Nancy Skinner on O'Reilly talking Jon Stewart vs. Fox News

[SharonRB]

Run time: 04:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s6-SKAC_cQ   Posted on YouTube: April 22, 2010 By YouTube Member: nancyskinnerlive Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 22, 2010 By DU Member: SharonRB Views on DU: 2195

 
Nancy walks into the spitball fight between Jon Stewart and Fox News on the O'Reilly Factor. Bernie Goldberg is reacting to Stewart's 4-20-2010 hilarious comedy skit about Fox News. "It's called satire, and it's only funny when you take a kernal of truth and you take it over the top," says Skinner. But to the larger point. "We have two dominant (and very different) worldviews out there, and those beliefs shape your reality. So when someone challenges your worldview, you say they are out of touch with reality, and they are - yours!" Nancy will be writing more in depth on this at her blog at http://www.nancyskinnerlive.com later today.

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1. Where do they find these "liberals" at? They totally missed the point

the point being that everything Jon Stewert said was 100% accurate. it wasn't a hint of truth, it was the absolute truth.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Maybe she meant that the skit contained TOO MUCH TRUTH, instead of just a kernel of it???

Bwaahaahaa>>>>>>>>>>:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[vanbean]

3. ROFLMAO! Billo isn't about to pick a fight with Jon, he knows he will get his ass handed to him.

[pepperbear]

5. yeah, bernie. if he's just an entertainer, why not go on his show? n/t

[whatacountry09]

4. It's not funny to a lot of us, bill!

And... I would like people from foreign countries to watch FOX, MSNBC & CNN for one straight week, from 5 a.m. until 10 p.m. - one entire week - and after each week, write up what they've learned from that networks. Continue until all three week worth of networks were watched and summarized and then report their findings.

Of course that will take some time - like a clinical trial study - and you'd have to find some real couch potatoes, but I would really like to know what they would think of these news networks and the people they put on the air spewing what they spew!

Now, of course I KNOW that whatever the results are - if they prove to resemble Jon Stewart and our views of Fox at all, in any remote way, fox and their viewers will react the same exact way. There will be no change and no accountability anyway. They will use a common set of tired talking points to discredit each foreigner's findings.

But... I would just like to see it done anyway!

:applause:

[12string]

6. fox news

Hey Billo,Jon Stewart is not the only one genuinely offended by Fox's misrepresentation of the truth.You people wouldn't know fair and balanced if it came up and bit you in the ass.

[immoderate]

7. Well, that was a big nothing.

--imm

[smoogatz]

8. It's interesting that Fox sent a nobody like Bernie Goldberg

(who is he, again?) out to take on Jon Stewart. Clearly they didn't want to throw one of their big guns into that particular arena: they apparently haven't forgotten what Stewart did to Tucker Carlson and Jim Cramer.

[boycottfaux]

9. Bildo Looks Dejected, BooHoo

"He generally does not like the faux news channel"

DUH, Falafel Man, we ALL hate the faux news channel.  Stewart
is OUR voice!!

[A wise Man]

10. The truth hurts doesn't it Bilo

amazing how idiots watch this program and calls their rancid lies truth. What is Nancy Skinner doing there. Why are they called number one....do we have that many nuts here in the US...??????

[SharonRB]

11. Read Nancy's latest blog post on why she goes on Fox

http://www.nancyskinnerlive.com.

[mmonk]

19. Thanks for the OP.

I'm going to.

[Plucketeer]

12. Glenn Beck is the Right's comedian???

There's a vast difference between being genuinely funny and genuinely deranged! :crazy:

[SharonRB]

13. I guess Nancy needed a sarcasm smilie there

She meant that as a joke.

[spicegal]

14. In the first place, Jon Stewart pokes fun at the news media in general. Anyone who has watched

him for any length of time would know that. Fox just happens to be the very worst offender, and yes they do their viewers (and the country in general) a huge disservice because they are completely dishonest 75% of the time. Yes, people do have different world views, but sometimes there are just facts. There is no other "news" network that pushes a narrative the way Fox does, and for O'Reilly to play innocent about it is pretty ridiculous. For Goldberg to have responded to Stewarts comments about Fox only gives him fodder. That's how stupid conservatives are.

[JohnnyK]

15. John Stuart is the best, and that Steven guy, too. n/t

[ScottLand]

16. Maybe Jon Stewart is offended by Fox because they're

full of **** and they portray that **** as truth.

[suzanner]

17. I've listened to Nancy's radio show... not a great impression.

Difficult to identify or empathize with such a rigid thinker. I'm happy she's employed somewhere, though.

[SharonRB]

18. Rigid thinker?

Where do you get that from? Nancy isn't rigid -- she's open to listening to the other side and having a dialogue with people who disagree with her -- just as Thom Hartmann does. That makes her far less rigid than, say, someone like Randi Rhodes, who shouts at anyone who disagrees with her and doesn't even give them a chance to talk.

[mrdmk]

20. The point Ms. Skinner is making is valid

Here is what troubles me. More than once, I have been told that it is important to get all points of view. This is to enable yourself to have an informed opinion. Not only to have an informed opinion, but when called into action, one is able to respond with appropriate comments based on fact. I am in agreement with this strategy on becoming an informed person.

When an opinion is given supposedly based on a number of facts, and I find the facts do not match my knowledge of the subject, I do check those facts. This goes for any politician, pundit, talk show host, even a conversation with a stranger on the street. One thing we probably do agree on is any body can be wrong with their facts, thus giving them uninformed opinion. When a person deliberately does away with certain facts to deliberately misrepresent the situation, or worse, replaces known facts with fiction to change an opinion of another person, this to me calls this person's integrity into question. Of course, people do misrepresent facts with fiction all of the time which makes for a big waste of time and resources for everyone involved.

Here is the conclusion of this rant. When having to check facts for fiction from a public speaker supposedly from the left or the right, todays speakers from the right have a major lack of integrity. Except for may be a quick personal gain which is just as quickly lost, what do these people expect to happen in the long run?