By Lindsay Beyerstein
Dave Weigel of the Washington Independent and Adele Stan of AlterNet report that the media were barred from the Media Courage award ceremony at the Values Voter summit this weekend. Only Fox News was allowed to film inside the auditorium where Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was being feted (or fetid, depending on your perspective).
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Was that a different event from that where both the MSNBC and the FOX guys were thrown out while Billo talked (if by talking you mean uttering statements of infinitesimal truth but high on digestive juices)?
Posted by: Hartmut | September 21, 2009 at 03:15 AM
"The corpse of Irony disinterred, bludgeoned to death yet again. Film at 11."
Posted by: Snarki, child of Loki | September 21, 2009 at 09:13 AM
The zombie whisperers fete the the zombie shouters.
As in all zombie adventures, there comes a time when you seal off the area and call in a tactical nuclear strike to save civilization.
Except that I think our civilization enjoys being eaten by the zombies. You get to watch yourself on T.V. being consumed.
Posted by: John Thullen | September 21, 2009 at 09:19 AM
This is the recently-renamed "Bombastic Blowhard Lifetime Achievement Award", yes?
Posted by: chmood | September 21, 2009 at 09:28 AM
I'm having this strange feeling of deja vu.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | September 21, 2009 at 09:39 AM
Hartmut, that was the Values Voter summit of 2009 of the Republican party. All the big wingnuts come to pay homage to...something, I guess the 'base'. MSNBC and Faux were invited to 'Values' and were apologized to for the rude behavior of the attendees (after the news networks were ejected).
I doubt O'reilly apologized.
Posted by: jean | September 21, 2009 at 12:05 PM