ABC says Fox episode signals end of Hollywood liberals' "free ride"

[kurth]

ABC just showed their little report on the Fox-Limbaugh episode. But instead of talking about Fox's illness, they went back to John Kerry's 2004 comments at Radio City Music Hall about the performers conveying "the heart and soul" of the country, and then Bush's mocking Kerry for it. The Dixie Chicks were also shown calling Bush a "dumb fuck".

ABC's political director Halperin then came on and solemnly declared that the Hollywood liberals had had a "free ride" under previous administrations, but from now on, no more "free ride" for them...

Unbelievable, heh? FUCK ABC.

[originalpckelly]

1. Just another example of ABC's liberal bias.

:eyes:

[Just-plain-Kathy]

41. ABC's bias was bought...

ABC is owned by Disney, they have holdings in Sid R. Bass (crude oil and gas). They also own the Carnival Cruise line. ....Carnival Cruise received a $236 million federal contract to house Katrina Victims. ....It all boils down to money :(

[wtmusic]

2. ABC/Disney's free ride is over, at least in my household nt

[tblue]

6. The only thing I'll ever buy from Disney will be 2nd hand

Why is ABC so in bed with Repugnicans?

[ChiciB1]

11. Here In Florida... Garage Sale Bargains! Buy disney JUNK

cheap! Not that they are Dems or anything, just that they go to Disney and the kiddos just HAVE to have it!! I've seen so many items dirt cheap, but I DON'T DO DISNEY so it matters not to me!

Can you imagine paying $20.00 to $25.00 for some "thing" and then sell it for $1.00 at a garage sale??

Stupidity abounds!!

[ima_sinnic]

38. as a yard-sale fanatic here in FL I know exactly what you're talking about!

I can never get over the junk that people at one time paid good money for (& the overinflated value they try to place on it--sheesh--AS IF--I don't DO Disney, either). And Disney, like McDonalds, is polluting the planet with cheap plastic s**t that is played with for ten minutes and forgotten about. The WASTE is a crime.

[ChiciB1]

43. Love Your Name... And I Concur!!

Isn't it totally ridiculous??? What is even more distressing is the "culture shock" that awaits all those who felt the need to "keep up with the rest" for the sake appearance!!

The buy now, pay later culture is eating America alive!! I'm not pristine, I have a credit card and I do use it, but it's mostly as a convenience because sometimes "cash" just don't get it!!

Try to get a reservation, or rent a car and you will soon find it's almost impossible to do without "the card!" But this utter nonsense of over-inflated prices for a fluff caricature of Mickey is outrageous!! When a Mickey T-shirt costs $25.00 and you actually BUY it... well you've been had!!

But Disney has sucked far too many into their "corporatism" and given far too many an inflated worth... they got the money and they don't give a flying "you know what!"

[VOX]

31. A-bloody-men! Disney-ABC is dead to my family. DEAD. n/t

[rodeodance]

3. whow, that really happened?? sounds off the wall

[Nite Owl]

4. Was this on the evening

news? I don't watch ABC or network news either really.

So they didn't talk about the Limpballs statements about Fox at all?

[kurth]

ABC's World News Sunday with Dan Harris

The guy who gave the ABC News spin was their "political director" Mark Halperin.

[JHB]

28. Use the proper term: "political commisar"

Call a spade a spade. People with Soviet positions should use Soviet terminology.

[kurth]

15. They did show the gyrating Limpballs

and just a little bit of Fox's interview with Stephanopoulos.

[nini]

5. The neocons have been after Hollywood for years..

this is nothing new.

[Cush]

7. Wasn't Halperin on FOX, saying the media was liberal?

guess that it explains it

[samdogmom]

8. These "interpretations" always mystify me.

Wow! I would have thought it was the end of the free ride for right-wing control over the media. The Michael J. Fox episode, with hope, woke up a number of people to the right-wing bias in the media. I guess this is another example of "If we say it, then it must be true." (Or the media just trying to cover their butt.)

I miss Peter Jennings more every day--I think he tempered things a lot more than I ever imagined at this network.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Ya coulda fooled me. The result of the Fox/Limbaugh thing has mainly been

a lot of people, including Bush voters, realizing what an asshole Rush Limbaugh is. That's what I've seen.

[Thickasabrick]

10. This actually makes sense. They are trying to become the

"network" Fox. Disney and ABC are dead to me now.

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[WCGreen]

36. Don't forget old Steve Jobs and Apple are up to their eyeballs

in Disney now...

[porphyrian]

40. Maybe they can make a difference.

Lots of very cool people work for Disney, but it's largely owned and operated by a bunch of soulless assholes.

[Shakespeare]

13. Mark Halperin is a bushite rightwinger asshole

Used to be one of bushie's speechwriters, and is responsible for "axis of evil." Fuck him.

[americanstranger]

18. You're confusing Halperin with David Frum.

Frum came up with 'axis of evil,' and was a W speechwriter.

Halperin, on the other hand, is just a moron and a hack.

- as

[Shakespeare]

23. Actually, I'm confusing him with Mark HELPRIN....

...who is a bushie. Thanks for catching that.

[americanstranger]

26. I can see where the confusion comes from, then.

I wasn't aware that there was a Helprin on the speechwriting staff.

But the 'axis of evil' speech rang a different bell, name-wise.

- as

[Shakespeare]

27. I think Helprin and Frum worked together on most speeches.

Helprin started out as a mediocre novelist (A Winter's Tale, no relation to Shakespeare's play), then went totally wingnut. If memory serves (and this may not be right), he also worked for Bush I, and I think (too lazy to google at the moment) that he may have been responsible for the thousand points of light bullshit, too.

[luckyleftyme2]

21. LIMPBUGH

Who but an asshole failure like limp-bugh would still have a license on the air -ways if it wasn't for the dirty tricks boys of the "repuke" party?
He definitely has all the qualifications to be a "repuke". Condemns others like "Clinton" for not inhaling, luves knewt who's guilty of adultery, claims to be a holier than thou christian.
fact: cheated on wife
fact: knowingly lied to get prescription drugs;and never went to jail for it.
yea now he's attacking "mike" in my book he qualifies for asshole of the year!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. Do networks, aside from Fox, HAVE "political directors"?

[kurth]

19. Fox probably has a political commissar at every station

reporting to the local GOP leadership organ, just like Uncle Stalin did.

[readmoreoften]

16. Did you see ABC apologizing to O'Reilly for Liberal Bias AFTER

the Path to 9-11 and the pledge to become more conservative?

[ContraCommando]

32. “Did you see ABC apologizing to O'Reilly for Liberal Bias”

Yeah, apologizing to the guy who said it was okay for terrorists to blow up the Coit tower in San Francisco (O'reilly).

According to Franken, newspapers that endorsed Bush for president account for 58% of circulation - some liberal bias.

[readmoreoften]

35. No, you didn't get the newsletter.

Liberal bias has also shifted to the right. The debate is now between Lou Dobbs (who IDs as conservative) and Fox News. We are in the "left-wing extremist terrorist" category now. As is Bill Clinton-- and that's why he's responsible for 9-11 and the fact that little Dick and Jane's grades are slipping. He's also responsible for that time I lost my slipper under the bed for seven months. And so are you.

[ContraCommando]

42. Can you blame me?

As an evil liberal, I was probably too busy brushing my teeth, teaching evolution, fornicating with a relative, supporting America’s enemies, worshipping Allah, or reading a book to notice it :)

[5X]

17. That was such a bogus news report, the whole purpose...

seemed to be justifying limpuke's attack on Fox.

[Emit]

20. Looks like ABC is on board with the Repug Echo Machine -- check this out

It's all tied into their plan; a coordinated effort. The timing is impeccable:

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[KittyWampus]

25. The ACLU at war with America?

what a pathetic Film Festival that will be.

[SeattleGirl]

29. What a load of crap.

:puke:

[Emit]

51. They continue to create their own 'reality'...

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

"Without a Doubt", The New York Times, October 17, 2004

[Cha]

22. Michael J Fox is not getting a "free ride"

..political director, mark halperin, of abc.

It's Fucking bush who not getting a "free ride" anymore you fucking monkeyfucker.

[cornermouse]

24. Well...

We could always let Disney know that its going to cost them in future sales.

[ContraCommando]

30. Trust Busting Time!

No boycotts, don’t work. Instead...

I say that as soon as the democrats get the power to, we break up Disney (parent company of ABC) like AT&T in the 80’s or like standard oil, that’ll teach the fuckers. ABC’s ride is over.

This guy is a political hack, interested in pushing his agenda. He’s been making all the rounds on RW media outlets promising to be more “fair and balanced.”

Media consolidation = end of democracy. GE (NBC), Disney (ABC), Viacom (CBS), News corp. (Faux news) all need to be broken up.

[mnhtnbb]

33. FUCK ABC. Never watch 'em

[npincus]

34. what Bullsh*t. You're tellng me "Murphy Brown" didn't spawn the RW

"Morality" movement back in the 80s? Yeah. Some "free ride". Idiots.

[Rex]

37. They wrote a propaganda piece right before the elections!

Criminal assholes...REPUKES!

[EFerrari]

39. AB who?

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

44. you have misquoted what Halpern said---

He said "Conservatives had said that under the Bush administration liberal entertainers bashing Bush will not get a free ride" Meaning republicans will continue to Dixie Chick people. Halpern did not say that was ABC's stance.

[kurth]

48. "Conservatives say", "insiders say", "some people say"

The "some say" opener (as in "today some people say there is global warming", "some veterans have said Kerry did not earn his medals") is a phrase much loved by the RW for mudslinging, anonymous attribution, threat delivery, etc. The ABC piece was a clear warning shot, with Halperin delivering the message.

------------------------------------------

Typical usage:

The President And The Straw Man
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2006
(AP) "Some look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude that the war is lost and not worth another dime or another day," U.S. President George W. Bush said recently. Another time he said, "Some say that if you're Muslim you can't be free." "There are some really decent people," the president said earlier this year, "who believe that the federal government ought to be the decider of health care ... for all people." Of course, hardly anyone in mainstream political debate has made such assertions. When the president starts a sentence with "some say" or offers up what "some in Washington" believe, as he is doing more often these days, a rhetorical retort almost assuredly follows... A specialist in presidential rhetoric, Wayne Fields of Washington University in St. Louis, views it as "a bizarre kind of double talk" that abuses the rules of legitimate discussion. He told at least two audiences that some senators opposing him were "not interested in the security of the American people." In reality, Democrats balked not at creating the department, which Mr. Bush himself first opposed, but at letting agency workers go without the usual civil service protections...

[tsuki]

45. What is wrong with these people? MJF was appearing as a

spokesperson with Parkinson. He has never been a "Hollywood Liberal." Republicans are so evil.

[Raine]

46. "Free ride"???

:wtf: I must have missed that, when was the "free ride" :shrug: I'm genuinely confused about when that was going on.

[gratuitous]

52. Me too

Ask Zero Mostel about his "free ride."

Ask Ring Lardner about his "free ride."

Ask Paul Jarrico about his "free ride."

Ask any of the hundreds of others in Hollywood either silenced or intimidated by HUAC, the McCarthy committee, or the FBI.

"Free ride" my sweet Aunt Fanny.

[BeFree]

47. Halperin is another puppet

Who has Cheney's hand up his ass all the way up to his tongue.

That was about the most awful reporting I have ever seen. Reminded me of faux but worse. Glad to see the folks here tonight have noticed that shit.

[kurth]

49. Glad you caught it too

The spin was obvious and blatant.

[Vidar]

50. The mouse that became a rat: Disney.