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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009 3:15AM

Conservative Cannibalism: FOX News Edition

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I love this:

You don't really need sound to appreciate what happens, but you might need a little context. So: At the Value Voters meeting, an MSNBC reporter was heckled by attendees until he had to quit his broadcast. That's not the clip above, though -- the clip above is a FOX reporter also getting heckled at the conference until he has to stop talking. The funny thing is that FOX, rather predictably, was providing positive coverage of the event. The reporter has just finished calling it a "must-attend" soiree when the mumbling attendee appears to scare him off the air for disturbing the crowd.

Just to add to the weirdness, later that evening, Bill O'Reilly spoke and accepted an award for Media Courage -- during a closed-to-the-press event.

Is this part of the backlash? Is it finally coming after FOX news? If you keep attacking the evils of media distortion, what happens when your audience figures out that, hey! You guys are part of the newsmedia!?

I think this happens. And I'm gonna enjoy the heck out of it for as long as it lasts.

Update: Lainey has a valid comment below -- the set up of the two media outlets may have been disruptive to the audience trying to listen. So this may be a symptom of bad planning more than heckling (and the MSNBC shot definitely seems to feature a much more aggressive attack).

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Saturn, come and skootch on over close to me...you are my new fave of the day. THAT IS FARKING HILARIOUS.

Must-attend...hah! FOX was as usual ass-kissing the fringe right. And apparently they don't like kiss and tell.
I'm dying to know the backstory of the guy who did the interrupting. I found this follow-up to the story online: "About 30 minutes after the Rosen incident, Family Research Council emcee Gil Mertz politely asked the crowd to give media guests "extra grace" as they do their job, noting reporters are providing a benefit to conservatives by covering the speeches."

Interesting stuff, Saturn. Thanks for posting it. There will always be people who appoint themselves the Official Shushers.
closed event...media courage

four words that speak volumes
It's easy to come up with cheering crowds when you only let the cheerleaders in.
Hehehe. That nut job Perkins finally had to tell the crowd after they kept interrupting the media that they had permission to be there. Hilarious!
If you're dying to heckle a news crew, and you know all your pals are heckling news crews, and the only news crew nearby is a Fox News crew, what are you supposed to do??
Well, that was rude. Looked like the guy was on drugs.
Well, when the angry mob is blinded by the torches & wildly swinging the pitchforks, a few villagers are bound to get singed - or impaled. :)
heh heh heh
Some would call it payback. I call it the emotional free market.
"Every revolution devours its own children." --Ernst Röhm, Nazi leader executed on Hitler's orders in the "Night of the Long Knives," 1934.
George Will once wrote a fine essay in the Washington Post on the silliness of the term "Values Voter." All votes on all bills reflect the voters' "values."
Emotional free market! Love it, Punterjoe.
I hate to be the wet blanket here, but I went over to the link where MSNBC is shown heckled, and it confirmed what seemed true here as well. The media people--both FOX and MSNBC--were speaking into their microphones as the program speakers were speaking on stage, and the "hecklers" simply couldn't here the speakers because of the talking of the anchors. I don't think they were wrong.
And by "here," I mean "hear," of course. Sheesh, I've been doing that more and more lately.
LOL. The mumbling fellow reminds me of that mumbling woman who insisted Obama was a Muslim at last fall's John McCain rally. You know, the one that was parodied on SNL.

Evidently, the values conference is so overflowing with values that they don't want anyone to see them. "Care for a little walnetto?"
The paranoia- it'll get ya.

Bill O'Reilly: "I'm so brave! I take on the liberal media! But don't actually put me out in front of any of them! I can't answer actual questions!" Media Courage- what does that even mean?
I will join Lainey's wet blanket. It's rude when there is a program going on to have reporters yelling in the background. Did not look like heckling to me, looked like someone was asking him to shut up while people are speaking.
I saw this happening with the other guy and I have to say, the reason they were asked to leave was because they were actually trying to broadcast while the speaker was speaking and in the same room. Who does that? I think this one was staged, don't you?
Sorry but that was just bad event planning. They put the press box right up against the back row of seating. Very stupid. Very amateurish. Very Republican.
I was watching when this happened on MSNBC. From my point of view there didn't appear to be sufficient separation between the seating for attendees and where the reporters had been placed. Apparently logistics are not the strong suit of the planners.
Thanks, folks; I hadn't seen the MSNBC interview as a comparison until Lainey mentioned the circumstances above. I've appended an update.
Regardless of what happened at this event, our underlying point is true. They're turning on themselves, and the moderates are becoming afraid to put the brakes on the extremists. The congressmen and pundits who opportunistically egged on the incivility, bigotry, and general nastiness during and since the election are now finding they can't back away from it. It's just going to get uglier.
Heckle them all. ass-kissing right-wing loving, politically dead jackasses. There's just nothing I like about Fox "news."

We're talking about this on my blog too- check it out

http://thepoliticrat.blogspot.com