Lick Bush & Beat Dick!
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Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, & George W. Bush are in a boat in the middle of the ocean. The boat is sinking. Who gets saved? The American People!
Documentary Aims to Show Bias on Fox News
2 hours, 28 minutes ago
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer
NEW YORK - A new documentary backed by liberal political groups aims to document that the Fox News Channel is anything but "fair and balanced," despite the cable-news network's motto.
AP Photo
The film, "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," draws on clips compiled during weeks of round-the-clock taping of the network to demonstrate what the filmmakers believe is a pattern of right-wing bias and support for the Republican agenda.
"What we found is not that Fox is a conservative network, but that it's a network that follows the party line of the Bush administration," said "Outfoxed" filmmaker Robert Greenwald, a Hollywood producer-director whose credits include the 2003 documentary "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq (news - web sites) War" and such TV films as "The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth about Enron" and "Blonde," a biopic of Marilyn Monroe.
Greenwald said he decided to make the film after hearing numerous journalists refer to the "Foxification" of the news. That approach, he says, has served the 8-year-old Fox News Channel well, and "put pressure on many of the other networks to move in the same direction: cheap news, ranting and raving, pseudo-patriotism."
Greenwald's 75-minute film includes complaints from several Fox News staffers about the workplace climate at the outlet of the global Murdoch media empire. They say their bosses promote a conservative slant.
"We weren't necessarily, as it was told to us, a newsgathering organization so much as we were a proponent of a point of view," says Jon Du Pre, a former Fox News correspondent.
The film also quotes internal memos from a top network executive that seem to call for pro-Bush coverage.
"Ribbons or medals? Which did John Kerry (news - web sites) throw away after he returned from Vietnam?" wrote senior vice president for news John Moody in an April memo to the staff. "His perceived disrespect for the military could be more damaging to the (Democratic presidential) candidate than questions about his actions in uniform."
In a statement Monday, the network dismissed the whistleblowers as "former low-level Fox employees" who are "hardly worth addressing." It challenged other media organizations to make public their own employee memos, whereupon "Fox News Channel will publish 100 percent of our editorial directions and memos, and let the public decide who is fair."
The film also draws on a study commissioned by Fairness & Accuracy in Media, a national media watchdog group. The study found conservatives accounted for nearly three-fourths of ideological guests on the network's marquee news program, "Special Report with Brit Hume," between June and December 2003, and that Republicans outnumbered Democrats five to one.
"Outfoxed" was compiled during the past seven months in association with liberal political organizations Center for American Progress and MoveOn.Org, as well as the citizens' lobbying group Common Cause.
Budgeted at $300,000, the "guerrilla" documentary will premiere Tuesday at the New School University in Manhattan, then initially be distributed through private "house party" screenings and DVD sales.
At a news conference to introduce the film Monday, Greenwald called Fox News Channel "an opinion station, not a news station."
When former White House terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke testified before the 9-11 commission, he apologized to the American people for the government's failure to protect them.
The film displays a flurry of Fox pundits blasting Clarke, often in similar terms. "It was almost like Fox News was working off of the playbook coming out of the White House, that he had to be torn down," FAIR co-founder Jeff Cohen says in the film.
Fox host Bill O'Reilly is seen on his show insisting he has told a guest to shut up "only once in six years," after which he is seen in clips telling one person after another with whom he disagrees to "shut up."
The documentary also includes a rapid-fire succession of clips of more than a dozen Fox hosts using the phrase "some people say" ? which the filmmakers say is a way to insinuate opinion disguised as reporting into on-air discussions.
"There's no smoking gun," Greenwald admitted in explaining what his film set out to reveal ? "just a pattern."
2 hours, 28 minutes ago
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer
NEW YORK - A new documentary backed by liberal political groups aims to document that the Fox News Channel is anything but "fair and balanced," despite the cable-news network's motto.
AP Photo
The film, "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," draws on clips compiled during weeks of round-the-clock taping of the network to demonstrate what the filmmakers believe is a pattern of right-wing bias and support for the Republican agenda.
"What we found is not that Fox is a conservative network, but that it's a network that follows the party line of the Bush administration," said "Outfoxed" filmmaker Robert Greenwald, a Hollywood producer-director whose credits include the 2003 documentary "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq (news - web sites) War" and such TV films as "The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth about Enron" and "Blonde," a biopic of Marilyn Monroe.
Greenwald said he decided to make the film after hearing numerous journalists refer to the "Foxification" of the news. That approach, he says, has served the 8-year-old Fox News Channel well, and "put pressure on many of the other networks to move in the same direction: cheap news, ranting and raving, pseudo-patriotism."
Greenwald's 75-minute film includes complaints from several Fox News staffers about the workplace climate at the outlet of the global Murdoch media empire. They say their bosses promote a conservative slant.
"We weren't necessarily, as it was told to us, a newsgathering organization so much as we were a proponent of a point of view," says Jon Du Pre, a former Fox News correspondent.
The film also quotes internal memos from a top network executive that seem to call for pro-Bush coverage.
"Ribbons or medals? Which did John Kerry (news - web sites) throw away after he returned from Vietnam?" wrote senior vice president for news John Moody in an April memo to the staff. "His perceived disrespect for the military could be more damaging to the (Democratic presidential) candidate than questions about his actions in uniform."
In a statement Monday, the network dismissed the whistleblowers as "former low-level Fox employees" who are "hardly worth addressing." It challenged other media organizations to make public their own employee memos, whereupon "Fox News Channel will publish 100 percent of our editorial directions and memos, and let the public decide who is fair."
The film also draws on a study commissioned by Fairness & Accuracy in Media, a national media watchdog group. The study found conservatives accounted for nearly three-fourths of ideological guests on the network's marquee news program, "Special Report with Brit Hume," between June and December 2003, and that Republicans outnumbered Democrats five to one.
"Outfoxed" was compiled during the past seven months in association with liberal political organizations Center for American Progress and MoveOn.Org, as well as the citizens' lobbying group Common Cause.
Budgeted at $300,000, the "guerrilla" documentary will premiere Tuesday at the New School University in Manhattan, then initially be distributed through private "house party" screenings and DVD sales.
At a news conference to introduce the film Monday, Greenwald called Fox News Channel "an opinion station, not a news station."
When former White House terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke testified before the 9-11 commission, he apologized to the American people for the government's failure to protect them.
The film displays a flurry of Fox pundits blasting Clarke, often in similar terms. "It was almost like Fox News was working off of the playbook coming out of the White House, that he had to be torn down," FAIR co-founder Jeff Cohen says in the film.
Fox host Bill O'Reilly is seen on his show insisting he has told a guest to shut up "only once in six years," after which he is seen in clips telling one person after another with whom he disagrees to "shut up."
The documentary also includes a rapid-fire succession of clips of more than a dozen Fox hosts using the phrase "some people say" ? which the filmmakers say is a way to insinuate opinion disguised as reporting into on-air discussions.
"There's no smoking gun," Greenwald admitted in explaining what his film set out to reveal ? "just a pattern."
You have to be blind not to notice what fox is about. Sooner or later folks get wise. Yes O'Rilley will tell it as it is. At least as he see's it. And yes if you don't agree with him he makes sure you know he's right your wrong. So I was shocked when he started to say Iraq was a mess and seems to be wrong. How he get away with that. He's making tons of money for fox that's how. Once you get to that point you can dam near be independent
Touche' Before you guys get a rope shouldn't you wait for Kosar & Auspice?
You Friggin Rascals...I deserved that.
MC- Here is a site you might like...http://www.democraticunderground.com/
LOL. However, my condolences to the citizens and residents of Atlantis. (10/10) :clap:
You Friggin Rascals...I deserved that.
MC- Here is a site you might like...http://www.democraticunderground.com/
LOL. However, my condolences to the citizens and residents of Atlantis. (10/10) :clap:
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Seems Eddie is a mouth piece for Moore....
or is Moore a mouth piece for Eddie...???
Seems thay have much the same views on many things.
and the right wingers are Nazi's???
NOT! Look again.
also...
Moore is still a fat Fvcking slob!
or is Moore a mouth piece for Eddie...???
Seems thay have much the same views on many things.
and the right wingers are Nazi's???
NOT! Look again.
also...
Moore is still a fat Fvcking slob!
Tax Day
Every year an independent tax watch dog group analyzes the average tax burden on Americans, and then calculates the "Tax Freedom Day". This is the day after which the money you earn goes to you, not the government. This year, tax freedom day was April 11th. That's the earliest it has been since 1991. It's latest day ever was May 2nd, which occurred in 2000.
Notice anything special about those dates?
Today John Kerry gave a speech in which he claimed Americans are actually paying more taxes under Bush, despite the tax cuts. He gave no explanation and provided no data for this claim.
Another interesting fact: Both George Bush and John Kerry are wealthy men. Bush owns only one home, his ranch in Texas. Kerry owns 4 mansions, all worth several million dollars. (His ski resort home in Idaho is an old barn brought over from Europe in pieces. Not your average A-frame). Bush paid $250,000 in taxes this year; Kerry paid $90,000. Does that sound right? The man who wants to raise your taxes obviously has figured out a way to avoid paying his own. Pass this on. Only 202 days until the election.
John S. Allison
Commissioner
Dept. of Banking and Consumer Finance
State of Mississippi
I hope that everyone I would call a friend will NEVER forget this:
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag."
Amen. God bless America.
Every year an independent tax watch dog group analyzes the average tax burden on Americans, and then calculates the "Tax Freedom Day". This is the day after which the money you earn goes to you, not the government. This year, tax freedom day was April 11th. That's the earliest it has been since 1991. It's latest day ever was May 2nd, which occurred in 2000.
Notice anything special about those dates?
Today John Kerry gave a speech in which he claimed Americans are actually paying more taxes under Bush, despite the tax cuts. He gave no explanation and provided no data for this claim.
Another interesting fact: Both George Bush and John Kerry are wealthy men. Bush owns only one home, his ranch in Texas. Kerry owns 4 mansions, all worth several million dollars. (His ski resort home in Idaho is an old barn brought over from Europe in pieces. Not your average A-frame). Bush paid $250,000 in taxes this year; Kerry paid $90,000. Does that sound right? The man who wants to raise your taxes obviously has figured out a way to avoid paying his own. Pass this on. Only 202 days until the election.
John S. Allison
Commissioner
Dept. of Banking and Consumer Finance
State of Mississippi
I hope that everyone I would call a friend will NEVER forget this:
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag."
Amen. God bless America.
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Bravo cman and intense
These libs still do not get it, they are so upset about Fox News while all 4 big networks abc, nbc, cbs, and cnn have been liberal mouthpieces for years.
Man if it was really even and fair 4 to 4 instead of 4 to one, you guys would have a cow. I'd just settle for one mainstream network to be fair and balanced, but that will never happen.
These libs still do not get it, they are so upset about Fox News while all 4 big networks abc, nbc, cbs, and cnn have been liberal mouthpieces for years.
Man if it was really even and fair 4 to 4 instead of 4 to one, you guys would have a cow. I'd just settle for one mainstream network to be fair and balanced, but that will never happen.
Unfair not balanced. Fox has 80% republicans in last 4 years as guest. All others don't even get close to that number. ABC is highest with Dems 60%. The rest are very close to 50/50.
Chan those numbers on Kerry are wrong. His wife is worth a lot he's not. If you put the two together there tax was in the millions paid.
Chan those numbers on Kerry are wrong. His wife is worth a lot he's not. If you put the two together there tax was in the millions paid.
djv- then why didn't he file jointly. Interesting, Now you don't want to separate them- remember prenuptial agreement?. Just like Kerry does not own a SUV...but his family does :shade:
Chan this Allison guy sure didnt see the wall street report on all these guys. Cheney is real rich. Didn't pay to much either. By the way Bush owns a nice spread in Main with his dad and brother.Estimated at 2 million. The Bush ranch is just estimated at 5.5 million. Yes Kerry did ok for him self by who he married. Does not mean he gets it. By the way on earnings of just over $300000 he payed that $90000.
Bush paid $250000 on earnings just over $700000. All seems in order.
Bush paid $250000 on earnings just over $700000. All seems in order.
CNN and NPR those are very fair and balanced right? All the liberal media is crying foul because there is a credible heavyweight in the news media that isnt liberal. Sure Fox is on the conservative side just like the majority of the other news outlets are on the liberal side. Just deal with it, dont cry foul because Fox news is blowing the doors off any other news organization in the ratings.
QUIT YOUR CRYING
QUIT YOUR CRYING
