People that dont like FOX news

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Another thing that disgusts me about Fox News is they can always reach new lows of pettiness.

Fox News Doesn’t Think Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas Is Patriotic Enough

Gabby Douglas was the topic du jour for Olympic commentators throughout last week, but over the weekend, she became a centerpiece in another manufactured controversy at Fox News, America’s top outlet for manufactured controversies. Douglas’ pink leotard, Fox host Alisyn Camerota lamented, was emblematic of an Olympic “trend” (one that, Fox wants you to believe, is part of a liberal-left conspiracy to rid the world of red, white, and blue) of athletes wearing colors that don’t appear on the American flag.


“Some folks have noticed that the American athletes’ uniforms don’t carry the stars and stripes look as much as they have in past years,” Camerota complained, without any evidence of who “some folks” might be. “The famous flag-styled outfits worn in year’s past replaced with yellow shirts, gray track suits, pink leotards.” Radio host/Tea Partier David Webb later chimed in with a sad tome about how America has “lost over time that jingoistic feeling” because “a soft anti-American feeling that Americans can’t show their exceptionalism”:

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012...riotic-enough/


Bob Dylan described them perfectly when he wrote:


Patriotism is the last refugee to which a scoundrel clings
Steal a little and they'll throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they'll make you a king

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Another Fraudulent Voter ID Claim On Fox

New Study Showing Almost No In-Person Voter Fraud Throws Cold Water On Hysteria

Defending Pennsylvania's newly-enacted voter ID law on Fox News, conservative columnist John Fund declared that "to deny that voter fraud isn't going on is to frankly deny reality." But a new study finds just ten verifiable instances of in-person voter fraud of the sort that voter ID laws are intended to prevent since 2000.



On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that a new study, undertaken by News21, found that the type of in-person voter fraud is exceedingly rare. News21 sent thousands of public records searches to elections officials across the country, seeking every case of election fraud since 2000. After examining the resultant 2,068 reports of election fraud, the investigative news group was only able to identify ten instances where an individual impersonated another person in order to cast a ballot. News21 also reviewed 375 election fraud cases cited by the Republican National Lawyers Association, which supports voter ID laws; their analysis found no cases of voter impersonation fraud.



This announcement did little to deter Fox News. The conservative news network, which has gone so far as to set up a voter fraud e-mail tip line, has played a central role in both fearmongering about the unlikely prospect of widespread voter fraud while also defending controversial voter ID laws.



Indeed, the day after the study's release, Fox News hosted Fund to defend Pennsylvania's voter ID law and hype voter fraud fears. Speaking in defense of Pennsylvania's newly enacted voter ID law, Fund spoke in direct contradiction to the study's findings when he said that "to deny that voter fraud isn't going on is to frankly deny reality."



News21's findings are consistent with the reality in Pennsylvania. The state has acknowledged during litigation that it is not aware of any instances of in-person voter fraud ever occurring in Pennsylvania. A May 4 Philadelphia Inquirer article examined past instances of voter fraud in Pennsylvania and found that none of the cases would have likely been prevented by Pennsylvania's voter ID law. Pennsylvania state officials have estimated that as many as nine percent of registered voters do not possess identification that will allow them to vote this fall.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08...-on-fox/189302

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You know its gotta take a real brainwashed parrot to be even able to watch the false propaganda and direct contradictions Fox News washes into their brains.

For Fox's Kelly, The Truth About Welfare Reform Is Not Worth A Lot

Fox host Megyn Kelly let Lou Dobbs promote the bogus narrative being pushed by Fox News and Mitt Romney's campaign that President Obama's administration is stripping work requirements from welfare reform, even though she noted shortly after the segment that the claim has been debunked by fact-checking organizations.


After the Obama administration announced that it would comply with governors' requests for more flexibility in administering work requirements for people receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) benefits, the right-wing media immediately went on the attack, claiming Obama was gutting the work requirements that were passed as part of President Clinton's 1996 welfare reform.


On America Live, when Kelly asked Fox Business host Lou Dobbs for "the truth" about the issue, Dobbs agreed that Obama was gutting welfare reform "by fiat" and claimed he "wants to enlarge the level of dependency in this country of the federal government even farther and wants to do so with those who are so dependent, unencumbered with any sense of responsibility." Dobbs' claim is one that has been pushed by Fox News incessantly over the past few weeks and was even adopted by the Romney campaign despite the fact that Romney himself requested similar waivers as governor of Massachusetts.


But later in the show, after letting Dobbs push the dishonest right-wing narrative on the welfare waivers, Kelly noted that "for what it's worth" the fact-checking website PolitiFact "rated that claim with a 'pants on fire' rating a few days ago."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08...eform-i/189325

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The Left Lies Because You’re Too Stupid for the Truth

Written By : Brian Garst
The Daily Caller recently reported on a twitter exchange between Matt Yglesias, blogger savant at Think Progress, and and Washington Examiner’s Mark Hemingway. During the discussion, Yglesias basically endorsed lying and deception as legitimate when used to advance the left-wing agenda.

“Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes,” said Yglesias.
The exchange, with Washington Examiner writer Mark Hemingway, came on the heels of a debate between the two on transportation policy.
Yglesias pressed his point with another conservative writer, saying, “Do you really think deception is immoral in all circumstances?”

Well, no. But who’s talking about all circumstances? We’re talking about public debates and policy. Stay focused, Matt.

…[W]hat set off a flurry of Tweets today – and Yglesias’s advocacy of lying – was a charge by Yglesias via Twitter that Washington Timesreporter Eli Lake has a “deserved reputation for dishonesty.” Hemingway, Lake and others confronted Yglesias on Twitter about the charge, pointing out that Yglesias himself had actually advocated dishonesty.
“When [Yglesias] gets frustrated because he can’t counter an argument, he calls people ‘dishonest’,” Lake said, also calling him “a child.”
Yglesias’s Twitter opponents also charged he does not take criticism well.
Then, Yglesias dug in, saying lying was a necessary part of politics.
In concluding his interview with The Daily Caller, Yglesias said “go fuck yourself” and hung up the phone.

Stay classy.
Lying is a part of politics because liars are a part of politics, but it’s hardly necessary.
This ends-justify-the-means attitude seems unfortunately common on the left. That’s not to say it doesn’t exist on the right – it does – but it’s not publicly embraced and doesn’t seem as prevalent.
Just look at Saul Alinsky, the intellectual father of nearly everyone in the Obama administration. He was no high-minded idealist out to convince others of his views. Deception was an integral part of his disgusting strategy.
The reason the left is so willing to accept the use of dishonesty to advance their agenda is correlated with the very nature of their beliefs. The reason they support big government nanny states is because they think people are too stupid to take care of themselves. It should come as no surprise, then, that they’d also think people are too stupid to reach the correct conclusions (in their minds) given an honest accounting of the facts.

http://www.rightwingnews.com/liberal...for-the-truth/

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Fox Ignores Wyden's Rejection To Invent Bipartisan Support For Ryan Plan

Fox News host Jon Scott suggested today that Democrats shouldn't criticize Medicare provisions in Paul Ryan's budget because "one of their own," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), was a "cosponsor" of Ryan's plan. But while Wyden did write a Medicare policy paper with Ryan, he ultimately voted against Ryan's budget and has criticized the idea that it has bipartisan support.


On today's broadcast of Fox's Happening Now, Scott asked his guest about the Ryan plan, saying: "The Democrats are saying, you know, 'Extremist position on Medicare.' They're saying it's Social Darwinism, that kind of thing. And yet, conveniently ignoring that one of their own, Ron Wyden of Oregon, is a cosponsor of the Ryan plan."


But while Wyden did co-author a paper with Ryan in December 2011, he was not a "cosponsor" of Ryan's budget, nor did he support the Medicare changes the budget would have imposed. In fact, Wyden voted against Ryan's plan -- which called for "significant cuts for future Medicare benefits" -- when it was put forward in the Senate in May 2011. As Roll Call noted this week, Wyden "never signed on to support the House-adopted budget resolution written by Ryan that included plans for a premium support approach."


Not only did Wyden vote against Ryan's plan, he has specifically rejected the idea that his work with Ryan suggests there is bipartisan support for Ryan's plan. As Roll Call reported, Wyden called such an idea "nonsense":

At a Saturday campaign stop with his new vice presidential pick, Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), Romney praised the House Budget chairman's work with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) to develop a Medicare overhaul plan.


"This man said, 'I'm going to find Democrats to work with.' He found a Democrat to co-lead a piece of legislation that makes sure we can save Medicare," Romney said in Ashland, Va. "Republicans and Democrats coming together. He's a man who has great ideas and the capacity to lead to find people to cross the aisle - to work together."
Wyden was quick to push back on Romney's version of events.


"Gov. Romney is talking nonsense. Bipartisanship requires that you not make up the facts. I did not 'co-lead a piece of legislation.'" Wyden said. "I wrote a policy paper on options for Medicare. Several months after the paper came out, I spoke and voted against the Medicare provisions in the Ryan budget."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08...ipartis/189339

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The Daily Caller continues its expose on far left Soros monkeys Media Matters For Amerika, and in part 2 we learn stuff that pretty much won’t shock anyone

(Daily Caller) A little after 1 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2009, Karl Frisch emailed a memo to his bosses, Media Matters for America founder David Brock and president Eric Burns. In the first few lines, Frisch explained why Media Matters should launch a “Fox Fund” whose mission would be to attack the Fox News Channel.
“Simply put,” Frisch wrote, “the progressive movement is in need of an enemy. George W. Bush is gone. We really don’t have John McCain to kick around any more. Filling the lack of leadership on the right, Fox News has emerged as the central enemy and antagonist of the Obama administration, our Congressional majorities and the progressive movement as a whole.”
“We must take Fox News head-on in a well funded, presidential-style campaign to discredit and embarrass the network, making it illegitimate in the eyes of news consumers.”
What Frisch proceeded to suggest, however, went well beyond what legitimate presidential campaigns attempt. “We should hire private investigators to look into the personal lives of Fox News anchors, hosts, reporters, prominent contributors, senior network and corporate staff,” he wrote.
After that, Frisch argued, should come the legal assault: “We should look into contracting with a major law firm to study any available legal actions that can be taken against Fox News, from a class action law suit to defamation claims for those wronged by the network. I imagine this would be difficult but the right law firm is bound to find some legal ground for us to take action against the network.”

Those on the Left have always despised Fox because they refuse to walk the same far left line as the other 99% of the media. They really do not like Americans being offered an alternative viewpoint, nor seeing actual Conservatives on TV destroying the liberals they debate with. They do not want to see people like Hannity, Beck (obviously, he has moved on), Ingraham, O’Reilly, et all, expounding Conservative views. So, instead of telling us why the Leftist point of view is better for America, Media Matters is intent on destroying the people who work for Fox in a personal manner.
This revelation isn’t particularly new: David Brock has as much as said he is out to destroy Fox News last year, which puts their tax exempt status in jeopardy. The above mentioned memo itself highlights that MMFA has violated their 501(c)3 status, which prohibits MMFA from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Why do they want a tax exempt status anyway? If memory serves, Liberals think everyone should pay their “fair share” in taxes. They should walk the talk.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/liberal...es-personally/

[ladygodiva123]

Rachel Maddow just pointed out that while FOX NEWS does have the highest news ratings, ALL news ratings pale in comparison to Cartoon Network - LOL.

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You Know Who Else Touted Shared Prosperity?

Fox host Megyn Kelly attacked President Obama's recent unremarkable statement that he supports a "new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared," claiming it follows a theme of Obama promoting "taking from some people and giving to others." The same sentiment has been shared by figures such as Ronald Reagan and, recently, Mitt Romney whose plan is estimated to increase taxes for the poor for the benefit of the wealthy.


On America Live, Kelly hosted frequent Fox guest Lars Larson to attack Obama over a recent campaign speech in which he advocated a "new vision of America in which prosperity is shared." Obama continued:


"I believe we have to go forward," Obama said. "I believe we have to keep working to create an America where no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter what your last name is, no matter who you love, you can make it here if you try. That's what's at stake in November. That's what is why I am running for a second term as president of the United States of America."


Larson claimed Obama's comments showed that Obama wants to take accomplishments such as Microsoft CEO Bill Gates' and "redistribute that wealth at the point of a gun." Kelly cited previous statements to claim "it creates a belief by some like Lars that he's talking about taking from some people and giving to others."


Kelly is right that Obama's comments are in line with several previous statements he's made. Obama has made shared prosperity a central platform of his economic policies. But he's not the only prominent political figure to make shared prosperity a focus of their campaign. Romney recently praised his vice-presidential pick Rep. Paul Ryan, saying that he will help lead the country "to widespread and shared prosperity." Even President Reagan, who Fox has incessantly compared Ryan to recently, made shared prosperity a priority. In 1980, then-President-elect Reagan laid out his economic plans, saying his policies were "plans for implementation, reducing the cost of government, reducing the burden on the people and getting a prosperity that will be shared by all."


Despite the fact that Kelly used the "taking from some people and giving to others" claim as an attack on Obama, she didn't mention that that charge could be leveled at both Romney and Ryan who have advocated policies that would increase the tax burden on lower-income Americans in order to benefit the wealthy.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08...sperity/189347

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Originally Posted by ladygodiva123

Rachel Maddow just pointed out that while FOX NEWS does have the highest news ratings, ALL news ratings pale in comparison to Cartoon Network - LOL.

Great point and here's another one. Take any one of these; NBC News, CBS News, or ABC News and they all have more viewers than all cable news channels combined.

Also there are several news outlets for moderates, independents, and liberals but only one news channel that caters directly to conservatives. That's why Fox appears to have more viewers when in fact they represent a vast minority of Americans.

[deviousdave]

Originally Posted by stumbler

Another thing that disgusts me about Fox News is they can always reach new lows of pettiness.

Fox News Doesn’t Think Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas Is Patriotic Enough




http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012...riotic-enough/


Bob Dylan described them perfectly when he wrote:


Patriotism is the last refugee to which a scoundrel clings
Steal a little and they'll throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they'll make you a king

That is quite interesting, Because only a few weeks ago, Fox news ran a piece saying that it would be a national disgrace if the the Olympian that carries the flag tipped it, or waved it during the opening ceremony. They had a poll saying 95% of people would be outraged if such a thing happened.

During this piece I noticed that they quoted the US flag code:

United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 - The Flag: Section 8 Respect for the Flag : No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing.


I find it odd that one week there would be outrage if someone didn't follow the US flag code. But the following week, the Olympians are being lambasted for following US flag code.

United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 - The Flag: Section 8 Respect for the Flag: Subsection(j):No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform.

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Originally Posted by deviousdave

That is quite interesting, Because only a few weeks ago, Fox news ran a piece saying that it would be a national disgrace if the the Olympian that carries the flag tipped it, or waved it during the opening ceremony. They had a poll saying 95% of people would be outraged if such a thing happened.

During this piece I noticed that they quoted the US flag code:

United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 - The Flag: Section 8 Respect for the Flag : No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing.


I find it odd that one week there would be outrage if someone didn't follow the US flag code. But the following week, the Olympians are being lambasted for following US flag code.

United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 - The Flag: Section 8 Respect for the Flag: Subsection(j):No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform.

WOW thanks for this. I hate to admit I didn't even know such a code existed.

[Distant Lover]

Originally Posted by stumbler

Great point and here's another one. Take any one of these; NBC News, CBS News, or ABC News and they all have more viewers than all cable news channels combined.

Also there are several news outlets for moderates, independents, and liberals but only one news channel that caters directly to conservatives. That's why Fox appears to have more viewers when in fact they represent a vast minority of Americans.

"Vast minority!" I will have to remember that.

[deviousdave]

Originally Posted by stumbler

WOW thanks for this. I hate to admit I didn't even know such a code existed.

Nor did I, I googled it after I saw the thing about flag dipping.

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Is it true that because Canada has a not lie in news law that Fox and not broadcast there?

I know Canada did have a no lie law but the conservatives there were trying to get it repealed.

To bad the US did not have a no lie law. Wonder how the politicians of both sides would stack up.

[hotjohn4321]

I was in hurry and on the run. Fox is not able to broadcast in Canada because of the no lie law.

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Now thinking people already know that Fox News is nothing more than a right wing false propaganda machine designed solely for the purpose of promoting conservative/Republican/Tea Party candidates and causes.

And the way thinking people can tell that is by watching how they treat issues detrimental to the GOP cause, just like this.

Fox Provides Cover For Akin's Inflammatory Rape Comments

Fox News is doing its best to help Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican Party's nominee for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, recover from the growing firestorm over his statement that it is "really rare" for women subjected to "legitimate rape" to become pregnant. As analysts predict that Akin's remark could put a winnable seat for the GOP at risk, the network is trying to downplay the comments.


In their first and as of yet only report on the comments, America's Newsroom anchor Martha MacCallum neither played Akin's comment nor read it, describing it only as "what he said about 'legitimate rape'" and adding that he "had to do some serious correction on that comment over the weekend." Viewers unfamiliar with the story would have absolutely no idea what Akin had said.


MacCallum did not give Akin's remark its own segment, but rather highlighted it along with a Politico article about a GOP congressman skinny-dipping in the Sea of Galilee. She also framed the discussion as a media analysis story, noting that the two topics are "getting a lot of attention around some of the other media outlets" and asking "how significant" the stories are and whether "they deserve the attention they are getting."


Indeed, both CNN and MSNBC have devoted multiple segments to the controversy this morning, in most instances airing Akin's comments in full.


As MacCallum referenced Akin, Fox suggested that the discussion over the comments is illegitimate, airing the caption, "Will the media seize on Rep Akin's (R-MO) comments & GOP 2011 behavior in Israel?"


Notably, Fox political analyst Karl Rove, to whom MacCallum turned for analysis on Akin's remarks, has founded organizations that have spent more than $900,000 to win the Missouri Senate seat for Republicans.


From this morning's America's Newsroom:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08...ry-rape/189443

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NY Times Columnist Nicolas Kristof Exposes Discredited Fox Narrative

New York Timescolumnist Nicholas Kristof eviscerated the Fox News narrative at the heart of the Republican convention Tuesday, noting the use of government loans obtained by Sher Valenzuela, a speaker at the Republican National Convention touting the theme of "We Built It."


That theme is rooted in a Fox News distortion of comments President Obama made in July, when he noted the role public infrastructure played in creating an environment where businesses can succeed. The Fox distortion was manifested in a convention address Tuesday by Valenzuela, a Delaware business owner tapped to address the convention. Yet Valenzuela's actual experience is in contrast to the rightwing's mythology. Indeed, her business success is deeply connected to government loans and contracts.


As Kristof wrote, "Valenzuela relied not only on her entrepreneurial skills but also on -- yes, government help." He went on to explain:

Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, documented $2 million in loans from the Small Business Administration for Valenzuela's company, plus $15 million in government contracts (mostly noncompetitive ones).

In a presentation earlier this year, Valenzuela described government assistance as an entrepreneur's "biggest 'secret weapon.' "

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08...es-disc/189633

[CS natureboy]

[CS natureboy]

[spjames]

Originally Posted by CS natureboy

At least they admitted their mistake. A great percentage of what FOX broadcasts is lies and misinformation but you'll never hear them correct any of those lies. It makes them an incredibly dishonest and unreliable source.

[Distant Lover]

Originally Posted by spjames

At least they admitted their mistake. A great percentage of what FOX broadcasts is lies and misinformation but you'll never hear them correct any of those lies. It makes them an incredibly dishonest and unreliable source.

FOX News won a lawsuit to protect its presumed right under the Constitution to lie.

http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/...n-lie-lawsuit/

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[CS natureboy]

ThinkProgress blows it, claims Fox News ‘blackout’ of Todd Akin coverage

Published: 4:59 PM 08/21/2012



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Attacking the Fox News Channel is a favorite hobby horse of the progressive movement. So when Missouri Republican Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin made his controversial remark Sunday about so-called “legitimate rape,” it was only a matter of time before left-wingers sought to exploit the controversy to score points against Fox.
In a Monday post by Igor Volsky at the Center for American Progress’ “ThinkProgress” blog, Volsky claimed Fox News had instituted “a virtual blackout” of Akin’s foot-in-mouth moment.
“Fox News is following its well established pattern of underreporting stories that don’t appeal to its conservative base, instituting a virtual blackout of Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) controversial — and widely condemned — comments about “legitimate rape,” Volsky wrote.
Volsky examined a narrow window of coverage of Monday, from 6 a.m. through 12 p.m. that day, and claimed the episode was only mentioned once — while CNN and MSNBC led the way, with MSNBC making more than 20 references in just a six-hour period.
Volsky’s post caught a lot of attention in the so-called Twittersphere after the organization promoted it with it’s Twitter account. But a closer review of the broadcast of Fox News shows at least four mentions of the controversy within Volsky’s time parameters:
Breakdown of FNC coverage on Todd Akin yesterday

9 a.m.

• Mentioned with Fox News contributor Karl Rove
• Akin mentioned twice
• Lower-third banner also had it

10 a.m.

• Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan in New Hampshire from 10:45 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. where it was mentioned

11 a.m.




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The cable news channel’s coverage continued throughout the day, and was criticized by the likes of ThinkProgress’ sister organization, Media Matters for America. (RELATED: TheDC’s complete coverage of Media Matters)



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/21/th...#ixzz256JmhdOz

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Sloppy & Wrong: 11 Fox & Friends Corrections, Clarifications, And Apologies

Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy once bragged that "here at Fox we still do journalism." They just don't do it well on the show he hosts.


Following substantial mockery from other media outlets, Fox & Friends will reportedly issue a correction for the dishonest graphic they aired today that completely distorted President Obama's record on unemployment. That is unusual for the program; as the Washington Post's Erik Wemple explained, using an honest graphic to discuss the issue "is asking way too much of these people."


Despite failing to produce accurate journalism, Fox & Friends attracts an average of 1 million viewers each morning -- far ahead of their cable news competitors.


Regardless of its ratings, the program's relationship with the facts has reportedly made it a laughingstock even among other Fox employees, with The New York Times reporting of the networks reporters, producers, and executives, "Ask them what they think privately" about Fox & Friends "and they will often roll their eyes and mention some embarrassing mishap."


It's no wonder Fox employees are embarrassed to be associated with the program. Here are 11 on-air corrections, retractions, clarifications, and apologies Fox & Friends has had to issue for their sloppy journalism and offensive comments (often without admitting or explaining the original offense):

1. The Obama Madrassa Smear. Fox & Friends had to "clarify" their false report claiming that then-Senator Barack Obama had attended a radical Islamic madrassa when he was a child in Indonesia. In response to this incident, Fox vice-president John Moody issued a memo to the network's staff explaining that "seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right."
2. Kilmeade: "All Terrorists Are Muslims." Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade claimed that he "misspoke" when he claimed that "all terrorists are Muslims." He had made the assertion on two separate occasions on the same day.
3. School Prank Parody Reported As Real News Story. Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy issued an on-air retraction and apology after he and Kilmeade reported on a fabricated news report about a school prank from an online parody website as fact. A judge later described their reporting in a lawsuit related to the incident as "grist for journalism classes teaching research and professionalism standards in the Internet age."
4. False Report That Obama Supported Release Of Lockerbie Bomber. Dana Perino apologized on Fox & Friends for falsely claiming on the previous day's program that President Obama had supported the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
5. False Report On School Curriculum Changes In Texas. After the Texas Education Agency criticized Fox & Friends for a "highly inaccurate" report about planned curriculum changes for Texas schools, the show ran a "clarification" on the issue.
6. Doocy Misquoted Obama, Claimed It Was Attack On Romney. Doocy admitted he "did some paraphrasing that seemed to misquote the president" when he falsely quoted Obama saying "'Unlike some people, I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth" in a supposed attack on Mitt Romney. In fact, Obama never said the "unlike some people" portion of the quote and had been using the phrase since March 2009.
7. Kilmeade Praised Swedes For "Pure Genes." Kilmeade apologized for his statement on Fox & Friends that Americans don't have "pure genes" like Swedes because "we keep marrying other species and other ethnics."
8. Falsely Claimed TSA Was Going To Screen Passenger DNA. Fox & Friends apologized for a false report that claimed that the Transportation Security Administration planned to screen passengers' DNA.
9. False Report That Obama Planned To Apologize For The Atomic Bomb. Fox & Friends apologized for their false story claiming President Obama had considered apologizing to Japan for the U.S. dropping the atomic bomb.
10. Inverted Poll To Claim 61 Percent Opposed Collective Bargaining. Fox & Friends issued a correction after claiming that 61percent of respondents to a poll favored taking collective bargaining rights away from public employees. In fact, 61 percent opposed the measure in the Gallup poll they cited.
11. Giuliani: Obama Didn't Say "War" During State Of The Union. Doocy issued a correction on-air after former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani falsely stated on Fox & Friends that President Obama didn't say "war" during his 2010 State of the Union speech.

These examples represent only a small fraction of the program's misdeeds; more often than not, Fox & Friends ignores criticism of their false stories and refuses to issue corrections or retractions for their sloppy journalism. Indeed, their reputation for getting stories wrong while promoting the conservative movement and attacking progressives was parodied on an episode of Saturday Night Live.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09...ections/189838

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Fox Has No Memory Of Any "Successful Terror Attacks Since 9-11"

Fox's Gretchen Carlson whitewashed the national security record of the Bush administration to suggest the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya was "the first successful terror attack since 9-11."


On three separate occasions during Fox & Friends, Carlson asked "Did the first successful terror attack since 9-11 just happen under President Obama's watch?" Carlson asked that question while teasing upcoming segments, but Fox never attempted to answer that question.


Carlson could not be more misleading on this issue. The State Department produces an annual report compiling all known instances of terrorism, which is defined as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents." In its 2008 report, the State Department counted 19 private U.S. citizens killed as a result of terrorism in 2007 alone. The report also counted more than 40,000 terrorist attacks worldwide between 2005 and 2007.


There were several high-profile terrorist attacks inside the U.S. during the Bush administration, including the anthrax attacks, the fatal shooting at the El Al airlines ticket counter at the Los Angeles International Airport, the DC-area sniper attacks -- all of which occurred in 2002. In addition, there was a 2003 attack on a U.S. diplomatic vehicle that killed three in the Gaza Strip. Three American security personnel were killed while transporting diplomats from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv.


Fox has a history of reacting to violence during the Obama administration by claiming that no terrorist attacks in the U.S. that occurred during the Bush administration.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09...or-atta/189931

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Now you talk about a bunch of ideologically blinded propagandists. The Fox Network got pranked today by a college kid who gave them every reason to be suspicious of him but he made it on Fox News anyway.

‘Fox & Friends’ Prankster Says His Appearance Highlights ‘A Greater Issue’

He was supposed to lend credence to a Fox News narrative.
But when 20-year-old Max Rice paid a visit to “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning to discuss high unemployment and disenchantment with President Obama among young Americans, the interview quickly went from conservative boilerplate to an outlandish prank.


Rice said his national television debut fell into his lap. The film student at Columbia College Chicago told TPM Monday that a “friend of a friend” who works at Fox News reached out earlier this month hoping to find erstwhile young Obama voters who have shifted their support to Mitt Romney out of frustration with the stagnant job market.


“When I picked up the phone, my ears perked up at the national TV part,” Rice said. “I was like, ‘Fuck yeah, I graduated college.’ And they should have known I hadn’t graduated.”


A YouTube video easily found by searching the name “Max Rice” shows a similar-looking young man delivering a high school commencement address in 2010, casting doubt on Fox’s claim that he is a recent college graduate (Rice confirmed that it was him in the video). Rice said there was little in the way of screening done by Fox in advance of his interview, save for a long e-mail he received last week.


“It was a checklist basically, requirements to appear on the segment,” Rice said. “I had to have voted for Obama in 2008, feel disenfranchised and now be voting for Romney.”


Rice, of course, was ineligible to vote four years ago. “That’s why I said I supported Obama, I didn’t say vote,” he said.


Fox remained in steady contact with Rice in the weeks and days leading up to the interview. Each time, Rice said he gave the callers conflicting biographical information.


“I gave them no straight answers,” Rice said. “Every time they called, it would be from an unknown number. I’d be like, ‘Yeah, I got my English degree from Texas.’ Then the next time, ‘Yeah, I’m in engineering.’” Rice told TPM he transferred from the University of Texas at Austin last spring and began taking classes at Columbia this summer.


Rice said two of his friends were also considered for an interview, but neither was as interested in pursuing the opportunity. One communicated with a Fox News employee by impersonating a character on “Family Guy,” which immediately disqualified him.


It wasn’t until a week ago that Rice learned which Fox program would be the stage for his prank. He had no qualms with the early morning venue.


“I was like, ‘No fucking way!’” Rice recalled. “‘Fox & Friends,’ that’s my favorite show.”


Rice said he intended to “hit on the female anchor” — but that he requested that Steve Doocy, one of three ‘Fox & Friends’ hosts, would conduct the interview.


Instead, Rice was dealt a solo interview with Gretchen Carlson, whose former title as Miss America Rice brought up at the outset. A clearly annoyed Carlson tried throughout the interview to get Rice back on topic, asking why he intended to vote for Romney.


“Why I am supporting Mitt Romney? It’s actually a funny story,” Rice told Carlson. “I lost a basketball game to a friend of mine.”


That part, Rice insisted to TPM, is actually true. He said he lost a game to a conservative friend, who would have been stipulated to vote for Obama if Rice had won.



Carlson eventually wrapped up the disastrous interview, telling viewers that Rice would get “another chance maybe when he’s ready to do the interview.”



Rice said he hopes that his interview shines a light on the mainstream media’s occasional disregard for substance and facts.



“I don’t care if there’s any negative press about me. I think there’s a greater issue,” Rice said. “Our media should be a tool to educate the masses, instead of getting ratings and selling Cheetos. This is proof.”


Watch Rice’s interview with Carlson:

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...ref=fpnewsfeed

[CS natureboy]

Emails show Justice working with Media Matters on stories that target critics

Published September 18, 2012
FoxNews.com

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  July 10, 2012: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks in Houston. (AP)
  

Newly published emails show the top spokeswoman at the U.S. Justice Department regularly collaborating with the liberal advocacy group Media Matters on stories that slam the administration's critics.
The emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act requestand published by The Daily Caller, often show department public affairs chief Tracy Schmaler communicating with Media Matters bloggers. Sometimes, the emails were in response to inquiries. Other times, Schmaler was pitching ideas, according to the Caller.
In a January 2012 email chain, Schmaler sent a Media Matters writer lines from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's comments at a recent hearing. She reportedly underlined passages where the California Republican tries to explain the difference between Operation Fast and Furious and other anti-gunrunning operations under former President George W. Bush.
Hours later, an article appeared on Media Matters' site titled "Rep. Issa Ties Himself in Fast and Furious Knots."
Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson, also a Fox News contributor, said the emails show "moment-to-moment coordination" between the department and Media Matters.
"We received a massive amount of these communiques that indicate direct coordination between the Obama Justice Department ... and Media Matters to subvert news stories," he said Tuesday. "This proves coordination."
Emails from late 2010 also reportedly showed Schmaler sending Media Matters information to help challenge claims that the department dealt lightly with New Black Panther members who allegedly intimidated voters in Philadelphia in 2008.
Another March 12 email showed Schmaler pointing out "false" statements made by Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips in a Fox News interview. Phillips called Operation Fast and Furious a "political operation" -- pushing a claim that the administration let guns walk across the Mexico border to build a case for gun control.
The Media Matters writer then wrote a blog slamming Phillips' "right-wing conspiracy theory," and also sent the text to Schmaler.
The Daily Caller reported that throughout the exchanges, Media Matters staffers were often sending to Schmaler the full text of what they wrote about the department's critics.





Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz26pj8iSup

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Originally Posted by CS natureboy

Emails show Justice working with Media Matters on stories that target critics

Published September 18, 2012
FoxNews.com

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  July 10, 2012: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks in Houston. (AP)

Newly published emails show the top spokeswoman at the U.S. Justice Department regularly collaborating with the liberal advocacy group Media Matters on stories that slam the administration's critics.
The emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act requestand published by The Daily Caller, often show department public affairs chief Tracy Schmaler communicating with Media Matters bloggers. Sometimes, the emails were in response to inquiries. Other times, Schmaler was pitching ideas, according to the Caller.
In a January 2012 email chain, Schmaler sent a Media Matters writer lines from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's comments at a recent hearing. She reportedly underlined passages where the California Republican tries to explain the difference between Operation Fast and Furious and other anti-gunrunning operations under former President George W. Bush.
Hours later, an article appeared on Media Matters' site titled "Rep. Issa Ties Himself in Fast and Furious Knots."
Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson, also a Fox News contributor, said the emails show "moment-to-moment coordination" between the department and Media Matters.
"We received a massive amount of these communiques that indicate direct coordination between the Obama Justice Department ... and Media Matters to subvert news stories," he said Tuesday. "This proves coordination."
Emails from late 2010 also reportedly showed Schmaler sending Media Matters information to help challenge claims that the department dealt lightly with New Black Panther members who allegedly intimidated voters in Philadelphia in 2008.
Another March 12 email showed Schmaler pointing out "false" statements made by Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips in a Fox News interview. Phillips called Operation Fast and Furious a "political operation" -- pushing a claim that the administration let guns walk across the Mexico border to build a case for gun control.
The Media Matters writer then wrote a blog slamming Phillips' "right-wing conspiracy theory," and also sent the text to Schmaler.
The Daily Caller reported that throughout the exchanges, Media Matters staffers were often sending to Schmaler the full text of what they wrote about the department's critics.





Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz26pj8iSup

You are kidding me. Some people in the Obama administration communicate with news media outlets. Man that would be a shock to a stupid, ignorant (two different things) ideologically blinded brainwashed parrot like yourself wouldn't it. But comes as no surprise to people who aren't stupid and ignorant and can actually think.

But now let's take a look at Fox News and their contributors that are actually working for the Mitt Romney campaign but never admit that on the air.

The Members Of Romney's Campaign Who Work For Fox

If it's hard to differentiate Fox News contributors from members of the Romney campaign, it might be because they're sometimes one in the same.


Four Fox News contributors are serving as surrogates or advisers for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. In many instances, Fox News has failed to disclose its employees' ties to the Romney campaign while hosting them.


Another contributor, Karl Rove, is a co-founder and adviser for the super PAC American Crossroads, which is spending millions to defeat President Obama. Jay Sekulow frequently appears on Fox News to discuss legal issues and attack the Obama administration without being identified as a Romney legal adviser.


The following are the Fox News contributors who are also members of the Romney campaign.
John Bolton (Fox News Contributor, Romney Adviser)



Role with Romney campaign: Foreign policy adviser. [MittRomney.com, 3/27/12; The New York Times, 6/27/12]; Campaign surrogate. [MittRomney.com, 8/11/12; 8/23/12; Palm Beach Post, 9/9/12]


A spokesperson for Bolton, Christine Samuelian, emailed Media Matters in May that Bolton "is not paid by the campaign and gives foreign policy advice to lots of people."


Role on Fox: Fox News contributor.
Bolton frequently appears on Fox News to criticize President Obama and boost Mitt Romney. Bolton's ties to the Romney campaign regularly go undisclosed.


During his Fox News appearances, Bolton has called Obama's foreign policy "confused and incoherent and incompetent." During one appearance, Bolton praised Romney as someone who has "had extensive international experience both in his business career, as governor of Massachusetts, and in something that's not well heralded, I think, his success with the Salt Lake City Olympics."
Elaine Chao (Fox News Contributor, Romney National Chair)



Role with Romney campaign: National chair, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders for Romney. [MittRomney.com, 8/2/12]


Role on Fox. Fox News contributor.
On September 4, News Corporation, Fox News' parent company, nominated Chao to its Board of Directors.
Fox Business has hosted Chao to analyze the Obama administration without disclosing her Romney campaign affiliation:

• During the September 6 edition of Fox Business' Markets Now, Chao said that the economy hasn't recovered from 2008 and 2009 because "of the anti-employer, anti-business policies enacted by the senate and also the administration."
• On the August 29 edition of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight, Chao pushed the falsehood that President Obama stripped the work requirement from welfare. Chao went on to claim that Obama "inherited a bad economy, but he made it worse with bad policies, with anti-business policies that do not encourage job creation."

Following a Media Matters post criticizing Fox's lack of disclosure, Fox introduced Chao as a member of the Romney campaign. On the September 7 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight (via Nexis), guest host Lori Rothman introduced Chao as "a Romney adviser. And we should also note she's been nominated to the board of News Corp., our parent company here at the FOX Business Network."


During the September 8 edition of Fox News' America's News HQ, co-anchor Gregg Jarrett introduced Chao as being "involved in the Romney campaign as the national chair of his Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders for Romney community. She also sits on the board of our parent company News Corporation."
Walid Phares (Fox News Analyst, Romney Adviser)



Role with Romney campaign: Special adviser, Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team; Co-chair, Middle East & North Africa working group. [MittRomney.com, 10/6/11]


Role on Fox. Fox News Middle East and terrorism analyst.
Phares has been critical of the Obama administration's handling of foreign policy issues during appearances on Fox News and Fox Business. Phares' ties to the Romney campaign have repeatedly not been disclosed.
Pete Snyder (Fox News Contributor, Romney Surrogate)



Role with Romney campaign: Snyder has appeared as a Romney surrogate at several campaign events. [MittRomney.com, 7/25/12; CSPAN.org, 8/15/12; YouTube.com, 9/3/12]
Snyder is the chairman of Virginia Victory 2012, the Republican Party of Virginia's 2012 coordinated committee in charge of defeating "President Obama, Tim Kaine, and congressional Democrats" in Virginia. During a recent event, Snyder identified himself as the "Virginia Victory chairman for the Romney/Ryan campaign."


Role on Fox. Fox News contributor.
During his first appearance as a Fox News contributor on August 8, Snyder was introduced as a "Republican strategist and the newest Fox News contributor." Snyder's Fox analysis, as billed, fell on partisan lines. Snyder repeated the distortion that President Obama is "systematically dismantling the Bill Clinton legacy" on welfare. Snyder also repeated the charge -- made frequently by the Romney campaign and its surrogates -- that Obama is running the most negative campaign in modern history.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09...-for-fo/189821

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Fox Won't Disclose News Corp. Testing Contracts At Heart Of The Chicago Teachers' Strike

In 89 segments between September 10 and 16, Fox News reported on the Chicago Teachers Union's strike without disclosing its financial ties to the educational technology company administering the standardized tests with which the union takes issue.



Fox News parent company News Corp. acquired a 90-percent stake in Wireless Generation in 2010. Last May, the company agreed to provide Early Mathematics Assessment Services and Early Literacy Assessment Services to Chicago Public Schools. These contracts total $4.7 million. A central reason the Chicago Teachers Union decided to strike is their objection to the school district's call for heavily weighing such standardized testing to ultimately determine teacher pay and layoffs.


But Fox News anchors and reporters never once disclosed its parent company's ties to Wireless Generation even as the network routinely criticized the strike and the Chicago Teachers Union.
The programs that covered the story most often:Fox & Friends (including the First, Saturday, and Sunday editions) with 31 segments over the entire week; America's News Headquarters aired 12 segments this last weekend alone; America Live was next with 7 segments; and Fox Report with Shepard Smith and Special Report followed with 6 segments each. Not one segment disclosed News Corp.'s business relationship with Wireless Generation despite repeated mentions and discussions of the teacher evaluations at the heart of the strike.


During Monday's Special Report with Bret Baier, correspondent Steve Brown reported of the strike: "At issue, says the union president, is trust." Indeed. It's also an issue for Fox News. How can Fox's viewers trust that the network has provided a "fair and balanced" overview of events unfolding in Chicago when it won't disclose its financial interests?


Examples of Fox discussion of the strike include (via Nexis):
From the September 13 edition of America Live:

MEGYN KELLY: The issue at the heart of the teachers strike in Chicago that has left almost 400,000 school children without any education this week is being taken up in a soon-to-be-released movie called, Won't Back Down.


Teachers on the picket line say that one of their biggest concerns in Chicago is a new performance evaluation system. They don't like the way that they would be evaluated. And this new film takes on that very issue, among other concern with our children's education.

From the September 12 edition of Fox & Friends:

GRETCHEN CARLSON: More than 350,000 students in Chicago will go another day without being inside the classroom. Teachers are on strike for a third day now.
The teacher's union and school board can't seem to agree on new evaluations or recall rights for laid off teachers, and while they try to hammer out a deal, parents are left scrambling.

From the September 11 edition of Hannity:

JUAN WILLIAMS, FOX NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I know this situation intimately, Sean, because I did a video online with education activist, Kyle Olson, called tale of two missions.


And it tells the story because teacher evaluations have become critical. So you have Democratic politicians like Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff now saying, we have to have teacher evaluations.

From the September 11 edition of The Five:

GREG GUTFELD: And what's that anger about? Well, the teachers fear what they oppose on students. Grades, evaluation, standards. How dare you expect me to do better? You must be racist or something.


This isn't a strike, it's occupy the classrooms. We might as well dump exams for drum circles. At least that might prepare them for life in the park.


Andrea, a big fear here? Standardized test is threatening their seniority. Isn't that what this is about?


ANDREA TANTAROS: Yes, it is. And, you know, we should recognize that if this isn't a conservative or Democratic issue, you've seen a trend among the chancellor, former D.C. school chancellor Michelle Rhee, New York City school chancellor Joel Klein saying the same thing.


GUTFELD: Yes.


TANTAROS: They are coming out an saying how do we measure success? Let's put standardized tests into play.
So, you actually the union versus the Democrats. I mean, their in- fighting on this one. But I think it's embarrassing, Greg, that these teachers, with these students that have such poor scores -- I mean some of them here, 20 percent of the eighth graders in public schools are 14 percent below the national average. And they expect a raise, and they're getting one.


GUTFELD: Yes.


TANTAROS: Rahm tried to give them a 16 percent raise over four years in a down economy. I don't care if I'm a Republican, Democrat, anybody, I'd be ticked off at that.


GUTFELD: Yes. Bob, here is what I am concerned about --
they are angry, even if they win this strike. Do you think they're going to be unbiased when they teach the students about what went on? Is the strike the least of our worries? Is their attitude in the classroom? That kind of bugs me.


BOB BECKEL: You know, I'm a very strong union supporter, strong supporter of teachers unions. However, having said that, the idea they're not willing for a long time, I have supported means tested for teachers, merit testing for teachers. They want these people who have been let go of the school system to automatically come back to the classroom.


The reason they're out is they weren't good teachers.
GUTFELD: Right.


BECKEL: So, the idea that they should be the first in line to get teaching jobs is crazy.


GUTFELD: Yes, it is crazy.


BECKEL: And, by the way, the 35 percent, they moved immediately off that. It wasn't about pay increase because they knew they weren't going to get that much. They are holing up on this whole issue about the teachers should be rated, and what their kids do on the standardized tests. Why not?


ERIC BOLLING: Which in their contract is the only thing they cannot strike for. The only thing they can strike for is money.


And I think the latest they came back and said we didn't want 35 percent. We have only wanted 25-1/2 percent. What are you guys talking about?


Fifteen percent of eighth graders are reading at eighth grade proficiency level. Only 20 percent of them are doing math at that level. Teachers are making $74,000 per year plus benefit. Meanwhile, the average household in Chicago makes under $50,000.


Where's -- look, I have no problem with good teachers. Just put on the merit-pay system. By the way, once you graduate from high school, colleges and universities, they pay on merit. Why can't you do it for, you know, the lower grades?


GUTFELD: Yes.


DANA PERINO: I'm going to defend the teachers here on one aspect. That is when a lot of the kids get to school, they don't even know their shapes or their colors. And then it just compiles so that by the eighth grade, they can't do basic math.


And so you have a chicken and the egg situation where would you want to be a teacher in a Chicago school, inner city school? Probably not. Do they deserve to get $75,000 a year plus benefits, and guaranteed retirement package compared to somebody who might work at hospice, who doesn't have a union that helps them?


I mean, that's why I think the public unions are a little bit skating on the edge here. When you saw what happened in Wisconsin. Now they have reforms. The sky didn't fall. Actually, that state is starting to come back.


BECKEL: Let's say one thing about merit for teachers. There should be a system worked out for teachers in schools and inner city schools where the kids are not as prepared in other schools, so that you can still do merit testing for teachers but you have to take in to account --


PERINO: But this is where I think government can't solve all the problem. This is a breakdown of the family problem.


BECKEL: Absolutely.

From the September 11 edition of Studio B with Shepard Smith:

SHEPARD SMITH: Thirty-five percent [alleged pay increase]? Does anybody involved in the process other than the teacher's union think that this is tenable?


LYNN SWEET: Well, that's not my understanding of what the figure is, so I'm not speaking to that. The big issues, as I have been briefed -- and I just came from somebody who is very knowledgeable about it -- have to do more with not salary -- and they were talking about in the neighborhood of maybe a 3 percent in the first year increase -- and the issue had to do with the performance evaluation of teachers, and if there are teachers who are laid off, in what order they would be rehired and what role seniority would play. Those are the two big issues out there right now.


SMITH: You know, and it's interesting Lynn because I've been reading all day as well that they were very, very close on the money part, it was more the protection and the grading of the teachers that was the matter of great concern.


SWEET: That is it. And the performance evaluations -- there's already some in Illinois state law. Mayor Emanuel wanted to make it tougher, and this is one of the big sticking points between the union and the city.

From the September 10 edition of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren:

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: Interesting news out of Chicago. Rahm Emanuel working a strike and got support from Governor Romney and Paul Ryan?


BYRON YORK: This is kind have amusing because it mixes up the sides. Obviously, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would be on the side of management in this case, in this case the government of the city of Chicago just like they favored Scott walk they are Wisconsin. In this case the management is Rahm Emanuel, the president's former chief of staff, major Obama supporter. They have come out and we stand with the mayor and he is not quite as happy.


KAREN TUMULTY: This is all about putting Barack Obama on the spot. This isn't about Chicago politics. Illinois is blue state. This is really and truly all about the president and putting him on the spot, because he has championed some of these same policies through his own education secretary, which, by the way, used to run the schools in Chicago. It's trying to strain the president's relationship with the teachers' union.


YORK: Be charitable here. Clearly, this is not Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan standing up for a Democratic mayor of Chicago. It's the highlight the fact that they have a close relationship with the teachers unions and because it puts President Obama in a tough spot. They are not taking sides on this.


VAN SUSTEREN: Is it poisonous, I expect it for President Obama?


KLEIN: I don't think he wants to get near it.


KLEIN: This is school system in which the president declined to send his own children. I am sure surrogates in the campaign will bring that up.


VAN SUSTEREN: And Scott Walker, they are trying to win and fighting for Wisconsin's vote.


KLEIN: It resulted in a near death experience for Scott Walker.


VAN SUSTEREN: He won more points, he won by a larger majority with the recall than when he was first elected.


KLEIN: They champion the side of taking on the unions it could be a political winner. I think in battleground states, teachers unions, being on the side isn't a political winner. You would be glad to take them on, whose interested do they have in mind?


(CROSSTALK)


TUMULTY: The president has sort of a difficult relationship with the teachers union because a lot of things for instance in race to the top, their signature education program is about rewarding teachers for test score performance, and that is exactly one of big issues here.


VAN SUSTEREN: You can imagine what Mayor Rahm Emanuel, what he thinks? He wasn't too appreciative of the support.


YORK: I can't imagine he liked the phone call.

Methodology

Media Matters searched the Nexis database and the raw video of Fox News programs between September 10 and 16 for keywords: "teacher," "strike," "union," or "Chicago." We counted every segment about the teachers strike or segments in which significant discussion about the strike occurred. We did not count teasers, but we did count short news briefs and news updates.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09...racts-a/189993

[CS natureboy]

Media Matters Distorts Facts While Attacking Fox News for Covering National Center Paper

Instead of Examining Facts, Media Matters Rehashed Stale Talking Points

Washington, D.C. - George Soros-funded Media Matters once again is distorting facts: this time, in a post criticizing a National Center paper analyzing election fraud investigations across the nation.
Today, Steve Doocy, on Fox News's Fox and Friends morning news program, highlighted a paper released August 1 by the National Center demonstrating that poor and minority voters are often the victims of voter fraud. Instead of attempting to rebut that fact, Media Matters resorted to distortions and rehashing of stale data.
In that recent paper, National Center for Public Policy Research Adjunct Fellow Horace Cooper examined a number of recent voter fraud prosecutions across the nation and concluded that poor and minority voters often are the "unacknowledged victims of election fraud."
"Looking at the actual data regarding arrests and prosecutions, it is clear that minorities in general, and blacks in particular, are frequently targeted by election fraudsters," Cooper explains, "and voter ID would be particularly useful to combat these crimes."
Media Matters claims the Fox program should have focused on the evidence that Voter ID disenfranchises existing voters. But actually there is little evidence to support such a claim. In fact, when the Department of Justice and other groups are forced to make claims against Voter ID, they either invariably drop the argument that there are sizable numbers of individuals affected by the requirement or they are forced to admit the data they refer to is subject to different interpretations.
"Instead of consulting state secretaries of state or other neutral sources, Media Matters repeats the claims made by the Brennan Center that there are 3.2 million people they identify as potentially without identification cards and all of whom will be prevented from voting this November. In fact, most analysts suggest that the 3.2 million number of people is highly inflated -- based on extrapolations and outdated data -- and in no way reflects the number of people who would be prevented from voting. A far more accurate study was done by the Pew Center on the states and its findings are far more disturbing: 'The report found that there are about 1.8 million dead people listed as active voters. Some 2.8 million people have active registrations in more than one state,'" Cooper concluded.
"Media Matters seems unfazed by the reality that poor and minorities suffer disproportionately from voter fraud," Cooper says.
Cooper notes that these insidious voter fraud plots prey upon the weakest members of our society: "They violate the public trust, they erode faith and confidence in our democratic process, and they ultimately disenfranchise people many of whom are poor and minorities - people whose votes should be rightfully counted."
Cooper's paper, "Victims of Voter Fraud: Poor and Disadvantaged are Most Likely to Have Their Vote Stolen," is available online at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA635.html.
Cooper's other 2012 papers on Voter ID for the National Center include:

"When the Dead Vote, the Living Suffer; Department of Justice is Wrong to Oppose Voter ID," available online at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA631.html
"Voter ID and South Carolina: The Supreme Court Speaks Yet DOJ Won't Listen," available at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA634.html
"Justice Department Plays Fast and Loose with Facts and Constitution in Challenging Texas Voter ID Law," available at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA633.html

These and other National Center for Public Policy Research publications on voter integrity issues are available collectively at http://www.nationalcenter.org/legal.html.
Horace Cooper is an adjunct fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, a member of the African-American leadership group Project 21 and a legal commentator. He taught constitutional law at George Mason University in Virginia and was a senior counsel to Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX) when Armey served as U.S. House Majority Leader.
The National Center For Public Policy Research (http://www.nationalcenter.org) is a conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank established in 1982. It is supported by the voluntary gifts of over 100,000 individual recent supporters, receiving about two percent of its revenue from corporate sources. Contributions to it are tax-deductible.

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http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-Med...rs_080212.html

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MSNBC Tops Fox News In The Demo Two Nights In A Row

Is a shift happening in the normally frozen-in-place world of cable news ratings?


It's hard to tell, but something unexpected has happened over the last two days: MSNBC has beaten Fox News in the all-important A25-54 category two nights in a row.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1899889.html

[padronebastardo]

Fox news is trash news television

[ace's n 8's]

Originally Posted by stumbler

MSNBC Tops Fox News In The Demo Two Nights In A Row






http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1899889.html

SHORT LIVED..........



The Scoreboard: Wednesday, September 19

By Alex Weprin on September 20, 2012 4:55 PM
25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 373 | MSNBC: 264 | CNN: 137 | HLN: 86

• Primetime: FNC: 578 | MSNBC: 500 | CNN: 207 | HLN: 71

Total Viewers (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 1.618 | MSNBC: 875 | CNN: 455 | HLN: 203

• Primetime: FNC: 2.736 | MSNBC: 1.618 | CNN: 652 | HLN: 238

[Mr_Nasty]

All Networks are Very bias, but Fox News is propaganda.

[daverjax]

ooo , I got a Goood Idea!!!!

If you do'nt LIKE Fox News.......just exercise you personal Liberty, and Judgement, AND CHANGE THE CHANNEL!!!!!

I do'nt like CBS News, and have had them on boycot since the Faked Papers they used against Pres.Bush... so i do'nt watch it.

it's the same for anything you may not agree with; if you do'nt like it, do'nt patronize it...that simple!

OH...I Forgot, that goes for most things except Health Insurence..so far.

[spjames]

Fox news is the Republican propaganda channel. The people who watch it are to stupid to realize it though. The cool aid they drink it.

[stumbler]

I wonder just how long Fox News can continue to preach false right wing propaganda in the face of this kind of academic blow back.

Originally Posted by stumbler

I will have to put this one up in at least two places.

"Utter Nonsense": 10 Scientists Who Have Criticized Fox's Climate Coverage




http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09...iticize/190093

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Oh hell I'm not sure I can stop laughing long enough to get this one posted but I will try.

Fox & Friends: The Polls Are Rigged!

Updated: 12:37pm
It’s clear that Fox & Friends has a tricky relationship with data. But on the show Thursday morning, the hosts took that relationship to a whole new level.
After a raft of new polls showed Obama opening up leads in swing states, the Friends flew in to full-blown conspiracy mode about what’s really behind the data.
Parroting the latest Republican meme that national polls oversample Democrats, host Steve Doocy threw in to the mix the possibility that pollsters are using voter turnout from 2008 to guide who they should be asking. And why would the “left-based mainstream media” do this? Doocy had an answer.
“Well, two reasons,” he said. “One, perhaps, to keep Mitt Romney’s donors from coughing up more cash. And two, to keep people from doing early voting.”
Co-host Gretchen Carlson had another theory: “I do think there’s a subliminal message in these daily polling things, which isn’t always great for the voter.”


One problem with the theories: FOX’s own polling also shows Obama surging in swing states. A survey released by the network just last week showed the president leading Romney by no fewer than five points in Ohio, Virginia and Florida.


Check out highlights of this morning’s conspiracies below:

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...cy.php?ref=fpa

[Capnip-Everdeen]

Originally Posted by ladygodiva123

Rachel Maddow just pointed out that while FOX NEWS does have the highest news ratings, ALL news ratings pale in comparison to Cartoon Network - LOL.

That is all the smelly, fat, cow can do. She makes jokes to make the left think MSNBC is real news and has no agenda for sucking off Obama. I mean she is a fucking lezbian, but she would drop to her knees in an Obama cock sucking party.

[Capnip-Everdeen]

Originally Posted by stumbler

I wonder just how long Fox News can continue to preach false right wing propaganda in the face of this kind of academic blow back.

How long will MSNBC DO the same but for the left?

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Originally Posted by Capnip-Everdeen

How long will MSNBC DO the same but for the left?

Here's three major differences. One Fox News lies to their viewers and claims to be "fair and balanced." MSNBC makes no such claim and actually has "lean forward" as their motto. Two, Fox News gets hammered almost every day for distortions, misinformation, and out and out false reports not to mention just their amateurish mistakes. MSNBC normally fact checks very well and when they do make a mistake or distortion the admit it and issue a retraction and/or correction. Fox almost never does that. Three studies have shown that viewers of Fox News are more misinformed than people who don't watch any news at all. MSNBC is far more accurate and informative.

Fox News Viewers are the Most Misinformed: A Seventh Study Arrives to Prove It — and Vindicate Jon Stewart!

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...y-jon-stewart/

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Why Isn't Fox News Covering Florida "Voter Fraud" Story? Hint: It Involves The GOP

Four years ago Fox News helped turn ACORN into a dirty word among conservatives by leading an often-hysterical right-wing crusade against the community activist group, charging it time and again with "voter fraud" on behalf of candidate Obama. In order to bolster its flimsy "voter fraud" attacks, the network repeatedly harped on reports that ACORN canvassers had submitted questionable voter registration forms.


Yet this week Fox has shown little interest in covering the unfolding story out of Florida, where the state's Republican Party has cut ties with a consulting firm accused of handing in more than 100 dubious voter registration forms.


From Tuesday night's Palm Beach Post:

The Republican Party of Florida is dumping a firm it paid more than $1.3 million to register new voters, after Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher flagged 106 "questionable" registration applications turned in by the contractor this month.

In an interview with blogger Brad Friedman, Bucher described the "similarities in the signatures and certain characteristics in the applications that were very disturbing" on registration applications collected by the firm. The "disturbing" defects on the forms included addresses of existing registered voters changed to commercial buildings or addresses and, "in some places, they were changing political parties."


Yesterday, Michael Isikoff reported that the registration troubles had spread:

NBC News has learned that four other Florida counties have also reported hundreds of possible fraudulent registration forms submitted by the firm, including apparent dead people being registered as new voters. Prosecutors in two counties are investigating possible voter fraud by the GOP consulting firm, officials said.

And Thursday afternoon, Republicans in Colorado also pulled the plug on the voter registration firm, Strategic Allied Consulting, run by veteran GOP consultant Nathan Sproul.


The allegations lodged against Sproul's company are similar to the ones ACORN faced in 2008; workers submitted voter registration forms that contained dubious information. In `08, that was enough to light a short fuse on Fox News and within the right-wing media, as players rushed in to condemn the independent ACORN group as a corrupt and a criminal extension of the Obama campaign. (In 2009, a majority of Republicans believed ACORN had stolen the election for Obama.)
Note that in the unfolding Florida story, the firm in question was paid directly by the Republican Party and is accused of ACORN-like activities. But on Fox News, it's crickets.


In fact this morning, Brian Kilmeade hosted a Fox & Friends panel discussion about voter fraud. In 2008, the allegation that ACORN submitted questionable registration forms was routinely referred to and condemned as "voter fraud" on Fox. (To this day, Fox treats misaddressed voter registration forms as "fraud.") But this morning, Kilmeade and his guests made no mention of the fact that the Republican Party was just forced to fire a consulting firm for submitting potentially bogus voter registration forms; forms being reviewed by local law enforcement.


At Fox News, the hotbed for "voter fraud" stories, the embarrassing news from Florida is of little concern.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09...r-fraud/190195

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Why Isn't Fox News Covering Florida "Voter Fraud" Story? Hint: It Involves The GOP

Well it's not surprising Faux News is the propaganda arm of the GOP. That it is completely
hypocritical of them not to even make a mention of this is not surprising either.

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Fox's Shep Smith apologizes for airing footage of man shooting himself

Fox News’s Shepherd Smith on Friday apologized after his program showed a man shooting himself in the head on live TV.


Fox’s “Studio B” had been following a speeding car in Arizona during the 3pm hour when the driver pulled over onto a dirt road and exited the car. The man then ran down a dirt path before pulling out a gun and shooting himself in the head. “Studio B” cut the feed and went to Smith, who then said “get off, get off, get off, get off it, get off, get off it, get off it” until the program cut to commercial.


After the break, Smith immediately addressed what happened.


“Some explaining to do: while we were taking that car chase and showing it to you live, when the guy pulled over and got out of the video we went on delay. So that’s why I didn't talk for about ten seconds. we created a five-second delay as if you were to bleep back your DVR five seconds, that’s what we did with the picture we were showing you so that we would see in the studio what was happening five seconds before you did, so if anything went horribly wrong, we’d be able to cut away from it without subjecting you to it,” Smith explained.


“And we really messed up. And we're all very sorry. That didn't belong on TV. We took every precaution we knew how to take to keep that from being on TV. And I personally apologize to you that happened,” he said.


“Sometimes we see a lot of things we don't let get to you because it is not time appropriate, it is insensitive, it is just wrong. And that was wrong. And that won't happen again on my watch. And I'm sorry. We will update you on what happened with that guy and how that went down tonight on the Fox Report. I’m sorry," he said before moving onto another segment.


Fox News has not yet responded to a request for comment.
UPDATE: Fox News issues a statement.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/...961.html?hp=r3

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