MSNBC... Bless Their Hearts
skinnydipinacid
Obsessed with non-gaffes in hopes of turning them into gaffes, MSNBC may have bit off a little more than they could chew this week after completely falling for bogus "news" stories... running with them... then hyping them up to the point that it's just downright laughable, yet completely absurd.
First they took a bite after reading some nice, smelly Politico bait where it was being "reported" that Paul Ryan mockingly calls Mitt Romney "the Stench". Oh, what a dig that would be! Comedy GOLD!! There's no way MSNBC was going to let that worm slip away. That's some good eatin'.
So without doing any real fact checking (hey, it's on the internet... so it MUST be true) they immediately ran with the story by sending out Lawrence "Check Out the Head on That Thing" O'Donnell and let him do what he does best... beat a dead horse in the most smug way imaginable. Only problem for MSNBC was the horse took the day off, so in hindsight it just looks like O'Donnell is beating himself.
Beat that horse Scary Larry.... beat it real good:
It was so bad that Politico later had to add a disclaimer at the top warning potentially foolish pundits that might find themselves irrisatably engaging in nonsensical smears like O'Donnell did.
They even added a special author's note that read:
[Author’s note: Jonathan Swift did not really want Irish people to sell their children for food in 1729; George Orwell did not really want the clocks to strike thirteen in 1984; Paul Ryan, I am sure, calls Mitt Romney something more dignified than “Stench” and Microsoft did not invent PowerPoint as a means to euthanize cattle. At least I am pretty sure Microsoft didn’t.]
When you've forced the author to hold people by the hand and explain to them the obvious, it's pretty clear the obvious went right over your head, and given O'Donnell's skull shape it probably didn't even ruffle any hairs.
Now before you start to think MSNBC couldn't possibly top that and come off looking like even bigger partisan tools , let me first remind you that this is MSNBC we're talking about, then move along to our next topic of discussion...
A so-called "turning point in the election". (Yep, that's right... another "turning point")
With this next baited hook many in the lame-stream media went swimming after it, including HuffPo, Daily Kos, Gawker, Think Progress (the typical smorgasboard for hysterical moonbattery). It even caused the Atlantic to go fishing for an expert to best explain why Mitt's joke (mistaken by them for the pinnacle of all gaffes) is such a serious issue, laying it out for their intelligent readers why it's a bad idea to have windows on airplanes (they later updated their story and added that Mitt was joking in a 'their bad, sorta... but not really' kind of way).
It is after all yet another "turning point":
Maddow reaction and facial expressions are a bonus.
You're welcome BL Raggers.
AUTHORS NOTE (in the fashion of Politico): Some people still can't grasp the fact that MSNBC screwed up and ran with wildly untrue stories without doing any fact checking, even though the story and links explain in great depth, and are continuing to jump on "the Stench" comments as if they were accurate. Try to avoid jumping to such conclusions... you'll only make yourself look silly. - SDiA
Reader Comments (33)
Lol, too funny. Mitt "The Stench" Romney.
Ryan is already going rogue and thinking about his chances in 2016. The GOP is just a mess.
Lol, too funny. Mitt "The Stench" Romney.
Ryan is already going rogue and thinking about his chances in 2016. The GOP is just a mess.
This MSNBC cluster**** would be much funnier if not for the fact that there are still people out there who consider it to be an actual news organization, with real journalists, and all that.
Choy/Brent, did you not read Skinny's post and the links he provided, or are you just too embarrassed by your moronic comrades at the Obama/MSNBC Complex to admit it?
Choy needs to send a resume to MSNBC. There's is always room for more idiots that don't read the post or understand it's spoof on MSNBC's lack of fact finding to the point stories blow-up in their faces. To steal and modify a line from the movie Risky Business;
"Choy, MSNBC could use a person just like you.”
Just wondering... is there ANYONE on the left who is honest enough to call out MSNBC for being the gang of grotesquely biased Obamatons they are? Is any leftie willing to say that objective reporting at MSNBC is an oxymoron?
No? I didn't think so. After all, being a leftie means being dishonest. Or ignorant. Or both. Ok, mostly both.
There is one I know of: Glenn Greenwald
Excellent comment. Is it a case of the stopped clock being right twice a day, or does Greenwald really have a conscience? I prefer the latter. It would make my outlook just a bit less pessimistic.
For Greenwald, I think he understands that an ideological/partisan victory is meaningless if it comes at the cost of his principles and integrity. I frequently disagree with him, but I have a lot of respect for his intellectual honesty,
Holy frickin' lullz Batman!
I remember back to my own school days as well as the days that my kids were still in middle and high school.
Almost every year there was a student, possibly a little mentally slow, but being mainstreamed with the rest of the students because that would be the best thing for him or her.
And what I learned was that so many of those young people, who may have been struggling a bit and who may not have always understood what was going on around them, were able to overcome any bullying or mocking they might receive by just out-nicing everyone. They had such a sunny outlook and a smile for everyone that it soon became obvious to anyone who thought of mocking them that they just couldn't bear making fun of such a good person.
And in the process, much of the population of the student body earned valuable lessons. The struggling students earned respect by giving respect to others.
I have fond memories of many of those young people, and today I realize that Choy is nothing like them at all.
Mach, I dunno know if you caught this in the comments section...
It'll be interesting to see how butt-hurt MSNBC feels after the next escort to the virtual woodshed.
If Romney said this we'd be hearing about it nightly, on every network, in prime time, all the way up until election... but when Obama slips up and says it... crickets as usual.
But we'll give him credit for everything and anything under the sun.
lmao Duff.
I'm not afraid to admit that the MSNBC folks have a bit of egg on their face on this one. A tad bit overzealous to believe what seemed like it could be true, but even to me it was surprising that the prextext of the article, that the Romeny campaign was completely falling apart publically seemed a bit too much.
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Check this out.
Another broken clock moment, as MSNBC proves to be not entirely safe for leftist hacks like Axelrod. He thought he would get the usual softballs, but wound up stuttering and stumbling as he tried to cover for the malfeasance of his Dear Leader, the SCOAMF in the Oval Office.
Barry Soetoro has had 4 friggin' years to do something about Social Security, but I guess there's just not enough time for that sort of thing, not with a full schedule of celebrity parties, fundraisers, basketball, golf, apologizing to the UN and Islamist terrorists, and whining that his nagging food czar wife doesn't get paid for treating the American public like small children.
:: chirp chirp - - - - chirp chirp ::
(unfortunately, nowhere near funny)
Check this out.
Another broken clock moment, as MSNBC proves to be not entirely safe for leftist hacks like Axelrod. He thought he would get the usual softballs, but wound up stuttering and stumbling as he tried to cover for the malfeasance of his Dear Leader, the SCOAMF in the Oval Office.
Barry Soetoro has had 4 friggin' years to do something about Social Security, but I guess there's just not enough time for that sort of thing, not with a full schedule of celebrity parties, fundraisers, basketball, golf, apologizing to the UN and Islamist terrorists, and whining that his nagging food czar wife doesn't get paid for treating the American public like small children.
I'm sorry, this just couldn't wait for the Friday Open Thread.
'Dick Will Mkae You Slap Someone"
http://youtu.be/LVr1hRjbKvQ
Lol. Fuck, saw the headline and Politico and figured it was legit. Damn you Roger Simon! Like I'm really supposed to read all of skinnydip's ramblings and follow his 15 links per article, lol.
Got me too. Sounded real. Ryan is another one of these Fratboy conservatives and calling Romney names behind his back seems right in character.
Hell, I probably should've double checked the Scott Brown article to see if it was a joke before I believed that his staffers were actually outside Elizabeth Warren's office making Indian noises.
Hard to tell what is real anymore.
The "Stench" label isn't discredited, just a bit premature.
And the Poll Truthers are girding themselves up to launch an epic tantrum/meltdown.
Lol. Maybe you liberals should stop acting like squares all the time, frowning at fratboy antics and name-calling.
Shorter Choy: "Who has time to get ALL the information? I gots me some smearin' to do!!"
And yes, summarizing various articles, sources and stories and compiling them into one thread generally does require various links to articles, sources, stories, comedic relief...
So hheeeeeeere's your sign.
(leave it to a liberal to muff things up then blame it on everything else)
When Obama doesn't win on November 6th and the cries of " The New York Times had him ahead 10%" rant on, the inevitable "stolen election" and national stimulus plan for attorney's will go into effect to over-turn this obvious racist outcome.
I hear "Fakeahontas" is shocked you need a law license to try cases or act as counsel for lawsuits tried in MA. Seems there is no record of her having a law license in MA when she was involved in a lawsuit as the plaintiffs’ attorney for (gulp) an insurance company. I'll give "Fakeahontas" credit, her college transcripts aren't under seal In Iron Mountain for safe keeping like another certain loser.
If she breaks 40% on Election Day it will just prove to me how stupid democrats
Poster boy for the Obama campaign: U.S. Ambassador to Libya murdered because he had it coming.
And there you have it, folks. That imbecile is the future of the U.S., thanks to decades of leftist "educational" indoctrination and dumbing-down. Enjoy what you have created, lefties. But you take him to YOUR house, feed him, clothe him, give him a free cell phone. He's YOUR responsibility, not mine.
The movie "Idiocracy" is prophecy.
h/t: The Jawa Report
Red;
Let's all remember this guy’s face because I have no doubt he will have a high profile position somewhere in the Democratic Party. Does he sound that much different than Nancy Pelosi? I don't think he does. Put a suit & tie on him and he's the Democratic congressional representative for San Francisco, Santa Monica, Chicago, Detroit, and Cambridge..... You get the drift.
In his own words.
Devastating.
I think we do. All those unAmerican places, in . .. America. Ready to book that one-way to Somalia, Nooshanz™?
"Madame Speaker." Roll it around in your mouth. Sounds good!
Tom, let's not forget Florida district 20, home of the illustrious Li'l Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Y'know, that bonehead in the video could pass for her, if we put him in a dress and makeup.
At first glance that woman on Drudge who say's Obama has her vote 'Cuze he got me a cell phone" could have been Sheila Jackson Lee with less teeth. I mean there all All-Stars these dems. As for Pelosi as Speaker; as yes Winston's November 2010 proclamation that Pelosi would remain Speaker is still fresh in all our minds.
How free cell phones are costing us billions
Hey guys, remember that time a certain somebody in these comments was laughing hysterically over the Romney/Ryan tape off MSNBC's 'Morning Joe'...
well....
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Wait... are you hinting that MSNBC might possibly not be an objective news organization, and might be slanting things ever-so-subtly toward our president's re-election? Shocking. Inconceivable. Say it ain't so, Joe!
And another thing. I'm not sure exactly how, but that allegation is probably racist.
wow nice article
thanx .......