This video came my way tonight via a friend. Looks like FAUX News with their war-loving intro, and feels like GOP tactics as we know them to be. The Onion Newspaper at their best.
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This is all the evidence one needs to understand why Faux News is shunned and scorned by thinking people. This is vile and despicable. Listen to the clip and be warned that it is sick.
Opening his radio show with funeral music yesterday, Faux News host John Gibson callously mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger, calling him a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.”
Playing an audio clip of the iconic quote, “I wish I knew how to quit you” from Ledger’s gay romance movie Brokeback Mountain, Gibson disdainfully quipped, “Well, he found out how to quit you.” Laughing, Gibson then played another clip from Brokeback Mountain in which Ledger said, “We’re dead,” followed by his own, mocking “We’re dead” before playing the clip again.
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Bill O’Reilly is wrong. Again.
The mantra like chant of O’Reilly in December about how the demise of Christmas was underway because of liberals and progressives made me snort eggnog through my nose. There is no basis for his argument, but there is ample proof he is wrong.
The latest evidence I offer to refute O’Reilly, one of FAUX New’s entertainers, is from radio ratings across the nation concerning the month of December. Having once worked in radio, I still enjoy reading about radio stations and finding out what is working, and what fails to attract listeners.
I discovered that all Christmas music stations were a gigantic ad revenue maker (again!), and highly popular in several markets that I reviewed. In Philadelphia WBEB doubled its December ratings from 8.2 to a wild 15.8. Arbitron also shows that Houston’s KODA (we had a fake radio station in broadcasting school with those call letters) went from 5.2 to 8.9 on a Christmas format. WLTW-FM, in the godless soulless darkness of New York (O’Reilly’s type of lingo) even showed success jumping from 6.1 to 8.2.
There is but one reason jokers like O’Reilly like to stump on the bandwagon that somehow Christmas is disappearing. That is because conservatives need new schlock to work with when the public burns out on the old crap they are constantly served on right-wing radio, and FAUX News.
The facts have never supported O’Reilly about his Christmas rants. But the facts also have never stopped him from making a jackass out of himself.
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Hypocrisy among the GOP is the topic today. I found the MoveOn ad flap in the New York Times to be just a big pile of rubbish. MoveOn was right! The GOP members of Congress went wild eyed in their theatrical response to the ad. The chest thumpers on FAUX News did all but draw blood as they foamed at the mouths.
But I think the following puts it all into perspective.
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Last week I posted why Americans failed to watch President Bush deliver yet another rendition of his stale reasons for staying in Iraq that only leads to the deaths of more Americans. I stated that I had yet to see the actual numbers for the networks audience ratings. Well here they are. And it is not good news for the White House. President Bush tanked.
As I said in my post last week I think it best for Americans to hear their leader explain topics that are national concerns. But there is only so much hooey that the rank and file citizen can put up with, or should be forced to.
As The Hollywood Reporter writes….
Ratings for President Bush’s address to the nation last week about the “surge” in Iraq fell far below his January speech that announced the troop increase.Nielsen Media Research said Friday that Bush’s speech and the Democratic response averaged 28.8 million viewers between 9-9:30 p.m. That compared with the 42.4 million viewers who tuned in for Bush’s Jan. 10 speech. Each included viewership on the Big Four broadcast networks, three cable news channels and Univision and Telemundo.CBS and Fox News Channel led the networks in viewership, with CBS averaging about 6.9 million viewers for the half-hour speech and Fox News Channel averaging 3 million viewers, according to the networks. ABC averaged 5.4 million viewers for the president’s speech and 5.3 million viewers for the Democratic response, given by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. NBC averaged 4.5 million viewers, while Fox — with a separate feed from the sister network FNC — averaged 3.8 million viewers. CBS had a new episode of “Big Brother” before the speech, while NBC and ABC had only repeats.
Among cable networks, FNC’s 3 million total viewers trounced CNN (1.3 million) and MSNBC (983,000). Fox News also had 745,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 demographic, while MSNBC averaged 455,000 and CNN averaged 454,000.
Hmmmm…Bush’s low numbers are another sign that voters are already voting in their hearts and minds in advance of 2008.
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I have a fascination with how news stories are covered in the media. Which ones get airtime or how much print space, are essential pieces of information when analyzing the political impact of any action in Washington. One can tell a lot by the placement of the news stories on the front page of the morning newspaper.
So the news from the Project For Excellence in Journalism about FAUX News spending half as much time as their two competitors on the war in Iraq again confirmed what we all knew about the Bush Administration’s mouthpiece. Look for the “Cable TV Top Stories” on the lower part of the link above and be prepared to have all your views about FAUX News confirmed.
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I am one of those guys who drive others crazy when the TV remote control is in my hand. For instance, I like to see which story leads the 6:00 P.M and 10:00 P.M. local news on each of the three channels in our city. The same holds true for the lead story on each of the big networks during their evening newscasts. It is my way of better understanding what is selling in the news world, and what the folks who have the power consider to be news worthy. So I was more than curious to read the findings of the Project For Excellence in Journalism as they reported on what made it to air on the cable TV news channels, and what did not. While I am dismayed, I am not shocked. Let us be real. How can FAUX NEWS shock anyone anymore?
Would you believe the network that claims they present ‘fair and balanced news’ favored the Anna Nicole Smith story over the Iraq War during the first quarter of this year? FAUX NEWS covered the Iraq War less than half the airtime that MSNBC did during this period. MSNBC used 31% of their airtime to report on the war, while CNN used 25% of their time. The Republican political news channel used only 15% of their time to cover the bloody civil war where roughly 165,000 American soldiers fight, and nearly 3,500 have died.
To put it another way the biggest and bloodiest story in the nation was deemed not as important to FAUX NEWS as the coverage of an over-sexed big-breasted bimbo who thrived on dysfunctional relationships. Of the two, the Smith story received 9.6% of all on-air time, while the all-important Iraq policy debate taking place in Washington was allotted 10.1% of air content time.
To prove that FAUX NEWS is a GOP tool, consider how the story concerning the politicization of the Justice Department was covered. FAUX NEWS gave only 2% of their airtime to this story while CNN provided 8% of airtime coverage. FAUX NEWS is not interested in providing news coverage that resembles in any way the high standards of most newsrooms, or serious journalists around the nation. The creator of FAUX NEWS, Roger Ailes, has a political mission, and that is to provide a wet nurse service to the intellectually bankrupt Republican Party, and their conservative allies. Bush and Company have no better friends than the crowd at FAUX NEWS who will bury any bad news, and create false impressions to mislead the country. William Randolph Hearst would applaud if he were alive to witness what Ailes has created. The rest of us are just embarrassed.
Is it any wonder then that given how FAUX NEWS bastardizes the news that the ones who watch it have a warped sense of reality? Can we now better understand why those who watch FAUX NEWS still cling to notions about the ‘real world’, which are in actuality just not true? Remember how the line was so blurred by FAUX NEWS (and President Bush) that many thought Iraq was responsible for 9/11? Yeah, Hearst would approve!
FAUX NEWS is not real journalism, and those who watch that channel are not the brightest, or best educated in the country. In the end that channel, and their viewers, are like the Anna Nicole Smith story. One big dysfunctional mess. Or put another way that they might better understand, they are just big boobs.
I report. You decide.
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My friend Mary, at ‘Work Of The Poet’, has a link to perhaps the best evidence of the biased ‘journalism’ of FAUX News that I have yet seen. I laughed at the absurdity of the visual images from that channel that passes as ‘fair and balanced’. They say ‘We Report, You Decide’ and we have done just that. We decide that it is indeed FAUX News!
You will read such nuggets as “Iraq Civil War: Made up By The Media?”
And they wonder why respectable politicans do not want to have a debate hosted by these folks?
UPDATED
Nevada Dems Nix Faux News Debate
Nevada Democrats are pulling out of a presidential debate scheduled for Aug. 14, Democratic insiders say. John Edwards said Wednesday he wouldn’t participate, citing Faux News conservative ties. This ‘news’ network is the most biased and unfair channel in America and therefore does not deserve the privilege of carrying this debate. Thank you John for showing the entire country what a backbone in politics is all about!
Tonight the John Edwards campaign released the following.
Fox has already started striking back at John for saying no. (There’s a surprise—Fox attacking a Democrat.) Last night, Roger Ailes—the life-long Republican operative who is now Chairman of Fox News Channel—said that any candidate “who believes he can blacklist any news organization is making a terrible mistake” and “runs a real risk of losing the voters.”And John’s not their only target. Tonight Fox News Vice President David Rhodes is telling news organizations not to get involved in the Nevada Democratic Caucus because of “radical fringe” groups—meaning grassroots Democrats (that would be you)—who objected to Fox’s long history of spreading Republican propaganda at the expense of Democratic leaders.
The whole right wing is getting in on the attack; the Drudge Report is blaring the headline: “War! Dems Pull Out of Fox News Debate.”
Enough is enough. It’s time to send a clear message to Fox News and their allies that their right-wing talking points and temper tantrums won’t go unchallenged anymore—when it comes to what Democrats should do in the Democratic primary, we’ll decide—no matter what they report.
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When Bernie Shaw left CNN several years ago I felt like I had lost a friend. The well-respected reporter, along with his co-anchor Judy Woodruff, made politics and campaigns pop and sizzle with insight and energy on the first all news cable network. Their program “Inside Politics” was truly must see TV. CNN has changed over the years as a result of downsizing and altering their news focus, and as a result the caliber of their political reporting has suffered.
Fortunately for political minded Americans there is another all news cable network that proved it had the reporters and analysts to program solid election coverage during the just completed midterm elections. To top it off they have continued their excellent coverage of events in Washington with solid political reporting, such as on the dust up between Speaker-elect Pelosi and new Majority Leader Hoyer.
I am speaking of course about MSNBC. They deserve a standing ovation for the credible way they reported the stories and covered the results of the midterms. They treated the public with respect as they interviewed candidates while other news networks were providing infotainment programming. While MSNBC was bringing in their top name reporters and anchors to do an hour of programming on the midterms during the daytime, the other all news networks were giving repeated versions of old news. Car chases and Hollywood sex are not serious news!
Chris Matthews is the power engine on MSNBC, and provides in my estimation a seasoned and balanced foundation for the overall coverage. His style may irritate some, but I find his energy and enthusiasm for the story very appealing. I also find him genuine as he approaches his coverage from the perspective of Middle America. While he is disgusted with the Iraq war and wonders how no one in the White House could miss the history lessons of the Middle East, he is also amused how quiet the Democrats are for putting forth any real concrete ideas about the conflict. Waiting for the Baker report does not appeal to him. (I share his view on this.) This reasoned and even-handed approach by Matthews and the other MSNBC reporters and talk show hosts is catching on with the viewing public.
In October MSNBC’s ratings were up 14% from a year earlier, while Faux News was down 17%. CNN was off 8% in that same time period. The national mood was ready for a robust election cycle and we were not short changed. I think with the open field for each party in 2008 the appetite for political news and talk will be enormous. MSNBC has proved it has the reporters and the know how to make elections a commodity that the viewers will be attracted to, and the advertisers lusty for with their ad buys. Unless CNN makes a much-needed correction in news/political strategy MSNBC will be the home for political junkies.
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I was not surprised in the least by the way the Bush White House, and the national Republicans swooped down today on the verbal gaffe of Senator John Kerry. The only remaining issue for the GOP this fall is how to hold onto power. The only reason the GOP runs this fall is to retain the power, perks, and privileges that they have created for themselves. Therefore, the fevered over-reaction by the GOP, and then the shadowing actions by Faux News, right wing talk radio, and conservative bloggers is proof positive that they know their days in power are numbered.
The Republicans are nervous as hell and will do and say anything to retain power. You will recall that this is the same party that had one of their own say, “I’d walk over my own grandmother…….”
All over the nation the electorate is weighing in with money, passion, and energy to assist the Democrats in House and Senate races. It is telling that in many House races where the GOP claims to be doing well their candidates are mired around 45%, and can’t seem to break higher. There is a reason for that, and the GOP knows what it is.
The public is tired of being lied to, and spied on. They are tired of those who never truly served in the military in their youth, now starting wars while in public office, and as a result making the world a much more unsafe place. They are tired of being led to believe there ever was a war on terror being conducted in Iraq, but instead now know it was a political decision by President Bush and Dick Cheney that had nothing to do with our national security.
The public knows what has happened in the past six years to our nation, and who did it to us. The public will vote their hopes and not again be duped by the fear baiting rhetoric that the GOP used in 2002 and 2004. And if the GOP thinks that a verbal gaffe will undo the Democrats I ask them to think about a statement which was proclaimed on national TV.
That statement would be, “Mission Accomplished.”
I ask my fellow citizens, which blunder is worse?
