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Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:00 AM

"It almost seems like everything sort of leads back to Iran"

When a reporter has an agenda.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008 08:13 AM

One good snippet:

"If you're sitting back home, and this is such an important issue, and you just haven't followed this -- but sitting back home in the United States, how do you tell the American people that this is so important and why it is that we try again to get these two sides to talk?"

Bad, but accurate, phrasing.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 08:20 AM

Ugh

I think I'd throw up if I had to call that man Sir. He deserves no such respect.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 08:23 AM

Greta needs to keep up

So, even after everybody else knew the "incident" with Iranian boats was a made up, she still gave it credence? Oh, yeah it's Fox.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 08:26 AM

Ugh

I'm gonna throw up anyway. What a disgusting excuse for a journalist.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 08:44 AM

Oh.... Mr. President, I think I'm gonna orgasm!

Oh, golly gee whiz! Here I am, little botched plastic surgery face Greta, here I am sitting next to the most IMPORTANT MAN IN THE WORLD! Oh my god, I'm getting a little wet spot!

I'm starting to talk like Barbara Walters! Mistew pwesident, my producers at Fox want to know when you plan to attack Iwwan. I mean, you ARE going to attack Iwwan, aren't you mistew pwesident?

Pweez attack Iwwan, mistew pwesident, pweeez!

Thursday, January 17, 2008 08:49 AM

Wow

I don't watch Faux News, so I haven't seen Greta in action since the old days when she was covering the OJ Simpson trial for CNN.

When she got that face lift in preparation for starting her own show at Faux, did she also get a lobotomy? Or is she now getting her Q&A scripts directly from Barney?

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:11 AM

Greta

Her face was lifted so far up, she now literally talks out of her ass.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:13 AM

Sadly, Greta has a point.

Now, just wait for it...

The Iraq War is also known as "the war of the wrong consonant." We should have had our eyes on Iran, not Iraq. Iran had a nuclear weapons program when we went into Iraq. It just halted it nine months later.

So if Iran was a greater threat than Iraq in early 2003, and Iran became "not much of a threat" in late 2003, what sort of threat did that make Iraq? The Transitive Property of Oops says, "we should stay our ignorant asses out of the Middle East."*

*Unless U.S. leaders become more knowledgeable asses.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:14 AM

Thanks Tim!

More mindless drivel from the mainstream press. You and Glenn are the best for highlighting these hacks called journalists.

I'm beginning to think that intelligent journalists who ask probing questions are an endangered species.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:14 AM

Like the guy at the circus who shovels elephant dung for a living...

...but wouldn't quit because he doesn't want to leave show business, there are people who seem to think that degrading themselves publicly looks great on a resume.

She should have simply asked if Barney likes Kibble or canned food. Would have been just as informative.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:21 AM

Who needs Monica Lewinsky

if the News Reporterettes at Faux News are all so willing to give the Prez a b.j. in public?

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:23 AM

No kid in the service, I'll bet

I take it she doesn't have a child serving in the Armed Forces, you know, the forces that will have to fight a THIRD war now if her interviewee goes through with his longheld plan (and her wish, apparently) to invade Iran.

The army can't do another war-- does anyone in the Bomb-Iran contingent care about that?

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:30 AM

All that botox seems to have

paralyzed not only the muscles in Greta's face, but the synapses in her brain, as well.

But hey, glad to know he met with a bunch of soldiers and sailors...

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:42 AM

The polarity has shifted

Once upon a time the White House would feed talking points to Faux News. But the president has become so incoherent that Faux News has to feed the talking points to HIM.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:43 AM

More proof of what Greta was REALLY thinking about

"Do you think the January 6 incident in the Strait of Hormuz, was that sort of a gesture toward you, do you think, by the Iranian speedboats coming on our Navy?"

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:55 AM

murdoch

It surely would be interesting to know just how Rupert Murdoch has profited by funding the propaganda arm of Bush, Cheney, and the GOP. Ideologically he's likely a good fit with these guys..but knowing Murdoch, profits probably come first with him. I wonder just exactly what he's received for his services.

As for the hacks who work for Fox, surely they know exactly what they're getting into when they work there. Or knew what was involved when they started. They have no integrity, and, thus, deserve no respect.

Well, amend that. If they called themselves frank propagandists instead of journalists, then I'd respect them. But they hide under the cover of being journalists, and for that, they deserve nothing but contempt.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:28 AM

Um...

Aren't questions usually defined as interrogative statements?

Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:43 AM

Wait a sec

I thought it wasn't okay for the President to receive a blowjob.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 02:34 PM

Her choice

The only thing the article left out was whether Greta spat or swallowed at the end of that "interview."

Thursday, January 17, 2008 04:04 PM

Hot for Iran

Who has the bigger hard-on for Iran? The Whore in the White House or the Israelis? I know Cheney and the Whore House want to get revenge for the taking of our embassy lo those many years ago, and the Israelis haven't met an Arab country they didn't want to bomb, so who will get the nod? Will attacking Iran be a concession they'll give to the Israelis?

After all, they were just given 30 billion dollars of free military weaponry (given by the Whore, paid for by We the Downtrodden Taxpayers) while the Saudi's had to pay 20 billion for their new toys.

Can we revoke George Whore Bush's passport and keep him in Saudi Arabia?

Thursday, January 17, 2008 04:37 PM

Question for you all?

I would like people hear to help me understand just why Bsuh, cheney the undead, the neocons and Israel all want to attack Iran so much?

Is it about oil? The protection of Israel? Global hegemony? I have my theories of course, but I would really like to know what other people think.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 05:05 PM

re: Question for you all?

One reason they want to attack Iran is because they're warmongering assholes.

Another reason they want to attack Iran is to incur more war spending and wreck the U.S. economy so that they can justify cuts in entitlements, thereby destroying Medicare and Social Security (starve the beast), and call for more tax cuts "to stimulate the economy".

There may be more reasons -- but the first one I mentioned is the main one.

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