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2006-04-26, 06:30 PM | #1 |
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More proof the Fox News is the Republican Party Mouthpiece
Well, looks like Tony Snow will give up the weekend TV show and take over as the press secretary for the White House. In reality, I guess that isn't much of a change.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/26/snow/index.html What is it? Fair and Unbiased? Wow. How can Americans swallow another shovel full of this shit? Alex |
2006-04-27, 08:16 AM | #2 |
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He's always worked for the Bush family so this isn't a big deal. I think it's far better for people to have no doubt who Snow supports instead of thinking that he may be unbiased.
This is much better then wrapping his words in a false news show. |
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2006-04-27, 08:46 AM | #4 |
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I doubt that anyone with a little brain would consider Snow unbiased. He used to substitute O'Reilly sometime and his anchoring was even worse than the original
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2006-04-27, 09:03 AM | #5 |
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Based on the concept that the Foxnews channel gets significantly higher rating than CNN (O'Reilly gets almost 3 times more viewers than any CNN program), I fear that the slanted, one sided opinions of this station are taken as fact by a few too many people.
When FNC was added to Canadian sat tv, I watched it for a couple of days. It was right at the start of the Katrina stuff, and I couldn't believe how much they were covering up, sweeping under the rug, and how hard they were working to discredit any democrat involved in the process. My favorite piece of amusement is this: The O'Reilly factor is a real pumper on terms like "fair and unbiased", "the no spin xzone" or whatever - and then the first thing that they have at the start of the show is called "talking points". How can you be a "no spin zone" when you are specifying up front what your spin will be on the stories, and which stories merit discussion and which don't? Mr Snow joining the Whitehouse just moves the link between FNC and the WhiteHouse from "somewhat obvious" to "holy fuck". Alex |
2006-04-27, 09:48 AM | #6 | |
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The Republicans make it easy for Rupert to control the news and in return he slats it thier way. Nothing could be more simple to understand but most Americans really can't be bothered by that. |
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2006-04-27, 12:40 PM | #7 |
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The food network isn't biased (that's about all I watch)
I get the news from Minnesota Public Radio (which is on all day) Gave up listening to monkey man years ago, so whatever this new mouthpiece has to say isn't going to matter much to many people. With ratings of 32 not many people are putting much stock in anything.
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2006-04-27, 01:07 PM | #8 |
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I watch O Reilly almost every night
you have to look out for the little clues I remember one time he was going on about this teacher that was doing some bush bashing in class although the teacher was dead wrong O reilly said in the promo coming up next whatever about the teacher and his ANTI AMERICIAN remarks see the connection..... the teachers remarks were "anti americian" because they were against Bush
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2006-04-27, 01:13 PM | #9 |
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also I wanna add
Fox maintains that their way of thinking must be right and they show their ratings as proof as that but what i have found is most Republicans refuse to watch Cnn or Msnbc but as you can see from this thread Liberals, libertarians, and democrats will watch fox also an important point.. fox is the only right leaning news network so they get 100% of the right wing market but there are a few left leaning news networks and they have to divide the left wing market
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2006-04-28, 12:43 AM | #10 |
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Press corps asks to watch CNN on Air Force One
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/...fox/index.html
"...During a briefing led by White House spokesman Scott McClellan as President Bush was traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana, the Washington Post's Jim VandeHei asked why the White House televisions always seemed to be tuned to Fox News and if it was possible to have them tuned instead to CNN. "It's come to my attention that there's been requests -- this is a serious question -- to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied," VandeHei told McClellan, who is soon to be replaced by former Fox anchor and self-described conservative Tony Snow. "My question would be, is there a White House policy that all government TVs have to be tuned to Fox?" VandeHei asked..." |
2006-04-28, 04:40 PM | #11 | |
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2006-04-29, 12:57 PM | #12 |
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Voting - the biggest American joke going
Think about the fact that more Americans voted for their favorite on the American Idol tv show than voted in the Presidential elections Of course Ive always been of the outlook that the only people that should be allowed to voice their opinion on politics are the people that actually take on their civic duty to vote in all elections from local to national. "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." George W. Bush is proof that Intelligent Design doesnt work |
2006-04-29, 08:05 PM | #13 |
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I think it's because American's don't have much faith in thier politicians, who are so busy scurrying to cater to every popular whim they don't have the capacity to come up with truly creative solutions to existing problems.
Problem is, the American populous has grown so accustomed to getting what it wants it has no need to be bothered by politics. Why fight the good fight when, as Linkster pointed out, we can wash all our worries away by watching American Idol instead? We don't even know what the issues are, we're so busy argueing about what we THINK the issues might be! Broadcast media serves the same purpose. People watch what they want, and arm themselves with comfortable information so they can make all the justifications they need for all the stupid shit they're not bothering to think about. But why should I care? As long as they don't take my porno away from me, I'm gettin what I want.
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2006-04-30, 11:24 PM | #14 | |
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2006-05-01, 02:57 AM | #15 | |
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- Benjamin Franklin I got this posted in my blog already. And I second the literature suggestion.
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2006-05-01, 12:49 PM | #16 | |
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the largest amount of people that vote are white males, age 50 and up and I beleive thats why for over 200 years some old white man is always elected president what would happen if everybody over 18 voted or at least a large percentage of them voted If that happened I think the republician would slowly disappear maybe online voting could bring in a lot more younger people
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2006-05-01, 04:00 PM | #17 |
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Tommy, it is an interesting concept. The democrats especially have been pushing hard on the concept of "rock the vote" and signing up disenfranchised members of various ethnic communities that have been ignored by the white old boy network that is the republican party. During the Clinton era they did pretty well with this, but Gore and Kerry were just way to whitebread it seems to have gotten any attention.
The issue in politics always is that the organizers tend to be older and white, and they are more likely to talk to thier older white friends, and the action all happens at that end of the spectrum. The run of Hillary Clinton in 2008 would certainly shake things up and potentially bring a bunch more voters to the table that have so far had nobody to cheer for. Alex |
2006-05-01, 04:28 PM | #18 | |
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