Ex-CIA director puts Fox News 'on notice' for their 'conspiratorial hit job' on Robert Mueller and
Source: RawStory
Ex-CIA director puts Fox News on notice for their conspiratorial hit job on Robert Mueller and the FBI
Ambassador James Woolsey, a former CIA director under President Bill Clinton, has put Fox and their host Lou Dobbs on notice amid the networks continued attempts to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller and undermine his Russia investigation.
In a statement provided to Raw Story, Woolseys representative Jonathan Franks said the former CIA director is extremely disappointed in Dobbs, Fox Business and Fox News over this inaccurate, unprofessional [and] conspiratorial hit job.
Weve placed Fox on notice, Franks added.
He referenced a Friday night Fox News clip in which commentator Christopher Bedford, editor-in-chief of the conservative Daily Caller website, said the special counsel lacks integrity and his probe has been hopelessly compromised.
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/ex-cia-director-puts-fox-news-on-notice-for-their-conspiratorial-hit-job-on-robert-mueller-and-the-fbi/
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,092 posts)I just know I would not want the CIA serving me notice.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,092 posts)FarPoint
(12,386 posts)His professional input has power.
tomp
(9,512 posts)....not exactly a ringing endorsement for integrity. you do know the history of the CIA, don't you?
FarPoint
(12,386 posts)Get to your point...your condescending demeanor is showing...I'm open to discussion.
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)tomp
(9,512 posts)Let me spell it out for you: don't trust the cia or people whom they endorse. The cia are not the friend of the people. And as a corollary: anyone who has had a leadership position in the cia is not to be trustes either. Clear?
FarPoint
(12,386 posts)And clarification.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I'd love to think he has something on Murdoch, or top members of the Fox apparatus, that'd send them straight to prison, though.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)I'm not going to watch ! A toothless statement without the "or else".
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)As an old EX CIA he can't do diddly squat. All he is doing is giving Faux News yet another CT to hang their propaganda machine on. I can hear them now...
Fox News threatened by a Clinton era CIA director! Don't worry folks, we here at Fox News will continue to provide you with the truth and let you decide!
riversedge
(70,223 posts)tblue37
(65,358 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)ret5hd
(20,491 posts)told me I was "on notice" I'd stop whatever I was doing even if it was only smoking a cigarette.
But that's just me. I don't think it will have the same effect on them.
If this was a movie, the CIA and/or the FBI would have damaging information on these Fox clowns that they could use against them, but this is the real world. Apparently the CIA isn't as sinister as we've thought they were. Can't believe I'm rooting for them to be sinister!
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)That was the first thing I thought of.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)They can lie about almost anything. It's up to the viewers to stop watching and call them out.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)ALQ-99 near their broadcast signal.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)I agree wholeheartedly. Something must be done to quiet Trump TV. "All lies, all the time" should be their motto.
librechik
(30,674 posts)I'm guessing. Woosley just won't be available to Fox.
certainot
(9,090 posts)lie turd pie of talk radio.
trump studied talk radio in 2014! he's the talk radio candidate and dems ignore it
lunasun
(21,646 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)It ruined the hearts and minds of many beyond hope of repair. The hope is generational transition at this point. Rush doesn't sell as well to the kids.
certainot
(9,090 posts)it is its creator and there would be great value in destroying the monopoly messaging power and discrediting the talk radio gods - a lot of the damage is ongoing secondary and tertiary propaganda damage who would easily reverse course on a lot of it if the main spewers of the alt reality were discredited.
Damage is still being done, but we lack any viable means of discrediting their vile spew. Air America was a wonderful attempt at discrediting in kind, but, lacking the right wing money subsidies that Rush and his ilk receive, it failed. I saw the damage on a personal level in my mostly rural area in Northern Michigan. Maddening and so very sad.
My comfort is that radio is losing its efficacy as kids are increasingly plugged into other media sources. Damage is still being done, but less by the year. As to the already brainwashed, they are the irredeemables of whom Hillary spoke. A danger to themselves and others.
certainot
(9,090 posts)challenged it will continue to make real democracy impossible. we shouldn't fall into the trap thinking that it's something we need to compete with - that's mom and pop vs wall mart.
here are a few free speech things people can do. demanding that our universities stop supporting it may be the best way with minimum effort used to scare off many of their advertisers. whatever the schools actually do is irrelevant - the discussion in public will do it, imo.
consider how it would effect michigan politics if just one of these schools was pushed by protestors into rethinking their support for all these limbaugh stations -- Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1
to start, dems and media and political scientists need to be encouraged to poll trump support for talk radio. too much analysis ignores the fact that this is actually the talk radio president and most of putins trolling piggybacked it. ill bet it shows the closest association outside of white, and that will help establish it as a major factor.
monitor it should be easier now to automate recording and transcribing the main rw talkers so people can search and study the patterns and repetition. if all of a sudden theres a spike in, say the word iran or mueller or deep state, etc, it probably means something. knowing about it before it becomes reality means not always having to play catch up
credit it trump needs a RUSH tattoo on his forehead, as do all republican pols and media hacks. they all ride the talk radio bandwagon and feed from the daily smorgasbord of talking points and excuses. dems in media could accurately preface answers to republican media hacks and politicians with thats what limbaugh says but...
investigate it how long has putin been using it? did they find a way to feed limbaugh and coordinate with him and others? are any of them being paid freelance money? exposing the talk radio gods as tools, especially russian tools, would help. Trump guy Sam Nunberg analyzed 1000s of hrs of RW radio & reported to Trump in 2014. to coordinate with Russian ops?
thank all local businesses that advertise on RW radio stations thank them for trump, trumpcare, global warming, privatization of public education, voter suppression, deregulation, tax breaks for billionaires, etc. its easy and fun to listen to a few minutes here and there and get a few email addresses for thank-you notes that can get to the boss/owners.
protest it include the radio stations in any progressive protests they may be better places to protest than capitols politicians and media will notice.
and to combine a few of those, push the 88 universities that endorse 257 limbaugh stations to stop crapping on their mission statements and start looking for apolitical alternatives to broadcast sports on maybe their political science faculties and students can start studying the most dominant political factor in the US the last 30 years. people need to wonder why the unis should drop rw radio. it will start a discussion, gop will freak out, media will notice, and advertisers will flee.
tblue37
(65,358 posts)I remember Mike Malloy ranting about the lack of wealthy Dem support for a progressive radio network, years ago.
He was dead right then and right now.
Why waste tens of millions on TV campaign ads that just fatten the wallets of corporate media when a fraction of that, invested in an outfit like 'Progressive Voices' would surely reap major rewards.
AM radio is a dwindling format, but a polished online network, mirrored on satellite radio has the potential to rebut the bagger bullshit at every twist and turn.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)you have, please.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)tblue37
(65,358 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,249 posts)MaupitiBlue
(18 posts)Am I the only one who remembers Woolsey on Hardball in early '03 telling Chris Matthews that Iraq was working on ICBM's? To his credit, Chris Matthews was incredulous, but Woolsey was adamant about it.
I resolved then and there to never believe James Woolsey.
That said, don't worry about Mueller. No pundit is going to hurt his feelings, and in the end, his report will speak for itself.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I think now only an organized democratic national 'uprising' can stop them.
And by uprising I do not mean a violent one------------------------- yet.
We need a coordinated nationwide 'war plan' to fight back. The repubs do it all the time day after day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade....
tblue37
(65,358 posts)stay on message until new talking points come down.
They run training seminars to teach activists how to spread the propaganda. They even have RW seminars to train people to troll on social media.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)to promote Trump, Putin. How would we know?
bucolic_frolic
(43,166 posts)to me means possible legal or tactical public relations maneuvers
This society cannot allow logic, truth, science, rule of law to go out the window
"hopelessly compromised" 'lacking integrity' are personal value judgments
orangecrush
(19,556 posts)you hit it on the head.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)and be like "on notice" what? A citizen's arrest threat?
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)...I Hope Fux Noise To Become 24 hrs Of Simpsons Re-Runs.
..More Fact Based Truth From A Cartoon.
lastlib
(23,236 posts)I think it was 20th Century Fox (movie/TV studio) (not 18th Century Fox News)
O' course, Ah could be wroung.........
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)and Dobbs will find himself in Turkey. However, they could really get the job done.
tableturner
(1,682 posts)Top CIA people keep connected with the agency, I think he is hinting at repercussions from the intelligence community. Nobody wins a back alley fight with the CIA. They know too much and they know how to weaponize it.
orangecrush
(19,556 posts)they are most assuredly barking up the wrong tree.
Thekaspervote
(32,767 posts)Dodart almost immediately made enemies with the IC, even b-4 his ignoration. Schummer and others warned him, don't do this. Again, IMHO they will not idly stand by while country and constitution are ground into the dirt. They take their oath VERY seriously, unlike the dodart and his ilk
tblue37
(65,358 posts)with Giuliani's assistance.
marybourg
(12,631 posts)Does he mean they used to be accurate, truthful and fair and now have lowered their standards? "Disappointed" seems an insincere term in this case. "Disgusted" might be better.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)rings true for me.
PragmaticDem
(320 posts)He should not be surprised that the fascists don't play nice.
tikka
(762 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)alternative facts (lies) about our IC. I hope this comes back to bite the entire fox operation in the ass!
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Going off at the FBI. This man is turning everyone in those organizations against him. We know how hard they work to keep us safe. Thousands all over the country.
Does he have any idea how hard the FBI and CIA agents will work to bring him down?
Does Trump have any idea what they will do to expose him?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)In a hundred ways, republicans are systematically undermining America's security and well being.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Is so terrifying.
We have a USSC that turned our elections into a mockery. A corrupt Republican Party that has lost all sense of morality.
Unless something changes in the next election I see us as a third world country,ruled by Dictatorial despots. Meanwhile serious damage is done.
We are already well on the way with this corrupt Congress,who have given up all pretense of helping us. They have even admitted this tax bill is pay off to their donors.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Unless he does, the threat is meaningless.
And if he does, why hasn't something been done before now?
It's obscene what the wealthy get away with now. We have regressed to robber-baron days.
Linda Ed
(493 posts)"Fact:'Fox news'is registered; ENTERTAINMENT program w/FCC, like Duck Dynasty& Honey BooBoo(which are funny at least)"
they are not a licensed News media outlet Mueller needs to subpoena Hannity and Judge Jeanine they seem to know so much
If fox news took $1 from Russia they should go on trial for acts of treason. This is not normal. Our FBI and Democracy is under attack by Trump & his lunatic followers.