• About
  • The Poetry of Protest

Show Me Progress

~ covering government and politics in Missouri – since 2007

Show Me Progress

Tag Archives: Faux News Channel

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): “…protesters…”

09 Saturday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

4th Congressional District, apologist, Capitol breach, Faux News Channel, gaslighting, missouri, right wingnut, sedition, Vicky Hartzler, White Racist Fascists involved in Insurrection and Riot

“… The protesters were here…”

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2018 file photo].

Riot. Insurrection. Sedition. Call it what it is.

Yesterday, from Vicky Hartzler (r):

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
As Wednesday’s events were unfolding, I was asked to share what was happening and wrote this summary on my cell phone after being evacuated and taken to a secure location by Capitol Police:
[….]
12:52 PM · Jan 8, 2021

For The Faux News Channel.

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

You think The Faux News Channel stylebook requires “…protesters…” in place of “White Racist Fascists involved in Insurrection and Riot?” Just asking.

Some of the comments on Twitter:

And during that time did you do any self reflection? Have any thoughts on how your lies contributed to their anger and confusion?

Did you think that by objecting to a STATE not YOUR OWN, caused any of these? Your grandchildren will read YOUR name in the history books as an insurrectionist, who, was coddled by Capitol Police saving her life. You do not deserve your seat any longer, and you know it.

History will remember Seditionists. #SeditionCaucus….

hartzler agitated this into being. she should resign

“The fire that I have been slowly pouring gas on all of a sudden got out of control and burned me! HOW DARE IT!”

How dare those face-eating leopards eat MY face.

I’m a constituent & I’m ashamed of you. I don’t think you feel any remorse or even acknowledge your part in this coup.

But if you truly, truly want to start working together with Democrats for the future of our republic, VOTE ‘AYE’ TO IMPEACH.

If police officers allow you in, what kind of an assault is it???

Sorry but entering the capital to kidnap and kill the speaker of the house and the VP is not something you can put back in a bottle.

YOU helped create this insurrection. There is blood on YOUR hands, ViQy–the blood of Americans and the blood of our democracy.

14th AMENDMENT SECTION 3

“No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress who shall have engaged in Insurrection or Rebellion against the same or given and or comfort to the enemies thereof”

Have you taken steps to force his resignation today?! He sent a private army to invade our Capitol and what are the consequences?!

They took your lies so seriously that they murdered a police officer in the name of them. And you chose to still continue on with those lies after?

Vicky voted to overturn a legitimate election and push the Big Lie that the election was “stolen” but she doesn’t want to be held responsible for the violence the Big Lie was meant to elicit.

Vick. You did this to yourself.

Columbia constituent here. We are ashamed of you.

Perhaps you should think twice before tweeting any more of these kinds of tweets. Things are pretty raw for us right now, so maybe wait until 2022 when you run for reelection. Unless you decide to resign of course.

Fact check: it was an invasion of the Capitol by Trump “Patriots” that he incited to action earlier in the day and cheered as he watched them on TV enter the building.

United States Constitution says that “no Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress” who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the Constitution, “or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Every member of the house and senate who perpetuated the lie of voter fraud is responsible for the violent act of domestic terrorism at the capitol and must be held responsible by being removed for insurrection.

I hate the gatherings of those who do evil, and I refuse to join in with the wicked.
Psalms 26:5

It is unequivocally the spasm of the 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 to immediately create a thousand false narratives to virtualize reality beyond navigability. They will say and do anything to maintain the illusion they are civil, humane beings. This is the 𝑅𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 gaslighting you.

Speaking of phones, why is nobody answering any of the phones in Vicky’s offices? Does she think that she can just hide out until her attempt at insurrection blows over? Does she plan on meeting with the family of the Capitol police officer that she got killed?

This account has been awful quiet since then. I wonder why. Winking face

You created the monkies, deal with the circus. #ResignVicky

You cannot praise and follow Trump for 3 years and 11 and 1/2 months and now try to distance yourself when his words and actions have been consistent all the way up to and including January 6th!

You built this.

Indeed she did.

Stirred shit for 4 years. Gfy.

Yep well Kevin McCarthy you and the Republicans were complicit in all of it. You let this happen. Shame on you.

Resign immediately.

@GOPLeader was out there liking photos of the insurrectionist mob attacking you all. Isn’t that right, Kevin?

Resign NOW!

The only words, as your constituent, that I want to hear from you is, “I deeply regret my involvement in an attempted coup of our government and I resign.”

Resign!

As a Missouri constituent, please resign . Whoever is running against you has a head start.

You are party to sedition against the United States. The 14th Amendment prevents you from serving in Congress. Resign or be expelled.

COMPLICIT

Insurrectionist.

A gop lead failed coup attempt will forever chained around republican leadership.
#SeditiousGOP

Ypu should be ashamed of yourself. We will never forget your role in this, and your love for trump.

It’s your POTUS who blew his dog whistle for this to happen. Don’t try to distance yourself from your own culpability.

Vicky you are seriously delusional to believe you have no part in fueling this. Again, read the room and own up to your own misjudgments before trying to take a spotlight for getting caught up in this terrorists attack by your own party supporters.

No way do you get to gloss over the fact that you are the one who incited this insurrection by continually lying to the people of Missouri and America about a free and fair election just because you made the choice to be subservient to an autocrat. We won’t forget.

Some of the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol defecated inside the building and smeared feces in hallways.
#GOPSeditiousTraitors
This is your Party. Your legacy.

And on and on…

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

How did signing on to that Amicus brief turn out for you? (December 12, 2020)

Fascist is as Fascist does (January 1, 2021)

Taking cluelessness and turning it into a high art form (January 4, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): as usual (January 6, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): you built this (January 6, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighter (January 7, 2021)

The backwash from guzzling all that Sedition is none too pleasant, is it? (January 7, 2021)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): own it (January 8, 2021)

We already knew that

27 Tuesday Nov 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in Claire McCaskill, media criticism, social media

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Claire McCaskill, fascists, Faux News Channel, media criticism, missouri

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

Today, via Twitter:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
I have been interviewed on tv a gajillion times. I have never been given the questions, much less allowed to approve their scripts! This is bizarre. Fox and Friends is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump administration.

ProPublica @ProPublica
In multiple interviews on “Fox & Friends,” former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was essentially allowed to dictate the terms for the interview and avoid any difficult questions.

2:22 PM – 27 Nov 2018

We knew a long, long time ago.

The more you know…

24 Sunday Jun 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

fascists, Faux News Channel, media criticism, Melania Trump

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

“Me ne frego” was an Italian Fascist slogan. Literally: “I don’t care.”

Wearing that jacket was no accident. It was a dog whistle.

“Are you an idiot, or do you just play one on TV?”

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism, social media

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Faux News Channel, media criticism, Monica Crowley, social media, Twitter

Yesterday, via Twitter, from a Faux News Channel talking head:

monicacrowley100516

Monica Crowley ‏@MonicaCrowley
At the Berlin Wall last week. Walls work.
[….]
9:38 AM – 5 Oct 2015

Some of the responses:

“…Funny, you know, because I was just thinking we need to be more like the Soviets…”

“…So lemme see if I’ve got this straight: Fox News persona backs Trump by posing with one of human history’s greatest symbols of oppression…”

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): attempting to usher in the wingularity

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

4th Congressional District, Faux News Channel, missouri, Vicky Hartzler

It’s their world, the rest of us only get to live in it.

Wingularity, the – the point at which the insanity from the far right and those controlling the Republican Party [continues] to grow exponentially until it reaches an unsustainable weight and collapses upon itself. This is also known as the Purity Spiral, wherein the density of wingnut increases compared to mainstream conservatives to the point of pure wingnut. As the ratio rises, this creates a phenomenon wherein no logic or sanity can penetrate or escape. When rightwing argument has become completely inaccessible to the uninitiated, it has reached the Wingularity….

Today, via Twitter:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

Going to be on Fox News to tonight at 8:00 p.m. w/ fellow freshmen as part of a Frank Luntz special. Tune in or record! 8:04 AM – 4 Jul 12

This Frank Luntz?:

AAPOR Finds Frank Luntz in Violation of Ethics Code

Wednesday, April 23, 1997 — The Executive Council of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) announced Wednesday that a 14 month investigation found pollster Frank Luntz violated the Association’s Code of Professional Ethics and Practices.

AAPOR found Luntz, who heads the Luntz Research Companies in Arlington,Virginia, repeatedly refused to make public essential facts about his research on public attitudes about the Republicans’ “Contract with America.” In particular, the AAPOR inquiry focused on Luntz’s reporting, prior to the November elections in 1994, that his research showed at least 60 percent of the public favored each of the elements in the GOP “Contract.” When later asked to provide some basic facts about this research, Luntz refused.

[….]

Wingnut Event Horizon – An event that is always happening, yet never ever happens. Occasionally, a wingnut will say/write/blog/publish/fart something so ridiculous, so closed-minded, so full of hate and scorn, yet free from thought and consideration, that anyone hearing it will be forced to conclude that said wingnut will never again be taken seriously/linked to/have a Time article written about him. However, in a sick twisted perversion of the actual event horizon, no matter how far you walk from the Wingnut Event Horizon, they’re never any further away.

[emphasis added]

It’s not gonna happen.

There is no minimum safe distance from the right wingnut crazy train.

Wisconsin: the "fair and balanced" propaganda organ of the right gets punked

19 Saturday Feb 2011

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Faux News Channel, karma, media criticism, organized labor, Wisconsin

This had to have been staged by The Onion.

Karma is a bitch (via Political Carnival and TPM) when others are relentlessly on message:

“Reporter”: Well, you know, you say they’re in hiding. They’re not really in hiding. We kind of know where they are.

[voices: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”]

They’re in Illinois for most, the most part. They are just, at this point, wanting to make sure that this bill does not come to the floor in the Senate. However, in the House we have learned that in five minutes.

[voices: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”]

This is Fox business network. Just FYI.

In five, at five o’clock the bill will come to the floor in the House.

[voices: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”]

[sign: “Fox go report on sports/That’s the only thing you can’t twist”]

That means that they potentially could consider the bill, uh, but, what we believe the Democratic legislators in the House to do, is to, when it comes to the floor, amend the bill on multiple occasions such that they would head off a, a vote.

[voices: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”]

I want to show you, they got, uh, balloons headed up here in to the beautiful capitol rotunda as this protest shows no signs of abating.

[voices: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”]

Everyone making their viewpoints known. It’s always a fun time as democracy plays it’s way out.

[sign: “Fox Fascist/good for sports ONLY”]

“Anchor”: Well I tell you Jeff, those, uh, folks protesting Fox, uh, I’m wondering if they would prefer a state run television network providing all the coverage.  

[voice: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”]

“Reporter”: You know, I will say this, to be very honest with you, most of the protesters despite this gentleman here.

[voice: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”]

Most of the people have been fairly reasoned, calm, and willing to talk because, as you know, we have done our best to get everybody a voice here. Despite this guy. [voice: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”]. Do you have an opinion other than that? [voice: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”] Any [garble] answer? [voice: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”] No, that’s the only words you know. Very good. That’s the only two words he apparently knows.

“Anchor”: Jeff, one more thing, Jeff…

[voice: “Fox Lies. Fox Lies.”]

“Reporter”: Despite the rare person most of these people are here to make their viewpoint known about this bill, which of course, is the story that everyone here is about. [crosstalk]

[voice: “Fox Lies. You’re lying. You lied again. You lied again.”]

“Anchor”: Jeff.

“Reporter”: So, there you go.

“Anchor”: Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. [crosstalk]

“Reporter”: Despite, as I said, guys like this are few and far between [voice: “You work for Fox.”], fortunately, in the crowd.

“…This is Fox business network. Just FYI…”

Then why are you there and not covering the stock market? Just asking.

“…Well I tell you Jeff, those, uh, folks protesting Fox, uh, I’m wondering if they would prefer a state run television network providing all the coverage…”

Or, how about a publicly supported public broadcasting corporation that would have, you know, a well deserved reputation for doing actual accurate independent journalism? As opposed to the house organ for the right wingnut republican party…

Senate 2010: a very ACORN obsessed focus group

24 Monday Jan 2011

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Acorn, Faux News Channel, lawsuit, missouri, Robin Carnahan, Roy Blunt

Randy Turner at The Turner Report has a post up about focus group results released as part of the discovery in the Faux News Channel lawsuit against Robin Carnahan’s (D) 2010 senate campaign. There’s an interesting refrain about ACORN, showing that the rightwing’s assault based on fake charges and Congress’ capitulation with a bill of attainder did more damage than just shutting down the group which legitimately registered voters and provided other legitimate services.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Documents in Fox News lawsuit indicate why Robin Carnahan lost Senate election

Documents turned over to Fox News attorneys by a consulting firm provide evidence why Roy Blunt defeated Robin Carnahan in last year’s U. S. Senate race….

….Among the comments from people asked about their greatest concerns about Robin Carnahan:

-Why was she quiet about ACORN?….

-May have ignored problems with ACORN, whatever that is….

-She is too close to ACORN.

-I would want to know if there is any truth to those ACORN accusations….

-She supports ACORN.

-Too cheesy or fake with the farming. Too tied in with ACORN….

-She is too much a yes man for the president. She also caused too much money to given to the ACORN people.

-How closely is she tied to special interests like ACORN?….

-What is ACORN?….

Never mind that the rightwing and their Mighty Wurlitzer stooges beat their truthiness drum. As we can see, all they have to do is repeat the lie.

At Show Me Progress:

ACORN vindicated (March 2, 2010)

….Get that – the videos were “edited to meet their agenda.” In other words, these full-of-themselves rightwing echo chamber trainees, O’Keefe and  Giles, were running a scam.

The Brooklyn investigation is the third such to cast doubt on O’Keefe’s and Giles’ veracity. Investigations by the former Massachusetts Attorney, Scott Harshbarger, and the Congressional Research Service have found ACORN innocent of wrong doing….

At the Huffington Post:

John Atlas

Posted: June 15, 2010 02:41 AM

ACORN Vindicated of Wrongdoing by the Congressional Watchdog Office

On Monday, June 14, a preliminary probe by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)of ACORN has found no evidence the association or related organizations mishandled the $40 million in federal money they received in recent years.

A review of grants by nine federal agencies found no problems with ACORN’s grants. In my book Seeds of Change I document how ACORN, the largest most successful national anti poverty organization in America, was forced to close its door….

….In fact the staff in most of ACORN’s offices turned the pair away, reported the couple to the police, refused to provide them any aid, and in one case tried to convince the phony prostitute to get counseling. In no ACORN office did employees file any paperwork or do anything illegal on the duo’s behalf.

But Fox News broadcasted the deceptive tapes nearly around the clock for several days defaming ACORN….

[emphasis added]

Ironic, eh? And they have a plan.

Pink elephant sale? We’re not buying it.

14 Thursday Jan 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

also, Faux News Channel, missouri, Sarah Palin

Advertising on a vehicle in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Evidently, the Faux News Channel is:

…One thing is certain: CBS anchor Katie Couric has nothing to fear.

Ouch. Also.

Repeat the lie enough and Faux News Channel viewers will believe it

27 Sunday Sep 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Faux News Channel, health care reform, polling

More of the same about misinformation and the Faux News Channel.

On health care reform – via Think Progress and the Great Orange Satan:

First thoughts: Obama’s good, bad news

Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:16 AM by Domenico Montanaro

….Here’s another way to look at the misinformation: In our poll, 72% of self-identified FOX News viewers believe the health-care plan will give coverage to illegal immigrants, 79% of them say it will lead to a government takeover, 69% think that it will use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions, and 75% believe that it will allow the government to make decisions about when to stop providing care for the elderly. But it would be incorrect to suggest that this is ONLY coming from conservative viewers who tune in to FOX. In fact, 41% of CNN/MSNBC viewers believe the misinformation about illegal immigrants, 39% believe the government takeover stuff, 40% believe the abortion misperception, and 30% believe the stuff about pulling the plug on grandma. What’s more, a good chunk of folks who get their news from broadcast TV (NBC, ABC, CBS) believe these things, too. This is about credible messengers using the media to get some of this misinformation out there, not as much about the filter itself….

“…not as much about the filter itself…”

Au contraire, mes amis. Watching television news does make you stupid. It’s just that some networks make you more stupid than others.

That is now, this was then (September 13, 2007): Repeat it enough and some people will believe it’s true

…Program on International Policy Attitudes, October 2, 2003 [pdf]

….An analysis of those who were asked all of the key three perception questions does reveal a remarkable level of variation in the presence of misperceptions according to news source. Standing out in the analysis are Fox and NPR/PBS–but for opposite reasons. Fox was the news source whose viewers had the most misperceptions. NPR/PBS are notable because their viewers and listeners consistently held fewer misperceptions than respondents who obtained their information from other news sources.

The table below shows this clearly. Listed are the breakouts of the sample according to the frequency of the three key misperceptions (i.e. the beliefs that evidence of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda have been found, that WMD have been found in Iraq and that world public opinion approved of the US going to war with Iraq) and their primary news source. Fox News watchers were most likely to hold misperceptions-and were more than twice as likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions. In the audience for NPR/PBS, however, there was an overwhelming majority who did not have any of the three misperceptions, and hardly any had all three.

The sad part? Viewers of CBS had almost the same tendencies towards misperception as viewers of the Faux News Channel.

There you have it, watching certain cable television networks will make you really stupid.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Matter and anti-matter from the political right

24 Monday Nov 2008

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Ben Stein, Cavuto, Faux News Channel

The right is annihilating itself.

via Digby:

“…It’s keeping people alive….These are real lives at stake…”

The day I see a Nixon speechwriter express concern and compassion for the little people is the day we have an African American as president-elect. Oh wait…

“…Anyone? Anyone?…”

← Older posts

Subscribe

  • Entries (RSS)
  • Comments (RSS)

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007

Categories

  • campaign finance
  • Claire McCaskill
  • Democratic Party News
  • Healthcare
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Interview
  • Josh Hawley
  • media criticism
  • meta
  • Missouri General Assembly
  • Missouri Governor
  • Missouri House
  • Missouri Senate
  • Resist
  • Roy Blunt
  • social media
  • Standing Rock
  • Town Hall
  • Uncategorized
  • US Senate

Meta

  • Log in

Blogroll

  • Balloon Juice
  • Crooks and Liars
  • Digby
  • I Spy With My Little Eye
  • Lawyers, Guns, and Money
  • No More Mister Nice Blog
  • The Great Orange Satan
  • Washington Monthly
  • Yael Abouhalkah

Donate to Show Me Progress via PayPal

Your modest support helps keep the lights on. Click on the button:

Blog Stats

  • 391,322 hits

Powered by WordPress.com.