>> ^mauz15:
Someone explain to me how can the 45 people who upvoted can see the bullshit but there are other people who actually think this is a defense for Mccain and a loss for Biden?


Brb...."Mom, dad, meet mauz15. He/she has a quick question for you two wild & crazy kids".

Sadly, I avoid any and all topics having to do with politics and religion considering my past failed attempts to bring about the tiniest fraction of cognitive dissonance in them; lest I hear my own parents channeling Sean Hannity nearly-verbatim, like marionettes that make noise when you pull their string.

>> ^SSIops:
Wow, that was VERY presumptuous of her. She gives blondes a bad name, news anchors too.
If she wants to pursue that kind of journalism, she should move to the FAUX network.


Maybe she thought this was her chance to make a video to submit to their Hiring department.

>> ^Kagenin:
To call this woman a Vice Presidential Candidate is an insult to the profession. What a fucking hack.


*Fixed for the next Sarah Palin Video.

lol, you serious? =P

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Do you need a roommate? I can pay in US dollars, which are oh so valuable right now.

In reply to this comment by mefa:
What the fuck is wrong with Sweden? I live here and I can GUARANTEE that every single thing about Sweden works better than any American state has to offer.
Stupid ignorant bitch.

Do you need a roommate? I can pay in US dollars, which are oh so valuable right now.

In reply to this comment by mefa:
What the fuck is wrong with Sweden? I live here and I can GUARANTEE that every single thing about Sweden works better than any American state has to offer.
Stupid ignorant bitch.

>> ^conan:
Sweden? A socialist state? Are they kidding? Sweden is what i would say one of the most modern and wealthy states in the world.


Many states have strongly socialist policies and are modern and wealthy at the same time. These things are not mutually exclusive. Now, a communist state would be a different story due to the lack of currency, etc. But, in all reality there has never been a truly communist modern state - all those that state they are communist (Cuba, China, USSR, Vietnam, etc) are not.

>> ^srd:
Of course sweden ist socialist. All of europe is. Didn't you know that? We have socialized medicine, social benefits, socialist parties and people in general are more social.
But I'm not surprised, since I was repeatedly asked in the US in the 80s if I was really, really, _really_ sure if I came from west germany. Because east germany was the democratic part of the country. Said so right in the name...


That is hilarious! Stupid uneducated people, you find them everywhere.

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>> ^MrConrads:
I fail to understand why if it is so imperative to have a free and unbiased press in order to have a healthy democracy why we do not fight, nay, DEMAND such a thing. If nothing else the last 8 years have proven this need. In my opinion it has been clearly shown that a country becomes more divided and obtuse rather than informed when living under a press that operates like it has here in America. We need to trust those who work in the field of journalism to uphold the ideals of the Constitution and do their duty just as much as any president or senator. So why does there seem to be this lack of oversight into one of the most important aspects of a democracy? Lawyers must swear an oath to the Constitution to uphold the law as it is written, and if they violate that oath they are disbarred. Presidents, Senators, Police, Doctors, and many other professions that are given the duty of upholding the common good must all live by similar ethics, so why not journalists and reporters? I believe that any and all who wish to work in such a profession should be sworn in to uphold the constitution, inform the public to the best of their abilities, and remain completely unbiased. If they cannot uphold these ideals they should be replaced by someone who can, that is if we want this grand experiment to work.


I agree with you in theory. However, I think it gets a bit touchy when private corporations are involved. All of these news outlets are privatized, so they all have their own agenda - their own spin on issues to target and reach a specific segment of the population. One of the main problems is that these private institutions see news as just another tv show/article/blog - it's all about ratings and corporate sponsorship (i.e. money). It's no surprise that the most unbiased news media out there is socialized (NPR) - they don't bow down to the mighty dollar coming from the fist of a corporation.

Notice also that your other examples of professions that are given the duty of upholding the common good are either government institutions or socialized (public officials and police officers). The doctor example is a touchy one, and in most industrialized nations, these would be socialized too - the reason they are held to such a high ethical standard in the US as opposed to journalists is that they're job is seen by the public as a more integral part of the human condition (protecting life). It's interesting though that most Americans support nationalizing health care in the US - in effect removing a majority of the greed, corporate motive, and lack of ethics out of the system.

Setting up any kind of ethical institution based on capitalistic principles is counter-intuitive. Ethics are only followed by corporations as long as it improves the bottom line.

If we're going to expect journalists and the private news media to hold themselves to an 'ethical standard', then we're going to have to:

a) reduce the privatization of the news media,
b) remove the rating system / corporate sponsorship from news programs,
c) realize that our society must start taking the news media as a serious ethical issue in the line of doctors/surgeons holding an ethical standard.

However, its a very fine line between preventing unethical behavior in an institution and upholding the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. Lawyers and government officials lie all the time and get away with it. So do journalists, reporters, and news corporations. Unfortunately, it's not illegal to be biased in these professions. That oath of which you speak seems to be less and less followed as privatization increases more and more.

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>> ^joedirt:
BEST INTERVIEW EVER.
"aren't you embarrassed about ACORN registering phony voters"
"isn't Senator Obama's comment a potentially crushing political blunder?"
"you may recognize this quote, ... -- how is Senator Obama not a Marxist"
"Are you saying America's days as the world's leading power is over?"
"What do you say to Obama changing US into socialist Sweden?"


It reminded me of the Simpsons episode when they showed FOX news and it had the ticker on the bottom of the screen:

"Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at foxnews.com!"
"Study: 92 percent of Democrats are gay"
"JFK posthumously joins Republican party"
"Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple"

>> ^dag:
It was almost like this lady was a set-up shill. Posing the easy, over the top questions for Biden to knock down.


You know i had that same thought... her argument was that bad. Pretty much hit all the "McCain/Palin" oldie but goodies...

sorry, dupe of:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Biden-Smacks-Media-Hack

And to think CNN spends all day trying to find something worth airing. This is the kind of real journalism that will make the big media hacks as irrelevant as they deserve to be.