In 2004, just days before the presidential election, the CBS news with Dan Rather reported fake documents on President Bush’s National Guard service that fooled a national news organization but not a few bloggers in their pajamas.
They work because they act on the principal of truthiness, or the idea that “I want it to be true, so I will choose to believe it IS true”. Dan Rather wanted President Bush to have a shady military record, Sarah Palin critics wanted her to be proved to be the yokel imbecile they assessed her as from day one, the world wanted a boy named Falcon to be in that balloon flying out of control through the sky, CNBC wanted to hear there would be a change in policy regarding climate change, NBC wanted Limbaugh to be exposed as a filthy racist and Limbaugh wanted Obama to be exposed as a Constitution hater.
Only CNBC and Limbaugh corrected these hoaxes on air within minutes of being fooled by them. All the rest let over 24 hours pass before telling the truth.
If its wondered aloud that the Nobel committee gave the Peace Prize to Obama because they were excited and hopeful at the US electing a black president, how is that racist? right/wrong/whatever. you discuss it, but RACIST? how? — oh. its not? then how is Limbaugh’s 2003 comment that McNabb got praised “because the media wanted a black quarterback to do well” racist?
Exactly. dumbasses. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s cool to hate on talk show hosts you don’t like all you want, it’s NOT cool to go attacking their attempt to own a small piece of a sports team and it’s not even acceptable to go smearing the hell out of someone as a “racist” over things they never said or inserting racism into statements that had, have and COULD have no racist motive.
Last Monday on The O’Reilly Factor, Detroit Free-Press columnist Drew Sharp argued that the NFL has a right to turn down a “a very polarizing, controversial figure whose occupational practice is largely predicated on making people feel comfortable with their own biases and prejudices.”
After Sharp refers to “racially tinged sound bites” that O’Reilly and his crack research team could not uncover, O’Reilly plays the comment Rush made on ESPN in 2003 regarding Donovan McNabb, then asks if it should disqualify Limbaugh from owning an NFL team. “What it does qualify him for is being a race baiter,” Sharp responds. “I do believe he throws in sound bites… strictly for effect.”
Why don’t hippies ever have to follow their own rules is the only part of this fruckus that annoys me. When Glenn Beck said he thinks President Obama might have “a problem” with white people due to his patronage of a black nationalist church led by Reverend Wright and more recently his response that the white police officer was to blame in an incident Obama admitted to not knowing the facts of the case yet – the left went nuts on him. Which is fine. jump on his balls. he said something controversial, then slap him around for it. that’s what you both do. But the big “Glenn Beck is obviously a crazy idiot making a completely baseless crazy charge” everywhere, including the Fox News morning show he said the comment on, was that Obama works with white people so DUH Glenn – you big stupidz – he can’t POSSIBLY be racist. Okay. I think both Glenn and that explanation are intertwined with some wobbly logic, but whatever. Have at it in the arena of ideas y’all… Except, where the hell did that logic go when Rush Limbaugh was approached by a group to join them in buying a small piece of the St Louis RAMS and was then kicked out of it because he was too controversial after reams of charges about him being a flaming racist were fired from leftists who hate his guts and thus, as leftists, want/need to destroy him in every way possible? Limbaughs 2nd in command on his show – the “Mr Snerdly” he’s always talking to and responding to from off-mic – is black, not that you’d ever know it until recently when Snerdly started doing a bit on air where he is the OOC (Official Obama Criticizer, since Rush isn’t “certified black enough” to do so. the bit consists of a monologue of criticism by Snerdly and then a translation for the hood in ebonics). Here is a special edition of OOC concerning the attacks over the RAMS bid:
Limbaughs show only hosts a guest once every 2 years or so with one exception: the (black) fishing buddy friend of Limbaughs (shown in the picture to the right) Ken Hutcherson, known as “The Hutch” who comes on the show at least once a year to talk football.
Rush’s most frequent fill-in guest host is Walter E. Williams. Another black guy.
So by the stated liberal logic that “Obama can’t possibly be racist despite his controversial history with race because DUH, he’s around white people all time, including on his staff” Rush Limbaugh can’t possibly be racist either. oops.
Except, where the hell did that logic go when Rush Limbaugh was approached by a group to join them in buying a small piece of the St Louis RAMS and was then kicked out of it because he was too controversial after reams of charges about him being a flaming racist were fired from leftists who hate his guts and thus, as leftists, want/need to destroy him in every way possible? Limbaughs 2nd in command on his show – the “Mr Snerdly” he’s always talking to and responding to from off-mic – is black, not that you’d ever know it until recently when Snerdly started doing a bit on air where he is the OOC (Official Obama Criticizer, since Rush isn’t “certified black enough” to do so. the bit consists of a monologue of criticism by Snerdly and then a translation for the hood in ebonics). Here is a special edition of OOC concerning the attacks over the RAMS bid: