O'Reilly out at FOX!

[JMarie]

Hannity was extra obnoxious tonight (though he didn't mention the shoutout from last night).  He showed many clips from CNN and MSNBC (the "fake news media meltdown"), then ABC, NBC, and CBS.  The fake news "deserves" all the backlash from the president.  James Clapper is a big fat liar, which makes sense since he was interviewed on the "Clinton News Network."  The fake news has distorted everything Trump has said.  The fake news creates fake crises using fake news, and they're all a bunch of sheep.  The fake news has no interest in helping Americans, and they don't talk about solutions.  

Herman Cain (tried to be president in '12) says the liberal media has a severe case of "Trump Derangement Syndrome."  Cain had to drop out of the presidential race because the liberal media was picking on his grandchildren.

ESPN has now gone to the dark side, with their "insane decision" to remove announcer Robert Lee, who won't be announcing based solely on his name.  Larry Elder (has a radio show) doesn't think anyone's buying that Robert E. Lee has risen from the dead.  Geraldo Rivera* thinks political correctness has gone overboard.  

"Sheriff Joe" Arpaio stopped by!  After an appropriate amount of time, he promises to "go public and let the people know" exactly what happened.  The information is already public, he claims, but nobody will print it.  This mess happened to him after 55 years of public service, so it can happen to anyone.

Hannity played a portion of Hillary's new book.  How can she claim Trump was creepy when she's married to creepy Bill Clinton?  Gregg Jarrett (Fox News guy) say's Hillary's paranoid, and "when she looks in the mirror, doesn't she want to crawl out of her own skin, doesn't she despise herself for all the self-made scandals that were totally unnecessary, doesn't she see in the mirror a crook staring back at her?"  Monica Crowley (plagiarizer/one-time National Security Council nominee) thinks Hillary's "doing this" because she lost the election, and she has nothing else to talk about.  Losing to an outsider like Trump is so horrifying that she's going to throw all her excuses against a wall and hopes something sticks.

I seriously don't know how anyone believes what Hannity says.

*Thanks to Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, I always hear Rivera as RIV-er-AH

 

[Cartmann99]

Thank you for the recap, @JMarie!

Herman Cain seems to have forgotten about those accusations of sexual harassment that ended his presidential campaign:

Quote

 

Businessman Herman Cain on Thursday said his decision to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination came down to two factors: "Gutter politics" and the fact that "I chose to put family first."

Cain made the comments to a sympathetic audience at CPAC, the four-day Conservative Political Action Conference that every year brings thousands of conservatives to Washington.

The former Godfather's Pizza CEO dropped his presidential bid in December after support dried up in the wake of accusations from a string of women that he had engaged in sexual impropriety. The former candidate has tried to remain engaged in the presidential race, endorsing Newt Gingrich and pushing his "9-9-9" tax plan.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cpac-herman-cain-says-he-dropped-out-to-put-family-first/

I had forgotten about Newt's ridiculous 9-9-9 tax plan, but not the moon base. It seems like a lifetime ago that accusations of sexual harassment could torpedo someone's campaign.

[infooverload]

Once again you have to love how they will say the msm media isn't reporting on X, but doesn't include themselves as being part of mainstream despite their market share. Oh and personal responsibility and owning what you said and did; without being a whiny little bitch not this wonder crop of rich, out of touch, truth twisting dip shits. Side note what is the real story regarding the ESPN anchor? I haven't looked deeply into it. I mean I have to laugh when a lot of conservatives whine about the politicization of ESPN. Honestly if you value the political thoughts of a sports commentor with no government experience, you're in a weird universe and aren't using the two brain cells I hope you have left. Honestly though this whole notion of if a company criticized Obama it was all yeah Murica. However, with Trump it's all I'm never shopping there again. Basically shouldn't your shopping choices depend on the overall ethical and charitable practices of the entire company, not just who they may or may not support being in the White House, which they are free to do.

 

 

[Howl]

On 8/15/2017 at 10:41 AM, Childless said:

In fact, he's been to court over housing discrimination.

And lost, sort of, IIRC.  It was blatant discrimination, there was a settlement, and D. Trump pretended they won. 

WaPo has a summary about the case:  

Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it, By Michael Kranish and Robert O'Harrow Jr. January 23, 2016

[GrumpyGran]

12 hours ago, JMarie said:

Hannity was extra obnoxious tonight (though he didn't mention the shoutout from last night).  He showed many clips from CNN and MSNBC (the "fake news media meltdown"), then ABC, NBC, and CBS.  The fake news "deserves" all the backlash from the president.  James Clapper is a big fat liar, which makes sense since he was interviewed on the "Clinton News Network."  The fake news has distorted everything Trump has said.  The fake news creates fake crises using fake news, and they're all a bunch of sheep.  The fake news has no interest in helping Americans, and they don't talk about solutions.  

Herman Cain (tried to be president in '12) says the liberal media has a severe case of "Trump Derangement Syndrome."  Cain had to drop out of the presidential race because the liberal media was picking on his grandchildren.

ESPN has now gone to the dark side, with their "insane decision" to remove announcer Robert Lee, who won't be announcing based solely on his name.  Larry Elder (has a radio show) doesn't think anyone's buying that Robert E. Lee has risen from the dead.  Geraldo Rivera* thinks political correctness has gone overboard.  

"Sheriff Joe" Arpaio stopped by!  After an appropriate amount of time, he promises to "go public and let the people know" exactly what happened.  The information is already public, he claims, but nobody will print it.  This mess happened to him after 55 years of public service, so it can happen to anyone.

Hannity played a portion of Hillary's new book.  How can she claim Trump was creepy when she's married to creepy Bill Clinton?  Gregg Jarrett (Fox News guy) say's Hillary's paranoid, and "when she looks in the mirror, doesn't she want to crawl out of her own skin, doesn't she despise herself for all the self-made scandals that were totally unnecessary, doesn't she see in the mirror a crook staring back at her?"  Monica Crowley (plagiarizer/one-time National Security Council nominee) thinks Hillary's "doing this" because she lost the election, and she has nothing else to talk about.  Losing to an outsider like Trump is so horrifying that she's going to throw all her excuses against a wall and hopes something sticks.

I seriously don't know how anyone believes what Hannity says.

*Thanks to Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, I always hear Rivera as RIV-er-AH

 

Thanks, @JMarie for doing the hard work for us. If I had to do this I'd be drunk and hurling thinks at the TV by the time it was over.

Hannity can be MORE obnoxious than usual? Isn't that like saying the sun can be brighter than the sun? 

So now ESPN is fake news? They need to be careful, ABC is already !Fake News! and adding ESPN in there is getting a little close to Mickey. That's a boycott none of his humpers will be down with. 

[Cartmann99]

@infooverload, Time magazine did a story about the ESPN anchor, and this tweet from that story has a brief explanation:

http://time.com/4913766/espn-robert-lee-pulled-announcer/

[infooverload]

I had a feeling the real story would be a lot more reasonable, but instead Biebart and company is all those liberal idiots at ESPN. Instead they were simply reading the current heightened climate and checked with their guy who was all hey yeah I don't want to deal with the drama this will generate. Then add in oh hey more family time, he made the choice and isn't the right always going on about free market choices and this guy's decision falls into.

[GreyhoundFan]

"‘It was premeditated’: ‘FOX LIES’ guy speaks!"

Spoiler

Bob Reams scratched out his “FOX LIES” sign on his porch before hopping in his truck. “It was premeditated. I knew what I was going to do,” says the 61-year-old Reams, who saw on television that the team from “Fox & Friends” was broadcasting from a nearby diner. “I’m a huge liberal and I believe that Fox News has just destroyed the country.”

Viewers of this execrable morning program can pretty much narrate the rest of this tale. As roving “Fox & Friends” correspondent Todd Piro was preparing to mediate a debate between two customers of Christi’s Cafe in Louisville, Ky., a man burst into the screen, equipped with a piece of paper saying, “FOX LIES.” “This is fake news,” he ranted.

Piro did the proper broadcasting thing: “We’re going to wrap this up, we’re going to go on off to commercial,” he said.

Interruption accomplished, with a fair bit of pickup from media-covering media outlets. “I’ve always wanted to protest Fox News and they came to a restaurant two miles from where I live and I just couldn’t help myself,” says Reams, a contractor. “They have brainwashed so many of my friends and believe in just conspiracy theories and bullcrap. It’s just sad to see my friends just turned into idiots.” A more immediate incentive to intervene came from the morning’s proceedings. As Piro was interviewing folks at the diner, Reams says he overhead a man criticizing the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare. “My wife retired last month and I had to get the ACA and … I think it’s great,” he notes.

In his Tuesday night Phoenix rally, President Trump singled out “Fox & Friends” for praise, calling it “the absolute most honest show and it’s a show I watch.” Which makes sense, given Trump’s thin-skinned narcissism. “Fox & Friends” routinely unfurls talking points straight from the White House. “They’re enabling them, they’re enabling this president and this administration to engage in craziness and the destruction of our values and America in general. It’s just sad, it really is,” says Reams.

By the time Reams pulled his caper, he’d completed his breakfast of biscuits and gravy. After introducing himself to the Fox News audience, he found himself escorted outside by two “goons,” as he called them, hired by the network for moments just like this one. Soon enough, he says, he was chatting with the cops, who were weighing an arrest for disorderly conduct, he says. They let him go.

Reams says he’s spent his entire life in Kentucky, and draws his liberal viewpoints from his parents as well as from “common sense.” His politics and his contempt for Fox News raise the question: Why on earth was he watching “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday morning in the first place? “You have to check out the competition,” he replies. “You have to check out what they’re saying. If I didn’t watch them, I wouldn’t hate them. I wouldn’t know what they’re up to.” So how many hours does Reams spend gauging the enemy? “An hour maybe — total. Maybe two hours,” he says. Or perhaps a little more? The point here is that Reams, protest notwithstanding, may play a bit role in the success of Fox News. A 2014 Pew Research Center study found that a sizable chunk of Fox News viewers come from “mixed” political leanings, and nearly a fifth from liberals.

There may be a lot of hate-viewers like Reams out there.

Pursuant to comments from the diner’s owner, the Erik Wemple Blog reported on Wednesday that Reams got booted before he had a chance to pay his bill. Not so, he says. He paid more than four dollars for his breakfast as well as an appropriate tip, he maintains. A diner source has confirmed his account.

There's a video embedded in the article.

[JMarie]

8 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"‘It was premeditated’: ‘FOX LIES’ guy speaks!"

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Bob Reams scratched out his “FOX LIES” sign on his porch before hopping in his truck. “It was premeditated. I knew what I was going to do,” says the 61-year-old Reams, who saw on television that the team from “Fox & Friends” was broadcasting from a nearby diner. “I’m a huge liberal and I believe that Fox News has just destroyed the country.”

Viewers of this execrable morning program can pretty much narrate the rest of this tale. As roving “Fox & Friends” correspondent Todd Piro was preparing to mediate a debate between two customers of Christi’s Cafe in Louisville, Ky., a man burst into the screen, equipped with a piece of paper saying, “FOX LIES.” “This is fake news,” he ranted.

Piro did the proper broadcasting thing: “We’re going to wrap this up, we’re going to go on off to commercial,” he said.

Interruption accomplished, with a fair bit of pickup from media-covering media outlets. “I’ve always wanted to protest Fox News and they came to a restaurant two miles from where I live and I just couldn’t help myself,” says Reams, a contractor. “They have brainwashed so many of my friends and believe in just conspiracy theories and bullcrap. It’s just sad to see my friends just turned into idiots.” A more immediate incentive to intervene came from the morning’s proceedings. As Piro was interviewing folks at the diner, Reams says he overhead a man criticizing the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare. “My wife retired last month and I had to get the ACA and … I think it’s great,” he notes.

In his Tuesday night Phoenix rally, President Trump singled out “Fox & Friends” for praise, calling it “the absolute most honest show and it’s a show I watch.” Which makes sense, given Trump’s thin-skinned narcissism. “Fox & Friends” routinely unfurls talking points straight from the White House. “They’re enabling them, they’re enabling this president and this administration to engage in craziness and the destruction of our values and America in general. It’s just sad, it really is,” says Reams.

By the time Reams pulled his caper, he’d completed his breakfast of biscuits and gravy. After introducing himself to the Fox News audience, he found himself escorted outside by two “goons,” as he called them, hired by the network for moments just like this one. Soon enough, he says, he was chatting with the cops, who were weighing an arrest for disorderly conduct, he says. They let him go.

Reams says he’s spent his entire life in Kentucky, and draws his liberal viewpoints from his parents as well as from “common sense.” His politics and his contempt for Fox News raise the question: Why on earth was he watching “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday morning in the first place? “You have to check out the competition,” he replies. “You have to check out what they’re saying. If I didn’t watch them, I wouldn’t hate them. I wouldn’t know what they’re up to.” So how many hours does Reams spend gauging the enemy? “An hour maybe — total. Maybe two hours,” he says. Or perhaps a little more? The point here is that Reams, protest notwithstanding, may play a bit role in the success of Fox News. A 2014 Pew Research Center study found that a sizable chunk of Fox News viewers come from “mixed” political leanings, and nearly a fifth from liberals.

There may be a lot of hate-viewers like Reams out there.

Pursuant to comments from the diner’s owner, the Erik Wemple Blog reported on Wednesday that Reams got booted before he had a chance to pay his bill. Not so, he says. He paid more than four dollars for his breakfast as well as an appropriate tip, he maintains. A diner source has confirmed his account.

There's a video embedded in the article.

Good for him!

[candygirl200413]

He is definitely a #notallheroswearcapes kind of guy!

[GreyhoundFan]

Because of course: "Joe Arpaio runs out of legal trouble and into the warm embrace of Sean Hannity'

Spoiler

This is what you do when you make news in Trumpworld. You go on “Hannity.”

Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., received a presidential pardon on Friday evening and promptly gave his first interview to Sean Hannity.

That’s what Donald Trump Jr. did when the New York Times reported last month that he met during the campaign with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer who he thought would provide damaging information about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

It’s what Sean Spicer did on the day he resigned as White House press secretary. It’s what Reince Priebus did after being replaced as White House chief of staff a week later.

It’s a logical move. Hannity might be Trump’s most devoted media supporter. Ann Coulter, a pretty big Trump booster in her own right, recently wrote Hannity “would endorse communism if Trump decided to implement the policies of ‘The Communist Manifesto.’”

If Trump does it, it’s all right by Hannity, which makes his show the friendliest forum in which to address otherwise-uncomfortable subjects — like your ouster from the White House, your attempt to collude with a foreign power or your avoidance of justice for a criminal conviction.

Arpaio was to be sentenced in October for flouting a court order to end his practice of detaining people on the mere suspicion they might not have legal status in the United States. The 85-year-old faced up to six months in prison, but Trump’s pardon means he will remain a free man.

Hannity openly cheered the president’s decision to grant clemency, even as he questioned Arpaio.

“First of all, sheriff, I’m very relieved for you,” Hannity said. “You came under fire for obeying what are the laws of the land. I applaud the president for what he did tonight. It was the right thing to do.”

Hannity is no reporter and, in all fairness, he doesn’t claim to be. “I’m not a journalist,” he reminded his radio listeners last year. “I’m a talk-show host.”

The bummer is Trump’s allies are in the habit of treating an appearance on Hannity’s Fox News show as a substitute for an interview with someone who is a journalist — and who might ask tougher questions. In fact, Arpaio complimented Hannity as “a great journalist,” and Hannity did not correct him.

“Great” apparently means supportive. Hannity’s inquiries focused on what he called “the abuse of the judiciary”; he never even played Devil’s Advocate and asked Arpaio why the public should view the pardon as righting a wrong — why Arpaio shouldn’t be penalized for defying a court order.

Gee Ann, a little case of the pot calling the kettle black?

[Cartmann99]

56 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., received a presidential pardon on Friday evening and promptly gave his first interview to Sean Hannity.

Wow! I honestly thought his pardon happened too late on Friday to be on Hannity's show. I just assumed he'd be the special guest for Monday night.

[Ali]

31 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

Wow! I honestly thought his pardon happened too late on Friday to be on Hannity's show. I just assumed he'd be the special guest for Monday night.

Perhaps Hannity got advance notice that the pardon was happening last night?

[Cartmann99]

10 minutes ago, Ali said:

Perhaps Hannity got advance notice that the pardon was happening last night?

Damn, I never even thought about that, but it makes sense! 

[JMarie]

8 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Ann Coulter, a pretty big Trump booster in her own right, recently wrote Hannity “would endorse communism if Trump decided to implement the policies of ‘The Communist Manifesto.’”

Ohhhh, how did I miss this juicy tidbit??

[GreyhoundFan]

@JMarie -- I know, right? I have to say this is one of the few times I agree with Ann. It doesn't matter what the orange menace says or does, Hannity would say it's the greatest thing ever.

[onekidanddone]

On 8/26/2017 at 4:12 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

Gee Ann, a little case of the pot calling the kettle black?

Was Coulter praising Hannity or trashing him? She turned on Trump a while ago but I don't keep up with her enough to see what she pukes forth. Ann also seems to have the hots for Hannity, so now I'm just confused.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

26 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

Was Coulter praising Hannity or trashing him? She turned on Trump a while ago but I don't keep up with her enough to see what she pukes forth. Ann also seems to have the hots for Hannity, so now I'm just confused.

 

Yeah, you're confused because you are logical. That doesn't work with Coulter, Hannity, and the rest of the idiotic bunch. I took it to mean she was trashing Hannity, but I am not a small-minded racist like Coulter, so maybe I misunderstood.

[GrumpyGran]

12 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Yeah, you're confused because you are logical. That doesn't work with Coulter, Hannity, and the rest of the idiotic bunch. I took it to mean she was trashing Hannity, but I am not a small-minded racist like Coulter, so maybe I misunderstood.

Remember, for her it's all about staying in the limelight. If she says Hannity is right, blah blah blah she just sounds like a lot of other people and I think at this point she's blown most of her credibility with anyone but the hard right. So she has to come up with semi-controversial things that keep her out there but still in the club.

She's sitting on a book that blasts Trump, just waiting for the fall so she can throw it out there. No one secretly cheering harder for the downfall than her.

[AmazonGrace]

18 minutes ago, GrumpyGran said:

Remember, for her it's all about staying in the limelight. If she says Hannity is right, blah blah blah she just sounds like a lot of other people and I think at this point she's blown most of her credibility with anyone but the hard right. So she has to come up with semi-controversial things that keep her out there but still in the club.

She's sitting on a book that blasts Trump, just waiting for the fall so she can throw it out there. No one secretly cheering harder for the downfall than her.

Uh what? Really? Ann Coulter? We are talking about the same Ann Coulter who wrote "In Trump We Trust"? That would be such a spectacular self-own.

[GreyhoundFan]

42 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Uh what? Really? Ann Coulter? We are talking about the same Ann Coulter who wrote "In Trump We Trust"? That would be such a spectacular self-own.

It's always all about her. As much as she loves the TT, she will go whichever way makes her more exalted.

[GrumpyGran]

4 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

It's always all about her. As much as she loves the TT, she will go whichever way makes her more exalted.

Yeah, and I suspect she was expecting more, mm, love? He hasn't offered her a cabinet post so she's pissed. I'm sure she thought  he would help raise her profile and he doesn't acknowledge her, so... She should realize she hasn't praised him enough and is too old to appeal to him.

She's sort of the female version of him. But without the inheritance.

[JMarie]

2 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Uh what? Really? Ann Coulter? We are talking about the same Ann Coulter who wrote "In Trump We Trust"? That would be such a spectacular self-own.

"In Trump We Trust" came out last August.  She already has another book ready to go?

[GrumpyGran]

2 hours ago, JMarie said:

"In Trump We Trust" came out last August.  She already has another book ready to go?

I'd bet my life on it. She's got to pay the bills and that's what she does. Don't they always have a picture of her on the cover?

[onekidanddone]

56 minutes ago, GrumpyGran said:

I'd bet my life on it. She's got to pay the bills and that's what she does. Don't they always have a picture of her on the cover?

I'm going to have a hard time keeping down my lunch with that visual jumping around my brain.