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Frank Rich: ‘If You Put A Reloaded Gun’ Up To Palin Would She Know About Bill Ayers?

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New York magazine’s Frank Rich stopped by Martin Bashir‘s MSNBC show to express his disappointment with President Obama, his expectation that the backlash against Rupert Murdoch in England will soon come to America and his general bewilderment with everything Sarah Palin. Bashir didn’t let Rich have all the “fun” though, as he compared the Tea Party to recalcitrant children who took control of their parents and wondered about Palin what her purpose might be if she doesn’t run for President?

Rich suggested that Mitt Romney and Rick Perry have a great advantage over many other candidates in 2012, including Obama, since they didn’t have any part of the nightmare that just took place in Washington. And about Obama, Rich complains:

“There was not much leadership from him – that someone has given him the idea that if you’re the adult in the room and you’re willing to compromise and you’re an agreeable guy, that somehow will appeal to independents and get him re-elected. I’m not so sure.”

Turning their focus to Palin, after she defended the Tea Party against accusations of being “domestic terrorists” by bringing up Obama’s connection to Bill Ayers, Bashir commented “remarkable that she remembered Bill Ayers.” And Rich was confident she didn’t really even know anything about Ayers:

“If you put a reloaded gun in front of her, to use her language, would she be able to actually remember anything Bill Ayers actually did? Or what his relationship to Obama was? . . . Who knows what she’s up to?”

Despite some over-the-top gun imagery from Rich, he actually thinks it would be “hilarious” if she ran for President. Especially since Frank wonders whether “just being on the Fox payroll” is enough to satisfy her, he ultimately wouldn’t be shocked if Palin does jump into the race.

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  • Michelle

    Hm, it sounds like Frank is admitting that the corrupt, liberal media did a pretty good job at burying Bill Ayers and his connection to Obama.  Well, yes Frank, you did try, but luckily for us, we no longer have to count on the NYT and the rest of the liberal media as our only source of information. 

  • Valerie

    Sorry Frank I’m sure her infantile majesty from Wasilia knows all about Ayers and his every move! She’s probably an expert on Reverend Wright too!

    Although both of these talking points were put to the American people in 2008 and were soundly rejected by the majority of the electorate!

    It was funny watching her and Hannity go over it all over again. I liked to think of it as a preview of what her campaign would be like-low on substance high on attacks and ultimately failing miserably.

    Count it.

  • Anonymous

    If Sarah Palin talked about putting a gun to someone’s head, Frank Rich would go apoplectic.  Mr. Rich is a walking and talking tribute to liberal hypocrisy. 

  • Anonymous

    Rich and Bashir = two “floaters” in the toilet known as M(ore)S(ocialism)from N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns)
    Would somebody please pull the flush lever before the bowl overflows?

  • Michelle

    Count it Felix!

  • Anonymous

    Frank Rich is using violent imagery to get conservatives killed. Do any of you doubt that if a mad gunman killed a group of conservatives he wouldn’t pop campaign. But the media would not blame him like they blamed Palin (and the Tea Party) for killing Gabby.

  • Anonymous

    Bashir and Rich – talk about a room full of dummies,and they criticize Palin?

    Oh so funny and oh so MSNBC…liberal loons running amok at msnbc.

  • Anonymous

    P.S. NY Mag was the publication that boosted (on CNN) that they got Obama elected through slanted coverage because they wanted to see him elected to set history.

  • Anonymous

    After Bill Ayers and his gang had bombed and killed innocent American civilians, Obama and his liberals are still not “able to actually remember anything Bill Ayers actually did? Or what his relationship to Obama was? “

  • Anonymous

    After Bill Ayers and his gang had bombed and killed innocent American civilians, Obama and his liberals are still not “able to actually remember anything Bill Ayers actually did? Or what his relationship to Obama was? “

  • Michelle

    No doubt here.  What do you think, Matty?!

  • Anonymous

    With all the support of his Democrat liberal supporters, Barack Obama has caved in and surrendered to those people whom he loves to label as tea party terrorists.

    To use Frank Rich language : If you put a reloaded gun in front of Barack Obama, he would still chicken out and kowtow to those tea party terrorists. 

    What a piece of gutless coward !

  • Anonymous

    There is no better comedy than an old, pasty, white left wing fool like Frank Rich. BTW, since Martin Bashir is a “person of color”, I bet Rich tossed his salad after the show. All left wingers love self-abasement, and Rich more than most.

  • Michelle

    Guilty as Hell, Free as a Bird – Bill Ayres

  • Darladoon

    anyone who argues that the media is liberal is automatically disqualified
    from any rational discussion

  • Michelle

    Anyone who denies there is a liberal bias in the media is automatically disqualified
    from any rational discussion.

  • Anonymous

    Barack Obama has abandoned and betrayed his supporters, and caved in to those tea party terrorists. 

    Obama supporters, soon you will enjoy massive cuts in your social welfare so that Obama can continue to suck up and kiss down to those tea party terrorists.

    Barack Obama, do you know who are those tea party terrorists ? Do you know who you are surrendering and kowtowing to ? 

    To paraphrase Frank Rich : If you put a reloaded gun in front of Obama, would he be able to actually remember anything those tea party terrorists actually did? Or what their relationship to Sarah Palin is? . . . Who knows what he’s up to?

  • Anonymous

    Yep, he pretty much raped the gray lady. If you think this analogy is too harsh, just apply convoluted liberal logic to it, and it’ll be fine :)

  • Valerie

    I see you’ve met Ms. Bachmann. She’s running for POTUS dontchaknow?

  • Anonymous

    She pointed her gun at 20 people’s heads.

  • Anonymous

    Just remember: Bill Ayers was an actual terrorist. Sara Palin is just a ,made up one. And Martin Bashir is… well I was going to say he used to be a journalist. But I don’t count working for a government entity as journalism.

  • KarlSpensen

    Keep continuing to UNDERESTIMATE Sarah, left wing lib lamestream JERKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!111  She is going to help TAKE BACK our Once Proud Republic in 2012, whether she RUNS or not!!!!!!!111  You are all just a bunch of SEXISTS and TRIG HATERS!!!!!111  ROAR, Mama Grizzly, ROAR!!!!!!!!!!111

  • SNAPTIE

    Martin Bashir gets wood every-time Obama’s name is mentioned.

  • Anonymous

    Anyone who argues that the media is not liberal is a fool.

  • Anonymous

    Really!!! Link please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Whereas a pussy like Frank Rich gets all wet every time Obama’s name is mentioned.

  • Anonymous

    If you were stupid enough to put a re-loaded (as opposed to loaded?) gun to Palin, you can count on her to neutralize the threat. At the very least, you will likely be running around just praying you can find some of your teeth in hopes of having them reinstalled. More likely, you will be disarmed and made available for your friends and family to grieve over.
    Where the hell do you lib press freaks get these idiotic ideas? Do they really confiscate your brains when you enter journalism school?
    Obama knows who Ayers is and likely knows what he has done. Of that you can be certain. Ayers should be grateful that 99.99% of police officers have the highest of integrity and the other .01% of them have not got their hands on him.

  • Anonymous

    Just using liberal logic…….

  • Anonymous

    Dear Frank Rich,

    Please shut the f*ck up. Do you want Sarah Palin to go away? Then don’t talk about her. The woman’s mindless diatribes could be played off a tape recorder. Would you argue with a tape recorder……

    ….Yes…you would. Because you’re a hack columnist who wants to generate attention for your pathetic self by whacking a pinata that has some how possessed millions of lost souls.

  • Anonymous

    Dear Frank Rich,

    Please shut the f*ck up. Do you want Sarah Palin to go away? Then don’t talk about her. The woman’s mindless diatribes could be played off a tape recorder. Would you argue with a tape recorder……

    ….Yes…you would. Because you’re a hack columnist who wants to generate attention for your pathetic self by whacking a pinata that has some how possessed millions of lost souls.

  • Anonymous

    Their ideology is proving to be a failure in every sector of our lives, I guess all they have now is over the top rhetoric.  It must be a hateful world living as a liberal.

  • Anonymous

    Their ideology is proving to be a failure in every sector of our lives, I guess all they have now is over the top rhetoric.  It must be a hateful world living as a liberal.

  • Anonymous

    “…Bashir knew he had to do something special to break from the pack. Any
    time-serving left-wing hack on the New York Times op-ed page can compare
    tea partiers to terrorists. A clever, hard-working left-wing hack goes
    the extra mile and brings in a doctor to declare them certifiable.” — Allahpundit

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/03/hacktastic-martin-bashir-and-shrink-analyze-childish-possibly-psychotic-tea-partiers/

  • Anonymous

    “…Bashir knew he had to do something special to break from the pack. Any
    time-serving left-wing hack on the New York Times op-ed page can compare
    tea partiers to terrorists. A clever, hard-working left-wing hack goes
    the extra mile and brings in a doctor to declare them certifiable.” — Allahpundit

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/03/hacktastic-martin-bashir-and-shrink-analyze-childish-possibly-psychotic-tea-partiers/

  • Valerie

    Yes our over the top rhetoric like playing the nazi card!

    You apparently are a full blown parody of a conservative.

    Good luck with that.  

  • Anonymous

    A fellow Hot Air reader! 

  • Valerie

    Maybe he’ll toss your salad. I’m sure you’d enjoy it. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    The tea party Americans is going to just crush the democrats in 2010. If Palin runs she’ll blow the entire media up with her win..

  • Anonymous

    Ayers, an admitted terrorist , and  his wife , Bermardine Dohrn , longtime resident of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List were and are Obama’s  cronies . Ayers wrote wrote Obama’s ” Dreams” book .

    The incredible list of shady characters surrounding Obama his entire life have contributed to making this guy someone who should not even be in the White House on a tour , let alone live there .

    “Dohrn was criticized for comments she made about the murders of actress Sharon Tate and retail store owners Leno and Rosemary LaBianca by the Charles Manson clan. In a speech during the December 1969 “War Council” meeting organized by the Weathermen, attended by about 400 people in Flint, Michigan, Dohrn said, “First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!”[12] In greeting each other, delegates to the war council often spread their fingers to signify the fork.[7]
    In 2008, Dohrn’s husband Bill Ayers wrote that Dohrn was being ironic when she made the statement about the Manson murders.[13] Ayers wrote that he always thought Dohrn’s statement was intended to make a political point, “agitated and inflamed and full of rhetorical overkill, and partly as a joke, stupid perhaps, tasteless, but a joke nonetheless”, and similar (he said) to jokes about Charles Manson that were being made by Hunter S Thompson and Richard Pryor. Ayers said he had been present at interviews with reporters in which Dohrn had tried to put her statement in context but the reporters had dismissed her explanation.[13] However, in a 2001 Salon article, David Horowitz wrote: “In 1980, I taped interviews with 30 members of the Weather Underground who were present at the Flint War Council, including most of its leadership. Not one of them thought Dohrn was anything but deadly serious.”

  • KarlSpensen

    We should all HANG OUT and come up with different FUNNY NAMES for Obama!!!!!111  I like “Obowma” or “Obamao”, or ANYTHING that includes “Hussein”!!!!!11  What do YOU guys think?!?!11  It’s so NICE to be among fellow Right-Thinking Americans!!!!!!111  Once we get VALERIE and the ROYAL QUEEN out of here it’ll be JUST US!!!!!!!!111

  • Anonymous

    If the Tea party were domestic terrorists the Obamas would want to hang out with them all the time. ;)

  • Anonymous

    You forgot Community Agitator, Divider in Chief and Socialist Clown!!!!11

  • Valerie

    What you couldn’t fir nazi in there? You’re slipping.

  • Michelle

    Count it, Ms. Jarrett!

  • Anonymous

    Seriously people, if the Tea Party were terrorists and had taken over the capitol, would the Messiah be at a $38,500 per plate fund raiser in Chicago tonight? Hmmm…OK maybe that’s not the right question.

  • Scullman

    Hey Rich, go back to doing your theatre reviews, at least you had an audience.
    Here’s a flash news item from deep in NYC:
    Nobody gives a sh*t what you think.

  • TXarc

    You can bet the Alaska hillbilly was spoon fed the name Ayers and wouldn’t have a clue if asked to elaborate, that is, is she knows what ‘elaborate’ means.

  • RP22

    Actually he is one of the brightest journalists in America. He may be too liberal for your views, but no one has ever questioned his intellectual veracity..

  • ProudConservative

    Who are Martin and Frank?

    HehHehHeh

  • RP22

    OK tough guy…

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Most media is very liberal. That’s the fact!

  • Valerie

    COUNT IT MS. BACHMANN!!!!!

  • Tedderman

    You’ve really got to quit drinking during the day, you’re becoming incoherent.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Never too late for buyers regret!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Just say no to drugs! Nacho_dos.

  • Tedderman

    Please get your computer checked, it appears to keep repeating the same lines ad nauseam.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Just people who read it. Small groups count too right!

  • KarlSpensen

    HAHAHAHAHahahaHAHAhahAHAHAhahaHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111

  • KarlSpensen

    Why are you so SEXIST?!?!?!?!111

  • KarlSpensen

    HahaHahAHAhahaHAHAHAHahaHAHAH DEAD ON!!!!!!!!!!!!111

  • Tedderman

    How ’bout the Marxist Kenyan, Fox has just retreaded the Obama is a muslim story on the morning show.

  • Anonymous

    WASHINGTON — US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of
    gross domestic product after the government’s debt ceiling was lifted,
    Treasury figures showed Wednesday…

    The new borrowing took total public debt to
    $14.58 trillion, over end-2010 GDP of $14.53 trillion, and putting it in
    a league with highly indebted countries like Italy and Belgium…The last time US debt topped the size of its annual economy was in 1947 just after World War II.

    Moody’s said Tuesday that the government needed to stabilize the ratio
    at 73 percent by 2015 “to ensure that the long-run fiscal trajectory
    remains compatible with a AAA rating.”

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jsIJrjNbFnHfTteRFzNM3vLqKiug?docId=CNG.1990c2943612788ba4bed492da11c97b.891
     
    Which is why every Democrat and their media lackeys are liars (I know, that’s not exactly news). The triple A rating is directly tied to our out-of-control spending. Lifting the debt ceiling only exacerbated the situation.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’m shocked to learn you have a source for information. It certainly isn’t discernible. If you don’t mind my asking, what man is it?

  • KarlSpensen

    I get a RAGING Freedom Chubby every time We get to call libs RACIST!!!!!!!!!111

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Proof?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Proof?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    When was Dr. Ayers convicted?

  • Anonymous

    there you go again valerie.  You have now used “nazi” twice.  Are you like 12?  

  • Tedderman

    Great use of the English language Chuck, you sure “is.”

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Sorry, Michelle-in-Utah (Or should that be Sorry Michelle-in-Utah?) but Mr. Rich (Or should that be Mr. Job Creator?) isn’t going anywhere.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Under our system of jurisprudence, Michelle-in-Utah, one cannot be “guilty” unless one has been convicted. Why do you hate our system of jurisprudence?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Well, Michelle-in-Utah, she’s not going anywhere.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Child please put the v-chip back in to the PC in front of you!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    True, but Michelle-in-Utah’s not going anywhere.

  • Nature Freak

    just4thefax, the media is liberal only in an upper middle class sense.

    Many in the media could care less about the unemployed in Michigan and Florida and elsewhere. Many in the media look down at those who work with their hands. The working class is a million miles away to media elites so to speak.

    It’s a class thing.

  • Valerie

    God I want you so bad!!!! Will you treat me like  bad bad  NASTY girl if I say Nazi again? 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Why spend money in Vegas when you have The Chicago?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So, Teatsy hates our system of jurisprudence as well.

  • Anonymous

    There doesn’t appear to be much upstairs with that one.

  • Anonymous

    There doesn’t appear to be much upstairs with that one.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: All that matters is the means to the end!

  • Anonymous

    The funniest and hence the most tragic is President of the US.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    You must be a union teacher thug. Thanks for the lesson

  • Anonymous

    Here’s your proof right here, of course most of us like to use reason and common sense, but for the rest of you…

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/01/ucla-professors-new-book-empirically-demonstrates-liberal-media-bias-video/

  • Anonymous

    Fact: You cause vomit when you post!

  • Valerie

     Yeah, what a joke-nazi boy says he likes reason.

    Utter parody.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, you ruined the funny by introducing that harsh reality.

  • Valerie

    Nazi-lad speaks! 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Too bad you libs can’t add and subtract like
    you think that you can spell or you would be allot more angrier about spending
    more on the debt!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The Daily Caller? Please. The only thing the Daily Caller proves is that Carlson is a shrill, shallow effeminate psychotic panderer.

  • Anonymous

    Neither Rich nor Bashir is fit to clean the moose-dung off Gov. Sarah Palin’s hunting boots, They are virility-challenged, nerdy indoorsmen.

  • Scullman

    The problem isn’t what Palin knows or doesn’t know about Bill Ayers, the problem is what media hacks like Frank Rich and others, like the guy who runs this site, Dan Abrams, knew about Obama and Ayers and didn’t care to spend five minutes digging into the story in 2008.
    Ayers wrote a grant to the Annenburg Council at Brown University in 1995, and received $100 million dollars for “education improvement” in the Chicago city school system. He appointed an unknown 3rd year associate part-time lawyer/lecturer named Barack Obama to be the Chairman of The Chicago Annenburg Challenge. After that, Obama appointed Ayers to the Woods Foundation Board. Alice Palmer, the Illinois State Senator for Obama’s Hyde Park district, hand picked Obama to replace her when she made her bid for the U.S. Congress. She introduced the unknown Obama to her base in Ayers living room. This is the same Alice Palmer who attended the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of The Soviet Union in Moscow, in April 1986.

    Oh Details, details.

    When asked about his relationship to Ayers during the campaign Obama answered, “He’s a just guy who lives on my block.”

    Frank Rich, Dan Abrams, and scores of other “journalists” had no f*cking problem with that answer.

  • SouthernYankee

    What liberal media?  Keep yourself believing that.  Just because your wingers keep repeating and repeating the stupid line doesn’t make it true.  Goodness Corporation now own media outlets.  I guess you think Fox News is so fair and balanced?  Not really.   Mr Samson makes sure everyone gets the memo of the day and pounding it to death.    I wish the liberal media really did stand up for doing the right thing.  I find it very funny when the left pushes back on the terrorist theme you baggers push you all cry like babies.  LOL, you wingers are a bunch of babies and terrorist.

  • Anonymous

    Funny, I suspected you would dismiss the source and totally avoid the evidence contained within.  The Daily Caller may have hosted the information, but the video is of the professor that conducted the research.

  • Johnjguy

    I rather hope that she runs and adds some entertainment to the whole proceedings. 

    I really would like to see the Tea Party in all their full glory. She is exactly what populist politics domestically and globally needs.

  • Nature Freak

    Many mainstream journalists are well meaning. They come off as “Liberal’.
    Unfortunately, many of them do not have a clue what is happening to the working class. There are also journalists who become such so they would not have to be with the unwashed masses.

    Still, their are many journalists that actually care. They give a damn. They do good work. I hope I have not offended them.

    Peace.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, arent’t you libs sorry to be called liberal?  

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Which only the Daily Caller picked up? Does that tell you anything? Obviously not.

  • Anonymous

    What is funny, is that they call conservatives all kinds of despicable names and yet, they get all upset when we just call ‘em libs!

  • http://twitter.com/LippyBroad lippybroad

    Frank Who?

    Signed, 99.98% of Americans

  • Johnjguy

    Liberal, Conservative, Independent who cares!?! I just want to see her do what she does best…

  • Anonymous

    You must be reading a different journalist who also has the name Frank Rich.  The one who writes for the New York Times is an ideologue full of over-the-top rhetoric, outlandish accusations, twisted facts and standards that flip-flop from week to week depending on the topic at hand.  He is an embarrassment to the Times, and only pleases ultra-far-left zealots who want all of their prejudices confirmed with minimal intrusion from the facts.

  • Anonymous

    skponggol: Don’t get me wrong, he’ll still get my vote (I just can’t quit him!). But, dang, those tea party terrorists are so mean.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Never said he was, your point is vaguely humanoid and composed of straw.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve got to be kidding!

  • Anonymous

    Which is….what, exactly?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It has the added benefit of being 100% accurate.

  • Anonymous

    Sarah Palin is just a bi**h.   Just more guilt-by-association and smears from her.   I wonder what people would come up with if they judged her based on any person she’s ever been in the same room with.

  • Anonymous

    Proof… here it is. The media never reported on and never vetted Obama… never reported on Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis (Uncle Frank in Obama’s book), the lock down of college records, the absence of other college records, the financing of college expenses (Obama and family were broke)… and much, much more. What the media concealed is greater than what they reported.

  • Anonymous

    See this is the funny part about a straw man argument. You get to defeat a weaker argument than the one  given. It’s like logic for dummies.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Sarah.  Why don’t you just come out and say that you think Obama supports terrorism…or that he hates America??  

    You keep alluding to it with all this innuendo, so why not grow a pair and just say it?   

    That’s clearly what you’re trying to say by continuing to bring up Bill Ayers….so why not just say what you mean?? 

    She’s a first-rate coward.   Get up off the sidelines, Sarah and run for president or go the eff away. 

  • Anonymous

    Oops …. and it begins ….

    Judge allows American to sue Rumsfeld over torture
    http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16048/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=5iYP25Tr

    Can’t wait for the whole administration to be locked up for war crimes.  This is just the beginning.

  • Anonymous

    lol….Rich throws Palin’s own word back at here and the Tealiban wet their panties.

    Classic.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida
  • realheadline

    Piss off libs.

  • Jnorv

    Quit confusing the Liberals with facts. They are not mentally equipped to deal with facts only feelings.

  • realheadline

    Keynsian.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SI5NXALBPMGH5A7BLRV6GWW3BM Jim

    Frank Rich is one irrelavant queen if ever there was one… 

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    excellent proof.  He claims that the Drudge Report is the most neutral news source in the nation.  
    and his reason of why the media downplayed the roll of religion in the failed plot of the fort hood nutjob while calling out the norway nutjob as a right-wing christian freak is because… ”the left worship the god of equality.  muslims happen to be poorer than christian so the far left, worshiping the god of equality will be more sympathetic to the poorer people.”http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201108010004i think this guy groseclose also said fox news was “fair and balanced”

  • Anonymous

    Frank Rich, really? Who cares what this bag of dung thinks?

    Jugears DOES have ties to Ayers, he can pizz and moan about it all day, it doesn’t change Jugears past.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    tedderman, On second thought don’t waste my eye’s with 3 rd grade taunts.. For your information the currant democratic party has been using a retreaded playbook since the 40′s. .

  • BeggarBoy

    To paraphrase Simon de Beauvoir (who said: When a woman tries to become a human being she is accused of trying to become a man): When reporters attempt to report the truth, they are accused of being Liberals.

  • Anonymous

    “When reporters attempt to report the truth, they are accused of being Liberals. ”

    Just because your lie fits on a bumper sticker, doesn’t make it any less of a lie.

  • Michelle

    CNN’s Don Lemon Treated Dem Opponents of Debt Ceiling Bill With Kid Gloves, But Scrutinized Dissenting Republican

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2011/08/03/cnns-don-lemon-treated-dem-opponents-debt-ceiling-bill-kid-gloves-scruti#ixzz1U14sgeCP

    What liberal media bias?

  • Michelle

    Guilty as hell, Free as a bird – Bill Ayers

  • Michelle

    Oh how you so casually defend an ADMITTED terrorist.  You libs are sick.

  • Michelle

    Actually I was mocking Val Jarrett who uses it relentlessly, so I will forward her your comment.

  • Michelle

    Kitty Kat, Ozero is continuing Bush’s policies.  Should he be convicted of war crimes also?

    Now clean your little box, you stink.

  • Rusty Shackleford

    His book “The Decline and Fall of Truth” was very intellectual and pointed out a lot of dastardly deeds the Bush administration committed. However, the double standard should be evident to anyone following the media. MSNBC, CNN, etc. lambasted Palin’s “crosshairs” after the election had taken place and blamed Jared Loughtner’s schizophrenia and psychopathic murders on her (a member of these forums did the same the other night in the Gabby Giffords thread, remember?). But yet Rich literally says “if you put a reloaded gun” to her head ON MSNBC and the left ignores it as commonplace in our discourse. That is the definition of double standard.

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII

    It’s Frank that’s clueless about Ayers.  He can’t even get Gov. Palin’s phrase right.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Quit?

  • KarlSpensen

    HahahAHAHAHahaHAHAHahaHAHAHA “JUGEARS”!!!!!!!!!!1111  Classic!!!!!!!!!!!1111  LOL!!!!!!!!111

  • Anonymous

    Oh yah?  lol

  • Anonymous

    “Guilty as hell, free as a bird” – Bill Ayers

    He doesn’t deny it, Kook, but you do. You lie, boy.

  • Anonymous

    Nobody is arguing doofus – the liberal media is a known fact.  Therefore, you have now disqualified yourself from any rational discussion because your statement was completely irrational.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    are you attempting to lie about ayers?  He admitted what he did – and he’s still proud of it.

    God you are just too freaking dumb.  Why don’t you and Valerie (the nazi hunter) take a long walk off a short pier.  A couple of imbeciles who keep repeating themselves cause you can’t come up with anything new until you get your fresh off the press talking points next week.

  • Anonymous

    that’s bull shit bro.  You read about the guy who just admitted to murder and yet he was found not guilty. So again – you lie.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Sarah Who?

    Signed, History

  • Anonymous

    I think I’ll pass thanks and just treat you like the idiot you’re painting yourself.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    If he’s not convicted, he’s not guilty.

    Conversely, it is possible someone who didn’t do a thing can be guilty simply because he’s been convicted. In fact, in Texas, it happens with a certain alarming regularity. Elsewhere, too, but it all stands out a bit more here because our current governor and his predecessor love executing people.

    It’s our system. Don’t like it, work to change it. Just stop whining.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It’s our system. The one our Founding Fathers gave us. You know, the men who dressed like Tea Partiers. Don’t like it, change it, Michelle-in-Utah. Just stop whining.

    And where do you come off critcizing me for defending an alleged terrorist. I have never once heard you criticize the LDS men who savagely murdered “Gentile” men, women, boys, girls and infants in the Mormon Massacre at Mountain Meadow.

  • Anonymous

    Huh…it’s funny.

    Back in ’77, as a teenager, I remember reading Frank Rich’s review for the original STAR WARS in Time Magazine. I remember how it made the cover…well, sort of…because it got a tiny photo up in the corner. But I can still recall reading that particular review and then, as a Star Wars fan, likewise reading his other reviews for the saga.

    But it’s funny. Somehow I still can figure out WHY the guy who wrote a ka-zillion crappy movie or theater reviews should be anyone that I give TWO CRAPS about when it comes to his POLITICAL beliefs.

    Because in the end, they’re just that — HIS beliefs. The same as I’m entitled to mine…or you to yours…or anyone else to theirs. And it’s not like this guy has actually ever done anything in politics, which would at least give me cause to give a crap.

    But frankly (no pun intended on the name!) his Hollywood reviews always came off as a bit TOO suck up. You could just TELL that he wanted to curry favor with certain stars and directors and what not. And ironically, you can still “get” and “feel” the exact same vibe in his columns to this day. Dislikes Bush? Give him a pan like a failed movie. Tear the guy apart as much as you can, using as many infantile put-downs as you can. Want to suck-up to Obama? Give him glowing praise like a Star Wars movie, especially when it can shine additional light on to yourself and help you career wise.

    Then again, when you think about it, this piece is funny because we’re ultimately talking about two media hacks — Rich and Bashir — trading jokes and acting as if THEY are such the big sh*t, when in reality they really ARE simply two media hacks shooting off their mouths, where no one with a brain actually cares what these two blustery, blubbery troglodytes think.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: every time a wack-do wants to validate, their hate, spin, dishonest views,… all media is liberal, but “Fox” !

  • Anonymous

    O.J. Simpson and Casey Anthony weren’t convicted of murder, either, but most intelligent, rational adults agree that they’re both guilty as sin.  And they haven’t even come out and admitted their crimes (yet) as Bill Ayers has.  Do you have a real point to make?

  • Anonymous

    No! Once again,.. no proof, just “tea” ramble. Tim Groceclose is a conservative, that states his political heros to be Dick Armey, Dick Cheney and Newt! he even admits, much of the information came from conservative think tanks, ‘tea”, “tea”, “tea”! Check his Bio.

  • Anonymous

    are you insane?  He just came out and said “I did the killing”!  Are you attempting to state that he’s not guilty?  

    God you are one stupid person and keep proving it.  

  • Latin2

    Apparently the MSM knew who Bill Ayers was and HID THE FACT that he was a real domestic terrorist, along with his wife.

  • Ganymede

    One of the great things about Mediaite is the selection of clips you can see regularly. I had never heard Martin Bashir before but was curious because he’s been so vilified by rightwingers. Mediaite’s ability to throw very strong red meat (Rich, Maher, Matthews, Bashir, Krugman) drives you people crazy and 99% of your comments here are the usual insipid arguments and pissing contests. Sarah Palin’s equating the Tea Party terrorists with Bill Ayres is way off the mark. What has Bill Ayres done as a Weatherman ‘terrorist’ that’s worse than, say, George Bush’s destroying a country or Obama’s continuing warfare. At least Ayre’s youthful naivite and mistakes were done in an attempt to help people.  The Tea Party is basically a wrecking party with nothing substantive or positive to offer. My oft repeated questions to you are, asides from your desire get rid of Obama, what is your program? How do we create more jobs? Lowering taxes and cutting spending for basics has never worked and never will. What is your stimulus plan? Let’s get real. Fortunately, and it’s no accident, the time of Murdoch is over. We’ve had enough of him and because of his overreaching, immoral and unethical business practices, the right along with the Tea Party which was a production of FOX, will see its power ebbing.    

  • Anonymous

    I can hardly wait for your new “buzz” word next week.  

  • daveinboca

    The smartest thing that the stupid NYT has done in the last few years is getting this clown off its Op-Ed page.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YYV7W3AIWVWRM5TO55QB5MV3RA tanatos

    The deranged leftist lunatics are getting mighty desperate…Vile maggots, the  lot of them.

  • Anonymous

    “The notion that civility and nominal bipartisanship would accomplish any
    of the heavy lifting required to rebuild America is childish magical
    thinking, and, worse, a mindless distraction from the real work before
    the nation. Sure, it would be swell if rhetorical peace broke out in
    Washington — or on cable news networks —” Frank Rich in an article after the shooting of Gabby Giffords,. What a POS this guys is.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Lib’ is quickly becoming one of those words like Jap or Retard or Homo.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Barack-Mugabe/100002323247419 Barack Mugabe

    Would Palin know what Ayers did and what his relationship to Obama was?

    Sure. He was a terrorist who blew up buildings and people and says his only regret was that he didn’t do more.  And Barack Obama launched his political career in the man’s living room.  What else do you need to know, you needle-nose Stalinist?

    But even more remarkable than Sarah Palin REMEMBERING Bill Ayers is that the corrupt leftwing media finally acknowledges he exists.  Maybe the entire country would know something about terrorist Ayers if your Stalinist rag had covered him at all during the campaign.  Because if he was as harmless as you now laughably suggest, you wouldn’t have gone out of your way to bury him as a story.

    And how hilarious to hear the left — and this pathetic nitwit — whining about media bias?  Priceless!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam

    “‘If you put a reloaded gun in front of her, to use her language, would
    she be able to actually remember anything Bill Ayers actually did? Or
    what his relationship to Obama was?’”

    First of all, Frank, “reload” was never used by Palin within the context of guns or violence. It was about not retreating and continuing to fight for what she and other conservatives believe in.

    Secondly, folks who don’t rely on MSDNC, CNN, the alphabet networks, the NYT, or Jon Stewart for their news(which sadly rules out quite a few posters on here) remember damn well what Bill Ayers did. He was a terrorist who attempted to bomb the Capitol and police stations and murder innocent people to further the political ideology of the Weather Underground. Which BTW was to ultimately overthrow the US government. The only reason he never ended up behind bars was because the FBI engaged in illegal wiretapping.

    Thirdly, many of us(including Palin) are well aware of what his relationship with Obama was. Obama began his political career in the living room of Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Obama and Ayers also sat together on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Whose purpose incidentally was to use hundreds of millions of dollars to improve the Chicago public education system, but ended up making it worse. They also appeared at events together where they each gave speeches. And there’s even talk that Ayers collaborated with Obama on his two books. So spare me the “some guy in the neighborhood” BS that the media has tried to bury this story with for the last 3 1/2 years.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam

    That wouldn’t be happening if “libs” would quit appointing the likes of Debbie What-a-dumb Schmuck as the chairperson of their party and backing inexperienced, Marxist community organizers for President.

  • Anonymous

    I just paid $ 23.86 for an iPhone and my girlfriend loves her Dell laptop that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 42 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 665 which only cost me $ 62,81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, GrabPenny.com

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QSKMPRZSWAHFSA2HMYAWRPJUKU Gary

    I also find it curious that the usual idiots who post here have a blind spot when it comes to Palin’s hypocrisy in regard to her own family’s anti American issues.  If her husband belonged to a party who’s mission statement is to secede from the US then how does he not hate America?  He was a member for 7 years so it’s not like he didn’t know what it was all about.  Or maybe he is just that stupid.  Kudos to you Ganymede for puncturing some of these morons” balloons!  Sarah Palin is an idiot.

  • fanofgrendel

    Can’t believe the asshat used a gun to the head analogy. That was “rich” with the usual liberal brew of snobbery, recklessness and hypocrisy.

  • Taters N Beans

    Palin’s dumber than a bag of hammers but she’s knows better than to actually run and be exposed for just how unpopular she really is.

  • Wake up America

    I see you met Obama and still don’t know.

  • Anonymous

    I suppose self-incrimination doesn’t count?
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080830115945AATquXy
    Of course, from anybody but yourself it couldn’t, JUST COULDN’T, be 100% accurate. That nirvana is reserved only for faux-emperors!
    By the way, faux-emperor, how do I know that you are liberal? Is it what you say? What you do? To whom you contribute out of your welfare cheque?
    And how would I know which journalists are Liberal? Same metrics?
    Here’s one of those 100% accurate metrics you seem to have abrogated to your own dearly-beloved self:
     http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455/ns/politics/t/list-journalists-who-wrote-political-checks/
    http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/editors-desk/article_11d77d38-c0f6-11df-82c2-0017a4a78c22.html
    http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/media-professionals-and-journalists-donate.html

  • Anonymous

    The truth hurts, huh?

  • Anonymous

    He admitted the crimes. That’s good enough for me.

  • Anonymous

    That’s a lie.

  • Anonymous

    And Jeremy Morlock was an actual murderer who took pictures with his victims. Sarah Palin has much more connection to Jeremy Morlock than Obama ever did to Bill Ayers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IBFF2EYFBRD3YWGNXDUNNJ3V6I Joan

    Rich is just another flamer from the left who doesn’t get it.  I really feel for him.  The press isn’t like it used to be.  Fox is more conservative in its choice of stories to run than the rest of the world.  But, they also make an effort to show the other side’s view.  The Libs don’t even try.  Also, their news men (Wallace and Bret) ask very tough questions of all sides, the right and the left.  The CNN, MSNBCs, Yahoo, etc they all just fawn over the President, who has never run a kool – aid stand, and then they trash anyone who disagrees.  One way you can tell for sure is Libya.  Here we went into Libya, another war.  AS Obama said ” no longer than a week or so!”  Well wee have already spent a billion dollars there and no end in sight.  We have depleted our bombs and paid for most of the action, and yet, no one says anything..???  Why not??? When the UN and COngress voted to go into Iraq, they skewered Bush.  This guy didn’t go there at all.  Another example is the union thugs that have caused all the problems in Wisconsin and other places by being violent.  This gets NO press at all.  If Sara Palin uses a word like”sites” they accuse her of causing murders all over the world.  The liberals just do not get attractive women in politics.  They are bigoted against Christianity, they are bigoted against attractive conservative women. I guess they are just revolting or should I say revolutionary (Che!) violent  people supporting the destruction of America and what they want is free (meaning the government pays) everything.  Now tell me how this will work in America.  Where opportunity and the chance to fullfill your dreams is what is promised.  Redistribution of wealth, no army, changing the Constitution, Welfare STate,  – now those are beliefs that will surely help America stay strong!  NOT!  – As if the radical islamist and Putin and China aren’t just waiting for that to happen.  Then the government will control EVERYTHING!  And, as we know.  The government doesn’t do much of anything well!

  • Anonymous

    I think “progressive” kitty has a bad case of feline distemper.

  • Harry Flashman

    I think he has him confused with Rich Little, the comedian. Understandable, though. Rich Little imitated cepebrities. Frank Rich imitates objective journalism.

    Monkey see, monkey don’t.

  • TruDat

    Yep, she’s so dumb she was elected Mayor, Governor, and selected as a Vice Presidential candidate, is a NY Times bestselling author, had her own television show, makes hundreds of thousands on speaking engagements, and you do what???

  • Anonymous

    So they use propagandized analogies to mass murders, and then talk about holding guns to people’s heads? These people are out of control!

  • Anonymous

    So based on a Washington charade there are people that call others whom they disagree with “terrorists”, but refuse to call a real terrorist one? What kind of backwards fascist nonsense is this? Is this really what our country has become? Truly sick.

  • adler56

    righties are legally crazy and un-american

  • adler56

    you’re too dumb to be in any discussion.

  • adler56

    yeah Murdoch is real liberal- what does he own 100 papers?

  • Anonymous

    Very intellectual?…very very very intellectual? Alinsky-level intellectual? Shackleford intellectual?
    For shame, Rusty, if you are indeed THE RUSTY SHACKLEFORD, to use a totally meaningless abstraction like “very intellectual” as though there was a grading scale for intellect…!
    Frank Rich is first and foremost a FILM CRITIC! He makes his living looking at a technicolour fantasy world! What the hell would he know about TRUTH?
    Ah! and those dastardly deeds you seem to know so much about. Care to tell us which ones they were? and whether Frank’s “TRUTH” is universally accepted or peculiar to you and him?
    Shame on you! You are defending a hack! You are lying down with a flea-ridden dog! Stay away from polite company, will you please!

  • wlv

    And you seem to be too delusional to be in any rational discussion.

  • Rusty Shackleford

    Read the book. He cites everything with newspapers articles. The truth was out there during the Bush adm. it was just peppered on the page 8 or 11. His presidency (much like Obama’s) was nothing but an 8 year PR stunt (with 2 years of vacation). I am a Tea Party PATRIOT (not to be confused with the misleading civil rights legislation travesty of the same capitilized name) but I will never defend the crimes (yes crimes! Abu Ghrab anyone?) that his people allowed and administered.

  • Dahni

    I knew Ayers, and he was and most likely still is someone who would plant a bomb in the home of anyone  he disagrees with.  He’s not in prison because his wealthy, influential family bought his amnesty so long as he never participated in the political arena again.  Just as they bought his and his wife’s faculty positions….  He was a killer, and hasn’t changed that part of his belief system.  He’s quite intelligent, but thinks he is also very smart; but actually is no different than a fanatical religioso.

  • Nature Freak

    Palin only knows what her advisers tell her, and I suspect she soon forgets.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gillar/1204195673 Mark Gillar

    Rich is a complete idiot.  He is quoted in Steyn’s book as saying Tea Partiers want to take this country back from a black president and a female who was then speaker of the house.

    For all you  liberals who don’t get it, “Take Our Country Back!” means to take it back from the politicians
    who have destroyed it.  Than means politicians on the left and right.

    You notice Rich doesn’t go on to actually discuss the relationship with Bill Ayers or the thing Ayers did.
    No sense in bringing all that up again let alone the things he’s doing now to stir  up trouble in the middle east.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gillar/1204195673 Mark Gillar

    I suppose you should tell Bill Ayers that since Michelle was quoting him.  And when did she say she hated our jursprudence system?   He was found not guilty on a technicality.  You might want to remember that Not Guilty doesn’t mean the accused didn’t do it.  Ayers admitted he did it.  You really have a way of cherry-picking your history don’t you?

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