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Media Matters Isn’t Quite Sure How To Take Red Eye‘s Robot Attack

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Fox News’ late night comedy/news hybrid Red Eye took on liberal watchdog Media Matters last night, in a segment featuring talking robots.

Media Matters called it the “most bizarre attack on Media Matters EVER.” Check it out after the jump:

Introducing the segment, host Greg Gutfeld said of Media Matters, “They obsessively send me and everyone else in the media thousands of press releases a week complaining about Fox News.” (As an example, a Glenn Beck-related release today.)

So Red Eye “recreated a typical day in the life of the angriest organization on the planet,” using similar technology to this Robot Theater presentation of Tiger Woods‘ ‘incident.’

Here’s a sample of the robot talk: “I want George Soros to be my dad and my mom so he could spank me and breastfeed me.” Later, Soros is involved.

The comments are all over the map. This one, from “Wildcat Progressive” kind of sums up the sentiment though: “Wow, this is like a David Lynch movie after he did a combo of coke, smack and acid.”

Related: Red Eye‘s Andy Levy turns the tables on Chris Matthewscomment about all-white teapartiers.

Here’s the clip from Red Eye last night:

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  • StewartIII

    Red Eye ROCKS!!!

  • felixw

    Hilarious video.

    And Media Matters has it coming. Pravda looks like a paragon of objectivity by comparison. Media Matters claims to be a media watchdog, but I have never encountered a more biased source of news commentary. And they censor and control comments on their own site with the zeal of Stalin conducting a purge. Congrats to Red Eye for calling them out.

  • Jim R

    So right-wing “humorists” want to be spanked and breastfed at the same time? Sick, dudes; almost like wearing a diaper and getting spanked (Vitter) or chasing male pages (Foley), or foot tapping in a mens rest room (Craig).

    Okay, now it makes sense, I guess. I think Jon Stewart’s job is secure, as well as Media Matters’.

  • SWWT

    Man Jim R., calm down. Funny is funny no matter what side of the political spectrum you’re on.

  • puck30

    Media Matters Isn’t Quite Sure How To Take Red Eye’s Robot Attack.

    Eric Burns: OMG, what do we do? We have been attacked! Has Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid passed through the legislation making it a hate crime to say bad things about Media Matters yet?

    Eric Boehlert: No Eric, they have not. What shall we do?

    Eric Burns: I know, we will wait three months and then we will come out with ‘Media Matters Robot Theatre’ and we will show what it’s like to work at Fox News.

    Eric Boehlert: Wow Eric, you are so Original. I guess thats why you are senior, senior fellow here at Media Matters.

    Eric Burns: Yes Eric, that and the fact that I can put out more memos about things I don’t like at Fox News then anyone here.

    Eric Boehlert: You are my hero! BTW, I feel like hanging out in Mr. Soro’s sauna since he is not here. Do you have the baby oil?

    Eric Burns: No, Keith Olbermann was here today and he took the baby oil and ‘Twister Mat’.

    Eric Boehlert: Oh, I hate to say it but, and I know Keith Olbermann is the greatest newsman since Edward R. Morrow. But I wish he would stop taking stuff when he comes to visit. Also, why can’t he ever give us credit? Why does he always rip n’ read my memos and take credit for them? He gets me so upset sometimes I feel like sending out a negative memo about him and his show.

    Eric Burns: That is blasphemy. You should not speak ill of the one who speaks truth to power

    Eric Boehlert: I am sorry, I will go to the Dollar Store and buy another bottle and share it with the collective.

    Eric Burns: Good, I must go and put out memos about Glenn Beck. I see Glynnis MacNicol over at Mediaite has been putting out many blogs about him in a short time. I think she is looking to try to get my job.

    Eric Boehlert: No, I heard she is really a secret fan.

    Eric Burns: I must blog!

  • m

    So ironic when Greg Gutfelds’s entire job involves sucking the teet of Roger Ailes.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Makes no sense — Media Matters is a joke, but at the same time they can’t take one?

  • Snipzor

    I couldn’t sit through the whole thing, the lack of subtlety, the bombardment of insults, the attempts at making jokes but failing horribly. I know taste in comedy is very much different for everyone, but this is like enjoying Dane Cook, unacceptable. Perhaps I’ve spent too much time watching Mr Show and listening to Louis C K in my time, so that would make me a little biased.

    Then again, I doubt Greg and crew know anything about comedy. Didn’t they once take a whole segment to bash Canadian soldiers coming back home? Yeah, I’m not surprised they managed to pull this unfunny crap out of their collective asses.

    /Opinion shared by Greg’s former bosses

  • Media Me

    Snipzor, most of the people who think Gutfeld are funny are the sort who think its hilarious to stick a firecracker up a cat’s a$$ and light it, or sexually harass women and then whine “Why can’t you take a joke” when they get slapped.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    . . . and a former member of Mr. Show was bumping rails at a White House function this year, so I guess we can dismiss that program as being run by unsubtle stoned out hippies.

  • Snipzor

    Gee, I wonder if MartiniShark is aware that Bob Odenkirk is a conservative. I also wonder if MartiniShark is aware that David Cross often made fun of hippies. I wonder if MartiniShark is also aware that he/she is a complete thicksicle. Are you honestly going to make some bullshit argument against Mr Show with that?! Good god!

    What you said was the comment equivalence of “Get a brain, moran”.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Ouch, name-calling — awesome commentary.

    I was comparing the shallow assessment of the video by using the same standard on Mr. Show. See, the paragons of comedy you cited could be reduced in the same fashion, so by your method Mr. show is not funny either, though I disagree.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Plus, who’s “moran”?

  • ImNotBlue

    Snipzor says:
    January 7, 2010 at 10:44 am

    …but this is like enjoying Dane Cook, unacceptable.”

    Okay, that was funny.

    Perhaps I’ve spent too much time watching Mr Show and listening to Louis C K in my time, so that would make me a little biased.

    Mr. Show I can understand being different (personally, I couldn’t stand that show)… but Louis C K doesn’t seem too far different than Dane, don’t you think? Louis is more introspective comedy, while Dane is more observational and goofy… but they’re not miles apart otherwise.

    Media Me says:
    January 7, 2010 at 11:30 am

    Evidence? Nah… just making stuff up because you’re angry. Blanket statements like that are just cover for, “I’ve got nothing intelligent to add… I’ll just insult people I disagree with.” Got it.

    Snipzor says:
    January 7, 2010 at 12:08 pm

    I also wonder if MartiniShark is aware that David Cross often made fun of hippies.

    Yeah, so does Patton Oswalt… but I wouldn’t call him a conservative. He does/did more anti-Bush jokes, anti-Republican jokes, than anti-left or anti-hippie jokes. Just because they’ll say something negative about the left, doesn’t mean they’re on the right… just that they can poke fun at their own side a bit. Expecting 100% blind obedience, all the time, is a bad thing my friend.

  • tjl

    ImNotSmart, there are no funny conservatives. Hate to break it to you. Comedy requires thought and intellect, something lacking on the right…

  • ImNotBlue

    tjl says:
    January 7, 2010 at 9:37 pm

    Yah huh. Go tell Jeff Foxworthy.

  • Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

    Meh, pinkos are oversensitive, whiny fannies.

    Red Eye > all of you put together, fed into a plastic shredder, and converted into biodiesel.

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