READER COMMENTS ON
"Fox 'News': Violence! Mayhem! Assault & Battery by Union Thugs in Wisconsin!"
(23 Responses so far...)
COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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Ernest A. Canning
said on 3/3/2011 @ 4:19 pm PT...
As Robert Greenwald conclusively demonstrated in Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, Fox is simply the propaganda arm for corporate America's wholly owned, public subsidiary, the GOP, Inc.
The more you watch, the less you know.
Perhaps the FCC should insist on a warning label, like we have for cigarettes.
CAUTION: Watching Fox "News" may be hazardous to your ability to understand what is happening in the world!
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Ernest A. Canning
said on 3/3/2011 @ 5:06 pm PT...
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Billy
said on 3/3/2011 @ 5:16 pm PT...
The greatest thing about the video above is that it repeatedly shows Mike Tobin insisting that the demonstrators don't want to hear his viewpoint --- as if it's customary for a "news man" to be sharing his a viewpoint at a demonstration. It's just more proof that the people at Fox News don't know what journalism is, let alone how to practice it.
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Joyce McCloy
said on 3/3/2011 @ 7:13 pm PT...
Heraldo Rivera calling protesters RUDE?
For crying out loud.
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MsKitty
said on 3/3/2011 @ 7:36 pm PT...
Colbert pointed out tonight that "Papa Bear" O'Reilly was showing violent imported protesters with apparently imported palm trees in the background of...Wisconsin?
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mick
said on 3/3/2011 @ 10:08 pm PT...
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!
A unionized public employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, "Watch out for that union guy... he wants a piece of your cookie!
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zapkitty
said on 3/4/2011 @ 6:02 am PT...
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Ernest A. Canning
said on 3/4/2011 @ 7:15 am PT...
The article you linked to, Zap, states:
[Republican] Secretary of State Charlie White, the top election official in Indianapolis, is facing seven felony counts, including voter fraud, perjury and theft, all connected to what a prosecutor said was an attempt to hold on to his seat on the town council even though he was living outside of his designated district.
Let’s hope the state of Indiana can do better than Connecticut where that state’s election commission claimed it could not “make a full and fair determination” of Ann Coulter’s alleged voter fraud despite documentary evidence and Coulter’s own admissions.
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Dwight Dempsey
said on 3/4/2011 @ 8:43 am PT...
Hear hear! Geraldo Rivera is an idiot!!
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Adam
said on 3/4/2011 @ 9:00 am PT...
Does Fox News exist to make other lying corporate propaganda disseminators such and New York Times and CNN look good? The difference is primarily in tone, but not in substance. It's almost as if they work together, so the other liars look reliable by comparison. Sort of a good shyster, bad shyster routine. New York Times & Fox News: "Same lies, different tone."
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karenfromillinois
said on 3/4/2011 @ 10:23 am PT...
the real question we should be asking is,did the voters of wisconsin really elect walker?
http://www.waukeshacount...102_official_results.pdf
as i understand it,waukesha is the county with the 3rd largest city in wi...and it is the county whr reps win about 2 to 1...
on the above link if you scroll to pages 30 and 31 you will see what i call a "tag"...at the end of new berlins vote report 13 out of 14 precincts report 9 votes each for 2 write in candidates...statistically there is a better chance of these 2 write ins getting hit by lightening on different sides of town at same time than there is for this vote report being accurate
you really have to scroll thru it to see how out of place it is..anyways my point is IF we could get just that 1 counties votes actually hand counted maybe peops would awaken
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Ralph Dratman
said on 3/4/2011 @ 12:13 pm PT...
I find it fascinating that Fox can so consistently report false "facts" which are very easily refuted, yet their audience still believes.
To dispute the factuality of Fox's reporting is to be a sort of Cassandra, at least within the "conservative" universe, which is our internal North Korea, where (as Orwell predicted) "WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." So runs the creed of the Ministry of Truth.
What surprises me is that the propaganda issuing from our own Ministry of Truth can be publicly shown to be false, day after day, yet nothing changes. The people who believed yesterday still believe today.
Orwell assumed that the Ministry would have to suppress all contrary opinion, even contrary thought. How amazing to learn that such steps are not necessary! As long as the Ministry keeps telling the same or similar lies every day, no suppression is necessary.
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jeff
said on 3/4/2011 @ 4:55 pm PT...
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Murr Brewster
said on 3/5/2011 @ 12:57 am PT...
If only liberals felt as free to make stuff up.
Just think--these are the outfits that like to describe Obama as "angry," when he's practically--I don't know--a Vulcan.
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Sheila
said on 3/5/2011 @ 6:15 pm PT...
Ralph, I kindof agree that FOX consistently gets away with so called truths when they arent so in many cases. But like most news these days, people will believe their eyes rather than what they know in their hearts. Oh well.
Orange jumpsuit eh. Oh, i hope not.
Sheila
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Jeannie Dean
said on 3/6/2011 @ 11:45 am PT...
karenfromillinois (#11) ~
HotJesusinafryingpan. Incredible.
Again.
...I wish we had an army of karens. How many such 'tags' would we find buried in the ghostly archives of so many elections past? How many instances of these anomalous, impossible numbers represent certified winners of stolen races; candidates who were bought and paid for long before their name was ever on the ballot...
...and no one even bothers to look at the damn numbers, that show kfromi's 'tags' all over the place. And soon, they *won't be able to* at all, anymore, what with precinct by precinct results disappearing down the rabbit hatch, a procedural relic now; meant to dodo-extinct any citizen oversight of our election process.
I highly recommend EVERYONE look at the link karen provides, if for no other reason so you can see exactly what she's talking about / learn to look for them in your own district.
If nothing else, we can at least track the trend of these American election heists; travesties, all. Thank you, karen, for following up on Walker's numbers...(Brad - you lookin' at that?)
What strikes me as odd about this story, though, is why would anyone (especially a high-ranking, state election official) bother to vote illegally when we all know the machines are so easily jimmied? Seems incredibly naive.
Why was White was *that* worried about his official "results"? Why risk so much for just one more vote? And how is it that he didn't know that his high profile position would make it more likely that he'd get caught?...
...Could he really be that much of a douche-canoe?
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Jeannie Dean
said on 3/6/2011 @ 11:48 am PT...
Oops! Confused threads...merged my thoughts w/ the info from the breaking White story.
COMMENT #18 [Permalink]
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Jeannie Dean
said on 3/6/2011 @ 12:57 pm PT...
Venturing a bit OT here, but...
OF COURSE Clear Channel is paying actors to phone-in to radio shows with pre-scripted scenarios:
http://www.tabletmag.com...ligion/58759/radio-daze/
Digg Patriots, possible Chamber narcs, fake fake fake made up stuff everywhere planted and perpetually circulated by these loaded ass-bags - just to create the illusion of consensus.
That is so effin' creepy.
COMMENT #19 [Permalink]
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molly
said on 3/7/2011 @ 8:44 am PT...
Fox News not allowed in Canada, despite bush wannabe Stephen Harper pushing for change in legislation. They have a law that requires news organizations to tell the truth.
COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
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Montana
said on 3/7/2011 @ 4:12 pm PT...
O’rielly, what a joke, didn’t he say “video comes in video comes out never a miscommunication”. Why is it that so many fools follow this liar? It looks like that the top republican candidates for president will be coming from “Fake News/ Fox News”, or should I say “Big Business”, how funny.
I wonder if “Fake News” has a stable of likely republican supreme court justices (I am sure they will all attend the republican state of the union, unlike Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas, scum bags).
COMMENT #21 [Permalink]
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Xan
said on 3/8/2011 @ 5:53 am PT...
The reason there are palm trees in Wisconsin is because of global warning.
Here is a link to a story Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote about Fox not being allowed in Canada. Actually they are allowed in Canada, they are just not allowed to lie or mislead, so they choose not to broadcast in Canada rather than be forced to tell the truth.
http://readersupportedne...-keep-them-out-of-canada
COMMENT #22 [Permalink]
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chabuka
said on 3/10/2011 @ 10:47 am PT...
We'll be coming for the Corporate news outlets and their paid propagandists (Murdoch better hire XE or Wackenhut) too....
COMMENT #23 [Permalink]
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John
said on 3/15/2011 @ 2:12 pm PT...
The problem is that the people who watch Faux News never get to hear the truth because that's all they watch. And the constant slamming of the "liberal media" and the "mainstream media" only makes them distrust what they do manage to hear.