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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-19-09 08:12 PM
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Karl Rove proved that Fox News is not a respectable news channel on Fox News Sunday
Edited on Mon Oct-19-09 09:00 PM by zulchzulu
Terry McAuliffe, former Chair of the Democratic Party, and Karl Rove, former Senior Adviser to President George W. Bush, "faced off" on Faux Snooze Sundee with the shamed son of Mike Wallace and the "issue" was artfully trying not to laugh while saying that Fox News is "a news organization". Wallace was loaded for bear with proof and Rove, another Fox paid parrot, was prepared to "act serious" and disprove what anyone with 23 working brain cells in their left cerebrum finds obvious.

Gigabytes of proof is out there on the web and elsewhere proving that Fox News is on a mission to be a media arm of the GOP. Watch it for five minutes or less and you're convinced they hate Obama, want to endanger our youth by saying the H1N1 virus treatments are a government plot (and hence make parents not want to allow their children helath protection) and so many lies that it's unforgivable and as revealing as finding a pile of aardvark excrement in your chef's salad.

So Rove was cornered by McAuliffe regarding Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009.

"Fox was the only broadcast station that did not broadcast his speech in front of the United States Congress. You had some crazy show on about how to learn to dance. I think that was very problematic," McAuliffe said.

http://fns.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/10/18/rove-mcauliffe-face-off/


CBS, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and PBS all bothered to show the important speech, which featured the lovely outburst from Repig asshat Joe Wilson (R-Hell) yelling "You lie..." You'd think that Fox would have had the memo that Wilson was going to squeal like a little schoolyard punk, but they dropped the ball.

Instead of being a channel that would cover an Obama speech, they showed "So You Think You Can Dance" (featuring Tom DeLay, who called the Terri Schiavo case "one of my proudest moments in Congress) followed by another horrific show "Glee" after it. We know why the Fox organization would have rather shown garbage over possibly having the viewers see that Obama gave a great speech.

The mere pushback from the usual college dropout stars on Fox News defending the idea that they "are a news organization" proves that they aren't. If you have to prove what you're supposed to be and whine about it, you aren't "it".



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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-19-09 08:38 PM
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1. faux went to court so they could legally lie and call it "news".
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=677

faux is always blowing it and I'm happy that the White House is confronting them on not being a "news outlet".

rw propaganda machine is what they are.
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Engineer4Obama Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-19-09 08:44 PM
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2. Something in me believes that it was that court case that was the last straw for the WH
I mean when they go to court to define "the right to lie as a news outlet" what other options do you have to discredit them?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-19-09 08:48 PM
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3. President Obama has the courage to do
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democracy1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 01:47 AM
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7. +1 thanks for the link
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 12:21 AM
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4. Hey, Glee is a good show!
Look, Fox is evil and all, but they gave us The SImpsons, Futurama, and Arrested Development among other shows--many of whom lampoon their Right-wing overlords constantly.

Amnesty on the shows and double down on the News Network.
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discopants Donating Member (457 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 01:16 AM
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5. I don't agree with your point
Fox News did broadcast Obama's speech. Fox network (Dancing with the Stars) did not.

There are a million reasons to illustrate that FoxNews is a propaganda arm of the republican party. This specific issue you bring up is not accurate.
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 01:34 AM
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6. V for Vendetta - that crazy assed tv personality
I've never watched that network but have a pretty good idea what swill they chew there and that creepy slug from V for Vendetta reminds me of those swine.
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