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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:29 PM
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Poll question: Which mediawhore do you despise the most?
Edited on Sun Aug-24-03 05:39 PM by TruthIsAll
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:31 PM
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1. tweety because he's suppose to be a democrat
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Jeebo Donating Member (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:36 PM
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3. Pardon my ignorance, but who is Tweety?
Pardon my ignorance, but who is Tweety?

Ron
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JackSwift Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:44 PM
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7. Chris Matthews
Cuz he looks like Tweety Bird
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:34 PM
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2. Colmes, for the obvious reason
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:37 PM
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4. I despise them all............
equally. There is no differentiation between any of them, thus I am unable to vote in your poll.
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TheBigGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:38 PM
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5. I was gonna say Cokie Roberts
....the epitome of "Cook Kids" media stardom/whoredom.
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:40 PM
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6. I replaced Kudlow with Roberts; I overlooked her and she belongs there
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:47 PM
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8. Howard Fineman should be on there.
Most of those are rightwing pundits.

The real mediawhores are the ones who are being sold to us as real journalists.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 07:36 PM
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21. Ain't it the truth. Howard "Re'lie'able Sources" Kurtz, and Wolf Blitzer
also fit into that category.
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Robin Hood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:47 PM
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9. Where the hell is all of the above?
A corporate whore is a corporate whore, and they're all equally complicit to the far right racist agenda.
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:51 PM
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10. I should say Limbaugh, but I chose Tweety instead because
he claims to be a Democrat, yet there he was this morning tooting his horn for Arnold and dissing Governor Davis. At least Limbaugh doesn't pretend to be anything else other than a neo-con apologist.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 05:57 PM
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11. Limbaugh shouldn't be on the list...
He doesn't claim to be a Journalist.... The other Ho's do...
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 06:07 PM
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12. He only claims that when his feet are to the fire.
Edited on Sun Aug-24-03 06:08 PM by Clete
He has no problem commenting on political events for his masters or interviewing politicians. It crosses the line and he is as much a psuedo-journalist as all the other above Ho's
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Clark Can WIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 06:13 PM
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13. Limburger
For his uncanny knack for spewing the most outragous lies immaginable and having those lies accepted as though he were Moses down from the mount.
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tinanator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 06:13 PM
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14. since there was no MWO option
I settled for O'Reilly
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jfkennedy Donating Member (219 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 06:28 PM
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15. Russert
I voted Russert
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carolinayellowdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 06:29 PM
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16. O'Beirne
After hearing her totally hateful, disgusting remarks about "the French" based on isolated anecdotes, I consider her the worst of a very bad lot. (This on Capital Gang re outrage of the week last night.)
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Doomsayer13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 06:38 PM
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17. O'Reilly
he assumes he's the voice of the working-middle class man when he has his lips permanently sealed to Bush's ass. There is no bigger hypocrite than Bill O'Reilly.
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Fixated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 06:42 PM
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18. .....
With my blog on her I couldn't say much else...
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 06:54 PM
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19. Yeah, I had to go with Tweety too
Edited on Sun Aug-24-03 06:59 PM by PurityOfEssence
At least Coulter isn't a closet anything; she makes certain pretense about having thought things through, but she's an honest partisan. (Vicious, insane, evil, narcissistic and unprincipled, but straightforward about her affiliation.)

O'Reilly's a dick, but dismissable and easily identified as a partisan.

Matthews is a self-aggrandizing above-it-all "freethinker", when in reality he's a bought-and-paid-for mouthpiece who embodies the smug superiority of the conservative: "I'm doing well because I'm better than you are and you're just pathetic."

He's a liar of the worst sort and he's a belittling, snarling bully. That perfunctory, false matter-of-fact "masculinity" is ultrarevolting. If there's any doubt about his true character, just track down Jon Stewart's interview of him from "The Daily Show", it's got all of the personality traits of the conservative: laughing at the inferior, reveling in the misfortune of others and being cluelessly full of himself. There's something to be said for structuralism here too: anyone with that nasty a laugh can't be much of a person. Creeeepy.

At its best, journalism is selfless; even though that's apparently a bygone concept now, he's one of the worst.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 08:58 PM
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28. *applauds*
well said.


another vote for Tweets, the slobbering freak!
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 07:00 PM
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20. you forgot hannity and scarborough
Edited on Sun Aug-24-03 07:00 PM by ann_coulter_is_a_man
so i voted coulter, who is my 3rd choice
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 07:48 PM
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23. Scarborough's in the O.J., Scott Peterson "lady killers" poll
:evilgrin:
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BansheeBarbie Donating Member (77 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 07:44 PM
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22. IraqAnthraxIraqAnthraxIraq BLITZER
Edited on Sun Aug-24-03 07:46 PM by BansheeBarbie
Bastard SOB!!!

Since he wasn't on the list, I went with O'Reilly over Limbaugh since the latter actually has some
talent which I won't begrudge him. O'Reilly, OTOH, is just a loud mouth bully & fraud.
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Julien Sorel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 08:08 PM
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24. Coulter is the left's best friend.
I can't get enough of her -- the more she's out there being stupid, the more discredit she heaps on the lot of them.
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 08:11 PM
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25. True ...
now I wish I had voted for Limbaugh
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xequals Donating Member (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 08:30 PM
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26. Matthews -- by FAR.
A "whore" is someone who will sacrifice principals for selfish gain -- that's Tweety. He'll play "left" or "right" depending on the audience, the situation, etc. He's a whore for attention, ratings etc. He can't be counted on to stand for anything he really believes in.

Coulter and some of the other rightwingnuts are much more repulsive, but not whores. They're ideological automatons who will lie and say anything to defend they're position. That's the extreme opposite of somone like Tweety who will whore for whatever side can garner him the most attention, ratings, spotlight, money, etc. He's a shapeshifting, split-personality, two-faced, back-stabbing WHORE.

Let's put it this way: Matthews is the last person on that list I'd count on if I were with them on the frontlines in a war -- he' go right to the enemy. The others, as much as I dislike most of them, are loyal to the side they fight for.

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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 08:51 PM
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27. Totally Tweety
It cuts more to the bone when one who supposedly was one of your own does the dirtiness. So, people, QUIT looking for his "coming back" or "seeing the light" or any OTHER projection on our part. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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Iluvleiberman Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 09:00 PM
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29. SEAN HANNITY!
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The Zanti Regent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 09:01 PM
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30. So many whores to choose from
I just cannot make up my mind, I hate them all!
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nomaco-10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 09:19 PM
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31. Sean Hannity without a doubt.
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