Who is Philip Bump, and more importantly, does he only exist to make Tommy Christopher look nuanced by comparison?

I think FOX news had it streaming online. they usually do stream that kind of stuff.

“Here’s all I ask, American-television-media-that-complains-about-filling-a-24-hour-news-day: When news happens, cover it.”

Ha! Conservatives have been asking this for years, where have YOU been Philip? Oh, THIS particular news story is really all you are talking about?

Seriously though, where have you been Philip? I haven’t ever seen your name on Mediaite before this article

Amen. We got wall-to-wall Charlie Sheen. We got OJ 24/7. How about covering a massive outbreak of democracy in Madison, Wi.? If it was worth seeing from Cairo, it’s worth it at home.

Even O’Donnell devoted a significant amount of his show to useless blathering about whatever dumb thing Gingrich said today, and then presumably aired an interview with Kathy Griffin. Who cares? I turned on CNN finally, who did a pretty good job with Spitzer and the correspondent in Madison with live interviews of Wisconsin teachers there at the Capitol.

BadGenome said:
Who is Philip Bump

Huffington Enquirer whackjob .

M. Malice – same .

BadGenome said:
Who is Philip Bump, and more importantly, does he only exist to make Tommy Christopher look nuanced by comparison?

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/10/09/focus7.html

The bio’s a couple years old, but it lists him as Political Director for the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. So he is/was a paid union stooge.

Mediaite has a couple columnists that are full-blown, unabashed lefties. It would be nice if there was at least one from the right.

Fox News canceled one its panel discussions during its 6:00 p.m. news hour to discuss the maneuver by the Wisconsin Senate. I have no idea what they covered during the 7:00 p.m. hour. I know O’Reilly tapes at 5 so he would not have known about it.

How come the leftist media did not cover Obama’s signing of the presidential order that basically allows him to hold a person in permanent custody even after they where found innocent in court? And more importantly why is the hypocritical “Liberal’s” ok with Obama doing this after bitching for 8 years of Bush?

I belive it’s because the left is for totalitarianism, But only if the Dictator is a Democrat.

Yes, possible bombings on another country in the middle East is not nearly as important as the drum circle hippies and union protesters upset over Wisconsin not allowing GOVERNMENT unions to bargain with TAX dollars while facing a DEFECIT.

TBDave said:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/10/09/focus7.html

The bio’s a couple years old, but it lists him as Political Director for the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. So he is/was a paid union stooge.

Mediaite has a couple columnists that are full-blown, unabashed lefties. It would be nice if there was at least one from the right.

Oh! Well, I guess he is pretty nuanced by those standards! I mean, he call for anyone’s death like Richard Trumka would!

TBDave said:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/10/09/focus7.html

The bio’s a couple years old, but it lists him as Political Director for the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. So he is/was a paid union stooge.

Mediaite has a couple columnists that are full-blown, unabashed lefties. It would be nice if there was at least one from the right.

I forgot to add: smug looking bastard, ain’t he?

Well the Tea Party woke us up. Thank You we needed that!!! Off to Madison.

Sounds similar to the “maneuver” the Dems used to pass HCR. It was OK then. Why the problem now???

Big Eddie said:
Huffington Enquirer whackjob .

M. Malice – same .

Oooooooooo…

tatboy said:
Sounds similar to the “maneuver” the Dems used to pass HCR. It was OK then. Why the problem now???

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And the media should also cover the long term results of the Governor’s approach, and tell us whether it actually reduces the state’s deficits. Okay, I understand that actually real world results and fiscal prudence aren’t of much interest to Democrats. But the rest of us take an interest in these paltry details.

I’m with you, felixw. LET’S follow what happens. What happens to the people he lays off. Who gets the money he saves. What happens to the education system in Wi. Will their literacy figures go up or down? It’s his ballgame now. If the sh#t hits the fan and the state goes down the toilet, Gov. Walker owns it.
Will his move save a dime? What is the penalty if it doesn’t? Walker loses his job? BFD! How are you going to compensate the workers screwed by him? How do you repay the children robbed of an education?

Or, since Mediaite likes to cover trivial FNC stuff like what’s his names’ “ambush” interviews, they could cover this story:

Lib Radio Host Ed Schultz Admits Using ‘Fake Callers’ Coached by Congressional Dems
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/lib-radio-host-ed-schultz-admits-using-fake-callers-coached-by-congressional-dems/

Oh, but that wouldn’t be too fun since they already covered it as “maybe” Rush, Beck, and/or Hannity were the ones using fake callers. Guess it never entered their minds it might be someone that had no callers (ED) that would use a service like that.

TBDave said:
The bio’s a couple years old, but it lists him as Political Director for the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. So he is/was a paid union stooge.

Lovely.

Joseph Glackin said:
I’m with you, felixw. LET’S follow what happens. What happens to the people he lays off. Who gets the money he saves. What happens to the education system in Wi. Will their literacy figures go up or down? It’s his ballgame now. If the sh#t hits the fan and the state goes down the toilet, Gov. Walker owns it.
Will his move save a dime? What is the penalty if it doesn’t? Walker loses his job? BFD! How are you going to compensate the workers screwed by him? How do you repay the children robbed of an education?

His plan doesn’t lay anybody off. The notices went out because he can’t get his budget bill passed with no fleebaggers. Without the budget bill, there will be layoffs. With it, there are none. Easy peasy.

You should try to keep up with the actual details and not just the talking points.

felixw said:
And the media should also cover the long term results of the Governor’s approach, and tell us whether it actually reduces the state’s deficits. Okay, I understand that actually real world results and fiscal prudence aren’t of much interest to Democrats. But the rest of us take an interest in these paltry details.

you can use Indiana as a predictor. It certainly helped our state when Daniels did it in 2005.

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Thank you so much Mediaite for posting this link, I have been watching it all night and I am driving to Madison in the morning, this is the most important story in years and the MSM is not covering it at all. This is the beginning of something really big, and it is unbelievable that the media is ignoring it, although I know why they are. They are scared to death of this as they should be.

As I am sure you will have a story about soon, Michael Moore said tonight that people within driving distance of Madison should drive there now cause this is war. He was right and it is.

Color Me Badd said:
As I am sure you will have a story about soon, Michael Moore said tonight that people within driving distance of Madison should drive there now cause this is war. He was right and it is.

Tsk, tsk. Such violent rhetoric. And all those white people in one place! This is scary!

Yes, by all means, put those fools banging their stupid drums on TV so everyone can see just how dumb they are. Oh, and be sure to get all those socialist signs.

Pablo said:
His plan doesn’t lay anybody off. The notices went out because he can’t get his budget bill passed with no fleebaggers. Without the budget bill, there will be layoffs. With it, there are none. Easy peasy. You should try to keep up with the actual details and not just the talking points.

NO, NO, NO, the TRUTH is irrelevant here. It’s all about how those evil Republicans are trying to make the union idiots pay a little higher share of their benefits, and to try to keep the union management from putting a little less of the rank and file money in their pockets. Never mind that it bankrupts the state–0bama can bail the state out with taxpayer money from the other 56 states. “I OWE these unions” –Barack Hussein 0bama.

Congrats to Mediaite for hiring a AFL-CIO activist to report on this story. Why even run articles if this is how you vet them? You might as well just publish union press releases verbatim.

tgk said:
Seriously though, where have you been Philip? I haven’t ever seen your name on Mediaite before this article

Philip has submitted occasional columns to this site since its inception and though he hasn’t contributed in a few months, if you click his name, you’ll see all of his previous posts.

felixw said:
Congrats to Mediaite for hiring a AFL-CIO activist to report on this story. Why even run articles if this is how you vet them? You might as well just publish union press releases verbatim.

You do realize that most people working in television are members of the AFL-CIO?
If one were a conspiracy theorist, they might think it may be why many run down SEIU.

Note: Because I assume somebody may question that though those behind the camera are members of various AFL-CIO affiliated unions, the same may not hold true for pundits, I’ll offer this clip of O’Reilly speaking about his union membership which starts just after the 1:50 mark. (via Cenk Uygur)

Oh, and as to my aside about SEIU: I’ll admit that many talking heads often make disparaging remarks about unions in general, it’s often SEIU or the others that aren’t affiliated with the AFL-CIO that are named.

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Magister said:
You do realize that most people working in television are members of the AFL-CIO?
If one were a conspiracy theorist, they might think it may be why many run down SEIU.

You don’t seem to distinguish between being a union member as part of one’s professional life and actually having AFL-CIO as the lead item on your published bio. Do you see the AFL-CIO mention in Dan Rather’s bio? Do you see the AFL-CIO mention in Katie Couric’s bio? Do you see the AFL-CIO mention in Walter Cronkite’s bio? Do you see the AFL-CIO mention in Anderson Cooper’s bio? Do you see the AFL-CIO mention in Peter Jenning’s bio? Etc.

But it’s all too typical of the Left that they can’t distinguish between honest punditry and packaged propaganda. So I am not surprised at your response.

felixw said:
But it’s all too typical of the Left that they can’t distinguish between honest punditry and packaged propaganda. So I am not surprised at your response.

The piece is clearly labeled as opinion and while it may contain some wording from a point of view, the bulk of the post and its overriding theme is a call out to the cable networks for a lack of coverage regarding what may be the final (or next to final) step in a weeks long story.

Fox is covering it, and I’m watching the screaming mobs of union thugs and dirty students block access to the Wisconsin legislators. The demonstrators keep saying “this is what democracy looks like.” Demonstrations are great, but interfering with the legislative process is fascism and mob rule, pure and simple. If you’re in Wisconsin and you don’t like the outcome, then go vote. That’s your recourse.

P.S. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! You lost, suckers.

You should learn what fascism IS before accusing others of practicing it.

But you won’t, will you?

Republicans.
So this is what you mean by “Going Rogue.”
Shame!

Pay freeze without price freeze is attack on the poor and needy. Look what it did to Egypt and Libya. After attacking wages of main street these same Wisconsin Political figures could gain clout and respect if they are honest enough to attack the earnings and benefits of Political Management and then the earnings of; or should I say the Loot of Wall Street gamblers that are truly bringing down our country, otherwise they will look like a bunch of gangsters themselves doing their greedy deeds. We must remember when Osama bin Laden went to college in American, he immediately went back home and planed an attack on Wall Street not just
American as some think, it was directed at WALL STREET when he did the basement before he went for the top of those towers. Wall Street is like some bad kids in our family and they need butt kicked big time, otherwise picking on the working class amounts to additional gangster-ism.

Um…hey Mediaite. You continue to refuse to report on the deaths of American servicemen fighting in Afghanistan. I guess it’s more important to report on the coke head, no not Obama or Bush, Charlie Sheen.

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