Comments on: The Shirley Sherrod Saga Was Cable News’ Most Important Story Last Week

By: Rogue-Comic

Rogue-Comic — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:19:25 +0000

And another thing, why would the left waste a definite kill-shot against Brietbart in favor of another jab at Fox News?

By: Rogue-Comic

Rogue-Comic — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:07:46 +0000

Rogue-Comic said: I RRK’S new “talking point” gimmick..

Insert "heart" as the verb in my comment about the RRK talking points gimmick. If you insert () before and after "heart," somehow your verb will be deleted by this site.

By: Rogue-Comic

Rogue-Comic — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:02:26 +0000

I RRK'S new "talking point" gimmick.

Moderate said: “it was the cable news outlets that turned the minor story into a major one.” When fear of Glenn Beck causes Obama to throw another of his appointees under the bus, it is a major story.

Why does the White House give a shit about Fox News or Glenn Beck anyway, seriously? Cable news is a niche marketplace that targets viewers AKA voters that already chose a political ideology, and you'd have to do a Superman time-reversing flight around the Earth to seriously challenge that audience's beliefs. The network and newspaper part of that little chart "should have been" what the White House "should have been" worried about since that audience continues to be informed independent voters who care, and the story looked like merely an afterthought in the real key media demographics going by the chart. Pure pre-ejaculate political correctness personified.

By: The Real Royal King

The Real Royal King — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:10:00 +0000

Well, just this morning, the lies continued with Gretchen van Karlson telling us that Pfizer is making a Viagra suitable for children, working up all the indignation she could whilst omitting the portion of the story that said that the medication was for other medicinal purposes than Erectile Dysfunction in 8 year old boys. That was seven (7) hours ago, so there’s likely twenty-one (21) lies since.

FOX NEWS AND BREITBART
WHERE LYING’S AN ART!

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:03:23 +0000

The Real Royal King says:
July 28, 2010 at 9:59 am

Still waiting for you to clarify those “FNC lies.” You know, the one’s that didn’t happen. The one’s that didn’t get Ms. Sherrod fired. And the ones that you keep insisting upon, hoping perhaps someone believes you.

What lies were those again?

By: Jimmy Joe Johnson

Jimmy Joe Johnson — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:11:03 +0000

While it has been stated that foxnews.com ran the story on the 19th, it should be noted that MSNBC owned and operated website, newsvive.com, also ran several user submitted stories about the “Shirley Sherrod story” on the same day.

http://riggsmom1.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/19/4707437-caught-on-tape-obama-official-discriminates-against-white-farmer-the-fox-nation

http://secaa23.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/19/4709527-usda-official-and-naacp-award-recipient-resigns-over-racist-conduct

http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/19/4710067-breitbart-has-proof-the-naacp-is-racist-acorn-ii

http://jaburnham.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/19/4709611-naacp-renounce-your-racist-ties

By: Moderate

Moderate — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:17:32 +0000

“it was the cable news outlets that turned the minor story into a major one.”

When fear of Glenn Beck causes Obama to throw another of his appointees under the bus, it is a major story.

By: notsofast

notsofast — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:34:55 +0000

#! on cable news? That can’t be right. I just read Newsweek’s article on this and they specifically said only FOX covered this story and Newsweek certainly would never make things up would it?

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:32:00 +0000

This isn’t surprising, given that CNN went to an “All Shirley All The Time” format.

By: Bootleghaircut

Bootleghaircut — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:12:45 +0000

“In total, however, Pew found economic issues were the most covered stories of last week. The crisis (“the merits of extending unemployment insurance benefits and Wall Street regulatory reform”) accounted for 17% of all news coverage, while Sherrod was #2 at 14%.”

Wel you cwertainly wouldn’t know that economic issues were the most covered with all the conservativve bleating and kvetching last week!!!

But hey the pattern is when a major piece of legilsation is about to pass the right wing bloggshpere churns up the bullshit on some side issue.

What happens? Conservatives get distracted and Obama gets his bill passed.

How many times have we seen THAT happen??? Hmmmmmmm

By: Apostrophe jones

Apostrophe jones — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:07:58 +0000

What about Robert Gibbs parasailing in Russia ? … Lohan in the Big House ?… Anything with Snooki ?

By: The Real Royal King

The Real Royal King — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:19 +0000

Indeed, it was. That’s not all that surprising. What is amazing is how the related stories, the Breitbart implosion, the FOX News’ mea culpas, the angst of the Breitbart and FOX News fans were all important and well-covered stories in their own right.

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