He went to Washington for... that?

Honestly, Harper needs to reassess his strategy. The bullshit he feeds to the Timmy's crowd isn't going to work when he's talking to one of the bloodthirsty Sunday talking-heads in the "Village".

Harper's interview with Chris Wallace should be chalked up as a disaster. Wallace tossed him relative softballs and Harper responded by painting a picture of someone who had been misquoted, taken out of context and generally misinterpreted.

In short, he was unprepared, inept and lacked confidence. It was so bad that he had to remind Wallace that he was a conservative. Twice.

I'm — as a conservative, I tend to oppose raising taxes at the best of times. But we have not got the structural budgetary deficit that exists in the United States. It obviously limits the administration's options.

And...

But I — I would say this as a conservative, if I — if I can be frank. It's great to say, "Let's have less regulation in principle and less intervention in the marketplace," but where has that led us, Chris, in many countries?

Hmmm... What Wallace saw, along with all the knuckle-dragging FOX viewers, was someone who isn't willing to just do what American conservatives do - to ignore the will of the population and just do what makes the conservative base happy.

Makes Harper a wannabe in Wallace's book.

When's the last time an American politician, appearing on the American conservative media foghorn, had to remind the interviewer that he is a conservative?

Next!

Harper to teach FOX News a lesson

A week after Greg Gutfeld and his panel of brainless wonders yukked it up over the idea that Canada actually has an army, pissing off so many people in the Great White North that even Canadian Defence Minister and neocon lickspittle Peter McKay condemned FOX News. But not to worry, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has now entered the fray. He's going to be in Washington on Sunday and New York on Monday - not to meet with U.S. officials - but to do media interviews. Including one with FOX News host Chris "His father must be so embarrassed" Wallace.

Harper did provide Radio-Canada with a rare interview on Thursday evening and is scheduled to give another Sunday to CTV.

Canadian correspondents were told not to bother trying to track Harper in Washington or New York. "You will likely be disappointed," said Teneycke.

The prime minister's latest round of media shopping comes just a month after he was last in New York.

It's part of a strategy to limit Harper's Canadian interrogations - where the questions tilt toward the specifics of Canada's troubled domestic economy - in favour of foreign media who can be expected to compare this country favourably to its international partners.

The only detail provided by the Prime Minister's Office was that Harper will be doing a live interview on Fox News on Sunday morning and a CNN interview on Monday.

Somehow I doubt the interview will begin the way it should, with Wallace presenting Gutfeld's head on a silver platter. Way to stand up for Canadians, Steverino.

It will be Harper's second interview with both Fox and CNN in a month. He has not granted an interview to The Canadian Press, Canada's national news service, since December 2007.

It's all about being accountable to Canadians, isn't it Steverino, you dead-eyed, baby-munching, presidential wannabe.

Crossposted from the Woodshed. 

Apology not accepted

Not that I want to drag this out, because there are more important things to discuss, but...
Bygones?
Do they think they can repeatedly talk this kind of smack about Canada and then just say "oh sorry, just kidding" when they are finally called on it? Really?
Well, I don't think so. What exactly did we "misunderstand" about this festival of dumbassery? Was it actually a scripted outtake from a Rick Mercer "Talking to Americans" special? Greg Gutfeld and the rest of the crew of ignorant jingoistic taints at Fox can kiss my Red-and-white-but-never-blue-maple-syrup-and-hockey-loving ass. Thank god most Americans are smarter than these smirking arses. Fox News is blight on the airwaves and should never have been given a licence in Canada. I vote we cut off the oil for a few months, starting yesterday. Sorry to the rest of America, but if you have a problem with the spike in gas and heating oil prices, take it up with Fox News.

"Isn't this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country? They have no army!"
-alleged funnyman Greg Gutfeld

Yeah, cause that worked out so well for you guys the last time, Greg.

Bonus funny: One of douche bags involved, Doug Benson, was actually scheduled to perform his comedic stylings in Edmonton from April 2 to April 5, but the gig has been cancelled. I guess the club was afraid some of these guys might have misunderstood his humourous take on their activities. Too bad, I'd certainly have paid top dollar to have seen that. No more BC bud for you, Dougie, you're eyes are red enough.

crossposted from the Woodshed

Blood Pressure Rising . . . .

If this doesn't get you pissed off, I don't know what will:




Undoubtedly, everyone on that panel has had extensive military service, don't you think? Giving credibility to them on military matters is like believing me when I discuss nuclear fusion. Knowledge on subject matter = 0.

Now, how do you feel about the US/Canadian relationship from the FoxNoise perspective ? ? ? ?

Video originally viewed at Unrepentant Old Hippie.
Thanks for the heads up, JJ!


Update March 23: Now even Peter Mackay and the Canadian MSM are up in arms over FoxNoise. Hell, the Bill Good show on CKNW even had a segment of outrage over it this morning. Funny thought, though: Does anyone doubt if Rupert Murdoch wanted to start up a Canadian operation that the current government would not give him the keys to the building?

Seriously . . . .

Project Palin for a New American Century

Pacific Free Press :

"In June 2007, a cruise liner sponsored by the political journal The Weekly Standard set anchor in Juneau, Alaska. Editors and guests of the publication were then treated to a reception with Governor Sarah Palin.

A key organizer and participant in the Palin meeting was Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who can fairly lay claim to having "discovered" Palin for Washington political circles. Palin's name appeared in fifty-seven Weekly Standard articles since the Juneau meeting-starting with a paean entitled "The Most Popular Governor" that ran right after the reception.

Kristol, in any event, was quick to press the campaign for the Palin candidacy with the party's faithful. Taking a cue from the Straussian handbook, Kristol appeared on Fox News on June 30, 2008, confidently predicting that McCain would select Sarah Palin and as a public display of support, oil prices would miraculously fall."

That's William Kristol - NYT writer, Iraq occupation booster, co-founder of PNAC, and son of Irving, founder of neoconservatism.

Fox News does education...

But apparently they can't spell it. And as the Huffington Post points out, Fox News has a bit of trouble with geography too.


h/t Think Progress

The best description of Fox News... evah!!

Seriously.

H/T Crooks and Liars.

Fox News at its absolute worst. UPDATED and corrected

Words simply fail me.








From Crooks & Liars

I was snookered: The above appears to be a piece of photoshopping. The real screen shot is below. It's not much better but it is what FOX actually put on the screen. Thanks to Chet in comments for pointing it out.













And I should have remembered this from a post by Jurassic Pork.

Get out that Medal of Freedom, George!

When you've lost Newt Gingrich, you've lost the fight. When an established Republican can't find a defender for his actions on Conservative TV FOX News, it's time to get those resumes out to the golden arches.

Alberto Gonzales is starting to look a little burnt on one side. Perhaps it's time to flip him.

Impolitical has also drawn a bit out of the New York Times, which has taken it's own good time on this, considering they spiked a column which would have blown this whole issue into the stratosphere, before the 2004 elections, based on a bill of goods they were sold by the Bush administration.

What does the New York Times actually reveal? It was Dick Cheney who sent Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card to the hospital bed of then Attorney General John Ashcroft to attempt to coerce approval for continued covert and clearly illegal information gathering activities.

Impolitical makes this point:

Hardly surprising, it was apparently Cheney who ordered the attempted strong-arming of a sick man by Gonzales and Card. I had not read this to date. Even this past week, Schumer was asking Gonzales who sent him to the hospital to pursue this sickly course of action. Gonzales refused to answer. No kidding.

I love it when Cheney is involved. You just know someone is going to get tossed under the bus and Bill Kristol is going to start howling like a moonstruck malamute with one nut.

Let the games begin.

UPDATE: Lindsay points us to the Anonymous Liberal, who, as she says, is a lawyer and guest-blogger for Glenn Greenwald. A.L. provides a very readable summary of the perjury case against Gonzales, including the technical defense Gonzales would use to fight such a charge and which the National Review has already published in an editorial.

The FOX attack

OK. Just to catch everyone up a bit, it started with Bill O'Reilly deciding to smear Daily Kos and Jet Blue. Crooks and Liars has the video.

Then, via Red Tory, this:



Now, for what it's worth, O'Reilly cherry-picked his Kos quotes from the comments section, and Michelle Malkin's comments moderator admitted it. Kos and most other bloggers have pointed out that there is little control in "open" comments sections, but O'Reilly wasn't having any of that. He has comments at his site and he has control... or at least he has an employee who has control for every $50 per year registrant who might want to leave a comment.

O'Reilly is fully aware that comments in blogs, particularly where they start running into the hundreds per post, are pretty difficult to manage. He also knows they do not represent the author of a post. But that's where he dragged his quotes from.

With that knowledge, a point needs to be made. Anybody could be leaving comments. Most commenters are pseudonymous. Even on a blog requiring registration, a pseudonym, a throw away email address and you're in... commenting to your heart's content.

That's the point. O'Reilly himself could easily have left any one or all of those comments at Daily Kos and then picked them out as fodder for his attack. Yes, that sounds like a ridiculous conspiracy theory... but we're talking about Bill O'Reilly here.

And, as for the rest of the FOX news crowd suddenly going orbital over liberal blogs, it only shows that they are horribly shaken by the emergence of a strong liberal voice. FOX is channeling George Bush with their very own "surge".

So, fight them. Become a Fox Attacker!

Waterloo . . . .

'Ya gotta love ABBA . . . .

(Cross-Posted at Moving to Vancouver)

All the news that's fit for moutbreathers. Part Two

Over at Welcome to Pottersville, JurassicPork has produced another magnificent set of screen captures of Fox News at their finest. Again, he's put in hours of work producing a classic.

If you haven't seen part one, start here.

It explains so much... and it isn't pretty.

And there IS one I'd add to either part one or part two. I'd forgotten about this.

All the news that's fit for mouthbreathers

Via Jill, this absolutely brilliant photo post of Fox News screen captures by Jurassicpork explains why Fox News viewers really have no clue what is actually happening in their own country and the world in general.

Personally, I would add this one of Kirsten Powers, Fox News pet liberal, when she screwed up reading from the teleprompter.

Ann Coulter gets smacked down... on FOX

There is some beauty in this. Ann Coulter is reduced to irrelevance after attempting to:

A. Dismiss the fact that Bush has dropped the ball in the hunt for Osama bin Laden;
B. Blame Bush's neglect on Bill Clinton.



I guess Coulter hasn't figured out that:

A. Those particular Rove talking points have lost all their traction;
B. When a wind-driven cockle like Kirsten Powers treats you as though your opinion counts for nothing, you really are irrelevant.

Oh well. If her column dies she can always apply for a research job with Michelle Malkin.

That's what happens when you hire a FOX news anchor as a press secretary

Jeebus H. Christ on a popsicle stick! They really don't get it. From Think Progress comes perhaps the most deluded statement from the Bush administration's Tony Snow one could possibly imagine.

QUESTION: Tony, the president obviously, though, did not read what happened November 7th as a mandate to start bringing troops home.
SNOW: The president believes that — if you take a look at the elections, you can read any number of messages. I mean, when people were asked in exit interviews what was their top concern, Iraq was number four; corruption was number one.

Well, yeah. The US mid-term elections also gave Bush a mandate to paint all green frogs pink and have sex with porcupines, but is he using it?