Fox anchor just now

John Gibson: "The bad news for people who dislike him (Clinton)
is that these types of operations are so successful"

REEETCH. He just implied that Clinton's political enemies want him
to DIE.

their day is coming

the stench of hell rots from them

discussing the issues. Like, the press and pundits are quick to jump on alleged "flip-flops" while painting the Bush administration as "compassionate conservatives. Well comments like _________from JOhn Gibson sure aren't from "liberals" but it must be a reflection of the conservative idea of compassion." Something like that.

calls telling them how sick they are.

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:kick:

and stop watching Faux, or you'll be in for a bypass.
:kick:

And I've already had heart surgery!

My local cable provider sticks all of the cable news stations
next to each other. So while I was flipping between MSNBC and
CNN (and I should stop CNN too), I landed on Fox and they had
Ed Rendell in the picture... so I left it there to see what he
had to say about Clinton, got up to make myself a sandwich,
and heard this crap from my kitchen counter.

First I was so mad that I immediately switched channels, but
that's a mistake as my tivo dumps it's buffer immediately.
Otherwise I would be able to offload the clip and put it online
somewhere. Damn. Flipped it back just in time to hear the
constant meme of Hillary is getting ready to run in 2008! And
Bill would do ANYTHING to make this happen! ( See my other post
in this thread for a verbatim transcription of that crap )

She's been damn brainwashed!

he is probably the biggest far right clinton basher on the network, though not as visible as Hannity or Hume.

Faux is sinking lower and lower in an attempt to stay MORE disgusting that CNN...

:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

Hey John, why don't you go ahead and die now you sick fuck.

Well they do!

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/247/region/Audience_boos_as_Bush_offers_bP.shtml

Audience boos as Bush offers best wishes for Clinton's recovery


By Associated Press, 9/3/2004 13:57

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) President Bush on Friday wished Bill Clinton ''best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery.''

''He's is in our thoughts and prayers,'' Bush said at a campaign rally.

Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them.

A true leader, someone with REAL "moral clarity," would rebuke the crowd like this: "Wait a minute, people. Bill Clinton and I disagree strongly about many, if not most, issues. But he is an American who loves our country and served it for 8 years. There's nothing Christian, nothing American, and nothing Republican about wishing him ill."

But does the Smirking Bastard Boy King Chimp say anything like that? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

That says it all. It's war. But we already knew that. And an awful lot of us wished Ronnie Raygun well and were touched at his passing. No more. I'm tired of turning the other cheek.

Bake

I am sick of those bastards and their double standards.

Bush said NOTHING when the crowd BOOED his announcement of Clinton's surgery and his "sincere" wishes for Clinton's recovery. A "sincere" man who was a TRUE "compassionate" conservative would have hushed the crowd.

Let's media blast this one guys. The gloves are off.

and I didnt hear anyone boo-ing. Maybe I missed it, but all I heard were cheers, not ravinous ones, but cheers, I didnt hear any boo-ing.
:kick:

Detail, details! :)

not a tape, but live and all I heard were polite cheers, seriously and by my username you can see Im a HUGE Clinton supporter and I would be the first one to scream bloody murder, but I swear I didnt hear any boo-ing. If there WAS boo-ing, it was certainly drowned out on TV by the cheers.
:kick:

When you said live I thought you meant you were there. Whatever, some of the internet boards and FR are all corwing about how happy they are Clinton is ill. Sick world.

"Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed.
Bush did nothing to stop them."


So I didn't see the event live. All I seen is the clip of
* making the stmt about Clinton and wishing him well. And
the clip ends abruptly before ANY crowd reaction is recorded.
So from the news clips you can't tell if there were cheers,
boos, whistles, catcalls or silence.

You watched it on C-SPAN live? Or somewhere else?

I don't doubt your honesty... and the AP story was edited.

SO we are left with two possibilities:
1. There wasn't any booing and the AP reported made it up and
it was corrected later.

2. There was some booing, just not where TV microphones could
pick it up... but the AP reporter at the event reported it the
way he saw it. It got on the wire service that way and was
edited later (for whatever reasons).

I don't know which to think right now.

I do know what I heard coming out of John Gibson's mouth was
one of the most unfeeling and hateful things I've ever heard
about a political figure from someone in a national news
organization.

Some news network played a cli[ of Bush's speech where he talked about Clinton and I didn't hear boos. Not that there weren't any; it just wasn't too obvious from the clip they played.

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:kick:

I'm fuming right now and can barely type, but you've made it easier to contact Faux.

:yourock:

Can you imagine the outburst if, say, Keith Olbermann on MSNBC had cracked wise about Reagan's illness or death?

There's this prevailing notion among the right wing that anything goes when it comes to Clinton. Well, that's just not so.

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This is so far over the line.

It was just a joke about the vitriolic hate of Clinton by his political enemies.

I dont think it was in particularly bad taste.

I wish I had tivo'd this one. It would be worth it to
offload into my computer and find someplace to park the video.

Maybe someone knows if either a transcript or tape (better)
is available?

"I dont think it was in particularly bad taste."

It is in Obvious bad taste.

Would he say it to Clifton's Wife, Daughter, Parents Friends Relatives

Say it to their face NO THIS PIECE OF SHIT WOULD NOT

BECAUSE IT IS CRASS TO THE MAX.

"I dont think it was in particularly bad taste."

Give me a fucking break!

I am reacting only to reading the one quote in the title post. So perhaps I missed his attitude or the context.

But just this line:
"The bad news for people who dislike him is that these types of operations are so successful"

Is not in particularly bad taste. Your mention of his family shows youa arent thinking about this rationally. There are plenty of things that would be bad taste to say to his family that arent neccessarily in bad taste in other situations.

I was simply responding to the words, which are not that bad. The joke isnt so much on Clinton as it is on those who hate clinton. The message behind the statement is "Clinton's enemies probably wish him to die." it reads as comic exageration, but even if he was serious, I dont see that this comment was outrageous, it points out the vitriolic hate for Clinton that does exist.

They could claim that he smeared them. Clinton wasnt the but of the joke.

or if he was, he has the driest delivery of anyone I've ever
seen. Certainly Ed Rendell what non-plussed about it.

Even as a joke, it's in very bad taste.

Now maybe I am underestimating him, but if it wasnt a joke, the the only way to read it is expressing sympathy for clinton haters that clinton is probably going to survive. Now I understand bias, but I have a hard time believing he actually wished death on Bill Clinton on the air.

If he did, it is indeed in horrible taste, I just have a hard time believing it wasnt a piece of wit. Considering that it makes alot more sense intended as a joke.

Did he really wish Clinton dead?

and posted it someplace. Then you could make up your own mind.
*I* have a very sarcastic sense of humor (and it gets me in trouble
here at DU because sarcasm doesn't come through the keyboard very
well). Anyway, I sure didn't see him even crack a smile or anything
while he was saying it or afterward. But, I guess he could have
been joking.

Does anyone know if Fox repeats this program... I'll tivo it
and upload the video someplace!

are YOU joking?

joke or no joke, this is beyond the pale for broadcast "news"... completely, 100% beyond the pale.

it might be considered a joke, though I can't imagine him ever telling it. But anyone who is familiar with John Gibson knows he's a virulent Clinton hater, and coming from him, it is not a joke. He knows his audience, and he knows this joke would play very well among them.

"The bad news for people who dislike him is that these types of operations are so successful"

about a former 2 term President of the US is in bad taste.

In any context.

"
Is not in particularly bad taste. Your mention of his family shows youa arent thinking about this rationally. There are plenty of things that would be bad taste to say to his family that arent neccessarily in bad taste in other situations."

In other situations like what a Freeper rally.

This fuck just said look it's unfortunate but odds are Clinton will survive this OP.

This is not "particularly" or "neccessarily"the way you have to see it.

And of course, Faux's viewership is predominately right wing (or the ill-informed).

IMO, sounding off is a good thing, for two reasons:
1) Rapid-response activism is a positive way to make our views known;
2) If nothing else, it would serve to remind this sort of "info-taiment" phony news that, yes, there **is** a more moderate and left-wing viewership out that eventually must not be ignored.

I just dont feel that this one particular comment is deserving of the anger I see in this thread.

What the hell do you expect from the right wing fascists? They've hated Clinton since 1992 because he kicked the shit out of King George the First, and ruined the freeper's fantasy of an endless Reagan dynasty. I don't care if they hate us. I hate them, too. I'm going to throw a month long festival once Chimpy finally croaks.

BUT, it's one thing for the rabble (that would be us here and
them at freeperville) to have these emotions. It's quite another
to have either party leaders and/or pundits come right out and
express them. Even if Gibson had been joking (he wasn't) it
is inappropriate. Clinton is an ex-President.

And while I heard some nasty things said here about Reagan,
I sure didn't see any thing close to that in the media.
Admittedly, Fox is media in name only, but they WANT to be
mainstream media (fair and balanced). They were way out of line
to let that kind of crap on the air.

I, for one, didn't express hatred for Reagan when he passed.

I wasn't exactly happy when Reagan died, but I didn't shed any tears either. It was mostly a big "Huh..." as far I was concerned.

Look, I'm not going to tell you how to feel, but I really am not surprised that there are people out there that are happy that Clinton is in poor health and need of surgery. I'm not surprised that they are saying so, even on national television. I don't doubt that many on the right hope Clinton dies. That's the kind of people we are fighting.

Hate is terrible thing. It does horrible things to one's character and spirit. In a perfect world, I wouldn't waste time hating these fuckers, but well, I do. It's just he way I feel. That's what happens when you are young, angry, and poor.

Edit: Spelling. Guess I'm never going to learn to spell check BEFORE I post...

It's still shocking to see a national news anchor express these
sentiments, even if he had been joking. It's much like the situation
earlier with Rush and McNabb. It's just shocking to see this crap.
At least with Rush, ABC (?) did the right thing and terminated him.

No more silent-treatment, no more taking the high road, no more Daschle-like caving in. No more. This is a battle far greater than the coming election.

When Kerry wins, the fascists will still be in place, with all their media-machinery at the ready, and they will demonize Kerry as much, if not more than they did Clinton.

It's time to take a stand, and that means activism, and that means speaking out, and that means writing and calling.

I was more addressing the emotions here on DU. It seems many people here are shocked, I mean really shocked, that there are those on the right that are glad this is happening to Clinton. I'm not shocked at all. I see it all the time. I know they hate me, and you, and all of us on the left. I have no doubt that many of them dream of the "final solution" to the "liberal problem".

That said, you are totally correct about taking stand, and I stand corrected. Think I'll go write FAUX a nice hate mail now.

Edit: more spelling

"that those on the right who are glad this is happening to Clinton" have a TV network.

I mean, really, we let everything be dictated by sleazy corporations run by the likes of Roger Ailes. The result is that you wind up with nasty on-air observations like the above.

Who can we pressure?

This happened near the beginning of a segment with Gibson
interviewing Ed Rendell. Right after that sick remark... John
went on to talk about Hillary and her wanting to be president.

John: "We all know Bill Clinton would like to see his wife, Hillary,
President, someday. And that he will do whatever he can to engineer
this and that he has considerable political skills. So tell me,
how's he going to do that?"


...

John: Is he (Clinton) the hidden hand (of the Democratic party)?

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

double reeeetch! This is after getting Rendell on to talk about
Clinton's health issues.

The constant paranoid slander about the Clinton's as some evil political crime family.

John Gibson is an idiot! . . . always has been, always will be . . .

The only difference between Fox news and the Soviet News Agency Tass is that Tass was less hatefull and mean.

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It's a malicious prank that hijacks your PC and calls you "an idiot."

Funny, huh?

i can't get over this!

there should be an IMMEDIATE public apology.

sure, they're biased as hell, we all know that, but this is absurd!

on edit: please let brock know at mediamatters.org

Barf city!!!

:puke:
:puke:
:puke:

Me:

I found your comments regarding President Bill Clinton distasteful and disrespectful. I woudn't wish bypass surgery on anyone, having had my family go through it with a loved one.

Tacky, tasteless and rude.



Him:
give me a break. i think clinton is lucky to have caught this early, and his prospects for a long and healthy life are extremely good at the moment and i wish him well. don't twist my words.

gib

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