Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Media O'Reilly on the P-I
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:56 PM
The PI is going out of business because it leans left!
For example, the nutty-left Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper has announced it's going out of business unless someone buys the concern over the next few weeks. Not likely to happen... "Factor" producer Jesse Watters confronted Oglesby over his and the paper's outlandish left-wing zealotry, and now it's clear that even in liberal Seattle, the folks want no part of the operation.Now I'm telling you all this because other left-wing papers like The Boston Globe, the L.A. Times and The New York Times are all having major economic problems, as regular people want news, not fanaticism.
Uh-huh. The Chicago Tribune—a right-wing paper (despite its endorsement of Obama, the first time in its history that it endorsed a Dem)—recently filed for bankruptcy. The New York Sun, a right-wing daily, recently went under. And right-wing mags like the Weekly Standard and the National Review scrape by on handouts from billionaires like the welfare queens Saint Ronald condemned.
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News Flash: Bill O'reilly makes up stuff as he goes to get the answers he wants to questions no one asked.
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For pure virtuoso displays of hilarious irony, Stephen Colbert's got nothing on O'Reilly.
"...regular people want news, not fanaticism."
For pure virtuoso displays of hilarious irony, Stephen Colbert's got nothing on O'Reilly.
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There were schadenfreude trolls (or maybe the same troll, over and over) on the P-I site instantly when news hit of their imminent closure, gloating in comment/feedback posts about how the paper was doomed by its left-wing bias to failure in a free marketplace.
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Get real, Dan-
you lust to be recognized as the queerboy O'Reilly.
It is well known that you two exchange secret emails where you call him Master Po and he calls you Grasshopper, as he mentors you in the dark arts of demagoguery.
you lust to be recognized as the queerboy O'Reilly.
It is well known that you two exchange secret emails where you call him Master Po and he calls you Grasshopper, as he mentors you in the dark arts of demagoguery.
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Dan,
Funny, I used to reside in the Chicago area and subscribe to the Chicago Tribune and now, I live here and subscribe to the P-I. I've discovered something: all newspapers are hurting, no matter what side of the political argument you're on. I believe it's largely on account of the Internet. I actually enjoy commuting and reading my newpaper in the morning. I shall miss my morning paper when the P-I stops printing. It will suely go electronic exclusively. Sigh.
BTW, how's The Stranger doing? Hope you guys keep printing.
Funny, I used to reside in the Chicago area and subscribe to the Chicago Tribune and now, I live here and subscribe to the P-I. I've discovered something: all newspapers are hurting, no matter what side of the political argument you're on. I believe it's largely on account of the Internet. I actually enjoy commuting and reading my newpaper in the morning. I shall miss my morning paper when the P-I stops printing. It will suely go electronic exclusively. Sigh.
BTW, how's The Stranger doing? Hope you guys keep printing.
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Just like those left wing zealots over at Christian Science Monitor, PC Magazine, and especially those gay commies at Financial Week, all now relegated to online-only editions because of their "fanaticism".
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At this point, I think any argument O'Reilly makes doesn't need refutation, it is refutation. If Bill O'Reilly told me the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, I would tell people the opposite, because if Bill says it, it must be a lie.
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O'reilly has everything to gain from a less and less informed Public
I mean, it makes perfect sense for him to champion the loos of newspapers from his cable seat.
I mean, it makes perfect sense for him to champion the loos of newspapers from his cable seat.
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O'reilly has everything to gain from a less and less informed Public
I mean, it makes perfect sense for him to champion the loos of newspapers from his cable seat.
I mean, it makes perfect sense for him to champion the loos of newspapers from his cable seat.
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yes, the PI is RADICALLY more left than the Times...
puh-leeze!
It's like saying Mussolini isn't quite as bad as Hitler.
puh-leeze!
It's like saying Mussolini isn't quite as bad as Hitler.
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It's true. The only reason I ever read the P.I. was for the left-wing, commie praising, secular-lovin' garden section.
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The P.I. is left wing zealots? Gee, I just thought this whole time they were using uncommon amounts of common sense. Silly me.
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If the P.I. is going out of business because it is too left leaning, explain why the Stranger is still in business.
Oh, wait. We're talking about O'Reily. Facts are irrelevant.
Oh, wait. We're talking about O'Reily. Facts are irrelevant.
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"... regular people want news, not fanaticism."
I can't believe he said that, on Faux News nonetheless, with a straight face.
Give. Me. A. Break.
I can't believe he said that, on Faux News nonetheless, with a straight face.
Give. Me. A. Break.
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He can do it with a straight face, 23, because he's mentally unstable, and I mean that literally. He's one of those crazy folk that we let walk around because he has enough money to pay his bills, like Fred Phelps or Michael Jackson.
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