Newsweek hires Kos : Hannity and Colmes Lose Mind - Again.

[Vyan]

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Newsweek has offered a job to Markos and conservatives can't stand the idea even though Newsweek already has conservative writers, and they plan to hire a conservative that will "make liberals heads explode."

Nothing, no amount of accomodation, will ever satisfy these greedy self-entitled bastards. I swear they won't be happy until they pry the last shred of liberty and truth from our cold, dead fingers.

Colmes does his usual wan job of playing desperate defense,and also as usual noone is listening when he points out - like - the facts.

Poor little Alan. All dressed up for a fair fight only to be rabbit punched into oblivion once more. He's like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, and falling on his back as Lucy yanks it back out of the way each and every time.

Silly Alan, Winning an Argument on Fox is for Conservatives.

Nothing he says stops Hannity and the wingers as they complain about Markos age old comments about not caring about merceneries who were killed in Fallujah. Let us recall that those were members of Blackwater, the mercenary company that the FBI just said was responsible for the unjustified and illegal death of 14 Iraqies, the mercenary company that has just been massively embarrised in Congress as the State Dept. Inspector General was forced to do a complete about face on whether his brother was a member of the Blackwater board.

Conflict of Interest much? I think so.

The facts have shown that Blackwater's vicious bully tactics have repeatedly incited violence in Iraq (far more than any movies by Mark Cuban) and have done our mission in the region far more harm than good. But nevermind that, Kos called them a bad word once, and even though he apologized for it, and even though not all of them are American - just paid for with American Tax Dollars - let's just all pile on him because that way is so much more fun, ok? It's not that they're a bunch of murdering thugs, Markos - who actually does have a degree in journalism (unlike Juan Williams) and is one of "The Troops" (who generally HATE BLACKWATER), unlike everyone that is criticizing his comments - is the problem.

Yeah, ok, sure...

These guys are just so massively pathetic. Even though their endlessly noted canard that "Liberals outnumber Conservatives" in U.S. media has been repeatedly debunked over and over and over again, they still persist in attempting to implement their own version of Affirmative Action for Conservatives.

For over a decade conservatives have said that quotas, goals and parity for Blacks, Latinos and other minorities - even when they have been illegally excluded and persecuted - is somehow "reverse racism", but for Conservatives in the media it's a must. You can't ever have lone liberal gun-man speak his mind openly, anywhere.

That wouldn't be Fairly Unbalanced like Fox News would it?

But I wonder does this mean that every conservative hired for "balance" is nothing more than a token quota baby who should be ashamed they couldn't the job honestly with like - talent? I think possibly. And how 'bout this, maybe, just maybe, Newsweek is hiring Kos because they a) Like his writing and b) Think people might want to READ his writing? Y'know - letting the "Free Markets" rule and all that stuff?

This is just typical isn't it? What a bunch of punk-ass bullies whining to the Principal and painting themselves as the "poor hapless victim" every time they get caught sucker punching the nerdy kids who actually study after class.

What truly terrifies them with Markos hiring is that it's with a Mainstream Paper as influential as Newsweek. Kos blathering away on his little left-wing blog is one thing, but having his views show up on the shelves of Safeway where Sam and Sally Six-pack can read them while in line for over-the-counter diet pills for Puffy little Muffy and fresh Ritalin refills for Aggro Biffy is an entirely different matter. Following in the steps of Glenn Greenwald and Wonkette (Anna Marie Cox), these scruffy foul-mouthed little bloggers are upsetting the stuffy media status quo.

This. Simply. Will. Not. DO!

There's a tea-party taking place all over the Blogosphere that's moving into the Mainstream and people like Hannity and Colmes aren't invited. They can't even sneak in through the servants entrance. That makes them scared, and after they get scared they get mean.

So they lash out as they slowly sink further and further into irrelevance and obsolescence, and like Mark Cuban I think the best thing we can do - is laugh at them.

It's the very least they deserve, and quite possibly the most...

Vyan

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Hannity had a mind????????????

[eleny]

2. But Ann Coulter's hateful remarks don't bother Hannity at all

:eyes:

[pacalo]

3. There should be a law against having a network this slanted. I do believe they'll hang themselves.

[ihavenobias]

4. But remember

Fox just "balances out" the rest of the liberal media.

(I always get a kick when I hear that one)

[Quantess]

5. I sort of feel bad for Alan Colmes.

He's such a doormat, which is mostly not his fault. He has to be meek and wimpy if he wants to keep getting a paycheck from Faux. It looked like Colmes was struggling to keep his polite composure.

[Vyan]

6. Don't

He's well paid to take a dive night and night and sell out our country to the Corporate-Christo-Fascists. I'm sure he's pouting all the way to the Money Market Fund.

Vyan

[Sam Ervin jret]

7. Never Watch FOX "NEWS"without frequent "sanity" breaks. I have worked up to 60 whole seconds

of viewing without loss of capacity, but I don't recommend it and I don't push it. Mostly because I don't want to give them the air time and the revenue that comes with it.

Their idiots, they can't take intelligent debate so they don't allow it. No programming can grow new listeners with that outlook.

[GMFORD]

11. Right! I can just hear him

when he gets older on some late night commercial - 'I'm not a liberal but I play one on TV' etc.

[mntleo2]

8. Markos' comment about the mercenaries

...look I was not glad and I did feel for the families of those men who were dragged through the streets. I am not sure I felt the same as Markos with his comments about it at the time. But I WILL say all he said about those employees and their role in Iraq was and is right on, as we find out later ~ they were indiscriminate killers and no wonder the Iraqi people were so angry at them, they knew it and the American people now have been informed, they were immune from any accountability and would never pay for any war crimes they would commit. I understand why Markos apologized, because I DID feel a great deal of sadness for the families of these guys, sadness mixed with the empathetic horror of families who now know what their loved ones are/were part of.

Cat In Seattle

[emanymton]

9. _MERCENARIES_ . They Are Paid Killers ... Not Worth Caring About.

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Getting worked up about their deaths is pure BS. Crocodile tears. They go where the money is. Nothing romantic about them or their deaths.

Markos had nothing to apologize for.
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[AX10]

10. Hoochie Hannity strikes again!

We have to fight the Islamic extremists over "there" and the right wing extremists over "here".

It's a multi-front war, remember that!