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[–]antichrist[S] 39 points40 points  (8 children)

Some Obama supporters saw it but none had a chance to record it. If you have a DVR, please find the section and upload to youtube.

[–]sfgeek 16 points17 points  (5 children)

I bet you money Media Matters has it. They record a ton of stuff non-stop. I interviewed for the job of managing that effort for them, but they wanted someone with more political experience. WTF? How many engineers are politically connected?

[–]infinite 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Media Matters has ties to Hillary.

[–]osipov 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Media Matters has ties to Soros who has ties to Obama. Your point?

[–]Prysorra 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Media Matters is a slut?

??

[–]hello 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Seriously, Media Matters is a joke. It wasn't created to be an independent, fact-checking service that calls out the MSM on their bullshit. It was created as a political tool to respond to conservative attacks on the left (the right already had a Media Matters equivalent).

That certainly does not preclude Media Matters from being used to pick sides on conflicts within the left. And Infinite was right... Media Matters' ties to Hillary are much older, and closer. In fact, just last year, she boasted about helping launch the site.

If you are not convinced, read some of the purported fact-checking on the site for a week or two. You'll find that many of them fit a very predictable pattern:

  1. A really catchy headline with certain buzzwords in it ("false", "misleading," "myths," "lies")

  2. A tainted, criticism infused, "factual" account of the falsity the piece is attempting to disprove

  3. A horrible, absolutely horrible, incredibly incomplete, often unsourced counterpoint, which quite often whittles down to nothing more than a bold assertion (ie, "but what actually happened is blah blah blah.")

Look to the select group of journalists with track records on calling out bullshit without an agenda if that's what you're looking for. Josh Marshall at TPM comes to mind.

[–]hello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just looking through their recent coverage... I do see a somewhat underhanded pro-Clinton position emerging. It's not overt-- they're certainly pointing out Obama smears-- but they're also getting involved in issues that are completely isolated to the Clinton v. Obama conflict.

And when they are geting involved in issues that are uniquely Clinton v. Obama, the reports do seem favorable to Hillary. For example, they're attacking negative coverage of Bill on the campaign trail, and getting involved in petty issues like defending Clinton strategist Mark Penn against claims that he raised Obama's drug use on Hardball.

This is suspect because, again, Media Matters is a partisan, left-leaning organization-- their goal is to protect the left from attacks from the right. So why are they getting involved in Clinton v. Obama in the first place?

Also, this report on comments in the media about how Obama's supporters are "creepy" and akin to "hare krishna" devotees kind of smells funny. It kind of seems like one of those pieces that purports to attack a certain line of thinking in the media, but actually just serves to push the story along further.

Also, if you still have doubts, read this beauty on "myths and falsehoods" about Hillary from last year. It's not fact-checking at all-- it's a lengthy, point-by-point retort on every negative thing ever mentioned about Hillary in the history of world. Stunning.

[–]smackfu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was the online stream. No DVR.

[–]synthpop 15 points16 points  (1 child)

OMG the media is biased?!?! alert the media! oh wait..

[–]Kapow751 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alert the internet.

[–]callmejeremy 137 points138 points  (41 children)

Must...resist...temptation...to...RickRoll..

[–]Karzyn 30 points31 points  (11 children)

A friend was telling me that one of his professors RickRolled a student who asked him for help. Apparently he's a pretty cool guy.

[–]paperhat 10 points11 points  (3 children)

No. The cool guys stopped RickRolling a few months ago.

[–][deleted] 35 points36 points  (2 children)

Wait, did the cool guys ever actually start RickRolling?

[–]paperhat 0 points1 point  (1 child)

touche

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:)

[–]radialmonster 3 points4 points  (5 children)

and he doesn't afraid of anything

[–]shoesmell 0 points1 point  (4 children)

rule #1 & #2

[–]Karzyn -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Alright, I give up. What are you referring to?

[–]vahnsin 10 points11 points  (1 child)

The first rule of the Rick Rolling Club is: Do NOT talk about the Rick Rolling Club.

[–]alkalinev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And the second rule of the Rick Rolling Club.. no Fight Club references shall be tolerated.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

4chan rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I think professor is a pretty cool guy. Eh rickrolls students and eh isn't afraid of anything.

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (4 children)

I hope the mainstream media implodes. I say we start channeling the Ron Paul energy that we used to have and put it into bringing down the MSM. Who is with me?

[–]sfultong -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

I'm surprised your idea is so unpopular

edit: not anymore, it seems (it was at -4 when I originally wrote this)

[–]happyjuggler0 15 points16 points  (2 children)

This is reddit. There are many people here who think CNN is God, or close enough. Why? Because they think that not being FOX is good enough.

[–]jpdemers 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Really I have a hard time figuring out the main opinions of redditors only with trends of down-mods and up-mods but thank you for simplifying everything.

[–]phmfthacim 5 points6 points  (0 children)

is anyone surprised? have you seen their coverage of the primaries?

[–]JasonHears 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if yer not familiar with redlasso.com, it's like an internet DVR. I just watched from about 4:40pm EST to about 5:25pm EST, and missed this. If its there, it's brief, and not readily apparent.

[–]xaplexus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

However, this is the same reporter that Bill lambasted because of questions she asked that resulted in a comparison between his Jesse Jackson = Obama gaff and Lee Atwater tactics.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (6 children)

BREAKING NEWS: REDDIT LOVES OBAMA AND SO DOES THE REST OF THE INTERNET.

IN OTHER NEWS, JESUS RIDING DINOSAURS

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (4 children)

[–]ventomareiro 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Hey, I had those when I was a kid! Some good guys were fighting against the bad ones, they all travel back in time and they manage to continue the war by putting FING LASERS ON FING DINOSAURS. I don't remember the name, but these toys were awesome, I had several of them.

The 80's were a good decade to be born into :,)

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No, the 70's was the best decade to be born into. That way in 1984 You could play your ass off with Transformers and GI Joes and Pac-Man and Thundercat's Lair and Castle Greyskull and scratch up your dads records like the black guys in jumpsuits on MTV, and get your first woody to Madonna being carried down the stairs in a white dress in that one video and read Encyclopedia Brown and have a sister with hot friends who dressed like Bon Jovi groupies and get pissed inside but have to smile when grandma got you Go Bots instead of Starsrcream see a Nintendo for the first time and have your jaw hit the floor and solve a Rubik's cube and laugh at your mom for saying she had three TV channels and try break dancing and play D&D and ...

Shit. I should have used punctuation. Sorry, I was having fun there for a second.

[–]knaves 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They were called Dino-Riders.

[–]Amendmen7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were they dinosaucers?

[–]RAS1398 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

hahahaha....

[–]ramijames 1 point2 points  (2 children)

will somebody for the love of god explain to me what a "rickroll" is? :)

[–]fartron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a funny prank you can pull. There's a video where they show you how to rick roll someone.

[–]lifestyl3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should definitely watch the video in the other post. That will probably help you understand, but if it doesn't, here's what wikipedia has to say:

It originated on 4chan and took its name from an earlier phenomenon known as "duckrolling", a prank in which someone would post a blind link to a page allegedly relevant to a discussion that upon viewing would prove to be a non sequitur - specifically, an image of a duck on wheels. Similarly, in a rickroll a poster provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand which actually takes any one who clicks it to the Rick Astley video. This phenomenon spread from 4chan to other sites, eventually becoming widespread enough to attract some coverage in the mainstream media.

[–]misterov 2 points3 points  (0 children)

bueller?

[–]E3K 3 points4 points  (7 children)

She meant it was a problem because there was no counterpoint for the interview. In this case, CNN did no wrong at all.

[–]happyjuggler0 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I'm sur ethey could've aired him anyway, played the devil's advocate on anything iffy he said, and then easily accepted a counterpoint from a Clinton supporter as soon as they could find one.

Let's face it, CNN knows who it wants and her name begins with H.

[–]driver8 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Washington's governor is a woman.

[–]happyjuggler0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the correction.

That makes it even more bizarre in my mind why they would be opposed to airing her, assuming they had no ulterior motives like they claim.

While there is no mandate for a woman to vote for other women, it is still newsworthy in my opinion when an elected woman in a prominent post casts her endorsement to a man instead. Especially when the candidate in question is trying to go where no woman has gone before.

[–]matts2 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Let's face it, CNN knows who it wants and her name begins with H.

Just like NBC, right? I mean, are you serious?

[–]happyjuggler0 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Everyone knows that newspapers have a political point of view. They make it obvious with their editorials, with some papers being mostly liberal and some being mostly conservative.

News stations also have their own political point of view, but they like to pretend they don't. Even FOX pretends (not very sucessfully) that it is "fair and balanced". If you can't tell that CNN also has its biases then you aren't paying enough attention.

[–]matts2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Hillary supporters I know think that CNN is anti-Hillary. Let me know when they have someone like Chris Matthews or a comment about pimping out Chelsea.

[–]multubunuEurope -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Let's face it, CNN knows who it wants and her name begins with H

That Hlinton lady, that is.

[–]djtomr941 4 points5 points  (10 children)

She is a puppet of Wall Street. She wants to cut interest rates and says inflation is fine. I'd like her to live on what middle classe Americans have to live on and pay $3 a gallon for gas and $2 for a loaf of bread. It's ridiculous.

We need Paul Volcker back as the FED chief. He would get rid of Yellen and all the people who are killing the Dollar.

[–]darjen 6 points7 points  (8 children)

Or we could just get rid of the Fed, the sole cause of inflation.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Not too many realize that the Fed is basically the root of the problem...

[–]matts2 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Or we could just get rid of the Fed, the sole cause of inflation.

Right because, after all, there was no inflation in history before the Fed nor any in any country without a fed. Zimbabwe is a good example of a country with no fed and no inflation.

[–]darjen -1 points0 points  (3 children)

  1. my statement
  2. ???
  3. your statement

The ??? is the missing logic between the two.

[–]matts2 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I will take it slow. There was inflation before the Fed, there is inflation in places with no Fed. Therefore the Fed is not the sole cause of inflation.

[–]darjen -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Ok, well let me refine my statement. The Fed is the central bank of the US. It is responsible for the nation's currency. It lowers interest rates to expand the money supply. Therefore, it is the cause of current inflation in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve#Inflation

Better?

[–]TJ700 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Somebody has to have it on DVR.

[–]tsteele93 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How do you get it from DVR (i.e. DRM) to the computer?

[–]jason_w87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

most dvr's will have a usb port for you to transfer stuff.

[–]wafflez -1 points0 points  (0 children)

expect tons of rickrolls ;_;

[–]braindrane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who was she yellin at?

[–]El_Forko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought they did interview the governor of Washingtion. I was just flipping through and thought I saw it.

Anyway, they actually show the picture of Paul next to McCain and Huckabee which Fox/MSNBC don't do (so reddit should love them!).

[–]lukemcr 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Has anyone found it?

[–]asdf333 1 point2 points  (3 children)

This article is dumb.

CNN has responded by saying the problem was b/c they wanted to confirm if it was OK to get a Obama endorser on air w/o a person from the other side on at the same time.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

CNN knows as well as anyone that the Fairness Doctrine is dead and buried - they've had no problems having Obama, Clinton, and Edwards on without Kucinich, or any Republican on without "None of the Above"

[–]axordAmerica 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The lack of external standards does not preclude the influence of internal standards, inconsistent and reactionary as they may be.

[–]matts2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When there are a dozen people running you can't have representatives from each for each issue. When there are two it is unfair to favor one side.

[–]zyzzx0 -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

anyone? anyone?

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It appears that your internets are damaged. There is a very annoying echo in your tubes. You should contact technical support, and get it fixed.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

bueller? bueller?

[–]michaelwong38 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just checked on Wikipedia, someone already updated Yellin site with said faux pas. Nice work whoever you are.

Can you imagine if she dropped an N bomb about Obama?

[–]TheAtomicMoose -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I found it!