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To think that some of these people refused to be in a debate on fox because they consider it biased.
And they were right. That was not the whole reason though. It wa smore because they don't get a fair representation. In other words, Fox lies. They would be right to boycott a Sharpton primary too though, IMO.
That said, the Dems are doing a good job representing those traditionally left out of the power structure this election. A good, diverse group of candidates.
ryr8828
04-19-2007, 11:08 AM
I'm willing to read examples of some of Fox's lies, so I can compare them to CBS and CNN.
I'm willing to read examples of some of Fox's lies, so I can compare them to CBS and CNN.
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“Iraq less violent than DC?”
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(Note from Larry: Several have complained that the buildings circled were being falsely identified as the World Trade Centers. Jurassic said nothing about the WTC, but some readers arrived at that conclusion. I have removed this image at Jurassic's request.)
Fox News, 8/23/2003
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At least they made Hastert the big story.
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“Why would the Fox News Network employ a long serving member of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq organization and well known mercenary of Saddam Hussein, as its 'Foreign Affairs Analyst'?” -Iran Inter-link.org
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Breaking news: Hezbollah has nukes.
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It can’t be true because Bush would’ve been declared the winner by John Ellis.
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The “other people” part convinced me. And, more importantly, did he attend a madrassa?
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Yeah, how dare the media shirk its responsibilities in fighting terrorism like the administration?
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Who needs Havidol?
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Is this a multiple choice news story like the next one?
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Or like the next one?
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The Mayon volcano is in Luzon in the Philippines, not Indonesia.
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Just in case Corey Lidle was a terrorist
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It could be taken out of context, sure. But knowing Bush…
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The font was so small because he barely won and the Democrats barely got the Senate.
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Finally, as a tribute to the true journalistic stature of Fox’s staff, I offer you this:
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Sadly, the author regrets that not a single one of these have been Photoshopped.
Posted by Larry Johnson on Sun
[O]n August 25, Fox News anchor Donna Fiducia declared that Army recruiting "is on the rebound" and reported a statement by Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army's chief of staff, that the service expects to exceed its August recruiting goal, as it did in June and July. But Fiducia ignored the rest of Schoomaker's comments, which included a more dour announcement that the Army expects to miss its annual recruitment goal for the fiscal year that ends in September.
An August 26 Washington Post article by staff writer Josh White titled "Army Likely to Meet August's, But Not Year's Goal" reported -- as Fiducia did -- that re-enlistment numbers are up and that the Army expects to meet its recruitment goal for August. But the Post also noted that, in a meeting with reporters, Schoomaker said "he expects the Army to miss its annual goal of 80,000 new active-duty recruits by 'a couple thousand.' " The Post further reported Schoomaker's characterization of the current "recruiting environment" as the most difficult since the Army "became an all-volunteer force." [Watch the Fox broadcast here]
Fox News Channel
Launched in 1996, Fox News has in recent years consistently earned higher viewer ratings than the other cable news networks. It is owned by News Corp., which also owns Fox Broadcasting Co. The media empire of News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch also includes the conservative New York Post and The Weekly Standard. Roger Ailes, the chairman, CEO, and president of Fox News Channel, is a former aide to President Nixon, a consultant to President Reagan, and worked for George H. W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign.
Fox News' programming features numerous on-air personalities who have furthered conservative misinformation, including Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor, who labels himself "a traditionalist"; Sean Hannity, who with Alan Colmes co-hosts Hannity & Colmes; and Brit Hume, host of Special Report, which is largely presented as straight news, though Hume injects his conservative perspective into much of the program's coverage. As a July 2004 Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting study has documented, Special Report regularly features one-on-one interviews with subjects who are conservative far more often than liberal or moderate. The show also includes a discussion panel that often repeats Republican talking points. The morning program Fox & Friends features three hosts with conservative perspectives. Carl Cameron, the network's chief White House correspondent, and congressional correspondent Brian Wilson have both often presented ostensibly straight news programming with a slant that favors conservatives. Fox's other daytime programs (The Big Story with John Gibson, Fox News Live, and Your World with Neil Cavuto) and its marquee weekend news show (Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, which also airs on Fox Broadcasting Co. affiliates) also are presented as objective news sources, yet Media Matters for America has compiled substantial research indicating the network's coverage most often favors the conservative viewpoint and often blatantly misinforms viewers.
Fox's featured programs (Fox & Friends, The O'Reilly Factor, and Hannity & Colmes) often advance misinformation that furthers the conservative position on an entire slate of issues. Besides the network's self-identified conservatives, Fox's "straight news" anchors and reporters continually amplify misinformation that favors the conservative viewpoint and on occasion have even admitted their own conservative perspective.
"[O]n the Fox News Channel programs Special Report with Brit Hume and Hannity & Colmes, only the polls that provided good news for Bush-Cheney and the least positive results for Kerry-Edwards were reported." [7/9/04]
Fox 'Supreme Court Analyst' declares it's 'our job' to make sure Bush nominee isn't 'vilified by the left' [7/1/05]
"Although Fox News Channel purportedly refused to run the latest attack ad from discredited anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth because it 'accuses Kerry of treason, a crime punishable by death,' the network gave the ad plenty of free airtime during network news coverage." [9/24/04]
"On the August 6 edition of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume, the 'Fox All-Star Panel' attempted to put the best possible spin on disappointing job numbers for July, discussing the new data using almost the same language as the Bush administration and the Republican National Committee (RNC)." [8/10/04]
"[Tom] Adkins has used each of his regular appearances on Your World [with Neil Cavuto] to launch vitriolic attacks against Democrats under the guise of economic analysis. Fox News Channel offers no information about Adkins to indicate why the network thinks he is qualified to provide such analysis." [8/3/04]
"Fox News Channel devoted an entire segment of the September 28 edition of Special Report with Brit Hume to an interview with the president of a conservative front group who attacked Senator John Kerry while pretending to analyze the voting preferences of 'this year's crucial target voter,' the so-called 'security moms.' " [9/29/04]
"Fox News Channel general assignment reporter Major Garrett falsely suggested that Democrats were perpetrating voter fraud in Philadelphia." [10/25/04]
"Fox News Channel aired one hour and 16 minutes less of speeches from the [Democratic] convention live than did CNN and one hour and 47 minutes less than did MSNBC." [8/2/04]
"Fox News Channel anchor Greg Jarrett practically pleaded with his Republican guest, Craig L. Fuller (chief of staff under former Vice President George H.W. Bush), to repeat a Bush-Cheney '04 attack on the Democratic National Convention." [7/26/04]
Fox's Goler left out Cheney aspect of Sheehan's explanation for declining "war czar" position
On the April 12 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News White House correspondent Wendell Goler reported that "two retired generals have turned down" the position of war czar and that one had "sa[id] he didn't need the ulcer he would be likely to develop." But that was a small part of what retired Maj. Gen. John J. "Jack" Sheehan reportedly said. Unmentioned in Goler's report was the statement by Sheehan that he refused the job because he would have spent much of his time unsuccessfully fighting Vice President Dick Cheney and his allies who, according to Sheehan, "don't know where the hell they're going" on Iraq.
Goler also reported that while congressional Democrats and President Bush "debate" the Iraq war supplemental funding bill, "the Pentagon's feeling the pinch." However, a March 28 Congressional Research Service (CRS) memo has stated that adequate funds are available to the Army for operations and maintenance in Iraq and Afghanistan through most of July 2007.
As Media Matters for America has noted, an April 11 Washington Post article reported that the White House "wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies." The Post article quoted Sheehan, one of those who reportedly turned down the "war czar" position, as saying that he "never agreed on the basis of the [Iraq] war" and asserting that those currently in charge of the conflict -- people with what Sheehan reportedly called the "Cheney view" that "we're going to win" and that "al-Qaeda's there" -- "don't know where the hell they're going." The article further reported, "Sheehan said he believes that Vice President Cheney and his hawkish allies remain more powerful within the administration than pragmatists looking for a way out of Iraq. 'So rather than go over there, develop an ulcer and eventually leave, I said, "No, thanks." ' "
After Goler asserted that "the Pentagon's feeling the pinch," he quoted deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino, who stated, "Every day that we don't get the money is one that, as Secretary [of Defense Robert] Gates and General [Peter] Pace [chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] have said, creates problems, in terms of the training. And so, by piecemeal, you see some troops have been there for 16 months and that's what we're trying to avoid." But, as Media Matters has noted, the assertion that the Pentagon is "feeling the pinch" because the supplemental funding bill has not been passed conflicts with a March 28 memo by the nonpartisan CRS. The memo stated that the Army has adequate funds available from the previous year's defense appropriations bill to "finance the O&M [operations and maintenance] of both its baseline and war program ... through most of July 2007."
From the April 12 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume:
GOLER: But what the president's been telling Democrats is that they can't override the veto he's promised. And while the two sides debate, the Pentagon's feeling the pinch.
PERINO: Every day that we don't get the money is one that, as Secretary Gates and General Pace have said, creates problems, in terms of the training. And so, by piecemeal, you see some troops have been there for 16 months and that's what we're trying to avoid.
GOLER: Still, some freshman Democratic lawmakers feel they were sent to Washington to end the war, and they say they'll continue to push for a deadline.
SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D-OH): It is clearly not in our national interests to continue this war. That is why we are not going to give up to convince this president, as we pick off one Republican at a time in the House and Senate, to convince this president to redeploy our troops out of Iraq.
GOLER: Meanwhile, White House officials privately briefed reporters on the war czar position they're trying to fill, someone who can deal daily with the U.S. ambassador and the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, to make sure they are getting what they need, and who can lean on the president's cabinet secretaries if that's not happening.
At least two retired generals have turned down the job, one saying he didn't need the ulcer he'd be likely to develop.
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GOLER: An administration official says with a new commander of U.S. forces implementing a new war strategy in Iraq and a new ambassador to the country, it is a good time to create this new war czar position. The White House would like to fill the job as quickly as possible. But so far officials here haven't found a single candidate they want the president to talk to.
On Fox, Hannity, North, and Hasselbeck claimed Pelosi may go to Iran, despite her denial
On the April 12 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity, Fox News military analyst Oliver North, and ABC's The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck all repeated the false claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would consider a diplomatic trip to Iran, even though the Associated Press had reported her spokesman's statement the previous day that Pelosi has "no intention of going to Iran." The claims continued despite co-host Alan Colmes' noting that Pelosi "never said she was going to Iran." Later, Colmes noted, "[H]er spokesperson says she has no intention of going to Iran."
During an April 10 press conference, shortly after returning from a trip to Syria, Pelosi and House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) were asked by reporters if they were interested in extending their diplomacy to Iran. Lantos replied, "Speaking just for myself, I would be ready to get on a plane tomorrow morning." He added: "Speaking for myself, I'm ready to go -- and knowing the speaker, I think that she might be." Although Pelosi did not respond to the question or to Lantos' statement, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article headlined, "Pelosi, Lantos may be interested in diplomatic trip to Iran." Conservative Internet gossip Matt Drudge linked to the article on his website, the Drudge Report, with the headline "Pelosi may go to Iran ..."
However, throughout Hannity & Colmes, Hannity, North, and Hasselbeck repeated the claim that Pelosi may be interested in traveling to Iran without noting the statement by Pelosi's spokesman. In the first segment, Hasselbeck said, "You know, people now are saying, should Nancy Pelosi be -- you know, should she have gone over to Syria? Should she have been in Iran? Will she go to Iran?" Colmes responded by saying, "She never said she was going to Iran," to which Hasselbeck replied, "No, she didn't say she was going to Iran, but the potential is there. We all know that." Later, Hannity told viewers that "the embattled San Francisco speaker hints at an impending visit to the rogue nation of Iran," and North said that Pelosi is "now willing to at least consider going to Iran."
From the April 12 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:
HASSELBECK: Absolutely. On so many fronts, we divide ourselves between race and politics. You know, people now are saying, should Nancy Pelosi be -- you know, should she have gone over to Syria? Should she have been in Iran? Will she go to Iran?
COLMES: She never said she was going to Iran.
HASSELBECK: No, she didn't say she was going to Iran, but the potential is there. We all know that.
COLMES: She should be. She --
HASSELBECK: She should go there. And have chit-chats.
COLMES: Absolutely. She should have chit-chats, because we should be talking to other countries, just like the Baker commission suggested.
By the way, you say you're evolving. Toward liberalism?
HANNITY: No, don't. That's devolving.
COLMES: You're getting -- you're growing, you're evolving, you're moving toward the light?
HASSELBECK: Did I suggest that?
COLMES: Is that what's happening here?
HASSELBECK: Oh, Alan. Oh, Alan.
COLMES: You said you were growing, so I figured you were --
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HANNITY: And later -- well, we haven't seen the latest of Pelosi diplomacy as the embattled San Francisco speaker hints at an impending visit to the rogue nation of Iran. We'll get into that later on. Straight ahead.
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HANNITY: Also, Nancy Pelosi making friends with America's enemies. First Syria, now a possible visit to Iran. Why is the San Francisco liberal willing to compromise with radicals and apparently not the president? That's next.
[...]
HANNITY: Let's talk a little bit about Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria and sort of a veiled threat that now, "Well, maybe I'll create my own diplomatic effort in Iran."
NORTH: Yeah. Which would be a disaster, by the way. I mean, it was bad enough to go and cavort on what I call her, if you will -- I suppose it's kind of like the Terrible Regimes Victory Tour, or something like this.
I mean, what this woman is doing is playing with American diplomacy and convincing our adversaries -- and they're very serious adversaries -- that we really don't have a foreign policy in this country. And I find that to be very alarming. When she says things like she said in Syria, offering to be a broker between the Israelis, who didn't ask for one, and encouraging a peace process that is totally broken.
And she's now willing to at least consider going to Iran, which just threatened the world by announcing that they brought on an array of centrifuges, 3,000 of them --
HANNITY: Hey, Colonel.
NORTH: -- about 100 times more than anybody thought they had. That's very serious.
HANNITY: We're running out of time. I think you had the best War Stories I ever saw, your biography of Winston Churchill. And now you have the Manhattan Project to Tehran. It's going to be right after Hannity's America on Sunday night.
Real quick, [unintelligible] controversy still waging over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
NORTH: Yes, but the most important thing is the new enemy who intends to use a nuclear weapon -- and David Kay is as blatant about it as you could be -- is Iran. And [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad wants to have his finger on the nuclear trigger. That's like playing Russian roulette with nuclear weapons.
COLMES: By the way, her spokesperson says she has no intention of going to Iran. It was Lantos who said he'd like to go.
NORTH: Neither one of them should go.
COLMES: We thank you for being with us. Hope you feel better. Be sure to tune into --
NORTH: I feel great.
COLMES: -- War Stories this Sunday at 10 p.m. Eastern, directly following Hannity's America.
Reagan Smash
04-19-2007, 11:39 AM
I'm glad to see yet another topic has turned into a debate on FoxNews, ignoring the pandering that is done for this bastard Al Sharpton.
There is lots more. Are you going to bring up a factually true document that was proven fake?
ryr8828
04-19-2007, 12:37 PM
I'll split this thread apart later.
It would be nice to see links on all those posts, IBC. Otherwise we can be accused of plagiarism.
I'll split this thread apart later.
It would be nice to see links on all those posts, IBC. Otherwise we can be accused of plagiarism.
Ahhh yes. In my haste I forgot. I will add asap.
IBC
Credit Media Matters for the transcripts. I will try and get links.
Potomac Yank
04-19-2007, 03:16 PM
Credit Media Matters for the transcripts. I will try and get links.
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They only run on muddy tracks with their Blinders on.
The clarity of the truth in a link, will only drive the Neo Cons back to their stable. ...
It isn't their fault. ... some party lines aren't up dated to current events.
Jiddy78
04-19-2007, 03:32 PM
I've said it once...I'll say it again:
Fox news has nothing on CNBC. Nothing.
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