here's a doozy



http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/26/climate-scientist-heated-satire-threatens-lawsuit/

and from the article:

Quote :

"The parody video, titled "Hide the Decline," had more than 500,000 viewers on YouTube and received national attention when Rush Limbaugh played it on his radio show. It features a cat with a guitar, a talking tree, and a dancing figure sporting the image of Professor Mann. It's the use of his image that Mann is complaining about, arguing that the video supports "efforts to sell various products and merchandise.""

and here is the YouTube page of the video (that they provided a link to)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlMomLvu_4

Quote :

"19,523 views"

[Edited on April 26, 2010 at 3:07 PM. Reason : jesus what a stupid song/video]

4/26/2010 3:04:52 PM

i wonder if this is how they calculate their own TV ratings

4/26/2010 3:10:07 PM

Mitch McConnell is one goofy, pederast-looking MF'er.

4/26/2010 5:04:20 PM

World's Tiniest Horse?????

4/26/2010 11:10:15 PM

4/26/2010 11:43:53 PM

I don't feel like looking... did anyone in this thread link to the story about Hannity being pulled from a Tea Party appearance two weeks ago? Ailes and co. were furious!

4/27/2010 7:09:47 AM

lol busted

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/23/gm-hot-water-ftc-truth-advertising/

Quote :

"General Motors is running ads on all the major networks this week claiming it has repaid its bailout from the taxpayers "in full." But the claim isn't standing up to scrutiny from lawmakers and government watchdogs who have found that the automaker was able to repay the bailout money only by dipping into a separate pot of bailout funds."

but in reality

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/29/treasury-reportedly-says-gm-properly-used-escrow-to-repay-loans/

Quote :

"General Motors didn't use another government loan to pay off the much-celebrated $4.7 billion portion of its federal debt. According to a spokesperson with the Treasury Department cited by Bloomberg, the Detroit-based carmaker properly used funds from an escrow account to do the deed. The funds were available for the automaker to use in the event that it ran across any extraordinary expenses, but since the manufacturer decided it didn't need the money, it paid it back."

[Edited on April 29, 2010 at 10:26 AM. Reason : d]

4/29/2010 10:17:44 AM

Quote :

"the automaker was able to repay the bailout money only by dipping into a separate pot of bailout funds."

Quote :

"the Detroit-based carmaker properly used funds from an escrow account to do the deed. The funds were available for the automaker to use in the event that it ran across any extraordinary expenses"

what's the problem here. both quotes sound consistent to me.

4/29/2010 10:20:11 AM

^

Quote :

" Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, on April 22 wrote to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that GM’s repayment “appears to be nothing more than an elaborate TARP money shuffle” because the money came from the U.S. Troubled Asset Relief Program. Allison said Grassley was incorrect in saying the escrow account was held at the Treasury, when the funds were held by the automaker."

4/29/2010 10:22:27 AM

who gave the funds to the automaker to hold??

4/29/2010 11:15:49 AM

iLOLed

5/10/2010 2:46:16 PM

^ I was posting to do the same.

I typically open both CNN and FOX and notice the difference in the headlines. This time CNN won this one in my book.

FOX:


CNN:

5/10/2010 4:10:03 PM

fox news continuously displays that their intended audience embodies the height of stupidity

ipod
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really? someone was tasked to write a piece on that? that's embarrassing.

5/10/2010 5:54:25 PM

5/15/2010 8:37:15 AM

Palin says lots of things. That doesn't mean any of them are true.

5/15/2010 8:56:40 AM

Palin & Beck are here in Charlotte this weekend speaking at the NRA convention. I heard a clip of it on the local news and she said something like "even though Obama hasn't taken away your guns, you betchya he would if he thought he could get away with it, so vote republican!"

5/15/2010 9:25:35 AM

When you have nothing substantive to say, you make up shit and demonize the other side. Faux Newz and 'pubs are pretty good at that.

5/15/2010 9:34:31 AM

5/20/2010 1:29:50 PM

Quote :

"When you have nothing substantive to say, you make up shit and demonize the other side. Faux Newz CNN and 'pubs are were pretty good at that in the 2000s."

Fixed it for you

[Edited on May 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM. Reason : /]

5/20/2010 1:36:02 PM

^ [Citation needed]

5/20/2010 2:00:54 PM

Quote :

"When you have nothing substantive to say, you make up shit and demonize the other side. Faux Newz CNN and 'pubs are were pretty good at that in the 2000s."

Fixed it for you .. [Fox News]

5/20/2010 2:06:25 PM

[IT'S YOUR LAND]

5/20/2010 3:59:36 PM

5/21/2010 3:14:46 PM

hahahhahahaha

5/22/2010 8:50:53 PM

5/24/2010 5:05:02 PM

what were we before?


Breaking: Obama elected - Other countries discovered.

5/24/2010 5:23:26 PM

it's all part of the plan to absorb Earth into the Federation of Planets

5/24/2010 5:57:07 PM

Quote :

""

...Or might this be considered 'abuse' of 'air quotes' for 'stupid reasons'?

5/26/2010 11:48:41 AM

they're not air quotes, they are actual obama quotes.

5/26/2010 11:50:09 AM

Abuse of out-of-context quotes for stupid reasons, then.

5/26/2010 11:57:02 AM

5/26/2010 9:00:09 PM

secretary

next question

[Edited on May 26, 2010 at 11:04 PM. Reason : .]

5/26/2010 11:04:37 PM

Big fucking deal. They try to put a little life into some of their headlines(not saying they are great headlines), so it's not the same boring shit all the time.

^^ Don't know what is so bad about that one... A pretty legitiment question if you ask me.

Quote :

"CBS correspondent Chip Reid revealed on air Friday that White House officials called reporters into the West Wing on Friday to scold them for asking too many questions about the Gulf of Mexico spill. One report identified Gibbs as the one doing the scolding."

Stop asking such hard questions!!!!! It's not fair!!!!!

5/27/2010 7:35:34 AM

Well there is that or maybe it's the fact that the US Press Core has a serious case of ADHD these days and they need to focus on some other shit for once.

5/27/2010 12:06:53 PM

I never heard that "press core needs to focus on other shit" response when the media bashed Bush forever on Katrina

5/27/2010 1:05:14 PM

Everytime a conservative brings up Katrina, I try to explain that the situations aren't analogous. They never seem to get it.

5/27/2010 1:06:22 PM

Hey did Nashville flood or something?

5/27/2010 1:29:47 PM

^^ coming from the stretch armstrong of analogies...but I'm willing to hear you out

5/27/2010 1:52:43 PM

I'd rather compare it to the Valdez spill.

But even that's not the same.

5/27/2010 3:15:09 PM

5/27/2010 5:11:41 PM

5/28/2010 3:04:08 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/28/disaster-gulf-days-counting/

FAIR

AND

BALANCED

5/28/2010 9:07:20 PM

hahha.

some days he only did one single thing. amazing.

5/28/2010 9:56:17 PM

I never realized Obama was such a slacker, no WONDER he isn't accomplishing anything.

5/28/2010 10:20:20 PM

IIRC, they did a minute-by-minute accounting for what Bush did between the time he heard the US was under attack on the morning of 9/11 until he actually did shit about it. so, yeah..... fair and balanced for sure

5/28/2010 10:51:14 PM

That's completely analogous.

5/28/2010 10:55:44 PM

I think The Weather Channel may have started using some design folks from Fox:

6/1/2010 4:46:32 PM

fox news is hilarious. and the glenn beck show. holy god. is anything funnier than that?

6/2/2010 12:32:38 PM

marx brothers

6/2/2010 1:58:43 PM

I've been hooked lately listening to Hannity's radio show in the car on the way home from work. It helps me decompress. It makes me feel smarter knowing that there truly are crazy stupid people out there. Finally - I love his 'Day 1,Day 1,Day 1,Day 1' rants about the oil spill.

Its almost like 'The Daily Show' but its for ignorant/stupid folks.

6/2/2010 4:04:38 PM