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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:06 PM Oct 2015

Cornell University kicks Fox News off campus after questions about 'liberal bias'

Source: Syracuse.com

A Central New York college is under fire for kicking Fox News Channel off campus after questions about the school's alleged "liberal bias."

Bill O'Reilly spoke Monday night about a recent Cornell Sun newspaper report that claimed 96 percent of the more than $600,000 in political donations from Cornell University faculty went to Democratic candidates. Only 15 of 323 donors gave money to "conservative" politicians, the Fox News host said.

O'Reilly complained that it didn't seem diverse enough, so he sent "O'Reilly Factor" producer and reporter Jesse Watters to ask professors and students if they thought there was a liberal "indoctrination" on campus.

Read more: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/cornell_university_fox_news_liberal_bias_oreilly_watters.html

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Cornell University kicks Fox News off campus after questions about 'liberal bias' (Original Post) SecularMotion Oct 2015 OP
Fox just can't even concieve of the other possiblity ... jimlup Oct 2015 #1
As usual, conservatives want Affirmative Action for conservative thought, not the disadvantaged.n/t denverbill Oct 2015 #2
I hope this was the response: DFW Oct 2015 #3
Would have been great, DFW! eom Duval Oct 2015 #13
Cornell had a right to do this, but it was stupid Ex Lurker Oct 2015 #4
I eagerly await his investigation on the political donations of professors at Liberty University. tanyev Oct 2015 #5
Hahahaha!! beerandjesus Oct 2015 #32
Love it! Fuck Fux News! InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2015 #6
The new measure of Stupid is now defined: Fox News takes on Cornell University. Ford_Prefect Oct 2015 #7
Fox News should houston16revival Oct 2015 #8
OOooooohhh. Is FOX going to start doing investigative journalism? Well that might be a good japple Oct 2015 #9
Pimps! Perfect description of anyone who appears on their shows and takes their money. erronis Oct 2015 #12
agree, and love the photo! nt restorefreedom Oct 2015 #35
No they didn't dsc Oct 2015 #10
Yeah, that's creepy. emulatorloo Oct 2015 #14
Strictly, "after" does not mean "because of". greyl Oct 2015 #24
Conservatives are some of the most thin skinned sacks of lying waste out there Feeling the Bern Oct 2015 #11
it's the same as if the Jackass movie people wanted to film on campus uhnope Oct 2015 #15
Fox news belongs in the trash can with the lid tightly locked . geretogo Oct 2015 #16
Sane, intelligent people tend to like liberal ideas. Elmer S. E. Dump Oct 2015 #17
Watters is a complete hack --and fool. riversedge Oct 2015 #18
Jesse Waters is a creepy stalker Gothmog Oct 2015 #19
Damn! The fair and balanced "news organization" obviously doesn't believe mnhtnbb Oct 2015 #20
Spot on. underpants Oct 2015 #22
Watters should be blacklisted for impersonating a journalist. DinahMoeHum Oct 2015 #21
Has Watters been to Liberty University? JohnnyRingo Oct 2015 #23
Senator Sanders spoke at Liberty University philosslayer Oct 2015 #36
Go Big Red! Cornell University - I'm sure proud of my alma mater today stuffmatters Oct 2015 #25
it's a private college. who has it "under fire"? Iris Oct 2015 #26
It's actually partly private and partly state-run Lydia Leftcoast Oct 2015 #27
ah! interesting. I had no idea! Iris Oct 2015 #28
. AngryAmish Oct 2015 #33
Article says students outwits Jessie and Fox is stupid enough to air it.... riversedge Oct 2015 #29
Typical Fux Propaganda BS mdbl Oct 2015 #30
But 24/7 right wing wacko indoctrination is fine, right Billo? nt LiberalElite Oct 2015 #31
Fuck off, Loofa Boy. (nt) Paladin Oct 2015 #34

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
1. Fox just can't even concieve of the other possiblity ...
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:12 PM
Oct 2015

that the professors are right. Sorry FOX, Reality has a "liberal" bais.

DFW

(54,341 posts)
3. I hope this was the response:
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:13 PM
Oct 2015

No bias at all, neither liberal nor conservative. This university encourages open, creative thinking, and tries to teach all to think critically and think for themselves. If that leads our community to support Democratic candidates to the tune of 96%, what does that say to you about the political leanings of people who are taught to think freely and critically, and come to their own conclusions about the ways of the world?

Ex Lurker

(3,813 posts)
4. Cornell had a right to do this, but it was stupid
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:14 PM
Oct 2015

and will confirm Fox's narrative of academic bias. If they weren't being disruptive, they should have been allowed to stay.

Ford_Prefect

(7,886 posts)
7. The new measure of Stupid is now defined: Fox News takes on Cornell University.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:17 PM
Oct 2015

False equivalence fails the test of logic, again!

houston16revival

(953 posts)
8. Fox News should
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:17 PM
Oct 2015

be investigated for its own "conservative bias" in their reporting.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

japple

(9,821 posts)
9. OOooooohhh. Is FOX going to start doing investigative journalism? Well that might be a good
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:18 PM
Oct 2015

start, but they will have to get about 100 stories under their belt to convince me that their reporters are anything more than pimps.

erronis

(15,241 posts)
12. Pimps! Perfect description of anyone who appears on their shows and takes their money.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:25 PM
Oct 2015

FOX Pimps. There are ruder terms but this one fits very nicely and I hope it goes into their wikipedia history for all future historians, and their grandchildren, to see.

greyl

(22,990 posts)
24. Strictly, "after" does not mean "because of".
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:54 PM
Oct 2015

But of course it looks like the lazy headline writer was quoting O'Reilly's knowingly misleading spin.

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
11. Conservatives are some of the most thin skinned sacks of lying waste out there
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:24 PM
Oct 2015

Not one of them cares about BJU conservative bias, Liberty Uni's conservative bias or Pepperdine's conservative bias.

Fuck Fox News

 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
15. it's the same as if the Jackass movie people wanted to film on campus
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:29 PM
Oct 2015

Fake news gets treated like fake news.

mnhtnbb

(31,382 posts)
20. Damn! The fair and balanced "news organization" obviously doesn't believe
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:29 PM
Oct 2015

in the right to privacy.

The real problem is that most well educated people tend to be liberal because in order to
gain advanced degrees they had to learn to think for themselves. They understand
the concept of learning, intelligence, science, and the pursuit of truth.


Fox News can't stand it because they want everybody to be dumb, indoctrinated,
and mindlessly willing to follow whatever they say.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Political_beliefs_of_academics

DinahMoeHum

(21,783 posts)
21. Watters should be blacklisted for impersonating a journalist.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:31 PM
Oct 2015

Remember that crap he pulled with Bernie Sanders?

JohnnyRingo

(18,624 posts)
23. Has Watters been to Liberty University?
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:20 PM
Oct 2015

Is there a conservative bias there, or is that just common sense education to O'Reilly? Maybe check at Brigham Young.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
27. It's actually partly private and partly state-run
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 01:06 AM
Oct 2015

The College of Agriculture, the College of Human Ecology (used to be Home Ec.), the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and the College of Veterinary Medicine are state schools, while the other colleges are private, but they're all part of Cornell University.

It's a strange hybrid, with lower tuition for the state portion for New York residents. Some majors (biology and psychology, for instance) are offered in both the College of Arts and Sciences and in one of the state colleges, so New York residents who want to major in certain fields enroll in the state program and get a break on tuition.

(I spent one year there on a language program and another year there as a visiting instructor six years later.)

riversedge

(70,186 posts)
29. Article says students outwits Jessie and Fox is stupid enough to air it....
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 03:34 AM
Oct 2015



.....In the segment, O’Reilly and Watters express quite a bit of outrage that they are eventually barred from harassing students by Cornell’s media relations department, because that’s not their job or anything.

Fortunately, the students Watters interviews not only outwit him, but he’s so incapable of seeing that they’ve done so that he victoriously includes their mockery of him in the segment, as when one student informs him that “fortunately, I’m indoctrinated, so I know nothing.”

mdbl

(4,973 posts)
30. Typical Fux Propaganda BS
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 06:27 AM
Oct 2015

Make fun of a good university to marginalize them. That's how repugs have come to power, using those very tactics in all of their media. I applaud Cornell for ejecting Fux new's yellow journalists.

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