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Loofa Boy has called up 100,000-200,000 circulation papers and bitched at opinion writers who criticized him. And then he's gone on radio/TV and continued to gripe about said column. He's got the thinnest skin in the world. (If I were writing an opinion column for a paper, I would take as many cheap shots at him as possible in the hopes of generating a response. And if he would call me up, I would just repeat the words "loofa" and "falafel".)

 

Not sure about his personal background. I do know, however, that his journalism is half-assed.

 

I'm confident that Olberman himself is posting on this thread.

If O'Reilly ever disappeared, Olberman's news career would go up in smoke like a JFK impersonator in late November 1963.

 

Keith, Keith you there?????? Hey Cuz you SUCK

 

John Stossel doesn't cross the political spectrum these days. He and Geraldo Rivera are both full of beans.

First, John Stossel. When he was with Channel 2 in New York, he was a consumer reporter and did something resembling real journalism. He showed how employment agencies discriminated against women and minorities - what the employment agencies would do is to put a number of applications - it might be 6 for black, 8 for Puerto Ricans, 9 for women, etc. That was why he was hired for 20/20.

Then John Stossel does a story which he reveals that, shockingly, professional wrestling is fixed. He got whacked by David Schultz. After that, he was converted to being a right-wing victim of the "liberal media" - he calls himself a libertarian and that brings two things to mind. One, I guess he was wrong to do those stories at first - government or the media apparently shouldn't look into those things and I guess he retired it. The other thing is a quote by somebody who said libertarians are Republicans who like to smoke dope - perhaps a bit of a simplification but I think there is a basic truth there.

What FB posted pretty much is about the caliber of Stossel's reporting, and what he does now is more commentary which is smug. In short, he took the easy road.

I did a rant about Geraldo Rivera a couple years ago, but my feeling about him is pretty much this - he has made a career for 35 years off one story. In 1971 or 72, he did a story about a mental institution called Willowbrook on Staten Island. It was a good story to do, because people were neglected and treated horribly. The fact that Rivera and his camera crews could pretty much walk in and film the horrors of that place pretty much were a comment on Willowbrook. OK, good journalism and good work.

Ever since that, he has been ridiculous - he's one of those people who has a good education and is articulate but still manages to be really, really stupid.

Al Capone's Vault is the defining moment of Geraldo Rivera's career, but there have been other classics. A couple years ago, he was in Iraq and he reported troop movements - that is the first thing they tell you when covering a war and the biggest prohibition. Then there was the interview where he took exception to some of Barbara Walters's questions, and Babs pointed out that he had written these things in his own book.

But the classic thing about Geraldo Rivera was where he gets up at some journalism conference and says a couple of years ago, there were few people doing television news whose name ended in a vowel, a reference to his partial Puerto Rican heritage. Jerry Nachman, who was a top news executive in New York, responded that a couple of years ago, Geraldo Rivera's name didn't end in a vowel.

 

I doubt that. I enjoy his show when he doesn't mention O'Reilly. It's quite entertaining.

 

Is this a thinly veiled anti-Semitic remark from O'Reilly? Are these "masters" the Jews who control all media or something?

 

The reference to "vampires"...that's old school anti-Semitism. And Stewart is Jewish. It will be interesting to see what happens on "The Daily Show" and "Colbert" tonight.

 

The Willowbrook story was in the mid-60s as I recall and Robert Kennedy came in following the story and made a major issue of it. It was good reporting, but it's been all downhill since then.

Stossel, well, decide for yourself...

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=19&media_outlet_id=19

What is it about these guys with the porn-star mustaches?

 

Nothing from what I could tell. But I will acknowledge I may have closed my eyes a time or two.
And O'Reilly is always in code. He's always working things to show how he's not a Jew and how he doesn't take his orders from those 12 guys in Switzerland.
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And I like Olberman well enough but he needs to lose the celebrity gossip guy at the end. Michael something something, his name escapes me at the moment, but I do know he's a douche nozzle.
Just a complete waste of time and space.
I'd rather Olberman got rid of all that crap and just talked about the news. He's always like "my producers are making me do this." But that's a load of crap, he's told network heads to F off. If he didn't want to cover something, he could just say no and get away with it.
I'd rather have him do five minutes of sports or Japenese TV highlights or, like Scarbrough, have a producer get drunk on the air to see if he would duplicate Mel Gibson's mad rantings.

 

So now O'Reilly is an anti-Semite. You guys are hilarious.

 

All the way from Pat Robertson to Trent Lott.