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by William K. Wolfrum 6/28/2012 - 10:49 am
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CNN is also reporting that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is alive and well and that Dewey beat Truman.
More on the SCOTUS decision to uphold ObamaCare from Think Progress.
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I hear they are getting royally ripped for it. Rightly so. Someone's going to lose their job over this.
I was wondering what the commotion was on twitter. Is Grover Norquist writing their headlines now? Hahahaha Worse.Than.Fox. I take that back, CNN is the equivalent of Fox.
So...any predictions on who will be the first to go public with a call to impeach Roberts? And how long it will take (if it hasn't happened already, that is)?
Andy Borowitz's comedic take on Justice Roberts: http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/06/29/trump-says-john-roberts-birth-certificate-is-fake/
THIS IS NOT a Wolfrum joke Daggers. Both Fox News and CNN announced the mandate was struck down. Wolf Blitzer said 'Wow!". John King "Blow to Obama" YES! A severe blow.....to the idiots on TeeVee 24/7 'news'.
This is the Free Truthful (??) Diligent (??) Responsible (NO) Corporate Press in action, informing us (??making up facts) and safe guarding liberty....NOT!
Screen capture at business insider for CNN announcement.
So does this mean that there are folks at Fox News who secretly respect, or at least trust(ed) to a point, CNN? Whoah. Or was there some other trigger for Fox other than CNN's report? Ironic, wouldn't it, if Fox News' reputation actually takes a hit (!)--because they made the dumbass mistake of trusting CNN?
Hi-larious. One of our crucial institutions (SCOTUS) proved that it hasn't quite tipped entirely over the edge into dysfunction today. But another (the press) compensated by reminding us that they already have.
I wouldn't blame the whole press. I'd blame the Fox/CNN war that led both to put up headlines based on scanning the first two pages of the opinion.
AP got it right.
If they can't get it correct from the first report, with all the intense scrutiny, knowing the decision was coming this morning, and with the world literally watching, it shows in my opinion they are not a reliable or bona fide source for news commentary or factual reporting, they should stick to celebrity gossip, which they do very well.
No argument from me. I just don't think that CNN and Fox represent "the media." The right answer was right there on the wires, on SCOTUS blog and on Twitter. No excuse except that they are entertainment networks with such selective vision that they immediately broadcast what they deemed the more "entertaining" result, whether they know it or not.
The real media that deals in facts and reasonable analysis did just fine.
I am getting reports that CNN and FOX News employed a 19 year old Liberty University drop-out as their constitutional analyst on this decision. This is not confirmed...it may have been the guy who services the coffee machine and mixes the Kool-Aid.
I don't think the "whole press" needs to have screwed up for the overall state of the press to be in trouble.
Only two high-profile and all-too-influential news organizations publicly screwed up in a totally dysfunctional way. But this should never be happening at all. The fact that only some of the major college football teams are full of active felons does not mean that college football is a healthy institution. The point is that things that should never happen now happen at more than one place.
Only one of our two major political parties has devolved into reckless, ideologically-driven lunacy. That doesn't mean our political system is healthy.
Did MSNBC get it right? If they did, the evening MSNBC hosts are going to be laughing their heads off.
Yeah, they did. They waited the extra three minutes or so to learn what the ruling actually said.
No guts, no glory, man.
At least CNN had the fortitude to go for it.
If you want media that just sits back and waits for other people to decide, then hey - that's your right.
But if you want LEADERSHIP, A BOLD FORGING AHEAD, AND TRUST, ALSO, THE COURAGE TO RUN CORRECTIONS, AND THE BEST POLITICAL TEAM WEARING RELAXED SLACKS, THEN YOU KNOW WHERE TO COME. OH FUCK, HOW DO I CLIMB DOWN OUT OF ALL CAPS.
SHIT.
NOW I'M STUCK HERE.
UMMMM, BOLD. WE'RE BOLD.
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PEARL HARBOR HIT IN SNEAK ATTACK
It is amazing that the pics used on the CNN and Fox websites reflect the type of dejection you would expect from a crowd of reform supporters who just suffered a loss. Did network videographers and photographers also miss the cheering crowds, or we're the photos selected to support what the headline was stating? In order words, were videos and photos cherry-picked to support a narrative?
This is the twenty- tens' "Dewey Beats Truman".
Sorry it's so big....I don't know how to make it small.
That is GREAT!!!!!!
You don't go small when you've got a great idea, FC.
Only thing better would have been showing the Fox screen instead of CNN's...
You are so gifted. Great work
I wish I could do this. Maybe you can tell me how?
Oh, crap! I did not do this! I stole it from
facebooktwitter.http://yfrog.com/hw7ozrfj
My apologies for not making that clear. I thought when I copied the link it would transfer the image info along with. I see now that it doesn't.
Photoshop credit goes to....gary he
http://yfrog.com/user/garyhe/profile
We don't believe you. You did it.
Okay, well, finding is also an accomplishment. Just ask Gertrude Stein.
How do I steal this?
Right click on the picture, then choose save image as, and save it on your computer.
Done. Shared it. Thanks FC!
Credit goes to gary he.
http://yfrog.com/user/garyhe/profile
Well, thanks to Gary He ... and thanks to you for having the good taste to appropriate his work and share it with us. :)