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Worst Media Moments of Obama's First 100 Days?

First Posted: 05/24/09 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 02:15 PM ET

Worst Media Moments

Hey kids! Do you like listicles? And polls? And voting in polls? And reading listicles? And mashup videos of so-called media professionals, behaving as if they were idiot children or egomaniacal monsters from the dark side of the moon? Well, then, this recent initiative from Media Matters has all, or some, of the things you love!

Today, Media Matters is taking stock of the worst media moments of the first 100 days of the Obama Presidency. They're showing a strange faith that no one in the media will be capable of doing something epically boneheaded, I think. I mean, I'd personally recommend you save room for CNN's 100 Daypocalypse and Hologram Zombie Celebration that they've got planned, because I'm forecasting that one to be partly cloudy with a chance of BONKERS.

Still, this is a pretty good list. It includes such classics as:

--Glenn Beck's whimsical arsonist fetish!
--Rush Limbaugh indulges in his anal rape fantasia!
--Pat Buchanan. Wife beating. More or less self-explanatory!
--Rick Santelli rallies the least sympathetic people in America to rally!
--Glenn Beck makes some dude sit in an idling car, because of Al Gore!
--Jim Cramer yammers on about Bolshevism!
--Rush Limbaugh compares unions to Tony Soprano, but fails to explain whether those unions got capped in the last scene. I mean, let's face it, we all have opinions, but that quick fade to black was still pretty ambiguous. And really, Meadow, is parallel parking that hard?
--Glenn Beck mocks the infirm, because people without functioning legs are socialists, leaching off the ambulatory.
--Larry Cudlow sees gangsta gang signs and fist bumps and jive talk, everywhere, even in his dreams, because he is a cosseted tool.
--More Glenn Beck, saying Texas should secede, maybe launch itself into space and fight with Martians, who knows? Has it not sunk in that the guy has got more loose screws than the Ikea Returns Department?
--Dick Morris! What sort of low opinion must you have of yourself to even associate with Dick Morris? I mean, you see this toe-sucking perv coming down the sidewalk, you cross to the other side of the street! Am I right? Seriously!
--Fox Business Channel's longhaired hipster nimrod says something about fascism that's literally the first time anyone in America ever saw him on the teevee because no one watches the Fox Business Channel.

Anyway, here's a funny mashup video. This is America, circa the twenty-first century, and this is precisely why advanced races aren't visiting us, with their cures for cancer.

[WATCH.]

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Hey kids! Do you like listicles? And polls? And voting in polls? And reading listicles? And mashup videos of so-called media professionals, behaving as if they were idiot children or egomaniacal ...
Hey kids! Do you like listicles? And polls? And voting in polls? And reading listicles? And mashup videos of so-called media professionals, behaving as if they were idiot children or egomaniacal ...
 
 
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09:48 AM on 04/29/2009
Suggestion: We should all cancel our cable subscriptions and download the shows we want to watch from the internet. Not only will it save us money but it will also shut these guys DOWN.
10:34 AM on 04/29/2009
Ironically that will happen within the next few years. My kids are all 20 somethings and they watch shows on their computers. Most of their peers do the same thing. Apparentely TV has to many commercials and watching shows on computers cuts running time of a show in half. TV execs are going to have to come into the new decade armed with some solutions before TV becomes a relic.
12:54 AM on 04/25/2009
lol media matters bwhahahahahaha, that would be like asking the dems to rate the worst polical moves since obama took office, no slant at media matters, no of course not.
05:14 AM on 04/29/2009
want a tissue

heh...
12:55 PM on 04/29/2009
There has been more criticism of Obama's policies and decisions in 100 days by the "left wing" media (NYT, CNBC, The Daily Show, HuffPo etc.) than there was criticism of the Bush administration in Eight YEARS by FOX News, the New York Post, The Washington Post etc.).

And if you didn't have your head up somewhere where you hearing's muffled, then you would have heard PLENTY of criticism of Obama's decisions from the Dems.

Wake up.
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murphysgirl
I prefer coffee, not tea..
03:49 PM on 04/24/2009
MSNBC isn't as available to most most cable packages as opposed to FOX.
12:56 AM on 04/25/2009
yes they usually want the ones that get ratings, and dont have to make sophmoric sex jokes to try and get them.
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arcanepsyche
03:07 PM on 04/25/2009
At least the sex jokes are true.
02:00 PM on 04/24/2009
hahaha....guess you can't expect much from the jealous left media.....theres a reason fox is number one...and you continue to promote it. Thank you.
03:37 AM on 04/26/2009
Yes, their inane and insipid rationale for playing their audience like fools and yahoos such as you who believe and justify the b.s. they feed you.
10:43 AM on 04/24/2009
Jeez, just get a list of the last 100 days worth of KO's Worst person segments, and you've pry got the winners in there.
10:32 AM on 04/24/2009
You left out some really GREAT ones:

1. Obama insults the Special Olympics
2. Obama gives DVD's that won't work in UK to Gordon Brown.
3. Hillary presents the Big Red Button with the wrong translation to Russia.
4. Hillary's team mistakenly lists the number to a phone s e x line instead of the correct one.
5. Obama tries to go in through a window at the White House instead of a door.
6. Obama nearly br ains himself getting on Marine One.
7. Larry Summers falls asleep in critical meeting.
8. Daschle is forced to withdraw due to tax issue.
7. Judd Gregg withdraws his name for cabinet position.
8. It is revealed that Geithner, along with at least 5 others, hasn't paid his taxes either, but they stay on.
9. We find out Obama's best friend in the whole world is his teleprompter.
10. The economy continues to s u c k despite gallons and gallons of Kool-Aid and pixie dust.

Shall I go on?
10:55 AM on 04/24/2009
Well, since those would be POLITICAL moments, and not MEDIA moments (and merely silly rather than "worst:), I'll opt for no.

Go somewhere, grow up, then come back.
01:02 PM on 04/24/2009
I'm leaving for lunch, and do a few errands, then I'll be back. That's as far as I'm going. Sorry. Furthermore, fully grown and quite the handful.
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dc2nm
I don't want a micro-bio.
11:19 AM on 04/24/2009
So you're comparing minor gaffs to planned media segments designed to either draw out more hate & anger or are outright lies. You don't even realize you're being exploited by rich, powerful Republicans and you talk about kool-aid.

Shall we go on about the serious errors of the Republican leadership??? (I would say the Bush administration, but that's too easy.)
01:24 PM on 04/24/2009
Oh Obama wasn't in the media with Jay Leno? I'm sorry, I thought that was a planned segment of free air-time for his stimulus plan agenda.
10:24 AM on 04/24/2009
Not one of Olbermann's whinefest special comments made this list?
01:46 PM on 04/24/2009
This list was compiled by Media Matters, not the Weekly Standard.
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10:16 AM on 04/24/2009
How can you even pick a worst when Glenn Beck is in any of them? Anything with him in is the worst.
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proudem
does not suffer fools gladly
10:32 AM on 04/24/2009
The dirty little secret of the Fox news ratings is that the average age of their listener is 67...retired...uneducated...and living on social security. just sayin
03:53 AM on 04/26/2009
Unfortunately true. My aunt met one of them in a Florida retirement community. Since Fox News dominates the area, the only stuff coming out of his mouth was to parrot whatever Fox News told him for that day.

Truly pathetic is the audience that believes the b.s. that Fox News feeds them. Even more so when Fox News treats its audience like mindless fools and uses them like disposable toilet tissue to promote its causes.
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AxelDC
09:24 AM on 04/24/2009
Glen Beck takes the cake any day!
11:22 AM on 04/24/2009
crazy like a fox! (a crazy one, anyway)
08:36 AM on 04/24/2009
Fox news is always #1 by a landslide! How does that happen? Is the America pubic that far off????
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09:13 AM on 04/24/2009
maybe some people work, have hobbies, take care of their kids, rather than just watch inane television.
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Degringolade
11:15 AM on 04/24/2009
I tried but I just can't let "American pubic" go.
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wallonthefly
Sanitized For Your Protection
12:42 PM on 04/24/2009
Insert tea-bagging joke here.
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profitforless
6 and 20 thousand years
08:31 AM on 04/24/2009
What a great package . All the retoric and out right lies in one video for all to see , its the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you.
08:25 AM on 04/24/2009
I am sure each and every one of these "guys" is thrilled to still be getting attention for these stunts.
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harobamason
its a new day
06:06 AM on 04/24/2009
We get it!

Its just anti-Obama talk.
03:59 AM on 04/24/2009
Oh...If they only had a brain...just one brain...Is that asking for too much?
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WestCoastWoman
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02:42 AM on 04/24/2009
A bunch of right-wing lunatics talk....... you people looks like FOOLS!