FAUX News -FOX News the Republican/Bush Public Relations Platforms they
are...
Fox
reporter swarmed by
protesters
Fox's Griff
Jenkins heads
straight into a
march today in
Denver, and begins
sticking his
microphone in front
of protesters,
several who
obviously weren't
fans of the
Murdoch-owned
network.
Explicit, but
correct language!
At the National Conference for Media
Reform, Bill O’Reilly producer Porter
Barry ambushes journalist Bill Moyers
and asks him why he won’t appear on
The O’Reilly Factor. Moyers, a
class act to the last, makes Barry look
like the small and petty man he is. But
the joke is on Barry, because other
journalists, including Uptake
correspondent Noah Kunin, who got this
raw footage, turned tables on ol’ Porter
and gave him a little taste of the FOX
News-style ambush journalism. I don’t
think he liked it much.
I've been dealing with the media
and politics for 25 years, but I've never had a more
surrealistic day than January 8. Several times that day
Fox News reported that I was joining Sen. Hillary
Clinton's campaign. It was a big story - at least until
the stunning election returns.
The only problem was, it wasn't true.
Fox News never even tried to contact me to verify their
story, and when I contacted Fox, I felt like a character
in a Kafka novel -- or at least Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Fox's Major Garrett -- a good guy whom I've known for
years -- broke the story. My phone started ringing off
the hook, and my email box bulged. There are still,
thank goodness, a lot of real journalists out there. Tim
Russert was first. I assured him it wasn't true, he
thanked me for waving him off a false story, and that
was that. Then my own network, CNN, called. I told them
if I were quitting CNN that CNN would know before Fox
News. Soon after, others called or emailed: Jonathan
Alter of Newsweek, George Stephanopoulos and Teddy Davis
of ABC, Beth Fouhy of AP, Mark Halperin of Time, John
Harris of the Politico, Jill Lawrence of USA Today,
Peter Baker of the Washington Post, Patrick Healy of the
New York Times, David Gregory of NBC and Bill Sammon of
the Examiner. There were probably more. I list the names
only to give credit to journalists who behaved like
reporters, not repeaters.
After I told Fox it wasn't true -- and this is the
surreal part -- they kept reporting it anyway. In fact,
Fox's Garrett told me he'd "take it under advisement."
Take it under advisement? I realize I'm generally seen
as just another liberal with an opinion, but this was
not a matter of opinion, it was a matter of fact. Fox
now knew their story was flatly, factually wrong, and
they took it "under advisement."
Apparently that meant repeating the falsehood with added
detail: the "fact" that I had been on a conference call
the previous day with the Hillary high command. Again,
false. My worry is that if this is what one of Fox's
best and most respected reporters is doing, what are the
hacks up to?
I exchanged several civil emails with Garrett -- and
append them to this post. They are not nuanced. Read
them for yourself. I report, you decide.
----- Original Message -----
From: Begala, Paul
To: Garrett, Major
Sent: Tue Jan 08 14:18:37 2008
Subject: N.H.D.
Major,
I know you're swamped, and I hate to bother you on such
a busy news day, but whoever told you I am joining
Hillary's campaign fed you some bum info. It's just not
true. Or as I say to my boys, N.H.D. Not. Happening.
Dude.
I'm not coming in as a volunteer, or as an adviser, or
as a strategist or anything else. I have contributed to
her campaign, and am convinced she would be a great
President. But I am not joining the campaign in any form
or fashion.
Again, I know how busy you are, but I'd sure appreciate
you checking with me before you go with a story about
me. This email is always a good way to reach me.
Thanks a lot.
All best,
Paul Begala
From: Garrett, Major
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:31 PM
To: Begala, Paul
Subject: Re: N.H.D.
Paul:
I genuinely appreciate the e-mail.
I will take it under advisement.
And I look forward to discussing all aspects of the
campaign with you in the future.
All best,
Major
Major Garrett, Congressional Correspondent, Fox News
----- Original Message -----
From: Begala, Paul
To: Garrett, Major
Sent: Tue Jan 08 15:18:16 2008
Subject: RE: N.H.D.
Major,
Just heard you say I was on a conference call with
Hillary's campaign yesterday. That's not true. I was not
on any conference call with Hillary's campaign - and
have had no contact with her campaign for months. No one
from her campaign has contacted me -- nor have I
contacted them -- and I am not joining in any capacity,
paid or unpaid, official or unofficial. I feel like that
old Lorrie Morgan song, "What part of 'no' don't you
understand?"
I have a lot of respect for you, and I like you, but
I've got to ask you again to check with me before you go
with a story about me. Someone is misleading you, and it
is not me.
Again, I know the challenges of 24-hour news, and this
is a crazy environment, but you can almost always reach
me at this email address.
All best,
Paul
From: Garrett,
Major
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:32 PM
To: Begala, Paul
Subject: Re: N.H.D.
Paul:
You know me well enough to know I am not trying to screw
you.
You also know, or should know, that I'm careful and
don't have a reputation for pulling stories out of my
ass.
I'm not now. The sourcing is strong, very strong, or I
wouldn't go with it.
I appreciate your e-mails and I redouble my efforts with
each one I receive.
Please feel free to call me at any hour of any day.
Best,
Major
Major Garrett, Congressional Correspondent, Fox News
----- Original Message -----
From: Begala, Paul
To: Garrett, Major
Sent: Tue Jan 08 15:41 2008
Subject: RE: N.H.D.
Major,
Thanks so much for getting back to me. I do know you,
and I like and respect you. You know me as well, and I
would not lie to you, would not mislead you. And I am
telling you that whoever told you I was on a conference
call with Hillary's campaign was wrong. I'm quite sure
that you're not making this up, so please don't
misunderstand me. No doubt someone is telling you this
stuff about me. It's just not true.
If my wife hears one more report that I'm joining
Hillary's campaign I'm going to have to go in the Pundit
Protection Program.
click here to watch O'Reilly make an ass of himself.
By now many of you have heard about Bill O’Reilly’s meltdown at a Barack Obama event in New Hampshire Saturday and on Sunday, The Huffington Post’s Roy Sekoff went on FOXNews to discuss the blogs’ coverage of the primaries — as the topic turned to BillO, Sekoff gave a textbook example of how all liberals should act when on they appear on FOX. Brilliant!
Sekoff: “…and I give him (O’Reilly) credit, cause he didn’t hit him with a loofah or a falafel.
MacCallum: “Alllllright!”
Sekoff: “Oh yeah. You know, Martha, maybe the thing was that he was surprised that when he showed up at an Obama event, it was just like any other event and no one was yelling for their iced tea.”
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Poor O’Reilly, he wasn’t able to do what his big ego wanted to and he
got all upset . Here’s some of BillO’s
meltdown
with an Obama staffer in NH. It’s
probably after most of the ruckus that
occurred between the two was over. I
don’t know who the man in the glasses
is, but he obviously didn’t like
O’Reilly’s antics either.
Q: Sir, sir, you do not want to
do that.
O’Reilly: You sonofabitch. Yea,
that’s really low class pal. That’s
really low class. Everybody in the
world can see it. Hey Senator, a
word please? Senator, a word please?
Senator, we came all the way to see
you.
Talk about being just a bit
“unhinged.”
click
the pic to view dimwitted O'Reilly's
latest delusional tirade. What a
stooge BillO has become and seems to be
fading from reality faster and faster
each week.
The Falafel Guy used the brain in the
giant head of his to concoct the theory
that author J.K. Rowling is somehow
trying give gays parity with
heterosexuals and indoctrinate kids into
gayness by revealing that the fictional
character Dumbledore is gay. The Culture
Warrior has been trying his best to get
his guests to agree with him, but he’s
not having much luck — even former
comedian turned Fox whiner Dennis Miller
wouldn’t sign on to this latest
nutbaggery.
Olbermann: “A month after his racist
remarks about a New York restaurant,
O’Reilly now coming out against
tolerance a little more than four years
after, according to the lawsuit from his
former producer Andrea Mackris, BillO
tried to talk her and a female friend of
hers into performing homosexual acts
while he was present. To paraphrase, the
hypocrite mantra — Do as I say, not as I
fantasize.”
Faux News coverage of the Senator, Larry "I
wasn't Gay in the 80's and even though I plead guilty to lewd
conduct in the men's Room, I'm still Not Gay" Craig was
slim or nearly non existent when compared to real news outfits like
NBC, or CNN. Check it out:
MSNBC:
Hour (ET)
Timestamp at start of segment
Timestamp at end of segment
Length of segment
5 p.m.
14 min. 15 sec.
15 min. 30 sec.
1 min. 15 sec.
6 p.m.
41 min. 31 sec.
43 min. 7 sec.
1 min. 36 sec.
7 p.m.
14 min. 30 sec.
15 min. 45 sec.
1 min. 15 sec.
8 p.m.
24 min. 24 sec.
25 min. 31 sec.
1 min. 7 sec.
9 p.m.
0 min. 33 sec.
3 min. 46 sec.
3 min. 13 sec.
10 p.m.
NO COVERAGE
NO COVERAGE
NO COVERAGE
TOTAL:
8 min. 26 sec.
CNN:
Hour (ET)
Timestamp at start of segment
Timestamp at end of segment
Length of segment
5 p.m.
56 min. 37 sec.
58 min. 7 sec.
1 min. 30 sec.
6 p.m.
5 min. 43 sec.
6 min. 48 sec.
1 min. 5 sec.
31 min. 5 sec.
33 min. 7 sec.
2 min. 2 sec.
7 p.m.
1 min. 3 sec.
3 min. 5 sec.
2 min. 2 sec.
28 min. 39 sec.
37 min. 49 sec.
9 min. 10 sec.
49 min. 10 sec.
49 min. 41 sec.
31 sec.
8 p.m.
10 min. 43 sec.
14 min. 31 sec.
3 min. 48 sec.
9 p.m.
NO COVERAGE
NO COVERAGE
NO COVERAGE
10 p.m.
41 min. 37 sec.
42 min. 7 sec.
30 sec.
TOTAL:
20 min. 38 sec.
Fox (Faux)
News:
Hour (ET)
Timestamp at start of segment
Timestamp at end of segment
Length of segment
5 p.m.
53 min. 31 sec.
54 min. 10 sec.
39 sec.
6 p.m.
7 min. 13 sec.
7 min. 50 sec.
37 sec.
37 min. 2 sec.
37 min. 30 sec.
28 sec.
7 p.m.
4 min. 53 sec.
6 min. 00 sec.
1 min. 7 sec.
59 min. 12 sec.
59 min. 40 sec.
28 sec.
8 p.m.
34 min. 12 sec.
34 min. 40 sec.
28 sec.
9 p.m.
NO COVERAGE
NO COVERAGE
NO COVERAGE
10 p.m.
NO COVERAGE
NO COVERAGE
NO COVERAGE
TOTAL:
3 min. 47 sec.
Fair and Balanced? Uh
huh, that is UNLESS of course the pervert in the men's room is a
Republican. Faux News, you guys are such a farce! Had he (that
naughty, naughty boy in the bathroom with the wide stance) been a
DEM, you'd have given it 24 hour live coverage... and probably even
considered it for a replacement for that God awful, failed
Hooters/Anchorwoman time slut, er ah time slot!
How Rupert Murdoch and FOX News is selling yet another WAR with their LIES.
The 24/7 images, sound
effects, yelling and threatening were an ever-present drumbeat for war. We had
to invade, and we had to invade now.. anyone who didn't see that was a traitor.
They viciously attacked those of us who worked to get out the truth.
Now FOX wants war with Iran says Robert Greenwald. And he proves it.
Here is the video evidence, side-by-side with what they said about Iraq.
"It's almost too ridiculous to believe, but it's shockingly real. We've already
compiled over 4 hours of FOX footage... the same images, sound effects, yelling
and threatening that led the U.S. to invade Iraq is happening right now to sell
a war with Iran. They are saying the exact same things!" Click
here to compare then to now. Once
you're convinced that they are nothing more than a neo-com
Public Relations platform
then you can do something. Please
contact Fox Advertisers and tell them what you think about their drive to get us
into yet another war.
Click the pic start button to
watch Sean shamelessly introduce the
fear mongering Rudy G. Mr. Hannity
is Rudy’s BFF these days. This video
shows Rudy being introduced by Hannity
August 9th at one of his *snicker*
Freedom Concerts. Via
NY Dailynews:
It’s no secret that Sean
Hannity, the conservative Fox News
commentator, has helped to raise
Rudy Giuliani’s profile - but now
he’s helped the former mayor raise
money, too.
In a little noticed event
this month, Hannity - co-host of Fox
News’ “Hannity & Colmes” and host of
a popular WABC radio show -
introduced the Republican
front-runner at a closed-door,
$250-per-head fund-raiser Aug. 9 in
Cincinnati, campaign officials
acknowledge.
In so doing, some believe
that Hannity - while clearly a
commentator paid to express his
opinions - crossed the line from
punditry into financial rainmaking
for a presidential candidate whose
bottom line is now better for it.
Hannity declined to comment,
but his bosses at Fox News Channel
and WABC, flagship station for his
national radio show, defended their
marquee star by arguing that
he’s not a journalist and shouldn’t
be judged as one.
“Sean is not a
journalist - Sean is a conservative
commentator,” said Bill
Shine, Fox’s senior vice president
of programming. “Sean doesn’t hide,
and never has hidden, his beliefs
from anyone.”
Read more…
Some rare truth from Fox Propaganda,
Hannity most certainly isn’t a
journalist…but a very serious
conservative commentator…
click
here to watch Senator Dodd skewer
Bill O. (If you've never seen
the pic of Lieberman begging for some of
BUSH... click here).
Continuing on
Nicole’s post, I’ve got the video of
Dodd doing a great job of sticking up
for Daily Kos in an excellent way. He
told the truth. And when propagandists
like Bill O are confronted with the
truth—heads explode.
And it didn’t take much for Chris
Dodd. He just pointed out some of the
hateful words
Factor
Man said and bam!
Instant meltdown.
O’Reilly hates us for our ideology
and because we call him on out on his
propaganda. PERIOD….”Thank
you, Chris…”
Filed
Dickbird Chris Wallace has the audacity to question Feingold/Democratic
efforts regarding Eavesdropping and Attorneygate as mere Political
Theatre:
WALLACE: But you know, I think the question is, is this really
going anywhere? Is this substantive oversight or is this political
theater? I mean, the point is on the U.S. attorneys which
we’re talking about, six-month, seven-month investigation, 8,500
pages of documents, 14 witnesses, and you say yourself as a member
of Senate Judiciary you haven’t found any hard evidence that the
White House has broken the law. (translation: You
haven't been able to get anything really solid yet, because we are
effectively stonewalling your... ha ha!)
So, I wrote the little twit:
"Chris Wallace, I
still can't believe you asked Senator Feingold about "political
theater". You a FOX employee... the same FOX news that spent 6
YEARS, not months spearheading the assault and charge on
WHITEWATER! Good grief, and you want to compare 6 or 7 months to
SIX full years? After six years and 64 million in taxpayer money,
all you had to show for it is a lie about an extramarital affair...
and you idiots want to complain about OVERSIGHT regarding
politicizing the judiciary and constitutional violations? Get real
mouthpiece for the right... you appear to be bent so far to the
right you resemble a pretzel.
Fair and balanced
my ass, you people are nothing but Republican propagandists... so
why not finally admit it? Journalism...? Bullshit... you are
nothing but liars, deceivers and distortion artists."
Rick Perlstein
catches Ann Coulter accidentally
telling the truth about the Republican
Party’s “news” network.
Ann Coulter’s latest
column claims that “New York
cabbies’ compliance rate on daily
bathing” is less than 48 percent;
dilates upon the reporting in the
“Treason Times“; and
reflects, “Fox News ought to buy a
copy of Monday’s Democrat [sic]
debate on CNN to play over and over
during the general election
campaign,” because the only people
it could possibly convince to vote
for a Democrat are “losers blogging
from their mother’s basements.”
Really? Why would a fair and
impartial news network, with no interest
in helping one political party or
another, want to do that? Or, as Rick
put it, “[W]hy ever would Fox care about
electing Republicans, given that they’re
a news organization in the business of
‘fair and balanced’?”
A “Michael Kinsley Moment” is when a
political figure makes a mistake by
accidentally telling the truth. I think
Coulter’s quip qualifies.
If you watch FOX News, you would think that Bill
O’Reilly’s heroic efforts against JetBlue for
sponsoring
YearlyKos have succeeded... right?
Well, you would be wrong. Dead wrong. On
tonight’s “Factor,” BillO claimed that JetBlue
has decided to pull out of the event. The only
problem?
It’s not true. BillO says there is no room in
America for Kos and has compared it to the KKK
and the Nazis, but he’s not a hater….LOL
click
pic to watch Brit Hume and his FAUX news whackos
SPIN their web of lies trying to imply Thompson
was just kidding, didn't do much or actually
defrauded his client
Fred Thompson’s
past career as a lobbyist…specifically, lobbying
for the relaxing of abortion restrictions is a
big problem for the GOP press office
FOXNews. When you’ve built your party around
rigid ideologies, things like the reality can be
a problem. But not for Brit Hume. He looks at
the situation and feels that Thompson
never really meant to help his client.
HUME: This is not an abortion scandal, in
my view. This is a billing scandal. And what
I think this tells us is…it may tell us the
extent to which clients are sometimes billed
for work done by the people they
engage–lawyers, lobbyists and the rest–that
is so insignificant that the person doing
it, they don’t even remember. I believe
Thompson didn’t remember this, and I don’t
believe he did very much for that abortion
group…
Crooks and Liars Gives us this clip from
The Daily Show!
A new study came out by Project for
Excellence in Journalism—which
showed that
FOX News covered the Iraq war far
less than either CNN or MSNBC during the
first quarter of ‘07. Wow, I was
shocked, I tell you, but
Bill O’Reilly had a very reasonable
excuse: The author hates FOX News. Damn
lefty…That’s all his audience needs to
know. Ahhh..the old attack the messenger
trick. What a cunning fellow Mr Factor
can be at times. It doesn’t matter about
the facts presented in the study after
all–why bother refuting those pesky
details? O’Reilly thinks that covering
bombings is just a drag anyway. Why
would he feel the need to show the
horrors of war? It’s just war…And FOX
has better rating so-ha! I say, ha!
Fox spent half as much time
covering the Iraq war than MSNBC
during the first three months of the
year, and considerably less than
CNN, according to the Project for
Excellence in Journalism.
The difference was more stark
during daytime news hours than in
prime-time opinion shows. The Iraq
war occupied 20 percent of CNN’s
daytime news hole and 18 percent of
MSNBC’s. On Fox, the war was talked
about only 6 percent of the time…read
on
As
you know Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) was
indicted today on 16 counts of public
corruption. See this
link for TPMmuckraker’s coverage of the
case.
But apparently Fox News
Channel can’t tell one African-American member
of Congress from another, in this case Rep.
Jefferson from Rep. John Conyers (D-MI),
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Read more…
Cavuto claims the problem is with
Congress and environmentalists.
He says they are preventing the oil
companies from building NEW
refineries. The Congressman
combats that with the obvious.
The oil
companies have had every chance to
build new refineries but have
refused.
The
following video is from Fox's
Your World with Neil Cavuto and
broadcast on May. 23rd.
You'll notice that the cowardly Cavuto didn't
take the Congressman up on his offer that Cavuto present contrary findings to
the committee.
Speaking of the propagandists called FOX News,
Cable Study: Fox covers war leaststudy
shows Fox News war coverage far lower than CNN, MSNBC. That would explain
the Neo Con's preference... they don't have to witness what they've sewn and
wrought.
You know, things like this tragedy:
CALUMET CITY, Illinois (AP) -- A man beat his girlfriend's 4-year-old son to
death after she left the boy in his care while she was deployed to Iraq, police
said. Donnell Parker, 23, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in
the death of Cameron Smith. The boy was found dead in his bed Thursday in a
suburb south of Chicago.
Parker told police he beat the boy, but would not say why, said Calumet City
police Chief Patrick O'Meara. It was not immediately known if Parker had an
attorney.
Cameron was punched in the head, stomach and chest, and whipped with a belt from
Tuesday to Wednesday evening, O'Meara said. An autopsy found he died of
blunt-force trauma to the abdomen and head, O'Meara said.
The boy's 7-year-old sister and 8-year-old brother had also been in Parker's
care, O'Meara said. They were put in the custody of their maternal grandparents
after Cameron was found dead.
Cameron's mother, Sgt. Lavanda Smith, 28, was headed back to Illinois Friday
after spending only 10 hours at her new duty station in Iraq.
On the May 31 edition of Fox News' The
Big Story, host John Gibson said he was
"mesmerized" by what he called "[t]he TB Man
story" — the recent
news that American attorney Andrew Speaker
traveled by airline while infected with
antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis. Gibson
stated: "It seems every time a story pops up
about somebody who has suddenly contracted some
strange or incurable disease, it's somebody who
is either from the third world, or was
traveling through some godforsaken hellhole, and
somehow managed to contract ooga booga fever."
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