Comments on: Punching Up

By: Mongo

Mongo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:21:17 +0000

This whole business continues to escalate from the WH through PMSNBC, focusing as Lee says, through the boresight towards certain opinion based shows, rather than through the general news broadcasts at FNC. A lovely brief interlude at, I swear that I 'ralph' at the thought of even mentioning this, a discussion between certain entities at the Major Socialist National Bifurcated Stupification Network. Okay. Dinnae think that multi-furcated... wuz a wurd...but bifurcated sounds better in the context of the statement. Apologies to those who disagree, and regrets to those who draw their swords. Whisky afterwards...or now, as ye please...

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:55:40 +0000

They know they can’t do that. Ergo, ad hominem is all they have.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:12:10 +0000

Rather than take on the entire FNC, they could have picked their targets, and refuted the accusations point by point. Prove Glen Beck and the other protagonists at FNC wrong in their points, and win points with the Oba-Mau Bots. But they can’t. Because he’s right. And they know it. So, they have to villify the entire news organization that is FNC, “it’s my ball and I’m not playing” and all that. They picked the wrong time to jump into the fray, as they came unarmed in this battle of wits.

By: daveg

daveg — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:29:52 +0000

How can anyone profess to be surprised by this? It was readily apparent when The Man energetically campaigned against a departing incumbent an a presumptive VP candidate.

He doesn’t punch beneath his own weight as he is, after all, a tiny little thin-skinned man, but he does fight (and lead) well below the level of his elected office.

By: Gmac

Gmac — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:09:26 +0000

Never get into a fight with someone that has unlimited airtime to present the facts.

My corollary to the quote about newsprint and ink.

That they are afraid of a broadcast news organization proves two things.
1. They are rank amateurs.
2. They didn’t study history.

By: Marianne Matthews

Marianne Matthews — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:37:46 +0000

Come on, friends. All is not lost, although I’m worried that our basic speech freedoms are being threatened. We *can* fight back. And we will. As my granny used to say, when she heard something outrageous; “Consider the source, dear, consider the source.” We’ve got Chicago-trained mob folks in the White House, who have accumulated every rag-tag-and-bobtail fringe socialist they can around them, and that’s scary, I admit. But, as our extremely clever host will tell you, they’ve been making some big mistakes already, in reading the mood and purpose and determination of their constituents, who are getting more and more disgusted with the direction things are taking.

After the Washington demonstration on 9/12, the word among the Democrats was that it wasn’t important and the Republicans would soon lose interest. Lose interest?! One million seven hundred thousand protesters turn up in Washington, D.C., not funded by the dreadful George Soros and his coven of witches but by the protesters’ own hard-earned money. They protest peaceably but determinedly. And they clean up after themselves, like grown-ups, not like the rowdies at the inauguration. And those idiots think we’re going “to forget about it?” Gimmie a break!

The anger is just beginning to bloom in all those hearts. And it will only increase as each new ignorant outrage is perpetrated.

We’re off the simmer now, friends, and coming to a boil.

Marianne