Malkin: "Cutting edge" is that your euphemism for "Radical and "Hate-Mongering", because in fact if you are a regular consumer of the Kos website you know that that's exactly the stuff that "they traffic in" there?
Oh, brother - here it comes.
Williams: I don't agree. I think that sometimes there are people that are "Hateful", there's an occasional wacko individual but that doesn't necessarily speak to the nature of the entire Dailykos or Yearlykos meeting. I think that they've, to the contrary, I think you see some very serious arguments put forward there. Things that people are forced to respond to, which is why you see serious people - like those who are running for President of the United States - would think that it was worth their time to show up.
Not too bad. Then Malkin got "serious".
Malkin: You think that Markos Moo-litz-os, the founder is a "serious" person. Someone who we've talked about many times (But never had cojones to actually have as a guest!) - the kind of comments that he's made about civilian contractors that were murdered (he apologized for that) and kind of comment that he made about Dick Durbin, where for example, after Dick Durbin apologized or non-apologized, about his comments about the military in Guantanamo Bay, agreed with another fellow liberal blogger that Durbin should quote "F- Himself" - is that "serious" conversation - "serious" policy debate, Juan?
That's when William's calmly turned around, called his shot like the Bambino of old and hit it out of the park.
Williams: Michelle you could say the same thing - about the Vice President on the Floor of the U.S. Senate talking to Pat Leahy! I mean, people are going to sometimes say things that are wrong-headed and profane..
If you heard some loud whopping and hollering at about 1am P.S.T. in Southern California - that was me an my wife sitting BOLT UPRIGHT in bed when we heard that one.
Hello!!
But Malkin wasn't satisfied.
Malkin: He never apologized for that comment, he never retracted it.
Williams: I don't know that Dick Cheney ever apologized either (He didn't), but gosh, let's go to the "parallel universe" to this left-wing blogosphere, let's talk about Right-Wing Radio (DING!) Where you can hear people like Michael Savage say Secretary of State Rice is "an Affirmative Action Hire"...
Malkin ignored his point, arguing that this was "Moral Equivalency", and that there their were right-wing blogs that do not "Traffic" in this sort of thing, in the process ignoring that Williams didn't bring up right-wing blogs - cuz, generally speaking they suck - he brought up Right-Wing Radio and fact that Dick Cheney made the exact same remark on the Floor of the U.S. Senate when Leahy was just being Nice to him - Juan was absolutely on the mark.
But she doesn't try to defend Cheney - cuz she can't - and she doesn't try to defend Savage - because no one can.And let's not even get into Neal Boortz and Dennis Prager and Laura Ingraham... ooh boy.
This following exchange really got me... as Mr. Moran attempted to bolster Michelle's deft duck, deflect and cover maneuver.
Moran: When you're talking about Dailykos and Yearlykos you're talking about the Big Lefty Bloggers (Awww, I thought we weren't as bad the conspiracy nuts just 2 minutes ago? My how times change) and yes, they do in fact traffic in this kind of (searches for the word) - Hate-mongering (Wow, what a surprise!) I guess would be the best way... and y'know the reason it's hate-mongering Juan, is because the left has lowered the bar on what is Hate Speech
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1. Juan Williams is a hired Republican operative or at least a "Republican Apologist" ( as well a classic Uncle Tom! )
2. Shame on you for even tuning into FOX! Even if you aren't watching the sewage they spew - by tuning your set to their channel you add to their viewer stats.
Educate yourself about how TV programming works: the business model is designed to deliver viewers (you) TO the advertisers, all that crap (any crap, they don't care) between commercial blocks is the "bait." The more sets they have tuned to, nibbling at, their "bait" - the more they can charge for delivering viewers to the advertiser's messages.
There is a huge business keeping track (search Nielsen or Arbitron for example) of what your TV or radio is tuned to - even if you're not watching or paying attention to it.
You want to hurt FOX? Block them.
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mrk * (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 294 comments)
on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 11:26:41 AM
Juan Williams works at Fox News; therefore he receives a paycheck from them. Nothing wrong with that. I supposedly could sneer at Keith Olbermann, "well' you're just on the MSNBC payroll!" . (Actually, I will never have the chance to sneer at him, because Olbermann never allows criticism on his show.) But such a sneer would make no sense. Olbermann receives a paycheck from MSNBC; that's the free market at work. Side note: Kudos to Michelle Malkin for keeping the flashlight on hate sites like Daily Kos and Democratic Underground.
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Scott (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 393 comments)
on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 3:42:01 PM
But Juan Williams at least offers a different opinion from the usual neoclowns on "False Noise Sunday", and he sometimes wins. Better than these Rethugs going completely unchallenged! That's why it and "False Noise Watch" are the only shows I watch on that network.
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jnik (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 22 comments)
on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 8:00:38 PM
