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Lawrence O'Donnell Issues A Challenge To Bill O'Reilly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSU5...=youtube_gdata

I wonder if Billo mentions this tonight on the Factor. I don't think he ever did when

Olbermann used to tongue lash him. Although I don't recall Olby ever calling him a

Wussy Irish thug.

Holy crap. That was unbelievable.

02-16-2011 , 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by virtua_fish

Lolz. Here is another on how they are spinning it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeCkZ...eature=related

That's from last year.

02-16-2011 , 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Vecernicek

That's from last year.

Oops my bad. It was next to the current one so I just assumed.

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Originally Posted by ElliotR

Holy crap. That was unbelievable.

I watched O'reilly last night in hopes of him defending his manhood but was let down. Lawrence had a segment on him last night and called the Factor a sitcom'

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02-16-2011 , 06:36 PM

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Beck has a new sponsor, christianmingle dot com

02-16-2011 , 06:43 PM

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[Phill]

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Im sure that will offset the dozens that have fled from sponsoring his show in the past year.

02-16-2011 , 10:22 PM

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cres

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Boehner must be on medication now, he didn't cry on Meet the Press or Hannity tonight.

02-17-2011 , 06:54 PM

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Jeff Sessions (R-AL), member of the Senate Budget Committee, thinks $1.1 trillion in savings over the next ten years in Obama's budget is "insignificant"

...unless it's Fox News giving the interview, and it's Republicans proposing the exact same plan (skip to 2:00). It's times like these I miss having Nick around to somehow try to defend him.

Also, Brian Williams was the guest last night and he never fails to deliver an awesome interview.

02-17-2011 , 07:40 PM

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Agreed, i really enjoyed last nights TDS for the same reasons.

02-17-2011 , 08:17 PM

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cres

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Brian Williams is an under rated comic genius. His bits on the Daily Show and Jimmy Fallon are great.

02-23-2011 , 04:53 AM

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_826384.html

In case anybody missed it this is Stewart on the WI rallies. The HP comment are amazingly fun.

02-23-2011 , 11:35 AM

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Last night TDS really nailed the Republican strategy of targeting women's services. Really good writing and involved Kristen Schaal who is awesome.

02-23-2011 , 10:31 PM

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Gotta luv Hannity maintaining his line, "Look at all the nazi signs with Scott Walkers head, there never was any proof of TEA Party nazi signs, typical left wing media" as Malkin squeals in delight.

02-23-2011 , 10:33 PM

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Wow, it's almost like cable news is biased or something

02-23-2011 , 10:50 PM

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Hannity is fun to watch, I still can't get his self-ownage by the cleric out of my mind.

02-24-2011 , 12:08 AM

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They were right the first time.

02-24-2011 , 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Vecernicek

LOL you watch Ed Schulz

My friend was on the Ed show the other day regarding sb 5 in Ohio... Until then I had never heard of the show before

02-24-2011 , 12:38 PM

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lolz Ed is my buddies step dad. Should have seen that dude back in the day when he drank and called Bison football games.

02-27-2011 , 01:36 PM

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Decent chance that Fox News pres. Roger Ailes gets indicted this week, maybe as early as tomorrow. Not like indictments mean anything if you aren't stealing from wealthy people or directly lie to the government.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/ny...iles.html?_r=1

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02...rent-about-fo/

02-27-2011 , 07:23 PM

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If this is true I can't wait to listen to Rush tomorrow. The butthurt is going to be epic.

03-01-2011 , 04:45 PM

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If this is true I can't wait to listen to Rush tomorrow. The butthurt is going to be epic.

Did the fat **** address this issue today?

03-07-2011 , 10:32 AM

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Fox considering dropping BecK?

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Mr. Beck, a conservative Jeremiah and talk-radio phenomenon, burst into television prominence in 2009 by taking the forsaken 5 p.m. slot on Fox News and turning it into a juggernaut. A conjurer of conspiracies who spotted sedition everywhere he looked, Mr. Beck struck a big chord and ended up on the cover of Time magazine and The New York Times Magazine, and held rallies all over the country that were mobbed with acolytes. He achieved unheard-of ratings, swamped the competition and at times seemed to threaten the dominion of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity at Fox.

But a funny thing happened on the way from the revolution. Since last August, when he summoned more than 100,000 followers to the Washington mall for the “Restoring Honor” rally, Mr. Beck has lost over a third of his audience on Fox — a greater percentage drop than other hosts at Fox. True, he fell from the great heights of the health care debate in January 2010, but there has been worrisome erosion — more than one million viewers — especially in the younger demographic.

He still has numbers that just about any cable news host would envy and, with about two million viewers a night, outdraws all his competition combined. But the erosion is significant enough that Fox News officials are willing to say — anonymously, of course; they don’t want to be identified as criticizing the talent — that they are looking at the end of his contract in December and contemplating life without Mr. Beck.

On the other side, people who work for Mr. Beck point out that he could live without Fox News. Unlike some other cable hosts, Mr. Beck has a huge multiplatform presence: he has sold around four million books, is near the top of talk-radio ratings, has a growing Web site called The Blaze, along with a stage performance that still packs houses. Forbes estimated that his company, Mercury Radio Arts, had more than $30 million in revenue.

How could a breakup between Mr. Beck and Fox News — a bond that seemed made in pre-Apocalyptic heaven — come to pass? They were never great friends to start with: Mr. Beck came to Fox with a huge radio show and had been on CNN Headline News, so he did not owe his entire career to Fox and frequently went off-message. The sniping between Fox News executives and Mr. Beck’s team began soon after he went on the air in 2009.

Many on the news side of Fox have wondered whether his chronic outrageousness — he suggested that the president has “a deep-seated hatred for white people” — have made it difficult for Fox to hang onto its credibility as a news network. Some 300 advertisers fled the show, leaving sponsorship to a slew of gold bullion marketers whose message dovetails nicely with Mr. Beck’s end-of-times gospel. Both parties go to some lengths to point out that that the discussion has nothing to do with persistent criticism from the left.

But the partnership, which has been good for both parties, may yet be repaired. On Wednesday’s show, Mr. Beck went to some lengths to demonstrate gratitude and fealty to Fox News.

03-07-2011 , 11:19 AM

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Fox higher ups havent been huge fans of Beck for years now. Its not just that he has torpedoed what little credibility they had, its the way he doesnt keep it "in the family". He works with outside groups in writing and publishing his books, he owns the vast majority of what he does and his team for his show is his own. He also generally doesnt cross promote by going on the shows of others, certainly to the degree others do and he isnt humble at all and doesnt take critical input.

Which is fine when you crush ratings and advertisers dont care, but when they start jumping ship and the audience is following then the other negatives start looking worse to people.

I dont know if Beck considers himself bigger than Fox, but he does consider himself bigger than he actually is and i wouldnt be shocked at all to see he doesnt leave when his contract is up because Fox refused to increase his salary (or even asks him to take a pay cut).