List the Media WHORES who a Kerry Administration MUST shut out!

[Walt Starr]

Yep, this thread is simply a list. All of the media WHORES who need to be completely shut out by a Kerry administration, thus ruining their careers. I'll start it out in the first post.

[Walt Starr]

1. Wolf Blitzer

NOTHING FOR THIS WHORE!

[cthrumatrix]

73. and his present and future offspring

[WiseMen]

79. Wolf was a private Kerry supporter. When did you find out he switched?

[Walt Starr]

80. Wolf has been whoring for the Reich Wing for twelve years now

any claims from YOU about "private support" nothwithstanding.

[Walt Starr]

2. Larry King

He'll let liars for Bush on but won't interview Kitty Kelley.

[Walt Starr]

3. Candy Crowley

No interviews from any member of the Kerry Administration.

[TomClash]

4. Anyone . . .

working for Fox

[9119495]

28. I totally agree. They can simply say

given the distortions to President Kerry's record perpetuated by your staff, you will be afforded no more access than a tabloid. Then proceed to give them a list of ways to make their network more focussed on real news.

[Walt Starr]

30. Bingo, completely shut out Faux News

CNN should be as well, or at least give very few CNN "journalists" access.

[Cha]

33. I guessing here from what I've read on du

since I don't have cnn(poor me) but the ones who would merit interviews are Aaron Brown, Anderson Cooper, Bruce Morton..

I can't think of anyone else on cnn.

[Walt Starr]

5. Judy Woodruff

She made her bed with the Reichwing, let her continue sleeping with them.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Lock up Novak and Rush.

Don't just shut them out, shut them away.

[Walt Starr]

7. Bill Hemmer

No Democrat should ever speak to this whore.

[Cha]

69. From another thread tucker askew just said

to hemmer that the republicans "applauded Senator Kerry" at their convention!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x768491

[flordehinojos]

8. do not forget tucker carlson and chris matthews!

[Walt Starr]

17. After last night, I am in agreement about Matthews

He could redeam himself, but there must never again be a repeat of his whoring from last night.

[9119495]

32. Matthews strikes me as only an opportunist

People got all excited becasue he took down Malken and Thurlow, but they were RANK OFFENSIVE. He does the same thing to people on our side who are credible.

[Cha]

36. Oh, I think we have his number!

Wouldn't it be nice to have his opportunistic ass in a sling!

[Shopaholic]

91. I think Matthews should be put in a pen and given a good

shock with a cattle prod every now and then when he wonders off-message. :evilgrin:

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

9. NYT's Elisabeth Bumiller (sp?)

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Daryn Kagan

...for opening her legs for Rush Limbaugh.:puke:

[KharmaTrain]

11. Nightmares...Absolute Nightmares...But She's A Beard...

I sense this girl's the high-priced spread.

But while we're at it...let's add the other CNN Newswhorebabes:

Carol Linn
Carol Costello
Kyra Phillips
Kelly Wallace
Dana Bash

These "ladies" offer themselves up regularly to their Repugnican masters...always ready to "shoot their wad".

[murielm99]

12. Those idiots from Newsweek

who shill for Bush but won't have anything to do with Kitty Kelley's new book.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. ALL of FAUX NEWS.

None should be allowed to cover the WH. NONE.

Candy Crowley
Bill Hemmer
Jack Rafferty
Wolfie
Scarborough
Judy Woodruff
Novak
Bow-Tie Boy, Tucker Carlson
Howard Fineman
Andrea Mitchell
Kelly Arena


How's about ALL OF THEM???? Start anew. Give all NEW journalists the coveted job of covering the president? SCREW 'EM ALL! :grr:

[bryant69]

14. This is a nice list

but we all know that the reality is that kerry won't really be able to do this. Reporters have a pack mentality, if he starts punishing some of them, particularly if it seems vindictive, the others will turn against Kerry and he'll get worse press than President Clinton.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Walt Starr]

18. Wrong, he can easily do it

All he has to do is only give White House credentials to those he chooses.

[bryant69]

25. I'm not saying it's impossible

I'm saying he'd pay a price for doing it. You might be willing to pay that price, but is he?

Bryant

[Walt Starr]

26. Nope, the media needs him more after January 20, 2005

than he needs them. That's a fact. Wenever there is a new president, careers are established and destroyed.

Bush destroyed many careers when he began. Kerry can do the same.

[bryant69]

40. What A-List Commentator's Carreer

Did President Bush ruin?

Just out of curiuosity.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Walt Starr]

42. Bernie Shaw

He ended up resigning his position with CNN.

[bryant69]

49. OK. Well perhaps he can get away with slamming on a few

To get the rest in line; but the list made here is, in my mind too extensive.

Bryant

[Walt Starr]

51. The list may be too long, BUT...

it certainly gives Kerry a long list to pick and choose from.

:evilgrin:

[girl gone mad]

27. That hasn't happened..

to Bush.

[Cha]

37. It worked for the Fucking bushes

didn't it!

[merh]

61. * whitehouse has been doing it since he took

office - don't fool yourself -- it is happening today

[skippysmom]

15. Katie Couric

a media whore, who seems to like to dress like one too...

[dumpster_baby]

16. Ha ha! Twist that knife!

I hate couric with a passion...

[Cha]

39. And to me ..katie is the worst kind because

she should know better. Her sister who died of pancreatic cancer in Virginia was a Democratic congresswoman(or held some office).

It's inexcusable ..her whoring for the war machine GE.

[johnfunk]

55. Mitigating factor for Couric:

She made Ann Coulter look like a complete idiot.

On the other hand, she wears way too much makeup, just like all the FAUX girls, who all look like third-rank callgirls grasping for upward whore mobility...

[Cha]

60. She had to do that to slander..slander called her the

"eva braun" of the left..or something like that.

That should make katie even more leary of the rightwing nazis, but nooooooooooooo! She's always making snide remarks about our leaders.

[IdaBriggs]

88. She was unbelievably rude to Michael Moore --

Said "some people say you are a jerk" and he called her out on it. Let her go down in flames if she can't behave like a reasonable person!

[City Lights]

19. Jeff Greenfield. Judith Miller. Lisa Myers. eom

[merh]

64. I can't stand Greenfield ...

One of those purported intellectuals that hasn't a clue about the facts and wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the a**!

[John_H]

20. Only one or two to be made an example of. I say Wolf and Lisa Meyers.

Aside from her biased reporting and comentary this election, Meyers still needs to be punished for Anita Broderick.

Being the Uber Whore that he is, I think John King will come a'groveling and start whoring for us, as will Tweety after he sees Wolf go down the long slide.

The real question is when Team Kerry makes it clear to these people that they better stop whoring or start praying for chimp to win--- because they're toast.

[unfrigginreal]

21. It's all wishful thinking but I'd vote for Nedra Pickler.

[Walt Starr]

22. DEE DEE MYERS

Teach other Democratic talking heads a lesson, "Stay on message or be put out in the cold."

[Cha]

41. Yeah, what's up with that?

I've heard her talk on tv before and she sounded very on message.

But now ..almost to the finish line she juts off in another direction?

What is she, NUTS??~!

[moondust]

23. Matt Lauer.

[Walt Starr]

24. Tim Russert

Who could've missed this whore?

[napi21]

29. Sure, shut out all the media! Good way to die on the vine, folks!

The trick should not be to shut out the media, but to USE the media to your advantage! An administration, as well as a candidate, needs the media every bit as much as the media needs them. Try to shut them out and they'll just make up their own stories based upon assumptions.

[Walt Starr]

31. Who said anything about shutting out the entire media?

We're talking specific whores whose careers should be ruined due to their whoring.

Bush ruined many careers when he took over. Payback is a bitch.

[Cha]

44. There will be plenty left without these aforementioned

MEDIAWHORES! Who knows ..maybe there are some budding Democratic reporters waiting in the Wings?

[LTR]

63. Good point

The GOP has succeeded in turning the media to their side. 9/11 helped quite a bit as well, with many in the media going into 'stand behind our President' mode.

In time, everything will correct itself. I see this as primarily a phase.

[merh]

66. Good way to die on the vine ? Have you not noticed that the

media is shutting us out! The message is getting to the people via the internet, via the grassroot efforts of folks like the posters here.

Yes, shut the media out - maybe new guys that take their job will understand the message - fair reporting equals exclusives and interviews.

Not like the shrub - only our talking points or we revoke your press pass and your station gets nothing from us, no interview, no exclusive!

[molly]

34. Newsmax

[girl gone mad]

35. Ted Koppel.

Nightline shilled hard for the war. I remember a light bulb going off in my head when I saw the embedded journalists, Koppel among them. No wonder they wanted the war, they were going to get to dress up and play soldier on location in Iraq. They must have thought this revolutionary idea would be a ratings bonanza on par with "reality tv". Of course they packed up and left town as soon as the shock and awe wore off and the ratings started plummeting. Just before things got real, ironically.

[manic]

38. Rebekah Wade and Brian Flynn

Rebekah Wade: editor of Murdoch's Sun (UK) uses porn to push Blair/Bush
http://www.bloggerheads.com/page_3.asp
http://www.lnreview.co.uk/hi/media/000182.php
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4622_132/ai_97482603

Brian "You've ambushed me!" Flynn: another Murdoch flunky - pulled the Kerry/intern story from Drudges butt:
http://www.gawker.com/topic/new-york-mag-alexandra-polier-excerpt-016458.php
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/9221/index.html

While we're on the subject, I'd like to renew my request for a special Iraq war memorial. One that names every sack-of-shit journalist and editor who willingly fed the public lies. In stone.

[Name removed]

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[Cha]

46. "Correct slant on things" does Not accurately

describe these mediawhores that are traitors to our Country.

[Walt Starr]

48. IT's the ONLY ANSWER

THEY chose to be whores. Their WHORING stops when Kerry takes the oath of office.

Bush set the standard. Sorry, but there's no going back on this now.

[sangh0]

52. Please ignore the short-term visitor

.

[robbedvoter]

45. Democrats do not SHUT DOWN media (oxymoron). But give exclusives to:

Conason, Sam Perry, Helen Thompson, Paul Krugman and the handful of truthtellers out there.
Also, reinstate equal time, stop the conglomerates - b ut that maybe in a more enlightened administration....If we have a future, it will bring this.

[Walt Starr]

47. Who said "SHUT DOWN"?

I said to list SPECIFIC media Whores who get SHUT OUT of access.

Conason, Perry, Thompson, and Krugman would GET ACCESS.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

50. Good watch out list

The media is conducting an ad campaign to sell * . One of the methods they are using is to keep Kerry's drummed up negatives at (what the ad world calls), "top of the mind awareness."

How else can it be explained that they continue to ask Dems how Kerry would be different from * on Iraq, and a host of other issues, after it has been explained often enough and well enough for a two year old to understand? Tweety has more than one brain cell working, so after he's heard the explanation 20 times, what he is saying to the audience is that he is not convinced, so buyer beware!

The only way to counter this is to insist that the Dem talkers stay on message, keep to the facts, and steer the agenda-- just like the pugs do.

[johnfunk]

53. What? Nobody's mentioned ANDREA MITCHELL GREENSPAN?

She's the poster child for big time conflict of interest.

[Walt Starr]

54. Thanks, that's another good one!

Definitely shut her whore ass out!

[AmerDem]

56. Brian Lamb...C-span

I know he isn't the worst media whore out there (he is a media whore none the less) but the rest of you took all the good ones! :evilgrin:

[Zomby Woof]

57. Walt

That list would only leave us with Keith Olbermann... who is only human and can't do the news 24/7. :-)

And besides, if we got rid of all them, who would we ridicule on DU?

[Walt Starr]

71. Yeah, but this becomes a list the Kerry Administration can pick and choose

from after they take office.

They can decide on the most egregious whores to make an example of.

[drbtg1]

72. "That list would only leave us with Keith Olbermann"

I realize the dangers of giving too much power in too few hands, but after all the crap that we've been told should pass as news, leaving us with Mr. Olbermann sounds pretty damn good.

[Cha]

74. Touche!

[drbtg1]

75. Thanks.

Even after last night's screw-up with the number one story*, my opinion of the quality of his work has only solidified. I mean, how many folks on TV would admit their mistakes and do it as prominently as the original mistake itself?

(...other than that one time with the NY Post, who did because the whole world was laughing at them and it gave them a chance to sell more papers.)

*See "MSNBC's Countdown "Snookered" By Satirical Site" at http://mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

[Shopaholic]

92. Maybe we can just make them watch Keith and learn what

they're supposed to do?

[DeepModem Mom]

58. RUSSERT; CNN's entire political op, on and off camera; WP Steno Sue

n/t

[Cha]

59. How about little georgie stephanopoulos?

Does he qualify? cokie roberts?..or does she even matter?

howie kurtz? tom brokow? brian williams? peter jennings?

[kaitykaity]

62. Jodi Wilgoren. Richard Berke. Adam Nagourney.

Judith Miller. Elizabeth Bumiller. Katherine Seeyle.
Ceci Connolly.

EVERYBODY who appears and who has ever appeared on
Washington Week. (Doyle McManus, Gwen Ifill, Jan Hooks,
Gloria Borger, John Harwood, the whole whorish lot.)

[NewJeffCT]

65. Nobody - Kerry should show he is not afraid of anybody

But, his first priority should be returning American hero Helen Thomas back to her rightful place in the front for all WH press conferences.

However, Kerry's surrogates should all go around saying that, "unlike his predecessor, John Kerry isn't afraid to take questions from anybody."

[kaitykaity]

68. It's not about being "afraid."

It's about punishing to slavish Bush whores with what
they fear the most. "How do you make whores cry?
Don't pay them."

These people are whores. (Hell, they gives real whores
a bad name.) They don't deserve a seat at the biggest
table in the world.

[Cha]

70. Hear Hear!

[IdaBriggs]

94. Fear is NOT the issue -- its Journalistic Integrity.

"Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" is NOT an appropriate question, and that is how many of the people listed are behaving. Slant is everything, and these guys are deliberately "slanting" the news, instead of providing the facts so the viewers can THINK FOR THEMSELVES about what it means.

Bad things (and bad decisions) will occasionally happen during the next eight years when Kerry is in office; good people will disagree on what should be done. But if the top "news" story is some rumor mongering "some people say" piece of fluff instead of a REAL "fair and balanced" look at the issues, these folks aren't doing their jobs, and they need to be "cut off" from the food supply. :)

[drbtg1]

99. You're right about Ms. Thomas

A suggestion: Mr. Kerry should make it a big deal at the first press conference. Make it in prime time. Halt the proceedings before the first question, saying, "Something is definately wrong here." Then, realizing where Ms. Thomas is in the back and where she should be, tell the Faux News reporter in the front row to get up, take his chair with him, have the chief of staff and someone else bring out a huge, comfortable throne for Ms. Thomas, befitting her stature in the press. Put it right in the front row where she belongs.

And make the back of the throne high enough to block Bumiller's view. :)

Actually, the seat behind the throne could be a "dog house" assigned on a rotating basis to reporters who "mess up", so to speak. A very funny way to publically get a point across without appearing vindictive.

[irancontra]

67. my morning list

Bob Novak - ALLSTAR LIAR.
Daryn Kagan - GO AWAY!
John Kasich - FAUX
Deborah Norplant
Joe " Where's your secretary" Scarborough
O'reilly
Hannity
Wolf Blitzhead
Lou Dobbs
Gwen Iffel (pbs- shameless black woman)
Tucker "I sold my soul for a show" Carlson
Bill schmuckhead?/soledad o'brien (just for her name)

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

PSEUDO MODERATOR TIM "I DO IT FOR THE MONEY" RUSSERT//

How about some random contractors:

Pat Buchanan (for being duplicitous)
Mary "she-reptile" Matalin
Lisa Myers - Your Reports Stink
Joe Klein
Dee Dee "Dollar" Myers
TONY "I HATE CHILDREN" BLANKLEY
Bill Kristol
Fred Barnes
BRIT HUME

it never stops!

[mbali]

76. No need to shut anyone out - unlike Bush, Kerry doesn't fear scrutiny

even from completely biased journalists.

Democrats don't need to control and stifle the press.

[Walt Starr]

81. Bush set the standard

Unless you want media whores to spend the next eight years hounding Kerry until a bogus charge can be brought up for impeachment, we need to SHUT OUT THE WHORES!

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

[mbali]

82. You think denying them access will shut them down?

Please.

We don't need to turn into them. We don't need Nixon-style enemies lists. Only phony dictators need to suppress the press. Real leaders do not fear scrutiny, even from Fox.

[Walt Starr]

83. No, denying them access will get them what it got Bernie Shaw

when Bush shut him out, a one way ticket out of the career.

[IdaBriggs]

98. See #94 re: Journalistic Integrity.

We are ALL willing to take the hit when we make a legitimate mistake, and we are ALL willing to listen to different points of view when good people can and do disagree. HOWEVER, if we don't get some actual "fair and balanced" reporting, we will have another "Clinton" presidency problem -- what was the opportunity cost of the "Whitewater" fiasco -- you know, where the press hounded the issue and we spent millions of dollars over a $40K issue that TURNED OUT TO BE AN (Unreported) NOTHING? Remember the "wag the dog" stories when Clinton went after Osama? Compare/contrast to the SEC investigation that turned up $7.5 MILLION IN FINES at Halliburton when Cheney was CEO, and NO INVESTIGATION because the Press didn't demand one.

They have a job to do, and if they aren't willing to do it CORRECTLY -- ie, by displaying INTEGRITY, they need to be SHUT OUT.

[quaoar]

77. You people are nuts.

This is the most absurd thread I have read in this forum.

You rail against journalists who shill for Bush but you expect them to shill for Democrats instead?

You don't want a fair press, you want a compliant press. And anyone who strays is to be shut out.

Vent all you want about the bias you see. There is certainly plenty of it. But get a grip.

[Walt Starr]

78. Who said anything about shilling for Kerry?

All that was asked was for a list of whores who should be shut out of everything from a Kerry administration. These whores have fellated the reichwing for 12 years now and it's time to cut them loose like the two bit whores they are!

SHEESH!

[desertalien]

87. Paula Zahn

Ididn't see her in the lists did I miss it?
Oh well nobody watches her anyway.

[Bread and Circus]

90. I kind of have to agree...the Press shouldn't be shut out by the gov.

Although I don't think this is a "nutty thread". I just think that it is a slippery slope from this thread to the same dittohead mentality we rail against.

I want a debate in this country and on this board.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

84. Blitzer and Matthews n/t

[AP]

85. Kate Seelye and Jodi Wilgoren

[Bread and Circus]

93. That looks like a Penis on that man's head.

[charlyvi]

86. William Safire and David Brooks

enough said.

[WilliamPitt]

89. None of the above

I wouldn't want to be a part of an administration that attacked journalists, no matter how crappy they are. This is what Bush has done for four years.

Better to deregulate their corporate ownership.

[desertalien]

95. I agree but

can that be accomplished?

[WilliamPitt]

97. Yup

Win an election, win the midterms and get a congress, appoint some Justices, win a second term, anbd swing the meat-axe.

This follows along the 'We Win Nothing In November If We Win But The Chance To Win' theory I've been trying to preach. The asshole 'journalists' are small fry by comparison to:

1. Media reregulation;

2. Overthrow of Santa Clara v. Northern Pacific;

3. Overthrow of Buckley v. Valeo.

We get those done, and the whores will be flushed as a matter of course.

[Walt Starr]

100. Okay, Will, I'll defer to your judgement on this

We get those things and there would be no reason to shut out any of the whores.

Then again, once Kerry wins, how long before they spit out * and then get on tehir knees to Kerry, anyway?

[WilliamPitt]

101. Don't hold your breath

They don't supplicate themselves to mere power; there is an agenda, and if they see Kerry as a threat to it, the hammer will fall.

[Walt Starr]

105. After today, there is one media whore I will not back off on

Wolf Blitzer must be completely shut out by the Kerry Administration. This man deserves NOTHING from ANY DEMOCRAT EVER!!!!

[IdaBriggs]

102. Corporations, by their nature, are Short Term thinkers.

We are going to have to deal with these problems for years, and unless/until we can take over congress (and let me tell you the morning I've spent at a local headquarters is NOT making me incredibly confident about that), we won't even have the opportunity to start going through the regulations, etc. The regulatory process takes forever for a reason; better instead to go for the jugular and solve the short term problem by DEMANDING JOURNALISTS BEHAVE WITH INTEGRITY. This is going to put journalists in a tough spot -- report accurately, or keep your boss happy? Hmmm. Whatever will they do? Bosses are not happy, however, when their reporters are denied access, so I'm thinking its going to be a pretty quick shake-up and basic Journalism 101 standards should start coming into vogue pretty quickly. :)

I think Walt has a good idea going, and I think Kerry's communications people should start working on it. I've said it a couple of times now -- mistakes will be made by our guys, and the press wouldn't be doing its job if they didn't report them. Reasonable people are going to disagree about appropriate courses of action. Identifying this type of situations versus the "Evil Kerry" sound bytes is NOT difficult. The Daily Show does it simply by asking "follow up" questions: "Most liberal senator according to who?"

Its hard to be a journalist -- you have two masters: the provider of the paycheck, and the people who trust your integrity. Those who behave with honor are respected; the others are called Media Whores for a reason. Reward journalists -- revile publicists. :)

[rinsd]

104. Agreed.

I don't like them either but if Bush doing it is wrong then Kerry doing it doesn't make it right.

[Blue_Roses]

96. Ron Brownstein and who could forget Scarborough

We need to get an email list of these "journalists" who report inaccuraries and sound-off IMMEDIATELY. If we have a list of emails like [e-mail] to go straight to and not have to go to the site to look around it would make it much easier and more successful. Going to these sites to find an email address is exhausting sometimes. I think they deliberately make it difficult to avoid the mail.

[PATRICK]

103. something a bit wiser

Actually Kerry has to clean out the whorehouse, the Washington press corps and give the girls some old time religion- enabling them to do their real jobs in such a way as they will NOT ever go back to being a self-important peanut gallery. Acting like Bushco will only perpetuate the problem. Schmoozing or punishing and further degrading the cancer stricken profession is just more Bush work.

They will need- without kissing and making up so the peacocks can snipe at the harmless Dem- to get involved with the truth again and serving their profession and country AND getting out from under the privatized monopolized monolith of journalism. The might start by disenfranchising the privileged corps and getting more guest journalists from small papers around the country where the Repukes are not conspiratorial millionaires but at least honest Conservatives- if there are any left. More alternate media, but don't enthrone them. That is what causes all the ego behavior problems.

The editors behind the scenes are very often more important than the performers. Open the info flow directly to them not to their paid entertainers. Dump the secret source technique for more honesty so it will be easier to discredit fake leaks. Change the modus operandi completely. That will be breathtaking punishment enough. Many of these overpaid opinion makers would wither in fresh air. In fact, they are all getting old without having achieved any stature or achievement commensurate to their touted access and primped up star status. real journalists should make them sit very uneasy in their smug, unresearched incompetence.