FoxNews Derangement Syndrome has long since joined Palin Derangement Syndrome and Bush Derangement Syndrome as conditions afflicting the angry left.
Glenn Reynolds often asks is there anything bacon can’t do? Maybe he should also ask is there anything FoxNews (or Sarah Palin or George W. Bush) can’t be blamed for. On Thursday and today, he linked two posts either correcting or failing to correct Robert Reich’s post* faulting FoxNews for helping gin up that “huge anti-incumbent wave” in 1994, you know, against the then-Democratic congressional majority.
Problem is, as Frank Ross points out, “Prof. Reich overlooked one minor detail: FoxNews Channel’s first broadcast wasn’t until October 7, 1996.”
The Huffington Post which also ran the column, as Alpaca reports, has yet “to issue a correction/retraction to the story.”
Guess the editors there still can’t fathom how Republicans won back Congress without FoxNews. I mean, you know, how else could the American people have been turned against health care reform which everyone supports because it’s the right thing because liberals back it and they always want the very best for everyone (Except Sarah Palin. And George W. Bush. And Dick Cheney)?
But, here’s the kicker: Reich was Secretary of Labor during the entirety of Clinton’s first term. He’s not some upstart leftie blogger who didn’t to to college until this century and didn’t know when Fox was founded. Reich was in the public eye in 1994; he had to be aware that there was no FoxNews until the month Clinton was re-elected. Is this then, some kind of ex post facto memory when you apply your current prejudices to the past?
*cross-posted on each of those sites.
yawn. i find it awfully curious that you have yet to comment on friday’s GOP-obama q&a on this ostensibly political blog. not liking what you saw?
Do all the Democrats live in that universe where FDR went on TV to deliver his fireside chats, and Al Gore invented the Internet….?
actually, bob, why don’t you respond to the points of my post?
I didn’t watch the whole thing, but you would know that I’m interested in more than politics if you actually read the posts I write instead of using the forum we provide you to bait us.
And yes, I had actually planned on post on that very exchange, in part to praise Obama, in part to criticize him.
Why is, bob, that you can’t argue with conservatives, but content yourself (if content you are) in hurling insults at and attaching liberal talking points to our posts without considering their content?
to bob(aka boob)…….
It appears you buy in to lampooning and incendiary rhetoric too much…but truth be known, no rain clouds gathered in Baltimore… if anything, by Mr. Obama saying he isn’t an ideologue, it became easier to laugh at the obfuscation surrounding the numbers certain involved in his budgeting freezes.
Too bad no one’s showing or commenting on how POTUS cut short Paul Ryan when he brought up the administration’s fuzzy math…. or how he gave a lackluster response to Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, she offered a concise accounting of the facts and it is a part of the Q&A worth noting.
Hey I’m cool with the status quo right now, not fretting one bit here… in fact I’m reveling in the pomp and circumstance with much anticipation of the fervor that’s mounting to defeat Mr. Obama ….. November 2nd will be here before you know it, then it’s on to 2012.
i’m sorry, are you implying that your most recent post is worthy of a response? (hint: it’s not.)
the reason i didn’t respond to the content of this post is b/c this post was stupid, and i was astounded that you still haven’t posted on the biggest political event of the last several weeks. i would have posted my comment to the appropriate post, but…yeah there wasn’t one.
also, i’m not real sure what my “talking points” were. i asked you why you didn’t blog on a topic and didn’t even give my opinion of the event. i actually watched the entire q&a session, so i could comment substantively if necessary. i doubt doing so would be worth my time, though (and frankly, my time is valuable). these are not “conservatives” commenting on your blog. They are radical, paranoid, fringe people who are not interested in really engaging in any sort of productive dialogue.
also, please proofread your comments. you write like a third grader.
so, bob, if it’s not worthy of a response, why then did you respond?
it’s almost cute how slow you are. almost.
i didn’t respond to this particular post, moron. wasn’t that what you were bitching about in your queeny little way? i also didn’t respond in any way to the substance of the q&a session. i simply asked why you seemed to be avoiding writing a post about it. try to keep up.
to bob…
Please explain your logic, because I disagree with you assertion. Mr Obama’s sauntering over to Baltimore was an attempt to discredit GOP leaders and in no way rises to the level of being the biggest political event in several weeks. Hell, what happened was expected. However, what’s proving to astound more than a few folks, is this administration’s continued flailing on everything from soup to nuts. Scrambling to regain your footing is never attractive….. not even by a South Sider with a swagger like Mr Obama.
bob, LOL, I’m not bitching. Let me explain. You wrote words into a comment box attached to this post, that’s called responding to it.
One more thing–if I write like a third grader, why do you spend so much time on my blog?
god you are dense. i didn’t “respond” substantively to this post. i attached comments on a different topic altogether b/c there was no post about that particular topic, and thus there was no appropriate place to post such comments.
and as i’m sure you’ve noticed, i don’t spend much time on this blog anymore.
I didn’t comment yet.
bob, you might have bumped into gillie:
Hell, what happened was expected.
Expected by whom? Not by the GØP. Not by FAUX, one suspects, as they tucked tail and cut out early.
What are bob and PeeJ talking about? The fiasco in which the black child who said everyone who disagrees with him is wrong and who was just last week calling anyone who voted for Scott Brown a racist woman-hating Nazi teabagger was whining about namecalling?
Wait, maybe it was the part in which the Republicans ticked off the whole series of campaign promises that Black Narcissist had made and noted how sad it was that he had had to lie to the American people and put the needs of his leftist and socialist party base before the country’s welfare?
Actually, I would like to see the five major points where Obama ate the Republican’s lunch at the Bal’mer GOP meeting
Aw, make it the one major point.
I think it was the time where Token attacked the Republicans for not attacking his failed “stimulus” plan. Somehow Toonces was able to take a $700m bill that currently is sitting on over $500m of spending and argue that Republicans should support it because it has $300m in “tax cuts”.
I think they decided that it wasn’t worth trying to explain the difference between a withholding change and a tax cut to someone who couldn’t even understand basic math.
alas and alack, how the thread drifted from the point of my post.
the black child
Token
Black Narcissist
Nope, no racists here, nosirree. Can’t stop thinking about black something or other being shoved down your throat, eh?
to North Dallas Thirty…
The one “presidential” remark that should be remembered from the Baltimore meeting comes when Obama suggests if the GOP continues to disagree with him in a way he doesn’t like, then as he puts it, “you guys don’t have a lot of room to negotiate with me.”
That one phrase speaks volumes, and exemplifies the arrogance of this president. 2012 will arrive none to soon for me.
Do you prefer calling Token a clean, articulate Negro with no discernible dialect, PeeJ?
After all, since you fully support and endorse that, it seems odd that you would be complaining about what people call Black Narcissist.
Dan,
You settled the discussion with:
There is little more to be said other than the diagnosis when it comes to a derangement syndrome.
The benchmark of Democrats being willing to accept any outrage in defense of their party is the Clinton-Lewinsky repeated obscenity in the Oval Office.
Any party that cannot even shame its own worst offenders is not likely to show any fidelity for the truth or simple decency when it comes to slinging mud at its political enemies.
You may have noted that the first comment above is from a party hack and tool who used your post to slam Republicans. bob, gillie, ian,PeeJ, Tano, Bozo and son of Bambi are not going to give your concept a free run in discussion. Their job is to throw a brick in the crowd and set their random insult machine on “absurd.”
You have a good point if you would encourage the rest of us to pay them what their comments are worth.
to Dan…
I made mention earlier of Reich’s major attempt to falsely accuse Fox News….. scroll down, it’s #2 in the commentary of your last thread about O’Keefe.
And really, PeeJ, what you’re upset about is that Toonces is being held accountable in the same way that white people are, instead of getting a free B-plus for his blackness like you do.
We know you think black people are inferior and can’t function without your plantation kindness. But how do you expect the black child to ever grow up and learn to be a functional adult if you continue to coddle him and treat him like a baby?
Spartann, thanks for the headsup, my posts yesterday were more perfunctory than passionate. I needed a day away from politics, so after posting those pieces, pretty much stayed away from the blog during the day–will check your comment out when I get a comment.
Your mistake, NDT, is thinking that I am upset at all. I am amused. Not least by your projection.
Says the ass who hasn’t found the SHIFT key yet.
boob @ 10:
That might be a worthwhile point if your post was just to ask a question about said different topic. But it wasn’t.
Your post was an attack on Dan for daring to notice Reich’s stupidity on this blog without having said anything about Obama’s self-love fest before the Republicans:
As if the fact that Clinton’s labor secretary and one of the American Left’s leading intellectuals is a moron isn’t worth mentioning on an “ostensibly political blog.”
If this were my web log I’d ban you PDQ for your obnoxious idiocy. Then no one would have to worry about whether or not you “spend much time on this blog anymore.”
PS: It’s amusing to see Dan called dense by someone who can’t bother to use capitalization in his comments. 🙂