Joy Behar: “NPR Has Been Vetted By Objective ‘Media Matters’ Type People”

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by Colby Hall | 6:15 pm, October 25th, 2010

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The hosts of The View were still discussing the ongoing media brouhaha between NPR and Fox News over the firing of Juan Williams. Barbara Walters opened the discussion by discussing the current state of media – from opiniotainment to straight up journalism. Co-host Joy Behar predictably stepped in to defend NPR and used an odd way to explain their value, claiming that NPR’s been ‘vetted by objective ‘Media Matters’ people.”

Calling Media Matters “objective” is an interesting choice of words, since they define themselves as a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”

Media Matters has reported some great stories and, on occasion, has been a bastion of reasoned examples of media bias. But they also have been known to, on occasion, report clips that are completely out of context. So while Media Matters is a fun site to read (for a variety of reasons), they aren’t exactly objective.

Transcript of the exchange follows the video below:

Barbara Walters: It’s why i sometimes have trouble here and don’t give my opinion because i’m also with abc news. if you are a commentator and you’re giving opinions, you’re in one category.

Sherri Sheppard: I that a pundit?

Walters: You can call it a pundit. If you are giving the news straight, you’re not supposed to give your opinions. Now, that’s changed so much. We’re in a whole other time now. everybody has an opinion. If you don’t make more noise or scream louder or so on, you don’t get the rating. So it is a funny blurred line. they said he’s a journalist, he’s a correspondent, he’s not supposed to give opinions. but when he goes on another cable show like fox and does it — so it’s a very blurry line. In the meantime, we hope he’ll come on with us and, if nothing else, give Joy and Whoopi 10%.

Sherri Sheppard: Bring your checkbook with you.

Joy Behar: I don’t need the money. but the thing of it is that npr has been vetted by objective media matter type people and they have found that –

Elizabeth Hasselback: Media Matters?

Behar: I don’t know if it’s media matters. maybe someone could find this out for me. they have found npr is very balanced, unlike fox, which is not balanced. fox has now become the arm of the republican party.

Hasselback: That’s such a talking point, joy. it’s not true.

Behar: It is true.

Hasselback: It is not true.

Behar: People who are running for office are commentators on Fox.

Walters: Fox says their news is fair but they are a very conservative cable with a particular point of view. i would like to ask our friend Bill O’reilly, who is still with the subject every night on his program, i think we should get 10% of his salary.

Barbara Walters, Bill O'Reilly, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, fox news, Joy Behar, Juan Williams, Media Matters, Sherri Shepard, The View

http://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Soya/1088592828 Shawn Soya

OH GOD LOL!!!!

Is she trying out a new comedy routine or something? If so…A+++++

LMFAO
m

Media Matters are quite objective. They don’t editorialize what they post at all. They post quite a lot of transcripts and along with the videos. If there’ve been a mistake in an article, it’s corrected with haste. They do a pretty good job of keeping the mainstream media honest.
Rusty Shackelford

Oh that Joy is really……emmmmm…on top of things…….yea thats it,she on top of it.
michiganruth

when I saw that pic with the stripes and the red lips and the scary hair, I thought it was a story about a mime.
ConLoonPatrol

Well Joy is fun probably to know but let’s be honest.. she’s nuts. Her show on CNN, she is uninformed EVERY single night on the topics she covers. She comes off looking like an incompetent fool. These day time ladies shows are a joke.. they’re for the dumbed down.. kinda like the gop party.

IN OTHER NEWS…

Today apparently Mitch McConnell said that his “#1 priority is in defeating Pres Obama”.

How ’bout that folks? not jobs, not the debt, not ss, not education, not tax reform, not jobs in China.. just defeating Obama.

KEEP DEFENDING THE GOP AND YOU CAN TAKE YOUR SHARE OF THE BLAME FOR DESTROYING THE NATION. GOP- PARTY OF DESTRUCTION
Big Eddie

Behar – Wisest Liberal of all U.S. Americans .
Seeing November From My Window

m says:
Media Matters are quite objective.

Just do you know, IF you had any credibility before, it’s gone now!
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

ConLoonPatrol said:
How ’bout that folks? not jobs, not the debt, not ss, not education, not tax reform, not jobs in China.. just defeating Obama.

Maybe the best way to deal with jobs, the debt, ss, education, and tax reform IS to defeat Obama.

And as for jobs in China, are you saying you’re against jobs in China?
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Seeing November From My Window said:
Just do you know, IF you had any credibility before, it’s gone now!

I think its a zero-sum transaction.
tatboy

Wow…just…wow…
GOP_and_FOX_fraudulent_Pricks

Colby Hall,

“So while Media Matters is a fun site to read….”

ahhh Colby, you’re showing your true right wing colors with that comment right there. Make light of a site that fills a serious need for accountability by media,, like fox, and maybe you…
NORBIT

LOL!!

DID THIS BUFOON REALY SAY THAT?

LOL!!

How’s that ‘Democratic Senate’ looking now?
GOP_and_FOX_fraudulent_Pricks

AnonymousFinch said:
Maybe the best way to deal with jobs, the debt, ss, education, and tax reform IS to defeat Obama.

And as for jobs in China, are you saying you’re against jobs in China?

Of course you right wing kooks would make comments like that. You and your party don’t give 2 shits about this country. It’s all about power and nothing more. Never has been about anything other than power. Power for corporations. Nothing more.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Jonathan Scott

Joy is always right.
Ted-

michiganruth said:
when I saw that pic with the stripes and the red lips and the scary hair, I thought it was a story about a mime.

I have no doubt that you did.
GOP_and_FOX_fraudulent_Pricks

AnonymousFinch said:
Maybe the best way to deal with jobs, the debt, ss, education, and tax reform IS to defeat Obama.

And as for jobs in China, are you saying you’re against jobs in China?

btw, you’re an insult to Gregory Peck
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

m said:
Media Matters are quite objective. They don’t editorialize what they post at all. They post quite a lot of transcripts and along with the videos. If there’ve been a mistake in an article, it’s corrected with haste. They do a pretty good job of keeping the mainstream media honest.

They focus exclusively on Fox, Rush and people on the right. They were started up by, of all people, Hillary Clinton. She helped start it to combat, “the cast right wing conspiracy”.

So yeah, you’re out of your mind.
Liberty_Hound

Who’s Joy Behar?
NORBIT

This is the same BayWhore (Jerry Brown & N.O.W. approved!) who thinks FOX is biased?

…and THE GIFTS just keep on coming!!!

—– 11-02-10 —–
Ted-

Let me just add that Mediaite has NEVER EVER taken anything out of context., EVER. Mediaite would NEVER EVER do that, Best site EVER in the history of web sites…EVER.

Having said that Media Matters simply tosses back in the face of numb nuts, like Glenn Beck, their exact words, often times buffoonish but seen as shear genius by the sub-species, tea-bagger ,who have the collective IQ of a grapefruit.
Ted-

NORBIT said:
This is the same BayWhore (Jerry Brown & N.O.W. approved!) who thinks FOX is biased?

…and THE GIFTS just keep on coming!!!

—– 11-02-10 —–

I was just talking about tea-baggers with the IQ of a grapefruit norbit, and there you are. Timing is everything.
TfT

NPR BOD needs to fire Shiller for her personal slander of Juan; despite whatever reason she gave to “validate” his firing, it has been proven that a serious double standard exists at NPR. They will have no credibility as long as Shiller is the CEO.

As for Joy – she’s Joy. Nothing more to be said other than bwahahahaha.
NORBIT

Ted- said:
I was just talking about tea-baggers with the IQ of a grapefruit norbit, and there you are. Timing is everything.

LOL!!
Ted-

NORBIT said:
LOL!!

Yes, but do you know what that means?
DonnaK

Joy Behar & Media Matters do research just like Fox New’s and their anchors. So, Joy is right!!
Ted-

TfT said:
NPR BOD needs to fire Shiller for her personal slander of Juan; despite whatever reason she gave to “validate” his firing, it has been proven that a serious double standard exists at NPR. They will have no credibility as long as Shiller is the CEO.

As for Joy – she’s Joy. Nothing more to be said other than bwahahahaha.

I think that’s about the best you are capable of saying.
juan

The VIEW has no CLUE!
Ted-

juan said:
The VIEW has no CLUE!

Juan – Big congrats. You can rhyme. So can my seven year old.
roxsteady

Hasselbeck is soooooo stupid! Did any of them mention the one million dollars that fox donated to the Republican Govenors association? Maybe Lizzie should lay of the bleach?
espo222

If Barbara had any credibility left as a journalist, she would have walked out after Joy said that Media Matters was objective.
TtT

Thanks Ted, I should do better and what I really think is Juan should have been fired from NPR years ago.
roxsteady

Oh, and Juan apparently is also a perv!

http://my.firedoglake.com/phoenix/2010/10/22/juan-williams-is-a-sexist-pig-discuss/
Ted-

TtT said:
Thanks Ted, I should do better and what I really think is Juan should have been fired from NPR years ago.

You should do better, but let’s face it, you don’t have the capabilities.
Big Eddie

roxsteady said:
Hasselbeck is soooooo stupid! Did any of them mention the one million dollars that fox donated to the Republican Govenors association? Maybe Lizzie should lay of the bleach?

Hey . Ted is the resident simpleton here . Don’t try to take over . He may smack you with his work mop .
Seeing November From My Window

roxsteady says:
Hasselbeck is soooooo stupid! Did any of them mention the one million dollars that fox donated to the Republican Govenors association? Maybe Lizzie should lay of the bleach?

Nice deflection, Box of Rox.
Ted-

Big Eddie said:
Hey . Ted is the resident simpleton here . Don’t try to take over . He may smack you with his work mop .

Big Eddie – he don’t have two neurons to rub together. Look that great big word up in something called a “dictionary” big eddie. See you in a few days.
notsofast

Finally, this racist said something funny! It’s about time!
TCinAZ

NPR Is ‘Balanced’ and Media Matters Is ‘Objective’ like Joy Behar is “the Voice Of The People”. Like she has “The Folks” , as President TOTUS would say, loving Her finger on the pulse wisdom, of the American electoral Psyche. I mena, I know that I Sure Can’t get enough of her Dingbat Azz.

Btw, Democrat Women and The Close-Up Camera Shot. Talk about Spurned Women! Holy Mother Of GOD! MY EYES!

Ps. So WTH ever happened to Flavia Colgan? Where’d SHE Go? She Too Free-Thinkin’ and Attractive for The Progressive Pound Puppy Farm in the Dem Party these days?
notsofast

Ted- said:
Ted- says:
October 25, 2010 at 7:23 pm Ted-(Quote)

King, try something new you POS!
Ted-

notsofast said:
Finally, this racist said something funny! It’s about time!

You and your mullet at the prom. Now that’s funny.
notsofast

Ted- said:
Ted- says:
October 25, 2010 at 7:20 pm Ted-(Quote)

Everyone, the King is back on as his alter ego Ted.

Nice try King!
Bill Mahwer

She is just as stupid as she is hideous looking.
Ted-

notsofast said:
Everyone, the King is back on as his alter ego Ted.

Nice try King!

Okay, so the truth is your mullet turned you down at the sr. trailer park prom. That explains everything.
writer

King, the trailer park reference gives you away. You should at least change the dialogue for your evening character.
Ted-

notsofast said:
King, try something new you POS!

When the mullet says no, it means NO!!
Firstrate

Ted, you need a little more activity in your life than this website.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

GOP_and_FOX_fraudulent_Pricks said:
btw, you’re an insult to Gregory Peck

Once again, I’m the victim of profiling by a supposedly-open-minded liberal.
TfT

Hey Ted – I actually gave you a like for your comments about TtT. Good job.
Mr.Papshmer

Ah, so fun to watch liberals / progressives beat each other up.
Ted-

writer said:
King, the trailer park reference gives you away. You should at least change the dialogue for your evening character.

Thinking about becoming a detective? Don’t gibe up your day job as a road side brain stem.
notsofast

Colby, I think it was interesting that you cut that clip off just as Elizabeth was saying: “we all said here that it was wrong that he was fired.”

To which Walters flat-out lied and said “I didn’t say it was wrong. I said it was handled poorly”

Really, BW?

Here are your words BW:

“Barbara Walters agreed.

“When is somebody giving his or her opinion?” she asked. “If you are a ‘journalist’ — where you’re supposed to be straight and narrow and not give opinions — you know how careful I am because I’m wearing the two hats sometimes…That’s one thing. But if you are someone who’s giving your opinion, then you’re allowed to give your opinion! I think that they were very wrong.”

Colby, nice of you to hide BW’s lie.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/21/the-view-defends-juan-wil_n_772089.html
Ted-

Mr.Papshmer said:
Ah, so fun to watch liberals / progressives beat each other up.

Then again, you, like most tea-baggers are easily entertained.
Ted-

TfT said:
Hey Ted – I actually gave you a like for your comments about TtT. Good job.

You gave me a “like?” Jesus, you need a hobby…or a lobotomy.
notsofast

Ted- said:
Ted- says:
October 25, 2010 at 7:29 pm Ted-(Quote)

Sorry King, you messed up as Ted by using the same names you use for others when you are the King.

Shows over- you have been found out and have proven yourself to be an even bigger loser than we all thought.

Coming in here as other people to make your sophomoric comments.

LOL

It’s over, King!
TfT

Do you think NPR and MM will cover this?

NJEA Union Teachers Call Black Kids N******, Say They Want to F*** With Kids (Video) (see gateway pundit for more).

In fact, do you think any network will cover it? Will mediaite? Given that the Unions are the biggest contributors to the dems, this should be news worthy, doncha think?

Are the NJEA Union Teachers “media matters” t ype people? You betcha!!!
NORBIT

Who’s gonna’ win first?

The Republicans or the Rangers?

& What Dem challenges Obama in 2012?
david r

She’s a hate monger who ought to get booted off the show. I can’t believe she is the best they can do. Her routine is to throw out an insult against conservatives, then go into her idiotic grin to get a laugh from the women in the audience. She’s right that NPR hides its bias much better than Fox. “All Things Considered” ought be called “All Doctrinaire Liberal Things Considered.” As for Behar, she has pissed off Star Jones, Jews, Catholics, about every conservative who’s been on the show, and I just about everyone else, too. I guess this is entertainment.
notsofast

Ted- said:
Ted- says:
October 25, 2010 at 7:36 pm Ted-(Quote)

King, one thing is consistent: you get as many red thumbs down as Ted as you do as the King!!!!!!!!!!!

bawaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ted-

notsofast said:
Sorry King, you messed up as Ted by using the same names you use for others when you are the King.

Shows over- you have been found out and have proven yourself to be an even bigger loser than we all thought.

Coming in here as other people to make your sophomoric comments.

LOL

It’s over, King!

Your mullet thinks you smell. Mind you, it’s not me, it’s your mullet, Perhaps the two of you need some quiet time?
notsofast

Ted- said:
Ted- says:
October 25, 2010 at 7:41 pm Ted-(Quote)

Sorry, King- ya lost again!

Bye-bye, child!
NORBIT

If I haven’t posted it lately:

THANK YOU NPR!

ps) Would it be asking too much to fire Mara Liasson before next Tuesday?

THANK YOU NPR!
Iris

وأنا أملك أمريكا وأنت teatards سيتم شعبي
طالما كنت تحتفظ مشاهدة فوكس نيوز
Sincerely,
Saudi Prince Alwaleed
writer

Unlike with Jekyll and Hyde, both the King and Ted characters are idiots. At least he’s consistent with that.
Ted-

notsofast said:
King, one thing is consistent: you get as many red thumbs down as Ted as you do as the King!!!!!!!!!!!

bawaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I’m torn and devastated by the big “thumbs down.” Bawaha. Sorry, your mullet doesn’t seem to think it’s quite as funny as you do. Sorry,
Ted-

writer said:
Unlike with Jekyll and Hyde, both the King and Ted characters are idiots. At least he’s consistent with that.

Maybe someday you’ll say something that someone cares about. This isn’t that time. But nice try.
Iris

PS..Don’t forget you old right wing freaks, its left to right
Ted-

NORBIT said:
If I haven’t posted it lately:

THANK YOU NPR!

ps) Would it be asking too much to fire Mara Liasson before next Tuesday?

THANK YOU NPR!

You really have the life of writer don’t you?
writer

The King by any other name smells the same.
disenlightened

Wouldn’t Joy Behar make a great mother? Can’t you just see yourself sharing your life with her, raising children and growing old together? Of course not. She’s another hate-filled, miserable liberal female fighting for the right to abort babies. Why does she have any audience at all?
Ted-

writer said:
The King by any other name smells the same.

Maybe you and Juan should get together and rhyme.
Ted-

disenlightened said:
Wouldn’t Joy Behar make a great mother? Can’t you just see yourself sharing your life with her, raising children and growing old together? Of course not. She’s another hate-filled, miserable liberal female fighting for the right to abort babies. Why does she have any audience at all?

I don’t know, would you be a great mother?
NORBIT

NPR
Victory Mosque
Health Care
Stimulus
Housing
Unemployment
Mexican Border
Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Corruption
Afghanistan
Iran
Racial Politics

Hope & Change, huh?

Yea…..IN 8-DAYS!
Ted-

NORBIT said:
NPR
Victory Mosque
Health Care
Stimulus
Housing
Unemployment
Mexican Border
Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Corruption
Afghanistan
Iran
Racial Politics

Hope & Change, huh?

Yea…..IN 8-DAYS!

You don’t get out much do you?
notsofast

TfT said:
Do you think NPR and MM will cover this?

Bo you think NPR or MM will cover the story about a debate that was being sponsored by the League of
Womens’ Voters.

Unbelievable! The real Americans got up and recited it to the distaste of this lib teacher.

She said “She was neither for or against the Pledge.”

This lib socialist went on to scold the crowd.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/234/538/Pledge_of_Allegiance_Banned_by_League_of_Women_Voters_at_a_Debate_in_Illinois.html

And what did BHO’s friends say about this?

One of these assholes was a former ACORN Project vote worker!

“Ms. Tate-Bradish reportedly scolded the crowd after the pledge ended, blaming the outburst on the Republican candidate. The LWV executive director, Jan Czarnik, also condemned the Pledge’s recitation, telling the local news, “It’s a phony patriotism issue is what it is,” she said. “[Republicans] must think it helps their campaign.”

Both LWV have been active members of the progressive movement. Ms. Tate-Bradish was an active supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and even hosted campaign events for the then-Senator in her own home.

Ms. Czarnik is a former ACORN Project Vote worker and has been involved in the progressive People for the American Way, but as blogger Jeff Dunetz notes, these former affiliations would surely in no way lead her to unfairly criticize a Republican candidate, right?”

Screw you you commie libs!
Patrick Henry

Ted- said:
So can my seven year old.

No way! You can reproduce? God help us.
Mr.Papshmer

Iris said:
وأنا أملك أمريكا وأنت teatards سيتم شعبي
طالما كنت تحتفظ مشاهدة فوكس نيوز
Sincerely,
Saudi Prince Alwaleed

Freakin’ awesome, but what Google translator doesn’t tell you is that Arabic is written backwards. :) Out of the mouths of babes…
Patrick Henry

roxsteady said:
Hasselbeck is soooooo stupid!

Now that is funny!
felixw

Ah Media Matters, George Soros’s official Bureau of Disinformation. If Glenn Beck said water is wet, Media Matters would issue a press release two hours later disputing the claim. These spinmeisters would be more effective as propagandists if they didn’t tell so many obvious lies, but as it stands they are only good for laugh. Much like Ms. Behar herself.
Ted-

notsofast said:
Bo you think NPR or MM will cover the story about a debate that was being sponsored by the League of
Womens’ Voters.

Unbelievable! The real Americans got up and recited it to the distaste of this lib teacher.

She said “She was neither for or against the Pledge.”

This lib socialist went on to scold the crowd.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/234/538/Pledge_of_Allegiance_Banned_by_League_of_Women_Voters_at_a_Debate_in_Illinois.html

And what did BHO’s friends say about this?

One of these assholes was a former ACORN Project vote worker!

“Ms. Tate-Bradish reportedly scolded the crowd after the pledge ended, blaming the outburst on the Republican candidate. The LWV executive director, Jan Czarnik, also condemned the Pledge’s recitation, telling the local news, “It’s a phony patriotism issue is what it is,” she said. “[Republicans] must think it helps their campaign.”

Both LWV have been active members of the progressive movement. Ms. Tate-Bradish was an active supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and even hosted campaign events for the then-Senator in her own home.

Ms. Czarnik is a former ACORN Project Vote worker and has been involved in the progressive People for the American Way, but as blogger Jeff Dunetz notes, these former affiliations would surely in no way lead her to unfairly criticize a Republican candidate, right?”

Screw you you commie libs!

Your mullet says that it is a dyed in the mullet commie and that you are perhaps the dumbest-ass that it has ever had the displeasure of knowing, and it’s generally pissed to find out that you have shit for brains.
notsofast

Republican blasts League of Womens Voters for refusing to allow the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance.”

Why couldn’t they say it?

Like a typical lib union POS, because “we have never done that before.”

Well, bitch, YOU did this night!!!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/voters-defy-debate-moderator-to-make-pledge-of-allegiance/
Ted-

Patrick Henry said:
No way! You can reproduce? God help us.

Somebody, probably by in the back seat or in a test tube reproduced you. What’s the problem?
disenlightened

Ted- said:
I don’t know, would you be a great mother?

Does anybody really know what time it is?
Ted-

felixw said:
Ah Media Matters, George Soros’s official Bureau of Disinformation. If Glenn Beck said water is wet, Media Matters would issue a press release two hours later disputing the claim. These spinmeisters would be more effective as propagandists if they didn’t tell so many obvious lies, but as it stands they are only good for laugh. Much like Ms. Behar herself.

You are dense and delusional. And a certifiable idiot.
Ted-

disenlightened said:

Evidently you have problems telling time as well as problems thinking. You should not be surprised.
Iris

Awww paps , i know you’re an old fart
so put on your glasses and
see my PS tha tells the old folks it goes left to right
:)
Ted-

notsofast said:
Republican blasts League of Womens Voters for refusing to allow the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance.”

Why couldn’t they say it?

Like a typical lib union POS, because “we have never done that before.”

Well, bitch, YOU did this night!!!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/voters-defy-debate-moderator-to-make-pledge-of-allegiance/

Your mullet has your bitch and your POS.
Seeing November From My Window

Ted, I’m curious, is the who that we are treated to here the same person that is a father to a seven year old? I sincerely hope not.
Ted-

Seeing November From My Window said:
Ted, I’m curious, is the who that we are treated to here the same person that is a father to a seven year old? I sincerely hope not.

Actually a seven and a twelve year old. Question: Are you a tea-bagger? If the answer is yes, then STFU.
Iris

Dear Seeing, I used to wonder the same thing about MICHELLEF
Hmmmmm
Seeing November From My Window

You didn’t actually answer my question. Are you the same person at home that we see here?
Mr.Papshmer

Iris said:
Awww paps , i know you’re an old fart
so put on your glasses and
see my PS tha tells the old folks it goes left to right
:)

No, you simply stepped out like a cabbage and made an idiot of yourself. Actually, I should say, you continue to confirm your idiocy.
shellys_ghost

oooooOOOooooOOOOOooooooHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAooooOOooo
Cancon2

America, let me introduce to you, the best Woman we have produced, a Woman loved by millions, a great intellect, truly a funny person and yes she can do card tricks, Joy Behar. The best we have.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Phil-Bourekas/1538058627 Phil Bourekas

Personal attacks…alter egos…google translations of Arabic…What is the relevance of any of this to the article at hand? I think the posters here could take a picture of a sunset and claim it proves that one of the most recent presidents is satan.

The article is about the claim that media matters is unbiased. Heck, not even media matters would attempt to claim that. They claim to want to counter “misinformation…that advances the conservative agenda”. Not all misinformation, just that which they judge as advancing an agenda they disagree with–the definition of bias…

So is Behar’s statement proof that either a) she isn’t that aware (which would be damning given her “pundit” status) or b) that she thinks protecting only against the conservative agenda is an unbiased view point. Does it matter which reason?
Iris

Phil, you do realize you’re on a comment board at MEDIAITE, right?
So whats your confusion about relevance?
Ted-

Seeing November From My Window said:
You didn’t actually answer my question. Are you the same person at home that we see here?

None of your business. Are you a tea-bagger? The greatest disgrace and embarrassment this great country has had to tolerate? Because if you are, your family, if you have one, should be put up for adoption.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Phil Bourekas said:
I think the posters here could take a picture of a sunset and claim it proves that one of the most recent presidents is satan.

An American sunset, or a Kenyan sunsen?
Seeing November From My Window

I’d give $5 to see Ted or Iris give a relevent statement on any thread here. One that doesn’t include the words, mullet, tea-bagger, a**hat, or geezer. I’m confident my $$ is safe.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

AnonymousFinch said:
An American sunset, or a Kenyan sunsen?

Sorry, meant “sunset.” We really need to be able to edit our comments (or view them before posting). I can never proofread on the same screen where I just typed.
Iris

Paps, you have made clear you have teh old folks “confusion”
tee and a hee
I just can’t laugh out loud at teh old folks when they get sad
http://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/ Spud

Media Matters is about as objective as NewsBusters. Joy Behar doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about…
Seeing November From My Window

No Ted, I’m not a tea-bagger, but I do believe in their motto:

Taxed
Enough
Already

I will pray for your children tonight. I have a feeling in your house, it’s the kids taking care of the “adults”.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Phil-Bourekas/1538058627 Phil Bourekas

AnonymousFinch said:
Sorry, meant “sunset.” We really need to be able to edit our comments (or view them before posting). I can never proofread on the same screen where I just typed.

Kudos for your sense of humor. :)
Iris

There you go Phil, now Anonymous is asking
for the kenyan’s birth certificate
Now thats relevant!
Ted-

Seeing November From My Window said:
No Ted, I’m not a tea-bagger, but I do believe in their motto:

Taxed
Enough
Already

I will pray for your children tonight. I have a feeling in your house, it’s the kids taking care of the “adults”.

You’re a tea-bagger alright. Cute slogans, no brains. Let’s pray you and other tea-baggers don’t reproduce. You are like a virus that needs to controlled.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Phil Bourekas said:
Kudos for your sense of humor. :)

Kudos for realizing I was joking. The Real Royal King is dialing the Secret Service to report me as we speak.
Ted-

Seeing November From My Window said:
I’d give $5 to see Ted or Iris give a relevent statement on any thread here. One that doesn’t include the words, mullet, tea-bagger, a**hat, or geezer. I’m confident my $$ is safe.

I’d give $100 for the first coherent comment by a tea-bagger. By definition, it’s simply not possible.
Iris

Hey Seeing, you better pray for MICHELLEF’s kid too!
cd ohio

ted your kids are going to grow up and be a burden to the state, make sure you teach them to walk in shackles
Ted-

cd ohio said:
ted your kids are going to grow up and be a burden to the state, make sure you teach them to walk in shackles

Maybe I’ll have them talk to you first.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Ted- said:
Maybe I’ll have them talk to you first.

No, you talk to them first.
cd ohio

hope you dont work weekends that will be their visiting days lol
NORBIT

What is this Ky. Debate – a commercial for msnbc?
Anyone watching will know what I speak.
Ted-

AnonymousFinch said:
No, you talk to them first.

Well, maybe finch, you can talk to them first, then cd ohio can give his sage advice and finally some anonymous tea-bagger give shovel in their bullshit. Which means they will be knee deep in bullshit. Not that you would appreciate the difference.
Iris

Thats not nice cd ohio, MICHELLEF’s kid
gets social security checks and I bet she
doesn’t see him as burden on the government
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Ted- said:
Well, maybe finch, you can talk to them first, then cd ohio can give his sage advice and finally some anonymous tea-bagger give shovel in their bullshit. Which means they will be knee deep in bullshit. Not that you would appreciate the difference.

Yeah, well, double dumb-ass on you.
Ted-

AnonymousFinch said:
Yeah, well, double dumb-ass on you.

Oh yeah,. well triple secret dumb ass on you!!
NORBIT

This is tooooo Good!

The faces of Democrats a week before the election are Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Schiller, Behar, Goldberg, Maddow, Olbermann, Schultz, Ugghh…and you get the picture!
cd ohio

lol
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

NORBIT said:
This is tooooo Good!

The faces of Democrats a week before the election are Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Schiller, Behar, Goldberg, Maddow, Olbermann, Schultz, Ugghh…and you get the picture!

Who’s Ugghh? Is he the new guy on MSNBC?
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Ted- said:
Oh yeah,. well triple secret dumb ass on you!!

Uncle.
Ted-

NORBIT said:
This is tooooo Good!

The faces of Democrats a week before the election are Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Schiller, Behar, Goldberg, Maddow, Olbermann, Schultz, Ugghh…and you get the picture!

Yes, and the medics need to make a house call. Your house, pronto.
Ted-

AnonymousFinch said:
Uncle.

Are you sure?
bigbrainbrad

joy behar is an idiot
Iris

Uncle? O…
Uncle Clarence Thomas!!
and don’t forget his teabag wife,
THE DRUNK DIALER!
What an embarrasment for Uncle Clarence
http://www.facebook.com/people/Phil-Bourekas/1538058627 Phil Bourekas

Ted- said:
Are you sure?

AnonymousFinch: good choice to call “Uncle”. The argument with Ted proved its hard to beat a triple secret dumb ass.

Ted–the “secret” is out. You are now the “openly known triple dumb ass”.

Now do I fit into the Mediaite threads?
shellys_ghost

oooooOOOOoooOOOOooOOOoooALSOTOOooooooOOOOoooOOOo
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Phil Bourekas said:
Now do I fit into the Mediaite threads?

Like a Kenyan in a commie commune.
Iris

Phil, Anonymous always gets it wrong,
its kenyan MUSLIM in a commie commune
(its because he’s scared of teh muslim,
makes him pee his pants)
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Iris said:
its kenyan MUSLIM in a commie commune

You interrupted the alliteration. Not funny.
Iris

And you peed your pants again
Alz

I like to say Bill Behar and Joy Maher.
felixw

Ted- said:
You are dense and delusional. And a certifiable idiot.

Zzzzzzzzz……Zzzzzzzzzzzz (Sound of Mediate readers falling asleep as they wait for Ted to say something intelligent)…Zzzzzzzzzzz….Zzzzzzzzzz…..
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Jonathan Scott

Rosie is always right as well, Building 7!!!1111111111
gar

Ted, 35 posts so far, 25 more and you surpass your I.Q. 35 more and you’ll pass yours and Behar’s.
Patrick Henry

Jonathan Scott said:
Rosie is always right as well, Building 7!!!1111111111

Yeah, I heard she said your album sucked. The only time in her life she was ever right.
Patrick Henry

Iris said:
Iris says:
October 25, 2010 at 8:16 pm Iris(Quote)
Thumb up 0 Thumb down 12

Wow, Iris, you can’t even get a thumbs up from anyone!
http://Race4Congress.com Magister

To be fair to Joy, she said “media matters-type”, so she may be trying to reference something from Pew or somebody like them, but since it was likely something she saw blogged on the internet or something somebody else told her, she just didn’t know who she was trying to cite.

After all, she’s not a journalist. She’s a comedian.
CRW

Hey, Joy, I hear they have made Sarah Palin a guest judge on Dancing With the Stars, for as long as Bristol is on the show. That’s objective, too, right?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Ar/100000903987836 Chris Ar

To make the claim that Media Matters “on occasion, has been a bastion of reasoned examples of media bias” is just laughable. Media Matters is the WorldNetDaily of the left, with the only distinction being that they are probably less honest than NetHeads.
Arkansas Steve

Magister said:
After all, she’s not a journalist. She’s a comedian.

Actually, she’s a comedian who thinks she’s a journalist. She’s not bad on non-political subjects, but whenever she starts to discuss political subjects, she stinks up the screen.
I’ve seen her pout & just look down at her lap while a guest was making a comment she didn’t agree with.
I’ve seen her look away from her guests, intentionally.
We’ve all seen her exit stage right.
http://Race4Congress.com Magister

Other than a couple of clips to this site or a couple of others, I’ve only seen her on “The View” and I think she does well in that format because it’s just a chat show. They may occasionally do an important subject, but I’d never use them as reference.

From the little I’ve seen of her nighttime show, I’d say it’s akin to a lot of blogs. It has a nice free-flow concept and something may be wrapped in the humor, but I wouldn’t call it journalism. instead, I’ve mostly heard a bunch of “they say” and “I heard somewhere” kind of statements, which is basically what she said in the clip.
http://Race4Congress.com Magister

PS) For the record, I don’t know that I’ve watched more than ten minutes of HLN via the television, since they quit going “around the world every 30 minutes” and don’t even know what channel it’s on.
ladyruth54

Thank you Colby for your honesty in this article.
momo

IF media matters was really “objective” wouldn’t they be busting LIBERALs on the LIES and miss information they spew?
Yea, that’s what I thought.
Anti American Progressive socialist anti capitalist George Soros would not fund media matters if it were “objective”! That would defeat the whole point for him to have started it.
Michael_T

Let’s be fair Mediaite (i.e., Colby Hall).

I realize some of your commenters are a little weak when it comes to critical thinking, but we expect more from the Mediaite staff.

Joy Behar did not say it was Media Matters. Her exact words were “media matter type people”.

She was probably thinking of F.A.I.R. at fair.org or even the findings from a UCLA-led study at http://tinyurl.com/2l87yw/

Ms. Behar even appealed to the staff to help her give proper attribution.
shootfromthehip

momo said:
IF media matters was really “objective” wouldn’t they be busting LIBERALs on the LIES and miss information they spew?
Yea, that’s what I thought.
Anti American Progressive socialist anti capitalist George Soros would not fund media matters if it were “objective”! That would defeat the whole point for him to have started it.

They do and they have.

You don’t read the site. They savaged MSNBC during the Iraq war often for bad reporting.

Same with CNN.

They fight misinfo and bad reporting where they can find it.

It just so happens 80% of the misinfo and bad reporting comes from the right, with Fox news a beacon of lies (the leader).
shootfromthehip

And STFU with the George Soros shit.

He did not “start” mediamatters.

You have no fucking clue what you are talking about.
Michael_T

FYI, Mediaite’s Colby Hall misspelled both the first and last name of Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
StewartIII

WOW, SHE IS REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY STUPID!
FredCPA

shoot, i dont know if you want to go there. do you really want to get into a discussion about the smear merchant david brock then?
jrcmi

Dronetek said:
They focus exclusively on Fox, Rush and people on the right. They were started up by, of all people, Hillary Clinton. She helped start it to combat, “the cast right wing conspiracy”.

So yeah, you’re out of your mind.

Wrong on several counts. You obviously have never visited MediaMatters.org or your ignorance wouldn’t be so obvious.

MM was founded by David Brock, a neocon who came to his senses. Clinton had NOTHING to do with it. They cover – to the extent possible – the entire dismal panoply of right-wing misinformation and outright lies.

Pick an MM article at random. READ it. Feel free to disprove any facts reported therein. It’ll take a while. QUITE a while.

NORBUTT: “This is the same BayWhore . . . ”

NORBUTT is the same PayWhore who posts for RNC $$$.

“you need a hobby…or a lobotomy.”

He needs ANOTHER lobotomy?

NORBUTT: “If I haven’t posted it lately. . . . ”

Why not? Weren’t you paid for it yet?

“[MM] would be more effective as propagandists if they didn’t tell so many obvious lies”

Got proof? Or are you just another right-wing windbag?

notsobrite gives a distorted representation of an incident at a debate hosted by the LWV. He DOESN’T tell you that the moderator said she had nothing “for or against” reciting the pledge. The clips ends before she has an opportunity to explain further (as if any explanation is necessary).

The pledge has not been recited at any debate I’ve ever seen. We recite the pledge at our town meetings – and I’m proud to do so – but debates are not official functions, per se. Criticizing this woman for following conventional procedures is cheap and demeaning. (Force of habit, “brite”?) Yet again, a desperate right-winger substitutes form for substance.

Phil B: MM is not “biased.” It monitors right-wing sources of misinformation and calls them out on it, citing external sources as proof. (Very) occasional errors are promptly corrected. I have checked their sources at random and found them valid.

“Media Matters is about as objective as NewsBusters.”

Untrue. MM almost invariably provides verifiable links to back up its assertions. NewsBlusters just repeats neocon talking points as “news.”

“Media Matters is the WorldNetDaily of the left”

Another accusation; no proof. (“Empty barrels make the most noise.” – Ben Franklin.)

“IF media matters was really “objective” wouldn’t they be busting LIBERALs on the LIES and miss information they spew?”

That is not their mission. The massive right-wing spin machine (aka, corporate media) is more than happy to report/distort/misinform about liberals. MM gives the “straight skinny” on right-wing misinformation – a job that keeps them quite busy enough.

Unlike right-wing “news” organizations like Fakes, MM does not lie, distort or misinform. They decipher and correct right-wing/neocon lies/distortions/misinformation.

“Anti American Progressive socialist anti capitalist George Soros”

“Anti-American” Soros is an American citizen and a Progressive – both by choice. Progressives are not necessarily socialist.

How can a billionaire be “anti-capitalist”? You throw words around without regard for – or apparent knowledge of – their meanings. Wake the hell up from your Fox-induced stupor.

“Soros would not fund media matters if it were “objective”!”

How would you know his motivations? He makes no gains from his philanthropic activities. In fact, some of MM’s reportage might inadvertently impair some of his other business interests. I believe he feels an obligation to make a positive contribution to our increasingly self-absorbed, partisan and frightened society.by supporting an impartial and fair source of accurate information.

” That would defeat the whole point for him to have started it.”

Soros DID NOT start MefiaMatters.org (see above). However, since the yammering attack dogs kept pounding the bogus “fact” of his involvement in MM into right-wing skulls for years, he finally decided to actually give them funding a few days ago.

Fakes “News” and the other neocon media strumpets either didn’t know, didn’t care, didn’t bother to check or simply LIED about whether Soros actually WAS MM’s founder/funder before repeatedly making their incessant false claims – which is a rather pathetic thing to have to say about a “news” organization.
TfT

More bad news on the “whore” (approved DNC and NOW terminology) from NPR, breaking today. When oh when with the NPR BOD step up to the plate and relieve her of her duties. She is clearly in way over her head. She even claimed on air yesterday that Nina never said what Nina said. Oh boy….she stepped in it yet again.
jrcmi

shoot: I was not familiar with MM that far back and was unaware of their “calling out” MSNBC. Good to know. Thanks.

“smear merchant david brock”

Proof – or another “empty barrel”?

http://www.Republicorp.us
http://www.facebook.com/people/Janice-Evans-Johnson/100000131677878 Janice Evans Johnson

Joy Behar is the reason I do not watch “The View”. I find her not to be a great comedian and less a political analyst. She is loud and offensive to others viewpoints. Every time she opens her mouth nothing comes out.
Her show on HLN is horrible. She talks gossip and continues to poke fun at people. Nothing is humorous. Her face is contorted into a continuous snarl unless she is putting someone down.
Yet she is considered a Comedian??????
Ms. Behar is in this for the publicity and she is getting plenty of it thanks to people like myself who even bother to pay attention.
We all need to ignore her and to ban”The View” and “The Joy Behar Show”!
ChrisNH

All I can think of when imagining Joy Behar is MSNBC’s new slogan, ‘Bend Over.’
magicbeans

I’m confused. Why do they think they should get 10% of someone’s salary? Or is that just a liberal knee jerk reaction?

Joy Behar *rolls eyes* who cares what she says or thinks. Reasonable people who aren’t ignorant or racist and are thinking clearly know she is full of shit.
qpon

In other news, I’m the pope.