Just look at the photo attached to this post and see for yourself. Mark Foley is a Republican (R-FL), not a Democrat (D-FL) although Fox News and the Republican Party wish that he were.
As a pastime I've been collecting oxymorons for several years, civilized warfare, pretty ugly, etc. I am adding Fox News to that list, there is nothing newsy about Fox.
Unfortunately that fox , we distort , you deride chanel has caused so much damage to this country, that it is no wonder why the incomp[etency level reached by this admonistration is unprecedented. Go to www.worldcantwait.or now patriots! Lets love ourcountrymen and exploited troops and have oversight on our government again!
Fox and the Reich-wing have proven over and over again that the American people as a whole don't recognize blatant lies and propaganda. It's psychological. I used to be a damn good con-artist in my youth, (I'm not proud of it, but I can't change it either), and the best way to get over on someone is to be as outrageous as possible. They don't expect it.
In Indiana I passed myself off as a Greek for over a year, in a Greek community. Now that might not seem all that big a deal, particularly because I could speak passable Grecian at the time. The "big deal" was that my appearance was of a stone cold Irishman. Dark red hair, strawberry blond goatee, and so light complected that I don't even have freckles. Well, anyone that knows Greeks or has been to Greece knows that there is no such thing as a red-headed, "light" complected Greek. Particularly 25 years ago. And there was no one to question it.
My point is that these Reich-wingers are good at what they do.
"Standards?" I'm surprised they didn't report Bill and Hillary Clinton were with Foley when he was doing the IM'ing. There is no level of depravation that the Republicans will not sink to in order to win elections.
The thing is, like lawyers in a courtroom, once the jury hears the taint, it's hard for them to remember the truth.
BTW: You have heard that FOX News ratings are sinking fast, right?
Isn't there some way we can bring more attention to this tactic? Can't we report it or something? Who's in charge around here, who will listen to us??? DAMN I'm getting nervous.
Right on. Glad to see that someone else see all the signs that I do.
Check the files Bush's first overseas trip he give the German salute as he gets on Air Force One. Sorry, I did not have recorders at that time. But, it us burned into my mind.
We tuned in to Fox last night to see what spin they'd put on the Foley scandal. We had a pool on how soon O'Reilly would try to pin it on Clinton, but he did us one better. I couldn't believe that graphic showing Foley to be a Dem. He showed it twice. I called my state Dem office immediately & the political director was made aware. No spin, indeed!! No need for spin when you flat out LIE.
"Fox only has a viewership of about 3 million people."
And, their ratings are dropping like a rock. However, they still boast TWICE the viewers that CNN, their closest competitor does.
If you watch the documentary "Outfoxed," you'll see that the real problem isn't necessarily that the whole nation watches FOX and never bothers to fact check their stories, but rather the influence that FOX has on other media outlets. They're really just a propoganda arm of rightwing think tanks, but what they do is repeat, over and over and over and over again, the rightwing talking points of a given day. Often, these are baseless lies that gain little traction elsewhere, but often, they're baseless lies that DO gain MASSIVE traction elsewhere, and can become major, headline stories on other outlets, even though there may be absolutely no truth whatsoever to them.
A great example of this was the way that Al Gore was smeared in the "liberal media" shortly before the 2000 election. THE key story, in the month before the election, was whatever Al Gore's latest "lie" was. In fact, NOTHING that was being reported as factual proof of Gore lying publicly was ever true. Everything was either made up entirely or taken wildly out of context. Yet, even when a previous story had been found to be incorrect, it would be reported as factual when the NEXT rightwing lie came out of the rightwing echo chamber.
Same thing with the swift boating of JFK in 2004. Within hours of the swift liars coming forth with their utter nonsense, it was found out who they were, what their agenda was, how they were tied to the GOP, and that their stories were not credible. Didn't matter, did it? Nope. For the next several weeks, we were "treated" to 24/7 coverage of whether or not war hero John Kerry deserved his medals. No mention of the fact that Bush not only got preferrential treatment to get a cushy position in the TANG, but that he'd actually gone AWOL and had never completed his term of committment, oddly.
Thanks Sean-Paul, as an unscienticic sampling....as CNN and MSNBC were reporting the Foley scandal.....the Inquiring Minds News Channel was running stories on the Ram Cheerleading squad and an interview with Anhuesrer-Busch's head marketing guy. The only way to hurt Faux News is the only place where it really matters to them....the wallet. That seems contacting their advertisers. Is any group doing this?
Charles, you'd be surprised at how uneducated people are about politics. If it were any other tv station, I might say it was unintentional. But this is Fox, a supporter of the GOP and their agenda.
Yeah, Charles N. we do think this was anything but an "unintentional" error. Someone put a lot of work into making that poster, and it got shown several times. Why?
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In Indiana I passed myself off as a Greek for over a year, in a Greek community. Now that might not seem all that big a deal, particularly because I could speak passable Grecian at the time. The "big deal" was that my appearance was of a stone cold Irishman. Dark red hair, strawberry blond goatee, and so light complected that I don't even have freckles. Well, anyone that knows Greeks or has been to Greece knows that there is no such thing as a red-headed, "light" complected Greek. Particularly 25 years ago. And there was no one to question it.
My point is that these Reich-wingers are good at what they do.
"Standards?" I'm surprised they didn't report Bill and Hillary Clinton were with Foley when he was doing the IM'ing. There is no level of depravation that the Republicans will not sink to in order to win elections.
The thing is, like lawyers in a courtroom, once the jury hears the taint, it's hard for them to remember the truth.
BTW: You have heard that FOX News ratings are sinking fast, right?
Check the files Bush's first overseas trip he give the German salute as he gets on Air Force One. Sorry, I did not have recorders at that time. But, it us burned into my mind.
And, their ratings are dropping like a rock. However, they still boast TWICE the viewers that CNN, their closest competitor does.
If you watch the documentary "Outfoxed," you'll see that the real problem isn't necessarily that the whole nation watches FOX and never bothers to fact check their stories, but rather the influence that FOX has on other media outlets. They're really just a propoganda arm of rightwing think tanks, but what they do is repeat, over and over and over and over again, the rightwing talking points of a given day. Often, these are baseless lies that gain little traction elsewhere, but often, they're baseless lies that DO gain MASSIVE traction elsewhere, and can become major, headline stories on other outlets, even though there may be absolutely no truth whatsoever to them.
A great example of this was the way that Al Gore was smeared in the "liberal media" shortly before the 2000 election. THE key story, in the month before the election, was whatever Al Gore's latest "lie" was. In fact, NOTHING that was being reported as factual proof of Gore lying publicly was ever true. Everything was either made up entirely or taken wildly out of context. Yet, even when a previous story had been found to be incorrect, it would be reported as factual when the NEXT rightwing lie came out of the rightwing echo chamber.
Same thing with the swift boating of JFK in 2004. Within hours of the swift liars coming forth with their utter nonsense, it was found out who they were, what their agenda was, how they were tied to the GOP, and that their stories were not credible. Didn't matter, did it? Nope. For the next several weeks, we were "treated" to 24/7 coverage of whether or not war hero John Kerry deserved his medals. No mention of the fact that Bush not only got preferrential treatment to get a cushy position in the TANG, but that he'd actually gone AWOL and had never completed his term of committment, oddly.
I've seen "Outfoxed," so I know better than to think it was an error.
But then again, sometimes, when you've got a wicked clear shot at a pinata, you just have to take it, you know?