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Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert On Union Protesters’ Hatred Of Fox News: “You Just Gotta Laugh”

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Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert visited liberal radio host Stephanie Miller‘s show Monday to share his thoughts about the union protests in Wisconsin – including one protester’s decision to hit Fox News reporter Mike Tobin as he attempted to cover the event.

In response to the network’s complaints about the behavior and downright animosity of the protesters, Boehlert told an already-chuckling Miller that “you just gotta laugh” over the fact that Tobin and his colleague, Gregg Jarrett, have been discussing the incident at length – “this coming from someone,” Boehlert said, “who works for a station that essentially concocts hate on an hourly basis.”

While Boehlert said he doesn’t advocate violence against reporters, he finds it “unusual” that Fox News, or any other network for that matter, has yet to air footage of the alleged attack, and also took Fox contributors to task for labeling the incident an “assault.”

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  • writer

    When someone is assaulted, you should always ask their political affiliation before deciding whether or not to laugh.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Lib liars like these are the joke. Fox will continue to grow because they are the only outlet for the truth. If Ruppert would just buy CBS or one of the broadcast networks they would destoy the other two.

  • espo222

    Is this the guy who gets paid to write stories about Fox? Actually, let me be clear in my question. Is this the guy who gets paid to write stories about Fox, that doesn’t have a show on MSNBC?

  • ImNotBlue

    On with Stephanie Miller?! HA!

    Go back to selling GOLD Miller!

    Buy Gold!

    (Wow, that WAS fun! Now I see why you guys do it over and over again.)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Phil-Bourekas/1538058627 Phil Bourekas

    let’s see:
    – willing to believe untaped racial epithets at a tea party rally
    – unwilling to believe untaped assault at a union rally

    Does politics affect their view of reality?

  • writer

    Good thing no one was killed. Wouldn’t want him to bust a gut.

  • perceptorii

    “This coming from someone,” Boehlert said, “who works for a station that essentially concocts hate on an hourly basis.”

    Thank you for your input, Captain Projection.

  • tgk

    writer said:
    When someone is assaulted, you should always ask their political affiliation before deciding whether or not to laugh.

    In the spirit of humor and related to your post:

    http://www.facebook.com/czaratlarge?sk=wall#!/video/video.php?v=10150130203923475&oid=134974529848296&comments

    Enjoy!

  • tgk

    “Take a listen:”

    No thanks, I’ll pass.

  • tgk

    In order for that link above to work, you have to copy and paste the whole thing, just clicking on it doesn’t take you to the actual video I was trying for.

  • OxyCon

    Listening to Soros’ little crap flinger laugh at union mobs assaulting people is reason number 999,999 why people are fleeing the Democrat Party.
    You’d be hard pressed to find two more indecent people then Eric Boehlert and Stephanie Miller…that is if you don’t watch MessNBC.

  • http://endisfar.com theendisfar

    It will not be long until the Unions (aka Labor Trusts, Labor Cartels) pick on the wrong person/people. The Greek Goonion protests are going to look like child’s play once US Goonions start attacking True Liberals http://wp.me/pB8xR-6T

    Big Government, Big Business, and Big Labor are all about to collapse, is your community going to collapse with them?

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Eric Boehlert and Stephanie Miller!
    OMG!
    Which one do you think has the highest testosterone
    level?

    BARF!

  • kvon

    writer said:
    When someone is assaulted, you should always ask their political affiliation before deciding whether or not to laugh.

    Just ask Rush about the journos in Egypt.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    If the F*x Nausea machine had ANY proof of the “alleged assault” they would be running it 24/7. You know, I know it. They’ve become the boy who cried wolf. They’ve told so many lies they would need Jesus Christ and two reliable witnesses to back them up if they reported the sun came up in the East.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Lib liars like these are the joke. Fox will continue to grow because they are the only outlet for the truth. If Ruppert would just buy CBS or one of the broadcast networks they would destoy the other two.

    Strange to label someone a liar when you don’t have all the facts.

  • tatboy

    I know I laugh when I see a liberal reporter get whacked. So I guess me and Eric Boehlert are kindred souls. ;)

  • The Real Royal King

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Fox will continue to grow because they are the only outlet for the truth.

    Pretty stagnant these days, actually.

    gordonbloyershow said:
    If Ruppert would just buy CBS or one of the broadcast networks they would destoy the other two.

    If NewsCorp ever turns a profit, he might just do that.

  • lane

    writer said:
    When someone is assaulted, you should always ask their political affiliation before deciding whether or not to laugh.

    well said! Hatred and violence shouldn’t be tolerated just because you agree with someone. .

  • writer

    kvon, don’t agree if Rush did it. Don’t agree when this guy does it. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

  • JazzyJim

    writer said:
    When someone is assaulted, you should always ask their political affiliation before deciding whether or not to laugh.

    What “vitrol” towards the media? It’s Fokkks NewZ. LOL.

  • JazzyJim

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Lib liars like these are the joke. Fox will continue to grow because they are the only outlet for the truth. If Ruppert would just buy CBS or one of the broadcast networks they would destoy the other two.

    You’re backing the Ministry of Lies that Goebbels would be working for if he were alive today. Newspeak is not truth.

  • JazzyJim

    JazzyJim said:
    What “vitriol” towards the media? It’s Fokkks NewZ. LOL.

    Corrected for the editors.

  • JazzyJim

    writer said:
    kvon, don’t agree if Rush did it. Don’t agree when this guy does it. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

    This is a “false Fox” report as witness by the video on this site.

  • JazzyJim

    OxyCon said:
    Listening to Soros’ little crap flinger laugh at union mobs assaulting people is reason number 999,999 why people are fleeing the Democrat Party.
    You’d be hard pressed to find two more indecent people then Eric Boehlert and Stephanie Miller…that is if you don’t watch MessNBC.

    You wish. Wisconsin is building the base. Americans are finally seeing what the Republicans have instore for them – Corporate Slaves, carrying the weight of the Republican debts forever, free passes for the Corporate Welfare Citizen on the backs of the tax paying workers.

  • JazzyJim

    writer said:
    Good thing no one was killed. Wouldn’t want him to bust a gut.

    Man Up women of the Right-Wing. You wouldn’t see Ann Coultre bitching about being bumped. Go look at the film. Weeper Boehner, Cryer Beck, there’s no helping this little girls.

  • JazzyJim

    ImNotBlue said:
    On with Stephanie Miller?! HA!

    Go back to selling GOLD Miller!

    Buy Gold!

    (Wow, that WAS fun! Now I see why you guys do it over and over again.)

    Beck’s only sponsor is gold-line. What are you talking about Willis?

  • JazzyJim

    OxyCon said:
    Listening to Soros’ little crap flinger laugh at union mobs assaulting people is reason number 999,999 why people are fleeing the Democrat Party.
    You’d be hard pressed to find two more indecent people then Eric Boehlert and Stephanie Miller…that is if you don’t watch MessNBC.

    Back to Glenn Beck’s Fear Dome!! Hurry! I’m scaaaared!!

  • WildMan

    Eric Boehlert and Stephanie Miller are the definition of HATRED. Just as Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Rachael Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell are the definition of ANGRY HATRED. As an Independent I look at things from both sides and it is more like 90% of the real hatred and anger is definitely coming from the Liberals. The Conservatives are angry at the way Washington DC does things or doesn’t do a damn thing. In the media PMSnbc spends 99% of their air time promoting FOX News. FOX News doesn’t spend more than a few seconds on PMSnbc and never calls them out by their call letters of PMSnbc/LSDnbc/Messnbc, etc. They just refer to them as a cable network that nobody watches. And on that I have to agree, PMSnbc is very hard to watch. It is like watching Satanists at work. They try to tear everything good down and build up what is bad. The talking IDIOTS at LSDnbc are EVIL people. Not one of them are happy. They come across as sad and pathetic inmates at the local insane asylum. You could insert Charlie Sheen or Lindsey Lohan in any of their chairs and you would not notice anything different. Oh well, life goes on.

  • Jelperman

    Ha ha! Video from the scene shows that No one was attacked and Mike Tobin is a scummy liar.

  • ImNotBlue

    JazzyJim said:
    Beck’s only sponsor is gold-line. What are you talking about Willis?

    Well, that’s simply not true.

    Oh… and does this news bother you?

    “Gold ends at record on inflation fears, Middle East unrest”
    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-extends-gains-on-geopolitical-fears-2011-02-28

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

    No video or audio of a racist attacking against a black Democrat during a tea party exists, yet the media still reports the incident as indisputable fact to this day!

  • Pablo

    JazzyJim said:
    You wish. Wisconsin is building the base. Americans are finally seeing what the Republicans have instore for them – Corporate Slaves, carrying the weight of the Republican debts forever, free passes for the Corporate Welfare Citizen on the backs of the tax paying workers.

    Oh, yes they are. But not the way you’re thinking. It should be a lot of fun.

  • Pablo

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    If NewsCorp ever turns a profit, he might just do that.

    Kook, you’re not really that stupid, are you? Lying again, no doubt.

    News Corp. Profit Rises, Lifted by Cable-TV and Film

  • The Donger

    Pablo said:
    Kook, you’re not really that stupid, are you? Lying again, no doubt.

    News Corp. Profit Rises, Lifted by Cable-TV and Film

    It’s not his fault Pablo, he listened to Olberman for to many years. That was always Olberman’s stick that News Corp never made profit.

  • Yoda002

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Lib liars like these are the joke. Fox will continue to grow because they are the only outlet for the truth. If Ruppert would just buy CBS or one of the broadcast networks they would destoy the other two.

    How much is Fox paying you?? Only outlet for the truth? Where is the coverage? You would just love one media outlet wouldn’t you? Didn’t work too well for the Soviet Union, underground real news got out.

  • http://www.twitter.com/nuktubian Nuktubian

    Funny thing, when FOX News was starting out, they were mocked. Low ratings, insignificent we were told. A more right-of-center news station could never make it with the big-boy lefty elitists in the media world.

    Once ratings took off, and they became the go-to cable news network; suddenly ratings didn’t matter, they became liars. Now; they are the obsession of hatred for every left-wing lunatic. You always know just how well you are doing when clowns like Boehlert, on a Soros backed website – obsess and watch every move you make, ignoring the obviously inferior, and far more fanatical MSNBC in the process.

  • greg454

    I’m laughing at Media Matters, that partisan crappy website wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for the millions George Soros gives them. Sorry liberals, the media you control is irrelevant, when the independents, centrists and right-leaning Democrats want to know what’s really going on, they turn to Fox.

    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Merritt/100000196301299 John Merritt

    I try to find the humor in everything, because I laugh a lot. However where I draw the line is where jokes, innuendo’s, hatred and falsehood’s at the expense of others to elevate oneself is not acceptable to me. Especially when there is little for one to dispute a claim until well after the event (not necessarily fact) and by than the damage has been done and recovery is virtually impossible.

    There are some with rather pointed tongues and views that are head and shoulders worse than others, at which point I give them little credibility in my analysis. I listened to Stephanie back in the 90′s and found her funny and yet there was a slanderous tone to her message I did not agree nor appreciate. I don’t know if she has changed her style but my views and stance never changes. Don’t watch TV anymore, keep my listening privileges to music and inspiration.

    It appears everyone wants to be heard and yet truth can be boring, especially when you can flavor with my ingredients to spice it up. They just need to learn there is a line that should not be crossed, and that is when people are damaged because of falsehoods.

  • my dogs gone

    Jelperman said:
    Ha ha! Video from the scene shows that No one was attacked and Mike Tobin is a scummy liar.

    You can’t believe your eyes or camera footage! (cough)
    Tobin said he was assaulted; take him to the hospital- please.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    For those that don’t know, the despicable media matters is an uber-left group owned by george soros, who’s the reincarnation of the Third Reich and the lunatic-left d-crat socialist BILLIONAIRE sugar-daddy.

    The lamestyream socialist fake-news media NEVER, EVER mentions the name soros to hide this disgrace to humanity the way they hid all those wonder “qualities” and “friends” of “You Lie!” hussein during his campaign…

    Qualities like: shallow, profane, lying, arrogant, platitude-spouting, pompous, inexperienced, smug, Marxist, drug-addicted, elitist, narcissistic, racist, anti-Semitic, flip-flopping gas-bag who is so mentally deficient from extensive drug use he even has to plagiarize his hollow platitudes, who hijacked the nomination with fewer votes than Hillary received, and who stole the election with extensive ACORN fraud, to name just a few.

    Friends like: Rev. “God Damn America” wright, “You Lie!” hussein’s vile, racist mentor for 20+ years, his pal, benefactor and home-buying partner, and hussein’s personal sugar-daddy convicted felon Tony Rezko, his life-long pal and co-worker Bill Ayers who is a founding member of the Weather Underground TERRORIST organization who has stated his pride in the Weathermen setting off bombs against the US Government, and on, and on, and on.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    LOL
    Media Matters!

    TO WHO?

    LOL!!

  • CAconservative

    Media Matters wouldn’t exist without Soros money. After listening to this phony cackling by these supposed professionals, it isn’t hard to figure out why the Progressive media is in such dire straights. Fox was trying to provide a forum for the Union to gets it’s message out, and all they could do was be as repugnant as they appear to us, to be. Shameful!

  • Tedderman

    And yet no video yet shows Tobin being hit by anyone or anything. I have a feeling lil’ Mikey used to cry to mommy that his little sister hit him in the backseat(of the car) on his way to daycare.

    Wildman: Get some help, your Limpbaugh, Beckerhead regurgitations are boarderline psychotic.

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