inauguration could *also* donate that money to the army in one way or another.
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Socreges said:
But you didn't pay for the limo. And that's a difference. I understand that this is a problem, but if the collective understood that the money being spent is from individual donations towards this purpose then they wouldn't be so up in arms.
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Or if Bush said hey it's nice you want to throw all this money for my parties, but why not instead donate it to a charity....
 
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Socreges

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Belfast said:
Yeah, but it'd be a bit of goodwill for Bush to say "no, thanks" to all the donations (wonder from what kind of crowd they're coming from, too, huh?) and just say he wants to keep it low key. A party isn't going to happen without him.
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I understand that this is a problem, but if the collective understood that the money being spent is from individual donations towards this purpose then they wouldn't be so up in arms.
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Also, these jerks donating to the inauguration could *also* donate that money to the army in one way or another.
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Absolutely. But there's never (or much of) any mention of donations/donaters in these criticisms.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Socreges said:
Yeah, but people don't seem to understand that this money is being donated by people with the mind that it will be spent on the Inauguration. Also that a significant amount of the $40 million has gone towards security, I believe, as opposed to the superficial elements.
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Actually, the $40 million does not include security, which is around an extra $20 million, the private donations aren't being used to pay for security..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6717767/

Interestingly, if the money had been spent on the war effort, it would have covered roughly six or seven hours of costs there, which are running at $110,000 a minute.

According to the Washington Post, 66 percent of Americans, including 46 percent of Republicans, would have preferred a "smaller, more subdued inauguration."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/polls/2005012/q21/party/index.html

It's tasteless is what it is. Considering the hell on Earth that Bush is sending men to, to have the most lavish inauguration ever just strikes many people (even many Republicans) the wrong way.
 
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Socreges

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DarienA said:
Or if Bush said hey it's nice you want to throw all this money for my parties, but why not instead donate it to a charity....
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That would be great. And that he didn't, that's a problem.... I haven't said otherwise...

Saturnman said:
You vote for the president, not for the donators. The criticism is warranted.
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Criticism is warranted, but not as much as I've seen or put in such a way. And I think it's obvious that I'm not saying that the President shouldn't be held responsible [and the donaters should be], but that things should be put into better context.

PLEASE understand that just because I'm placing a check on the criticisms here DOES NOT MEAN that I'm saying this isn't a problem or shouldn't have been done differently. It's simply that people are treating this problem as if Bush is using government money as opposed to money that was donated for a particular reason (from what I read). That's why I responded initially.
 
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Brannon

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Bush could repair part of his image by going to Iraq or Kuwait in the next few days, before the elections, and show some support for the troops.
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If he did this he'd have platinum guts I tell ya.
 
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kablooey

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For pure entertainment factor, that video wasn't anything special, but for people who wished more of this sort of talk occurs in the media, it was quite a sight to behold. Good shit. :D
 
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kumanoki

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Okay, so the inauguration was paid for privately. Great. Still looks bad to the public.

I still want to know who paid for the Christmas gala. That most definitely was NOT privately funded.
 
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alejob

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How come he gets an inauguration party when he is already president? Totally unnecesary, there should be a law against this.
 
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Diffense

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"I hope something puts a crimp..."

:lol

It's funny how surprised the anchor was that her guest wasn't keeping to the script.
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Diffense said:
"I hope something puts a crimp..."

:lol

It's funny how surprised the anchor was that her guest wasn't keeping to the script.
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That's the best part... the guest completely blindsided the anchor... they probably expected her to come on and talk about some fluffy new article that's in the new issue of Vanity Fair etc... and ...<<BAM>>. :lol
 
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Hagindaz

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Yeah, the Democratic National Convention should've been a small gathering in one of Kerry's mansions and the money they saved would've gone to our soldiers. And it should've been held by candlelight, to save money on electricity.

$40 million is nothing, more money is being wasted by the government every day.
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Hagindaz said:
Yeah, the Democratic National Convention should've been a small gathering in one of Kerry's mansions and the money they saved would've gone to our soldiers. And it should've been held by candlelight, to save money on electricity.

$40 million is nothing, more money is being wasted by the government every day.
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This is a shitty attempt at damage control. So your excuse is well hell other people already waste money so why shouldn't we too?

Brilliant.
 
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AssMan

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The lavishness of the party came specifically from private donations, right? So there wouldn't be money for the military anyways?
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EXACTAMUNDO! The inauguration was paid for by big business expecting to get something back in return! DUR! DUR!



When will Sean Hannity get pwnd? I desperately want to see that idiot get pwn badly.
 
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Shig

Strap on your hooker ...
I heard on the radio yesterday morning that the inaugural ball the night before was dubbed the "Wal-Mart - Tyson Ball"... any truth to that?

If so, pretty much sums up the administration, corporate sponsorship of a government-related event... coming soon, Outback Steakhouse presents the Supreme Court case of ______ v. _______.... Uh oh, the defending lawyer in making the Nextel Call to Dismiss Evidence...
 
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firex

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man, those were both hilarious. I liked the jack mehoffer thing, because o'reilley was so trying to act as if it was this guy's real name.
 
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