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Greta Van Susteren: The Obama Administration Is Trying To Punish Fox News
Posted by Mark on November 21, 2012 at 1:10 pm.
Poor Greta Van Susteren. Her Fox News program has lately been lagging in the ratings behind MSNBCs The Last Word with Lawrence ODonnell. And now she is feeling neglected by the Obama administration.
In a post on her Greatawire blog, Van Sustern has resorted to copious use of BRIGHT RED FONTS WITH ALL CAPITAL LETTERS to express her dismay at being left out of all the reindeer games. She laments that Fox News was overlooked by the State Department when media briefings were held for various news organizations. She whines that this is playing dirty and was being done to punish Fox for their critical reporting.
ME:
Van Susteren fails to disclose that the State Department had previously explained why Fox was not included in previous briefings and press releases. It had nothing to do with punishment. The State Department distributed their information to news organizations that had reporters who were assigned to cover the department. Fox News has no such reporters so they didnt get on the list. In fact, Fox has a shoe-string news operation that doesnt concentrate on actual reporting. Most of their news assets are allocated to anchors, analysts, and pundits, who are not doing any bona fide journalism. In short, the State Department had no one to notify and they werent going to send notices to everyone with a Fox News email address.
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On the contrary, it would be more correct to say that to the extent you deliberately distort the facts, the administration is under no obligation to help you continue to get everything wrong. Van Susteren is, incredibly, blaming Foxs mistakes on Obama. Nobody forced Fox to wade so far out into delusional speculation. In fact, based on their body of work, it appears to be their corporate mission. And the administration can hardly be criticized (or accused of punishment) if they should be reluctant to further that mission.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)'bout fuckin' time.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)won a judgement that they are an "ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK", and that they are in the ENTERTAINMENT business. They do not have to tell the truth. They can't have it both ways. Are they news, and they get to lie, or are they entertainment, and they can say whatever they want to to mislead the repuke idiots.
alp227
(32,045 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)That is just what Vince McMahon did to avoid sports regulation for the WWE. Funny how so many wrestlers die before they are 40.
Fox is NOT a news organization , it is a right wing propaganda machine .
HowHasItComeToThis
(3,566 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)who were assigned to cover the department. Fox News has no such reporters so they didnt get on the list. In fact, Fox has a shoe-string news operation that doesnt concentrate on actual reporting."
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)They are not, and I could not possibly care less about their fate - except to hope for a slow painful demise.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)They are a shameless Public Relations (i.e. propaganda) operation of the right wing and Republican Party. They do NOT merit any of the perquisites of a 'news' organization! No seat in the White House Press room, no office space in the White House, no press passes to government meetings, NOTHING!
They do NOT perform a "public service." They are worse than Pravda, which was always openly acknowledged as an official publication of the Soviet Communist Party.
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)So much crap and no one wants it. Imagine that?!
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)sociopath heard from. sheesh...
tabasco
(22,974 posts)A person with no conscience or soul, who lies without remorse.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Joe Bacon
(5,165 posts)$o $he probably $old her $oul to L. Ron Hubbard with one of tho$e "Billion-year ¢ontra¢t$"
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)She HAS put all her propaganda money to having her nose "shortened", so I'm sure she'll shape up soon!
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)that you refused to air. now will dems would please stay off their programs as well
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)I support them 1000% No one with any intelligence or morality should ever be seen on this sham propoganda network; Fox should have to go dumpster diving for any tidbit of "news", because no one would speak to them, period, on or off the record. They are the reason this country is as divided as we are, and they stoke the fires every minute of every day. They are reprehensible.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)since "news" organizations are under no obligation to report the truth then I see no reason why someone shouldn't be able to pick which ones they choose to disseminate information to.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)news organization and never should have been taken seriously as if they were in the first place. THAT was the mistake Dems made.
Generally speaking I don't think top Government officials engage with the Tabloid Media.
So what's she complaining about? She sold her soul for money, fine, but the rest of us don't have to do the same thing.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)and the horses they rode in on....
ck4829
(35,079 posts)There, fixed it.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)show up on Fox 'news' to help them push their "Fair and Balanced" crap. They should stay away and let Fox be seen for what they are: a cheap propaganda channel. Those people need the money and probably can't get a job anywhere else. It's foolish to think they will change anybody's mind.
lastlib
(23,263 posts)BOO and f*cking HOO!! Somebody give Gretty some cheese to go with her w(h)ine!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)BlueManFan
(256 posts)but in the Adminsitation's defense, neither did The Weekend Update With Seth Myers, Nighly News Now with Jimmy Fallon, nor Jon Stewart's senior Washington reporter John Oliver. And Myers, Fallon, and Stewart are far closer to legitimate news departments than the bigoted, racist, teagbagger assclowns at Faux News.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)progressoid
(49,992 posts)Dog Gone at Penigma
(433 posts)I'd love to be able to post it somewhere WITH SOUND.
Mr.Bill
(24,312 posts)do a better job of reporting the news accurately than Fox without even having press credentials.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)I think when she got the plastic surgery, they removed part of her brain. I used to like her show and crooked face when she was on CNN. When she went to Fox, it's like she got a lobotomy.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)to the dark side.
Andy Stanton
(264 posts)They provide fantasy stories and commentaries geared towards right wing fanatics. Their insistence that Romney was going to win the election was typical.
moobu2
(4,822 posts)but the stakes are serious.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...and (according to reports) Fox News rates below them"
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)They are not a news network. Give their spot to a legitimate news outlet.
Fox can still report on whatever they'd like; they just won't have a seat at the briefings, just as thousands of news outlets don't.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)never stops. These clowns are getting paid WAAAY over their competency and credibility level. If, however, they are getting paid by the whine, they are doing well.
I thought they got all their 'exclusive' stories off RW blogs.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)no contact, no scoops, no questions.
Dog Gone at Penigma
(433 posts)with their portrayal of themselves as the poor put-upon victims of the majority?
And they have the nerve to depict other people negatively.
The Fox nuisance nuts really have no self-esteem OR integrity. Ideology is a poor substitute for those things.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Maybe then they'll get better treatment from Obama and the democrats.
edbermac
(15,942 posts)Dear Greta, why do you folks over at FAUX Noise need 'facts' when all you do is tell constant lies?
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)outrage, no funding the 6-figure salaries of their Retarded Rightwing Republican Rhetoric. Just. No. Fox.
It appears to be working with Rush.
LaPera
(6,486 posts)Fox LIES!
Purposely and outwardly to control, brainwash and keep slimy republicans uninformed to continue keeping them voting republican for corporate interest not their own while pushing fear though hate to their moronic viewers.
BrainMann1
(460 posts)statements are all true. Fox had no true reporters not even Morning Joe staff and pundits etc, etc. As stated they deliberately distort the facts all the time. So stop crying and start doing some real reporting.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)titanicdave
(429 posts)in the words of the late great Jackie Gleason..........."how sweet it is"......
calimary
(81,402 posts)No kidding! How the alleged mighty have fallen. Lawrence O'Donnell is beating her now? Rachel and Lawrence make a good combo. I haven't looked at the numbers lately, but it does mean her lead-in is sustaining in his timeslot.
Glad you're here! You've come to the (well, I HATE to use the word "right" because that side of the aisle has totally perverted its meaning - they are ANYTHING BUT "right" about ANYTHING!!!) BEST place on the internet for us good guys! You will thoroughly enjoy and benefit from hanging out here. You'll learn TONS. And you'll be a very well-informed voter, capable of answering any misinformation offered by Pox Noise-schooled friends, family, and coworkers. Heck, you may even win over a few who may be growing more and more uncertain of the crap that's been force-fed to them for years by now. Certainly has helped me understand issues and players much better, hanging around here!
LeftInTX
(25,476 posts)I wonder if they realize they don't have a story with Benghazi, so now they have this sob story?
NICO9000
(970 posts)They're as delusional as Greta. One guy sez Obama's gonna ruin the Supreme Court!
I think ignoring Faux and all these bagger pols and their fans is really the way to go at this point. Let's face it - they offer no solutions to anything and are just a bunch of crybabies who believe in a bizarre universe that looks completely different from the one everyone actually lives in.
If you're not going to offer anything constructive, then just get out of the way and let the people who want to make this a better country do so.
calimary
(81,402 posts)You really believe that what you guys do on that Network of the Damned is "reporting"?????
AAO
(3,300 posts)still_one
(92,320 posts)republican party
go west young man
(4,856 posts)Personally I think they should bring back the Fairness Doctrine and make Fox take the word news out of their propaganda. That network has done more damage to the American psyche than any terrorist attack ever could do.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)pacalo
(24,721 posts)If this is true, way to go, Obama!
Taverner
(55,476 posts)wah wah waaahhh......
silhouete2
(80 posts)TeamPooka
(24,239 posts)genna
(1,945 posts)Bush made it his life's work to only interview with Foxsy types during 8 years.
The fact that State has a rational explanation only makes it better. I'd argue the Bush administration went 8 years without transparent rhyme or fact based reason for almost all of its actions. Fox bragged about it most times.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)on. Nothing more to discuss about that.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)"To the extent we get anything wrong" . . .?!? When do you propagandists get anything correct?!
There's a reason why Romney lost BIG time, and crushed the hopes and dreams of the uninformed and low-informed in this country for a fascist government . . . it's because of Fixed News' propensity to LIE in favor of the GOP.
I say you all at Fox "News" Channel are getting just desserts. [URL=http://www.sherv.net/banana-emoticon-3199.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)It's a mystery why they're talking to you at all.
ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)...the best of luck in this noble endeavor.
brewens
(13,612 posts)help. I bet they'd be real friendly then.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Prize Committee Praises Imagination, Inventiveness
NEW YORK In an unprecedented honor for the Rupert Murdoch-led network, the Fox News Channel today won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
In its official statement, the prize committee praised Fox for exhibiting an imagination and inventiveness that rival the best of Charles Dickens and J.R.R. Tolkien.
In hailing Fox, the committee singled out the networks fourteen-part story about President Obamas birth in a mud-hut in Kenya.
For Mr. Murdoch, the stunning Pulitzer Prize win was a rare bright spot in what he acknowledged had been a difficult year.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002575086
kickysnana
(3,908 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Of Punishing the Obama Administration
rocktivity
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)Well, not really, but she was good when she was on CNN.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Duh.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Long since scrubbed from their website, I personally saw it when they started up.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Pathological liars, sociopaths, alternate reality, and beyond the realm of the Twilight Zone to even Planet Kolob would refuse the right wingers too crazy people. They can dish it out huh, but cry like babies when its thrown back at them.
Raine
(30,540 posts)slanted biased opinions.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)John2
(2,730 posts)didn't like the way, one of their journalist interviewed the President of the United States in a disrespectful way. The guy kept inter rupting and used a loud tone, which was disrespectful to the office. They need to address the President respectfully because of the level of his office. As far as Greta, she needs to take her own advice and grow up. She is pouting like a spoiled brat. Growup Greta, You cannot have everything you want!
ItsTheMediaStupid
(2,800 posts)Should refuse to go on the air at Fox.
Publicly say the reason is that they don't behave like a news organization, they behave like a propaganda organization.
John2
(2,730 posts)do have a point. Greta and her pals missed the facts on WMDs, like she looked for the facts about every Republican. When was the last time your organization reported any facts about Republicans? That should answer your question about your news organization.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)If Fox Tampa really wanted to get you, they could join the Tampa Bay Times in exposing the way your Church, the Scientologists, have been taking over Tampa, even taking Charter school money to teach your religion!
petesan
(18 posts)backward. FUX News has been punishing President Obama since before he became president. FUX continually mischaracterizes--who am I kidding-- continually lies about the president. From day 1 this "news" agency has been punishing him and trying to delegitimize his presidency.
Keep crying Greta, it's music to our ears.
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sheshe2
(83,842 posts)Fox is not News. Fox is a joke and a bad one at that!
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Obama won, bitches.
Now its time for you guys to face the consequences.
The Wizard
(12,546 posts)Van Susteren works for an organization that spends a majority of its time doing propaganda designed to degrade the President and his Party, and she wants the President and his Party to kiss her and her network's asses. She is obviously a mental defective like the rest of the air staff and management.
southern_belle
(1,647 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)No one need be the wiser if she had just kept on lying as they usually do.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)liberal from boston
(856 posts)Bill O'Reilly's interview with President Obama was a disgrace. As stated in comment posted here he was disrespectful, & interrupted the President when he talked. Billo literally sneered at the President & actually stated how much President Obama was hated. President Obama was such a class act & his cool, deliberate behavior exposed the lack of professional integrity of O'Reilly.
otohara
(24,135 posts)That's funny Gretta...
Initech
(100,096 posts)Cha
(297,465 posts)Romney was going to to Big Bird's station, PBS? Wipe them out? Or just not give Brainwashed Central any facts because they would just Distort and report the Opposite of Facts?
Please tell us all about it, Greta Von Propaganda.
CarmanK
(662 posts)Turborama
(22,109 posts)Don't fall into the same trap Media Matters do when they mistakenly describe it as misinformation (accidental untruths/mistakes) when it really is disinformation (lying on purpose).
mac56
(17,574 posts)marew
(1,588 posts)Have to be a bit 'different' to believe that stuff. She and hubby have a place in Clearwater, FL, to be close to the big Scientology center there.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Criminal organization hiding behind "religion".
47of74
(18,470 posts)....their access to any government buildings under the control of the executive branch would end within an hour of my taking office. The Secret Service would have orders not to let a Fox News report within 25 feet of me.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)macacawitz
(19 posts)No one will ever accuse Re-Greta of being cursed with self-awareness. Why should Fux Noise ever dispatch a reporter anywhere when they're not even remotely interested in reporting facts? Fux Noise watchers live in a fantasy world concocted by Ailes and his team of propagandists. Listening to credible sources will only conflict with what "some people" are saying in the Fux Noise creative writing department. You're a joke Greta, and you always have been.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)in a decades long attack on other news organizations? Faux News has controlled the narrative toward this silliness of feuding news organizations by a constant drum beat of "the liberal media, the liberal media, the liberal media." Every is news story is scrutinized and held under suspicion by virtue of being reported by the "liberal media." You hear Republican guests on Faux News eliciting the "liberal media" attack over and over again and again. The "liberal media" can't be trusted and where do these same Republicans go when they have to plug their next book? The "liberal media." They need to be called out on this hypocrisy.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Obama probably is trying to punish you.
How was it you got famous? Covering the OJ trial? You aren't a reporter, sweets and Faux is not news.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Fox News? You mean the outfit that was founded to destroy Bill Clinton, spent every second between the time President Obama formed his exploratory committee and the exact moment you are reading this (even if that moment is 8:45 am January 20, 2017 and you stumbled across this in the archives) trying to destroy him, his wife and everyone who supports him, and calls every GOP official who gets caught dorking some woman-not-his-wife a Democrat? The best way to punish Fox is to pull their license for misrepresentation....whatever Fox is selling, it ain't news.
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Kennah
(14,298 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)Someone called Mitt Romney lost the election thinking based on the misinformation from Faux that he was way ahead....
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Tabloids don't deserve a seat at the table with the adults. They eat at the card table off to the side.
JB126
(165 posts)don't belong in the same sentence!
PMcDee
(43 posts)but the briefings are for actual news organizations.
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)seems like a non starter to me.
It's about time they had to support their little bubble on their own. Let's see just how far it gets them.
They should have their credentials yanked and any news organization that complains should have theirs yanked, too.
lexw
(804 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Hekate
(90,768 posts)Didn't she used to be an actual journalist at one point in her life? The extent to which she has imbibed FOX's kool-aid staggers the mind -- she's just gone somewhere else besides the reality based world.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,129 posts)aandegoons
(473 posts)I am up for it.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)under Obama's watch in Libya?
sarcasm
hodger
(11 posts)The actions of Fox and the various radio entities I see as the main problem to be faced by our country. We try facing other problems such as voting, poverty, and wars. But ALL things are effected by these lying media personalities. Something like trying to remove weeds without paying any attention to the roots. This situation will worsen until a change is made regarding our common airwaves. I sure hope for a change soon.
goclark
(30,404 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)because a lot of people have decided that they actually want to hear the news and be informed instead of listening to pure bullshit.
tufnel
(95 posts)Not happening.
icnorth
(1,015 posts)Faux won't air her "The Demise of Big Bird" segment over Thanksgiving.
marias23
(379 posts)Talk about an attitude of entitlement.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Zambero
(8,965 posts)Being ignored as you continue to deceive, and as your ratings continue to drop.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... lady.
Sucks to be a bunch of outed, lying assholes, doesn't it?
AllyCat
(16,205 posts)entertainment channels.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Until then, as long as tabloids aren't invited, then you aren't either. Because the only difference between Faux News and Tabloids is tabloids have some morals.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Thanks Jon Stewart!
elbloggoZY27
(283 posts)Fox has been no fan of the President. As a matter of fact every show seems to belittle the President no matter what he says or accomplishes.
Greta is not in touch with the realty of the World and it was the Obama Administration that set in motion the events that finally killed Bin Laden.
Fox and their cronies even tried to distort the news on Election Day and predict a Romney win.
The President does not have the time or really cares what Fox News has to say and neither do I.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)She seemed smart when she first got in the public eye but Faux News can apparently warp the minds of some, kind of like the Stockholm syndrome.
For her to whine that they'd get it right if this or that came to be is ridiculous, most of us have seen the leaked memos from the top there, which details where they want their hosts to steer the talk daily.
We've also seen the screen shots of people like David Vitter, when he had his scandal. On the byline below they put a (D) beside his name rather than the correct "R". It's a trick they use that can fool low info folks, which is a large part of their audience.
I'm at times not sure how Shep Smith keeps his job at Faux but for the most part this "news" op is deliberate propaganda pushing an alternate reality....which historically has often turned out horribly for the masses.
usaf-vet
(6,193 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)She can complain when the White House Press Corps snubs fux but invites Dancing With the Stars.
Meanwhile, she's WHINING all the way to the bank.
Bite me.
Blue Owl
(50,476 posts)n/t
BumRushDaShow
(129,297 posts)The rest are glued to their seats and teleprompters.
FlyinButter
(14 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)seriously.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)nothing remotely related to journalism or facts.
That's like Hulk Hogan complaining that he was passed up for the Olympic Wrestling Team.