What a fucking narcissist...great tepid response by Letterman.

So his "screw up" was allowing himself to be employed in an unsuitable place?

Mmm,a bit full of himself ain't he?

I'd recommend he try Comedy Central which might suit his chandelier better.

He's always been full of himself...I liked him because he was usually right.

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What a fucking narcissist...great tepid response by Letterman.


Yeah, it's weird. His douchebaggery slipped under my radar, maybe because I tended to agree with his critiques and observations. If I can't reliably evaluate the character of people I agree with, that's not good.

I like how he graciously accepts that it was his fault that he was so much better than everyone else.

It's always amusing when Prog-Lib-Dytes start eating each other.

Yeah, it's weird. His douchebaggery slipped under my radar, maybe because I tended to agree with his critiques and observations.

Well - there's a list of others I can give you who are all equally huge d-bags. Just run down the roster of so-called 'journalists' MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, the AP, NYT, USA Today, FOX... And hey - while we're at it throw in the roster of psuedo-journalists posuers on all the blogs & websites. Not to mention all the politicians who play revolving-door journalists. Basically every news outlet you care to name is staffed to the man with 99.9999% smarmy, arrogant, closed-minded, self-important douches who think the world revolves around them and who are so biased and agenda driven that they cannot be trusted to recite a farm report or the local weather - let alone national news.

Olberman was perhaps one of the most exaggerated of the lot, but not by much. And Bill Maher (a staple of the Videosift) is only two hairs and some air away from Olberman. Intellectually they are the same person. News isn't news anymore. It's become increasingly thinly disguised propoganda, and I don't trust a single word of it.

Case in point. This morning I was highly amused to be flipping channels as the Morning "News" shows started up. ABC, CBS, NBC... EERY SINGLE ONE of them started with the exact same thing... Obama's "Job Report" and how things were looking fantastic. I literally just kept rotating through all three channels without stopping, and it was almost the EXACT same words being parroted at the exact same time with the exact same interpretation. They didn't question anything. They just recited Obama's press release flack on it. They ignored the fact that non-working Americans are at an all-time high. They ignored the fact that jobs were only HALF of what was 'projected'. Nope. Just three completely identical, laughably positive "120,000 new jobs!" stories all being repeated almost verbatim. That isn't news. That is propoganda - and it's creepy just how in lock-step these mental midgets are.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

It's always amusing when Prog-Lib-Dytes start eating each other.


And your solution?

Vote Romney/Fuckface 2012?

How would voting for Romney provide a 'solution' to the reality that the American news media has surrendered all thier integrity, professionalism, and objectivity in favor of biased, agenda-based activism?

Kind of the same way that claiming anybody who points out the truth is activist.

Kind of the same way that claiming the most propagandistic network in America's history has a subtitle that proclaims itself "fair and balanced."

Who brought this into being?

This apparent lack of fairness?

Which party saw no need for fairness in the media before that rule was changed?

Which party saw no need for fairness in the media before that rule was changed?

No party ever decided that. JOURNALISTS decided that. Polls and studies have repeatedly shows that news agencies are rife with bias. From the editors that cobble together the stories, to the talking faces that report it, to the presidents that staff them - they're all tainted with bias. They work in news firms, then work for a politician, then jump right back into news again. They think they aren't baised just because they say they aren't. Then you confront them with evidence and proof of the bias and they look at you like you're from Mars. Try to get them to ADMIT the bias, and you might as well have accused them of clubbing baby seals with weapons made from the bones of puppies. But the bias is there, and it's totally obvious.