By Gene Lyons -- Salon -- October 28, 2009:
"The Obama administration's basic charge against Fox News is undeniably true: The network functions as the propaganda wing of the Republican Party. Fox openly organizes and promotes partisan political events such as April's "Fox News Tea Party." Its coverage of congressional "Town Hall" meetings reflected not a single individual supporting healthcare reform, as documented by Media Matters for America. Not one. Fox portrays every perceived setback for the Obama White House as a "victory" for "Fox Nation."
As necessary, Fox resorts to sheer fiction: Reporting that Glenn Beck's ballyhooed October Tea Party event drew upward of 2 million protesters to Washington. In reality, considerably more fans (102,941) attended the Auburn-Tennessee football game. (Political tip: If you hope to draw big crowds of Southern white men, avoid Saturdays in October.)
In this country, journalists don't sponsor or participate in partisan political events.
Explaining to the New York Times, deputy White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said, "We simply decided to stop abiding by the fiction, which is aided and abetted by the mainstream press, that Fox is a traditional news organization."
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I think it's way passed time that Faux get's called out on their crap news. But, the right wing nuts still believe everything they hear. It's like religion to them, in that the lies have been repeated so many times, in their heads, they just auto exclude anything that disagrees with their beliefs. Just like religion.
They should join together with the Islamic Fascists. They pretty much believe the same things.
Yes, you read the bible and the Koran and they're really not that different. "god is not GREAT" by Hitchens, details that they both have some pretty nasty stuff in there. Thank you know who, the religious right wing cons don't read much and so never see the bad stuff, which they might apply to just about anybody.
Again, tell me the lies. The tea parties we not a rebublican movement you morons. Thats what we have be saying for the last freaking 7 months! Wake up and realize that Fox is just showing you what the PEOPLE are pissed off about. MSNBC did the same thing when Bush was in office. Why dont you talk about that? You all are such huge hypocrites its not even funny anymore. I know, just like everyone else, that bad things do happen in the world but instead of trying to get the government to make people do the right thing why not try and educate people. Teach people what is going on and ask them if they would like to help the cause. There are people out there who will help those sick kids in Africa, the poorer people in this nation, and try to stop "global warming". Instead of looking to the government to solve all the problems in the world why not look to your neighbor or to any other person in this country. There will be someone out there who will lend a helping hand. Fox News may be a conservative network but thats because MSNBC is so freaking liberal its ridiculous. Everyday that i turn that bull**** network on its talking about how awesome Obama is and how dumb republicans are. Is that not a perspective? Of course not. You liberals are always right and can do no wrong. Just look at that fat a** who called the lobbist a whore and then wouldnt apoligize until the democrats put up a fight. Its ridiculous. You all are ridiculous. As for you Fascists comment, CJP, sounds a lot like Oblerman. Maybe the repulbicans should start talking about him in the news and call him a drug addict and o idk talk about how fat he is, or call him nerd cause he wheres glasses. Look at yourselves before you go around accusing other people. Thanks.
"The Obama administration's basic charge against Fox News is undeniably true: The network functions as the propaganda wing of the Republican Party."
What's there charge against CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNBC or CNN? They are not a propaganda wing of the democrat party. They are the democrat party. I guess Obama would like to control 100% of the media instead of only 99% of it.
If Fox news is considered fair and balanced by the cons, then the cons themselves must be convinced that the earth is flat.
"If Fox news is considered fair and balanced by the cons, then the cons themselves must be convinced that the earth is flat."
Oh you're so witty.
Are CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNBC or CNN fair and balanced?
They all are. They all have journalistic integrity. Fox is simply a Conservative propaganda network.
MSNBC is the only one even remotely close to Faux News, in the opposite extreme. But that's like comparing a summer breeze to a hurricane, respectively.
"They all are. They all have journalistic integrity. Fox is simply a Conservative propaganda network." CJP
Lol. That's funny. Slowly turning into a comedy blog.
"The Democratic National Committee is taking fresh aim at Sarah Palin, encouraging supporters to attack the former Alaska governor on Facebook in order to "debunk her lies.""
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/29/dnc-asks-supporters-to-take-on-palins-lies/
God it's amazing they have been able to get away with as much as they have. Finally they are getting called out.
called out. lol. How about calling out Charlie Rengal (4 rent controlled apts, usually held for lower income families, failed to report income on tax return who also by the way is head of the tax commitee (a joke in itself)), Tax cheat Tim Geitner who failed to report income on tax return and only decided to comply with the law when Obama hired him was "the only man that could save us" (another of dems inside jokes), how about calling out the dem politicians in Taxachusettes who've been charged by the FBI of taking bribes (I bring it up because you won't see this story in the liberal media. 1 because they're dems and 2 because they're black. Lib media has no problem calling out republicans (I applaud them for it because they should) For some reasons you libs want to cover up dem corruption instead of fixing the problem and throwing out the garbage.)
I could go on but I think you get the point. This is why Fox is successful because they report this. The more media in this world the better.
Anyway Raygun tell me when they're going to call these guys out? How about using just a small portion of the manpower spent on Palin to cover these criminals.
"How about using just a small portion of the manpower spent on Palin to cover these criminals."
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Palin,Bachman, and their kind are a danger to humanity, not just a danger to pretty green paper.
The zealot right should not be allowed any closer to nukes than the Islamists.
And I agree with the terror happy right wingnut cons, we can't allow Iran to make a nuke.
"Palin,Bachman, and their kind are a danger to humanity, not just a danger to pretty green paper."
Raygun, can you say "scare tactics"?
"The zealot right should not be allowed any closer to nukes than the Islamists."
???? I thought we were talking about calling out corrupt politicians? Oh you mean just the corrupt "republicans". No, you don't want to talk about "fair and balanced". You don't want me to know about corrupt democrat politicians. You only want me to know about the bad things republicans do. You don't want me to hear both sides of the story. You and the democrat party WANT TO CONTROL THE MEDIA!! lol. Now they want to control the internet. Socialism at it's best!!
Just a small portion of manpower is all we need. Keep 95% on Palin and just give 5% to the politicians who have been charged by the FBI with bribery. 5% is not alot. As a matter of fact if we were to say the media is "fair and balanced" the we would expect alot more coverage. These are sitting politicians we're talking about. Dems relax in the comfort of knowing that your favorite media channels will not report on any of the criminal acts performed by the democrats. "Fair and balanced" LOL
4 recent stories on Rangel on CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=Rangel&primaryType=mixed&sortBy=date&intl=false
HOTR, there may be left leaning news agencies, but the magnitude of bias is nothing compared to Faux News.
Please check out the many sites dedicated to denouncing Faux lies. They've been around a long time and most are very professional. Try http://mediamatters.org/ for one.
Lets see facts of left wing media slant.
"On O'Reilly's show, Zurawik also hit his latest talking point that Fox News is just like MSNBC, and if the WH is critiquing Fox News it ought to take on MSNBC for being unprofessional. We've seen this lazy analogy a lot in the last couple weeks; because MSNBC has a couple liberal hosts, that means its around-the-clock product is exactly the same as MSNBC."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200910290007
To check the facts: http://www.factcheck.org/
The most objective and truthful website I've come across sofar.
"Lets see facts of left wing media slant."
Raygun, you got me there. How can I prove to you that lib media doesn't report Charlie Rangel. How does he still get to stand next to the President? Why is he still relevant to politics? I can't prove lib media doesn't talk about corrupted Taxachusetts politician. I can't prove that lib media doesn't have coverage of Chris Dodd and his sweetheart mortgage deal. Please tell me how to prove that.
Anon, they are delusional. Anything they see that disagrees with their preconceived notions isn't real to them. Most of them voted for w twice. Most of them think Palin would be a good president. It's mass delusion.
"How can I prove to you that lib media doesn't report Charlie Rangel."
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So HOTR, you're saying there are articles on the supposed lefts web sites, found by searching for them, but the left never talks about the subjects of the articles? They're fake articles, actually never shown?
Raygun, I'm saying that the left hides there news that is not favorable to democrats. Sarah Palin in highlighted at any given moment while Charles Rangel stories show up close to the sports pages.
"4 recent stories on Rangel on CNN."
Key word is recent. Rangel got busted for 4 rent controlled apartments last year. You're probably just learning about it. Even John Stewart said the lib media got burned on the ACORN story from fox.
"Even John Stewart said the lib media got burned on the ACORN story from fox."
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It was a non story to me.
Of course it was. You're more interested in Sarah Palin. lol. Charles Rangel is a non story to you. Taxachussettes policitians getting busted taking bribes is a non story to you. Obama ignoring the troops that are begging for help in Afghan war is a non story to you. Only really important stories like defending a phedofile interests you. Stories of Palin's ex-son in law interest you. Only the administrations supression of freedom of speech with fox news interests you. No wonder your crappy at debating.
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