Master Baster:
“Fox News ran TONS of coverage . . . Here you go, just for fun.
“The most lop-sided coverage by far was aired by Fox News, which featured only 10 references to Walter Reed compared to 121 of Anna Nicole — roughly 12 times the coverage. On the other hand, CNN featured 53 references to Walter Reed compared to 40 of Anna Nicole.” (PEJ)
Hey , good news, they capped the well! You know that one that’s been spewing out oil into the Gulf in America’s worst environmental disaster in history? It’s the lede story on the MSM, along with analysis of the testing and next steps. Wonder what the Drudge headline is . . . “Passion of the Gibson” Now that’s hard-hitting investigative work looking out for real Americans.
Hey, that reminds me, did you see what Michelle Malkin wrote a seek after the rig exploded? She posted a picture of an oil-covered bird from a previous spill and wrote, “How long till the MSM start posting pictures like this?” You see, she was absolutely convinced that the MSM and the environmental whack jobs were “off base” yet again in their complaints and concerns about such matters – using these tragic developments for political purposes only.
So what about Mel Gibson? We liberals called it as we saw it back in 2006 when his true self first exploded. But the right wing media insisted on yet another Malkin pre-emptive blunder:
“On MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, William A. Donohue, president of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said, “There’s a lot of people who have made comments which are bigoted who are not necessarily bigots,” adding that he is “concerned now about piling on.” Of those who won’t forgive Gibson, Donohue said: “Who gives a damn about those people?” Donohue then asked, “What kind of blood do they want out of this man?”
On Fox News’ Fox & Friends, radio host and regular Fox & Friends guest Erich “Mancow” Muller said, “I can’t believe he is anti-Semitic. I can’t believe The Passion of the Christ, they thought was anti-Semitic, because our hero was Jewish.”
In his August 2 column on National Review Online, John Derbyshire excused Gibson’s comments because “[t]he guy was drunk, for heaven’s sake. We all say and do dumb things when we are drunk.” Derbyshire added: “As little as I care for Mel and his splatter-fest Brit-hating oeuvre, though, I care even less for the schoolmarmish, prissy, squealing, skirt-clutching, sissified, feminized, pansified, preening moral vanity of the vile and anti-human Political Correctness cult.”
A press release posted by the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) asked ,”Where’s the Compassion for Mel Gibson?” Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND and an occasional Fox News guest, was quoted in the release as saying: “I am sorry that Mel Gibson and his family are going through this difficult period. Gibson absolutely did the right thing by offering a heartfelt apology and asking for forgiveness from the Jewish community — he’s even asked to meet with Jewish leaders. To those who will not be satisfied until Gibson is destroyed — I say ‘shame on you. Where’s your humanity?’ (MM)
David Horowitz said, “People deserve compassion when they’re in this kind of trouble.” In a press release, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, called for Gibson’s detractors to “have compassion,” and said he was “sorry that Mel Gibson and his family are going through this difficult period.” A Fox News poll that summer reported that 80 percent of people surveyed said his comments about Jews would make no difference to them when it came to the decision to see a future Gibson film.
You see, we’re right and you’re wrong and you just can’t bring yourselves to admit it. you’r e only interested in the one network which feeds you the “conservative” red meat you’re hungry for.
