Frist blames CNN for low Republican poll numbers

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Video_Frist_blames_CNN_for_Republican_0628.html

Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) appeared on CNN's American Morning to explain why the Senate is spending time on issues like flag burning while polls indicate that the American people are more concerned about Iraq and the economy.

CNN host Miles O'Brien asked Frist why recent polls show that show 54% of Americans will vote for Democrats in the upcoming elections while only 38% planned to vote for Republicans. Frist explained that the people's concerns were being addressed by the Republican Senate but told O'Brein those were the sort of issues "you may not cover and others may not cover."

O'Brien defended CNN, "We are covering but I think there is -- a lot of what you say there -- Americans are not hearing that particular message. As the majority leader, isn't that part of your job?"

Frist replied, "Well, you know, it's part of my job and your job and your whole coming into this was, again, saying Harry Reid that we are spending all of our time on marriage -- which is important. That we're spending all of the time on flag without mentioning what we've done of the floor for six weeks. Iraq, the war on terror, making you safer... where's your coverage of that? What you do is concentrate on things that are spun to you from the other side of the aisle and that's why that message doesn't get out."

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. It's pretty obvious Frist keeps his TV tuned to Faux n/t

[Journeyman]

2. That's it, Bill -- kick that messenger!. . .

Idiot.

[mwooldri]

54. Frist I guess doesn't check out Nielsen ratings.

Check out that guy called Keith Olbermann... check his ratings out... Maybe he's to blame!

Then the nice guys at NBC Universal might do something about it if he bleats often and painfully enough. (Probably like tell him to ___ off.)

Mark.

[station agent]

72. Olbermann's ratings are very important, could set new standard. Current

standard is based on The Russert Index.

[MissMillie]

3. The author of the "cut and run" defense is accusing the DEMs of spin?

Now that's funny.

[wisteria]

4. So now, they are strong arming any media sources that aren't

Fox News? CNN isn't exactly, Dem friendly. I suppose what they are after is propaganda TV. I hope this backfires on the Repub's and the media turns on them.

OMG, they are trying to swift boat both CNN and NYT because they aren't pure Republican trash news sources. I suppose getting rid of Rather has emboldened them.

[coalition_unwilling]

36. The monster (right wing fascism) must be fed constantly. No matter

if the monster turns on its putative allies in the media (CNN, NY Times) or in government. THE MONSTER MUST BE FED

[w4rma]

43. Yup. There always must be an enemy or someone to hate for fascists. (nt)

[SOS]

65. Vice President Henry Wallace

saw this coming back in 1944:

"The American fascist's method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

Wallace saw the "incipient traces of fascism along the Potomac" 62 years ago.

Nothing has changed, except for the worse.

[coalition_unwilling]

66. Wonderful quote. Sounds even more appropriate now than it did in '44. eom

[Divine Discontent]

73. THANK YOU FOR THAT QUOTE!

I'M PUTTING THAT ON MY BLOG. WHY IS MY KEBOARD ON CAP LOCKS? I DON'T KNOW? LOL




www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<<--- check it out!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

79. Thank you! Henry Agar Wallace is a name that needs to be rescued from

obscurity. I had not thought of him in many years, and certainly today's corporate media NEVER mention his name.

[ronnie624]

83. The quote above

makes it obvious why Henry Agard Wallace has been shoved down the memory hole. He, like Smedley Butler, speaks truths that the corporate political power nexus that dominates American society would prefer not to publicize.

A Google search reveals some interesting material on Henry Agard Wallace.

[Beetwasher]

5. This Guy Gets Dumber W/ Every Breath He Takes

n/t

[aquart]

6. BushCo must have promised him he'd be the default on the diebold.

[wordpix2]

47. looks like Frist's political diagnosis is like his Schaivo diagnosis:

done at arm's length without knowing what the fuck he's talking about.

[AlCzervik]

7. Frist to O'Brien "Carry our water---better!"

[acmavm]

8. I'm sure it'll never cross his mind that it's the crazy shit they

say and do when they make the news.

[ladjf]

9. Frist is a crybaby weenie. Ignore him.

[Rose Siding]

10. "Making you safer" -and by "you", he *doesn't* mean...

you

http://www.ragdoll.net.nyud.net:8090/images/bd6kits.jpg

[ixion]

11. genuine frontier gibberish

really, if someone talked to you like that on the job, you'd tell them they were full of BS. no?

[wordpix2]

49. like *, he can't speak right: "my job & your job & your whole coming into

this..." :crazy:
snip:

Frist replied, "Well, you know, it's part of my job and your job and your whole coming into this was, again, saying Harry Reid that we are spending all of our time on marriage -- which is important. That we're spending all of the time on flag without mentioning what we've done of the floor for six weeks. Iraq, the war on terror, making you safer... where's your coverage of that? What you do is concentrate on things that are spun to you from the other side of the aisle and that's why that message doesn't get out." :crazy:

[keta11]

12. Hey I thought more people watched the

Fox-Jazeera Channel than all the other cable channels combined??

[UpInArms]

13. Additional proof that Cat-Killer Frist is batshit crazy

[TomInTib]

22. Read the transcript out loud and you will embarrass yourself.

Really, I just tried it and I sounded as if I were on Ecstasy and a couple of six-packs.

What an idiot.

Must have left the script in the car.

[agio]

14. Oh boo hoo. n/t

[marmar]

15. Frist is what falls when an elephant raises its tail...

He's such a worthless waste of DNA.

[Supersedeas]

58. a shell of a real being

[unpossibles]

16. good thing this is the party of self-responsibility

and small gover.... oh wait. NO IT ISN'T! Psyche!


He's such an asshat. he's not even good enough for me to call him a douchebag.

This is like my older brother blaming me for crying when he hit me when we were kids. Then again, he is a Puke now, so I guess that makes sense now too.

[AnneD]

17. Can't blame CNN...

crazy just doesn't sell anymore.

[katty]

18. these a-holes never shut up&do any work, throw a net over them!

[bkcc]

19. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Someone needs to check little Billy's diaper.

[goforit]

24. LOL!!!...........Hilarious!!!

[CoffeeCat]

69. LOLOL!!! I agree...

...that was really funny!!

:rofl:

Made me smile and chuckle!

Give that man his binky and put him down for a nap!

[redqueen]

20. What, they're not lying enough to suit them?

Complete and unadulterated bull#$@* is what that is... that criminal Frist... CNN should do an expose on him, and see how he likes that!



I don't give a good $#@ #&*! what that slimeball Frist thinks... he has no integrity whatsoever.

But did y'all catch The Boss last night on Colbert? So good!

[ronnie624]

60. CNN will never do an expose

on this filth. It's rather bizarre hearing him whine about CNN considering they have helped cover up the criminal activity involving his family's business.

Media Matters previously noted that network news broadcasts devoted little air time to coverage of Frist's stock sale. As first reported on September 19 by Congressional Quarterly, and subsequently by the Associated Press, Frist ordered the trustee managing his blind trust to sell all shares in HCA owned by his family on June 13. Frist's shares were then sold on July 1, and those owned by his wife and children were sold one week later. On July 13, the price of HCA shares dropped considerably after the company reported weaker-than-expected earnings . On September 29, HCA announced that the SEC had opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the transactions.

But few print stories have mentioned the company's history of fraud and its precedent-setting fine to settle charges stemming from kickbacks to doctors and overcharging the Medicare program. Media Matters has reviewed all 350 articles in the Nexis database that mention the Frist stock sale; only six articles -- five by print news outlets and one by a wire service -- have mentioned the record $1.7 billion settlement in their coverage of the investigation: Gannett News Service <9/21/05>, The New York Times <9/22/05>, Roll Call <9/26/05 (subscription required)>, The New York Observer <10/3/05>, and The Tennessean <9/22/05 and 10/1/05 (subscription required)>.

<http://mediamatters.org/items/200510070002>

[redqueen]

64. Yes, he should be thanking them for not exposing his criminal activity!

:nuke:

[onehandle]

21. Nutball. nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

23. Only the weak blame the media for their problems

[Dulcinea]

31. Well said!

Hey Billy, look in the mirror if you wanna know what's wrong.

[stepnw1f]

25. Frist and the GOP Bubble

Sucks when reality sifts through the corporate media, doesn't it Bill?

[sinkingfeeling]

26. Yes, CNN, what did the Republicans do about Iraq and making me safer?

All I recall is that they yelled cliches such as 'stay the course' and 'cut and run'.

[Rex]

27. Repukes - The "Blame Someone Else" party.

I swear, this country has NEVER been more fucked then RIGHT NOW! Why anyone would listen to an alleged criminal is beyond me. Commit crimes? The GOP will reward you for being a crook! Just ask Frist!

[Old and In the Way]

28. Way to go Frist, insulting the American public.

Think we are too stupid not to figure your agenda out? Nothing Fox, CNN, MSNBC can do to change the majority's opinion of the damage that the Republican Syndicate is doing to this country. Want worse news, Bill? Your polling will never be as high as it is today. Put that in your political calculator and compute it.

[Dulcinea]

29. Frist makes me nostalgic for Trent Lott!

He's such a complete putz. I wouldn't go to him (as a doctor) if I was dying.

[katty]

33. a muzzle on Fristy's mouth would be an improvement

[newspeak]

30. what CNN isn't catapulting the propaganda enough?

Come on CNN, you know you got to do more, you're not spinning enough for us. I want to see pure brown on that nose--your supposed to say exactly what we tell you to say, got it? It's not news unless we tell you it's news, got it?

[Supersedeas]

32. no agenda...attack the media...no agenda...attack the media...no agenda

[rodeodance]

34. te he what a whinny little man!---lecturing the little od Miles!!

[rodeodance]

35. and Frist thinks he has a chance at the presidency--ho ho.

[Toucano]

45. He'd never survive a primary campaign.

Much less a national campaign.

It'll be fun to watch, though.

[knight_of_the_star]

62. Kind of like watching a train wreck

So horrible, so painful, so destructive, yet so oddly captivating.

[madrchsod]

37. "what`s love got to do with it?"

[DrDan]

38. Making us safer???????

you have got to be kidding.

He actually said that?????

What an absolute idiot.

[hadrons]

39. I guess CNN didn't do more to manufacture a Bush bounce

shitheels

[nealmhughes]

40. He was a grade A A*hole this morning at 7:30 EST.

He was unbelievably rude to Miles and refused to answer the question posed and kept on his talking points, even trying to overtalk him. It was more like Frist had taken a little Bush Powder in his mania.

[Roy]

42. Rude filibustering is the only thing to expect from Repubs

Miles knew that.
If that was a Dem he would not have just uttered a meek but.... but... and then sat and waited for permission to speak. His mike would be up louder than the Dem and he would just interrupt and keep talking.

When Frist said the negative polling was CNN fault not not getting their message out, he should have told told him.
No, Mr Frist your poll numbers are low because the peoples message is not getting in to this corrupt congress and administration.

Pretty much for the same reason that CNN ratings are sinking.

[AngryOldDem]

41. What the hell is Frist talking about? n/t

[Vidar]

44. Going through the alphabet: CNN comes after Clinton.

[Mz Pip]

46. Sorry Cat Killer

the GOP just suck. can't blame CNN for noit being able to spin your crap in your favor. (though I kinda thought that's what they were doing.) :shrug:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[wordpix2]

48. what's with the cat killer hande?

[54anickel]

50. ..

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/06/12/frists_cat_problem.html

Tennessean columnist Gail Kerr notes that Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) "fessed up in his 1989 book, Transplant, to adopting cats from shelters when he was in medical school, treating them like pets for a while, and then using them in his research experiments." The subject also came up in the 1994 Senate GOP primary.

[samsingh]

51. the whorish MSM does everything to prop of the government

and like the ultimate abused spouse (male or female) still gets blamed for everything the bully causes.

[last_texas_dem]

52. Replaying the past

In the last few decades the 'pugs seem to demonize the media anytime the political climate is turning against them and their wedge issues of the year. Sometimes they do it even when the issues are working for them, simply to turn out the base. (Shrub and the boys did it, to a degree, in '04.) And although I have a very low opinion of most of the elected Repugs, I almost can't blame them if a sizeable chunk of Americans is willing to fall for the same bullshit one election cycle after another. Might as well be pulling out all the stops...

[mwooldri]

53. I guess he hasn't heard of Keith Olbermann.

He's on MS(N/R)BC. And I think he outviewers CNN. Not Faux though. I guess more people ought to get Dish on their basic plan. No Faux there. Our chinese restaurant however doesn't subscribe to cable only OTA TV there and they stick it on the WB affiliated station, which has no news shows.

Mark.

[Tsiyu]

55. Hey Frist, you ignorant piece of shit

Hello from Tennessee, you prick. I don't have cable, CNN, FU(X), Comedy Central.

I don't watch the news. I just look around Tennessee.

You've destroyed our state along with the rest of the nation.

How does it feel to know you're planning to destroy Head Start, does it give you a hard-on to know that lots of little Appalachian children and inner city Memphis kids won't get the good educational start they so desperately need? How does it feel to know that you are helping sink Tennessee's elderly into deeper and deeper poverty by your and other Repukes giving legislative blowjobs to the Pharm companies?

How does it feel knowing you sent Tennessee soldiers to their deaths for oil and money?

You have no conscience, no sense of right and wrong and no humanity left in even the smallest cell of your being.

If there is a god, it hates you. And I damned sure am completely and utterly disgusted by you. YOU are the reason Repukes are reviled in this nation. YOU, friend. Own up. Take some fucking responsibility you goddamned coward.

And if there's a hell, please rot in it.

YOU ARE EVERYTHING WRONG WITH AMERICA TODAY, BILLY BOY. TENNESSEANS KNOW IT AND MOST I TALK TO THINK YOU SUCK.

[BigDDem]

56. Let me guess...

they're making us "safer" by fighting the war OVER THERE, and not
OVER HERE.

[dogfacedboy]

57. Was Frist

born an A-hole, or did it take a lot of work to be the A-hole he is today?

[mikeyj84]

75. Bill Frist

His being an A-HOLE isn't a learned behavior, its a conditioned response!

[lovuian]

59. LOU DOBBS LOU DOBBS LOU DOBBS LOU DOBBS

LOU DOBBS LOU DOBBS :rofl:

[Shyriath]

61. Hah!

Mr. Frist, if I may relate to you a quote from Bender on Futurama:

"HAAHAHAHAHAHA! ...Oh, wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder."

Perhaps the media WOULD mention how the Republicans are making us safer, if only they were ACTUALLY DOING IT. Perhaps if they were going after Osama bin Laden, instead of sending our young men and women to die in the desert... perhaps if fighting terrorism was actually as important to them as machismo and posturing... perhaps if they were applying some thought to how we could undermine terrorism intelligently, rather than throwing more troops at insurgents... maybe if they were planning a timetable for bringing our armed forces home where they belong, instead of planning how to stop flag-burning and gay marriages!

[SensibleAmerican]

63. Maybe we should be doing this

It seems to work for the Republicans.

[xenu]

67. So you see....

they are NOT "winning" and WILL NOT "win". At this point, they are outnumbered.

[Dr Fate]

68. So much for all my screaming- the GOP beat us to the punch again.

Now if any Democrats try to confront media bias- they can just say "Well, the Republicans say the same things, so I guess we are somewhere in the middle"

I've been SCREAMING that DEMS need to talk about media bias for months. Why wont they do it?

[cyr330]

70. oh yeah, that's right. . .

I forgot! CNN is the ultraliberal news channel. When they kiss Bush's ass, they really don't mean it, and when they acted like horny cheerleaders for the Iraq War, they didn't mean that either. . . . It's all just an act. . . .

[bdamomma]

71. these guys are so desperate now they are blaming

the media, the same media who has been carrying water for this regime, are being kicked to the curb.

[mikeyj84]

74. Frist blames CNN

The Republican Party only needs to take a look in the mirror, and to this administrations failed policies to see where the Blame lies. They truly need to stop blowing smoke up the American peoples Ass. They've become so transparent that no one's buying this BS anymore. Well Billy boy, the old saying goes " You never heard a fish vendor yell rotten fish"

[depakid]

76. Amazing how these people eat their own

and yet the whores at CNN keep eating right out of their hands....

Talk about pathetic.

[Raine]

77. "Cut & run" crybabies

always running away from being responsible for anything, it's all someone else's fault.:eyes: Repugs need to grow up and quit being whiny need their diapers changed babies. x( :puke:

[Massachusetts]

78. Frist = milque toast

"thats all I have to say about that"

[The Gunslinger]

80. CNN is the liberal media?

I guess Frist doesn't tune in to Glen Beck much.

Well noone does I guess.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

81. Unbelievable!

Is it actually possible that Democrats & Republicans finally agree on something, namely, that the MSM is biased against them. But AT THE SAME TIME? How can this be? :wtf:

[niallmac]

82. Oh goody! Their getting irritable. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

84. Desperate is as Desperate gets...Frist is Spinning for all he can

They all are.....

Trouble is....they cried wolf/BS'd too many times and John Sixpack said WTF? The Pubs have lost their CREDIBILITY, remember that term? They don't!!

[orleans]

85. why not just blame clinton like you always do? MEOW! n/t

[shadowknows69]

86. Someone gave Bill the wrong talking points

It's the NYtimes this week not CNN.

[Demeter]

87. Frist Seeking To Replace Bush As Most Clueless In America

and as far as I can tell, he's a shoe-in. Nobody comes even close to my man Cat-Killer Bill.