You cannot hope to stop cartoon figures that have served ABC News, from Brit Hume to Geraldo to the latest jewel in the plastic-Burger King-crown, you can only hope to contain them at an appropriate location.
John Stossel made his first appearance as a FOX News employee today on The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum and Trace Gallagher. Gallagher asked Stossel why he joined the FOX family: “The health care story is one of the reasons,” Stossel said. While still with ABC News Stossel said he’d produced an hour-long healthcare special, but, “I could not get it on the air at ABC. They were doing Michael Jackson stories. Fox covers the news, so finally, the freedom to talk about a few things I know about.”
And, as is par for the course for John Stossel, he missed the truth…by….that….much:
Update from an ABC News insider: “John knows full well that he did not produce an hour on healthcare. It was a five minute retread of a piece that had been done a year earlier.
He’s such a perfect fit for Rupert’s empire.
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I wish John Stossel luck in his new career at Fox Fantasy Kingdom. I hope they told him the costume gets hot and sticky in the summer.
Thanks for the post. Another example of the victim pose of the right, always playing a role of persecuted children of the Holiness Squad, while revealing their essential immorality by lying shamelessly.
From the comments at your link:
I concur.
Media tools and media fools with angles mangling truth and life.
Good morning all and thanks for the post, Attaturk.
John Stossel is as skeevy a fucking fuck as there is on tv. His breathless hysterica style of fact free spittle flecked spew is the primary reason I have not watched ABC for a long time now. The fact that he held a job there for so long is the reason I will not go back now that he is gone.
He for sure will fit right in at that other place.
Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks, Cohen and Herbert today. Bobo waxes philosophical or something in “Where the Wild Things Are.” Sigh. He says psychologists and philosophers tend to gravitate toward very different views of conduct and whether we can truly say that there is such a thing as character. Mr. Cohen, in “Endurance Test,” says it’s time for President Obama to stop equivocating and speak up for a serious commitment to Afghanistan. Mr. Herbert addresses “Safety Nets for the Rich” and says we’ve shoveled money at the rich and given banks and megacorporations everything they’ve wanted for decades but it’s time to realize that trickle-down economics is a fairy tale.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got a variety of bagels with cream cheese. Is that ’stache in the picture really Stossel’s? To me it looks more like The Moustache of Wisdom’s… Have a great day.
We all know the real reason John Stawful made the change: Teabaggin, baby!
(paging Glen Blech)
To think this lying liar has been poisoning the national discourse since at least 1981 when ABC put him on national TV…nearly 30 years ago…thanks again Librul Media!
Herbert is quite spot on, and have another post about where the mogul hordes are putting the pennies, buying low and selling our money high;
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/17/how-wall-street-is-making-its-billions/
Maybe ABC just asked Stossel to update his earlier report on the legitimacy of pro wrestling.
Morning all.
Maybe that guy could be hired, fitted with a suit, and sent to convince a few more senators to support the PO.
The elder Mr. and Mrs. Stawful sure did a great job of raisin their boyz. John-boy’s older brother Tommy-boy loves lying too! Tommy’s a lying doctor who’s a senior fellow at the lying Manhattan Institute, where he gets to share cocktail weenies with Bill Kristolnacht and Peggy Nooner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute
…and a trustee for the lying ACSH:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health
Like Porn-stache, these groups have decades and decades of proven lying, and when caught, it never ceases to amaze me how they just keep lying about their lies. These are not serious people and should be shunned everywhere they go. No, I’m not holding my breath.
Or even just sent in for an interview with O’Reilly or Hannity. Unfortunately, Stossel wasn’t as right wing (or didn’t seem so) as he became.
Mornin’, gang -
The “remember me” button seems to be functional again! *snoopy dance*
See how little it takes to make me happy? *G*
*smooch to the techies*
Round ‘em up, get ‘em into the same corral. We all know what happens after the roundup.
Good morning all.
Seems like a good fit. Who will take his place? Another barbie doll?
I must say that I never watch ABC either.
They have college football on saturdays.
Still trying to provoke me into a triade about how boring spectator sports are, I see. :-)
Teasing can be a participatory sport. :-)
Just so long as we don’t get to be like the old couple whose parts of the play were written years ago and whose dialogue never varies. And I’m very disappointed that the smiley faces did not survive overnight.
Stossel is the epitome of the type of asshole kid that needed his butt kicked every so often to knock him down a peg. At this point, he’s not even ideological in his point of view, he’s just a prick.
And provide better upskirt cheerleader coverage than the other prudish networks.
when I turn on my TV on a saturday afternoon, seems like EVERYBODY has college football on.
Guess you didn’t see the Jankees last night. Just as well.
Yup. A prick.
Healthcare and Stossel have been a bad mix ever since Dr. D. David Schultz slapped him silly during an ambush interview.
-G
Thank God Stossel never got to do that hour-long special on health care.
I hear Stossel’s moustache gets its own dressing room. Hope O’Reilly doesn’t sexually harass it…
I totally agree with you about Stossel being a skeevy fucking fuck. You forgot to add dumb and lying. FOX is the prefect place for him (if he deserves to be on the airwaves AT ALL). He’ll be among like-(empty)minded assholes.