Fox News Belittles Most Powerful Woman in Politics!

...no surprise here. It's Faux afterall :puke:

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Reacting to the idea of a powerful woman, Fox News Thursday (January 4, 2007) marked the occasion of the swearing in of the first woman as Speaker of the House with coverage that mocked her authority and depicted her policy disagreements with other members of Congress as petty jealousies typical of women. With video.

"Fox and Friends" began its coverage not with a story about the history-making aspects of Nancy Pelosi's swearing in as speaker, but with a story about Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, still being upset after Pelosi failed to reappoint her as chair of the House Intelligence Committee.

"Fox and Friends" co-hosts Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Andrew Napolitano blamed Pelosi's dumping of Harman on Harman's willingness to work with Republicans, Foxspeak for failure to challenge Bush administration's intelligence abuses.

As the trio discussed the story, Fox News displayed a banner reading "Congress Catfight." The term "catfight" is a belittling term often used to ridicule disagreements among women, casting them as fights among animals (especially an animal that is often seen as fickle and hard to understand like a cat). Saying a disagreement among women is a "catfight" is akin to saying that the women are less than human and their disagreement is based on something other than rationallity, intellect or principle. Men do battle. Women have catfights.

This subtle swipe was not the end of Fox News' efforts to belittle the new speaker.

In a segment on Pelosi's comments that by becoming speaker, she was now the most powerful woman in America, Doocy read her quote about breaking through a "marble ceiling" and then mocked her by saying, "All rise, Nancy Pelosi takes control" as the music of "Pomp and Circumstances" played in the background. When Doocy mentioned her name again later in the program, Fox News played the same music.

At one point, Fox News also displayed a banner beneath video of Pelosi which read, "Stepping Down." And in the second hour of the program, the Fox and Friends trio repeated their discussion of the Harman-Pelosi disagreement, complete with the "Congress Catfight" banner.

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Well DUer's, NOW that we ARE the party in power; we can expect this kind of garbage to be routinely pumped out of Faux on a daily basis. Oh Nancy's going to piss them off - and if she did any less, I'd be worried. Annoying to be sure, but damn it's sweet to be targeted from a position of power.

:kick: :patriot: :kick:

News the entire day and night watch Spongebob for one half hour each night.

Over 13,000,000 households watch Jeopardy.

Fuck FAUX.

This is why I never, ever watch that channel. I have it locked on my cable and can't remember the channel lock number, so even if I'm tempted, I can't watch.

Those people are contemptible, repugnant and I feel sure if I were able to watch them I would lose IQ points.

Ugh!!!

Don't get mad, it does no good for you. Laugh at their obvious discomfort and take them and their talking points down one by one with that glorious, victorious smile on your face.

It has been a long haul for us, now is the time for liberals to focus on their congresspeople and get this thing turned around.

a minority, an Eyetalian! :wow:

What else can you do but laugh? When the Republicans aren't trying to kill you, they are so juvenile it's just ridiculously funny somehow.

the only thing I see of them is what is posted here and the occasional video clips that get passed around. Obviously, I know by now what a farce and disgusting propaganda machine they are.

But what really gets me, is that, based on all that I have seen about them, there is such a high level of unprofessionalism. I mean, it's one thing to have a blatant right-wing bias, but the way that their on-air personalities conduct themselves, the things they say, the graphics they put on the screen...it all just has such a cheap and tawdry stench about it. It looks and sounds like the Jerry Spring Show or something. Does that make sense? I mean, I realize that there are lots of problems with the other MSM too, but I can't imagine some of the other networks - ABC, NBC, CBS etc. - putting up a graphic that says "Congress Catfight". Seriously. Fox News seems to me like it is run much the same way the the Shrub administration is - that is, by a bunch of cronies and buddies and people who are wholly unqualified to perform the jobs they were hired to do. Who have no education or experience in the field.

They have absolutely no dignity or class and it's beyond me why ANYONE would watch them. :puke:

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