October 15, 2005

Your gold star legacy media quote of the day

NBC Nooz, the people who brought us the exploding Dateline truck:

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"It's not like we were trying to pass it off as something it wasn't," spokeswoman Lauren Kapp said.

Ironic given the Edward R. Murrow movie opening this weekend.

Damn Rethuglikkkans and that durn Chimpy McHitler undermining the freedom of the press!

UPDATE: I guess this just makes us derivative hacks, no?

SEKRIT MESSAGE to the Pot, RE criticism of the Kettle:....ummm, Bubba? Normandy? Cross? Something's ringing a bell....

Posted by Steve at October 15, 2005 01:40 AM | TrackBack
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"Damn Rethuglikkkans and that durn Chimpy McHitler undermining the freedom of the press!"

They must not have scripted this segment like the white house did when the preznit talked to the "troops" by video conference. You know the one, where MeClelland denied that it was scripted.

Posted by: LB buddy at October 15, 2005 09:20 AM

Oh and don't forget the part where they use a press flack instead of a combat soldier:

http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/001948.php

Everything about this administration is a carefully planned illusion.

Posted by: LB buddy at October 15, 2005 09:25 AM

So which illusion is your favorite? The way they swooped in and rescued everyone from the fake hurricanes Rove cooked up? Or maybe the elections in Afghanistan and Iraq. Man, I almost bought those myself! I didn't realize they were all a bunch of GOP extras milling around in blankets out near Fort Worth.

My favorite is how he stole two elections and hypnotized enough of the nation into believing he was actually voted into office! That's classic. Ah, those all-powerful rethugs and their crazy pranks.

Posted by: tee bee at October 15, 2005 09:46 AM

Steve-O

1. Don't assume I am a Clinton fan. Less horrible is hardly an enthusiastic endorsement. He savaged the middle class to an extent that would make any Republican proud.
2. Chimpy has raised the bar to new heights. Clearing brush on his "ranch" in an LL Bean jacket that still has the fold creases in it, pre-screening for town meetings where you can get arrested for wearing an anti-Bush T-shirt, "spontaneous" horse jerk-off jokes from his wife at a press dinner, "Freedom" marches where you have to register your name, wear the assigned T-shirt, and march behind a protective fence, evacuated European cities during visits to avoid embarrassing demonstrations, tool belts in the gulf coast, overseeing hurricane Rita from NORAD, prescripted chats with "real" soldiers that turn out to be government PR flacks. None of it is real. Kerry was just as bad. I want to throw up every time one of these guys shows up in a brand new flannel shirt and unfaded blue jeans to hang out with the common folk. As Chomsky pointed out, the same guys that sell us tooth paste and deoderant sell us politicians. Everyone can feel how fake it is and ultimately, like commercials, we tune it all out. What I would give for one real leader.

Posted by: LB buddy at October 15, 2005 08:35 PM

As Chomsky pointed out, the same guys that sell us tooth paste and deoderant sell us politicians.

And leftist political diatribes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 16, 2005 10:46 PM

Loks like the liberal left-wing news media tried another phonie news event and had it blown right outta the water just like when NBCs program DATELINE tried to ruin GM by claiming that GM built unsafe trucks by holding a crash test it was later found out that NBC had rigged the whole thing by overfilling the gas tank using the wrong sized gas cap and using a incenterary device to get what they wanted i mean you cant trust any of these mews scoundrels

Posted by: spurwing plover at October 17, 2005 02:43 PM