johnny dollar's archive: jan-feb 2009

Updated! Things are getting crazy over at the newshounds (another fine product of the Outfoxed mob). In order to keep their site alive they have been reduced to recycling posts from other Fox haters--a real-world exemplar of the internet "echo chamber". Of course, that reduces any research or fact-checking to near zero, but that's the way the haters like it.

We begin with an entire post devoted to "proving" that Sweden is a "neutral country" (with the only "source" cited, laughably, Wikipedia!). The 75 comments are especially illustrative, escalating in hate until one sknabt (who runs his own hate Fox site) bellows his disgust at "O'Reilly's lie about Sweden"! Just what was O'Reilly's "lie"? Declaring that "Sweden is a very nice country"? That's precisely what Bill said. Of course the mastiffs don't tell you that.

Unfortunately for the curs, Sweden may have been neutral 60 years ago, but today they are "anything but neutral" given their work with NATO and the hundreds of troops they have in Afghanistan (Switzerland only has observers there). By the way, do you know O'Reilly addressed this as well? What, the newshounds didn't mention that either? Must have been another oversight.

Of course the Queen Bee of the dog kennel (as unattractive a mixed metaphor as one could ask for) cares little about accuracy. So to inflate her post count, Ellen Brodsky uncritically recycles an attack from an O'Reilly hate site. Things really liven up when someone dares to suggest the site was wrong, and O'Reilly offered a correction to his original comment just minutes after he said it:

• Bill corrected himself after the break. Guess you conviently missed that portion.
  
• Or you conveniently made up facts, which is not surprising. You learned from Fox. Or perhaps you work for Fox. Sorry to get personal, but you are, like O'Reilly, a LIAR!
  
• Oh look. A cowardly troll got thru.The coward also conviently [sic] missed where Ellen posted "From borally-sucks.com". Or maybe the troll lacks reading comprehension skills.
  
• Try getting the full story next time. In the very next segment, O'Reilly acknowledged his mistake and apologized. Got that? He really did issue a correction. I actually watched the show.
  
• This post came from another blog. However, I did see last night's show and I do not remember BOR correcting the record. -Ellen
  
• Exactly how did Bill correct himself? Did he mention Ryan by name? ...Or did he gee-shucks it with a wave of his hand mumbling some generalities it wasn't all Democrats? - EyesOnFox
  
• How about a link for us to see how exactly he corrected himself? What did he say?
  
• In case anyone missed the update in my post, I heard from Steve, the original blogger whose post I picked up. Steve said he watched the whole show and there was no correction. Not tonight, either. - Ellen
  
• Mr. Anonymous has disappeared so I guess I won't get my questions answered by him on how Bill corrected the record. But Damail claims he "actually watched the show" and saw it so perhaps he'll explain it to all of us who missed it (even those of us who watched the show and missed it). - EyesOnFox

After an update to her post that a correction may have been made but she doesn't remember it, Ellen added this:

I have heard from Steve at oreilly-sucks.com and he is adamant that O'Reilly never corrected the record. In his email to me, Steve wrote: I watched the entire show and took notes, then I wrote a blog review, at no time did O'Reilly correct it, in that show, or tonight. I watched every minute, and there was no correction. I saw an update to Steve's original post noting that O'Reilly did not correct the record on tonight's show, either.

J$P is proud to be the site that will tell the truth about this and let you hear O'Reilly's correction made just minutes later, immediately after the commercial break. "Steve at oreilly-sucks.com" lied about that correction, while Ellen cared so little about accuracy that she never bothered to fact-check anything he wrote.

Speaking of haters, we recall being told how the new hound policy of premoderating all posts would prevent racially offensive and demeaning comments like these from appearing at the kennel. How's that working out? Not so well. Here are just a few of the comments screened and approved by their "moderators" over the past few days:

• We can always depend on Ole Uncle Juan to smear or defend whom ever OReilly deems the target....a whore for Murdoch money...
  
• Juan Williams has become Fox News' Uncle Tom.
  
• Juan is the Happy Negro.
  
• At what point will JW stop being a Vichy black...
  
• This is the type of nonsense we can expect from the House Negroes at Fox...
  
• What is Juan the "black for pay" ahole talking about...
  
• i see why juan williams was called a happy negro...
  
• he is the favorite House Negro on the Fox Noise Plantation.... Massa Ailes will no doubt reward Juan with some extra cornbread tonight and a warm spot near the fire to sleep.
  

This is what passes for approved commentary at the dog pound. Such repellent, diseased conduct reminds us again that to be a Fox hater, you first have to be a hater.

Update: The ultimate authority, "steve at oreilly-sucks.com", has emailed us with a reply to our post:

Get a grip moron, you are a right-wing nut who lies and defends for O'Reilly and every Republican in America. Nobody believes a word you say, and your credibility is zero. O'Reilly said it on the radio factor and the tv factor, and I never saw him do a correction. The next day he was e-mailed to do a retraction and he refused. So as far as I can tell he never did a correction, so take a hike sparky.

"Steve" did not explain our clip of O'Reilly actually doing the correction. You know, the clip that proves Steve to be lying. Shocker. fox news nh bo