Doocy got mad because a Politico writer posted a blog entry about an Esquire story about Roger Ailes? Wow. He’s got too much time on his hands.

Um, Politico IS a lefty news site.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Um, Politico IS a lefty news site.

How so? How do you go about determining that?

paulmdoro said:
Doocy got mad because a Politico writer posted a blog entry about an Esquire story about Roger Ailes?

No, Roger Ailes got mad so his flunkies reacted. This “story” was set up by the producers, not Doocy.

I just want to take this chance to remind all Mediaite commenters that I love and respect every one of you and have never and would never say anything mean about you because that’s not what good friends (dare I say “family members”) do.

There. That should protect me in case Steve Doocy ever mentions me on the show.

Big morning for Matty Schneider… it’s not even noon and he’s already fluffed O’Reilly, Limbaugh and “Fair & Balanced” Frank Luntz!!! He’s taking a few hours in the afternoon to finish his “opinion” piece…. “In Defense of Michelle Bachmann”, but will be back later to get to the bottom of this whole Olbermann thing!!!

Paul, you’re really bustin my chops today man! I base it on their articles and what they choose to highlight, just like I do with Mediaite.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Um, Politico IS a lefty news site.

Nearly all is left for those outliers who view from the right fringe.

Jon Bershad said:
I just want to take this chance to remind all Mediaite commenters that I love and respect every one of you and have never and would never say anything mean about you because that’s not what good friends (dare I say “family members”) do.

There. That should protect me in case Steve Doocy ever brings me up on the show.

Steve is a clown, I won’t be worried about him if I was you, no one takes him serious (even his own folks at Fox).

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Paul, you’re really bustin my chops today man! I base it on their articles and what they choose to highlight, just like I do with Mediaite.

I’m just curious how one decides that Politico is liberal. I read it on occasion but not daily and it’s never seemed overly partisan to me.

skyfet said:
Steve is a clown, I won’t be worried about him if I was you, no one takes him serious (even his own folks at Fox).

Don’t worry, I’ve got enough of an ego that I’d be psyched even if Dorah the Explorer dissed me on her show.

Actually that would be kind of awesome. “Do you all think Jon is a biased idiota? Can you say that again? ‘Jon is a biased idiota.”

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Um, Politico IS a lefty news site.

Lefty? go and tell that to it’s commentators (it would be news to them). To Michelle in Utah, anyone that doesn’t follow the Madman (Beck) foot step is lefty to her.

Whether or not true, it seems Doocy should follow the example set by from Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. The ultimate way to get revenge against a critic? Pretend they literally don’t exist. Right up until the end, O’Reilly refused to ever mention the name of arch-nemesis Keith Olbermann and look who got the last laugh in that encounter.

Hehe, and that was flippin awesome!! (to steal phrase from a very wise woman. tweak.)

Paul, in the end, it’s just my humble opinion.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Paul, in the end, it’s just my humble opinion.

That’s cool. I can’t help but wonder though how people decide certain sites or sources are liberal. Daily Kos I get. Something like Politico seems different to me.

Jon Bershad said:
I just want to take this chance to remind all Mediaite commenters that I love and respect every one of you and have never and would never say anything mean about you because that’s not what good friends (dare I say “family members”) do. There. That should protect me in case Steve Doocy ever mentions me on the show.

That won’t protect you… hehe

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Whether or not true, it seems Doocy should follow the example set by from Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. The ultimate way to get revenge against a critic? Pretend they literally don’t exist. Right up until the end, O’Reilly refused to ever mention the name of arch-nemesis Keith Olbermann and look who got the last laugh in that encounter.

This statement of yours just shows that as usual you have no clue about what you are talking about. Billo constantly chase around people who criticize him(including Olb), and people who won’t come on the show. Using his producer and cameraman to continuously harass people he disagree with. He is the master of bitterness.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Paul, in the end, it’s just my humble opinion.

Rubbish! you shamefully labeled it a lefty site, rather than say in my (Mitchelle) opinion it’s a lefty site.

RRKING on fashion watch . Steve looks dreamy in that scarlet pashmina !

Friends and “family” members give each other chit all the time… I think thats what they are there for… It’s just that… Nobody else is supposed to do that… The media however, has become a three ring circus… It’s getting harder and harder to respect any of them… It’s become clear that either the reporter or the reporters boss has an agenda they need to adhere to…

Rubbish! Who do you think you are, The Real Royal King?

I seem to have gotten under your skin. It must really drive you crazy that I couldn’t care less about you.

And the above is just the job they do… It does’nt include all the infighting that goes on, in order to be recognized… IMO… Journalism used to be a thankless job, you went here, there, everywhere and did anything to get the story… It was all about the story… Now it’s just who can kick the other guys ass the farthest !… STORY ! WHAT STORY ! I THOUGHT THIS WAS ALL ABOUT ME !!!…

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Rubbish! Who do you think you are, The Real Royal King?

I seem to have gotten under your skin. It must really drive you crazy that I couldn’t care less about you.

lol, that’s your response after being caught out.

Citing anonymous blog comments doesn’t strike me as odd since everyone is doing it nowadays and it’s an accurate portrayal of criticism. What struck me as odd is that Doocy just shoehorned this criticism of Ben Smith into his segment seemingly outta nowhere. I think he was talking about the weather and then immediately switched to bashing Ben Smith.

Ben Smith is a hack journalist who inserts his opinion into stories he reports on and selectively chooses his stories in order to push his agenda, obviously nobody is here to argue against that. But Doocy also really sucks at transitioning segment. He’s gotta work on that.

RunSarahRun said:
Big morning for Matty Schneider… it’s not even noon and he’s already fluffed O’Reilly, Limbaugh and “Fair & Balanced” Frank Luntz!!! He’s taking a few hours in the afternoon to finish his “opinion” piece…. “In Defense of Michelle Bachmann”, but will be back later to get to the bottom of this whole Olbermann thing!!!

And it’s hard to believe that Roger Ailes didn’t tell him to do it! Because we’re insane!

Maybe Doocy should read some of the comments on the fox nation,vicious!

Huh. I wonder what the New York Times thinks about this practice.

I hope Douchy reads Mediaite comments on the air. Like this one.

Steve Douchy is a glorified weatherman.

Color me Ignorant, I sincerely doubt Steve cares what you think about him. Just sayin.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Color me Ignorant, I sincerely doubt Steve cares what you think about him. Just sayin.

then why does he care so much about what random idiots think about Ben Smith?

Color Me Badd said:
then why does he care so much about what random idiots think about Ben Smith?

That is a very good response, I have to say.

RunSarahRun said:
Big morning for Matty Schneider… it’s not even noon and he’s already fluffed O’Reilly, Limbaugh and “Fair & Balanced” Frank Luntz!!! He’s taking a few hours in the afternoon to finish his “opinion” piece…. “In Defense of Michelle Bachmann”, but will be back later to get to the bottom of this whole Olbermann thing!!!

I certainly don’t agree with this “praise” but if Doocy was angry with me and read this comment on the air, I have to admit, I would find it hilarious.

Matt Schneider said:
I certainly don’t agree with this “praise” but if Doocy was angry with me and read this comment on the air, I have to admit, I would find it hilarious.

That would be AWESOME!!! So we already have “teabegger” being used by leftist media in the everyday grind of “reporting”. Who will be the first to bring “fluffer” to the forefront. My guess… Maddow.

No one with an IQ one point above Michele Bachman takes Doocy or Fox and Friends seriously. Its a morning right wing propaganda fest hosted by Barbie and Ken News Models whose knowledge is limited to what they are told to do and say by the Fox puppet masters. It must be a sad life for them.

Color Me Dumbb said:
then why does he care so much about what random idiots think about Ben Smith?

Because it’s funny.

paulmdoro said:
How so? How do you go about determining that?

I agree with Seeing…..Politico is a leftie site. Even Hugh Hewitt, a pretty reasonable moderate conservative thinks Politico has turned further and further lefty.

Politico won’t cite sources. While not a lefty-only trait, that says something about the site. Oh and if you read their site, it’s predominantly featuring conservative stories. They have writers devoted to specific conservative. That’s when you have a left-leaning article bent.

huntingtonboy said:
No one with an IQ one point above Michele Bachman takes Doocy or Fox and Friends seriously. Its a morning right wing propaganda fest hosted by Barbie and Ken News Models whose knowledge is limited to what they are told to do and say by the Fox puppet masters. It must be a sad life for them.

Where is your civility? Are you trying to disrespect the President and his call for civility?

Politico wrote Esquire inspired hit pieces on Sarah Palin and other conservatives so yes, they are a left wing media organization. Good for Doocy for calling them out.

WCinWI said:
I agree with Seeing…..Politico is a leftie site. Even Hugh Hewitt, a pretty reasonable moderate conservative thinks Politico has turned further and further lefty.

Politico won’t cite sources. While not a lefty-only trait, that says something about the site. Oh and if you read their site, it’s predominantly featuring conservative stories. They have writers devoted to specific conservative. That’s when you have a left-leaning article bent.

Fred Ryan is the CEO of Politico he worked for Ronald Reagan, try again.

Frederick J. Ryan, Jr. (also known as Fred Ryan, born April 12, 1955) was the post-Chief of Staff for former United States President Ronald Reagan (1989–1995), and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. He is also the vice-chairman of Allbritton Communications Company and President and CEO of Politico.com.

TangledThorns said:
Politico wrote Esquire inspired hit pieces on Sarah Palin and other conservatives so yes, they are a left wing media organization. Good for Doocy for calling them out.

see above.

WCinWI said:
Where is your civility? Are you trying to disrespect the President and his call for civility?

Yes.

Color Me Badd said:
Fred Ryan is the CEO of Politico he worked for Ronald Reagan, try again.

Frederick J. Ryan, Jr. (also known as Fred Ryan, born April 12, 1955) was the post-Chief of Staff for former United States President Ronald Reagan (1989–1995), and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. He is also the vice-chairman of Allbritton Communications Company and President and CEO of Politico.com.

Failing to see how this contradicts what I stated. Please show me. :)

Color me Ignorant, I don’t care who founded Politico, I’m going by the articles they post.

Matt Schneider said:
I certainly don’t agree with this “praise” but if Doocy was angry with me and read this comment on the air, I have to admit, I would find it hilarious.

Mr. Schneider, given the discussion of “thin skin” in your piece above, this seems a good time to ask.

Are you willing to request removal of blocking the thumbs up/down feature on staff comments?

Seems a bit childish, would you not agree, that staff comments are “protected” from public voting?

I look forward to both your answers, and any further light you might shed on whose decision it was to block said voting, whether you have raised the issue to Mediaite site management, whether you honestly advocate removal of the blocking, and what responses you get and specifically from whom.

Regards,

MC

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Color me Ignorant

I would have to borrow some Crayolas from you. I haven’t had any for decades.

WCinWI said:
I agree with Seeing…..Politico is a leftie site. Even Hugh Hewitt, a pretty reasonable moderate conservative thinks Politico has turned further and further lefty.

Politico won’t cite sources. While not a lefty-only trait, that says something about the site. Oh and if you read their site, it’s predominantly featuring conservative stories. They have writers devoted to specific conservative. That’s when you have a left-leaning article bent.

Oh well whatever Hugh Hewitt says must be nothing but the truth.

So, to summarize, your evidence that Politico is a liberal site is comprised entirely of the following: they don’t cite sources (which you admit others do), it predominantly features conservative stories, and certain writers are devoted to specific conservatives? Wow. That would really hold up in a courtroom.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Color me Ignorant, I don’t care who founded Politico, I’m going by the articles they post.

Ive been a regular poster on Politico for the past 5 years… While not a Left site per say, They have over the past couple years become more and more left leaning. They have more articles chastising republicans than Democrats, Just go there and look at their Arena articles. 5 liberals to every 1 republican. Though the commenters lean conservative

I can’t believe that people here are actually trying to say Politico is NOT a lefty site.

Journolistas run the place.

I think people are far too casual about throwing around the “leftie site” tag. Is Politico just like Daily Kos? No difference whatsoever. I mean what isn’t a leftie site then?

Politico is middle-of-the-road in the same sense politifact.org is non-partisan. By the way, does anyone know if Ben Smith has ever been Olbermann’s old show, the name of which I’ve already forgotten?

O’Reilly also refused to mention Al Franken by name, calling him instead “Stuart Smalley,” and look who got the last laugh there.

LMAO, this is so funny. Ben Smith has been a far-left hack for so long. Used to be 99% of his “work” came straight off of Ezra Klein’s far left “Journolist” list serv. I used to poke him all the time over his dishonest hackery in the comments until i got bored with it. And now, as a direct result of his hackish style of “reporting”, no one in the comments shows him an ounce of respect and he’s been crying about his comments for quite awhile.

I’m sure he misses your poking. I’m sure he’s crushed to that a comments section shows him no respect. As if that’s the ultimate measure of success for a journalist.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Color me Ignorant, I don’t care who founded Politico, I’m going by the articles they post.

He didn’t just “found” Politico he is the CEO involved in day to day operations, not to mention the main money behind Politico initially was Republican seed money.

paulmdoro said:
I’m sure he misses your poking. I’m sure he’s crushed to that a comments section shows him no respect. As if that’s the ultimate measure of success for a journalist.

His biased “reporting” would do much better on high traffic far-left websites like Huffington Post. There the commenters would love him and believe everything he says. But Politico just doesn’t pull in large numbers of far-left loons, so poor Ben has no support in his comments to reinforce his dishonest hackery, and that makes Ben sad. So sad that he rags about it to all his far-left “journolist” buddies. He should move to Huffington Post, he’d be much happier there and he’d get all the adulation in the comments that he craves.

Anyway Politico is not really worth arguing about, Mike Allen reports on Washington like he is blogging on 4Chan, Politico is the new school where “reporters” like Mark Halperin are considered the vanguard of journalism. At one time they were paying Roger Simon 200 grand to basically be a blogger. I am with Dusty Rhodes when he says there is “no honor among thieves”, Ric Flair”.

OxyCon said:
His biased “reporting” would do much better on high traffic far-left websites like Huffington Post. There the commenters would love him and believe everything he says. But Politico just doesn’t pull in large numbers of far-left loons, so poor Ben has no support in his comments to reinforce his dishonest hackery, and that makes Ben sad. So sad that he rags about it to all his far-left “journolist” buddies. He should move to Huffington Post, he’d be much happier there and he’d get all the adulation in the comments that he craves.

Alright then. Good luck with that.

ModerateMan said:
I can’t believe that people here are actually trying to say Politico is NOT a lefty site.

Journolistas run the place.

I am sure to someone who reads World Net Daily, The Blaze, Big Goverment and Free Republic it is a lefty site. But in the real world it isnt even close.

Also none of this is on the level, Politico can afford to pay Roger Simon and others that kind of money because they know that all of us buy into this pro-wrestling babyface vs. heels, Hatfields vs. McCoy BS. There was some story I read about a congressional staffer who was in a hearing sitting behind the panel, and there was some witness giving this really intense careful testimony, and one of the more respected members of congress turned to a fellow lawmaker and laughed and said “She thinks this is all on the level”, and laughed.

That best captures what this entire political foodfight is all about. It isnt on the level, the only people who really take this stuff personally and seriously are the people outside of Washington who have no idea what is really going on. They certainly don’t and that includes Politico as well. This is a game, this is Pro Wrestling, it is a soap opera. That is all it is.

paulmdoro said:
I think people are far too casual about throwing around the “leftie site” tag. Is Politico just like Daily Kos? No difference whatsoever. I mean what isn’t a leftie site then?

A “leftie” site is anything to the left of Fox News. That was easy.

The Tea Weasel said:
A “leftie” site is anything to the left of Fox News. That was easy.

That’s sure how it seems sometimes. It’s like a reflex or a tic people have. Everything is “leftie.”

There are few people in America who I want to fight more than Steve Douchey. I’d love to just meet him and kick his ass someday.

paulmdoro said:
I’m sure he misses your poking. I’m sure he’s crushed to that a comments section shows him no respect. As if that’s the ultimate measure of success for a journalist.

He’s not a journalist, he’s a blogger.

ModerateMan said:
I can’t believe that people here are actually trying to say Politico is NOT a lefty site.

You mean the site the runs Dick Cheney’s comments unfiltered whenever he feels like it.

Publius219 said:
There are few people in America who I want to fight more than Steve Douchey. I’d love to just meet him and kick his ass someday.

Why so violent, Pub?

Color Me Badd said:
Anyway Politico is not really worth arguing about, Mike Allen reports on Washington like he is blogging on 4Chan, Politico is the new school where “reporters” like Mark Halperin are considered the vanguard of journalism. At one time they were paying Roger Simon 200 grand to basically be a blogger. I am with Dusty Rhodes when he says there is “no honor among thieves”, Ric Flair”.

Totally agree!

JamesA1102 said:
You mean the site the runs Dick Cheney’s comments unfiltered whenever he feels like it.

Does that site scratch his balls whenever he feels like it too? I know I do.

Publius219 said:
There are few people in America who I want to fight more than Steve Douchey. I’d love to just meet him and kick his ass someday.

Aw man, why would you wanna do that? Doocy’s a nice guy!

Color Me Badd said:
Also none of this is on the level, Politico can afford to pay Roger Simon and others that kind of money because they know that all of us buy into this pro-wrestling babyface vs. heels, Hatfields vs. McCoy BS. There was some story I read about a congressional staffer who was in a hearing sitting behind the panel, and there was some witness giving this really intense careful testimony, and one of the more respected members of congress turned to a fellow lawmaker and laughed and said “She thinks this is all on the level”, and laughed.

That best captures what this entire political foodfight is all about. It isnt on the level, the only people who really take this stuff personally and seriously are the people outside of Washington who have no idea what is really going on. They certainly don’t and that includes Politico as well. This is a game, this is Pro Wrestling, it is a soap opera. That is all it is.

CMB, that’s actually an excellent comment. You should do more of that and less of the inane, insulting nonsense. Thumbs up.

OxyCon said:
Aw man, why would you wanna do that? Doocy’s a nice guy!

Probably because my daughter could beat Doocy up. Low hanging fruit, if you will.

It’s the ultimate copout to deflect criticism. It always works. When you are fairly criticized, the #1 thing you can do to temper or obfuscate the criticism is to delegitimize the critic. In far right wing circles, labeling anything “leftwing” or “leftie” or “liberal” is the ultimate scarlet letter. Palin does this ALL the time…and so do other conservatives on that media outlet. People who say Politico is “leftwing” do not follow news stories on that show. It’s as centrist as it can be. I think what’s happening here is the rightwing is trying to move the middle by calling anything on it’s left as “leftie.” Note: Anything(body) that/who criticizes a conservative or rightwinger is also “liberal.” Sophism at it’s finest.

Gasket said:
It’s the ultimate copout to deflect criticism. It always works. When you are fairly criticized, the #1 thing you can do to temper or obfuscate the criticism is to delegitimize the critic.

Yes! You could go on about what camera Michelle Bachmann is looking at or start something about Paul Ryan’s bloodshot eyes!

Thanks for pointing the trick out, Gasket.

Pablo said:
Yes! You could go on about what camera Michelle Bachmann is looking at or start something about Paul Ryan’s bloodshot eyes!

Thanks for pointing the trick out, Gasket.

You are so welcome Pablo. :)

Why is your headline in the form of a question? You posted the clip showing that he did this thing!