Fox News attacks Obama for ditching Fox News.
Fox News attacks Obama for ditching Fox News.
On Fox News Sunday today, host Chris Wallace read an e-mail from a viewer attacking Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for having yet to do an interview on Fox News Sunday. Referencing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the viewer claims Obama’s ditching of FNS means he can’t “confront America’s adversaries”:
Obama will sit down with anyone, including Iran’s Ahmadinejad, who calls for the death of the Great Satan America, but FNS, that’s where he draws the line. Can we seriously believe he can confront America’s adversaries when he won’t even sit down with you?
Watch it:
The viewer’s comments, which Wallace made a conscious decision to read on air, echo Fox News chief Roger Ailes’s hysterical claim that “the candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face Al Qaeda.”
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Life's too short to waste time with idiots.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:04 pmThe sense of bloated self-importance that guys like wallace and the rest of the clowns at fuax gnus is astounding.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:04 pmObama should continue ignoring the right wing screaming hoards.
Al Qaeda is more honest than Fox "news."
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pmIf it's true that a candidate who can't face Fox News can't face our nation's enemies, doesn't that imply that Fox News is one of our nation's enemies?
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pmI knew it, I knew it!
So they're finally admitting that Fox News is one of America's adversaries?
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pmFaux News clowns even use fear when trying to force guests on their station. I'm surprised they didn't show a picture of a mushroom cloud while reading this letter.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pmhahahahahaha........Obama show how FNS is WORSE than Ahmadinejad
PERFECT
get used to it FNS......your "end of days" is soon here.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pmSome of this is so funny that ya gots to figure that the best comedians are writing for FAUX.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:11 pmI hear a lot of whining from FOX news lately. Pretty pathetic.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:12 pmGee, that seems to be equating Fox News and terrorists. So they're saying that Fox News is a terrorist organization???!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 pmas nicole says at http://www.crooksandliars.com/
FNS: Furthering Wingnut Memes One Viewer Letter At A Time
Ah…the beauty of showing viewers letters without comment…you can go ahead and further your memes from behind a firewall of “but the viewer said it, not us!†Still sore that the Democratic presidential contender has the good sense to stay away from the stacked deck of White House propagandists that make up the FOX News channel, Fox News Sunday’s producers call Barack Obama chicken and do the tired “if he can’t face FOX, how can he face Ahmadinejad?â€
Hmmm….I don’t know what’s sadder, that FOX News thinks they’re on par with meeting with a world leader (after all, Obama has already said that he’s willing to sit down to talk to world leaders) or that Obama thinks he’ll get a fairer shake dealing with someone like Ahmadinejad than with a hack like Chris Wallace.
All I know is that either way you look at it, FOX News doesn’t come out looking good at all.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:18 pmThe viewer and Mr. Wallace are right. You folks may hate Fox but it would be a fair interview. And if he can’t deal with an interview for the highest rated news channel then how will he deal with other world leaders that don’t like the US so much.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:18 pmI wonder how Mike Wallace deals with his shame of his son.
Besides, every time Obama debates Hillary he debates FOX.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:18 pmFOX is the highest rated because it is the ONLY source of it's kind.
It is dwarfed by all other media combined.
Like Coulter and Malkin, FOX has to turn to sensationalism and petty drama to be taken seriously. What a bunch of sissies.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pmBy their own logic, that makes Rupert Murdoch into Osama ZBin Laden and Roger Ailes into a very doughy and sweaty Ayman Al Zawahiri.
We know that they deliver daily fatwas to their cult like followers.
-GSD
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pmBack to reality
Mahmoud Abbas has formally suspended all contact with Israel over its continuing five-day offensive on Gaza that has killed more than 100 Palestinians
The European Union, the United Nations and even the Catholic pope joined the Palestinian president on Sunday in demanding an immediate halt to the violence.
WHAT DID BUSH SAY - Nothing
CLINTON - Nothing
OBAMA - Nothing
Start living in the real world America
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:26 pmTHINK PROGRESS - Nothing
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:26 pmva voter -- as usual, you miss the entire point of the matter.
Obama and others do not "fear" going on FoxSnooze. They merely do not want to give the wrong impression to FoxSnooze viewers that it could even remotely be considered a legitimate news outlet.
When you look at the daily line-up of its programming, there is little more than weathermen-turned-newscasters and rabid rant-jockeys. Why would anyone with personal principles and a respect for journalism want to lend their name or reputation to any appearance on "America's Propaganda Station"?
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:27 pmObama for ditching Fox News - WELL DONE OBAMA
Switch the FOX OFF
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:27 pmUntil such time FOX allows it's guest to complete a sentance without being interupted or challenged , there will never be anyone of importance (Importance is code word for anyone who explains the truth) on their programs.
COMMON FOLKS, HOW CAN WE TRUST A NEWS ORGINIZATION WHO HIRES CARL ROVE AS COMMENTATOR ?????
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 pmTHINK PROGRESS - Nothing
Comment by Anjuna Laguna — March 2, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
And they never will.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pmFN, where traitorous bushites go to mainline the kool-aid.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pmactually, what's nice about that is that Fox News handily equates themselves with Al Qaeda. Which, in terms of their support of conservative extremism, is about the one thing they get right.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pmRupert Mordoch... go and Chenney yourself!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pmBack to reality
Comment by Anjuna Laguna — March 2, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
How about the reality of posting the same damn thing on every thread.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pmGot a problem with TP not addressing your pet peve, write them, the link is on the right.
Spamming the same thing on every thread makes you seem more like a troll.
VA Voter,
Yeah, I'm just SURE it would be a "fair interview". I mean, this is a network that questions Obama's patriotism on a daily basis because he doesn't wear American flag pins on his lapel. They try to put Louis Farrakhan's words in Obama's mouth on a daily basis. They throw around accusations that he's a "secret Muslim" who attended a "radical madrassa". They compare him to China's Mao Tse-Tung. Their top rated host Bill O'Reilly talks about "going on a lynching party" for Obama's wife. Yeah, real "fair and balanced".
You people act as if he just decided not to appear on Fox News for no reason. He has a mountain of reasons to never appear on that propaganda outfit.
Not appearing on Fox has nothing to do with speaking with world leaders. A world leader has a responsibility to talk to other world leaders. They do not have a responsiblity to appear on a fake news channel.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pmFOX News has been demonizing the Clintons for over 16 years. It's hard to believe it took this long for FOX News to say something negative about Obama.
sigh.........
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:35 pmWhen you look at the daily line-up of its programming, there is little more than weathermen-turned-newscasters and rabid rant-jockeys. Why would anyone with personal principles and a respect for journalism want to lend their name or reputation to any appearance on “America’s Propaganda Station�
Comment by tom — March 2, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
Like MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, CBS, NBC, And NYT.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pmGot a problem with TP not addressing your pet peve, write them, the link is on the right.
Comment by Wayne
Yes, when the site's named has to do with Progress...
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pmOn topic: Good for Obama.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 pmChimpy had his chance to "face al Qaeda" at Tora Bora. ALL of America was behind him. He called back the troops and went to Iraq instead. Job well done.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 pmsite's name...name...name...damn it!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 pmWhat could a Fox interviewer ask that would be so hard for him to answer? Or is Mr. Obama so used to softball questions that if someone asked about a real issue he wouldn’t have a real answer? John Kerry said he got a fair interview back when he lost to Bush. Do you folks think Mr. Kerry would lie about that?
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 pmThey do not have a responsiblity to appear on a fake news channel.
Comment by BrianFL — March 2, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Fox won the right to LIE to the public on their "news" programs, in court.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:43 pmOf course they are the fake news channel.
At least the reich-wingers have no problem admitting that Faux is as dangerous and evil as Iran.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:47 pmMaybe if Fox News were actually a news station Obama would go on it. Otherwise why bother?
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:49 pmBush and his cronies in the GOP cannot face anti-war protesters and political dissidents. How are they supposed to face Al Qaeda? O wait, they haven't...
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pmWayne - 100 Palestians dead half of which were women and children
The European Union,
the United Nations
even the Catholic pope
joined the Palestinian president on Sunday in demanding an immediate halt to the violence.
What do we hear from BUSH , CLINTON , OBAMA , Think Progress
Absolutely ZILCH
Seeing as it bug you Ill repeat it
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:51 pmOn Faux Noise, the“Viewer Mail†file is right next the “Some Say†file.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:51 pmComment by VA Voter — March 2, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
oh enough with the Liberal Media bias myth. Buckley admitted that it was an excuse for every conservative f**k-up and that it worked. There is no liberal media bias when the media only serves as the mouthpiece for this administration.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:51 pmditching of FNS means he can’t “confront America’s adversariesâ€:
By saying this, they are admitting that they are Obama's adversary. So much for "fair and balanced". I think they just answered their question as to why Obama doesn't want to go on Fox.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:51 pmAt least Ahmadinejad won't ask him when he, Obama Hussein Barack stopped beating his wife. Or was it his wife beating him>?
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pmAnjuna Laguna,
American politicians don't control America. These people do.....
October 3, 2001 -- An acrimonious argument erupted during the Israeli cabinet weekly session last week between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his foreign Minister Shimon Peres during which Sharon reportedly yelled at Peres, saying "don't worry about American pressure, we control America."
According the Israeli Hebrew radio Kol Yisrael Wednesday, Peres warned Sharon that refusing to heed incessant American requests for a cease-fire with the Palestinians would endanger Israeli interests and turn the US against us.
At this point, a furious Sharon reportedly turned toward Peres, saying "every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pmThe viewer and Mr. Wallace are right. You folks may hate Fox but it would be a fair interview. And if he can’t deal with an interview for the highest rated news channel then how will he deal with other world leaders that don’t like the US so much.
Comment by VA Voter
This is without a doubt the lamest troll we have on board. It actually thinks that Faux Noise is "fair". Faux Noise has a 100% record of stacking the deck against Democratic participants, talking over them and asking nothing but "gotcha" questions.
This troll is also totally out of touch. Faux Noise is not the "highest rated news channel". It may be the "news" channel on cable that TV's are tuned to, but that isn't saying much. Many of the TV's that are turned to Faux are in bars and other places where they are pretty much ignored, so that inflates Faux's numbers considerably.
Obama is more than capable of dealing with world leaders. He is not going to waste his time on a right-wing propaganda channel like Faux. The people who watch Faux are never going to vote for him or support him, so there is really no reason why he should go there.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:59 pmWhy would Obama appear on a terrorist network?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:02 pmthere is something completely polluted and irrational about cult of republicanism thinking.
That Obama would sit down with a potential real threat to American to discuss ways to reduce any real or perceived threat is a feather in his cap, is normal and expected and in complete contrast to the immature dolt regime we've had for 8 years that has greatly reduced America's security.
Further, that he trivializes and discounts the republican propaganda outlet Fox by not subjecting himself to their gossipy no-account ravages parading as serious journalism is yet another feather in his cap.
So where is the beef? Looks like a win-win for Obama.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:03 pm.
WHAT DID BUSH SAY - Nothing
CLINTON - Nothing
OBAMA - Nothing
Start living in the real world America
Comment by Anjuna Laguna
Would you please stop spamming every thread with this $hit. You are beginning to sound like a troll. The next time you do it, I'm flagging you for spamming.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:05 pmBoycott Fox News sponsors.
Btw Fox News now advertises on Air America in NYC.
Why do you think that is?
Maybe they can read the handwriting on the wall.
Their audience is disproportionally senior citizens and red state rubes.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 pmHannity and O'Lielly are targeting the same gullible audience fast talking New York City con artists have targeted for generations.
VA Voter, if Faux was so fair, then why would it have a poll asking whom is Osama Bin Laden's vote for president of the United States?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:12 pmbtw, if you counter with the fact that there is a Republican on the poll, I would say to you that this is a well-used talking point of the GOP, that (insert Democrat's name here) is Osama's candidate.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:13 pmYou have to look at these poor feeble folks at Fox for what they really are: insane. Look at the so called experts they dredge up to parrot their agenda, Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Ollie North, Newt Gingich, all of whom are lacking in any kind of integrity or morals. Matter of fact, most should be in prison. They cater to the poor misguided souls who can't think for themselves, and watch the T.V. down at Bubba's feed store. These pro-war, anti-Constitution jerks would not have a job in it wasn't for Fox noise. And they know it. Pure and simple.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:13 pmComment by VA Voter — March 2, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
va is right, fox is not a news channel but a propaganda outlet for the republican party. why should obama appear on it?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 pmGee, that seems to be equating Fox News and terrorists. So they’re saying that Fox News is a terrorist organization???!
Comment by SkepticRising
Waterboard them all!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm"... fast talking New York City con artists have targeted for generations."
Comment by flavorino — March 2, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
Three Card BillO?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:20 pmAs if FOX news is out fighting terrorism.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:26 pmWho the Fox cares what Hannity, Orally think anyway?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:27 pmAre they saying that FOX tabloid talks to terrorists?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:28 pmThe viewer and Mr. Wallace are right. You folks may hate Fox but it would be a fair interview. And if he can’t deal with an interview for the highest rated news channel then how will he deal with other world leaders that don’t like the US so much.
Comment by VA Voter — March 2, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
That's an outright lie ; FAUX Gnus IS NOT the highest rated news channel.It is the highest rated CABLE news channel , but is dwarfed in numbers by the major TV network news broadcasts.
If a moron FAUX watcher like yourself cannot even be honest about the number of viewers FAUX has , why would Obama or anyone believe that they would be "fair and balanced" with regards to anyone ; especially the Dem presidential nominee after 7 years of spoon-feeding the American public nothing but White House propogandist nonsense?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pmLOL, if you go on FOX you will be confronting Americas adversaries!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:31 pmYou have to look at these poor feeble folks at Fox for what they really are: insane. Look at the so called experts they dredge up to parrot their agenda, Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Ollie North, Newt Gingich, all of whom are lacking in any kind of integrity or morals.
Let's see Ollie North was convicted of a felony, but the courts overturned it because they said he was given immunity for his testimony in front of Congress. I think he sold missles to Iran, didn't he?
Karl Rove had to testify 5 times to the jury in the Plame case before he could get his story right. His entry into the political spotlight began with stealing letterheads from the Democrats.
Whenever there is something shady or dirty going on he always seems to be near.
We all know about Newt Gingrich cheating on his first wife and serving her with divorce papers while she was in the hospital with cancer.
I think he resigned from Congress because of some problems with ethics, wasn't it?
Anne Coulter appears to be a drugged up freak of questionable gender who commited voter fraud in Florida by using a false address.
I don't know much about Dick Morris except that he was a "political operative" which means spinmeister.
What an accomplished and illustrious bunch!
btw I can't stand that smug little dweeb Chris Wallace.....he seems like the kid that the football team stuffed in a locker back in high school and now he gets revenge to show the world what a big deal he is......I might be wrong, but that's the impression that smug jerk gives me.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pmI think that Obama should, after he is elected by a landslide, invade and conquer FOX noise, with Shock & Awe, and Blackwater mercenaries. That is the equation. FOX=Al Qaeda.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:37 pmflavorino,
Dick Morris, toe sucker.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pmAny FOX employee age 42 or under should be in Iraq, in uniform, and in the insurgents' sights. Otherwise, they're just hurting the USA.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:42 pmDo you folks think Mr. Kerry would lie about that?
Comment by VA Voter — March 2, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
Don't you?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:43 pmflavorino,
Dick Morris, toe sucker.
Comment by Zooey — March 2, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Ok I guess that makes it a complete set...........they're all freaks.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pmthis is great... thanks, bill!
Uh oh, does Hilary know?
sam seder on in 15 minutes!
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:46 pmhttp://samsedershow.com/
Rupert Mordoch and his bratt son can go and Bush themselves off!
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:46 pmFOX=Al Qaeda.
Comment by Lefty Patriot — March 2, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:47 pmNot quite; FN can do far more damage to the fabric of our society than al Qaeda. They probably already have.
After Senator Clinton wins the nomination, I hope that all the Obama supporters support America's team, the Clintons.
We need two intelligent people in the White House to fix Bush's mess, and those two people are Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Thanks to all the Obama people for supporting Senator Clinton.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:48 pmComment by Lefty Patriot — March 2, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Not quite; FN can do far more damage to the fabric of our society than al Qaeda. They probably already have.
Comment by marlow — March 2, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Both still have a way to go to catch up to Bush/Cheney's damage to the USA.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 pmComment by katy — March 2, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Katy,
It would appear as though any female, like you, who accuses Hillary of being a lesbian, might actually be a lesbian herself.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:52 pmpoo... i forgot... it's sam's book club show...
still very good, but pre-taped...
No Panel:
But interviews with
Juan Cole . Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East
John Abramson .... Overdosed America
Anya Kamanetz author of Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, Nobenefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers--And How to Fight Back
Chalmers Johnson Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project)
AJ Rossmiller of Americablog,and author of Still Broken: A recruit's inside account of Intelligence failures from Baghdad to the Pentagon
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pmObama will sit down with anyone, including Iran’s Ahmadinejad, who calls for the death of the Great Satan America, but FNS, that’s where he draws the line. Can we seriously believe he can confront America’s adversaries when he won’t even sit down with you?
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What the hell is with these FAUX watchers ?
Do they believe FAUX Gnus is in some way 'practice' or 'prepatory work' for a sit-down with tough foreign Heads of State ?
Could they and those who work for FAUX be any more arrogant and foolishly delusional in their view of the worst cable (non) news channel as being some sort of international player ?
You could absorb more information and find higher intelligence in a friggin manhole cover........
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 pmSeeing as it bug you Ill repeat it
Comment by Anjuna Laguna — March 2, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
Doesn't bug me at all, just makes you look like a troll.
Your choice, bud.
Flagging is easier than trying to reason with some people anyway.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:05 pmYup, I'll agree with that. Fox News is an adversary to everything that America stands for: peace, justice, freedom, democracy, apple pie, hot dogs, motherhood, etc., etc.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm"That’s an outright lie"
Va Voter's speciality: outright lies. Like his blabber about the misnamed fair tax.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:14 pm"What the hell is with these FAUX watchers ?"
It's simple: they're morons. Bedwetting morons.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:14 pmBedwetting morons.
Comment by VerbalKint — March 2, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm"bedwetting", I LIKE that.
Any politician who refuses to sit down and let himself be used and abused by Fox network will get my admiration.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm"Ken Drury , Bull Flats, NY"
- no doubt a faux employee too...
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm“Ken Drury , Bull Flats, NYâ€
- no doubt a faux employee too…
Comment by katy — March 2, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
Whose former residence is Bellevue , undoubtedly........
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:21 pmObama has faced them down in his own way and, with all their whining, Fox is now blinking. Obama and the Democrats sould continue to avoid this Republican propaganda outfit.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:23 pmSeeing as it bug you Ill repeat it
Comment by Anjuna Laguna — March 2, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
Exactly. Why look like a simple a**hole when you can pass "simple" and go all the way to "total".
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm“What the hell is with these FAUX watchers ?â€
Journalism for a fastfood electorate.
Big, greasy, helpings of little intellectually-nutritional value, that leaves you feeling gaseous and sleepy.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 pmThey ingore the fact that George W. Bush has spent years deliberately avoiding talking with anyone he considers an adversary or even with whom he disagrees: Arafat, Ahmedinejad, Castro, Congressional Black Caucus...the list goes on and on. Now that's pathological; Obama is simply indicating his disdain.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm.
According to the Neocon Fascists, Iran IS the next adversary faces. That letter writer clearly states that Obama IS willing to sit down and confront them while claiming that NOT sitting down with the Propaganda Network is showing a certain weakness to confronting adversaries.
One can not hold two opposing ideas as their one truth.
.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 pmExactly when and where did Ahmedinejad call for the death of America?
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 pmYou people act as if he just decided not to appear on Fox News for no reason. He has a mountain of reasons to never appear on that propaganda outfit.
Not appearing on Fox has nothing to do with speaking with world leaders. A world leader has a responsibility to talk to other world leaders. They do not have a responsiblity to appear on a fake news channel.
Comment by BrianFL — March 2, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Exactly.
Personally, I can't wait until President Barrack Obama revokes executive Order 13233 and opens Bush Sr. and Reagan's records, blocked by Junior
after 9/11, but specified to be opened by the Presidential Records Act of 1978. They will CLEARLY show the Iran/Contra TREASON by Sr. and Ronnie,
now DEAD and BURNING FOR ETERNITY for his South American GENOCIDE, another DUPE of the TREASONOUS Bush Criminals...
"Who's Sane?
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 pmNOT "Bomb Bomb Iran" McCain!!
Obama will sit down with anyone
Comment by MCMetal — March 2, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Obama's favorite sit down is with sleaze bags like Chicago Slum Lord Tony Rezko. Rezko was turning off the heat, water, and electricity to his tenants while he was giving millions of dollars to Obama.
I could never vote for people like Obama and Rezko. Neither should you.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 pmObama is just fine without Fox Noize. Keep minimailizing, marginalizing and ignoring them and they will be duly relegated to the status of being nothing more than the GOP talking points network which they have always been.
And Barack should have no shame in telling Roger (Fat Bastard) Ailes to go fukk himself.
Just saying . . . .
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pmWhat could a Fox interviewer ask that would be so hard for him to answer?
VaVoter
How about "would you pull my finger?"
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm“Who’s Sane, HUSSEIN?
NOT 'Bomb Bomb Iran' McCain!!"
Roger Ailes is an idiot. Did it ever occur to him that most people know that Fox News Channel is not a real journalistic endeavor at all? Why should anyone treat them like they are one? Maybe people don't want to go on their network because FNC is a bunch of ideologically conservative friggin' a-holes who don't have any business claiming they do news.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pmREPEAT:
George W. Bush has spent years deliberately avoiding talking with anyone he considers an adversary or even with whom he disagrees: Arafat, Ahmedinejad, Castro, Congressional Black Caucus…
the list goes on and on.
- Doctor J
.
and barfly, that was good... but i did get a little queezy...
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm:-}
just one more reason for all of us to kill our television. Doesnt matter what channel it is.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 pmComment by katy
What, no Supersize?
How about a Natalie Holloway antenna ball?
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pmHAHAHA What utter tools!! Talk about DESPERATE!
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 pmI was thinking that there was likely no such person as Ken Drury from Big Flats NY but it appears I am wrong. If the info is correct on line, Ken lives with Robin. Robin identifies himself as male, married to Ken and involved in architecture, engineering or science (see below). If it is science that Robin is doing, hopefully he is staying away from that evolution stuff that Fox hates. I am actually amazed that there might be someone, purportedly adult (aged 41 according to the web) who would write such juvenile stupidity. Ken Drury may well have been the kind of guy who specialized at school in really clever schoolyard taunts like the one he sent to Fox. I wonder if Ken has any original lines. Likely not. Being a follower does not actually require thinking. Ken, good boy, you are doing really well. Got any kids we can get to go over and help in the mission?
Date Posted: December 30, 2007
Reviewed By: Anonymous Customer from Big Flats, NY
"I purchased this item as a Christmas gift for my husband. Although three weeks had passed he only opened it on December 28th to use it. Your e-mail concerning this gift item came before Christmas. Luckily I came across it first before he did. Please consider sending rating e-mails after the holidays for items purchased as gifts. You could have ruined what would have been a nice surprise gift. Sincerely, Robin Drury"
• Frequency of Use: Daily
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm• Generally Used For: Everyday Work
• Occupation: Architecture, Engineering, Science
• Gender: Male
Fox fair? Let's see...
- Barack HUSSAIN Osama grew up in a madrassa.
- Barack HUSSAIN Osama is a muslim.
- Barack HUSSAIN Osama is (gasp) BLACK. (Ok, even a stopped clock is right twice a day)
Fox now is worse than what Fox was in 2004...and it was pretty bad then.
Could Obama handle Fox? Like Neo handling Agent Smith at the end of The Matrix - with one hand tied behind his back. Should he? NO WAY.
You do not justify a propaganda network. You do not give them credibility they should not have. You do not acknowledge them at all.
I only wish it was that easy with all the MSM. While Fox is overt and blatant in its hypocrisy, the others are even more insidious.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:32 pmI'm still wondering why I care what faux news says.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 pmWhy should Obama, or any Democrat for that matter, sit down for an "interview" at Fux News only to be barraged with leading right wing gotcha questions based on false premises with which even the most reasoned responses will be cropped to be used later on out of context as smears?
There's plenty of evidence they've done this in the past, it's their M.O..
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:42 pmThe only people who heard Wallace read this are the desperate losers who watch FoxNews and none of them were ever voting for Obama anyway.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 pmWould you please stop spamming every thread with this $hit.
Comment by bilbobaggins — March 2, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
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Are you the Think Progress web site administrator, Bilbo? If not, then either move to Suadi Arabia with George Bush's friends or allow other people to post on this web site. This is web site is called "Think Progress" not "Think like Bilbo".
Thanks
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 pmFox News can easily be switched off air forever
If Obama being the next president ,democrats and top actors and songwritters all boycott Fox news then slowly it will go Off air forever, and its going to happen
or it could just stay on air but be full of second rate idiots rampling nonsense all day , like Ann craphard
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:05 pmDuring the Cold War, The Soviet Union would repeatedly organize conferences on World Peace or similar topics, and invite all manner of people to attend.
A lot of people, especially those passionately devoted to world peace etc. would show up. What can it hurt, right?
They learned. Their speeches would be ignored, and the conference would inevitably issue a resolution that praised the Soviet Union and blamed the world's ills on the West. And as delegates to the conference their names would be affixed to it.
People learned that showing up at one of these was worse than useless. They did not go.
A progressive or a democrat going on Fox News is no different from going to a Soviet conference or being interviewed by the Novosti Press Agency: these neo-soviet politically policed apparatchiks do neither the truth nor the country any good.
Barack Obama has learned how to deal with America's enemies. It bodes well for the future.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:05 pmComment by Ms_Joanne — March 2, 2008 @ 5:32 pm
I agree, Ms_Joanne. Fox News Channel operates on the falsehood that most people believe both sides in a disagreement have equal validity, and that the truth (or correct course of action) lies somewhere in the middle. This is wrong. it is an established fact that for decades, conservatives have been using lies, distortions, misinformation and ignorance in an effort to persuade people that they are right and we are wrong. FNC was their great chance to put "both sides" of a dispute up there and let viewers "decide" who was right. This would only serve a useful purpose if the conservatives they put on the air (which is most of their guests and hosts) were debating honestly. They don't. When one side is clearly wrong (or lying or misrepresenting the facts) and the other is using facts (no matter how bad it makes their opponents look), then the ultimate truth does not lie "somewhere in the middle". It tends to lie with the one telling the truth. FNC completely ignores this simple principle.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pmMISSOURI - In the battle to win the hearts and minds of potential teenage recruits, the Missouri National Guard has hit upon a winning formula: video games and pizza.
Once a month gamers, pizza lovers and those simply interested in joining the Guard are invited to play Xbox 360 games National Guard-style at several Guard outposts in Jefferson County.
MY GOD whats next babies falling out of their mother womb with a pen in their hand signing draft documents as their born
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:12 pmFox News banned footage of Ron Paul SC debate 1/10/08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-p3uvHQo9o
need i say anymore
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 pmAnyone ever think about Fox's little slogan, "We report, you decide?" What is there to decide? The viewers shouldn't have to "decide" if a story is bullshit or not. Hmmmm... I wonder if that report was a lie or the truth. If you are truly a journalistic enterprise there is nothing to "decide." The truth is the truth. You can even start with "Fair and Balanced." Obviously a lie. It that had any validity to it Fox would have 50% conservative and 50% liberal views. Hardly the case at Fox.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:21 pmFox News attacks Obama for ditching Fox News.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 pmyes,... Obama IS a man of true character.
Obama is just following the age old saying; Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You just get dirty, and the pig likes it.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 pmWhat's more important? Talking to potential real enemies or a propaganda channel that distorts everything the way it wants?
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:54 pmTwo more points:
Reagan spoke with the Russians
Ahmadinejad is not even "the decider" of Iran.
Mr. Obama being interviewed by Fox News would be tantamount to leading Jewish figures being interviewed by the NDSP's Ministry of Propaganda. I applaud his decision not to play Roger Ailes game. Now if he could figure out a way to turn the tables on "Gotcha" Russert.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pmThe fact that Obama won’t play with the Pigs on Fox News will put him over the top. This IS the sure sign of personal integrity which we’ve been looking for and proves that Obama has class.
Comment by satirev
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pmcould not have said it better.
In reference to Hillary's ad... Hillary has already answered the phone and failed miserably giving bush permission to strike and massacre Iraq. I'm sure Obama would answer the phone correctly.
“What the hell is with these FAUX watchers ?â€
It’s simple: they’re morons. Bedwetting morons.
Comment by VerbalKint — March 2, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
you have hit the nail on the head,verbal - occasionally i go on the the fixed noise website and the most disturbing thing i see are the viewers responses to articles on line - you would swear that john bolton and bill kristol were writing these comments - the impression i get is that most fox viewers are convinced that al quaeda=iraq=iran=nu-ku-lar holocaust,bush has kept america safe,the surge is working and that obama is an islamic extremist sympathiser!!! - seriously you should check out the site sometime.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:22 pmand another thing,why haven't fox made a big deal about ahmajinedad's meeting with talabani and al maliki in baghdad?
Faux News is nothing but a propoganda machine for the GOP and the administration. Obama's black-ball of Faux is appropriate and I applaud him for not jumping into their pit of vipers (actuall slime eels).
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:35 pmI just hope that Mike Wallace, father of this scumbag, knows that he raised a Facist POS just like the GHW Botch family raised a whole litter of Facist POS phucks!! George, Jeb, Neil, etc....
I beg you Mike...kill your kid!!!! For the good of America!!!! He's an enemy of the state!!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pmWARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
Off topic, and I'll post this again on Monday, but HERE IT COMES:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23438264/
The Dems are going to roll over and take it up the butt over telecom immunity.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 pmWallace a coward (a prerequisite for Fox) as he hides behind an email from a "viewer."
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:08 pmThis is just another version of “some people say†that is used by Faux news commentators. Hannity, Hume, OReilly, Wallace — they’re all the same — faux journalists on a faux network. The thinking public recognizes their masquerade; the easily swayed, gullible and nonthinkers comprise the faithful Fox viewers.
Nobody cares what Fix News thinks. Listen to them whine. It's just a matter of time before the lepers of so-called news will realize the mainstream isn't going to "sit down with them." I must say that it appears to me that President Obama is a discerning individual who knows how to make good decisions. He will handle the job of President just fine and the Fixers and propagandists of Faux News will...just fade away.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 pmIf they put enough pressure on Fox News maybe they'll actually have to hire some journalists and start reporting the news. Are they just going to pretend the next Presidency isn't happening because a Democrat is in the White House?
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 pmSo, let me get this straight. Fox admits they are adversarial toward Obama with their very apt AQ comparison and he is supposed to sit there for a biased, heavily edited interview with them when they admit they are his enemy? Hmm...ok.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 pmPOX Spews preaches to the choir. Obama MIGHT reach that choir -- if it weren't senile and/or retarded.
Why bother?
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 pmSpeaking of Fox and Obama... Fox News at its Finest, Part 4 is now up. 24 new and current Fox screengrabs and captions, for your amusement (or bemusement.).
Can't imagine why Obama's skeeving them, as three of the screengrabs would seem to suggest...
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 pmGET MOVIN'... GET TO WRITING AND SIGNING!
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Unfortunately, whatever blinders that Blitzer has on that does not allow him to get facts about this FISA propaganda is also apparently affecting the House intelligence committee as well, as Reyes tells Blitzer that they are negotiating a compromise that could include telecom immunity.
Please, no. Jumping Jiminy on a popsicle stick, is there no blatantly illegal acts that this White House wants to commit that the Congress will fight? Maybe they’re wishing for the telecom largese to come back.
Studs Terkel, author and oral historian; Quentin Young, physician and advocate for health-care reform; State Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie; and James Montgomery, former Chicago corporation counsel, are plaintiffs in Terkel, et. al vs. AT&T. They’ve written an op-ed on Why We Sued The Phone Company. Clearly, we will have to deluge Congress with demands that they not cave into the Bush administration. Again. Your first stop is this PfAW petition as well as sending emails/snail mails and faxes to your representatives.
for LINKS: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/02/late-edition-silvestre-reyes-says-the-house-is-about-ready-to-approve-fisa-bill-with-immunity/
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 pmFaux news viewers are the dumbest of the dumb
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 pmAmerica's stupidest, most gullible suckers.
if Fox's audience are interested in seeing what Democrats have to say, let them see them on other networks - it would do them some good to get out of their spider hole once in a while.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm.
Faux news viewers are the dumbest of the dumb
America’s stupidest, most gullible suckers.
Comment by flavorino — March 2, 2008 @ 9:44 pm
Cletus and Brandine would disagree.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm>You folks may hate Fox but it would be a fair interview.
You DO know that Fox has (sucessfully) asserted in court that it has a legal right to lie, don't you? How can an entity that beleives lying to the public is acceptable be termed "news" or "fair"?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:54 pmHe would lose my vote if he went on that propaganda station. It would be like Churchill giving a good review of Goebbels radio work.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:15 pmYou folks may hate Fox but it would be a fair interview.
Yeah, fair-ly stupid, fair-ly biased, fair-ly racist, and fair-ly propagandistic.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 pmYeah, fair-ly stupid, fair-ly biased, fair-ly racist, and fair-ly propagandistic.
Comment by lefty — March 2, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
WELL SAID!
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 amWhat the VaVoter fails to understand is that Obama gets slammed by Fox for saying that he would meet with world leaders (unpopular with the current administration) AND he gets slammed by Fox for refusing to appear on Fox.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 amSounds like a no-win situation to me, and the best way to win a no-win situation is to avoid it in the first place.
After reading through all of these posts - I have only one thing to add - My dad is a conservative republican - mom's a democrat - and dad is going to vote for Obama (as is mom). My parents are going to be 74 yrs old this year - love 'em both, and dad has finally seen reality...:) Of course, I'm an Obama supporter.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:39 amIf our enemy is al Qaeda, then why did we invade and occupy Iraq? Oh yeah, I remember now: it has the world's second (or first) largest OIL reserves. Now that oil has gone from $20 a barrel under B. Clinton to $103 today, the reserves of the west's top five oil corps is worth $2.2 Trillion!
Notice how everyone fighting us today is "al Qaeda" even when they are not? Sixty-one percent of Iraqis agree with attacks on our troops. Are 61% of Iraqis al Qaeda? There wasn't any al Qaeda in Iraq before our illegal invasion and occupation based on 935 lies.
Hey McCain, go on Democracy Now. If you are afraid of Amy Goodman, how you gonna stand up to al Qaeda?
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:47 amIt's nice to see Fox News finally admit that they are worse for America than any of her enemies.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 pm