| Friday, February 20, 2009 |
| Sean Hannity's fraudster |
Remember back in the day, during the campaign, when Sean Hannity would try like hell to tie Barack Obama to every potentially shady character in Chicago, including Tony Rezko, not to mention to "terrorist" Bill Ayers? Um ... Sean? We have a problem...Mention 'Sean Hannity' to Stanford Coins & Bullion and get a free guidebook. Yup, that's Stanford as in Stanford Financial Group, or Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire who is apparently on the lam after being charged Tuesday in connection with a multi-billion-dollar fraud.
I wonder if Hannity still thinks Stanford is as "good as gold...?"
Labels: crime, Faux News, fraud, Sean Hannity |
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| Saturday, July 26, 2008 |
| Eight years younger |
How far is Fox News willing to go to help John McCain become president? They're now pulling a stunt that would make the Fidel Castro regime proud: actually de-aging the wizened Republican candidate by using video from his 2000 campaign. Dan Abrams caught it, as Raw Story reports:
Over a "Beat the Press: Fox Anti-Aging Fix" graphic, Abrams urged, "Take a good look at the senator and the video they use." He then showed a clip in which Fox ran http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifvideo of a strangely youthful and vigorous-looking McCain at a campaign rally to accompany a story about McCain's current campaign schedule. However, the video also prominently features a sign reading "www.mccain2000.com," which at one point is even waved in front of McCain's face. "Fox is actually using eight year old video to discuss today's activities," Abrams marveled. He concluded cheerfully, "They report -- you decide."
Good work, Fair and Balanced team! Hell, at this point, they're almost as helpful to Republicans as Nancy Pelosi!
Here's the video, from the July 24 edition of "Verdict":
UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal might want to consider using some doctored pics of John McCain to get back in his good graces. Holy dis!
| Labels: Dan Abrams, Faux News, Fox News, John McCain, media bias, MSNBC |
| posted by JReid @ 11:20 AM |
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| Saturday, May 17, 2008 |
| Fox News scrapes the bottom of the barrel ... again |
Yet another reason to dismiss Fox News from the ranks of serious journalism: this afternoon, I was scanning through the cable channels for updates on Sen. Ted Kennedy's hospitalization. I happened to pause on Fox News Channel, and caught a few minutes of their coverage. Only on Fox would the news be about politicial reactions the Senator's hospitalization (they were about to introduce Trent Lott), but the crawl be about ... you guessed it ... Chappaquiddick. The right is so dispicable, so callous, that's all they can think of when they think of Ted Kennedy, and they feel the need to remind their idiot minions about it at every opportunity, lest one of the flock break out of the pen and grow a mind of their own.
Fox News staff: you should be embarrased. Of course, if you were capable of embarassment, you wouldn't be working at Fox News...
Labels: Faux News, Fox News, Ted Kennedy |
| posted by JReid @ 10:07 PM |
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| Saturday, March 22, 2008 |
| Outbreaks of conscience at Fox News |
| I never thought I'd see the day. Two whole on-air personalities: sports guy Brian Kilmeade, and ... wait for it ... Chris Wallace, the lesser progeny of Mike, who did Rupe Murdoch's dirty work on Bill Clinton and got man-handled by the former Prez, finally had enough after two hours of Obama race baiting by FNC's idiotic morning show duo. The Huffpo pairs the clips. Next thing you know, the elixir will wear off on Bill Hemmer and he'll discover he's actually a news man trapped in a traveling circus ... Labels: Barack Obama, Faux News |
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| Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| Katie Couric gets tough! Channels El Rushbo in scorched earth interview with ... cancer ... victim... |
So NOW Katie wants to be a tough minded journalist, asking the hard questions and holding the feet of the powerful to the fire. And the subject of her sharp journalistic lens? Cancer victim Elizabeth Edwards and her husband, former Senator John Edwards. And being the brilliant mind that she is, Katie even managed to include a littany of questions straight from Rush Limbaugh's radio show, without even calling the Fat Man by name! An astute IFilm poster has the medley of Katie-style grilling:
Wow, Katie. You're like ... Edward R. Murrow, only perkier! And don't let those critics get you down... they're just hating on you because you're in fourth place in the news race and they're not. Oh, sorry, is that third?Labels: CBS News, Elizabeth Edwards, Faux News, John Edwards, Katie Couric, media |
| posted by JReid @ 9:26 PM |
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| Sunday, February 18, 2007 |
| Random acts of journalism |
Chris Wallace ... wait a minute ... you mean THAT Chris Wallace ?????? actually pauses for a moment from his normal role as Fox News' most skilled pretend neutral journalist, to actually behave like a neutral journalist... debunking the claims of innocence of one Douglas Feith, who insisted on an earlier program that, but of course he never claimed Iraq's Saddam Hussein had an operational link with al-Qaida! When a Fox News host is calling out the neocons, you KNOW the world is slowly coming to an end.
Labels: al-Qaida, Chris Wallace, Doug Feith, Faux News, Fox News, Iraq, Iraq war, lies, neocons, news, Saddam Hussein |
| posted by JReid @ 2:51 PM |
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| Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| Barack Obama: super-duper terrorist prodigy! |
Leave it to the right to even screw up a smear. Insight Magazine's fairy tale that Barack Obama attended a Muslim "madrassa" school when he was but 6 years old has traversed the planes of right wing hackery, sling-shotting from Glen Beck's wacky world of low-rated cable TV (and high-rated radio), to the ultimate dumping ground for factually-sketchy slander against Democrats: Fox "News" Channel.
Well. That would be all well and good if the story was actually true. Here's the scoop from ThinkProgress:
Last week, Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch outlets amplified a right-wing report alleging that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attended an Islamic “madrassa” school as a 6-year-old child. One Fox News caller questioned whether Obama’s schooling means that “maybe he doesn’t consider terrorists the enemy.” Fox anchor Brian Kilmeade responded, “Well, we’ll see about that.” So what is a news organization to do when they want to "see about that?" It's called simple reportage. And CNN went one better:
Commenting on this report today, Wolf Blitzer said that CNN had done “what any serious news organization is supposed to do in this kind of a situation”: actually investigate and learn the facts. CNN’s Senior International Correspondent John Vause filed a report from Indonesia. ThinkP has the video, here's the rest of the story:
He visited the Basuki school, which Obama attended from 1969 to 1971.
"This is a public school. We don't focus on religion," Hardi Priyono, deputy headmaster of the Basuki school, told Vause. "In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don't give preferential treatment."
Vause reported he saw boys and girls dressed in neat school uniforms playing outside the school, while teachers were dressed in Western-style clothes.
"I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa ... like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Vause said on the "Situation Room" Monday. "I've been to those madrassas in Pakistan ... this school is nothing like that."
Vause also interviewed one of Obama's Basuki classmates, Bandug Winadijanto, who claims that not a lot has changed at the school since the two men were pupils. Insight reported that Obama's political opponents believed the school promoted Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam, "and are seeking to prove it."
"It's not (an) Islamic school. It's general," Winadijanto said. "There is a lot of Christians, Buddhists, also Confucian. ... So that's a mixed school."
The Obama aide described Fox News' broadcasting of the Insight story "appallingly irresponsible." The Insight article even went to lowbrow as to accuse, not their own hackery, but Hillary Clinton's camp of cooking up the Obamarassa story, something Clinton's camp has called total junk (consider the source.) I mean, why take the credit for such a scummy story when you can pass the blame onto someone else?
Oh, and one other thing: if Barack Obama HAD attended a madrassa school at 6 years old, he'd be one hell of a terrorist prodigy, since madrassas are kind of like college -- they're for adults. Funny thing, that.
Labels: Barack, Barack Obama, Faux News, Islam, madrassas, religion, right wingers |
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