I blame people like Chris Matthews and Anderson Cooper as much as I blame birthers

[GameOn]

Why continue to try to debunk something that's idiotic in the first place? Why give so much airtime to a subject that rational people ignore?

Now on Youtube it's vids trying to prove the certificate is fake. This will never stop, so why try to stop it in the first place?

[femmocrat]

1. Agree. Why give these fools so much airtime?

Every time I turn on the cable news, it's nothing but Trump. CLICK!!!

Welcome to DU, GameOn! :hi:

[politicasista]

2. Bout time we blame the media instead of the victim

but there will always be some that slam the victim rather than the REAL culprits.

[GameOn]

4. There will always be idiots in the world. You depend on people with common sense to ignore them. NT

[Ineeda]

3. Kerry didn't fight the swiftboaters and media didn't debunk...

and look where it got him. Ridicule is an effective weapon in the fight against this idiocy.

[lumpy]

7. Hear hear. Trump has been exposed for the scammer he is.

This may not impress ignoramouses but it supports those of us who believe in the truth and those people with common sense who might have had some doubt.

[politicasista]

10. Nah, let's just slam good Democrats and let the others off the hook

:sarcasm:


Guess Obama is seen a master at exposing the media and people with agendas while others are seen as poster children for not fighting back, even though they took the high road like Obama.

[politicasista]

8. Yep. Let's blame ONLY Kerry and let the REAL culprits off the hook

He released all of his Navy records and gave a speech to the Firefighters Convention that the media refuse to cover, but people wanted him to choke Bush and Rove I guess.

[catgirl]

18. Ann Richards didn't fight the lesbian rumors

And lost the Governors race to George W. Bush. Karl Rove started this kind of crap. It used to start
as a whisper campaign. Now they just send out the loudmouth freaks to do the job.

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. Ridicule is an effective weapon. That's true.

[rasputin1952]

5. Tweety is an idiot...

I find it particularly irritating that he seems obligated to interrupt immediately after asking a question. He's not as bright as he thinks he is, and his rudeness is a pathetic sign of his insecurity.

[Clear Blue Sky]

6. They like to hear themselves talk.

[forty6]

9. Who forces any of you posters to watch them?

I'm not defending them, anymore than I am defending your rights to your own opinions.

Just asking, when there are so many alternatives available on TV and the internet, bright people, wonderful reading, there's no reason to watch what you don't like.

None at all. My opinion.

[Trajan]

11. I completely disagree ...

You dont ignore these idiots when they have the floor - You pound on them, again and again ...

And they had the floor ..... They do not anymore ....

I also blame them, but not because they didnt shut up, but because they didn't do their job to investigate and tell the truth ....

This silly farce went on for years ... Your approach to place your head in the sand is kinda chickenshit, and certainly unproductive ...

[forty6]

14. I hope your insulting remarks were not aimed at me!

I hardly call choosing who I listen to and what I read as "head in the sand ... kinda chickenshit"

Just because Fox News has so many foolish idiots on, I don't see the need to watch or listen and I doubt you do either, unless you're a masochist who likes to beat your brains out listening to foolishness and lies. There's a lot better out there than Fox News, as you must know, and there's a lot better out there than those names above.

The less people listen and watch them, the sooner that the better, more engaging presenters and writers will rise, as did Rachel Maddow and Keith O. Or are you going to blame them, too?

Empty barrels make the most noise, but that's all they do.

[Trajan]

15. You might be giving yourself too much credit

I have no idea who you are or what you said ....

If I wanted to reply to you, I would have done so directly ....

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Hmmm, Not me....Tweety's been red hot making fools out of these

people, and I love it. sorry

[Awsi Dooger]

16. Matthews has been fantastic

He cuts off the empty talking points and poses simple questions they aren't prepared to answer.

Go to a balanced forum. The right wing posters despise Matthews right now and feel threatened by him. They mock Maddow and basically dismiss her.

[DCBob]

13. Yes its completely idiotic, but more than half of all Republicans believe it.

Seems that's a pretty good reason for the media to address it.

[leftynyc]

17. Because everybody saw

what happened with the swiftboaters who turned a hero into a fraud. I understand the temptation to ignore nonsense but when it's not nonsense to a growing percentage of people, you need to fight back. Kerry didn't and lost. President Obama is smarter than that.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. Because there are millions of people between the birthers and us,

and if all they have is the birthers telling them that the media has been shut down, they will believe the birthers.

[mopinko]

21. he wasn't talking to the tea party. he was talking to media.

that was the real target of that presser.

[otohara]

22. MSNBC Spent The Most Time Covering

in trying to debunk, they kept the story going and going and going.

Chuck Todd couldn't let it go this AM - talking to a STATE senator in Alabama who was more concerned with tornadoes

http://www.mediaite.com/online/cable-news-coverage-of-the-birther-issue-msnbc-most-cnn-and-fox-least/

[polichick]

24. I can't even watch Chuck Todd anymore; he's such a journalistic joke.

[dgibby]

30. The only reporter Obama called out by name was Chuckles!

Priceless!

[polichick]

23. I agree - they do it for their ratings.

[Fearless]

25. +1

[Mz Pip]

26. It's one thing to debunk them

It's another to give them a platform to spew their nonsense.

If I were Matthews or any other member of the media, I'd state the facts and then never invite another one of these twits on the show again. Any of them. Ever. Period.

It's time to put them all on ignore and stop talking about it. These people are an embarrassment to our country.

Enough is enough.

[center rising]

27. I think Matthews give so much air time

To debunk these assholes. You should have seen him yesterday on Andrea Mitchell's show. You can tell he was hot!!

[Amonester]

28. Why? Simple. Because they *expect* their ratings will go up.

What do you think all that Cirque Du Stupide bring$ them?

*Capitalist* money is the root of all evil.

[Whisp]

29. I saw a bit of a John King/Frump interview yesterday

Frump just overtalked and ignored King's questions. King looked meek and obsequious.

two ignorant assholes, what a match.

[vaberella]

31. Of cours ethey are. Throw in Contessa Brewer---they instigate this shit or give ita plaftform.