Rampant politicization of the Justice Department gets total silence from Fox News.
By on Jul 29th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Rampant politicization of the Justice Department gets total silence from Fox News.
Yesterday, the Department of Justice released a report concluding that agency officials “violated both federal law and Department policy” by basing the hiring, firing, and promoting of some Department applicants and officials on politics. Though the report could result in criminal perjury charges against some DOJ officials, Fox News has decided the report is not worth highlighting. The station devoted three sentences to the report yesterday, in the middle of the day; none of the prime-time shows covered the report. Both CNN and MSNBC devoted prime-time coverage to the story.
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Rampant politicization of the Justice Department gets total silence from Fox News.
I guess they didn’t get the memo; or, maybe they did. Let’s ask Scott McClellan about it.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:01 amThey got the talking point to NOT talk about this story apparently.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:02 amAre we surprised? No. It should be called the Republican News Network. If it is negative regarding Obama or any other Democrat, we cover it. If it is McCain or a Republican, we simply abstain from coverage. Fair and balanced, indeed!
July 29th, 2008 at 11:03 amWhy would a news organization that is the poster child for ‘rampant politicization’ want to show another organization that was politicized.
They fear the competition.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:04 amThey are too busy airing tabloid stories and why Obama does not where a flag lapel pin.
Screw Fox noise and all their Dittohead troll audience.
Only ignorant hate-filled GOP warpigs listen to that station.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:09 amTweedster Says:
They got the talking point to NOT talk about this story apparently.
Sheesh…I give up. Only in bushworld could not talking be “talking point”. ;)
July 29th, 2008 at 11:11 amFox is a bunch of racist pieces of shit… They let stupid Hannity cry about Rev Wright then ignore DOJ circus.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:11 amRampant politicization of the Justice Department gets total silence from Fox News
That’s because they aren’t a real news program.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:12 amAt the pleasure of the President, agency officials “violated both federal law and Department policy” by basing the hiring, firing, and promoting of some Department applicants and officials on politics.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:14 amI have noticed that the “Clinton did it, too.” argument has faded as more information has come out.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:20 amFox news could gain a huge measure of credibility if they brought on Pee Wee Herman for a newscaster.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:23 amMaybe if we just stop complaining about Fox News, they’ll . . . well, never mind. No surprises there, but I didn’t expect there would be. I used to respect Juan Williams, but no longer.
But, on the bright side, Ailes’ alma mater, Ohio U. was ranked #1 by the Princeton Review in Hard Liquor Consumption.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:26 amThat’s as odd as a progressive website staying silent on last Friday’s House hearing on Bush’s pushing the Constitutional envelope until it’s in shreds.
I wonder why Fox and TP share the sounds of silence?
July 29th, 2008 at 11:35 amIm sure it just ’slipped their minds’
/sarc
July 29th, 2008 at 11:45 amQuit attacking these people. They have done well and performed their function appropriately. The Soviet Union had their Pravda and the US its FOX News.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:59 amEven the local paper in Phx is running the Monica Goodling story.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:07 pmWHATS THE PROBLEM???
Its FOX…which is NOT a legitimate news source.
FOX even gives tabloid journalism a bad name.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:29 pmDoes anyone actually expect the Official Ministry of Governmental Propaganda to run this story?
This is the network Cheney and others require be playing anywhere they stay.
Speak against the dark lord and his little bushicon?
HA!
July 29th, 2008 at 12:36 pmIt’s not in the talking points list of today.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:19 pmDid a search for “Monica Goodling” on the Fox News website. Latest story was in May.
Unbelievable.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:11 pmWhy is this a surprise? They don’t want to tell “law and order” Republicans that the Dear Leader’s administration is full of criminals! You know, it’s only a scandal if a DEMOCRAT is involved. Republicans get a pass every time.
Faux News…. always lives up to its name.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:35 pmSurprise?
Anyone listen to Scarborough on “Morning Joe” this morning It’s just business as usual. The Democrats have been doing it all along, but the NYTimes never did a study on liberal bias.
Republican Rule of Law means I can lie whenever I feel like it.
July 29th, 2008 at 7:51 pm