Category: Media

So, I guess the media is done trying to hide the fact that everything Trump does pisses them off. Here’s a headline item from CNN;

The UK’s Independent on the same subject;

The President is bestowed with a Diet Coke while other diners are stuck with water.

What’s more, Mr Trump appears to be served “Thousand Island dressing” instead of the “creamy vinaigrette for his guests”. The former reality TV star is also given an “extra dish of sauce” to accompany his chicken.

Fake news doesn’t have to be completely fabricated stories – it can also be stories that some bonehead editor thinks is important, but it’s just so much BS. I’m expecting an expose` on how Trump doesn’t fold his own T-shirts.

According to the UK’s Independent, Federal Drug Administration employees have been instructed by the Trump Administration to watch Fox News instead of their usual CNN. There’s no evidence of the order, but that doesn’t stop folks from speculating;

Screen shot of #FDA email announcing all FoxNews all the time, on FDA TVs. pic.twitter.com/RleGhrO6Ws

— Paul Thacker (@thackerpd) May 5, 2017

“The reason for the change is that a decision from the current administration administrative officials has requested that all monitors, under our control, on the White Oak Campus, display Fox News.

“Sorry for the inconvenience, but I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time.”

The email was sent to workers at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the branch that regulates medical products.

An FDA spokesperson denied people had been ordered to watch Fox News, telling ThinkProgress: “There was no directive or memorandum from the Administration that went out to employees about broadcast news channels displaying on monitors in common areas throughout the FDA’s White Oak campus.”

The article continues about how President Trump doesn’t like CNN but loves Fox News and somehow that lends credibility to a single email.

I remember when President Obama took over and waiting rooms in Walter Reed and at the VA switched over to CNN from Fox. I guess I’m a higher life form because I was able to look away from the CNN broadcasts.

The folks who made the new documentary “Danger Close” wanted me to tell y’all about the film which is being released today.

In the third film from Strong Eagle Media’s military trilogy, DANGER CLOSE follows female war reporter Alex Quade’s daring missions to tell soldiers’ stories during a series of unprecedented embeds with Conventional Forces and US Special Ops Forces at the height of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

There is, as I suspected and Jonn Lilyea has always told us, more than meets the eye to something, so when I read Poetrooper’s article about Bill O’Reilly being fired and a payout of $13 million by Fox, I wondered what that was really all about. And who is being silenced, anyway?

There is no doubt in my mind that O’Reilly is an arrogant ass, an abrasive butthead with the personality of a female alligator guarding her nest. But since I have worked with and for people who were obnoxious as hell in many respects but still decent in many others, it seemed to me that we weren’t getting the full story or what brought all of this to a head.

So I dug. Got out the internet power shovel and began shoveling.

And I did strike a find.  It seems that in 2015, Emily Steel, a reporter for the New York Times, was doing a story on O’Reilly’s claims about where he was during the Falklands War. He found out what she was up to and threatened her in writing on Twitter with reprisal, as indicated in the following CNBC article.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/20/bill-oreilly-was-taken-down-by-new-york-times-reporter-he-threatened-in-2015.html

The following is a link to the 2015 NYT story in which he defends his reporting on the Falklands War, including a video of his argument about his reports.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/business/media/bill-oreilly-and-fox-news-redouble-defense-of-his-falklands-reporting.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

You can see from the early video of him throwing a screaming fit on a video session of Inside Edition, in the comments on Poetrooper’s article, that he has an unbridled and volatile temper, which impels him to become aggressively abusive over something that is easily resolved, and his behavior includes throwing things – also unnecessary.  You have to start asking if he throws things and has screaming fits, does he also threaten to hit people who piss him off? What else does he do to intimidate people around him?

There is no excuse for this kind of behavior. It’s not at all the same thing as breaking up a dogfight where you have to kick both dogs in the head to get them off each other, or turn the hose on them.

As far as I’m concerned, O’Reilly got what was coming to him and it was long overdue.

How many times has Jonn told us that something like stolen valor claims are only the tip of the iceberg?  Well, it does not apply only to stolen valor. Before you go any further with comments about the ‘whiners’ and how much of it is simply annoyance from women over being the object of bad behavior and crass comments by a rude, crude, obnoxious jackass, take into consideration that when someone in O’Reilly’s position threatens a colleague – someone  who, like Emily Steel, works in the same field – in any way at all over anything and puts it in writing, it means that this is not just some smoke that will blow away.

There is also fire.

FOX News has ousted Bill O’Reilly, the smug, smur-king of evening talk-TV for more than a decade for issues relating to sexual harassment of female employees. The rumors had floated about for years that the supercilious O’Reilly was as big a jerk behind the scenes as he all too frequently was while on camera, allegedly hitting on female employees for sexual favors for much of the time he was a FOX ratings king. The pushy, public persona presented on television made such rumors difficult to disbelieve, leading Ol’ Poe to believe that this day of reckoning was simply a matter of time: another arrogant fool brought to an ignominious fate by thinking with his little head rather than the oversized one O’Reilly possesses. Somehow, to this age- seasoned Scots-Irishman, the term “Big Dumb Mick,” seems to fit quite well here.

Big Bill has his viewers, assuredly, me being one of ‘em sometimes, but it was always a challenge to get through an entire show without having to be constrained from throwing a drink glass at the tube when the overbearing Son of Hibernia haughtily talked over some guest expert, informing them that they didn’t know what they were talking about within their own field of expertise because he, O’Reilly, knew better; or to stay in the room when he began another shameless shilling session of his popular but poorly-written books. There’s not another Irishmen alive that Ol’ Poe has called a sorry ass son of a bitch more times than Bill O’Reilly.

O’Reilly’s demise is a victory for the libs who threatened his advertisers with boycotts when talk of his sexual harassment activities began to become more publicly discussed. They have unseated the king, no question. But it’s going to be a Pyrrhic victory for them because FOX has already announced that O’Reilly’s replacement is the far more likable and far better informed talk show host, Tucker Carlson. While O’Reilly treated both friendly and hostile guests with contempt, Carlson saves his devastating verbal flayings for those cocky liberals who try to treat him and all conservatism with contempt. Carlson’s far more politically intuitive as well as being far more entertaining.
But in spite of all that, you know, I’m really going to….

Heh, bet you thought Ol’ Poe was gonna say he’s gonna miss the jerk. Nope, he’s just another pompous prick done in by his little prick.