Here’s Orlando wingnut TV personality Barbara West "interviewing" Joe Biden. My favorite part is when she implies that a return to Clinton-era tax levels is akin to Marxism.
Local news is an advertising-driven business. It’s all about eyeballs, and station managers really, really hate it when they lose them over stupid shit like this. And WFTV deserves to.
West is married to a GOP media consultant, and her bio, in which she delights in covering Clinton’s impeachment and seems to brag about scuttling HillaryCare, tells you everything you need to know about her objectivity.
Let them WFTV know we’re not amused. Sign the petition and pass it on.
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Hey BT! I’ll let them know you’re here.
WFTV ?= What the Fuck TV!?
wazzzup
My comment on the petition Don’t apologize just quit.
Signed, with comment: Watching you from afar to make sure you do the right thing.
Isn’t McCain with the bank bailout corporate socialism? Sure Obama backed the bailout but John McCain was up to his neck in the Savings and Loan crisis which was another tax payer bailout.
wow. Fox better jump on that quick, she’s a natural
Corporate welfare & corporate socialism is OK as long as the Ds don’t stand up to it.
WFTV ?= What the Fuck TV!?
beat me to it.
Was gonna use it in my attached comment but I wasn’t sure if html would work….
crazy eights!
And contrast that with this hard hitting (not) interview of Palin by the Fox affiliate in Orlando.
Nominated for an Emmy award for his reporting, Mr. West now teaches clients how to use free news media coverage to convey their positions, platforms and perspectives to potential voters, clients, customers and patients and has been featured in articles in the Wall Street Journal and Roll Call. In the professional arena, he serves more than 70 Members of Congress, Washington’s leading think tank, members of President George W. Bush’s cabinet, as well as major non-profit health organizations and the Harvard University John F Kennedy School of Government. He also served on the faculty for the American Medical Association Health Reporters Symposium and the Drug-Free America Foundation’s “Drug Summit” endorsed by then-Governor Bush in Texas.
wow. Fox better jump on that quick, she’s a natural
too old to excite those with cheeto-stained fingers….
Signs from around the country:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..az-ca.html
the paintbrush is even mightier than the pen.
Agreed thats my nightmare, left you a comment downstairs
Going to look.
Done. My comment on the petition:
Cool and hopefully you have never been arrested I take it?
Signed and sent.
OT-David Shuster just gave a 30 second news story on prop. 8.
$12 million raised by antis this month, Google, Apple, Pacific Gas against it. $2.5 million raised this month for it, small donors. Not a peep about Mormon Church giving millions up to now.
Aw shucks! Thanks.
Barbara West is her husband’s media mouthpiece – pushing his right-wing agenda on behalf of his clients on a bona-fide public news channel.
Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine! Break up the big media conglomerates!
heh
Hey I try and
stealborrow only from the best!This is what I would call “a softball interview.” Biden hits one after another out of the park. A democratic plant couldn’t have gotten away with giving him such easy questions. I wish more right-wing interviewers would may Obama/Biden look so go.
Frankly, I have had my doubts about Biden, but this interview helped me like him much more. I say we should encourage to the idiot-sphere to do more of this, not less. Maybe they will be come so daring as to ask whether Obama can truly lead the entire country if he has never even attended a clan rally. I mean, that would he hard-hitting journalism.
Bimbo TV at its finest. Signed and sent. Do you think the MSM will ever be viable again or has the internet made it totally redundant?
Dugg and signed..
You givin’ me warm & fuzzies today.
((((TCU))))
McCain! Dangerous. Unstable.
Can someone please post the Petition Link in the comments over at this Kos Diary pretty please ?
I can not log in let alone post comments over there ever since I switched security suites about a month ago.
hey Central Florida Firedogs – can someone provide us with a list of major WFTV sponsors –
thanks
http://tw3k.net/Political_Art/…..nt_you.jpg
Used septic tanks… these people really are the STOS… same, tired old s***.
Biden’s best revenge will be if Obama goes up in the Florida polls after this interview or if Obama wins Florida.
If I were Biden I would credit this hack interview with the win just to stick it to her.
GOP dirty tricks lies and mudslinging backfire should be our election victory Meme Issues trump Gossip in a time of crisis should be the new political wisdom.
Or the GOP wins in low turnout elections by getting their base to vote. Which works as long as other voters have better things to do meaning they are fat and happy.
barbara.west@wftv.com
She is a total embarrasment to The City Beautiful.
About her:
http://www.wftv.com/station/1874549/detail.html
Hmmmm. Doesn’t say her husband is a GOP operative and has donated (twice) to Alan Grayson’s oppenent. But Miss Vermont? Nice.
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/by…..first=Wade
http://www.wftv.com/station/1874549/detail.html
So no questions to McCain about the wisdom of more Nuclear Power
Oh man, I love Vermont. So pretty and the people there are soooo involved and progressive. except her, apparently. And what is it with the GOP and beauty queens?
If someone would hire someone without qualification, wouldn’t we ask them to apologize? Seems there are a lot of people without qualifications in politics. Most perhaps?
Prop 8 is bringing out all the churchgoers in our neighborhoods. My hubby and I are Sunday regulars and I want to tell y’all we are d.i.s.g.u.s.t.e.d with the intolerance and control freakishness of the message these “christians” are sending. Pharisees.
Sex sells and when you have a message as bad as the GOPs every little bit helps I expect they will start recruiting porn stars as MSM talking heads next.
Good afternoon BT and pups.
Sent an email to the manager. Stating that she was preaching to the choir, and convincing no one to switch to the Palin-McCain ticket.
same front page story over at MSNBC site this am -
Knights of Columbus role highlighted but zip, zero, nada mention of LDS
I thought the same thing.
I can see it now.
The seedy guy at the bus station talks to a fresh-faced young teen just arrived from Minnesota.
“Wanna be in broadcast journalism, kid?”
“Oh yes! b-but how? How ever will I do it? I don’t have any money, no place to stay…”
“C’mere kid. I have it alll worked out. FIrst we get you some ah experience in front of the camera. Then…”
Thanks for fighting the good fight. Gay unions are a dying issue — young adults don’t understand it as an issue. If we can keep homophobic amendments out of the State and Federal Constitutions it will die as the older bigots move on.
Maybe I’m a bigot too, but I think the answer is civil unions. We take the government out of the ‘marriage’ business entirely. The government registers unions. Gay or straight, it doesn’t matter, you have to hie yourselves to the courthouse/county clerk’s office and sign the registration. At that point, you’re married as far as the government’s concerned. If you need goD’s blessing too, it’s up to you and your partner to take care of that with your spiritual advisor(s).
No more, “By the power vested in me by the State of Inebriation I pronounce you this and that.” That little phrase has always grated on me anyway — what business does the government have vesting power in a clergy-critter?
MORE LIKE:
WFTV = WANNABEE FOX T.V.
fox has an affiliate here and that isn’t it. you’d figure it was. she did an interview with biden in september. no problem.
I like Biden.
Sink Me !
your influence spreads to New Jersey
they seek him here, they seek him there
the Bushies seek him everywhere !
Sorry, but an apology petition is the wrong approach, IMHO. Right approach is to pressure the show’s advertisers. Subject the station and its hack news staff to the magic of the marketplace.
Eli has a new post up: “James Dobson Reminds Us What’s Really Important”
Don’t forget to register for the “Enjoy fellatio with Barbara West Contest”. Contest ends Oct. 31, and employees of WFTV and their sponsors are eligible, too. Best of luck to all.
Petition signed. Ms West is a sorry ass excuse for a “journalist.”
The questions are so bad, it’s like satire. I had to laugh, when she brought up socialism (that dirty Scandinavian kind/s) and commie-ism.
And I love that Biden just laughed at her when she asked those ridiculous questions. And when he asked if she was serious, PRICELESS!
Done. Here’s my comments:
Ms. West’s “interview” of Senator Biden was absurd. Surely she knows that the United States has had a mixed economy, at least since the introduction of the Income Tax during the Wilson Administration. I wish Senator Biden had noted that her quotation could have come from John Smith at Jamestown. Otherwise he did fine, but your station owes the Obama campaign an apology.
The Obama/Biden campaign told the station that they can kiss further interviews with anyone from their team, and that the offer is non-negotiable. That message has gone loud and clear to the rest of the broadcast industry. Obama has gone over their heads, and doesn’t need them. I predict a real shake-out come November.
Ms West claims on her resume that she was an _assistant professor_ at the University of Vermont. I wonder if anyone can confirm this.
I’m asking, since an assistant professor position at a state university normally requires a PhD degree, although exceptions may occasionally occur. According to her resume, she holds an MS degree.
MCh
Check out the “fair and balanced” softball interview she gave McCain:
http://www.wftv.com/video/17712615/index.html
Actually, one almost wishes for one interview after another like that. Not only were her questions Onion worthy, but her robotic delivery made one question whether or not a real human being were asking them. Biden hit each one, one by one, out of the park, and it’s hard to see how any rational individual watching, except maybe for Matt Drudgery, could wind up thinking that there were any basis for those questions in this world or any other. In a way, she let herself be set up, just the way Obama (and Biden) set up McCain in the debate for the discussion of William Ayers. The whole McCain campaign is predicated on the lowest common denominator of political I.Q.; they’re transparent and condescending, often hilariously so.
I saw this and thought I should do a little fact checking WFTV is actually part owned by FOX and COX here we go into a Republican agenda already no bias there right. Then Marla Weech a Republican gets into questions on Marxism OK where’s that coming from and then to find out that her husband is, Wade West is a well-connected Republican strategist. Bravo Senator Biden or Should I say Vice President Biden putting her in check and that station WFTV and there Republican Agenda. Also when I went to the Obama Rally at the AMWAY in Downtown ORLANDO a WFTV helicopter flew over head the entire time Senator Cliton spoke so you couldn’t hear her. A Republican town , Channel(WFTV) and Reporter . Change is need and ABC NEEDS TO TAKE CONTROL OF IT’s NETWORK IN THE HOME OF DISNEYWORLD. HECK THEY DON’T EVEN PLAY SATURDAY MORNING ABC SHOWS FOR MY KIDS ITS JUST NEWS FOR SEVERAL HOURS. DISNEY TAKE CONTROL BACK OF ABC ORLANDO.
Isn’t this the start of dossier keeping? Digital Brownshirts?
Don’t forget to arrest Joe the Plumber, too.