Fox News - Trifecta of Evil

[Naturist Mark]

Fox News' true colors.

1) A leaked internal memo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/11/14/fox-news-internal-memo-_n_34128.html) reveals how Fox deliberately slants the news, and for whom. And let's be on the lookout for any statements from the Iraqi insurgents, who must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem-controlled congress.

2) Conservative news site WorldNetDaily (http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52960) reveals that the two Fox newsmen held hostage by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza were released after a ransom payment of $2 million dollars on behalf of Fox.

Fox and the State Dept. both deny they paid the ransom, but Officials associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party and its security organization, the Preventative Security Services, confirmed to WND money was paid for the release of the Fox News reporters ... A source at Fox told WND many parties were involved with the freedom of Centanni and Wiig, including the U.S. government, and that it was possible money was paid.

That money was then used to pay for weapons and terrorist actions against Israel. "We used 100 percent of the money for one precise goal – our war against the Zionists."

3) Fox News will be airing a two part November sweeps special interview with OJ Simpson titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111401237_pf.html). Without actually admitting to the double homicide, OJ will explain exactly how he did it.

This is a cross promotion with ReganBooks, which is publishing a just in time for Christmas title called "If I Did It", by OJ Simpson. ReganBooks, is a division of HarperCollins, which is owned by News Corp. -- which also owns Fox.

OJ Simpson was paid $3.5 million for the interview and book.
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Isn't there something in the Patriot Act that can be used against Fox?

-Mark

[Naturist Mark]

Fox News' true colors.

1) A leaked internal memo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/11/14/fox-news-internal-memo-_n_34128.html) reveals how Fox deliberately slants the news, and for whom. And let's be on the lookout for any statements from the Iraqi insurgents, who must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem-controlled congress.

2) Conservative news site WorldNetDaily (http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52960) reveals that the two Fox newsmen held hostage by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza were released after a ransom payment of $2 million dollars on behalf of Fox.

Fox and the State Dept. both deny they paid the ransom, but Officials associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party and its security organization, the Preventative Security Services, confirmed to WND money was paid for the release of the Fox News reporters ... A source at Fox told WND many parties were involved with the freedom of Centanni and Wiig, including the U.S. government, and that it was possible money was paid.

That money was then used to pay for weapons and terrorist actions against Israel. "We used 100 percent of the money for one precise goal – our war against the Zionists."

3) Fox News will be airing a two part November sweeps special interview with OJ Simpson titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111401237_pf.html). Without actually admitting to the double homicide, OJ will explain exactly how he did it.

This is a cross promotion with ReganBooks, which is publishing a just in time for Christmas title called "If I Did It", by OJ Simpson. ReganBooks, is a division of HarperCollins, which is owned by News Corp. -- which also owns Fox.

OJ Simpson was paid $3.5 million for the interview and book.
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Isn't there something in the Patriot Act that can be used against Fox?

-Mark

[nacktman]

Originally posted by Naturist Mark
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> Isn't there something in the Patriot Act that can be used against Fox? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well we can't use fertilizer, diesel and a truck - that's already been done - by a FauxNews fans as well, if I'm not mistaken. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/bonk.gif

[usmc1]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by nacktman:
Originally posted by Naturist Mark
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> Isn't there something in the Patriot Act that can be used against Fox? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well we can't use fertilizer, diesel and a truck - that's already been done - by a FauxNews fans as well, if I'm not mistaken. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/bonk.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think maybe elements of the Fourth Estate have joined with the Fifth Column.

Do the math!

[Caipora]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I think maybe elements of the Fourth Estate have joined with the Fifth Column. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Your sixth sense tells you this?

- Caipora

[usmc1]

In a way I guess, that is if you count Second Sight (Taisch).

[Journeyman]

Ah, yes, FOX News. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/smoking.gif

My country is still lamenting the day, almost two years ago (Nov. 18/04) that our CRTC allowed the infamous channel onto our nation's digital airwaves. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/annoyed.gif

Parents from coast to coast to coast were shocked and dismayed that their children would be exposed to EVIL in its most potent form! Guardians of our elderly began emergency measures to ensure Bill O'Reilly's INSANE RAMBLINGS would be stifled. Dogs refused to come out of their doghouses, and cats began to show uncharacteristic left-political feelings.
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Our great nation was stunned: after granting same-sex marriage, opposition to the Iraq "war", and a loosening of marijuana laws, we STILL were being invaded by the dreaded FOX!
http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/sneaky.gif

But hey -- we've got a secret agenda to appoint Michael J. Fox as next Liberal leader (and eventual Prime Minister) to help curb the right-wing invasion of our airwaves...

From CBC.ca, 2004:

The conservative-leaning Fox News Channel will soon be coming to Canadian digital television channels.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved an application Thursday to bring the Fox News Channel, one of the highest-rated news channels in the United States, onto Canadian digital airwaves.

Canadians already have access to the main Fox network, but not the right-leaning, 24-hour news channel, with its trademarked slogan of "fair and balanced."

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) opposed the application, saying it would discourage foreign broadcasters from partnering with Canadian broadcasters.

However, in its decision, the CRTC said Fox News offers little Canadian coverage and is not "partially or totally competitive with any Canadian pay or specialty service." It added that the channel would "significantly boost digital penetration in Canada" and increase the availability of digital services in the country.

[Journeyman]

But on a more serious note, FOX's bending & twisting of the news is grotesque...and to have that Simpson creature be even dignified with an interview is reprehensible.

[CCNude]

And they're the same wonderful people who will be bringing us the upcoming anxiously-awaited O. J. Simpson "If I Did It..." special!

[roadrambler2]

God save us from the Fox!!

[nifocinphx]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Journeyman:
... FOX's bending & twisting of the news is grotesque...and to have that Simpson creature be even dignified with an interview is reprehensible. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Amen to that, Journeyman. I posted the following in another FOX related topic earlier this year and I think it's worth posting in this thread also.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">A friend of mine refers to the network as FOX Spews http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/crap_storm.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Bob S.]

It is not just Fox we should be upset with. Remember, this is an interview that is plugging the release of OJ's book of the same name published by ReganBooks, which is part of HarperCollins. ReganBooks (and HarperCollins) is owned by, guess who--Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox.

Bookstores are apprehensive about selling the book and some of them, including Borders as I heard, are going to donate the profits of the book to charity rather than keep the "blood money".

Sadly, the pre-orders on the book have it listed as #16 on Amazon.com.

The amazing thing is that even some of the major FoxNews personalities, including O'Reilly and Geraldo, are vehemently denouncing the book and interview and are asking for a boycott of any sponsor of the two-part TV interview.

I just hope his children are not going to watch it. Hearing about how their father killed their mother on TV, in his own words, under the guise of a here's-how-I-would-have-killed-her scenario would be too much for them.

Bob S.

[nifocinphx]

Fox parent cancels O.J. Simpson interview, book

By Charlie McCollum
San Jose Mercury News
Posted on Mon, Nov. 20, 2006

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Battered by a storm of protest and criticism, News Corp. -- the parent company of the Fox television `network -- has decided to pull the plug on "If I Did It," a two-part interview with O.J. Simpson that had been scheduled for next week.

In addition, the company said it was canceling publication of a Simpson-authored book with the same title that was to be released Nov. 30 by ReganBooks, a subsidiary of News Corp.

"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman, in a statement released today... </div></BLOCKQUOTE> link to the rest of the story (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16060923.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp)


nifocinphx http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/user.gif

[Naturist Mark]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Fox parent cancels O.J. Simpson interview, book </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

The Trifecta of Evil is hereby amended to Bifecta of Evil.

-Mark

[missouriboy]

Poor O.J. Does this mean he has to return the $3.5 million?

[usmc1]

THIS WOMAN NEEDS TO GET HER RESUME TO FOX RIGHT AWAY--SHE'D FIT IN AND BE WELCOMED WITH OPEN ARMS AND A LOOFAH SPONGING BY BILL O'REILLY

Outrage over Lebanese TV anchor's comments

From Octavia Nasr
CNN
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- A Lebanese television anchor's comments and laughter regarding the assassination of Lebanese anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido have caused a furor and resulted in her firing.

The NBN anchor, who has not been identified, did not realize her microphone was on.

"So, why did it take them so long to kill him?" the anchor asked a colleague on live television Wednesday, the same day as Eido's death. She begins laughing, and the colleague joins in.

Then she says, referring to anti-Syrian parliament member Ahmad Fatfat, "Fatfat should be next. I'm counting them down."

"We don't glee in someone else's misfortune," the colleague replies.

"It's not gloating," the anchor replied, "but we've had enough of them."

NBN is owned by Nabih Berry, a pro-Syrian politician who is speaker of Lebanon's parliament.

In a statement, the station said it had fired the anchor and colleague and apologized for "an unintentional mistake." The statement said, "the comments made do not represent the station in any way."

Leading anti-Syrian Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar wrote a story on the incident without naming the station or anchor. But other media picked up the exchange, which eventually made its way to the Web site YouTube.

Fatfat meanwhile told the Al-Arabiya network he is concerned for his life. He said he had hired an attorney and is prepared to sue the station for comments he interpreted as a direct threat.

Al-Arabiya continued to air the exchange Thursday, followed by interviews with officials representing and defending NBN, saying the firing of the anchor should be enough to quell any outrage her comments caused.

Syria has denied any involvement in Eido's killing.

[G I Joe]

Does anyone truly believe that NBC, CBS, ABC, or any of the other cable news networks are not slanting every story to their agenda? Come on--you can't trust ANY of them! I've stopped watching the news. I find the Weather Channel much more exciting.

[Naturist Mark]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Does anyone truly believe that NBC, CBS, ABC, or any of the other cable news networks are not slanting every story to their agenda? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

That's true. Every major network (including PBS (http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2977)) toes the line of its corporate masters, and seldom seriously challenge the right. Progressive voices are always matched by 2, 3 or more conservative voices, or more usually excluded altogether (http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1969) - substituting a centrist or a less conservative conservative to balance the abundant movement conservatives ever present on the news shows.

Beyond a doubt, the media presents a point of view far to the right of the public. The myth of a "liberal bias" is just that - a myth. (http://www.fair.org/articles/liberal-media.html)

Fox news is not alone by any means, its distinction among the pack of lying weasels is simply its pre-eminent excellence (http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1067) at lying weaselhood.

-Mark

[shomymojo]

lying weasels !!!...Mark...you MUST be talking about congress...LOL

[Naturist Mark]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">lying weasels !!!...Mark...you MUST be talking about congress...LOL </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
No, I was talking about the sycophantic press - especially the broadcast media.

Congress would be spineless backsliders - although I am somewhat proud to see my Republican Senator George Voinovich grow a pair (http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/28/voinovich-lashes-out/) and give the evil Sean Hannity some push back.

-Mark

[hm0504]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Naturist Mark:

Fox news is not alone by any means, its distinction among the pack of lying weasels is simply its pre-eminent excellence (http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1067) at lying weaselhood.

-Mark </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

“Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.” - Homer Simpson

[nudebushwalker]

We don't have Fox news down here in Oz', but the same propaganda is peddled around here through News Ltd newspapers, published in Sydney and Melbourne; plus the right wingers do have some influence over the commercial TV networks here as well..

Bill O'Reilly would probably label everyone on here as a bunch of 'fifth-columnists' anyway - it has often been said that his type of ".. patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."