Pic Of The Moment: Media Outraged At President Obama's Appearance On "Between Two Ferns"

[EarlG]

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[Scuba]

1. Bwahahahahahaha!

[kairos12]

2. Their outrage is hilarious given that practically every journalist in D.C. sold

out to parody themselves in the netflix series "House of Cards."

[KoKo]

3. Bloomberg Business News was having heads explode over it...

One Chirpy one twittered out..."But, is it "Presidential" for him to be out there promoting Obama Care? To be fair they did mention statistics that his appearance had thousands more sign up and that the video went viral on You Tube and thousand more were watching it and posting on Social Media. But, they were concerned it might reach "just young people."

[bemildred]

4. Yeah, if theres no dignity, what will kids eat? nt

[question everything]

5. And, of course, they are experts on dignity

[freebrew]

12. And eating. NT

[SoapBox]

6. Idiot media.

[Iliyah]

7. Non-Stop negativity on Pres O from the corporate media

no wonder cable news is dying. Social media at this point is the key in getting more of an objective viewpoint and some truth to the news.

I know many of the news people (not journalist) have their talking points from their corporate masters I know at this point in time journalism is dead per se with television news and of course fake news and want-to-be fake news cnn totally controls the media outlets in the country, but the younger, middle aged and seniors are tuning away.

[SmittynMo]

8. I enjoyed it, and it went viral.

It was funny and it worked. ACA registration up 40% this past Monday. Who's got the last laugh now. Obama's not as dumb as republicants look. And now all these idiots going ape shit over it. I love it. They'll do anything to try to make him look bad. And to see it backfire just makes my day.

[Initech]

9. Yeah Fox News is concerned with dignity. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight!

[hibbing]

10. sideboob....giggle

Yeah, being on a COMEDY show is undignified while lying about a war and strutting around an aircraft carrier with a codpiece is to be worshiped.

Peace

[The_Commonist]

11. What I find particularly amusing about all this...

...is Bill O'Reilly's contention that Lincoln would never have gone on that Two Ferns show.

Ummm... Lincoln had quite the sense of humor! He was well known for it at the time, and might have been the first president with an honest to goddess sense of humor.

Of course, Republicans want to portray him as a stick in the mud, because projection is about the only thing they know how to do, and they want to "own" Lincoln. Basically, it comes down to this - Anything a Republican says to do or think or believe, you should do or think or believe the opposite.

Some examples:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2012/11/lincolns-smile.html
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/Funny-Presidential-Quotes/a/Abraham-Lincoln-Quotes.htm

Personally, I think Lincoln would have LOVED Between Two Ferns, because his sense of humor was very dry and sarcastic.

[Vinnie From Indy]

16. Agreed!

He had a legendary sense of humor.

[deafskeptic]

28. I thought the same thing.

Some guy accused Abe of being two-faced. He replied that if he were two-faced, do you think I'd stick with this one?

[bulloney]

13. One of the network news programs today had the lead for a real "hard hitting" story.

I don't remember if it was "Today" or "GMA." My wife had the TV running as I was leaving for work.

The tease stated something along the line of "Maria Shriver on living paycheck to paycheck."

Seriously? A member of the Kennedy family, who herself is a national television celebrity and ex-wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, is going to give us advice on how to live from paycheck to paycheck?

This is why I regard today's network news as a total joke that is never to be taken seriously. There's more news content from the comedy shows on Comedy Central, including Tosh!

[classof56]

18. I recommend you watch Stephen Colbert's interview with Maria on last night's show

She's not giving advice on how to live paycheck to paycheck, but based on her recent report on the topic, she's producing a documentary which will air next Monday at 9:00 on HBO chronicling one woman's struggle to raise her family living paycheck to paycheck. The report focuses on the 42 million Americans dealing with that struggle. It's a serious and honest look at what I see as a deplorable situation, but pretty sure Maria isn't trying to say she herself is in the paycheck-to-paycheck mode. I like that Stephen gave her a forum to inform us about this particular issue.

Blessings.

[mbperrin]

14. Nixon on Laugh-In?

Clinton on Arsenio Hall?

They're just mad because they're not cool enough to get an invite.

[lunasun]

20. +1 !! exactly

oh and and interrupting and yelling "you lie" at the POTUS during a SOTU address...that keeps the dignity meter high

[Vinnie From Indy]

15. lol

eom

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. The Revenge of Funny or Die!!!

When Will Ferrell promoted healthcare.gov on facebook about 10 days ago, he got a deluge of hate comments. Now that Obama's appearance on one of Ferrell's Funny or Die web shows has actually accomplished what it hoped to do, they are pissed.

Btw, just heard a really positive story on the ACA on the local NPR station.

The very real and personal effects of Obamacare on the American workaday:

http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2014/03/13/36459/the-very-real-and-personal-effects-of-obamacare-on/

[tanyev]

19. Media/conservative outrage over GWB's hunt for WMDs in the Oval Office:

Bush pokes fun at himself, staff

WASHINGTON — President Bush poked fun at his staff, his Democratic challenger and himself Wednesday night at a black-tie dinner where he hobnobbed with the news media.

Bush put on a slide show, calling it the “White House Election-Year Album” at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association 60th annual dinner, showing himself and his staff in some decidedly unflattering poses.

There was Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,” he said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4596717/ns/politics/t/bush-pokes-funat-himself-staff/#.UyIeh2co_cs

McAuliffe's Republican counterpart, Ed Gillespie, responded by saying people need to lighten up, that the president made the comment in jest.

He noted that the correspondents at the dinner laughed when the president made the remark.

"There is a long-standing tradition of the president making light of serious matters and self-deprecating humor" at the dinner, he said.

"The people in the room obviously saw the humor in it at that moment. And to play it back now in a different context is unfair, frankly, I have to say."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/26/bush.wmd.jokes/

Quotes from Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House by Eric Boehlert

On National Review Online, conservative talk show host Michael Graham, who attended the Correspondents dinner, mocked the critics: "Somehow, over the past 30 years, liberalism has mutated into something akin to an anti-comedy vaccine. The more you're Left, the less you laugh."

The supposedly liberal Los Angeles Times completely agreed. In an unsigned editorial, the paper belittled Democrats and anyone else who had the nerve to question Bush's sense of wartime humor, or daring to question Beltway tradition: "The truly serious thing about what's known as Washington's 'Silly Season' is whether presidents rise to the challenge."

On Fox News, there was heated agreement between Sunday News anchor Chris Wallace and the network's Washington bureau managing editor, Brit Hume, that Bush's WMD jokes were perfectly acceptable.

Wallace:"I still think it's funny."
Hume: "I thought it was a good-natured performance."

Washington Post news reporter and Fox panelist Cecil Connelly concurred: "The pictures were funny. I laughed at the photos."

(pgs 231-232 transcription mine)

[underpants]

30. + Has the media completely forgotten about W's "appearance" on the USS Abraham Lincoln?

Funny that O'Reilly would use Lincoln specifically.

The press was helicoptered/boated out to the photo-op but never mentioned that to viewers.

[Jamaal510]

21. No diggity. nt

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[agent46]

23. There was no question of dignity

There was no question of dignity when Howdy Doody was choking on pretzels, snorting coke and prosecuting a foreign policy of "Yeehaw!" for eight years.

[rickyhall]

24. Nobody remembers Nixon

was on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 3 times. Reagan was Carol Burnett's and the Sonny & Cher show. So what?

[MADem]

25. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!! "Sock it to me!!!!!!!!"

[niyad]

26. what in the name of the goddess is "between two ferns" and why should anybody care?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

27. So says the party

with so many obviously qualified "experts" on dignity

[bvf]

29. What I love about this is that the MSM spares no effort

to shape their viewers' preferences (e.g., you WILL react to the word "sideboob" because we will make it impossible for you not to), when suddenly some amongst the MSM--the humorless Fox News, most predictably--scream bloody murder when Obama trumps them.

Abraham Lincoln would have killed on "Between Two Ferns," too, and thus would probably have brought the Civil War to a much earlier end. Not that it's over even now for everyone, obviously.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

32. It's almost like they, you know, have an "agenda" or something

and it's clearly not a "liberal" one either.

[AlbertCat]

31. Well.... like Nixon said:

SOCK IT TO ME!