Mooney is hilarious, the thing with him you have to realize is he's not 100% genuine. He's the black troll, and made his entire career out of trolling.

he used to get on the Morton Downey Jr. show just to incite fights (pre white trash Springer show from the 80s) back when Morton got more ratings than Geraldo Rivera's show, until Rivera got hit with a chair live on air breaking his nose.

Morton Downey Jr would smoke on his talk show and flick his cigarette but at guests the would fight with him anyhow Mooney's "black troll" and the "so called" civil rights preacher Al Sharpton used to troll as well he hated jews and gays in the 80's on the Morton Downey show.

Here's Al Sharpton's old "character schtick" on the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aSSjtKV0EY

Mooney went on the hone and perfect his "negro troll" character, and has made an entire career out of it, watch the Morton Downey Jr documentary you can actually see a much different mooney back then just starting out with this schtick.

>> ^COriolanus:

You're not a good person if you oppose Ron Paul.


Really? You believe that? What if he wants to eliminate all welfare...let little old ladies starve to death. Then isn't he a bad person?

Aha, Wonkette really breaks it down:

http://www.wonkette.com/403763/gop-gal-claims-savage-negro-mugged-her-for-obama?referer=sphere_related_content

It was Morton Downey Jr. who was also caught in a BS hate crime with a reverse swastica spraypainted on himself (see same article for the reference).

In other news, the story, while still active on CNN, was suddenly removed from the top stories after being near the top all morning... suddenly POOF. They had BETTER cover this if it turns out to be, as it seems, a hoax...

great post !

i couldn't agree more with your comments

Designed to create opinions rather than dialog, meaningless crap, for meat-bot brains, with which to stultify.....


Voted up because it is part of the history of television, not because I even fucking watched it or listened to but a dink of it.....

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Doogle, fox was not around then, youngster....
Morton Downey Jr. is pre-fox kiddies, pre-most schlocks, except for the king of sheit-schlock anti-journalism, Geraldo Rivera (1987).....MDJ, set the stage for assholes like Springer, and Geraldo, and set the tone of alllll the others the sensible love to hate....Limbaugh, O'Reilly etc. This is the early seed show of, fast-forward to 2007, MOST, of the crappy, confrontational, meaningless diversion called, Talk ANYTHING, in the media......

Designed to create opinions rather than dialog, meaningless crap, for meat-bot brains, with which to stultify.....

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Doogle, fox was not around then, youngster....
Morton Downey Jr. is pre-fox kiddies, pre-most schlocks, except for the king of sheit-schlock anti-journalism, Geraldo Rivera (1987).....MDJ, set the stage for assholes like Springer, and Geraldo, and set the tone of alllll the others the sensible love to hate....Limbaugh, O'Reilly etc. This is the early seed show of, fast-forward to 2007, MOST, of the crappy, confrontational, meaningless diversion called, Talk ANYTHING, in the media......

Designed to create opinions rather than dialog, meaningless crap, for meat-bot brains, with which to stultify.....

Heart Morton Downey Jr....loved that show....

One of the many problems with O'Reilly is that he invites a guest to his Special Comment. At least Olberman does not have to shout over someone during his monologue.

Does the Third Wave Foundation support or oppose late term abortions, parental consent laws, medical records disclosure to law enforcement, or child rape on demand? Who really knows from this piece?

Does O'Reilly support any of the above? He pretends that there is a debate over whether people support rape. Presumably conservatives don't and liberals do. Reprehensible.

The problem with these types of shows is that they have no interest in disseminating information. They are nominal news shows with no particular skill in examining any issue with any kind of critical nuance. They exist for the shouting. And the late, great Morton Downey Jr. already did that so much better than O'Reilly.