O'Franken Question (About Brit Hume point)

[sampsonblk]

I missed the damn point. The stream died. On the issue of death rates in Iraq vs California, the last part I got was "When Howard Kurtz pointed this out to Brit Hume, what did he say?"

Well what DID he say??????

[kimchi]

1. He said that it might have been not such a great example, or something

but that "It was illustrative of something".

Al said or implied that it was illustrative of the right spinning and lying.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Brit Hume said something like, The overall point remains

Brit Hume said something like, The overall point remains.

Al Franken said in a speech something like, Yeah, the point is Brit Hume is an asshole.

[sampsonblk]

3. Kewl, thanks

Brit Hume is an asshole.

[sjr5740]

4. Its illustative of Brit Hume's wonderful anchoring

esp. his tendancy to look at the repub talking points on the screen to his left at every story transition. His stupid grin is as bad as bunnypants.

His smug additude in always clarifying points that put dems in a bad light makes me want to :puke:

[newyawker99]

8. Hi sjr5740!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Demonaut]

5. speaking of Brit Hume, on Fundrace.org which shows donations to

political parties, no news anchors or news "celebrities" appear.

[Eric J in MN]

9. news people are often forbidden from giving contributions to

News people are often forbidden from giving contributions to campaigns, to make them seem objective.

Not always effective.

[tishaLA]

10. But they give anyhow

Old Howie Kurtz had a story about this in the WaPo a couple months ago.

[zbdent]

6. It's funny, the comparison. Here's why

The Repukes look at it as if the number of US soldiers was the TOTAL number of deaths/murders in Iraq, as compared to the number of deaths/murders in California/whatever.

Now, we are there as "police", so to speak. We were there to "take out an evil man" (reason version 666).

Now, look at the number of US soldiers' deaths this way.

If 600+ POLICE were murdered, IN ANY STATE, would be an extremely huge news story, right?

If you count US soldiers as "murders", then you MUST count the Iraqi people killed by the US soldiers as "murders" also. We do not have the count of that. The US will not release that information.

Using that information, then I would bet that the number of murders in Iraq will far exceed the number of murders in nearly any US state in any year.

Right?

[trogdor]

7. Yeah, this is the obvious truth, but...

...you can't state that in a concise enough sound-bite to compete with Brit's bullshit.