The 1/2 Hour News Hour

[red states rule]

Fox Comedy News Show Debuts Sunday Night
Posted by Matthew Sheffield on February 14, 2007 - 17:17.
This Sunday at 10pm Eastern, Fox News Channel is going to show a pilot episode of a news satire show it's commissioned from "24" executive producer Joel Surnow.

Here at NB and MRC, we often rightly complain at the media's leftward slant. This slant exists largely because the news and entertainment media shun and blacklist people with known conservative and libertarian politics, however, it's also a question of the right's interest in media.

If you're sick of every comedy show being run by left-wingers like Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and David Letterman, join me in watching the "Half-Hour News Hour" this Sunday and tell everyone you know who might like it to tune in as well.

In an upcoming show Rush Limbaugh is President and Ann Coulter is VP. Here is a link to catch a clip from the show on Sunday

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIfaMwIFxU[/ame]

 

[red states rule]

Meet President Rush Limbaugh and Vice President Ann Coulter
Posted by Noel Sheppard on February 14, 2007 - 22:56.
As NewsBuster Matt Sheffield reported Wednesday, Fox News will be introducing a new comedy this coming Sunday called “The Half Hour News Hour.” FNC previewed another segment (h/t Hot Air) with Rush Limbaugh as the new president in January 2009.

It appears that Limbaugh won after another “bitter recount,” and the loser, Howard Dean, is now “finally getting the medical attention he has so desperately needed for so long.”

His vice president, Ann Coulter, informed viewers that if they don’t watch the show, “We will invade your countries, kill your leaders, and convert you to Christianity.”

http://newsbusters.org/

 

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[T-Bor]

Good Luck finding someone thats better than Bill Mahr. Mahr makes the president look like a stupid idiot. Not that he needed any help with that.

 

[CTRLALTDEL]

That right wing 1/2 hour show was so damn UNFUNNY, they needed a "laugh" track to show us the "FUNNY" parts (or what they thought was funny).

 

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To be honest, I didn't find that funny and I tend to find stuff like that funny.

I guess I just get annoyed when movies/shows advertise "This will offend/anger <blank>"

 

[T-Bor]

Only thing the Repubs have is The Fat old Pill Popping drug user Rush. Democrats own the television airwaves. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Blue States.

 

[red states rule]

Only thing the Repubs have is The Fat old Pill Popping drug user Rush. Democrats own the television airwaves. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Blue States.

Then why do libs have a cow over Fox News, and want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine?

Scared perhaps Fox and talk radio are adding viewers/listeners while the liberal media are losing them?

 

[red states rule]

Only thing the Repubs have is The Fat old Pill Popping drug user Rush. Democrats own the television airwaves. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Blue States.

Libs own TV?


Fox News Channel made it five in a row in January -- five years atop the ratings rung in the news category for both primetime and total day.

Fox News, which overtook CNN in January 2002, averaged a 1.4 household rating last month, up 8% from 1.3 in the first month of 2006, according to a Disney ABC Networks analysis of Nielsen Media Research data. That was good for a share of fourth place among all basic-cable networks in January. CNN was flat at a 0.7, while MSNBC improved 67% to 0.5.

Last month, Fox News scored a 9% gain with primetime viewers to a 1.62 million average from 1.48 million, more than twice the combined total of CNN (ahead 12% to 813,000) and MSNBC (a 55% jump to 540,000).

With the key news demo, Fox News averaged 389,000 25-54 viewers in primetime during January, a 22% improvement from the prior-year period. CNN (up 29% to 260,000) and MSNBC (45% to 217,000) also recorded big gains. MSNBC officials said that performance helped the network to accrue its greatest share with that demo since November 2001.

Gauged on a total-day basis, Fox News -- which will launch late-night show Red Eye, which will examine recent developments in politics, entertainment, business and pop culture, Tuesday at 2 a.m. (EST) -- averaged 874,000 viewers (off 3%) in January, while CNN tallied 521,000 (up 13%) and MSNBC 332,000 (up 39%). Among the news demo, Fox grew 11% to 262,000, versus 186,000 for CNN (+28%) and 138,000 for MSNBC (+52%).

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6413178.html

 

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To be honest, I didn't find that funny and I tend to find stuff like that funny.

I guess I just get annoyed when movies/shows advertise "This will offend/anger <blank>"

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

 

[red states rule]

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

Libs walk through life looking for things to be offended over

Tonight at 10PM they will have alot to be offened over

The show looks like a great one

 

[T-Bor]

No NO NO..It is Republicans that go through life looking for things to be offended over. Republicans have been crying about the left television shows for years. Republicans dont like it when Democrats get on the air to tell the truth. It is like a splash of cold water in the face of republicans.

Republicans have been angry at Bill Mahr and Letterman for years for making fun of them. This is their attempt to strike back. Too bad it will fail.

1/2 hour news hour = Air America.

 

[red states rule]

No NO NO..It is Republicans that go through life looking for things to be offended over. Republicans have been crying about the left television shows for years. Republicans dont like it when Democrats get on the air to tell the truth. It is like a splash of cold water in the face of republicans.

Republicans have been angry at Bill Mahr and Letterman for years for making fun of them. This is their attempt to strike back. Too bad it will fail.

1/2 hour news hour = Air America.

So answer me, why are libs always in a tizzy over Fox News? Libs tried to counter Rush and Sean with Air America - it is all but dead.

Libs said when before Fox news went on the air it would fail as well

Have you seen the ratings for Fox and the other cable news networks?

 

[T-Bor]

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 !!!!!!!

 

[red states rule]

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 !!!!!!!

The liberal media have ben attacking Fox News since it went on the air. Libs hate Fox News becasue they dare to report both sides and they do not slant the news like the liberal media does

I would think Rush would be more in line for the title King of Political Talk. He has been on top of the ratings mountain for so long, much to the dismay of libs and Dead Air America

 

[T-Bor]

You have it backwards. It is the Republicans that have been attacking the democratic talk shows. Keep up the good work Dems. You have the Republicans running scared and the recent Congress shows that AMERICA HAS SPOKEN !!!.. America has said get the fuck out of Congress and stop fucking up our country. And that is what has happened. Now Bush cant get his way anymore and thats what the American people wanted. The liberal talk shows have helped this and contributed to the current elected congress.

I couldnt be happier.

 

[red states rule]

You have it backwards. It is the Republicans that have been attacking the democratic talk shows. Keep up the good work Dems. You have the Republicans running scared and the recent Congress shows that AMERICA HAS SPOKEN !!!.. America has said get the fuck out of Congress and stop fucking up our country. And that is what has happened. Now Bush cant get his way anymore and thats what the American people wanted. The liberal talk shows have helped this and contributed to the current elected congress.

I couldnt be happier.

and neither could the terrorists. You are in good company

 

[T-Bor]

Thats right...The Terrorists and just about every other nation on Earth is happy that the republicans are out office. That only leaves the republicans that are unhappy. Looks like the majority has spoken. We are in good company.

 

[red states rule]

Thats right...The Terrorists and just about every other nation on Earth is happy that the republicans are out office. That only leaves the republicans that are unhappy. Looks like the majority has spoken. We are in good company.

The party of defeat

By Robert J. Caldwell
February 18, 2007

Democrats have struggled for a generation to escape the crippling public perception that they are soft on national security. Majority Democrats in the House of Representatives have now revived their party's electoral curse.

The House vote Friday for a Democratic leadership resolution opposing President Bush's plan to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq was lopsidedly partisan. Nearly all Democrats voted for it. All but a relative handful of Republicans voted against it.

Yes, it is a nonbinding resolution, meaning it has no force in law. Bush is free to ignore it, as he already has said he will. And, yes, it contained political cover language expressing support for American troops in Iraq. Thus, as virtually all Democrats proclaimed during the House's four days of debate on the resolution, Democrats can claim that they “support the troops.”

But House Democrats are now on record as formally opposing the troops' mission – a potentially decisive effort to stop the violence in Baghdad and defeat the Sunni insurgency in Anbar province.

It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the entire American campaign in Iraq rides on this mission, and on the parallel effort to prompt political reconciliation among Iraqi factions. Unless U.S. and Iraqi forces can at least greatly diminish the terrorist carnage convulsing Iraq's capital city, the paramount U.S. objective of creating a stable, democratic Iraq won't be achieved. The complementary struggle in Anbar province is equally decisive. Defeating the Sunni insurgents and their allies, the terrorists of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is vital to the hopes of stabilizing Iraq sufficiently to permit American forces to begin withdrawing.

The Democrats' passage of a nonbinding resolution opposing the troop reinforcements that Bush and his Iraq commander, Army Gen. David Petraeus, say are essential to American success is damaging enough. If Democrats now use their power over appropriations to defeat the troop surge before it can be fully implemented, the political risk to Democrats will be greatly compounded.

Starkly put, Democrats risk making “Bush's war” their war, and then losing it.

If you think Democrats wouldn't be that foolish or reckless, think again.

Rep. John Murtha, the blustery Pennsylvania pol and anti-war ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is already pledging to use his power as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's appropriations subcommittee on defense to stop the surge by restricting the deployment and funding of U.S. forces.

Here's what Murtha said in an interview Thursday with the MoveCongress.org Web site, which represents a coalition of anti-war groups:

“They (the troops) won't be able to continue. They won't be able to do the deployment. They won't have the equipment, they don't have the training and they won't be able to do the work. There's no question in my mind ... we're going to stop this surge.”

Does Pelosi, smarter and smoother than Murtha, agree?

“I fully support that,” Pelosi said of Murtha's remarks.

What's building, then, is not only a political crisis for the Democratic Party but a constitutional clash over the president's, any president's, express powers as commander in chief of America's armed forces.

The Constitution wisely vests the power to command the armed forces in the president, not Congress. That's especially true in time of war. If Bush decides that sending another 21,500 troops to Iraq is necessary, that's his call under the Constitution. Congress' constitutional authority lies in deciding how much to appropriate for the military. Deputizing 435 House members and 100 senators as armchair generals to micromanage the movement of troops and the military conduct of a war isn't in the Constitution for a reason. It couldn't possibly work and would be folly to attempt.

But that, apparently, is what Pelosi, Murtha and the House Democratic leadership intend. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, scrambling Friday to push a comparable resolution in the Senate, seems to be similarly misguided.

Have the Democrats learned nothing from history?

In 1973, a heavily Democratic Congress voted to prohibit U.S. air support for Cambodia's pro-American army, then desperately fending off the communist Khmer Rouge insurgents. In early 1975, Congress cut off all U.S. military aid for Cambodia.

Predictably, Cambodian government forces were soon defeated by the Khmer Rouge, then backed by Communist China and North Vietnam.

What followed was one of the great horrors of the 20th century – the genocidal slaughter by the Khmer Rouge of 2 million Cambodians, roughly 40 percent of Cambodia's population.

In 1974-75, an even more heavily Democratic Congress drastically cut U.S. military and economic assistance to our ally South Vietnam, even as the Soviet Union was illegally flooding North Vietnam with heavy weapons. The subsequent North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam overran our ally, took Saigon, and promptly imposed a Stalinist dictatorship that resulted in the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese.

The bipartisan Iraq Study Group, constantly, but selectively, invoked by Democrats last week as a blueprint for a phased U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, also lent support to a “temporary surge” in U.S. forces if deemed necessary. In addition, the ISG report warned ominously of the dire consequences – Iraq as a failed, terrorist state, a destabilized Middle East, and spreading regional conflict – of a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq that many Democrats favor.

If Pelosi, Murtha and Reid succeed in crippling the U.S. military effort in Iraq, and thereby contribute to defeat and disaster, Democrats would spend another generation rightly deemed weak and feckless on national security.



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Caldwell is editor of the Insight section and can be reached via e-mail at [email protected]
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniont...18caldwel.html
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[T-Bor]

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 !!!!