When Fox Attacks

Childish. Be adults. Stick to the issues and the validity of your positions. Name calling shows fear and weakness. There is no need for that.

Yeah..faux news continues to show it’s bias and uglieness. The sad part is that the MSM allows the likes of Sean Hannity to drive the news cycle. Simply asserting Obama is a marxist does not make it so. They are allowed to assert these lies and other news outlets such as ABC (see the ‘debate’) give it credibility. This is a hugh disappointment because it gives the MSM a air of laziness. Faux needs to combated with dilligent thorough reporting even if it puts a candidate or party in a positive or negitive light. Let the voters draw their own conclusions.

My reaction to this news story is that people shouldn’t watch Fox. They march in lockstop with Rush Limbaugh and contribute no news only right-wing blather. This is a position that I adopted long ago, the latest iteration of it by Fox only further validates my decision.

Talk about bias, the other two cable news-CNN and especially MSNBC is nothing more than a continuation of the Obama land fanasty.
I am a democrat and voted for democrats all my life; not so this time.
CNN and MSNBC reek of bias.
Before casting stones at Fox; they should actually listen to what the other side offers,
Never have I seen any candidate for the president of the United States been so cuddled by the press and the media.
You would think the media would have learned a lesson after Iraq; but they just continue slamming anyone who don’t buy into their Obama rhetoric. I will continue watching Fox, they do have “fair” and balanced news coverage; moreso than you find in the other networks.

Fox news is the furtherest from fair and balanced as it can be. I always knew this. Problem is so many people believe all this crap from the far right. It doenst have to be true, they say it over and over, (Hannity Rush), and people get brain washed !!

FOX? heck I don’t watch ABC, I find FOX with less of a slant

RogerAiles needs some deep searching investigative documentary about him…
…forget George W, Bush, Cheney and Rove…
Roger Ailes is the guy who America (seriously) should be taking a look at…
someday he will be studied in the realm of worst side of being human and what can go wrong with a society who is not always quick to recognize an evil drive from one person…
…if he wasn’t President of FoxNews…
(I’m not kidding)
I have a feeling the bodies of young victims would be piling up in his basement.
but instead he is pushed by the Nixons, the cigarette company lobbyists, the far right wing (talking the whack job borderline sociopaths with money) and the Bushes… to be able to influence massive amounts of people under the guise of “news”
sad.
I’m sure this came out of something in his “daily directive” that they all receive at the channel.

I watch Fox more than I ever did before. They seem to get BHO just right. I seldom watch MSNBC anymore mainly because of Chris Matthews and a few others. I dont have a huge problem with CNN.
Posted by: brigitte | Jul 7, 2008 9:37:55 AM
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Are you sure Brigitte, Fox gets BHO?
Well good for them! I am glad some station is vetting the faux candidate!

yeah fox wammabe news channel they are not fair they lie i watch cnn they are more balanced fox is for mccain msnbc is for obama cnn report facts and truth on both but i have to say fox news should be cancelled because they LIE and make up rumors at least msnbc even though one can see they favor obama but at least they report real news like fox news with terriost fist bump please well i guess my 10 year old and his friends are terriost because they do it please fox news are you ever gonna get REAL!!!!!!

American’s are stupid and lazy and Fox News counts on that.
They figured out a long time ago that Americans will absorb whatever they tell them without ever questioning the validity.
Our entire media is an embarassment and we just accept it.

Neilpa…You are absolutely right! I couldn’t get past all the gushing of Obama on MSNBC and CNN. I used to get so sick to my stomach over the fawning of Obama that I switched to Fox as well. I had not watched Fox for aabout 3 years. I ONLY watch Fox now. They are fair and balanced. The other cable news is Obamaland.

Yes, Fox News is oriented to the right, and yes, they are sensationalistic in their newscasts, using too many silly graphics and sound effects. But at least we can get a SOMEWHAT balanced coverage of the news by watching ABC and Fox, which we do at our house.
Fox is not bashing Obama, but at least they aren’t doing his campaigning for him, like most other networks.
And, incidentally, if you think Fox News is “disgusting”, I’m fairly sure your TV set has a gadget to change the channel!

Rodney… that’s funny! Fox’s female anchors are certainly NOT bashful!
There are other funny things on Fox, too, such as how many times have they shown (and will they show) Osama coming down that mountain with his walking stick?
Actually, compared to ABC, Fox’s newscasts are rather amateurish. I prefer Charles Gibson ANY day, but ABC is so involved in BHO’s campaign that it sometimes gets a little hard to stomach.
I actually enjoy watching Bill O’Reilly (when he feels like doing his own program), even though I frequently disagree with him. At least he brings people with opposing views onto his program, unlike some talk-show hosts.
When O’Reilly starts sounding like a televangelist, this is why we record his program, so we can fast-forward those segments.

rhys
i feel that you see less mccain for one reason—–there really is nothing new to see. i must admit things get out of hand at times.obama for better or worse truly is different—just may be what we need..??????????????????

“vile and untrue.”, how appropiate, that’s how I’ve always considered Fox.

FiredUp…You are a piece of work. The lowest educated Americans are blindly following Obama in a trance. They are in a cult like world. I can’t believe a person with the internet and information that is available would actually want to put their own country in the hands of this con artist.
A vote for Obama is vote against your own country. It’s God bless America. Not God damn America. Oprah has a cult going on too. Read about that!

Fox and ABC had the courage to introduce Obama’s lovely pastor–Rev Wright to the world.
Because of them we saw a glimpse into Obama’s real world and how he chose to spend the last 20 years.
Only now have others began to vet Obama. And some are still reluctant.
I appreciate Fox because America deserves the truth. I thought the altered pictures were funny.

The only program on foxnews which i consider “fair and balance” is the Bill O’Reilly show. Beyond that…nothing. Sean Hannity is bash Obama night every night. Fox and Friends started the Obama muslim rumors (Madrasah). It’s all on y0utube.

Carolyn–you are right. Obama’s corrupt and dirty antics in Chicago are on the net for all the world to see.
But some of his supporters refuse to accept the truth or even venture to find the truth. Or maybe so caught up in Obama’s hype they just don’t care.
Many have never held Obama to any standard whatsoever–evidently his lack of a backbone and integrity are not something they look for in a president.

another thing you see how fox news always harps on the rev wright story and the muslim thing over and over again thats because they have nothing new funny how they never harp on mccains negetivity like they say you say something over and over again people will belive as far as o reily please that man is a joke!!!!!!

Neilpa / Carolyn …You are both absolutely correct! “I couldn’t get past all the gushing of Obama on MSNBC and CNN. I used to get so sick to my stomach over the fawning of Obama that I switched to Fox as well. I had not watched Fox for about 3 years. I ONLY watch Fox now. They have proved themselves to be fair and balanced. The other cable news is Obamaland.”
I never look at Keith (Ranting) Obbermon or Chris (Thrill up my legs) Matthews anymore, or those Obama Robots on CNN. I guess they all received the same memo to fall in line or lose their jobs!! Fox is sometimes too fair and balanced – I wish they would be harder on Obama!! Thank goodness for Fox – they are the best and definitely deserve to be the most watched Cable network!
Hillary was the one – now that she is gone I hope McCain will win. Obama is an empty suit, no substance, a liar, a bigot, no integrity, no judgement, no experience – another Michael Dukakis. Americans should wake up and not support Obama only because he is a Democrat or an AA. I hope people see through Obama – he has never fooled me and never will!!!
If all it takes to be POTUS is to be against the Iraq War from the beginning, heck, 50% of Americans would qualify for the job!!! I don’t know how people fall for that logic, but that is the core of Obama’s credentials!!
Country before party or race!!!!

Fox News is all about entertainment and shouldn’t be taken seriously. They ridiculed my candidate Ron Paul. Just take Fox News for what they are worth …. not much.

mccain is going to talk about the economy today i thought he didnt know much about it he calls it jobs first tour interesting after he just left colombia and mexico he wants to talk about jobs hmmm

My thoughts? It’s Fox News. Anything is possible with these clowns and would not surprise me at this point.

As a Hillary supporter, I now LOVE Fox! They were fair and balanced regarding her Campaign – and because of that, they have me as their viewer for life! CNN and MSNBC would be maligning BOTH Bill and Hill today if Hill had won the DEM Nominee, just like they did when she was campaigning. I don’t think they would suddenly have had a ‘Damascus’ moment. So Angie, what is your point????!!!

angie – I totally agreed with you. I was just adding something extra.

BEN STRAUB
do the right thing vote for obama!!!

@ben: Obama’s campaign just announced that the convention center isn’t big enough for Obama’s acceptance speech so they are moving it to a 75,000 capacity stadium. If the audience enters with torches while he stands at the podium, I’m booking the first flight to Australia. Creepier and creepier.
People don’t have to cut and paste. Between the netzoons and other true believers and his campaigns arrogance of inevitability and history, they will scare the voters away. All McCain has to do is look confident and sane. Fear of the unknown will do the rest.

angie – I can’t do it because of the huge increase in spending by Obama’s platform, but at least it will be spent here. McCain is a worse choice because of his downright militancy and the repercussions from that militancy. I am going 3rd party so that I can be happy with my vote. At this point I think Obama will win easily so don’t worry about my vote.

Because FOX does a better job at being impartial than the other networks, there’s more attention given to BHO. It’s as simple as that. Only fools shoot the messenger.

angie:
Becky is a republican.

TONI
idont know maybe she is a hillary supporter that truly wanted hillary and cant accept the fact she lost she ran a bad campaign thats not obamas fault he played the game just as she did but what the hillary supporters dont understand is obama and hillary are pretty much the same on issuses and i can bet she will be in his adminstration any intellegent person can see that so theres more too this maybe she is republican or maybe there is other reasons for not liking obama (color of skin)

Fox News always seems to ask that “next” question that needs to be asked. CNN and MSNBC intentionally mislead their audience by not asking that “next” question like how to pay for “free” health care, or how does converting a costly food crop like corn into ethanol reduce fuel consumption (it only increases the cost of food – Dah!!) and on and on.

Keith – I think they all ask these questions. I have certainly heard these questions from all of the networks including Fox.

Take Faux News to court for manipulating the photos. Prove they did it and sue the officers for every cent they have. As soon as Reagan got the fairness doctrine canceled, the reactionary rightwing nuts began the systematic destruction of America. Any Republican from the last 25 years sure has a lot of explaining to do. What a mess!

You must remember that the liberal democrats held the congress for 40 years and gave us the great society with Medicare, Medicade, increased entitlements and a large federal government that we cannot get off of our backs. Elect Obama and big government will only get bigger!!!

waynesworld2008 – These facts are not lost on me. It doesn’t help that congress has repeatedly raided the social security trust fund. If congress did nothing and got paid nothing we would more often than not be better off.

I hardly ever watch Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, but when I do, and especially during multi-channel, concurrent coverage of a single concern…Fox News’ is strictly commentary, and energized for shock-value more than the others. The real problem is that CNN and the others have had to compete for ‘ratings’ with Fox, so they’ve changed themselves, too. It’s quite disgusting.

Cyndi – Some interesting points. I am a libertarian Ron Paul supporter. I even protested a republican convention in NM because of the war. Republican’s are no longer small government. That is why the party is dying. The only young people out here at my republican county convention were Paul supporters. Other than us it looked like a retirement home.

Cyndi – Almost forgot. Big government is ultimately disasterous because it becomes intrusive and unaffordable. I guess that is where I differ from you.

Jo – You are correct. Fox keeps us abreast on the latest action by Lohan, Spears and the like. They even carry pictures of them on their front page everyday. Thank goodness for Fox.

Brigette, nice try but it’s obvious you don’t watch Fox.
Everyone is reporting on entertainment junk. If you look at ABC’s website you will see there are usually more entertainment stories than anything else.
Again, nice try, but you lose.

I love Fox News because it reports what the democrats are up to while most others tend to skip over that part.
However, I have to admit that ABC has been on the ball lately. Charlie Gibson has been a pleasant surprise in how he goes after both Obama and McCain. Most just don’t do that.
Kudos to ABC. If I have to watch network news, I’ll watch Charlie.

I find it a amazing that FoxNews can make a mockery of the American people by claiming to be fair & balanced, while being blatantly partisan! It plays perfectly to the drones who believe whatever they hear without thought or consideration & accept it as truth. If more Americans had half a brain, Fox News would be non-existant.

Jo – They don’t mention Spears and Lohan. You previously mentioned that FOX isn’t the only one to mention these celebrities so I guess you are contradicting yourself, thereby losing once again, ha, ha!!!

Ben, nice try but like Brigitte you don’t watch Fox News and it’s obvious.
Brit Hume’s show is the most informative around and he doesn’t even mention the people you mentioned.
Again, you lose.
Posted by: Jo | Jul 7, 2008 12:46:15 PM
Jo
I’m talking about their entire news programming line up not any one show in particular. Overall it does look like skits from SNL or MadTv.

Fox = Nazi Propaganda
Ailes = Goebbels
“The great masses of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one.” – Adolph Hitler

Jo – How did Brigette lose? You must me mental or something. You just agreed with what she said and said she lost. How does that add up exactly?

Ben, no you contradicted yourself.
Wow, you guys are really humiliating yourself.
Again, the funniest thing is anyone thinking Fox is the only one who has entertainment news.
They ALL do. You’re just ticked that Fox happens to catch the democrats in all their lies and fraud and the others mostly cover it up.
Try to keep up.

Jo – I never said the others didn’t contain entertainment so how exactly am I contradicting myslef? You lose yet again sir. At least you make this entertaining!

Fact: ALL of the 24 hour news outlets have a LOT of entertainment stuff.
24 hours is a lot of time to fill.
But if you want to know what is really going on, watch Brit Hume, Neil Cavuto, Megyn Kelly, Bill Hemmer, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, etc.
They’ll spill the ugly truth on the democrats, and it bugs the crap out of them. Good! :)

fox generally is defensive about the worst president in U.S. history and his supporters who, collectively, are slowly destroying all that makes America great…..not sure what that makes them, except that it means they are probably as dangerously ignorant as those they generally seek to protect

Love to hear the whining from Fox haters after what? 40 plus years of having the mainstream liberal media all on their side.
Now the truth is out there and they can’t stand it.
LOL. Love it.

by the way, fox news does have a few good elements to it, shepard smith, alan colmes, etc., but they are largely overshadowed by the ignorance and false sense of arrogance by those such as hannity and o’reilly (though o’reilly has displayed behavior which suggests he is the less intelligent of the two)

At least Hannity, O’Reilly admit their bias. Those are labled as OPINION shows.
The other news outlets pretend to be unbiased journalists who present the news in their biased way.
Again, you guys lose.

Ben, actually I think the photoshopping of LA Times & Boston Globe to make a heroic US soldier look like he’s aiming his gun at small children is MUCH worse.
Oh, you didn’t hear about that? That’s right, because you don’t watch Fox.
So again, don’t expect fury from us.
Lol. This is fun.

even-handed, neutral news such as NPR, PBS and BBC are very much centrist and as unbiased as any news out there….of course, the center is still to the left of the often-ignorant right wing mentality, so from an inferior 2-dimensional form of thinking, I guess it might be correct for some with a conservative ideology to consider those news organizations as “liberal”

Ben you and Brigitte are both embarrassing yourselves with your silly attacks at Fox.
Just be honest and admit you can’t stand them because they expose your party for what it is while you’re use to 99% great coverage of democrats by the other news outlets.
In other words, the truth hurts. Especially when you’re not use to it.
Posted by: Jo | Jul 7, 2008 1:01:31 PM
Jo you are embarrassing and losing credibility in the process by contining to defend the indefensible. Camera angles and altering photos are entirely different things. You do know that don’t you?

Chris, for me to be a neo-con, I would have had to be a liberal once and changed my mind.
I never was a liberal. I’ve always thought for myself.
And if you think PBS, NPR and BBC are centrist then you have had a lobotomy.
Nice try though, but you lose again.

Brigitte, yes, Fox shouldn’t have done it. But New York Times is such a joke I’m sure they couldn’t resist.
Again, your selective fury is hilarious. You could care less when the others do it. Oh, wait, you probably didn’t HEAR about it when the liberal media did it, did you?
Only Fox News bothers to report that stuff.
So again, you make my point.

Jo – Left? Right? Actually one of my favorites is the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Seems to be pretty factually accurate without all the pomp and circumstance.

Ben, one show out of the whole lineup?
And now it’s balanced?
Sure. Lol.

Jo – Unbiased truth is what I am interested in. That is usually why I go through all of the outlets including FOX to reach some conclusion on what is going on. Jim Lehrer seems to be a good one without big noses.

for the record, msnbc was heavily biased for obama

let me amend the earlier post: msnbc was GENERALLY biased for obama

It’s tragic that objective reporting (NYT, BBC, etc…) are continuously attacked by bought-for, intentionally-biased media (Fox, Wall Street Journal). Conservatives prove this point consistently by believing a liberal bias in ‘news’ which they don’t like… Oddly, many conservatives are not intending to solely support the ‘rich’ (which is the point of Murdoch’s editorial efforts), but they are just not perceptive enough to recognize the attack on a egalitarian society….

Wow. I read the first 20 comments or so, (Fox is typically way out of line, in my opinion) and it turns out most people are predictable idiots who only want their prejudices reinforced.
No one seeking the light.
Physicians, heal thyselves. Please. For the love of God, do it before another 50,000 women in Iraq are forced into prostitution. The ‘liberal’ media has got to stop suppressing such information!
Are any of you people even alive?

The NY Had previously posted a very negative appearing cariacture of a fox correspondent. So I guess they can lie, dish it out and then can’t take it. When is the NY Times going to shut their doors for good. We’ll all be better off.

I have a perhaps a unique take on this affair. Recently I have completed an associate degree in photography and I also have a degree in traditional art. I have used Photoshop extensively and have done photo manipulations in darkrooms so I feel I can give a good critique of the “quality” of Fox’s work.
My verdict, it sucks.
This inept hit job is so bad that if I had turned that in for a grade in my Introduction to Computer Graphics class I would have been laughed out of the room, with me in tears. I’m joking but not by much.
In addition, my father was a damn good journalist back in the day and ingrained in me the importance of journalistic ethics at an early age, even though I held no ambition to follow in his footsteps. In all honesty this is the same type of yellow journalism that demeans the nobler aspects of the profession. I also have a suggestion for Fox News.
Please, please find a half dead member of the Nazi propaganda machine to improve your skill set.
If your going to be evil and corrupt, at least do it well.

Steinberg looks like Quasimodo, the gruesome and tragic character from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Fox is actually showing some class by invoking a great literary figure such as Victor Hugo.