Congratulations, Tommy. You finally got around to criticizing the media for it’s shameful coverage of this tragedy. Unfortunately, “the media” is the blogosphere, the details are murky and you’re about a week late. At least you’ve once again proven that you care nothing about the tragedy in Phoenix. Weren’t you listening to the President last night? He was talking to you, Olbermann, Mathews, etc. He basically called you shameless political opportunists. That had to hurt.

What does the Left Wing Media have to say, Tommy? Oh, I should just scroll up, huh?

Actually I read the transcript CNN provided of Sunday’s news conference where he stated that they cut off her meds and woke her up. With the intent to “check her out”…..what were they checking? Bedpans?

WTF does that mean to you Tommy Hacks-a-Lot?

BTW, when somebody tells me something I don’t to be fact, I don’t go on national TV and tout it like I know it is.

But that’s just me…….I’m no Havard scholar. I got my post grad degrees at plain ole Purdue University.

So where is the story ABOUT HOW ALL THE LEFT WING LIED about Conservatives just right after the shooting?

Wow,, Tommy,, you Liberals sure are delusional.

That is why when polled the Americans DON’T BELIEVE YOU anymore.

Now let the mass hysteria beg…..Oh I see I am a little late.

It’s one thing to notice something in a news report that contradicts a statement by a politician, but to press the issue based on a deleted news item and a self-contradictory one, without checking, just to score some political points, goes beyond cynicism.

Was The Sonoran article pulled when Hoft published? Otherwise, it would seems he’s reporting based on 2 different sources, and it’s a piece that if the shoe were on the other foot, you’d trip over yourself getting to a computer to write it. You complaining about rushing to print to score political points isn’t nearly as cynical as it is funny and sad.

And Tapper’s spin does little to put this to rest…….are cracked open eyelids IN DIRECT RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL STIMULI not open?

What’s the word right after “cracked” there?

What bullshit.

I knew Tommy wrote this story just by the headline alone. That’s pretty bad.

BTW, I wouldn’t suggest that Obama lied here. Nor would I suggest that Hoft did.

Pablo said:
Was The Sonoran article pulled when Hoft published? Otherwise, it would seems he’s reporting based on 2 different sources, and it’s a piece that if the shoe were on the other foot, you’d trip over yourself getting to a computer to write it. You complaining about rushing to print to score political points isn’t nearly as cynical as it is funny and sad.

Actually this has been reported in I beleive the count was three papers. Three newspapers report it yet we are to believe this convoluted twisting and parcing.

Go figure why most folks don’t even rap fish in this shit any more.

Pablo said:
BTW, I wouldn’t suggest that Obama lied here. Nor would I suggest that Hoft did.

Do you think he (or Penn) wrote that part of the speech AFTER they talked to her husband?

That afternoon? I guess i am a bit too jaded with respect to the bullshit that has eminated from this man’s mouth to ascribe to him the innocence you have.

Screw me once shame on you screw me twice attitude from me Pablo

…The president’s remarks were meant, the White House says, to convey that she had opened her eyes on her own for the first time.

Yet the smartest man in the word couldn’t articulate that small but crucial point. Couldn’t add those three little words.

So the miracle of obamasiah’s presence did cause her to open her eyes.

Thanks Tommy, I knew it had to be thus….hehimself the great one, he won, and now the doctors are having to explain their previous remarks in order to make sure that the miracle caused by the obamasiah is true.

Now, how about those t-shirts? What were they? Part of the Obamasiah’s 2012 campaign?

I guess the transcript will now have to have a little asterisk on his comment (you know the one he repeated FIVE times), with the now required caveat “on her own”!

If you’ve read Tommy a little bit here at Mediaite you catch on to his games pretty quickly. One of his favorites is playing silly word games – the kind you’d find on a 5th grade playground.

The other, the one illustrated in this posting, is going fishing. An event will occur that will make the left, especially the left-wing media, look like complete jackasses. Tommy will defend them day after day, in a more ridiculous manner with each post. Then, he’ll go fishing. He’ll find some stupid story and try to create a controversy out of it. In this case, “the blogosphere”, taking issue with something in Obama’s speech.

Of course, he ignores obvious issues of lying when they don’t fit his agenda, even if they come from a more respected outlet than “the blogosphere”. Yesterday, Lawrence O’Donnell LIED when he said that Palin’s speech was aimed at Congresswoman Giffords. To make things worse, LOD finished by saying “On Saturday, Giffords fell into the crosshairs of a gun that sent a 22 cent bullet into the back of her head exiting over her left eye. She is therefore unable to respond to Sarah Palin tonight”. It really doesn’t get more despicable than that but it’s a complete fabrication about Palin so all we get from TC is chirp, chirp. To be fair, his friends lie about her every day so it’d be kinda hard to pick just one or two or ten lies to write about.

TfT said:
Now, how about those t-shirts? What were they? Part of the Obamasiah’s 2012 campaig

You know what you piece of big talk, a little girl is being buried today.9 yearsold!!! She was born on 9/11 when terrorists killed masses and died at a political peaceful “meet and greet”, Stop and think for one moment maybe the UNIVERSE is trying to tell us something.Man people Hug your children extra today for none of us are having to see them being lowerd into the ground.

As if the right couldn’t sink any lower. I for one am glad the country is getting to see these people for who they really are. Contrast the whining of Sarah Palin to the leadership and comfort of President Obama. It’s like night and day, one is ready to lead and the other is ready to bitch.

Call me a bleeding heart liberal all you want.I think we all look sad and i would hope something wouldl come out of all of this.

Tommy Christopher: “Stay classy, Right Wing Media!”

Me: “Jim Who from Gateway What? Stay classy, Tommy Christopher!”

Advantage: PUSH

Color Me Badd said:
As if the right couldn’t sink any lower. I for one am glad the country is getting to see these people for who they really are. Contrast the whining of Sarah Palin to the leadership and comfort of President Obama. It’s like night and day, one is ready to lead and the other is ready to bitch.

They have numbnuts and they found your side lacking. Just two short months ago at the ballot box and just recently in two different polls on this very topic.

Another EPIC FAIL on your part.

VoiceofReason said:
…The president’s remarks were meant, the White House says, to convey that she had opened her eyes on her own for the first time. Yet the smartest man in the word couldn’t articulate that small but crucial point. Couldn’t add those three little words.

And I forgot he ommitted these three crucial words while the left has EXPLODED over two of Sarah’s.

It truly is telling Tommy.

Stay Classy.

Rocks – Tommy promised earlier today a story on the t-shirts; I’m just waiting for that.

Too bad Tommy couldn’t put mediaite into a “responsible left wing site” by posting a headline, days ago that read:

Left Wing Media Reports That Sarah Palin has anything to do with this are Untrue — but alas, there was no screaming healine or fact checking on the lies and putrid hatred spewed forth by the left wing media.

VoiceofReason said:
…The president’s remarks were meant, the White House says, to convey that she had opened her eyes on her own for the first time.

Yet the smartest man in the word couldn’t articulate that small but crucial point. Couldn’t add those three little words.

“Gabby opened her eyes.” As opposed to, “Gabby used her own temporal and zygomatic branches of her facial nerves so as to manipulate her orbicularis oculi to open her eye.” That’s what you wanted? Or maybe he assumed that people were keeping track of the news on her and that she had been improving her motor control since Sunday and was told by doctors, Congress members and her husband that she was able to open her eyes.

What’s this I keep hearing about a derangement syndrome of some sort?

This is getting stupid.

TfT said:
That Sarah Palin

That may be so but today I could care less about Sarah Palin or what happened with it all. She can still Kiss and Hug her children.

Right wing media? Gateway Pundit is the “right wing media?”

No bias there.

blurgh. said:
“Gabby opened her eyes.” As opposed to, “Gabby used her own temporal and zygomatic branches of her facial nerves so as to manipulate her orbicularis oculi to open her eye.” That’s what you wanted? Or maybe he assumed that people were keeping track of the news on her and that she had been improving her motor control since Sunday and was told by doctors, Congress members and her husband that she was able to open her eyes. What’s this I keep hearing about a derangement syndrome of some sort?

Three little words dickhead.

ON HER OWN.

I mean you and those with whom you congress are two days into pissing on about two words by Sarah that many have stated no problemo with.

Stay classy tho

Dave Richards said:
Right wing media? Gateway Pundit is the “right wing media?” No bias there.

Tuscon Sentinel isn’t and they ran the story too.

While it shouldn’t have been called a *lie*, it certainly did seem to be an untrue statement based on previous media reports that she had opened her eyes.

The problem with the way Obama made the statement is that he ALWAYS makes every thing about him. And it reminded me of his comments about some woman being buried in an Obama t-shirt. Or when Obama said,
“Few would have seen on that day that… that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent.” at the Berlin wall celebration.

“I have just come from the University Medical Center, just a mile from here, where our friend Gabby courageously fights to recover even as we speak. And I want to tell you, her husband Mark is here and he allows me to share this with you – right after we went to visit – a few minutes after we left her room and some of her colleagues from Congress were in the room — Gabby opened her eyes for the first time. Gabby opened her eyes for the first time. Gabby opened her eyes. Gabby opened her eyes so I can tell you she knows we are here, she knows that we love her and she knows that we are rooting for her through what is undoubtedly what will be a difficult journey.”

It felt like he was making it about him, and it was a set up to a Bush like moment when Bush said, “we hear you, and the terrorists will hear you…” He repeated it four times so he could finish the script that she knew they were there. It is an appropriate statement for the memorial, it’s just so smarmy considering it is A L W A Y S about him. He repeated the line 3 times that it happened right after he left her room. Are we to assume that Obama the messiah healed her, like he is curbing the rise of the oceans?

VoiceofReason said:
Three little words dickhead.

ON HER OWN.

I mean you and those with whom you congress are two days into pissing on about two words by Sarah that many have stated no problemo with.

Stay classy tho

If you can’t infer from what he said that she was able to open her eyes without them being pried by medical professionals, and if you refuse to accept that what Obama said was factually accurate at the time and corroborated by multiple witnesses purely because of political hackery, then you’re doomed to live a miserable life of political contrarianism.

Do me a favor and pull up quotes from me about the whole “blood libel” mess. I don’t remember making any right now. Hold on, I think you were just trying to change the subject into something more intellectually ambiguous and can’t be factually disproved by multiple media reports.

Obviously, your classy status grants you the classy ability of identifying “dickheads.” In fact, you’re really close to overwhelming me with class right now.

VoiceofReason said:
Tuscon Sentinel isn’t and they ran the story too.

Oh, God look. My fellow members of the national shadow organization of Nazi socialist Marxist liberal progressive Cloward-Piven-ite fascists got to the Tuscon Sentinel too: ‘Miracles happen’ – Giffords opens eye for first time after Obama visit

The headline doesn’t say “on her own.” Our collective sincere apology for that.

“…but to press the issue based on a DISCREDITED IDEA THAT THE SHOOTER WAS INSPIRED BY SARAH PALIN, without checking, just to score some political points, goes beyond cynicism.”

there Tommy, I fixed your sentence for you.

You mean a conservative media person lied to make a liberal President look bad? Ohh gee! Big surprise!

blurgh. said:
“Gabby opened her eyes.” As opposed to, “Gabby used her own temporal and zygomatic branches of her facial nerves so as to manipulate her orbicularis oculi to open her eye.” That’s what you wanted?

LOL…that was great!

“Right Wing Media Reports That Obama ‘Lied’ About Giffords’ Eyes Are Untrue”

Tommy, I swear to God, I want to hire you to promote this nothing little idea I have. You should be able to take this idea that means nothing and write some phony baloney headline and make it sound like it is something.
We should be able to make a fortune.

Good lord, what a bunch of braying mules. Seriously, there are enough substantive issues emerging from this story that you’d think we could do better than arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Also another fact that the LIBERAL media is not covering about Pima County and Sheriff DOPEnik;

Tucson is one of the worst cities for crime under 500,000.

Worst Large Cities for Crime (>500,000 pop.)
.

1. Tucson, AZ
Tucson has one of the highest property crime rates in the country, especially larceny. On the bright side, Tucson has a low murder rate.

Deputy Doofus Dopenik’s district is NUMBER ONE in thefts.

Instead of whining and crying about talk radio and the Tea Party…MAYBE HE SHOULD BE DOING HIS JOB.

Car thief rings and gangs also work out of Pima and Yuma counties in stealing cars. They steal them from neighboring counties and take them across the border. Pima County is the gate way for cars that are stolen into Mexico from Arizona and then Yuma.

TfT said:
Now, how about those t-shirts? What were they? Part of the Obamasiah’s 2012 campaign?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-truth-about-the-together-we-thrive-t-shirts-at-the-tucson-memorial/

In another unrelated story, oil prices are now in excess of $100 a barrel. Not a story or a peep from the media about rising gas prices and a failing economy. NO, lets focus on t-shirts and serious controversies like opening of eyes and blood libel.

The left is running their slight of hand program people. Get the focus back on the important things. Like I said yesterday, when the focus is on the Progressive policies and their lousy legislation they ALWAYS lose. The media use to be able to slant the stories enough to give them a chance, but they have finally been exposed for the frauds that they are, now the only chance they have is to change the focus to trivial things that don’t matter. Let them rant and rave amongst themselves and the 50 viewers of MSNBC and get back to the important things.

What a ridiculous and hyperbolic title for this article, as if conservatives have a media infrastructure to rival that of ABC, CBS, NBC, WaPo, NYT, Time, etc.

Conservatives have a choice of one news channel, one newspaper, a handful of tv shows, a few radio shows and a bunch of websites, whereas the Left controls 98% of all tv programming, most of the dying newspaper and magazine media, and all other media, except AM radio.

“Right wing media” LMAO

VoiceofReason says:
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Yet the smartest man in the word couldn’t articulate that small but crucial point. Couldn’t add those three little words.

bdpritch says:

LOL! This president can’t sneeze right without being wrong, accused or blamed. Ignorance is a bliss to those who would rather see a president fall and faulter than to support anything of substance that would help the people and restore order. It’s like battling satan and his demons.

It shows the world how callous and ignorant a great portion of the United States is, and why the financial structure has collapsed. Sad to say that ignorant and/or greedy people and corporations (Enron, GM, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc, etc.) will continue to drive the financial status of this country into despair. And for some reason poor, middle and below middle class far right conservatives still can’t comprehend why they support politicians who ONLY support laws and corporations that lobby for them. They just can’t get it.

To clear a few things up:

First, why not link to the actual story you’re quoting, instead of the crappy Google cache version? “Doc: Giffords ’100 percent’ certain to survive:” http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011111_giffords_survival

We originally reported that Giffords could open her eyes on command on Sunday, when we were told so by her doctors.

At the time, they did not fully qualify that her eye opening then wasn’t much more than a flicker. We didn’t pursue that tidbit of info, because the doctors indicated that she couldn’t see because her eyes were being kept covered.

As we reported after Sunday morning’s medical briefing:

Giffords is in a drug-induced coma in intensive care. Doctors frequently awaken her to check her responsiveness, and she could open her eyes and respond to simple commands Sunday – an encouraging sign, said Rhee said.
Despite Giffords’ ability to follow commands, “We know that brain swelling can take a turn, so we remain cautiously optimistic,” said Lemole.
He described simple commands as: “can you open your eyes?” or “can you raise two fingers.” Such simple tasks can tell doctors much about her condition, he said.
Giffords cannot speak because she is on a ventilator, and cannot see because of the area of her injury and the surgery requires her eyes be kept closed, the doctors said.

(http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/010911_giffords_condition)

That’s not self-contradictory. Giffods COULD open her eyes, as a response to stimulus. Her eyes were being kept closed and covered when they weren’t being tested.

Sunday, doctors did not explain that such response commands are often accompanied by a very painful “sternal rub.” Rhee brought that up when I questioned him Tuesday:

Giffords is responding to commands by moving on both sides of her body, Rhee said.
Some tests involve testing responses to pain, he said.
“We do a test called a sternal rub,” he said, by pushing down hard on the breastbone to cause a response.
“We say, ‘Gabby, show me your thumb’ and push down,” he said.
She now responds to the request by giving a thumbs up to avoid the push, he said. “She’s doing it on her own.”

(http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011111_giffords_breathing)

As the doctors said Thurday, President Obama told the truth: Wednesday night was the first time that Giffords spontaneously opened her eyes on her own.

Maybe, just maybe, people could be happy that Giffords seems to be pulling through this assassination attempt, rather than trying to score political points?

be safe,

Dylan Smith
Editor & Publisher
TucsonSentinel.com