The 1/2 Hour News Hour

[red states rule]

Wow an article written by a republican...Rober J Caldwell ? Who the fuck is that ? LOL...Must be fact if he wrote it. News flash...AMERICA VOTED FOR THE NEW CONGRESS...YOU LOST...Get over it. No amount of posted articles will change that. America is ready change and they have stated so by electing the DEMOCRATS into congress. Man that just really burns you up doesnt it. I know it does. Way to go America !!!!

It shows the Dems are still cowards and still have not learned to satand up to terrorists and evil

I am glad you admit the people that want to kill Americans and "wipe Israel off the map" are backing your party and are happy to see them in charge

 

[Kagom]

Got ya: Offending conservatives Funny, Offending liberals not funny.

How sophomoric your assumption is. I find offensive humor to be funny, regardless of who is being offended. But this kinda failed. It has good potential, but I'm not seeing it working right.

 

[T-Bor]

I am glad to see you see you pissed off that the Democrats are in charge. Again the MAJORITY of Americans have spoken. Im sorry you dont seem to get it. Terrorists dont all exist in one country. You dont just invade a country to deal with terrorism. If Iraq caused 911 and it was their govt that did it ..then fine... attack them...But it wasnt a govt sponsored attack so you cant just attack a single country because of it. Sorry you dont seem to get that, but the majority of americans do. You lost. get over it.

 

[red states rule]

I am glad to see you see you pissed off that the Democrats are in charge. Again the MAJORITY of Americans have spoken. Im sorry you dont seem to get it. Terrorists dont all exist in one country. You dont just invade a country to deal with terrorism. If Iraq caused 911 and it was their govt that did it ..then fine... attack them...But it wasnt a govt sponsored attack so you can just attack a single country because of it. Sorry you dont seem to get that, but the majority of americans do. You lost. get over it.

i I am far from pissed Dems are in charge. 08 will be when the adults will take back the Congress and keep the White House

This is shaping up to be another Congress like the one under Clinton in 92 - 94

Dems keep stepping in it everytime the turn around. they are showing their contempt for the military, and wimp attitude toward fighting the terrorists

 

[T-Bor]

No. They are showing they value American LIves.. Something the prior congress and current president havent done.

 

[red states rule]

No. They are showing they value American LIves.. Something the prior congress and current president havent done.

The same way the peace niks did at the Pro terrorist rally in Dc a few weeks ago when the libs spit at a crippled Iraq vet?

No Dems as usual, are showing how they refuse to stand up to terrosists. Instead of fighting them, libs prefer to runa away and hope they will leave us alone

Clinton did that for 8 years and we got 9-11 in return

 

[T-Bor]

Sure lets just kill more Americans by sending them to the quagmire in IRAQ. Im sure you have no problem doing that since its not your life in jeopardy. Thats the republican way.

 

[red states rule]

Sure lets just kill more Americans by sending them to the quagmire in IRAQ. Im sure you have no problem doing that since its not your life in jeopardy. Thats the republican way.

and in return, Dems turn tail and run, wave the white flag, and the terrorists will follow.

just as they did when Clinton did nothing after five attacks, and ran from Somalia

 

[T-Bor]

Republicans for Killing Americans

Democrats not for killing Americans.

 

[red states rule]

Republicans for Killing Americans

Democrats not for killing Americans.

Republicans are trying to protect Amercia from terrorists

Democrats are helping terrorists to attack America

 

[mattskramer]

It all depends on where you stand on the political spectrum. If you are really to the right and call it the center, then anything you see will look to you as if it has a pro-left bias. If you stand to the left, you will see things as having a pro-right bias. Those to the left will have a fit if they see more shows having an apparent pro-right bias. Those to the right will have a fit if they discover shows that seem to them to have a pro-left bias.

People will find what they are looking for to support their pre-conceived biases while discounting, what to them would be, rare exceptions.

Hey, Look what I found. Here are some anti-Bush news items. Don’t you see? The media is anti-Bush. Hey, Look what I found. Here are some pro-Bush items. Don’t you see? The media is pro-Bush. I’m not going to play the bean-counting game. You can play with statistics all that you like. Similarly, people can look for “statistical research” and twist the information to also support their pre-established conclusion. Search the web and you are sure to find alleged unbiased reports to support your agenda – weather it is pro-Republican or pro-Democrat.

IO rescued myself from that old tiresome game.

 

[T-Bor]

Republicans for Killing Americans.

Democrats for Saving American Lives

 

[T-Bor]

I fully agree. Im just having fun fucking with this guy.

It all depends on where you stand on the political spectrum. If you are really to the right and call it the center, then anything you see will look to you as if it has a pro-left bias. If you stand to the left, you will see things as having a pro-right bias. Those to the left will have a fit if they see more shows having an apparent pro-right bias. Those to the right will have a fit if they discover shows that seem to them to have a pro-left bias.

People will find what they are looking for to support their pre-conceived biases while discounting, what to them would be, rare exceptions.

Hey, Look what I found. Here are some anti-Bush news items. Don’t you see? The media is anti-Bush. Hey, Look what I found. Here are some pro-Bush items. Don’t you see? The media is pro-Bush. I’m not going to play the bean-counting game. You can play with statistics all that you like. Similarly, people can look for “statistical research” and twist the information to also support their pre-established conclusion. Search the web and you are sure to find alleged unbiased reports to support your agenda – weather it is pro-Republican or pro-Democrat.

IO rescued myself from that old tiresome game.

 

[CTRLALTDEL]

RedStateRule is a BRAINWASHED teenager who the republicans successfully trained to be SCARED. Just read all his posts. HE IS SCARED SH!TLESS of the moosleeeem BOOOGEYMEN. Dont' hate him. PITY HIM.

 

[T-Bor]

I agree...he will never admit it..but he is scared shitless and I think its funny. The republicans and the terrorists certainly did do a number on him. We are all going to be destroyed by the terrorists if the dems control the white house. Thats some funny shit.

 

[Mr.Conley]

That show looks terrible.

 

[Avatar4321]

I never see libs in a tizzy over fox news. I see repubs in a tizzy like YOU over Bill Mahr and other shows. Your post here proves it. You are so happy that the repubs might actually have a TV show. You have grown tired of the Libs owning the TV air waves and it has frustrated you and the republicans for a long while because they dont like it when they get on the air and tell the truth to the people. It helped the current congress get elected and repubs didnt like that. So this is their retort.

Too bad it wont last long. The 1/2 hour news hour will fail. And the truth will previal on the lib television shows. All hail BILL MAHR !!!!! The King of Political talk shows !!!!!!!

When has anyone on this message board even talked about Bill Mahr? If his name comes up its rather infrequent.

And yes we are happy when there are shows that dont involve liberals trying to pretend they represent average americans while pushing their socialist idealogy.

 

[red states rule]

When the liberal Washington Post says "The Half Hour News Hour" is not a disaster, I take that as a glowing endorsement

The show was great and very funny



Fox News Channel's '1/2 Hour News Hour': Right Funny, in Spots

By Tom Shales
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 17, 2007; Page C01

Can political conservatives be funny? George F. Will and William F. Buckley Jr., among a few others, are great wits, but that's different from setting out to generate peals of laughter throughout the land, and managing to do it. "The 1/2 Hour News Hour," a new weekly series from Fox News Channel, aims in part to prove that the right is not so full of itself that it can't get off a zinger or two.

Obviously patterned after "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central (which was just as obviously patterned on the "Weekend Update" segment of NBC's "Saturday Night Live"), "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" (premiering tomorrow night) is for the most part a straightforward mock newscast in which lefties are by far the favored targets. Thus the question "Can the right laugh at itself?" is neither addressed nor answered

Despite constant, unrelenting protestations that "the media" are controlled by liberals, conservatism has hardly been absent from recent popular humor. For years, a major contributor to "Update," and the author of "SNL's" "cold open" sketch, was a conservative Republican, James Downey. The outrageous puppet movie "Team America" used many Hollywood liberals as literal targets, blowing them to proverbial kingdom come.

All that aside, " 1/2 Hour" definitely has its moments. Anchors "Jennifer Lange" and "Kent McNally" (Jenn Robertson and Kurt Long -- why didn't they just use their real names?) sit at a simple desk and deliver the facetious items without any of the dreadful, overboard mugging and mincing of "Daily Show's" obnoxious Jon Stewart.

The show opens with something of a sketch, however: It's 2009 and guess who's president? Rush Limbaugh, whom we discover seated at an Oval Officey desk and reciting his lines mechanically. When he calls for the vice president, in walks that spooky vampire Ann Coulter, too malicious and frightening to ever be funny. Still, the pair do have a certain star power.

On comes the artificial news. Hillary Rodham Clinton has pledged wide-ranging variety in her version of a Clinton administration, it's reported; she vows to appoint "a diverse group . . . of angry lesbians." An overlong segment on politically correct children's books includes such titles as "Harry Potter and the Alternate Lifestyle" and, for the developmentally challenged, "The Little Engine That Couldn't Quite."

There's a running gag about environmental activist Ed Begley Jr. attempting to get to the studio in a car that runs on, among other things, poopy, and mock commercials trashing the American Civil Liberties Union -- "protecting criminals from people like you since 1920." Here, though, the desire to deliver partisan swift kicks tends to override any impulse to amuse.

On the other hand, a segment in which a "game-show host and climatologist" attempts to link all public events, including Britney Spears's lack of underwear, to global warming has its chucklesome side, as does a plea from "Girl No. 13 on 'Deal or No Deal' " to drum up more causes for Hollywood celebrities to support, because the supply is running low. The inevitable Barack Obama jokes include the observation that a minor scandal caused his popularity among Democrats to plummet "to an all-time low of 99.9 percent."

Executive-produced by Joel Surnow, the man behind Fox's sadistic and preposterous (one hopes) "24," and undoubtedly encouraged by enfant terrible and Fox boss Roger Ailes, "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" is on the semi-amateurish side some of the time, and when it picks on dead revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, it seems lazy as well as tacky.

But those on the left anticipating, and probably hoping for, some kind of ghastly disaster will be disappointed -- and may even feel like joining in the (apparently canned) laughter more times than they'd expect. In a nutshell: It isn't terrible.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021602098.html

 

[T-Bor]

I watched it for 10 minutes..It sucked.. I trust my opinion more than the Wash Post..Sorry.

 

[T-Bor]

testing out my new sig...Everyone like it ?