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Bill O’Reilly Claims ‘Victory’ In Post-Tucson Political Media ‘Game’ Of Right And Wrong

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Michelle Bachmann joined Bill O’Reilly last night to discuss tonight’s State of the Union speech and her response on behalf of the Tea Party Express organization. The subject of Gabrielle Giffords inevitably came up, and Bachmann revealed her personal reaction to learning the tragic news that a friend of hers had been shot. The conversation quickly turned to the post-shooting exploitation war that quickly played out in the media, which Mr. O’Reilly claimed his side to have won.

It seemed a rather stunning turn in both logic and tone in which the Fox News anchor both blamed his political opponents for the injustice of exploiting the tragedy, but also, in a weird way, also exploiting the tragedy to score his own political points (though to be fair – the calculus of this sort of equation is very difficult to measure.)

The exchange in question (transcript via TV Eyes):

Bachmann: The media seemed like they could care less. pin your name, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin. All they could do is look for someone to point their finger too. They could care less about the truth. anybody could see that. It was appalling to watch it happen. I didn’t want to get into the middle of it and justify what they were saying (emphasis mine.)

O’Reilly: Because you knew her. So now you get sad and you — All right. now, I get angry. That’s how I deal with injustice. I get angry. That’s me. So then I came on and I don’t know whether you saw it or not, and I just ripped them. I just, bang. New York Times, Krugman, MSNBC, missile after missile after missile. And then the game was on. The game of who was right and who was wrong and this and that. They lost. As President Obama’s speech indicated. They being the far left. They lost. So, do you think that the victory is temporary or is the far left damaged now forever in this country?

Fans of O’Reilly tune in to The Factor for this exact sort of black and white victory lap. But just as traditionalists found it unseemly for anyone to suggest that right-of-center media personalities were at fault, one can just as legitimately criticize O’Reilly for diminishing the post-Tucson finger-pointing into a “game” in which he came out the victor. Further, to have seen President Obama‘s Tucson memorial speech as an indication that the “far left” lost “the game of who was right and who was wrong” seems to reveal that he largely missed the grander point of the President’s speech.

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  • The Real Royal King

    I seem to recall Baghdad Bob loudly asserting victory when the Americans drove the Iraqis from Kuwait and again when the Americans enclosed his namesake city. Well, I suppose there are many parallels between Baghdad Bob and Bill-o. Both are self-absorbed loudmouths without much concern for the truth.

  • valkyrie101

    It really does not seem like anyone won, except those who continue to argue that gun regulation is a communist plot.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    KING arrives ! How dare Mr. O criticize our President Jugears ‘ Tucson Campaign Kickoff PepRally ! I am livid ! All the Dupniks in the Desert !

  • The Real Royal King

    valkyrie101 said:
    It really does not seem like anyone won, except those who continue to argue that gun regulation is a communist plot.

    … or, as we say in Texas, “commanist”.

    For all the faults and foibles of the FOX “News” personalities, I think Bill-o and O’Beckerhead are the thinnest-skinned, and Bill-o even thinner-skinned than O’Beckerhead.

  • The Real Royal King

    I have to say, I am looking forward to Mrs. Bachmann’s Post State of the Union Post Response to the State of the Union Response. I wonder if it will be carried on the Basil Marceaux, I mean Gordon Blower show?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    “Fans of O’Reilly tune in to The Factor for this exact sort of black and white victory lap.”

    Do you really think that what you do here is any different?

  • The Real Royal King

    Dronetek said:
    “Fans of O’Reilly tune in to The Factor for this exact sort of black and white victory lap.”

    Do you really think that what you do here is any different?

    I think your Manssiere is too tight. That wasn’t a criticism.

  • skyfet

    What an idiot. There are no winners, just losers.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Colby, BillO is right. The liberal media bent over backwards to create the template for the tragedy and got pretty much everything wrong. As a result, they got their hats handed to them and lost most of the very little credibility they had left. For you to compare that to BillO congratulating himself for not jumping to conclusions, is not surprising, but disapointing, nonetheless. Of course, that is what some liberals do, when they know then stepped in it, they can’t rest until they convince everyone that the other side did it to. To bad it ain’t true.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    skyfet said:
    What an idiot. There are no winners, just losers.

    Agreed.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Further, to have seen President Obama’s Tucson memorial speech as an indication that the “far left” lost “the game of who was right and who was wrong” seems to reveal that he largely missed the grander point of the President’s speech.

    Really, I think he heard the speech loud and clear. Obama criticizied the liberal media without having the manhood to actually call them out by name. Nice try though.

    ps. I think alot of people see the fact that Obama sat on his hands while the tarring and feathering was going on by his political allies as his condoning it. As always, he tried to have it both ways.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Colby, BillO is right. The liberal media bent over backwards to create the template for the tragedy and got pretty much everything wrong. As a result, they got their hats handed to them and lost most of the very little credibility they had left. For you to compare that to BillO congratulating himself for not jumping to conclusions, is not surprising, but disapointing, nonetheless. Of course, that is what some liberals do, when they know then stepped in it, they can’t rest until they convince everyone that the other side did it to. To bad it ain’t true.

    In case you didn’t notice, nobody wins in a situation like this. When a federal court judge dies and a congresswoman is shot along with a nine-year-old girl, America loses and the lunatics are the only winners.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Further, to have seen President Obama’s Tucson memorial speech as an indication that the “far left” lost “the game of who was right and who was wrong” seems to reveal that he largely missed the grander point of the President’s speech.

    Really, I think he heard the speech loud and clear. Obama criticizied the liberal media without having the manhood to actually call them out by name. Nice try though.

    ps. I think alot of people see the fact that Obama sat on his hands while the tarring and feathering was going on by his political allies as his condoning it. As always, he tried to have it both ways.

    It must be fun to live in your own little world where no facts matter.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    In case you didn’t notice, nobody wins in a situation like this. When a federal court judge dies and a congresswoman is shot along with a nine-year-old girl, America loses and the lunatics are the only winners.

    In hindsight that reads a bit contradictory, but people get the gist.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    UNreasonable, stop acting like I don’t care about the victims. Bill was strictly talking about the media response. See, you libs would love for us to just forget how disgraceful the alot of liberals acted and NOW focus on the victims, but it needs to serve as a lesson. Funny, when the liberal media was blaming Obama’s political opponents for the tragedy, you didn’t seem interested at all in the victims. So take your FAUX outrage and stuff it.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    and ps, UNreasonable lib, what facts did I get wrong exactly?

  • The Real Royal King

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Further, to have seen President Obama’s Tucson memorial speech as an indication that the “far left” lost “the game of who was right and who was wrong” seems to reveal that he largely missed the grander point of the President’s speech.

    Really, I think he heard the speech loud and clear. Obama criticizied the liberal media without having the manhood to actually call them out by name. Nice try though.

    ps. I think alot of people see the fact that Obama sat on his hands while the tarring and feathering was going on by his political allies as his condoning it. As always, he tried to have it both ways.

    It must be fun to live in your own little world where no facts matter.

    She’s really spun herself drunk and dizzy already, hasn’t she?

    I love the fact that Michelle-in-Utah believes our President ought to have called out by name the offending members of the media. In a memorial speech, no less! They must have some really interesting funerals in Utah!

    Then, of course, the gratuitous bash of our President by calling into question his manhood. Vile even for our Michelle-in-Utah. As usual.

  • skyfet

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Colby, BillO is right.

    lol, you do know what comes after Billo right? it’s not meant to be an endearment towards him.
    OK let me help you out.
    The full version is Billo the clown.
    It’s just like calling Glenn Beck a Mad man, it’s not a compliment.

    You are welcome and can thank me later.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    UNreasonable, stop acting like I don’t care about the victims.

    Please, Michelle-in-Utah, you have made it very clear from your first post massacre comment you don’t give krap about the victims. All you have done from the very beginning was to attempt to make Sarah Palin, FOX “News”, Lard Limbaugh and yourself the victim. Such shameless exploitation, such coldess, such callousness is rarely seen/

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    To be called a vile by you is a badge of honor, oh vile one.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    King, you’ve been using the “michelle is happy when people die” schtick for months now. It never gets old!

  • skyfet

    The Real Royal King said:
    She’s really spun herself drunk and dizzy already, hasn’t she?

    I love the fact that Michelle-in-Utah believes our President ought to have called out by name the offending members of the media. In a memorial speech, no less! They must have some really interesting funerals in Utah!

    Then, of course, the gratuitous bash of our President by calling into question his manhood. Vile even for our Michelle-in-Utah. As usual.

    Not sure how it’s done there (Utah), but I imagine in Mitchell’s head, if someone was shot and died as a result, the memorial speeches should be full of people calling out, Jack the Daniels of so and so, you are a phony, James Throwback, you liar, Sally, why point fingers at the people who scream there head off.
    Note: in her twisted mind, it’s not about the people who were killed, it’s about the people whose feelings were hurt because they were exposed as irresponsible phonies.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    No Sky, I’m saying he sat on his hands while his political allies vilified innocent people and then after watching if for a week, begged for “calm”. Pretty transparent. If it REALLY bothered him, I think he would’ve said something sooner. Perhaps he got bad advice from Mark (Obama needs his own OK city) Penn on how to get the maximum gain from this tragedy.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    If it REALLY bothered him, I think he would’ve said something sooner.

    You ought not assume everyone is as coarse as you are, Michelle-in-Utah.

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Perhaps he got bad advice from Mark (Obama needs his own OK city) Penn on how to get the maximum gain from this tragedy.

    Do you have any indication Penn and our President ever spoke of this and that our President ever endorsed this, Michelle-in-Utah? If not, pull in your claws and stop the incessant catter-walling. You might recall Penn was Hillary’s campaign adviser, giving terrible advice and bankrupting her campaign. I suppose you’re too intellectually dishonest to say that.

  • AngelPeters

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    In case you didn’t notice, nobody wins in a situation like this. When a federal court judge dies and a congresswoman is shot along with a nine-year-old girl, America loses and the lunatics are the only winners.

    Thank you. No one won. We all lost.

  • AngelPeters

    skyfet said:
    What an idiot. There are no winners, just losers.

    No winners. We all lost. All of us.

  • skyfet

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    No Sky, I’m saying he sat on his hands while his political allies vilified innocent people and then after watching if for a week, begged for “calm”. Pretty transparent. If it REALLY bothered him, I think he would’ve said something sooner. Perhaps he got bad advice from Mark (Obama needs his own OK city) Penn on how to get the maximum gain from this tragedy.

    To be fair Mitchell, he did spoke out against the violence and the loss of life early on. The onslaught of criticism came after and I don’t know why anyone in a Leadership would want to get involved with what pundits do to themselves (they do it day in day out).

  • zumpano

    Any blowhard who doesn’t think the AZ shooting was a WAKE UP CALL or a WARNING is a fool to continue that type of behavior and BRAG ABOUT IT.

  • Onesweetworld79

    The irony of Michelle Bachmann saying on foxnews that the “media” could care less about the truth is killing me. Since when has Michelle Backmann or Foxnews ever been about the truth?

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    There are no winners, just losers.

    Well, you certainly are a loser.

  • jim bronson 990cc

    notsofast said:
    Well, you certainly are a loser.

    And you certainly are snotty!

  • jim bronson 990cc

    skyfet said:
    To be fair Mitchell, he did spoke out against the violence and the loss of life early on. The onslaught of criticism came after and I don’t know why anyone in a Leadership would want to get involved with what pundits do to themselves (they do it day in day out).

    He spent most of his time on spin control. He barely covered the tragic aspect of this. I found his coverage shameful!

  • tatboy

    I don’t think you can declare a winner or loser on this situation. But I think it is safe to say a lot on the left lost the moral high ground by using this mass shooting to gain politically and to silence the discourse of one side and not the other.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Jim says:

    He spent most of his time on spin control. He barely covered the tragic aspect of this. I found his coverage shameful!

    I’m going to go out on a limb and say you are lib who has never been a fan of his.

  • tatboy

    jim bronson 990cc said:
    He spent most of his time on spin control. He barely covered the tragic aspect of this. I found his coverage shameful!

    Isn’t that what Sheriff Dip$hit did right after the shooting???

  • Pablo

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    In case you didn’t notice, nobody wins in a situation like this. When a federal court judge dies and a congresswoman is shot along with a nine-year-old girl, America loses and the lunatics are the only winners.

    There are two different situations here. The first is the shootings, the act of a madman, and nobody wins there. The second is the leftist exploitation of those shootings, and attempts to blame them on anything but the shooter which blew up in your faces. Anyone who likes honesty and a good laugh wins there. You lose.

  • WHarropson

    tatboy said:
    I don’t think you can declare a winner or loser on this situation. But I think it is safe to say a lot on the left lost the moral high ground by using this mass shooting to gain politically and to silence the discourse of one side and not the other.

    I like your comment. I would simply emphasize that a high ground can only be lost if one has ever stood upon high ground. Bill Oreilly’s late MSNBC Competitor, who shall remain nameless here, said the following after the Tucson shooting. I will paste the report here with some context:

    “Last Tuesday, the night before Palin responded, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann mocked Palin’s silence throughout his show:

    – “And why is the ever self-promoting Miss Palin so quiet?”

    – “And it’s quiet, isn’t it?”

    – “It’s too quiet.”

    – “The silence is deafening from the great Northwest.”

    It was deemed an admission of guilt that she hadn’t spoken about the Tucson shooting or denied the accusations that she had inspired the shooter.

    The next day, Palin posted a video response, and immediately attacked her for “the worst timed political statement ever.” It’s almost as if liberals would attack Palin whatever she did.” Attribution ann Coulter.

    Now. Who won? The spokesman for liberals? He had to reach out af a hole and still couldn’t reach Palin. Left’s not on high ground and it is the LOSER. Thank God most people can see that here.

  • possibly

    Did he claim “the lead masturbator” as he played with himself while sexually harassing a co-worker?

  • WHarropson

    Woops, I let his name out after all. I need and editor.
    WH

  • goldmind

    O’Reilly, is one of the best spinmeisters in media. He has a gargantuan ego, and use such hyperbolic terms like “the folks” (when in fact he means idiots), aren’t going to buy into an opposing theory, but will certainly buy into his. He’s an extraordinary button man, and pushes them with adept precision. Like it or not, media is a chosen poison for most. There is an insatiable lust for “bad news” in America, and the majority love every last sordid detail of it. Why? Because of goons like Dorothy (Wizard of Oz…now replaced by Dr Oz), who show us in artificial terms, how to rise above adversity. We need heros like we need a hole in the head…pun intended. What is really needed, and has been on the back burner for far too long…is cohesion. A genuine unity, even when we disagree. Instead, we allow these media manics to splinter and infect our outlook. Why is it so hard to see their agenda is, RATINGS!? It’s their lifeline to advertising revenues, which feed this hungry beast and the out of control egos who perpetuate it. Would you stick a microphone in the face of a bereaved family member who lost somebody to any unpredictable calamity?
    Note…how they pretend they really care. Note also, how you pretend you really care, when at the end of the broadcast, you return to business as usual. Unless the sting of loss affects you personally, there is no way to relate to the bereaved soul on the screen of the idiot box. Politicians and media parasites from all factions, get paid to deceive and mislead their gullible audiences. Our personas, do not revolve around the disproportionate mass of Kim Kardashian’s buttocks. We do not derive our fortitude from a well honed dialogue, delivered from lipmasters reading a teleprompter. Nothing today, is more toxic then media and all it’s delusional affiliates.

  • skyfet

    Seeing 20l2 From My Window said:
    Why does everyone HATE ME!!!??? I am right about EVERYTHING YOU STUPID LIBS, and Glenn Beck IS going to marry me even tough I neglect my kid. YOU STuPID LIBS!!!

    lol.

  • Kined

    I’m really happy O’Reilly isn’t still politicizing a political assassination attempt and the murder of 6 people.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So thank you.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Seeing 20l2 From My Window said:
    Why does everyone HATE ME!!!??? I am right about EVERYTHING YOU STUPID LIBS, and Glenn Beck IS going to marry me even tough I neglect my kid. YOU STuPID LIBS!!!

    RRKING here . What a detestable faker you are . I can rule out skyfet as the culprit , because it ‘s almost literate .

  • ndanielson

    O’Reilly is right. They did win, as more people tuned into Fox to get the real story on Loughlin. And they will gain and retain more viewers because of it. The fools on the left wanted the murderous coward to be a Tea Partier, or a right wing clown. Instead, they had to change the Goebbles-like, Nazi propaganda that he was DRIVEN to murder by angry words and pictures, because he turned out to be a leftwing clown, and apolitical at that!. A mere pawn, and a victim of the right. He was a pawn of a complicit coward known as “sheriff” Dupnik.

  • The Real Royal King

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    RRKING here . What a detestable faker you are . I can rule out skyfet as the culprit , because it ’s almost literate .

    Everyone knows you are 20I2, Kumquat, just as you are Writer, Lantern, (the misappropriated) Real Royal King, Real Royal Queen, ImNotBlue &c. A POS by any other name stinks just as much.

  • The Real Royal King

    ndanielson said:
    O’Reilly is right. They did win, as more people tuned into Fox to get the real story on Loughlin. And they will gain and retain more viewers because of it. The fools on the left wanted the murderous coward to be a Tea Partier, or a right wing clown. Instead, they had to change the Goebbles-like, Nazi propaganda that he was DRIVEN to murder by angry words and pictures, because he turned out to be a leftwing clown, and apolitical at that!. A mere pawn, and a victim of the right. He was a pawn of a complicit coward known as “sheriff” Dupnik.

    Interesting. Especially since recent viewer numbers for FOX “News” have not been all that terribly impressive. It seems to have stalled out.

  • George C

    The Real Royal King said:
    A POS by any other name stinks just as much.

    Well said “Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers”

  • treecutter

    Kined said:
    I’m really happy O’Reilly isn’t still politicizing a political assassination attempt and the murder of 6 people.

    Wrong MORON! He’s pointing out what the LIBERAL MSM did to these people and any conservative immediately following this tragedy. You people a pathetic. You acted like a bunch crack smoking fools and now we gwet to make fun of you, THAT IS HOW IT WORKS. Next time don’t jump on the liberal bandwagon!!

  • ndanielson

    The Real Royal King said:
    Interesting. Especially since recent viewer numbers for FOX “News” have not been all that terribly impressive. It seems to have stalled out.

    Two adjectives to downplay the word impressive. Typical. Clown.

  • Dem4Ever

    Eveyone knows that the right won the hearts and minds of the American people within hours of the tragedy in AZ.  

  • The Lantern of Truth

    The Real Royal King said:
    Everyone knows you are 20I2, Kumquat, just as you are Writer, Lantern, (the misappropriated) Real Royal King, Real Royal Queen, ImNotBlue &c. A POS by any other name stinks just as much.

    RRKING/SARAHP.iris/roxsteady/etc . here . Armwood and I were discussing this matter yesterday at our salon . We don’t care ! When I do a shampoo on a client ( human or canine ) I sing ” I ‘ m gonna wash that man right outta my hair ” at the top of my lungs to dispel the negative energy gathered in the room when I think of you ( Bobbi S. ) and it works every time ! It does unnerve Armando , though , he thinks I’m signaling a break-up , but I’m not !

  • ndanielson

    AngelPeters said:
    No winners. We all lost. All of us.

    No. Their Goebbels-like tactics are wearing real thin. Their own congressmen talk about nazi tactics on the HOUSE FLOOR, their speaker of the house calls a group that exercises it’s 1st Amendment rights, nazis, and the left attacks a news outlet for talking about the true nazi tactics, and true nazis on the left. And the sheep cannot tell the worse of the two evils.

  • writer

    What is ‘coldess’, King? I believe you meant to say ‘coldness’. Don’t bother to thank me. You’d do the same for others.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    For my fans :

    KING recalls the past . ” We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold “. Armwood ‘ s cold pills knocked us both out for a while , as the stranger who picked us up continued South . It was June , 1949 . We had just graduated from Beauty College and were hitchhiking to the Promised Land , Hollywood . We figured our hair and make-up skills would be much in demand in Tinseltown . We were correctamundo ! Our first job was as make-up and hair artistes to Mr. Liberace , the famous pianist . Lee , as Armando and I called him , was a demanding client , requiring us to live at his estate providing 24 hour beauty assistance . Army and I were adapting swiftly to this exciting new life when suddenly we were fired by Lee ‘s brother George for being too flamboyant ! Well I never ! Army and I went looking for new employment in town , knowing we would have no problemo , because these were our people ! ©

  • writer

    When getting a rinse at the King’s salon, both he and Army broke into their rendition of “It’s Raining Men”. It’s always been one of my favourites. (None the fancy spelling. Impressive, huh?)

  • writer

    Uh, oh. Should say Note the fancy spelling. The King will never forgive this.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    HAHA, Lantern of Truth, you are killing me!! ( I can say that right, because I’m talking about myself)

    Writer,
    Believe it or not, King is on another thread playing Royal Spelling and Grammar Czar. You’d think he’d learn after being repeatedly embarrassed.

  • writer

    Colour me surprised.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Lantern of Truth, you are killing me!!

    Always the victim …. Sarah Palin Lite ….

  • writer

    Gadzooks! Yoiks and away! To the hounds!

  • beamangrow

    I do not know why this moron has any credibility,he chear led the iraq war and called for something to happen to dr tiller.this guy is a joke.you sexually intimidate a woman and people think he has something smart to say.
    what was her name again macris?

    i have a daughter so i will never watch his show.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Now Royal Spelling and Grammar Czar, you’ve gotta have a critique of beamangrow’s comment? I look forward to hearing it!

  • Pablo

    Kined said:
    I’m really happy O’Reilly isn’t still politicizing a political assassination attempt and the murder of 6 people.

    Me too. It’s a damned shame that so many people, like Olbermann, did. They deserve to be ridiculed.

  • Pablo

    The Real Royal King said:
    Everyone knows you are 20I2, Kumquat, just as you are Writer, Lantern, (the misappropriated) Real Royal King, Real Royal Queen, ImNotBlue &c. A POS by any other name stinks just as much.

    All are one. One are all. It’s kind of like a Borg thing, but we got a good whiff of you and decided you would not be assimilated.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    treecutter said:
    Wrong MORON! He’s pointing out what the LIBERAL MSM did to these people and any conservative immediately following this tragedy. You people a pathetic. You acted like a bunch crack smoking fools and now we gwet to make fun of you, THAT IS HOW IT WORKS. Next time don’t jump on the liberal bandwagon!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs75zKxJxVY&feature=related

    Either way, you miss the point and are picking back up on the idiocy that is republican hate and fear mongering. No one is blaming Sarah Palin for the hockey mom from Alaska should have remained there. The hate and fear mongering climate is OWNED by the GOP and it incites lunatics (the climate) with ideas, that they may not have not had otherwise. This “shooting” isn’t random and the hate and fear mongering that is the climate, particular­ly in Arizona and the idiocy there, is part of this twisted minds make-up. He didn’t arbitraril­y go into a post office and start shooting – the ideas came from somewhere – and the truth is the teabagger terrorist took in the air of the hate mongering of the right – as brought to you by Hannity, Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, Savage, Levine, et. al. One students view that he didn’t listen to such things does not an expert make – nor does it excuse the climate that the Right has created that would suggest such things – and deny as you might – the Right has made this aggressive actions and suggestion towards the Democrats via name calling (in lieu of a legitimate argument) and in the Congresswo­man’s own words last March.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    treecutter said:
    Wrong MORON! He’s pointing out what the LIBERAL MSM did to these people and any conservative immediately following this tragedy. You people a pathetic. You acted like a bunch crack smoking fools and now we gwet to make fun of you, THAT IS HOW IT WORKS. Next time don’t jump on the liberal bandwagon!!

    There’s no such thing as Liberal MSM – you’re repeating your masters commands though – so your another lost sheep.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs75zKxJxVY&feature=related

    Either way, you miss the point and are picking back up on the idiocy that is republican hate and fear mongering. No one is blaming Sarah Palin for the hockey mom from Alaska should have remained there. The hate and fear mongering climate is OWNED by the GOP and it incites lunatics (the climate) with ideas, that they may not have not had otherwise. This “shooting” isn’t random and the hate and fear mongering that is the climate, particular­ly in Arizona and the idiocy there, is part of this twisted minds make-up. He didn’t arbitraril­y go into a post office and start shooting – the ideas came from somewhere – and the truth is the teabagger terrorist took in the air of the hate mongering of the right – as brought to you by Hannity, Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, Savage, Levine, et. al. One students view that he didn’t listen to such things does not an expert make – nor does it excuse the climate that the Right has created that would suggest such things – and deny as you might – the Right has made this aggressive actions and suggestion towards the Democrats via name calling (in lieu of a legitimate argument) and in the Congresswo­man’s own words last March.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    Dem4Ever said:
    Eveyone knows that the right won the hearts and minds of the American people within hours of the tragedy in AZ.  

    I don’t think they got the sarcasm.

  • writer

    2012, the King is unavailable right now, and has appointed me to comment on beamangrow’s post. I’ll do my best:

    Thy wretched misuse of our language has befouled the air with an odious stench which offends one to the high heavens. Thou shouldst refrain from ever again assaulting our nostrils in such a manner.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    ndanielson said:
    No. Their Goebbels-like tactics are wearing real thin. Their own congressmen talk about nazi tactics on the HOUSE FLOOR, their speaker of the house calls a group that exercises it’s 1st Amendment rights, nazis, and the left attacks a news outlet for talking about the true nazi tactics, and true nazis on the left. And the sheep cannot tell the worse of the two evils.

    When you’re party tactics are the Goebbles play book (illegal invasion of a sovereign nation (Iraq), torture, propaganda (Fox), hate and fear mongering (Fox, AM Hate Talk Radio), smear campaigns against detractors, Cindy Sheehan, Valerie Plame – ALL OTHER MEDIA AS “liberal”, et. al.), wire-tapping citizens (under the guise of “protecting the citizens”), creating a false common enemy (minorities, poor, liberals) – yeah the GOP have the tenants of Nazis, while trying to misdirect to those Americans that would call them out on it – the GOP is Nuzi – and they would put an idiot puppet in office, like Bush and/or Palin, while the likes of Rove/Cheney run the show behind the scenes. How about that for a Beck conspiracy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    beamangrow said:
    I do not know why this moron has any credibility,he chear led the iraq war and called for something to happen to dr tiller.this guy is a joke.you sexually intimidate a woman and people think he has something smart to say.
    what was her name again macris?

    i have a daughter so i will never watch his show.

    Notice the brainwashed sheep have no problem with one of their own creeps – as long as he’s part of their collective.

  • writer

    James Backus seems to have become bitter since Gilligan’s Island was canceled.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    jim bronson 990cc said:
    He spent most of his time on spin control. He barely covered the tragic aspect of this. I found his coverage shameful!

    Because his company, the Ministry of Lies for the Republican State of Insanity, promotes violence against their detractors.

    No one is blaming Sarah Palin for the hockey mom from Alaska should have remained there. The hate and fear mongering climate is OWNED by the GOP and it incites lunatics (the climate) with ideas, that they may not have not had otherwise. This “shooting” isn’t random and the hate and fear mongering that is the climate, particular­ly in Arizona and the idiocy there, is part of this twisted minds make-up. He didn’t arbitraril­y go into a post office and start shooting – the ideas came from somewhere – and the truth is the teabagger terrorist took in the air of the hate mongering of the right – as brought to you by Hannity, Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, Savage, Levine, et. al. One students view that he didn’t listen to such things does not an expert make – nor does it excuse the climate that the Right has created that would suggest such things – and deny as you might – the Right has made this aggressive actions and suggestion towards the Democrats via name calling (in lieu of a legitimate argument) and in the Congresswo­man’s own words last March. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs75zKxJxVY&feature=related

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    writer said:
    James Backus seems to have become bitter since Gilligan’s Island was canceled.

    Bitter? I think my death would have made me bitter, but as you can see, I’ve arisen with clarity and foresight. Unfortunately, like another Deity you might believe in – I’m not coming back for the sheep of ignorance on the right.

  • writer

    Such bravery Thurston is displaying. Speaking this way to us, knowing how dangerous we all are.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Jim says:

    He spent most of his time on spin control. He barely covered the tragic aspect of this. I found his coverage shameful!

    I’m going to go out on a limb and say you are lib who has never been a fan of his.

    According to the sheep – everyone not drinking the RNC/Fox kool-aide is a liberal. So, you can assume the world, all coasts and the universe is – you guessed it – liberal. You on the other hand reside in either Glennbeckistan or Jesusland – both full of nuzis.

  • writer

    The professor had to make kool-aide out of coconuts.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    James, seek help. When you’re one of the craziest libs on Mediaite, you know you need help.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    tatboy said:
    I don’t think you can declare a winner or loser on this situation. But I think it is safe to say a lot on the left lost the moral high ground by using this mass shooting to gain politically and to silence the discourse of one side and not the other.

    I would argue you believe this from your prayer group only. America knows and everyday Fox proves it, that the hate and fear mongering is coming from the RNC/Fox/AM Hate Radio Talk shows. This is the way it’s been since Reagan/Falwell/Murdock circa 1980. It is propaganda, it is hate and fear mongering and it is NOT news. An uneducated society, indoctrinated in bible school, Jesus Camp and Young Republicans through Liberty, Oral Roberts and Regents “Universities” are brainwashed in idiocy. Hence the cult of Republicans today that think G.W. Bush and Sarah Palin are qualified for the highest office in the land – when, outside of being puppets for Republicorp (Special interests such as NRA, Health Insurance Co. Banking, Big Oil, et. al., Chamber of CONmerce), they’ve lived fairly unsuccessful lives.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    writer said:
    Such bravery Thurston is displaying. Speaking this way to us, knowing how dangerous we all are.

    In a battle of wits I’d be accused of manslaughter you people are so predictably dense.

  • writer

    I’ve never watched this Fox News network, but from what you’re telling us, it must be awful.

  • writer

    I’ve never watched this Fox News network, but from what you’ve told us, it must be awful.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    ndanielson said:
    O’Reilly is right. They did win, as more people tuned into Fox to get the real story on Loughlin. And they will gain and retain more viewers because of it. The fools on the left wanted the murderous coward to be a Tea Partier, or a right wing clown. Instead, they had to change the Goebbles-like, Nazi propaganda that he was DRIVEN to murder by angry words and pictures, because he turned out to be a leftwing clown, and apolitical at that!. A mere pawn, and a victim of the right. He was a pawn of a complicit coward known as “sheriff” Dupnik.

    He’s one of you. Why not.

  • treecutter

    James Gregory Backus said:
    There’s no such thing as Liberal MSM – you’re repeating your masters commands though – so your another lost sheep. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs75zKxJxVY&feature=related Either way, you miss the point and are picking back up on the idiocy that is republican hate and fear mongering. No one is blaming Sarah Palin for the hockey mom from Alaska should have remained there. The hate and fear mongering climate is OWNED by the GOP and it incites lunatics (the climate) with ideas, that they may not have not had otherwise. This “shooting” isn’t random and the hate and fear mongering that is the climate, particular­ly in Arizona and the idiocy there, is part of this twisted minds make-up. He didn’t arbitraril­y go into a post office and start shooting – the ideas came from somewhere – and the truth is the teabagger terrorist took in the air of the hate mongering of the right – as brought to you by Hannity, Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, Savage, Levine, et. al. One students view that he didn’t listen to such things does not an expert make – nor does it excuse the climate that the Right has created that would suggest such things – and deny as you might – the Right has made this aggressive actions and suggestion towards the Democrats via name calling (in lieu of a legitimate argument) and in the Congresswo­man’s own words last March.

    Thank you for making my point on the LIBERAL MSM. You have spit out exactly the same hate towards anyone conservative that was spewed immediatly after the shooting. You have to have someone to blame don’t you, so you go after all conservative media. All you’re doing is making an ass out of yourself and firing up the right. You asked for it.

  • writer

    James, I used to like you when you did the voice of Mr. Magoo, so I’ll offer some advice. If that Fox network is upsetting you that badly, watch something else.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    WHarropson said:
    I like your comment. I would simply emphasize that a high ground can only be lost if one has ever stood upon high ground. Bill Oreilly’s late MSNBC Competitor, who shall remain nameless here, said the following after the Tucson shooting. I will paste the report here with some context:

    “Last Tuesday, the night before Palin responded, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann mocked Palin’s silence throughout his show:

    – “And why is the ever self-promoting Miss Palin so quiet?”

    – “And it’s quiet, isn’t it?”

    – “It’s too quiet.”

    – “The silence is deafening from the great Northwest.”

    It was deemed an admission of guilt that she hadn’t spoken about the Tucson shooting or denied the accusations that she had inspired the shooter.

    The next day, Palin posted a video response, and immediately attacked her for “the worst timed political statement ever.” It’s almost as if liberals would attack Palin whatever she did.” Attribution ann Coulter.

    Now. Who won? The spokesman for liberals? He had to reach out af a hole and still couldn’t reach Palin. Left’s not on high ground and it is the LOSER. Thank God most people can see that here.

    LOL…only Fox plays faux numbers games aka winners and losers. Fox and anyone repeating their idiocy are the losers. Blindly following Reverend Henry Kane to their “Terrordome” with Glenn Beck leading them.

    Either way, you miss the point and are picking back up on the idiocy that is republican hate and fear mongering. No one is blaming Sarah Palin for the hockey mom from Alaska should have remained there. The hate and fear mongering climate is OWNED by the GOP and it incites lunatics (the climate) with ideas, that they may not have not had otherwise. This “shooting” isn’t random and the hate and fear mongering that is the climate, particular­ly in Arizona and the idiocy there, is part of this twisted minds make-up. He didn’t arbitraril­y go into a post office and start shooting – the ideas came from somewhere – and the truth is the teabagger terrorist took in the air of the hate mongering of the right – as brought to you by Hannity, Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, Savage, Levine, et. al. One students view that he didn’t listen to such things does not an expert make – nor does it excuse the climate that the Right has created that would suggest such things – and deny as you might – the Right has made this aggressive actions and suggestion towards the Democrats via name calling (in lieu of a legitimate argument) and in the Congresswo­man’s own words last March.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs75zKxJxVY&feature=related

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    writer said:
    James, I used to like you when you did the voice of Mr. Magoo, so I’ll offer some advice. If that Fox network is upsetting you that badly, watch something else.

    I don’t watch Fox. I can write the script for them and guarantee you’ll repeat it as truth. Sheep, meet indoctrination and brainwashed morons = Fox Viewers and Religulous Nuzis.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    James, admit it, you are a conservative posing as a crazy lib, right?

  • writer

    So you don’t watch it either? What a relief. It sounds terrible. I would ask that since you don’t watch, you know how it’s so terrible. Must have been word of mouth.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    treecutter said:
    Thank you for making my point on the LIBERAL MSM. You have spit out exactly the same hate towards anyone conservative that was spewed immediatly after the shooting. You have to have someone to blame don’t you, so you go after all conservative media. All you’re doing is making an ass out of yourself and firing up the right. You asked for it.

    I’m not pretending the Right-Wing hate and fear mongering doesn’t reach morons like you, whom when are unstable do stupid things. That’s what Fox and the AM Hate Talk Radio shows would like; but that’s not happening. If the jack-boot fits, you must call them out and the hate and fear mongering that is broadcast as “news” by “opinionators” stressing killing people is a) wrong and b) should addressed as domestic terrorism.

  • writer

    I know what you mean, Jim. Whenever I see hateful people, I must express my outrage towards them in the most hateful terms possible.

  • SarahP.

    BillO is one felafel and two loofahs shy of a Bachmann.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Colby, BillO is right. The liberal media bent over backwards to create the template for the tragedy and got pretty much everything wrong. As a result, they got their hats handed to them and lost most of the very little credibility they had left. For you to compare that to BillO congratulating himself for not jumping to conclusions, is not surprising, but disapointing, nonetheless. Of course, that is what some liberals do, when they know then stepped in it, they can’t rest until they convince everyone that the other side did it to. To bad it ain’t true.

    When you consider EVERYONE else liberal – has it ever crossed your mind you’re part of a smaller “brainwashed cult”? Think about it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    James, admit it, you are a conservative posing as a crazy lib, right?

    I wouldn’t know how to be as stupid as the people that echo Fox and think Bush and Sarah Palin are qualified to lead anything more than a prayer meeting (and that’s not a compliment).

  • writer

    Listen to Jim! Hating and deriding people who disagree with you is strictly a right wing phenomenon.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Crazy James says:

    When you consider EVERYONE else liberal – has it ever crossed your mind you’re part of a smaller “brainwashed cult”? Think about it.

    Actually I agree with the polls that say only about 20% of American’s are loony libs like yourself. Of course, when talking about the media, I’d say a good 95%-98% are raving liberals. Now take your meds.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    writer said:
    So you don’t watch it either? What a relief. It sounds terrible. I would ask that since you don’t watch, you know how it’s so terrible. Must have been word of mouth.

    What’s to watch? Liberals and Democrats are: Communists, Fascists, Socialists, Progressives, Nazis. Republicans are chosen by God.

    Psst. Spoiler alert. Both of the above are WRONG.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Crazy James says:

    When you consider EVERYONE else liberal – has it ever crossed your mind you’re part of a smaller “brainwashed cult”? Think about it.

    Actually I agree with the polls that say only about 20% of American’s are loony libs like yourself. Of course, when talking about the media, I’d say a good 95%-98% are raving liberals. Now take your meds.

    Rassmussen polls are about as legitimate as you are intelligent.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    writer said:
    I know what you mean, Jim. Whenever I see hateful people, I must express my outrage towards them in the most hateful terms possible.

    Try not to be nuzi and I’ll refrain from calling you what your tenants say you are.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    writer said:
    Such bravery Thurston is displaying. Speaking this way to us, knowing how dangerous we all are.

    LOL. Is that a threat from Glennbeckistan?

  • writer

    Jim, I’m agreeing. Even though I don’t watch Fox, I know what all those who do watch it are thinking. And it makes me very, very angry.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Hey James, will you say Hi to Ted for me? Haven’t talked to him in a while so hopefully the orderlies are treating him ok.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Further, to have seen President Obama’s Tucson memorial speech as an indication that the “far left” lost “the game of who was right and who was wrong” seems to reveal that he largely missed the grander point of the President’s speech.

    Really, I think he heard the speech loud and clear. Obama criticizied the liberal media without having the manhood to actually call them out by name. Nice try though.

    ps. I think alot of people see the fact that Obama sat on his hands while the tarring and feathering was going on by his political allies as his condoning it. As always, he tried to have it both ways.

    Beck weeps and you have the Weeper of the House Boehner. Talk about women in mans pants.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    writer said:
    Listen to Jim! Hating and deriding people who disagree with you is strictly a right wing phenomenon.

    Hating? No hate. Angry, yes. Hate is a different being – that IS fairly exclusive to the right, though it’s been known to show up on the left – not in as many psychotic ways as those whom claim divine right.

  • writer

    I’m always offended by programs I don’t watch. That Food Channel especially pisses me off.

  • treecutter

    James Gregory Backus said:
    I’m not pretending the Right-Wing hate and fear mongering doesn’t reach morons like you, whom when are unstable do stupid things. That’s what Fox and the AM Hate Talk Radio shows would like; but that’s not happening. If the jack-boot fits, you must call them out and the hate and fear mongering that is broadcast as “news” by “opinionators” stressing killing people is a) wrong and b) should addressed as domestic terrorism.

    Thank you again for making my point. You heard your liberal MSM spewing that fox and talk radio are the cause and the only PROOF that I have and that you have is that it was done by a crazy person. Just because you don’t agree with conservatives you do what every liberal does when they have no proof or an argueme, you run to (you’re hateful, racist, etc. Thank you once again for making us stronger.

  • writer

    I’m sure glad the left is incapable of hate. Imagine some of the language they’d use if they were.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    writer said:
    Jim, I’m agreeing. Even though I don’t watch Fox, I know what all those who do watch it are thinking. And it makes me very, very angry.

    Then to you I offer a smiley face. Just to get the right angry! :-) lol.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Gregory-Backus/615261184 James Gregory Backus

    Okay; my sarcasm radar was down. Have a good afternoon.

  • writer

    Just as the left is incapable of hate, I am incapable of being really angry. Just the thought of becoming angry outrages me. But not really. (Starting to see how this left wing logic works.)

  • writer

    This has made me so non-angry, I’d better take a break and cool down.

  • valkyrie101

    writer said:
    I’m sure glad the left is incapable of hate. Imagine some of the language they’d use if they were.

    Your on fire today, writer.

  • valkyrie101

    Have you been secretly reading Mother Jones?

  • Bad Wolf

    Fox relies on the Big Lie technique. It’s their niche marketing strategy.
    Tell ‘em what they want to hear- they’ll be back for more.

  • X-3

    Although O’Reilly was correct in stating the liberals were all foaming at the mouth to somehow blame conservatives for the murder of innocent people and the shooting of Ms. Giffords, the term “win” was perhaps not the best of choices in framing his remarks. NO ONE WINS WHEN INNOCENT LIVES ARE TAKEN AND A REPRESENTATIVE IN OUR GOVERNMENT IS SERIOUSLY HARMED. He would have been much more astute to have said that the liberal failed in making an argument that conservatives and Fox News were somehow to blame.

    My prayers continue for Ms. Giffords, and if you’re inclined to speak to God, I hope you will join me.

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