Friday, June 19, 2009

Planet Wingnut News for Friday



PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly — Rights group seeks compassion for curious and ‘least sympathetic animals’ — WASHINGTON - The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.

Krauthammer concedes Fox News is the ‘voice of opposition’ to Obama ‘in the media.’ »

In an interview with CNBC this week, President Obama
noted the constant criticism he receives from Fox News, saying, “I’ve got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration.” Some Fox regulars, like Bill O’Reilly, adamantly objected to Obama’s claim. But on Special Report yesterday, Fox contributor Charles Krauthammer admitted that Fox News can “accurately” be described as the “voice of opposition” to Obama:
KRAUTHAMMER: But what’s really interesting, the president yesterday has said, he complained about FOX, and he said, I think accurately, that it is the one, only voice of opposition in the media.
And it makes us a lot like Caracas where all the media, except one, are state run, with the exception that in Hugo Chavez-land, you go after that one station with machetes. I haven’t seen any machetes around here, so I think we are at least safe for now

Hannity: Only Fox News Deserves ‘Unprecedented Access’ To The White House
Wednesday night on Fox News, Sean Hannity interviewed Karl Rove about ABC’s upcoming special “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” which will feature President Obama answering “questions offered by audience members ‘selected by ABC News who have divergent opinions in this historic debate’” on health care. Hannity and Rove — echoing a recent Washington Times piece — raised questions about what they called the “unprecedented access to the White House” granted to ABC for their “infomercial” on health care reform:
HANNITY: Karl, it seems rather unprecedented. You were there in the White House for the better part of eight years. Did this ever happened while George W. Bush was president?
ROVE: You know, look, it’s normal for the networks to want to come in and do an interview inside the White House or to get a glimpse behind the curtain as to what goes on there. This is an unprecedented access to the White House and more importantly an unprecedented use of the White House. I can’t remember a time when the network came in and was going to devote a significant block of time to covering an issue that was on the president’s agenda.

Charles Grassley: We Shouldn't Blame Greed Any More Than You'd Blame Gravity
Charles Grassley is starting to sound as incoherent during his television interviews as he does in his Tweets. Grassley doesn't think we need more regulation. We just need more transparency. Yeah, that's going to make the finace companies behave. And when asked if the banks are in any position to protest if they're not going to make as much money, Grassley comes back with this:
Greed is human nature. We shouldn't blame greed any more than you'd blame gravity when a plane has an accident and goes down.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Weasel Hannity wants America to have the most bias distorted view only? That's pretty socialist, only one news network coverage, and they are known to extort and manipulate facts.

Greed is human nature...this guy(Grassley) has never been to Sunday School.

On fly swatting, pa leeze, PETA has gone to far. That got more coverage than anything else yesterday. Insects carry diseases, and they have never found any use for flys, ....not as a food source, not as a pollinator, nothing.

And Krauthammer, he has no choice but to concede to the overtley obvious about the Faux Nutwork.