Bill Hemmer (CNN) Awfully 'Concerned' About "Bush Bashing" At Convention

[matcom]

fucker was damn near PLEADING with Bill Richardson that the convention not be a "4 day Bush Bash" :grr:

STRESSING, "Mr Richardson, can you ASSURE us that this Convention will be POSITIVE and there won't be a lot of BUSH BASHING?"

:argh:

[mhr]

1. Isn't It Amazing How Obtuse These Folks Are, Their Stupidity Always Amazes

Never Forget The Face Of American Fascism'THIS IS NO DIFFERENT THAN WHAT HAPPENS AT THE SKULL & BONES INITIATION...I'M TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE HAVING A GOOD TIME. THESE PEOPLE -- YOU EVER HEARD OF EMOTIONAL RELEASE? YOU EVER HEARD OF NEEDING TO BLOW SOME STEAM OFF?'

[FlashHarry]

2. He also made fun of Kerry's pitch.

Saying, it "came up short," and wondering if it was a "bad omen." Prick. On the other hand, Heidi Collins, the NY anchor, countered with "I think the catcher was too far back." Bill then said, "We'll look at the tape." To which, she replied, "Yes we will."

[ps1074]

3. I am sure there will be

far fewer Bush bashing in Boston that Kerry bashing in New York.

Will the media be outraged at that? Of course not.

[Disturbed]

6. Media Whores

They have been in bed with BushCo and getting paid well.

What will they be like with a Kerry/Edwards Admin.?

[ClassWarrior]

36. WE need to scream to the press about all the Kerry bashing...

...that is sure to go on at the RNC. If they hear it from us every day of the RepubliCON convention, they might start paying attention to it. And yes, we should scream. The candidates need to stay above the fray, but WE DON'T.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Hemmer is a Bush supporter

Any Bush bashing is never enough. Bush has committed war crimes and has trampled on the Constitution. Bush should be sharing a cell with Milosevic at The Hague.

[Aftershock]

5. I hope there's some Bush bashing.

He deserves to be bashed. Big time.

[Tom Kitten]

7. someone clue this guy in on

the point it's hard to prop up the strong points of the guy you're running against when he happens to be a miserable failure at just about everything he's done except placate his rabid constituency at the expense of the good of the entire United States?

[Shopaholic]

14. Hemmer is clueless

he's a GOP lap-dog.

[AlinPA]

8. That's why I'll watch the convention on C-Span. CNN,MSRNC,Fox

make me crazy.

[Shopaholic]

15. That's all fine and well but. . .

the average, undecided voter out there isn't going to know that they're receiving their news filtered through these GOP mouth-pieces. That's why it's important that we call them on their bullshit every single time we see it. Yeah, even the clueless get that Faux is the official channel of the GOP but the vast majority of people believe the Repug lie that CNN, MSNBC, and the networks are "liberal" news organizations. While we can turn our sets to unfiltered (and fair) coverage--they don't know any better and that's what we need to be worried about. Undecideds are going to decide this election and we need to get every single one of them we can on our side. And with the press in bed with the repugs, it's essential that we fax them, call them, write them, protest long, loud, and clearly so that they have to do a better job of providing balance.

[leftchick]

9. yet it is OKAY for CNN to bash Kerry?!?....

right before 7:00 AM I watched Carole (giggles) Costello call John Kerry's throw at the Red Sox game a "girlie throw"! Then the other two jokers sitting with her went right on Kerry bashing until I had to turn the channel. Distgusting! Bash away Gov. Richardson!

[Connie_Corleone]

18. I saw that too!

The throw was fine. The guy just didn't catch it.

[MuseRider]

44. Didn't he have

rotator cuff surgery not to long ago?

[punpirate]

10. Mystifies me why...

... these media tramps can't figure out that everyone's life, including theirs, will be better with the Bushies gone forever. Buried, done, finished.

They can't remember when times were better. I'm beginning to think they can't remember day before yesterday....

[bluestateguy]

11. And if we did that, they'd say the convention was "boring and uninspiring"

The corporate media is not our audience. There is no winning with them.

[mopaul]

12. yes, let's not 'sink to their level'

if the repubs are nasty, we'll be christlike and turn the other cheek.
those days are gone.

[rock]

13. But bushsucks* is one of the strongest selling points

for buying Democratic. Why, the stench alone....

[Disturbed]

17. "everyone's life, including theirs, will be better" ?

How would their lives be better with Kerry/Edwards?

[0007]

16. How can they tell us how to run our party?

Piss on Bill Hemmer and fuck CNN - 'Tis our Party, end of story.

[Kahuna]

19. Hemmer is such an 'effin twit. I hate that guy.

;puke:

[Triana]

20. to me that would mean...

BASH BU$H seven ways from Sunday...'cause the little bu$hbuttkissing whiners will be bashing Kerry. bu$h deserves no less.

[Shopaholic]

22. My e-mail to CNN

I just heard Bill Hemmer on-air say that he is "awfully concerned" that there will be "Bush-basing" at the Democratic convention. He repeatedly tried to get Bill Richardson to promise that there would be no "Bush-bashing" at the Democratic convention. Will Mr. Hemmer be equally "concerned" about Democrat and Kerry bashing when the GOP convention rolls around? Will he try equally as hard to get the head of the GOP convention to promise that there will not be any Democratic or Kerry bashing at their convention??????
While Mr. Hemmer is certainly entitled to vote for whomever he chooses--I would like to see him at least pretend to be a fair, and inpartial journalist on air. Someone needs to remind him that is what journalists are supposed to do--something he seems to keep forgetting as this is not the first time that his biases have crept forth on the air and I'm guessing it won't be the last either. I used to be a huge CNN fan but this kind of coverage just makes me flip the channel as fast as I can.

[Triana]

24. excellent...

..letter!

[Cha]

50. Thank you, scmirage! I hope someone reads

that e-mail...it is so priceless and to the effin' point!

I'm sure everyone on cnn get their whore marching orders from the brass up stairs..and some just suck more than others..if you're a newsguy though..you gotta be neutral.

When Kerry wins..I wish there were a way the Dems not give access to media types like that.

[blueblitzkrieg]

21. Are they trying to set something up?

So if people do criticize Bush during the convention, even a little, they can all cry out about how Democrats broke their word about Bush-bashing and how they're such pessimists and how they're so consumed with hatred blah blah blah?

Kinda like how some of GOP talking heads exaggerated the Edwards bounce, so when it wasn't as high as their "predictions", they could claim it was a failure...

Pretty boy Hemmer is a Bush-lover?? Blach..He is now dead to me.

[Justice]

23. my email to CNN

I have watched Bill Hemmer this morning, who says he is "awfully concerned" that there will be "Bush-basing" this week at the Democratic convention. Why should Bill Hemmer care - isn't it his job to report on what happens, not try to influence what will happen? Being in Boston, I have heard lots and lots of stories about the Republican war room and plans to trash the Democrats during the week. Is Bill Hemmer "awfully concerned" abou the republican war room? He is trying to get republicans to promise they won't be negative about Kerry this week?

[ObaMania]

26. I sure hope DEMs have "war rooms" during

.. the 'pub Convention. I guarantee that FAUX and other news outlets will have critical "analysis" of every speech given this week. When the RNC has theirs though, everything comment, etc.. made will be to elevate * and make him the better of the two.

I wish I had time to watch what transpires with these two conventions. Someone needs to call news programs on this! Do like an Outfoxed II.

[bossfish]

49. Check your spelling, folks...

If these are real e-mails...

"Bush-basing"?

[RC]

25. How is telling the truth about this administration,

backed up with facts, bashing bu$h?
That is called 'Setting the Record Straight.'
The theme of this convention should be 'Lies and the Lier's Who Tell Them.'
OR
'The real enemies of the United States.' Because it sure ain't Saddam or Osama.

[Sticky]

27. Has Hemmer showed equal concern

about the millions of dollars bush has spent "bashing" Kerry?

....didn't think so.

[KharmaTrain]

28. I Was Against A "Bashfest"...Now BRING IT ON!!

These bastards deserve it both barrels from every Democrat all week long. This is OUR week and our time to take back this country. We have the right to say what we think and feel and it's time to unleash them.

The GOOP is scared shitless of us. They know we're not only here, but we're organizing and energized. These assholes have no template on how to counter us other than distortion and smears. OK, so let's give it back now.

This week should be a spotlight on GOOP lies and hypocricies. Bashing? How can it be when we use their own words and lies? Were they bashing when they first used them? I thought that was "leveling the playing field".

Here's hoping Al Gore unloads, Clinton smiles like a Cheshire Cat and reminds everyone of an America not long ago where people had jobs, savings and a future, Edwards showing the honest and populist side of the party and then Kerry putting out a vision of a future without the lies, deception and selfishness of this regime.

Of course anything the Democrats do this week will be viewed critically and any little shit...like that Kerry pitch or Teressa telling a Mellon-Scaiffe shill to "shove it" (I wish she'd had told him to Chenny it) or a dozen other non-stories that they'll try to blow up as some image of either Democrat disunity or creating some major disruption. Screw the media...shine the light.

[ljm2002]

42. "wish she'd told him to 'Cheney it'"

I'm with you -- here's hoping someone at the convention brings it up in a speech -- "So from now on, in honor of our Vice President and his example of decorum in the Senate, whenever one of us loses our temper, we'll tell the other guy to 'Go Cheney yourself!'".

Hmmm. Michael Moore would be the perfect person to do this... He's not giving a speech, but I'll bet he gets interviewed on air once or twice... Michael, are you listening?

I'd *love* that meme to get out there...

[nostamj]

29. Dear CNN,

In the interest of fairness, please require your spokesmodels (Hemmer, Woodruff, Blitzer, et al) to wear their Bush/Cheney buttons on air. Some people might still consider your network to be involved in the business of journalism and they deserve to be informed that CNN is owned by the republican party.

Thank you.

[maryallen]

45. And by Saudi Arabia ...

The Saudis are major stockholders in AOL-TimeWarner stock.

I can certainly see the difference in CNN's coverage since this development has occurred -- Bandar-baby riding to the rescue to "polish" Bush-baby's image ... via tv "news" coverage.

[suegeo]

30. Bill Hemmer is as cute as a little kitten

(And I don't mean that as a compliment)

[porphyrian]

31. Fuck Bill Hemmer

Bush is a traitorous piece of shit. This should be mentioned every time he's brought up. People who get turned off by Bush bashing can eat shit after the last four years.

[mopaul]

32. they've learned to actually enjoy shit apparently

why they are not all screaming bloody murder about bushco is beyond me. i say it's time to take off the gloves.

[Jane Austin]

33. Well, I missed it, thank Goodness, because

I can't even look at the guy.

A long time ago it began to bug me that he never closes his mouth after a question, but lets it sort of hang open.

It's so, . . . so affected or something that he just makes my skin crawl.

I'm not normally obsessive, but this one drove me nuts, so I can't watch him.

[JCMach1]

34. Moore stuck a stiletto in Hemmer just now, so don't sweat it

Moore asked him if he had read the 9/11 report... he responded that he had read the executive summary... Moore responded with I see... the 'cliffnotes'

I don't think Hemmer got it :)

[faithnotgreed]

48. that was an awesome post... thank you

[KharmaTrain]

35. Hemmer...The Poster Boy To CNN's Demise

I've never liked this hairspray empty suit...back to the very first days I saw him. This was in the mid 90's when the network was sold to Time/Warner and journalists were being shown the door and the pretty faces started to pop up...Hemmer was the first.

His bulging Adam's Apple always drove me to distraction...then his attempts to get into Daren Kagan's pants. Ever since I've never considered this goon to be a lucky fratboy whose good looks are the only thing that puts him where he is.

Remember, all these pretty faces on CNN are wired into a control room. While on camera they're more wired into their earpiece than anything else. That's why you'll hear a question asked and you can tell the empty suit isn't even listening to the answer. I'm certain there are several on CNN who get their words almost verbatim from that earpiece and whomever is connected on the other end.

The other night a couple of us were discussing what we missed about CNN. To a person we all said the following: Bernie Shaw. He was the counterbalance and the class of that network for its first 20 years. Now it's a tabloid shill...pandering to perceived ratings and jumping to the corporate's best interests...always.

[arwalden]

37. Reason Number 5962 NOT To Watch Any Cable-News

They are script readers and not news people. Talk show chat hosts, not journalists.

They belong with Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, and that other entertainment show that I can't think of the name of right now.

-- Allen

[Q]

38. Jesus...it's like the Clinton/Gore BASHING years never happened...

...and I'm not talking about retribution. It's the hypocrisy.

[TWiley]

39. Republicans are bossy bastards

Now they want to dictate the topics of discussion at the national convention. Not to long ago, they were discussing weather THEY should let the election happen. As if it was their choice.

They gotta go.

[Neecy]

40. pfffft

I'd like to hear the sanctimonious little prick have the following discussion with Ed Gillespie:

STRESSING, "Mr Gillespie, can you ASSURE us that this campaign will be POSITIVE and there won't be a lot of KERRY BASHING?"

GILLESPIE: "Oops, too late!"

It's shocking to me that he'd lecture the Democrats while we've been flooded with some of the most negative campaign ads in recent history, replete with Kerry-bashing to the point where he's painted as some kind of anti-American commie. Where's Hemmer moaning and bleating about the negative tone of the Bush* campaign?

I hate these bastards.

[VolcanoJen]

41. Amazing!! MSNBC just asked if the Bush campaign has made...

... a similar pledge to keep the "Kerry-Bashing" to a minimum!!!

Outstanding. Good job, for a change, MSNBC!!

[blueblitzkrieg]

43. What'd they say? n/t

[SarahB]

46. Uh...yeah

Let's not say anything "bad" about an incumbent Republican president at the Democratic Convention. Excellent strategy. :eyes:
Stupid morans!

[Cha]

47. Can that fucking repuke convention in NYC

give us their assurances there will be NO Kerry/Edwards bashing?????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!

[Batgirl]

51. I can't watch that pipsqueak (Hemmer)

His every pronouncement reeks of dumbness. Even his eyes have all the depth and intelligence of two plastic shoebuttons.

He's absolutely not smart enough to be sinister (like Novak.)
But he's got that self-satisfied thing going on in spades. (Righties seem to have cornered the market on smug.)

I remember how pathetically self-impressed he was as an embedded "journalist." He developed what I think he believed was a manly swagger. Like he was trying to channel the Duke. Except he came across more like a six-year-old who just got a remote control tank for Christmas, and is out in the back yard "playing Army" with the big boys.

Or like a puppy turning himself inside out with euphoria that he's going bye-bye in the car. I wonder how hard it was for the real sodiers to keep from slapping him while paper training this wanna-be?

That's when I had to stop watching CNN in the morning. Haven't been back since.