I BULLSHIT YOU NOT! John Gibson on FOX NEWS implied Eric Holder is a MONKEY

[wndycty]

A monkey escaped from a zoo and viewers were told that the MONKEY had a bright blue scrotum. So then anchor John Gibson goes, we were talking about Eric Holder and his bright blue scrotum. WOW. . .I got it via Wonkette:

Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNiIOcCBpjI

The Wonkette link: http://wonkette.com/406419/fox-news-ha-ha-the-monkey-has-a-blue-scrotum-ha-ha-like-eric-holder

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. A racist dickwad on FAUX Noise? You don't say??

Ironic that such people spent 8 years groveling before a CHIMP. :grr:

[MrModerate]

2. He's got to be doing that specifically to incite his . . .

knuckle-dragging, no-opposable-thumb listeners to nudge one another and wink -- "That John just got off another zinger about Obama and his monkey."

In-fucking-credible.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. The albino chipmunk said that?

Typical Gibson.

[Spazito]

4. Geez....

It seems yesterday's hatetoon signaled all out racism is acceptable. I am totally nauseous.

[Occam Bandage]

5. Dude has a blue scrotum? Man, I've so been there.

Seriously, that has to be the most insane 15 seconds of television ever at the end.

[seabeyond]

6. why is NEWS talking about a monkeys scrotum anyway. a world gone mad

when the fuck did we start talking scrotum's on news.... oh i know, when we started analyzing Clinton's penis maybe.

[MineralMan]

7. Heck, he didn't imply it; he outright said it.

Amazing. Fox has, once again, reached new lows.

[Occam Bandage]

9. "We were just talking about Eric Holder's bright blue scrotum."

There is no possible context in which this is a normal, acceptable thing to say.

[MineralMan]

21. You have that exactly right. There is no acceptable context

for this. We need to publicize this as widely as possible. Perhaps make a short clip of just Gibson saying that and loop the damn thing wherever possible.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

60. No shit.

I am still just sitting here shaking my head.

They are all about family values... they keep telling us... it must be true.

Can you imagine your SO walking into the room and saying "how about Eric Holder's bright blue scrotum!"

:shrug: :crazy: :eyes:

[EFerrari]

10. It's not just Fox. This is a campaign. Bet me. n/t

[ljm2002]

32. I totally agree...

...the racists are coming out of the closet, big time. And it does have the earmarks of a campaign. Too much of it going on all at once. Scary. Well -- we need to confront it. And that asshole needs to be off the air.

How does one start a campaign to do that? I'm serious. Maybe start by sending this to Keith Olbermann -- it needs to be shown. I think most Americans will still be offended by his remarks.

[me b zola]

33. I wouldn't bet against it

Here's what I wrote yesterday:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5084718&mesg_id=5084808

[EFerrari]

35. I missed that post but I agree with it completely. n/t

[hootinholler]

62. I haven't confirmed it yet, but on the DR show today

One of her guests said Hannity called the President a fascist.

I was surprised there was no thread here yet, and being at work haven't had time to confirm it.

-Hoot

[EFerrari]

8. They really are doing this and they will not stop. We have to confront this shit. n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. I listened to Barnacle say that Holder was smoking crazy stuff.

[EFerrari]

14. I don't have cable right now. What was the context?

Barnacle is a parasite, in any case, isn't he?

[Ichingcarpenter]

17. Holder's stating the coward point on racism

Barney gave the white rich 'liberal' guy's perspective that everything
is cool now.

Barnacle is a parasite whose wife is a big wig in Bank of America.

[EFerrari]

20. Ah. Thank you. How completely predictable. n/t

[juno jones]

57. Cross your fingers...

Bad News: BofA might be going down in the next few weeks, taking a huge chunk of the rotted beams that are supporting capitalism and the economy.

Good News: It might take some parasites out with it. Enjoy your vacations parasites. Your perks won't last forever, even the swiss are outing you.

[MadBadger]

19. I think Barnacle is a mixed bag. He says a lot of things I agree with, and a lot of things I dont.

I generally like his personality, he's not an ass hole like so many on cable.

Id say hes a little more conservative then Tweety, who I think is a Moderate with Liberal leanings.

[Ichingcarpenter]

22. He's a middle of the road Democrat that agrees with Joe half the time

He's better than Harold Ford but not much.

Mixed Bag? His bag is filled with Bank of AMerica.

[MadBadger]

25. What his wife does really has no effect on my opinion of him.

[Ichingcarpenter]

27. It should when he complains about bailouts for homeowners and not banks

but you know that don't you?

[depakid]

13. Neither Obama nor a significant number of DUers are interested in improving their media

So expect to see a LOT more of this.

[stillcool]

16. Nor Congress.

the only way to "improve" the media is to bust up the big five. That's not going to happen, so as long as people make them relevant, they stay relevant.

[depakid]

18. The FCC has the power to do this and more on their own

Using readily available evidence to promulgate regulations through the APA. Republicans and DINO's can whinge all they want- bu can't do much of anything about it.

[stillcool]

24. The FCC can break up monopolies?

[depakid]

26. They can divest the industry of multiple stations and cross ownership

of facilities in the same market.

[stillcool]

28. I don't understand how that...

can happen now. Here's the conclusion of an article Ted Turner wrote about the consolidation and power big media holds

My Beef With Big Media
How government protects big media--and shuts out upstarts like me.

By Ted Turner

At this late stage, media companies have grown so large and powerful, and their dominance has become so detrimental to the survival of small, emerging companies, that there remains only one alternative: bust up the big conglomerates. We've done this before: to the railroad trusts in the first part of the 20th century, to Ma Bell more recently. Indeed, big media itself was cut down to size in the 1970s, and a period of staggering innovation and growth followed. Breaking up the reconstituted media conglomerates may seem like an impossible task when their grip on the policy-making process in Washington seems so sure. But the public's broad and bipartisan rebellion against the FCC's pro-consolidation decisions suggests something different. Politically, big media may again be on the wrong side of history--and up against a country unwilling to lose its independents.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0407.turner.html

[depakid]

30. Because they have the authority to engage in administrative rulemaking

over broadcasters.

The agency can order de-consolidation the same way as they allowed consolidation.

Or they can re-instate the fairness doctrine- or they can put teeth back into license renewal.

[stillcool]

34. I don't think the fairness doctrine..

can change the content, or what the owners choose to inform people of. What good are conflicting opinions when the subject is bullshit, and lies are allowed to be perceived as opinion based in fact? After reading a lot of articles about the problem, some presented in the link below, I don't think the solution is as easy as you say it is. Nor do I think the problem is as recent as the 90's.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Broadcast_Media/Broadcast_Media.html

[depakid]

40. No, what it does is provide time for rebuttal of editorializing, false statements of fact and

personal attacks in the broadcast media.

It also creates a general ethic in the broadcast- and I would submit by extension, in the cable and satellite industry that's been sorely missed since the late 80's.

Here's one of the better primers on what the deal was (it's actually a set of rules and administrative decisions -adjudications and cases on appeals- so it's a bit more complicated than most people realize):

The Fairness Doctrine
How We Lost it, and Why We Need it Back

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0212-03.htm

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. Good...

I'd like these assholes to just keep flapping their gums. There are too many people out there who don't believe racism still exists in alarming proportions in this country. They need to take another look.

[AndrewP]

37. right on

[spanone]

15. racists under the guise of news reporters....god help america

[chollybocker]

23. John Gibbon?

[ljm2002]

29. That asshole needs to be taken off the air for that remark...

...really. It is a new low, even for Fox, aarrgghh.

Damn, made me spittin' mad to hear that.

I wouldn't mind them laughing at the description of the animal, even though their reporting on the incident was weird in the first place. But his remarks were waaay outside the bounds of what should be allowed on our public airwaves by a supposed newscaster.

[readmoreoften]

31. Fucking disgusting.

[FarLeftRage]

36. You mean this...

fucking idiot??

[icnorth]

38. With photo shop

you can make almost anything presentable.;-)

[fishwax]

39. wow. what an asshole.

[ecstatic]

41. It appears FOX has declared war ... and they no longer care if they're subtle

about it. So what's the plan?

[deaniac21]

42. At least he didn't say he was from Chicago.

[lonestarnot]

43. Well that piece of shit for a maggot! He turns my stomach to look at him.

He looks like he bathes in lard. I bet his hair stinks.

[Blaze Diem]

44. Repukes new code word for 'nigger'..Fox News needs to be taken off Air.

God Hates Fox News too.

[Faryn Balyncd]

61. Interesting track how much coverage Faux will give ALL "MONKEY" STORIES compared to real networks.

[Blaze Diem]

67. You know what my first reaction to the cartoon was? 'Inciting Assasination"

And this lopsided propaganda of hate by Fox, is inciting just enough of it for some dumb repuke Aryan schmuck to have a go at it.

[BlooInBloo]

45. Where are the DUers who have been saying that there's nothing racist about...

calling black folks monkeys?

They're such wonderful people.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

46. Now I've got a blue scrotum after watching Julie Banderas for that long.

Gibson's an idiot, he may get fired over this one.

David

[BlooInBloo]

47. She is pretty damn hawt.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

48. Smoking...

Hot enough for me to watch fox with the mute button on.

David

[jimmyflint]

49. I just don't know

I order to clear this up we are going to have to see the AG's scrotum. And we need to know how he saw the AG's scrotum.

[backscatter712]

50. You stay classy, FAUX Noise!

:mad:

[Earth Bound Misfit]

51. Reprehensible ASSHAT..

#$%#@@$%#^%&^ FUX NOYZ #$%%#$%@$%@$@

[Earth Bound Misfit]

58. D'oh on me...

:blush:

[shellgame26]

52. Expect more of this shit

the fringies feel like they're backed into a corner. First, Barack the magic negro, then that racist cartoon in the Post yesterday.

[backscatter712]

53. ACHTUNG, the video's been doctored!!!

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=282403

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=282423

The links show both the video in question, and the original, non-doctored video.

John Gibson's an ass, but we don't want to throw away our credibility...

[Cid_B]

54. It took 53 posts to get this out...

It is on its way out the door, better get it before it gets away.

[ProfessorGAC]

56. Not Sure If It Matters

Personally, i don't need any specific reason to think John Gibson is a bigoted idiot. The video is irrelevant to me, doctored or not.
GAC

[Political Heretic]

55. OMG doctored video this is HUGH!!!!!11111

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=282403

I swear DU's record on race this week is epic fail.

Please take a moment to think about confirmation bias and seeing what you want to see and how that can cause you to use poor judgment...

like for example, posting a video and freaking out about it before investigating and figuring out if its authentic or not.

[Faryn Balyncd]

59. "Five in the Noggin" John Gibson has already told the world about the "CAJONES" he MOST "ADMIRES" :

Here's his take on what it takes to "renew his faith", back in 2005. Gibson so admired the shooter's "cajones" that, after it turned out that the "noggin" belonged to an innocent man, Gibson never apologized. (or,to the best of my knowledge,made any further comment.)

Five in the Noggin

Friday , July 22, 2005
By John Gibson

No way to talk about anything but the terror bombing investigation in Great Britain. My faith has been renewed in the Brits. Even though they talk a good politically correct game out in public, evidently, behind the scenes they are as ruthless as I would expect from a civilized country under attack by bloodthirsty barbarians who have been brainwashed.

Let's start at the beginning.

I love the way the Brits have 10 million cameras sticking up the nose of every citizen no matter where they are, except in the loo.

I love the way they popped the pictures of those four bombers so quick. Those four bombers are now identified in public and they will be run down sometime very soon.

I love the way they know where these guys live, and I love the fact that they seem to have been spying on these guys for a while already. All that is good.

What is also good is the Brit police tactics that we saw at work in the subway Friday morning. The tackle and kill team is incredible, if for no other reason than their bravery. Can you imagine the job of those cops? Tackle the guy wearing a vest bomb and hope your colleague is right behind with the gun to put five bullets in the noggin before he sets off the bomb.

Turns out he didn't have a bomb, and turns out he wasn't one of the four bombers Thursday. And if it turns out ultimately that he had nothing to do with anything, no doubt there will be hell to pay. But the police say he was linked to the terror probe, so let's wait and see.

Meantime, got to admire the cojones of those Brit cops to go after him like that. All of this trumps any of my other complaints that the Brits weren't making the right noises about fighting terror. They like to go about things a bit more quietly than us. Not my style, but okay, fine — as long as they get the five in the noggin of the right bomber boy. They do that and I'm fine.

So for the moment, alls well. Just catch the four bombers. Five in the noggin is fine. Don't complain that sounds barbaric. We're fighting barbaric.

That's My Word.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163420,00.html

John Gibson likes to talk about admired "cajones", "noggins", and, as Gibson dripped it out: "Eric Holder today on the radio and his BRIGHT - - - BLUE - - - SCROTUM."

[Faryn Balyncd]

66. Addendum: Huffington Post reports that this video was a FAKE, and apologized (LINK):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/19/john-gibson-compares-eric_n_168377.html


My attempt to edit my own Reply #59 was not possible because too much time had expired.

Huffington Post both apologized for the video, which they picked up off TVNewser (though the forger is unknown), and also posted a correct (unaltered) video.

(The timely apology from Huffington Post is interesting to compare to Gibson's silence after his 2005 "Five in the Noggin" target turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.)

[Dreamer Tatum]

63. He needs to be gone. No apology, just gone.

Now THAT is racist.

The cartoon, I argued, is not. But John Gibson is a racist and must pay with his job.

[jmg257]

64. OK...but only if it wasn't a fake. nt

[Dreamer Tatum]

65. CORRECTION: It was faked, per HuffPo nt