Originally posted by AmauroteNone of the liberal elite will take a chair with O'Reilly! "Hillary the Hun", Slick-Dick Willy Clinton, Hollyweird elites (George "the clown" Clooney"😉, pro-pedophile judges, politicians, etc...they all hide under their desks when FOX come calling. They would rather do Larry King with soft, pre-screened questions...what do you expect?
Fox News is great viewing - as entertainment it's wonderful stuff, but it would attract much less criticism if it stopped pretending that putting one weak or extreme liberal on a panel with a more articulate Republican or clerico-fascist is honest television, when we all know perfectly well that it's about as balanced as Chesty Morgan. Like there are any journalists on there anyway.
Originally posted by chancremechanicThat's easy to explain .. FOX News gets ALL the conservative viewers whereas the liberal viewers are split among all the rest.
It's funny how FOX news blows away CNN, ABC, CBS, and all the other media in all the polls. Care to explain that? They must be appealing to "some" people...maybe a few tens-of-million viewers? Even thousands of Canucks are tuning in to FOX news, not to mention Euros and Aussies....must be that "fair and balanced " approach.
The O'Reilly Factor is not a news show .. it's an opinion show and O'Reilly himself says that.
Originally posted by chancremechanicI think your answer says more than a million arguments.
I definitely do...read the NY Times, LA Times, and most big-city newspapers for left-wing drivel; watch CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS (left-wing drivel), BBC (pro-multiculturalism/Islamic, and anti-American), Al-Jazeera (pro-Islamofascist), and tell me what YOU think!
Originally posted by jammerIt may not be much of a plan, but even if they had no plan it would be better than to have one that hurts the nation.
Now you mention it .. I think you may be on to something.
You may have just lain out the Demo platform for the coming election.
good luck with it.
Originally posted by VapataSame thing you'd say to the fact that Tim Russert served as counselor in former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's office in Albany from 1983 to 1984 and was chief of staff to Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1977 to 1982,
TO those who consider FOX viewing balanced, what do you say to the fact that its head ran Reagan's and Bush senior's presidential campaigns?
not to mention that:
George Stephanopoulos is ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC's Sunday morning "news" show This Week...
btw, Ailes didn't 'run' Bush 41's or Reagan's campaigns. He was A consultant.
Originally posted by TheBloopTo be honest, I have never watched ABC news, so I can't comment.
Same thing you'd say to the fact that Tim Russert served as counselor in former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's office in Albany from 1983 to 1984 and was chief of staff to Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1977 to 1982,
not to mention that:
George Stephanopoulos is ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC's Sunda ...[text shortened]... .
btw, Ailes didn't 'run' Bush 41's or Reagan's campaigns. He was A consultant.
http://newsbusters.org/node/8743
"With Deep Voice, Katie Couric Mimics Potential GOP Ad: 'John Kerry Insults the Troops' "
a portion of the "interview" from the 10/31/06
Katie Couric: “Mike, how annoyed are Democrats that John Kerry got off-message with this?”
Mike McCurry: “Look, by this time tomorrow night people won't remember what John Kerry said because the story line will move on and they're be talking about Iraq and how badly the war is going and why we need a new direction. So, Iraq in the news is not a bad thing for Democrats.”
Couric to Nicolle Wallace: “Will this really be forgotten by this time tomorrow? Do you think Republican operatives are putting these, this comment into political campaigns all over the country -- [Couric switched to deep voice as her head leaned down] 'John Kerry insults the troops. Do we really want the Dems to take over?'”
Nicolle Wallace: “Yeah, I don't think that's happening and I agree John Kerry will probably be off the airwaves by tomorrow night...”
Katie Couric biased???? Nah, couldn't be...
You can load this URL into your media player, and it will play the video of Katie directly, it's a 29 second video:
http://newsbusters.org/media/2006-10-31-CBSENCouric.wmv
A few quotes from the drive-by media, all trying to tell us "what Kerry meant"...all from 10/31
LESTER HOLT: He left out two words, "getting us" stuck in Iraq.
DIANE SAWYER: He meant to say, I think the words were, "If you don't, you get us stuck in Iraq."
JULIAN EPSTEIN: I think what he intended to say was that if you don't do your homework, you'll make bad decisions.
MORT KONDRACKE: He was saying that the only people who would be over there are people who don't have an education.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX: He meant to say if you don't study you'll end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq.
MATT LAUER: You're going to say, "Yeah, John Kerry meant to make a joke."
JEFF GREENFIELD: He was thinking he was going to make a clever joke about how if you are not smart enough you will get us stuck in Iraq.
JIM VANDEHEI: Kind of making it up and looking at his notes and probably screwed up.
CHIRIS MATTHEWS: Did he mean that Bush didn't have enough book learning.
TUCKER CARLSON: He meant to say Bush is a moron.
JAMES CARVILLE: "...you end up getting us in Iraq," by meaning that the president gave no thought to this war.
MARGIE OMERO: What he was supposed to say is getting us into the situation in Iraq.
ALAN COLMES: He was trying to say something about President Bush, awkwardly and clumsily.
Gee, we never got this many people in the press trying to explain "what Rush meant". I thought Kerry was a big boy, and could make his own speeches.... I didn't think he needed an entire night of media talking heads telling us hayseeds what he really meant...
The New York Times line on the Kerry story was "Bush attacks Kerry."
They actually had a segment on CNN on 10/31 called "What Kerry Meant" -- but a CNN reporterette (Suzanne Malveaux) slips up, and admits that the media hopes this story goes away in a day.
MALVEAUX ('reporting' from Washington): We hope and we think that all of this is going to go away tomorrow, but we'll just have to wait and see.
ZAHN (in CNN Studio): Oh, I don't know whether we can count on that or not
Gee, we never heard from CNN that they "hoped the Foley story would go away in a day". That story is still going on, long after Foley resigned from the House.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, on Nancy Pelosi: Not since DiMaggio has San Francisco offered such a stylish player.
bias? what bias?
Reporting Kerry's gaffe reflects a conservative bias, or a sensationalist one. How does his comment reflect upon the critical issue, except for the fairly obvious note that the war in Iraq is a failure?
Aside from the need to generate personality issues out of certain leading Democrats, Kerry's comments would have gone unnoticed (perhaps even by most of the folks that heard him make the comment).