The bitterness is that control of the storyline is being lost. Despite the applause, there are more ways to get info now than MSM.
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I read that transcript and I picture a bunch of barren fat hens...(too harsh?)

Can anyone name another network that consistently has BOTH (R) and (D) views not just daily, but hourly?

I see way more Dems on Fox than anywhere else.

Of course, that FACT just doesnt dovetail in with Rosie's opinionated ugliness, so she forgets to mention it. Like so many of her ilk, she wants to be unchallenged on everything she says, yet, is compelled to challenge everything out ther that doest suit her agenda.

And to think she is responsible for raising a child. Sad!

You use the old strawman argument by citing Obermann. Obermann, O'Reilly, Matthew's, Hannity, Greta, Grace, Beck et al are to news as comic books are to literature. They all have agendas, and that's what their shows are about.

Fox News is slanted. So are all the networks. Why you folks from the right just won't admit that is a mystery to me. If more news stations are "liberal" than others it's obviously because people watch them and advertisers pay for it.

All that said, Rosie is still a jackass.

I saw this Rosie rant today and just laughed. That is one angry b#@%$.

I have a hard time believing it's propaganda, if all one has to do is turn the channel.

Everyone is still laughing at Rosie's "first time in history that fire has melted steel" comment.

Like Bernie Goldberg said last night on O'Reilly, liberals are FURIOUS that they do not have the monopoly on news anymore. FURIOUS.

Don't cha just love it?!! :)

JFO---The MSM is slanted to the left--and they are main stream because they have been established for so long. Anything that is portrayed to the right of that is considered far right because it doesn't fit into the left's paradigm.

Rosie: They are slanted and right biased in my opinion.
Rosie: Well they're lying, if you ask me.

Anybody notice that she's now covering her ass?

Cloud,

with what, the fabric from a hot air balloon??

Cloudfish:

I actually think they are more center/left than anything else. But the market place determines advertising revenues so there is obviously an audience that likes it that way.

I love it when Rosie rants!! Can there actually be a larger (doh!) laughingstock out there? Hell I'm for giving her a larger platform to speak from. I say the same of Kooks at Kos and Puffington Post.
You can almost see the turkey and dressing laced spittle fly from Rosie's mouth as she rambles. You go girl!!!

Gianni,
That's a good one! I got an image of a huge Rosie balloon in a parade. Great--now I have to poke out my mind's eye....

jFO,
You are right. I guess that's why it's mainstream....

Notice how Rosie and the libs only complain about Fox. Whereas we complain about all the rest.

This bit of irony is lost on them of course.

Rosie, read newsbusters.org on a daily basis, and then get back to us on that rightwing propaganda charge. Thanks.

Jo:

I'll make you a deal. I'll read newsbusters every day for a week if you'll read Media Matters everyday for the same week.

You know, the funny thing is that everything that is presented on the MSM shows is also presented on FOX news. It's just that FOX also presents the other side or tells the whole story instead of just a small fraction of it (as the MSM often does).

When the right opinion and left opinion are presented side by side, the right almost always seems the more intelligent and thoughtful opinion.

I won't argue the FOX is right-baised, though. Just that they present the left's side as much as the right side. Anytime anyone does that, they'll appear right-biased.

I prefer getting the whole story rather than going off half-cocked.

My favorite part of the transcript was this:

Behar: They say they're fair and balanced.

Rosie: Well they're lying, if you ask me.

(Audience applause)

Note the applause -- you can attack Rosie all you want -- but she is far from alone in her mistrust of Fox.

Lee,

There was also substantial applause after her comment about fire melting steel for the first time in history.

Doesn't make it a valid statement...it just proves that the people who go to see the show unsurprisingly happen to agree with her.

That's why they're bitter, Lee; the applause only comes from the echo chambers.
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I could care less about the mean spirited hateful Rosie. Babara Walters sold her reputation for ratings. She is the one that is off my list. ww

Rosie ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Notice how Rosie and the libs only complain about Fox. Whereas we complain about all the rest.

This bit of irony is lost on them of course."

Change "irony" to "paranoia" and you have a good point.

they applaud because off camera there is a gal in a wetsuit throwing dead fishies in their mouths.

AB, see jFO's comment at 12:11.

It's only paranoia if they aren't really out to get you.
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Aisha Tyler is quite the hottie, no?

If it's true that "everyone is against you" then perhaps there is a good reason and you should think about it

or

you're being lied to by the people you trust

or

you're paranoid.

Doesn't she have a flashing applause sign like other game-uh-talk shows?

Rosie is not alone in her assertions that Fox News is right wing propaganda. Keith Olbermann is just as wacky, but he does not have the exposure that Rosie gets. We all know that she is a bimbo that has had her brain melted by her love of Tom Cruise. It is also very obvious, that she did not study very hard in school, or she would have known that steel is made in fire. I wonder what did she do? Chase girls?

Media Bias: The State of the Problem
By Sheila Gribben Liaugminas

http://www.crisismagazine.com/april2007/liaugminas.htm

AB, your strawman is the 'if everyone'. Naw, we got Fox, we got blogs, we got talk radio. We will fight them in the op-eds, we will fight them on the weblogs, we will fight in the search engines, we will never give up.
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Bimbo usually is reserved for people not that bright, but attractive.

Im not sure a starving polar bear, hyena, or alligator would find her attractive.

Anyone remember the 'butt looks like 150 lbs of chewed bubble gum' movie line? For the angriest dyke of them all, Id guess its 150 lbs per cheek.

Kim, very funny. ww

You know, the funny thing is that everything that is presented on the MSM shows is also presented on FOX news. It's just that FOX also presents the other side or tells the whole story instead of just a small fraction of it (as the MSM often does).

I couldn't have said it better myself. Because the MSM is so overwhelmingly available and abundant, you can't help but be exposed to it on a daily basis. But if that is ALL that you are exposed to then you only know HALF the story, and many times a false depiction of the news. However, if you watch Fox, then you get both sides of the story. THAT is why the left hates them. They're not use to BOTH sides.

And they call the right the greedy ones? LOL.

Well tomorrow Fox can tell the truth if they want to, Rosie will still be fat and stupid

Rosie is an idiot. She irritates me with almost every word she utters. However, Fox news claims to be fair and balanced yet even O'Reilly admits they leans to the right. Righties here, even on this thread, are openly admitting it's a conservative news channel, and have no problem with the 'Fair and Balanced' motto. Maybe they mean they are balancing out of the liberal media out there, but that certaintly is a stretch, or spin, on the statement. If Fox would just own up to being a right wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it. 24 hour TV news sucks anyway. 8 hours of coverage on an event and really, you will get 15 minutes of real information. Read many different sources and make your own intelligent opinion and you'll be better off than watching one channel with a liberal or conservative agenda. And yes, Olberman is a lefty freak, but I don't think he's ever claimed to be fair and balanced.

Rosie O'Donnell -- the poster lady for ignorance.

Suhnami, "If Fox would just own up to being a right wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it."

If The New York Times would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If The Washington Post would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If CNN would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If MSNBC would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If ABC News would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If CBS News would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If NBC News would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If Associated Press would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If BBC would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If Reuters would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

If USA Today would just own up to being a left wing news machine I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.

It's all liberal if it doesn't fit your viewpoint? Fox News must be the only saving grace of news on the planet

Suhnami,

Im sure you dont want to appear to be a hypocrite, so why not also urge NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, NYTimes, and dozens of other papers to come out and admit to being a left wing news machine?

Can anyone show me one of the other 5 main news channels, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, that shows as many (R)'s as Fox shows (D)'s?? These 5 are WAY more left than Fox is right, yet, we seldom hear an objective liberal mention that do we?

suhnami--

Fox news claims to be fair and balanced yet even O'Reilly admits they leans to the right. Righties here, even on this thread, are openly admitting it's a conservative news channel, and have no problem with the 'Fair and Balanced' motto.

I think you are conflating fair and balanced with factual and true. Fox News is indeed fair and balanced in that they allow a mostly equal time between liberal and conservative views.

The problem for many Liberals is not whether Fox News is fair and balanced, but that it leans more to the conservative side, and most importantly, it also exposes Liberals in, let's say, less than accurate actions and statements. That is fair and balanced, as well as being factual and true.