Every generation gets the media it deserves. In the 1950s, there was Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, decades before the conspiracy theories kicked in. Today’s media? Goodnight and good luck, indeed. First up, the generally left-leaning Media Bistro finally calls Keith Olbermann’s number:
When Big Journalism Contributor Lee Stranahan complied all the rape and sexual assault stories about Occupy in one post for the world to see, you’d think that would’ve been the end of it. But Olbermann’s ego won’t allow anyone to have the last word on anything, so he “debunked” each one, one by one.
Unfortunately for Keith, the Breitbart websites are not the silent, wallflower types even if their writing is sometimes abominable.
AdvertisementIn his “debunking,” Olbermann changed his tune from “No Occupy rapes” to “Because almost none of the allegations are of rape and most of this list are duplicated…” to “2 stories duplicated” to “Occupy MEMBERS were victims.” That’s quite a journey in just one day, especially without ever acknowledging his position completely changed.
Even still, where he ended up, that the victims and not the perpetrators were the only Occupy people involved in these rapes and sexual assaults, isn’t the truth. After Olbermann’s “debunking, Stranahan was back a few hours later with a section by section debunking of what Olbermann said. Keith then went silent, maybe to bed, maybe to play with his baseball cards, or maybe to Stuart Smalley in the mirror to calm his nerves.
Hey, say what you will about the man behind Stuart Smalley; while Olbermann’s inability to play well with others during recess has driven him further and further into the bowels of cable media (from ESPN to MSNBC to CurrentTV aren’t exactly steps upward on the ol’ CV), Al Franken’s particular brand of idiocy took him from Saturday Night Live to the halls of the U.S. Senate. From that perspective, Al did OK playing a pretend journalist on “Weekend Update.”
And speaking of pretend journalists, Jon Stewart, dubbed “the most trusted man in America” and “the most-respected journalist in America” by his fellow Obama worshipers in the MSM* has a moment of clarity, regarding a fellow postmodern poseur. Hey Rube!, as the Professor would say:
”I don’t know if he’s going to re-elect us. I worry about Obama. … I get the sense with Obama, he doesn’t really like us all that much. He’s kind of had his fill.
But it’s just a moment, before Jon quickly retreats to the warm innervating afterglow of 2008:
He’s the only president I’ve ever seen who begins each press conference with a heavy sigh. … [Bush] was the kid in sixth grade who gave the book report about a book he clearly hadn’t read. … Obama is the kid who has read the book in first grade and he can’t believe you idiots are just getting around to it.”
Well, that’s what he wants you to think, but until he actually releases his grades (among the many known-unknowns of BO’s bio), why should we believe he’s smarter than George W. Bush — who after all is smarter than Obama’s 2004 media-created prototype?
To paraphrase a certain fictional starship captain** I’m laughing (to keep from crying) at the results of the superior intellect:
Besides, if it’s brainpower you want, Obama’s got plenty just down the hall:
* Which tells you all you need to know about the “real” journalists in the MSM. Not that there are many left.
** As opposed to the non-fictional starship captains…
BIDEN LIED ABOUT HIS RECORD IN THAT CLIP
http://drknow.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/25/1784793-joe-biden-his-lies-and-exaggerations
By Dr Know
I just listened to a tape of a statement made by Joe Biden during his campaign for president in 1988. Someone in the audience asked him “Where did you go to school and how did you do?”
Joe said. “I will gladly compare my IQ with yours. I went to school and graduated with 3 degrees and was the leading student in the Political Science department. I went to law school on a full scholarship. In my first year I did not want to be there and I was in the bottom 2/3 of my class. I changed my mind and finished in the top half of my class. I will gladly compare my IQ to yours.” I cannot be sure that these are the EXACT words but they are very close.
The facts are:
1) He did NOT get 3 degrees, he did not get 2 degrees it was 1 in Political Science. He never answered WHERE he went.
2) He received a HALF scholarship to law school based on need. When confronted with this he said he never remembered paying anything for law school.One can only speculate why that is.
3) His math abilities are not very good. The top 2/3 overlaps with the top 1/2. In addition he lied. He was 76th in a class of 85. That places him in the bottom 10.5% of his law school class.
4) He never stated where he attended school in the answer to this question
The attitude displayed demonstrates how he feels he is superior to others. Somehow he thinks that placing in the bottom 10% (11%, if you must) proves that he has the superior intellect.
He was later proven to have plagiarized on papers in law school and he used a speech originally given by a British politician without giving any attribution or acknowledgment.
Is this the quality of person we want leading our country?
– are the Liars Club.
Obama is not an actual superior intellect, he just plays one on TV.
He hasn’t been the smartest guy in ANY room since phone booths disappeared.
Aw, I dunno… Kind of an insult to ISP…