Comments on: Brainless http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:48:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mamazboy http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-331545 mamazboy Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:30:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-331545 <p><a href="#comment-331022"><em>Media Pundit @ 93</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><strong>Reuters Editor Fired for Writing Anti-Coulter Book</strong></p> <p>Apparently it was a violation of some sort of objectivity clause in his contract. The truth is, Reuters is just afraid of being attacked by the right for having such a </p></blockquote> <p>I don’t think Reuters is afraid of offending the right. The company seems pretty right-wing on its own. They probably dote on Coulter’s every word and were angry at seeing one of their guys trash her.</p> Media Pundit @ 93

Reuters Editor Fired for Writing Anti-Coulter Book

Apparently it was a violation of some sort of objectivity clause in his contract. The truth is, Reuters is just afraid of being attacked by the right for having such a

I don’t think Reuters is afraid of offending the right. The company seems pretty right-wing on its own. They probably dote on Coulter’s every word and were angry at seeing one of their guys trash her.

]]> By: mamazboy http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-331542 mamazboy Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:29:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-331542 <p>Sloan (of CREW) was very good on that CNN clip. She flat-out called the FBI liars, gave CNN the name of the agent she contacted (who wouldn’t return CNN’s calls, of course). Sloan’s an ex-prosecutor and cuts quickly through the bullshit.</p> <p>It just gets better and better!</p> <p>PS Enjoying Hugh’s hilarious sarcastic postings. Keep ‘em coming.</p> Sloan (of CREW) was very good on that CNN clip. She flat-out called the FBI liars, gave CNN the name of the agent she contacted (who wouldn’t return CNN’s calls, of course). Sloan’s an ex-prosecutor and cuts quickly through the bullshit.

It just gets better and better!

PS Enjoying Hugh’s hilarious sarcastic postings. Keep ‘em coming.

]]> By: Media Pundit http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-331022 Media Pundit Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:46:02 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-331022 <p><strong>Reuters Editor Fired for Writing Anti-Coulter Book</strong></p> <p>Apparently it was a violation of some sort of objectivity clause in his contract. The truth is, Reuters is just afraid of being attacked by the right for having such a</p> Reuters Editor Fired for Writing Anti-Coulter Book

Apparently it was a violation of some sort of objectivity clause in his contract. The truth is, Reuters is just afraid of being attacked by the right for having such a

]]> By: Nuclearfashion http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330888 Nuclearfashion Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:38:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330888 <p>Does it creep anyone else out that her biceps seem to be larger in circumference than her thighs?</p> Does it creep anyone else out that her biceps seem to be larger in circumference than her thighs?

]]> By: Big Bang Hunter http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330864 Big Bang Hunter Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:19:39 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330864 <p>(and it should be noted that Keith’s ratings since his Rumsfeld moment have gone up 69%).</p> <p>- Yes. Now he has three viewers. His relatives.</p> (and it should be noted that Keith’s ratings since his Rumsfeld moment have gone up 69%).

- Yes. Now he has three viewers. His relatives.

]]> By: Barney, White House dog http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330426 Barney, White House dog Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:58:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330426 <p>Yap. Yap. Yap. </p> <p>No one listens to me in the White House. I yapped up a storm before the 9/11 attacks, before my master started war in Iraq, during Hurricane Katrina and now my master has pushed North Korea to go nuclear.</p> <p>Yap. Yap. Yap.</p> <p>What’s a dog supposed to do? I bark and bark and bark, but no one in the White House listens.</p> <p>Now, my master says it’s up to me or my master’s mistress to decide the fate of Iraq. I’ve felt all along that my master was barking up the wrong tree by attacking Iraq. But does my master listen? Noooooo. So why would he listen to me now?</p> <p>Yap. Yap. Yap.</p> <p>I’ve tried to get the attention of all my master’s IQ-challenged friends in the White House. I tore a chunk out of Cheney’s pants leg (but only after seeing he wasn’t carrying a shotgun). I peed on Rumsfeld’s insane war plans. I even went for Karl Rove’s throat one day, but couldn’t get past his double chins. For my efforts to get through to them, I was secretly renditioned to a doghouse overseas.</p> <p>Yap. Yap. Yap.</p> <p>But now my master’s gone too far. They decided I needed paper training while inside the White House. I was offended. Deeply offended. Especially when the papers they laid out all over the floor was the U.S. Consitution and the Bill of Rights. I’m a patriotic American dog. I’m black and I’m proud. How dare them!!!</p> <p>Yap. Yap. Yap.</p> <p>Anyway, I’ve decided to run away. I’ve enrolled in a seeing-eye dog school. Because it is obvious, even to little ol’ me, that everyone in the White House is deaf, dumb and blind…besides being certifiably insane. At this point, even a dog can tell something this obvious.</p> <p>Yap. Yap. Yap.</p> Yap. Yap. Yap.

No one listens to me in the White House. I yapped up a storm before the 9/11 attacks, before my master started war in Iraq, during Hurricane Katrina and now my master has pushed North Korea to go nuclear.

Yap. Yap. Yap.

What’s a dog supposed to do? I bark and bark and bark, but no one in the White House listens.

Now, my master says it’s up to me or my master’s mistress to decide the fate of Iraq. I’ve felt all along that my master was barking up the wrong tree by attacking Iraq. But does my master listen? Noooooo. So why would he listen to me now?

Yap. Yap. Yap.

I’ve tried to get the attention of all my master’s IQ-challenged friends in the White House. I tore a chunk out of Cheney’s pants leg (but only after seeing he wasn’t carrying a shotgun). I peed on Rumsfeld’s insane war plans. I even went for Karl Rove’s throat one day, but couldn’t get past his double chins. For my efforts to get through to them, I was secretly renditioned to a doghouse overseas.

Yap. Yap. Yap.

But now my master’s gone too far. They decided I needed paper training while inside the White House. I was offended. Deeply offended. Especially when the papers they laid out all over the floor was the U.S. Consitution and the Bill of Rights. I’m a patriotic American dog. I’m black and I’m proud. How dare them!!!

Yap. Yap. Yap.

Anyway, I’ve decided to run away. I’ve enrolled in a seeing-eye dog school. Because it is obvious, even to little ol’ me, that everyone in the White House is deaf, dumb and blind…besides being certifiably insane. At this point, even a dog can tell something this obvious.

Yap. Yap. Yap.

]]> By: Thomas J nStith http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330394 Thomas J nStith Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:28:32 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330394 <p>Done about an hour ago.<br /> 1 Rubber Stamp. Check.<br /> 1 Crashing the Gate. Check<br /> 1 Ann Coulter. Ugh. uesu8w369-54fnc kjfehgrf</p> Done about an hour ago.
1 Rubber Stamp. Check.
1 Crashing the Gate. Check
1 Ann Coulter. Ugh. uesu8w369-54fnc kjfehgrf

]]> By: yabadabado http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330346 yabadabado Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:21:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330346 <p>If Republicans are going to suggest that CREW held on to e-mails, why is no one asking why FoxNews did not investigate the original e-mail?<br /> The Florida newspapers did investigate and indicated not enough info. Nothing indicated that FoxNews investigated in the stories that I saw. If FoxNews did not at least investigate - did they already know what they would find and decided to claim ignorance if the story ever broke?</p> If Republicans are going to suggest that CREW held on to e-mails, why is no one asking why FoxNews did not investigate the original e-mail?
The Florida newspapers did investigate and indicated not enough info. Nothing indicated that FoxNews investigated in the stories that I saw. If FoxNews did not at least investigate – did they already know what they would find and decided to claim ignorance if the story ever broke?

]]> By: Hermes http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330272 Hermes Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:04:42 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330272 <p>Ah, it is established by Colbert that reality has a “liberal bias.” Therefore, a book that is critical of Coulter is inherently biased. </p> <p>So goes the thinking at Reuters, evidently.</p> Ah, it is established by Colbert that reality has a “liberal bias.” Therefore, a book that is critical of Coulter is inherently biased.

So goes the thinking at Reuters, evidently.

]]> By: daCascadian http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330252 daCascadian Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:37:27 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/09/brainless/#comment-330252 <p>No offense to anyone but I will NOT have anything to do with anything about Ms. Coulter; i`m NOT feeding any of the frenzy no matter what.</p> <p>The quicker “she” retires to her coffin the better for all of us humans. fu*kin cu*t</p> <p>Thanks for the information about what is going on nonetheless.</p> <p>“The future will be a struggle between huge competing systems of psychopathology.” - J. G. Ballard</p> No offense to anyone but I will NOT have anything to do with anything about Ms. Coulter; i`m NOT feeding any of the frenzy no matter what.

The quicker “she” retires to her coffin the better for all of us humans. fu*kin cu*t

Thanks for the information about what is going on nonetheless.

“The future will be a struggle between huge competing systems of psychopathology.” – J. G. Ballard

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