…Hot Air and Michelle Malkin have a great video segment on fabrications by those impeccably credentialed journalists who most definitely aren’t “nincompoops ranting in their underpants.”
They’re all great, but we can’t help but particularly love the NBC classic where they mounted incendiary devices under the gas tanks of GM trucks to “prove” how likely they were to explode when in a collision.
What’s even more hilarious about that sad affair was when the vastly overrated hack Bob Woodward praised NBC for finally owning up to having lied through their teeth. “Bravely” facing the facts after having spun, lied and hedging for about three months and finally facing a lawsuit from GM.
Finding the lion in your heart when somebody is about to thoroughly own your ass in court? How “brave” indeed, Woodward.
Talentless, lying, cowardly, useless fuckheads.
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Gosh, it’s good to be back!
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:43 pmAnd a big welcome back to you as well, Mope!
June 2nd, 2006 at 10:14 pmDidn’t I see a certain NYC politician “bravely” apologizing today for outing chucky in so far as he (chuck shumer) will put a bullet between the president’s eyes?
June 2nd, 2006 at 10:41 pmAlong the same lines, here’s a funny (albeit NSFW) animated rant: “I’m Done With the Fucking News,” by Foamy the Squirrel.
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:09 amBoss, I will NEVER condone what NBC did because it helped to detract from the tragedies that those tanks created. I was very well accquainted with a woman killed because of those tanks in a collision. A wife and a mother of two. She was on her way to pick up her husband from work when it happened. He saw the smoke from several miles away while he waited. “Immolated” doesn’t do it justice. The only way they could get a positive ID was from dental records checked against the few remaining teeth. I can only imgine how her family’s life would be different today if…
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:13 amI’m really sorry to hear that, truly I am. I can’t even begin to imagine.
And you’re absolutely spot on as well. That kind of yellow journalism not only is despicable in and of itself because it is a fabrication and a lie, but it also, which is much worse, detracts from and diminishes the REAL truth. Not to mention that it can serve as a diversion from it.
Like the Nifong vs. Duke case. His political opportunism, trying to boost his chances in an upcoming election by engaging in endless fishing expeditions is one thing. That’s despicable in and of itself, not to mention demeaning toward the legal profession, a profession that doesn’t need any help in that department, as I’m sure that you’re all too familiar with.
But it also makes it even harder for real rape victims to meet the standards of proof, it makes them less credible in the public eye at a time when they should have and need all the support they can get.
It’s enough to make me want to puke.
P.S.: No, of course I don’t know that the lacrosse players are innocent, but you’d have to have lived under a rock for the last hundred years to not recognize that this case stinks to high heavens.
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:37 am