Interesting Little Tidbit About Faux News

Interesting little tidbit found in the article:
"Fox, in an e-mail to POLITICO, indicated that once any of the candidates declares for the presidency he or she will have to sever the deal with the network."

Some here, may not be aware of election laws governing equal coverage during campaigns.
 
Interesting little tidbit found in the article:
"Fox, in an e-mail to POLITICO, indicated that once any of the candidates declares for the presidency he or she will have to sever the deal with the network."

Some here, may not be aware of election laws governing equal coverage during campaigns.
Oh yes, because the potential candidacy has absolutely no bearing on the election. Especially if the voters are watching Fox News in the first place, they're already mindlessly following one of the most biased news networks ON cable television.


But I suppose a troll in sheep's clothing like you probably DOES believe that Fox provides "equal coverage" at all times, not just election season.


koalaburger - That was genius. Hahahaha.
 
Oh yes, because the potential candidacy has absolutely no bearing on the election. Especially if the voters are watching Fox News in the first place, they're already mindlessly following one of the most biased news networks ON cable television.


But I suppose a troll in sheep's clothing like you probably DOES believe that Fox provides "equal coverage" at all times, not just election season.


koalaburger - That was genius. Hahahaha.

Question for you Rob. How is this any different than an elected official running for another office without resigning or stepping down from the current position?
I know there are many on both sides that have done this but Kerry comes to mind during the 2004 election.
IMHO, If you are currently holding an elected position and want to run for a different one, you should be REQUIRED to resgin. How can a politician effectively serve his constituents on the campaign trail?

edit: BTW Rob, how is it that when the messiah (Obama) was on the campaign trail just about all of the networks (except Fox) were so in the tank for him it was unbelievable. Talk about biased.

While I am not a birther, I find it interesting that Obama has publicly admitted that he was born in Kenya and no one seems to care. Either he is telling the truth (making him ineleigible) or he is lying (not that politicians don't lie, he just got caught).
 
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Question for you Rob. How is this any different than an elected official running for another office without resigning or stepping down from the current position?
I know there are many on both sides that have done this but Kerry comes to mind during the 2004 election.
IMHO, If you are currently holding an elected position and want to run for a different one, you should be REQUIRED to resgin. How can a politician effectively serve his constituents on the campaign trail?
Holding another elected office is COMPLETELY different from having a written contract that prevents you from being asked onto another news network for an interview.

I don't understand how you can't comprehend that difference.
edit: BTW Rob, how is it that when the messiah (Obama) was on the campaign trail just about all of the networks (except Fox) were so in the tank for him it was unbelievable. Talk about biased.
They were in the tank for him because he was new. He was fresh. He was the one who was going to win. Call me crazy, but I don't ever remember a time in the year 2008 when Obama was NOT ahead in the polls, or at least dead even with McCain. Even when McCain tried to show his hip, cool side by electing a young pretty girl (however incompetent she was/is) as his Vice President.
Do you put your stock in with companies you know are going to lose? LOL

While I am not a birther, I find it interesting that Obama has publicly admitted that he was born in Kenya and no one seems to care. Either he is telling the truth (making him ineleigible) or he is lying (not that politicians don't lie, he just got caught).
As CoM said, I would LOVE a link that isn't doctored that shows Obama admitting he himself was born in Kenya. PLEASE!!!! show the court the evidence.


1. From the website called "Obama snippets." Call me crazy for not believing them.

2. I could write up the minutes from a United States national assembly on my Macintosh in about 30 minutes. Give me a break.

3. Again, there is no visual proof here. We have a guy on a mic who wants his fame.

BTW, the certificate of live birth is accepted as an official documentation of birth in Hawaii.

Ugh. I had hoped you were smarter than to believe that Obama has gotten away with being an illegal immigrant this far into the United States government.

I'm curious, Hokie, did you do any research on GWB when or before he was elected president?
 
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Holding another elected office is COMPLETELY different from having a written contract that prevents you from being asked onto another news network for an interview.
Really Rob.
An elected official is obligated to serve his constituents while he/she holds the office. You cannot do that from the campaign trail. PERIOD.
THAT is the point I was trying to make here. You don't seem to have a problem with this, but you do have a problem with what Fox is doing?
This is similar to a standard non disclosure agreement that is contained in most professional employment contracts. Nothing really new.
The hypocracy I'm pointing out here is that if I stopped coming to work to look for another job and expected my current employer to pay me I would be fired. Why do we expect less from our politicians?

I don't understand how you can't comprehend that difference.
They were in the tank for him because he was new. He was fresh. He was the one who was going to win. Call me crazy, but I don't ever remember a time in the year 2008 when Obama was NOT ahead in the polls, or at least dead even with McCain. Even when McCain tried to show his hip, cool side by electing a young pretty girl (however incompetent she was/is) as his Vice President.
Do you put your stock in with companies you know are going to lose? LOL
They were in the tank for him because, like the media, he is a socialist who wishes to destroy the foundations this country was founded on. Freedom.
And no, I do not invest with a company I know is going to lose.
BTW, why is it OK for the media to rake Sarah Palin and her family over the coals but Obamas kids are off limits? Talk about a double standard.

As CoM said, I would LOVE a link that isn't doctored that shows Obama admitting he himself was born in Kenya. PLEASE!!!! show the court the evidence.

See my post below.
 
BTW, the certificate of live birth is accepted as an official documentation of birth in Hawaii.

Ugh. I had hoped you were smarter than to believe that Obama has gotten away with being an illegal immigrant this far into the United States government.

I'm curious, Hokie, did you do any research on GWB when or before he was elected president?

As I said before, I'm not a birther and I question WHY the state of Hawaii has not released a copy of the original certificate. It will do no good for the country now if he is in fact determined to be ineligible. BTW I hope this does not happen as his replacement is a bigger idiot than Quayle ever was.

Do you admit that it is Obama in the video? Does he not refer to the country of his birth as Kenya? Just asking here, but I wonder why he was never called on the carpet to explain. I would be happy with a statement saying "I misspoke". He has been completely evasive about this. Again I ask WHY?

edit: To the Mods. Apologies about the double post.

Yes Rob I did research on GWB. I'm glad I voted for him because if Algore had been elected we would be worse off than we are today. Given the complete lack of choice, I chose the lesser of 2 evils.
 
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I think we're going off topic now but going back to the thread's topic, yeah Fox news is extremely biased to the point where it has become the publicity agency for conservative and ultra conservative movements in the United States.

As for other networks and their ethics (or lack thereof) I think is another topic.
 
FOX NEWS isnt a news agency, its a propaganda arm of the far right-wing. Which is fine, they are entitled to say what they want. BUT if I were the FCC I would force FOX NEWS to drop the "NEWS" from its name, perhaps just call it FOX or whatever they want as long as NEWS is not anywhere in the title.

Why? False advertising. A "NEWS" program is a program that merely reports the facts as they are and lets the public decide. Shows like NBC Nightly NEWS and ABC News. A journalist is entitled to have a view or an opinion which is fine as long as its states that its opinion journalism (like MSNBC) and not actual journalism. MSNBC is liberal, but they dont call themselves MSNBC NEWS, only MSNBC. Their most liberal programs like Countdown and Rachel Maddow also do NOT portray themselves as being non-partisan sources of information.

Its abit like Protor and Gambles Frozen Orange Juice scandal a few decades ago. You might recall that 20 years ago P+G was calling its frozen concentrated orange juice as "fresh" orange juice. Only trouble is the definition of "fresh" does not include the words "frozen" and" "concentrated". A program that regularly relied on bias, misleading, and sometimes totally false information cannot call itself a "news" program.
 
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mmarsh, I disagree. I think that a majority of the information reported on both the cable channel and the website is news. It is the opinion shows like Oreilley and Hannity that you are assuming represents the entire network. I usually watch the first 15 minutes of the Today show, for news every morning before work and no one was happier than I that Katie Couric left the show. I think that news should come from multiple sources and if you swallow the rhetoric from a single source, you will tend to be biased.
 
mmarsh, I disagree. I think that a majority of the information reported on both the cable channel and the website is news. It is the opinion shows like Oreilley and Hannity that you are assuming represents the entire network. I usually watch the first 15 minutes of the Today show, for news every morning before work and no one was happier than I that Katie Couric left the show. I think that news should come from multiple sources and if you swallow the rhetoric from a single source, you will tend to be biased.

Would you consider then Father Coughlins newspaper "Social Justice" to be actual News Source? FOX NEWS is alot like "Social Justice", its rabble rouser that unfairly blames the countries problems on government policies that it happens to oppose and uses various minorities as scapegoats for it.

If we call that a "News Show" then so is the National Inquirer.

And its not Just Hannity and O'Reilly. Its ALL their network shows. Like Beck, Meghan Kelly, Greta van Sustran, Neil Cavuto, to name a few. And now they have actual GOP presidential candidates like Huckabee and Palin doing "news" shows. And in once case Tony Snow actually going to work for the GOP. Not to mention the recent million dollar donation it made to the RNC. That is simply not News, thats GOP-TV. No true journalist worth his salt (people like the late, great, Walter Cronkite, who said exactly the same thing before he passed away) would consider FOX a News Organization. Its entertainment, which again is fine as long as its labelled as such, which FOX refuses to do.

MSNBC is mostly liberal, but it doesnt try and pretend to be something its not.
Only FOX does this. For example: Joe Scarbourough, former Conservative Republican House Representative from Florida. His show (on liberal MSNBC, just going to show how completely bias FOX is for not hiring any liberals!) is called "Scarbourough Country". Its NOT called "MSNBC News with Morning Joe". Its an right-wing opinon show thats doesn't pretend to be a News program. Although I disagree with Scarbourough, I have no problem with what he does.

If you go to the FOX company website it says FOX NEWS, Fair and Balanced. Its neither Fair nor Balanced nor actual news.
 
Actually we say the same about NBC, CBS, ABC , CNN, MSNBC. They are all Lib biased. They might not be blantant, sometimes they are. Somertimes they slip little negative words into a comment that would ghave positive little words if it had been about a Lib. a positive spin on the 5% unemployment when clinton seeked reelection & negative spin on Bush's 5% when he ran for reelection. Amazing how Libs whine about the only channel they don't controll vs all the ones they do. Just drives em nuts not having every one. What network did Steponopolis to to directly from the White House?
 
Actually we say the same about NBC, CBS, ABC , CNN, MSNBC. They are all Lib biased. They might not be blantant, sometimes they are. Somertimes they slip little negative words into a comment that would ghave positive little words if it had been about a Lib. a positive spin on the 5% unemployment when clinton seeked reelection & negative spin on Bush's 5% when he ran for reelection. Amazing how Libs whine about the only channel they don't controll vs all the ones they do. Just drives em nuts not having every one. What network did Steponopolis to to directly from the White House?
I don't see how any conservative could bash Clinton's presidency. It seems like the only words I hear out of the right's mouths nowadays are "federal deficit spending." Well, Clinton had a surplus. But he wasn't a Republican, so he had to be a terrible president.

And you wonder why Democrats aren't listening to your pathetic attempts at "bipartisanship." HAH! That's rich!
 
I don't see how any conservative could bash Clinton's presidency. It seems like the only words I hear out of the right's mouths nowadays are "federal deficit spending." Well, Clinton had a surplus. But he wasn't a Republican, so he had to be a terrible president.

And you wonder why Democrats aren't listening to your pathetic attempts at "bipartisanship." HAH! That's rich!

Rob, You seem to forget that Clinton
1. Lied under oath
2. Created Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and then directed them to make the loans that got the country into the current economic crisis
3. Had Bin Laden in his sights but was too busy watching a golf tournament to make the decision to take him out.

I just wish you would apply the same standards to both sides of the aisle.
 
Rob, You seem to forget that Clinton
1. Lied under oath
2. Created Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and then directed them to make the loans that got the country into the current economic crisis
3. Had Bin Laden in his sights but was too busy watching a golf tournament to make the decision to take him out.

I just wish you would apply the same standards to both sides of the aisle.

1. Quite honestly, I wouldn't have cared if George W Bush lied under oath if he was a half way decent president/man/homosapien. People LIE every day. If you haven't come to terms with that, you're more naïve than I am.

2. Because he has the ability to predict the future. The market was good, there was no reason for them to NOT make those loans. While this is a rather severe case, this is still just the ebb and flow of an economic market.

3. I'd rather take NO action than take the WRONG action. Seeing as how the WRONG action (invading the wrong FRIGGIN' COUNTRY) has led to the unnecessary deaths of COUNTLESS men and women both in the United States military and the militaries of those FEW countries who decided the US was worth at least ATTEMPTING to help.

I wish the other side of the aisle would give me something to praise. I wait with bated breath for the day when I can say, "He/She's got that right." about a conservative. I fear I will die before that day comes.
 
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