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#273919 - 06/30/08 12:33 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Dax]
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Registered: 10/03/06
Loc: California
Originally by: Dax
Originally by: lizbeth
Jokul, you are a very sweet, forgiving man and you should be--and are--well-loved for that quality.

But, let's face it. If a news 'source' has a choice between spreading fear to the masses (which sells advertising space) and actually reporting the news that may not sell advertising space, what will that 'news' source do--until, of course, it's called on it?

Publicly supported or subscriber supported cable should be able to find objective, or at least reasonable, analysts on both sides of the fence. There ARE some reasonable, non-ideologue liberals, and there are a few conservative analysts who also manage this difficult feat, but when you get to the fringe left and the neocons, you only find screamers. PBS has Moyers, but nobody with a contrasting point of view.

But now that I think about it, reasonable news would probably not be watched by many people.

The point of my OP was also to enquire as to whether or not Fox is just going along with the by now familiar administration program of raising the terror alert bar in time of crisis. We're all aware that the color coded alerts were fake, now the administration needs something new to keep us scared.

"A Scared America votes Republican"

Is Fox News on board with that?


Some on here will argue when I "theorize" Cheney has much influence, in Washington and on those making presentations on Fox News. Cheney doesn't have to come out and say, Let's ATTACK IRAN...all he has to do , is hope little "nuggets" of information like this are fed to the American people, albeit false information like this news piece.
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#273923 - 06/30/08 12:50 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Ray]
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Fox News officially apologizes for calling Obama & Michelle Obama's "fist bump" a "terrorist gesture" on June 10, 2008:



While talking about a conservative group putting together an anti-Obama documentary, Fox News shows footage of Michelle Obama, mentions that she said "for the first time she is proud of her country", and underneath the footage posts a large label saying "OUTRAGED LIBERALS: STOP PICKING ON OBAMA'S BABY MAMA!" :



That's a random sampling of the "fair and balanced" reporting from Fox News. And those weren't news analysis shows either; that was suppsoed to be straight-up reporting. Imagine; calling a presidential candidate's spouse a "baby-mama". Incrediblly crass and puerile, and I think you might call it racist as well if you weren't a blind partisan.
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#273928 - 06/30/08 01:09 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Dax]
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I don't take fox news seriously at all. Also I think it was a slip made on purpose to test the waters with the American people.
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#273929 - 06/30/08 01:13 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Sleek Phantom Mystic]
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Registered: 08/08/06
Loc: Minneapolis,MN
Do you think the Canadian newspaper was used in order to get this slip out or was the Canadian story just a legitimate case of misreporting? Inquiring minds want to know.

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#273931 - 06/30/08 01:20 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Lawmage]
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Registered: 08/01/99
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Originally by: Lawmage
Anyone else note the manner in which Dax suggests the right is racist?

Not at all, Mr. Spin. I suggested that the racist element in America tends to be right wing.

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#273932 - 06/30/08 01:21 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Cy_Click]
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Registered: 08/01/99
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Originally by: Cy_Click
Do you think the Canadian newspaper was used in order to get this slip out or was the Canadian story just a legitimate case of misreporting? Inquiring minds want to know.

The Canadian newspaper, which is from Edmonton, had the correct story. It was Fox who had it wrong and then corrected it.

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#273937 - 06/30/08 02:06 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Dax]
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Registered: 09/22/00
Loc: Arkansas, USA
Originally by: Dax
Not at all, Mr. Spin. I suggested that the racist element in America tends to be right wing.

One needs only to reflect upon the recent Democratic Primary race to see just how incredibly mind boggling, how astoundingly ignorant THAT statement is.
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#273944 - 06/30/08 02:49 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Ray]
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Registered: 08/01/99
Loc: New York, NY (New York)
Originally by: Ray
Originally by: Dax
Not at all, Mr. Spin. I suggested that the racist element in America tends to be right wing.

One needs only to reflect upon the recent Democratic Primary race to see just how incredibly mind boggling, how astoundingly ignorant THAT statement is.

I gave some facts and stated an opinion.

You do the same, please. "That's an ignorant statement" is not an argument, else you'd have been defeated long ago. Come up with something.

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#273946 - 06/30/08 02:59 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Cy_Click]
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Registered: 02/17/08
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Originally by: ray
(all objective studies ---- have concluded that Fox News Channel DOES, in fact, provide the most balanced news coverage among the major networks)


Isn't "All Objective Studies" the name of a neo-con blog website? wink
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#273950 - 06/30/08 03:25 PM Re: Fox News and Terror [Re: Dax]
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Registered: 09/22/00
Loc: Arkansas, USA
Originally by: Dax
Originally by: Ray
Originally by: Dax
Not at all, Mr. Spin. I suggested that the racist element in America tends to be right wing.

One needs only to reflect upon the recent Democratic Primary race to see just how incredibly mind boggling, how astoundingly ignorant THAT statement is.

I gave some facts and stated an opinion.

You do the same, please. "That's an ignorant statement" is not an argument, else you'd have been defeated long ago. Come up with something.

Awwwww. A little too subtle for you? OK. Let me rephrase: One needs only to reflect upon the recent Democratic Primary race to see just how incredibly mind boggling, how astoundingly ignorant THAT statement is, considering the amount of racist (and I might add, "sexist") pandering AND race/gender-based insults that were tossed around by the political liberals who are the first to accuse conservatives of being racist and sexist.

It points out, once again, how if one wants to know what liberals are guilty of doing, one needs only listen to their accusations.
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