April 15th, 2010
Are you surprised that Bill O’Reilly lied when he claimed that no one on his propaganda, er, news channel had suggested that Americans could serve jail time for not having health insurance, given the recently passed health care reform act?
Here’s the transcript, via Media Matters:
O’Reilly: “[W]e researched” and “[n]obody” on Fox “ever said you are going to jail if you don’t buy health insurance.” On the April 13 edition of Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly told Sen. Coburn: “[Y]ou don’t know anybody on Fox News — because there hasn’t been anyone — that said people will go to jail if they don’t buy mandatory insurance.” He added: “[W]e researched to find out if anybody had ever said you are going to jail if you don’t buy health insurance. Nobody has ever said it. What it seems to me is you used Fox News as a whipping boy when we didn’t qualify there … you were wrong to do that, Senator, with all due respect.”
Let’s consider the video evidence, clearly proving Bill O’Reilly an out right liar:
April 13th, 2009
On Point with Tom Ashbrook did a segment on conservative hate speech being spewed by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, right-wing talk radio and their counterparts on Fox News. Here’s how the program is teased:
[T]he language lately on air has grown particularly fierce and apocalyptic: President Obama called a dictator and sympathizer with terrorists. His policies called socialist, Marxist, Bolshevik, dangerous. Americans called to rise up in revolt. All this while the economy tanks and gun sales surge.
That last line is the operative and, frankly, scary one: while the economy tanks and gun sales surge. Let’s not forget that conservative right-wing blowhards animated, if not inspired, two recent terrorist incidents: 1. A gunman that opened fire at a church for its liberal views, 2. A second man in Pennsylvania ambushed police officers because, he thought, they and Obama were coming to take his guns away.
I wish Tom Ashbrook, the host of On Point, had been unabashedly critical of the vile rhetoric being spewed by conservatives on Fox News and talk radio; but, like a good “journalist,” Tom maintained his objectivity and largely agreed that liberals were guilty of similar offenses during the Bush years. To which I simply respond: bullshit! When was the last time any liberal went on TV or radio to call for armed revolution against the US government? Tom Ashbrook’s default fallback of journalistic objectivity is simply weak, and irresponsible in this instance.
February 19th, 2009
Mayor Bernero of Lansing Michigan takes on a f(au)x news anchor. Democrats in Washington, take notes; this is how it’s done.
July 9th, 2008
Sure it’s juvenile, but it’s still funny. In retribution for the Photoshop hit job by Fixed News on a couple of NYT journalist, the folks over at Vanity Fair decided to try their hands at a little Photoshoping fun, too. Take a look at some of the results:
July 2nd, 2008
Wow, this is brazen! Without bounds nor respect for decency. And yet they still dare call the crap they produce news!? Self respecting journalists should be outraged, and finally expose Fixed News, er, Fox News for the propaganda sham that it is.
From Media Matters:
During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe “attack dogs,” Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered — the journalists’ teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe’s hair moved further back on his head.
See the Fox & Friends video clip courtesy of Media Matters.
