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1. 

   dtroutma said, 26 days ago

   Oh, get real!!

2. 

   HOWGOZIT said, 26 days ago

   trout once again in denial.

3. 

   scottfreitas said, 26 days ago

   Thomas Jefferson’s fabled watchdog has long chosen to muzzle itself.

   Course, in TJ’s day, journalists didn’t have corporate sponsors…

4. 

   petergrt said, 26 days ago

   They couldn’t, for they have been a part of the 0bama’s brown-shirt army for the past couple of years.

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   motivemagus said, 26 days ago

   Nonsense, petergrt; they’re owned and operated for the most part by conservatives. Remember ClearChannel banning the Dixie Chicks from their huge network because they dared to dis President Bush?

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   petergrt said, 25 days ago

   You are now being silly. Even 0bama acknowledged that they all voted for him.

   Dixie Chicks fan, are you?

   I doubt that I have ever heard them perform - Mahler is more my speed, but if I recall correctly, after their Bush loathing rant in London, they tanked in the US.

   It seems that people that liked their sort of music, liked / respected President Bush more.

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   churchillwasright said, 25 days ago

   MOTIVE: err… (per Wiki) (emphasis mine):

   “Clear Channel has been criticized for censoring opinions critical of George W. Bush and other Republicans. After the singer of the Dixie Chicks told a London audience “we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas,” the band’s radio airplay dropped precipitously. At the time Clear Channel was accused of orchestrating the radio blacklist by such critics as Paul Krugman, however review of radio airplay logs shows that although many Clear Channel stations did stop playing the Dixie Chicks, as a whole the company’s stations continued to play the band longer than stations owned by other companies.”

   Just thought I’d set the record straight.

8. 

   cdward said, 25 days ago

   peter, the DixieChicks did not tank in the US, although there was a predictable backlash. They are, after all, country singers. But they have been playing to sold out audience in this country for several years since that comment.

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   tjdestry said, 25 days ago

   Yeah, the fact that a one-time nominee for vice president was getting a little on the side really endangered our nation, didn’t it? THANK GOD Fox News uncovered that vital threat to democracy, together with a guy who signed a petition he hadn’t read and the fact that a nationwide social organization hired a couple of dopes at a local office.

   Now, about those weapons of mass destruction …

10. 

    4uk4ata said, 25 days ago

    I don’t see how the Edwards affair was covered any less than, say, the Ensign or Sanford ones. We didn’t get as much dumpster-digging, hand-wringing and public denounciation as we had at the Lewinski scandal, and I for one am not missing THAT one bit. A politician who was big on preaching moral and family values (as imo Edwards was, for a Democrat) was found to have an extramarital affair. It was the talk of the town for a week, dealt probably a crippling blow to their future political ambitions, and then something new came up.

    I have given my opinion on the ACORN “scandal” before, and the Van Jones “issue” is no better. Now, where were the media when poorly (or not at all) substantiated WMD stories were being fed to the US people? When the Downing Street memos appeared. You know, when facts relevant to important policy decisions were being shown… elsewhere? They were lapping at the feet of the administration, swallowing everything crammed down their throat for years on end.

    Hell, even a dog can get enough of that.

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    Ian Valenzuela said, 25 days ago

    Ridiculous. All of these things were, in fact, covered by the mainstream media. In fact, they kept on the stories long after the tabloids and Fox let them go. Just as one example, did Fox ever report on the number of Acorn offices that kicked the Pimp out, or attempted to get the Ho into a battered women’s shelter? Fox barks once and then walks away; Journalists stay with a story and try and get all the facts.

12. 

    parkersinthehouse said, 25 days ago

    ian get a picture

    scott, howgozit y’all get avatars

    love,

    identity control

13. 

    Buzzy-One said, 25 days ago

    A fun note: After their anti Bush comments some of their concerts were cancilled but the CD sales soared at the same time.

14. 

    wbr said, 25 days ago

    dear fuzzy one concert in kc cancelled because low ticket sales cd sales soared like lead balloon

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    dtroutma said, 25 days ago

    ALL the media jumped on these, and other silly, or downright stupid “distraction” stories rather than the long surfacing truths about the economic problems, or outright fabrications that got us into wars- instead praising Bush’s rah rah.

    I don’t care for country music, only own one “country” cd- bought the Dixie Chicks album the day Faux and the righties attacked them for telling the truth.

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    lalas said, 25 days ago

    More importantly how about when that PoS watchdog parroted the lies/misinformation about Iraq? Even that bastion of “liberal media” the NYT regurgitated the idiocy about needing to invade Iraq.

    If you’re going to pick your battles against the media at least pick one worth fighting.

17. 

    petergrt said, 25 days ago

    “They were lapping at the feet of the (Bush) administration, swallowing everything crammed down their throat for years on end.”

    You guys are living in a diagonal universe.

18. 

    lalas said, 25 days ago

    See my response to your comments on Benson for who’s living in a parallel universe there Petey.

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    petergrt said, 25 days ago

    Actually, it’s DIAGONAL universe.

    If you were living in a parallel universe there would have to have been some semblance of rational thought.

20. 

    Corosive Frog said, 25 days ago

    Nobody died because of those stories, unlike Iraq.

21. 

    DrCanuck said, 25 days ago

    peter, do you by any chance mean an ORTHOGONAL universe?

22. 

    petergrt said, 25 days ago

    That’s funny, I thought about it, but it is precisely defined relative to the reality, whereas diagonal can be virtually any vector, and it provided a much better fit for what I wanted to say.

23. 

    cdward said, 24 days ago

    Yes peter, but it’s still nonsense.

24. 

    lalas said, 24 days ago

    Oh my mistake. Ha boy do I have egg on my face…. what I meant to say is that “you’re an idiot.”

25. 

    DrCanuck said, 24 days ago

    Stan Collins speaks of a “traitor ship.” I wonder what that means? I’ve never been to sea….

    Oh, I get it! We have a new twit on board!

    Hello, twit.

26. 

    omQ R said, 24 days ago

    Stan! Yo, Stan! Over here…

    Put me down on that list, please! I love lists.
    I’m ,er, I guess a foreign agent. Technically I don’t think I qualify as a traitor in your eyes but I’m sure you can come up with a grand title just for me! :-)

    Gosh! A list, I’m gonna be on a list ! :-D

    (ha! Just when things were becoming routine, along comes another village idiot to make things more fun ;-) )

27. 

    omQ R said, 24 days ago

    Oh nooooooooo!

    Oh boohoo! (but as a foreign agent I can offer my services as a double-agent, whatchasay, eh?)

28. 

    lalas said, 23 days ago

    Stan goes on the knee-jerk, jingoist, Fox News talking points regurgitator list.

    Nice to see your first comment here isn’t about anything of substance… just about personal attacks.

29. 

    churchillwasright said, 23 days ago

    ^ “Joe the Plumber is a lying sack of cr@p as is Palin.” - LALAS on Benson one day ago.

    Just putting the comment above in context.

30. 

    lalas said, 23 days ago

    Um…. you actually removed that comment from its context entirely.

    Joe the Plumber presented himself as something that he absolutely was not, therefore he opened himself up to the criticism that he is a liar.

    Palin lied repeatedly as well and therefore… you guessed it… opened herself up to the criticism that she is a liar.

31. 

    ohrn said, 20 days ago

    The dog won’t bite you.