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Last night, Bill Maher criticized last week's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, saying, "If you're going to have a rally: you might as well make it about something," before detailing his specific problems with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's efforts. I think some of what Maher observes as shortcomings with the rally are completely valid, especially this idea there is craziness on both sides of the aisle. And even Jon Stewart told Chris Wallace last week, MSNBC can't come close to doing what Fox News is able to do.
“Try not to pretend the insanity is equally distributed through both parties. Keith Olbermann is right: he is not the equivalent of Glenn Beck. One reports facts, the other is very close to playing with his own poop. And the big mistake of modern media, has been this notion of balance for balance's sake. That the Left is just as violent and cruel as the Right, that unions are just as powerful as corporations, that reverse racism is just as bad as racism. The message of the rally, as I heard it, was that, if the media stopped giving voice to the crazies on both sides, then maybe we could restore sanity. It was all nonpartisan and urged cooperation with the moderates on the other side -- forgetting that Obama tried that and found out: there are no moderates on the other side. When Jon announced his rally, he said the national conversation was dominated by people on the Right who believe Obama’s a Socialist and people on the Left who believe 9/11’s an inside job, but I can’t name any Democratic leaders who think 9/11’s an inside job. But Republican leaders who think Obama’s a Socialist? All of them.”
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Date: 6/11/10 23:04 (UTC)Matthews has his quirks, but he is far closer to a hard news guy than Beck. By a fucking MILE.
Schultz, I distinctly remember, saying that he thought it was OK to cheat to win an election--cause it's what the Republicans would do.
That was when I wrote Schultz off as a Fox news guy who was on the wrong channel.
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Date: 7/11/10 01:26 (UTC)Yeah, I guess in this case one person's "quirk" is another person's annoyance. He's just as disgusting as Olbermann. If he weren't working for MSNBC, he'd probably be able to get a job in the White House as Obama's official leg-humper.