O’Reilly And Hume Claim Fox News Covered ‘All The Bad News That Came Out Of Iraq’
O’Reilly And Hume Claim Fox News Covered ‘All The Bad News That Came Out Of Iraq’
Yesterday, former Special Report anchor Brit Hume helped lead the Fox News pushback against the White House’s charge that the network is “opinion journalism masquerading as news” and “often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.” “If Fox News really were a GOP mouth piece, the White House would not be attacking it,” said Hume in a Special Report commentary. “It would feel no need to.”
Later that night, Hume joined Bill O’Reilly to continue defending the network’s news coverage. O’Reilly and Hume agreed that Fox “routinely hammered President Bush on Iraq” and was “very faithful about covering all the bad news that came out of Iraq”:
O’REILLY: Now you and I came up in the old school, where we were taught as a reporter you should be skeptical of everybody. I mean, that’s your job as a reporter.
HUME: Right.
O’REILLY: To be skeptical, skeptical of the Democrats, skeptical of the Republicans. It doesn’t really matter. And I have to say that when President Bush was in trouble in Iraq, this network and this program and your program, as well, routinely, routinely hammered President Bush on Iraq.
HUME: Well, we certainly — we were very faithful about covering all the bad news that came out of Iraq.
O’REILLY: Absolutely.
“There was no cheerleading of President Bush on this network when his administration ran into trouble,” claimed O’Reilly. Watch it:
O’Reilly and Hume appear to have a selective memory when it comes to their cheerleading of the Bush administration. When Hume stepped down from the Special Report anchor chair, he marveled that Bush had put America on “an amazing” foreign policy “path.” During his time at Fox, Hume repeatedly spun bad news for Bush and pushed misleading information that bolstered the Bush administration’s faulty case for invading Iraq. Perhaps this is one reason why a 2003 study found that 80 percent of those who primarily relied on Fox News believed falsehoods about why we went into Iraq.
When it came to Iraq war coverage, O’Reilly explained his philosophy on his radio show in June 2007 after the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that Fox covered the war less than CNN and MSNBC. Claiming that Fox’s competitors were reporting on violence “because they want to embarrass the Bush administration,” O’Reilly said, “Do you care if another bomb went off in Tikrit? Does it mean anything? No!” “There’s little news value in broadcasting daily bombings,” O’Reilly added on his Fox show.
Transcript:
O’REILLY: Now you and I came up in the old school, where we were taught as a reporter you should be skeptical of everybody. I mean, that’s your job as a reporter.HUME: Right.
O’REILLY: To be skeptical, skeptical of the Democrats, skeptical of the Republicans. It doesn’t really matter. And I have to say that when President Bush was in trouble in Iraq, this network and this program and your program, as well, routinely, routinely hammered President Bush on Iraq.
HUME: Well, we certainly — we were very faithful about covering all the bad news that came out of Iraq.
O’REILLY: Absolutely.
HUME: .for a very long period of time. The criticisms were made of him were reported and discussed at length on FOX News. Now, he had his defenders. The war had its defenders.
O’REILLY: But there was no cheerleading.
HUME: There were commentators.
O’REILLY: There was no cheerleading of President Bush on this network when his administration ran into trouble. There was no cheerleading, you know. It was skeptical coverage. Iraq’s going south. When the economy started to wobble last September, we were right on that.
Now, what has changed, in your opinion, from when you and I came up in the journalistic ranks and we were told — taught in school and then told by our bosses you be skeptical of those in power. Doesn’t matter where they are, what party they are. That does not in many quarters take place anymore.
HUME: Well.
O’REILLY: We mentioned NBC and CNN. And certainly those networks are dramatically favorable to Barack Obama. What is happening.
HUME: Well, I think that – well, I think what happened in this particular case — look, it has been universally recognized for a long period of time and survey after survey has shown it that most reporters vote Democrat, particularly in presidential elections. The journalists who inhabit Washington, and I think it’s fair to say the key spots in the network headquarters and newspaper headquarters in New York with very few exceptions are Democrats, or at least they vote Democratic. They tend to be liberal in their outlook. That was true for a long time.
The level of discipline, exercised by the conventions of journalism on them have weakened.
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October 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pm100% pure, unadulterated BULLSHIT!!!
October 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pmThere is little news value in anything they broadcast.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:26 pmLiars!
October 13th, 2009 at 5:26 pmI wonder how many pubic hairs Hume & Bildo had to pick out of their teeth after that mutual ball-washing?
October 13th, 2009 at 5:27 pmAnd you know what?
Oliver North and William Poindexter agreed that the Reagan administration was absolutely scrupulous in dealing with Iran and those plucky contras.
Gordon Liddy and Chuck Colson agreed that Watergate was a liberal plot to bring down Nixon.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pmI remember when Hume was a newsman. Sad.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pm“O’Reilly And Hume Claim Fox News Covered Up ‘All The Bad News That Came Out Of Iraq’”
TP, I fixed it for you. You can make the change anytime.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pmO’REILLY: Absolutely.
It makes you gag with disgust that these lying jerks are allowed on the air. I hope they never, EVER get angry with their children (or grandchildren) for lying even about any small thing. Those children should throw it back in their faces– you taught us how to lie, you liars!
October 13th, 2009 at 5:30 pmZooey, I wouldn’t be surprised if neither of them has any pubic hairs to worry about.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:30 pm“people know exactly what to expect when you’re watching prime time Fox. We’re a conservative audience-oriented programming. And I don’t think anybody is going to debate that.”
Notice that this statement does not even mention “news”.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:31 pmO’Reilly And Hume Claim Fox News Covered ‘All The Bad News That Came Out Of Iraq’
– - I love these FOX videos where their on-air “talent” circle-jerk each other.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:31 pmHee, hee, hee. That communications director lady sure got them stirred up over there, huh?
She deserves a raise.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:32 pmralph the wonder llama says:
Zooey, I wouldn’t be surprised if neither of them has any pubic hairs to worry about.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Dammit! I’m in charge of disgusting visuals today!
Sheesh…
October 13th, 2009 at 5:32 pmHume strikes me as a shaver. Since O’Liely hasn’t hit puberty yet, he doesn’t have to worry.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:32 pmThe BUSH administration even had a FOX new host on their staff, i forget his name but he died from cancer after a few years as their frontman to the media ….
Anyone remember him?
My point is, they actually had FOX network personnel on the Bush administration staff!
October 13th, 2009 at 5:33 pmO’REILLY: Now you and I came up in the old school, where we were taught as a reporter you should be skeptical of everybody. I mean, that’s your job as a reporter.
Poor Billo. He must be sharing drugs with Limbaugh. O’Reilly thinks or has deluded himself into thinking he is a reporter/journalist.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:36 pmJuan says:
Hoodathunk says:
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Hume strikes me as a shaver.
A look deep into the mind of a progressive…..
I know, its scary for you trollies who have an intellect that resembles cat pee on a flat rock. You’ll get over it. I already have.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:37 pmJuan says:
Can anyone explain why msdnc or cnn stopped reporting troop casualties after jan 16? Fox did and still does.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
MSNBC & CNN think it’s tasteless to report troop deaths, accompanied by balloons, noise-makers, and confetti.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:37 pmYeah, well, anyone who reads snark and says to himself, “A-HA! I’ve finally got the evidence of progressive foolishness that I’ve been looking for!” certainly deserves any consequence of such a silly pronouncement.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pmO’FER X SAKE.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pmHoodathunk says:
Hume strikes me as a shaver. Since O’Liely hasn’t hit puberty yet, he doesn’t have to worry.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Keep that up, and you’ll be responsible for calluses on the tiny dicks of the troll-kind.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:39 pmI think I understand now why regressives are so dead-set against the idea of Darwinian evolution.
I mean, look at Twajie. He keep adopting new sockpuppet names yet never shows any growth or ability to evolve.
They obviously don’t believe evolution is possible, since they’re incapable of it.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pmDeceit and delusion are all they have.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pmFOX News never lets the truth get in the way of its stories. I watched FOX often during the Bush administration and they reported whatever the White House told them to report. Nothing more and nothing less.
Mr. Hume need only go back to the taped footage of his broadcasts to confirm the obvious.
First we have Rush stating that he did not carry the water of the Bush Administration and now these two liars stating that they reported negative news about the administration.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:41 pmJuan turn off your television. Go outside. Ride your bike. Pretend to be a Latin King. Just do something slightlyproductive…
October 13th, 2009 at 5:42 pm“Fox News contributed to all the bad news that came out of Iraq.”
Fixed
October 13th, 2009 at 5:46 pmThey are not lying.
“Bad News” as defined by faux: Any and all things truthful or untruthful that came out of Iraq that made dems look bad.
Of course that definition also meant that, you know, anything that made ChimpCo look bad was ignored or blamed on someone else.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:46 pmHume strikes me as a shaver.
That’s what a progressive considers “intellect?” LOL!
That’s what a troll considers humor? BRFGATJSHFD
October 13th, 2009 at 5:47 pmThese Cluster-Fox talking head dweebs have a memory of a bowl of stale oatmeal… They tend to make up reality as it suits them based on the topic of the moment.
They have no credibility left with anyone except the drooling, knuckle-dragging buffoons in the conservative base and the base are displeased because the Cluster-Fox folks won’t support a civil war!
And they wonder/whine about being left out of the discussions relating to reality…
October 13th, 2009 at 5:48 pmUm, no… that’s what a progressive considers “snark”. LOL!
What made you think it was meant as “intellect”? I’m not sure of this is a straw man, or simply confusion on your part, since it’s likely that a comment like that around Troll Central would be as intellectual as you guys can get.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:49 pmI think this is the first time that hammer has been used as a euphemism for ’soft touch’….or they must not have used Thor’s hammer.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:49 pmbug says:
Anyone remember him?
I think you are referring to Tony Snow. HE Hosted Fox News Sunday, before he Became Bush’s Press Secretary. Unfortunately, he lost his battle with Cancer.
To see how far the Conservative Media has deteriorated…compare Tony Snow with Chris Wallace…or better yet, with Glenn Beck.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:49 pmOctober 13th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Juan says:
MSNBC & CNN think it’s tasteless to report troop deaths after jan 16.
fixed.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Prove it, dingleberry.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:53 pmThe shame of this is the average Fox listener won’t know (or probably care) what the truth is here. Whatever line they’re fed at the moment is the only truth they need.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:53 pmOops. I guess Hume forget about the Internets and the You Tubes…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j75fINcaEeI
October 13th, 2009 at 5:54 pmI can recall BillO. and Hume complainging that they were the only network covering the good news out of Iraq, like flyfishing and kids drag racing in the streets….
October 13th, 2009 at 5:56 pmI’ll bet O’Biley still has his skirt and pompoms.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:56 pmCrazy Cat Lady says:
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I remember when Hume was a newsman. Sad.
I don’t remember that time.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:57 pmJuan, where do you score your extacy?
October 13th, 2009 at 5:58 pmToday is the 5 year anniversary of the O’Reilly settlement with Andrea Mackris. Happy anniversary Bildo
October 13th, 2009 at 5:58 pmJuan says:
Hey, did you find that page # yet? Thanks.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:02 pmRalph, They obviously don’t believe evolution is possible, since they’re incapable of it.
When you are at the top of the slime mold chain, what could be better?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:03 pmAs Adam from Mythbusters once quipped :
“I reject your reality, and substitute my own.”
October 13th, 2009 at 6:05 pmDingleberry= mixing pubic hairs with crap.
So thats where trolls come from!
October 13th, 2009 at 6:05 pmremind us of how sweet the right was when a real American, Ted Kennedy died.
No one misses snow and he made no huge difference in any Americans life. He just played a stooge and was good at it.
Ted Kennedy was a real man, something snow never figured out how to be.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:05 pmJuan is a LIAR. I was at liberal blogs when Snow died. There was some tasteless comments but the vast majority were conciliatory and spoke of their sadness and support for his family. Juan is also far too stupid to even RECOGNIZE intellect so anything he has to say about it is worthless. Juan the liar is a punk and a troll and only says whatever he has to say to annoy us or screw with us. He doesnt care if he is lying. Reality and truth mean nothing to him. He lives to lie. He gets pure joy from lying. He is a sad pathetic puppet of a troll
October 13th, 2009 at 6:06 pmSure anyone can rebuff criticism of their own employers, but not objectively. It’s nearly impossible to be objective towards the person that signs your pay check.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:06 pmMurphis. You are a liar and a punk. Just go kill yourself
October 13th, 2009 at 6:07 pmFox News knows exactly what they are doing when they serve up their garbage. There is a distinct group of people that believe what Fox tells them. They are incapable of being persuaded that their views are wrong and they watch Fox for affirmation of their beliefs, not for intellectual discussion. The only way to keep Fox in line is to show their lies and misrepresentations. An informed public is the best defense for abuses of the First Amendment.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:08 pmepic fail. Using the nazi word. You have made yourself out to be a fool all by yourself.
As far as our concern. We don’t like liars. That includes you.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:09 pmIt’s usually easier for us to lie with the passage of circumstances and time. How many Americans actually go back and do simple research? America is a nation of moms on the go, and we’re exploiting that.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:09 pmR
Sure you would say its undeniable. Its actually more like LUDICROUS but then you are a brainwashed moron who regurgitates what you were programmed to believe. Yeah that liberal press that LED the run up to the Iraq war that almost NO liberals wanted. That refused to hold Bush accountable for his almost constant lies. THAT liberal media. The one that exists ONLY in what passes for minds of brainwashed sheeple like YOU
October 13th, 2009 at 6:10 pmJuan is wan.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:11 pmPoint of Sale (POS), yes fox knows exactly where to sell off the progaganda, Juannie.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:11 pmThe network news ratings DWARF Fox ratings. Murphis is a moron
October 13th, 2009 at 6:12 pmHoodathunk says:
Dingleberry= mixing pubic hairs with crap.
So thats where trolls come from!
October 13th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Ohhhhhh, I didn’t know you were a troll-kind specialist.
**batting eyelashes**
October 13th, 2009 at 6:12 pmEugene, could we tone down the rhetoric? They are just trolls.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:12 pmWWWWAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNN is a liar. And a MORON. He is too stupid to know what thinking IS much less what liberals think or want.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:12 pmJuan says:
PAGE # please!
October 13th, 2009 at 6:13 pmDo you miss him? Why? Did you have a man crush on him?
Name one contribution to society that snow contributed. Just one.
Name one success story for the conservatives in their entire history, just one.
See, you are the ones that coined and used terms like “your side of the tracks” or “your either with us or the terrorists”
That was the right wing loonies. Not the left.
Now you have to sleep in the bed that you made. Funny, did you really think you would be in power for ever, really?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:13 pmSoooo sorry Juan, I forgot to include the definition, in this case when used as an adjective;
Wan; lacking in forcefulness, competence, or effectiveness:
October 13th, 2009 at 6:14 pmNO
October 13th, 2009 at 6:14 pm#61 i meant vote down. What exactly do you mean by “better ratings” do you mean higher? Because their best day they get 2.5 million viewers, less than 1% of the population. Katie Couric on CBS was getting 6 million per night and she was almost fired for it. Fox is just like the republican party: tiny, stupid and extremely loud.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:14 pmJuan says:
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Fox covered the war less than CNN and MSNBC.
Can anyone explain why msdnc or cnn stopped reporting troop casualties after jan 16? Fox did and still does.
WTF?
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/oef.casualties/
October 13th, 2009 at 6:14 pmWow, it’s hilarious to see the Fox “News” guys backpedalling so hard.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:14 pmMurphis:
October 13th, 2009 at 6:15 pmWe talk should…
bluesunflower
Good job. Juan lied. What a shock
October 13th, 2009 at 6:16 pmOr LAURA BUSH?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:16 pmLook dipshit, what you say is patently false. If it were true, we would be rounding up people like you right now.
Besides, what scares you is that if we wanted to we could do exactly that and there is nothing you could do to stop it. Be afraid little fool. Be very afraid.
That’s what it costs to be wrong all the time. You wind up being afraid of what the opposition will do win they inevitably regain power.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:16 pmFred, trolls are manly. They defend their heroes. They get all defensive whenever their ‘guys’ are attacked.
They live in a closet.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:16 pmJuan says:
Where can I find the ‘quote’ you found of Obama’s?
I have the hardback copy of ‘Dreams of My Father’
October 13th, 2009 at 6:17 pmPage # please.
dbadass, if you talk to Murphis, use really short sentences.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:18 pmMurphis says:
he right
Why hasn’t Juan called this “A look deep into the mind of a Republican”, yet?
Is he too busy sobbing and soiling himself as he furiously clicks vote down on every post he sees? Or maybe he’s just a hypocrite.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:19 pmsnows war mongering on air contributed to the death of over a million people. Your an idiot. Sorry hooda, get over it.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:19 pmI see your hypocricy just couldn’t stay contained. After bashing us for the way snow was theoretically treated you jump right in and do exactly that to Ted.
Trolls like you are not good enough to play this game. You can’t keep your lies straight.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:22 pmI feel like a human being today for some reason. It’s like this troller’s block where I can’t stay on character.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:24 pmYou lefties are … are … logical!
(Damnit!)
October 13th, 2009 at 6:26 pmYou lefties eat .. healthy stuff!
(F uck!)
October 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pmJuan
Why wont you cough up that pagenumber you LIAR?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:28 pmO’REILLY: Now you and I came up in the old school, where we were taught as a reporter . . .
Old school? As in Entertainment Tonight!?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:29 pmWhat the GOP REALLY means … says:
You lefties eat .. healthy stuff!
(F uck!)
October 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I think we’re getting to you… ;)
October 13th, 2009 at 6:30 pmOf course they covered all the bad news that came out of Iraq. They believe to this day that there was no bad news coming out of Iraq.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:31 pmQuick, TP, scrap my last three posts before Chairman Steele gives me the boot!
October 13th, 2009 at 6:35 pmHeads buried in the sand, a$$es waving in the air.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:36 pm“If Fox News really were a GOP mouth piece, the White House would not be attacking it,” said Hume in a Special Report commentary. “It would feel no need to.”
… um… ehhh… wha?
really… how do they DO that…? … just spit out stuff…
October 13th, 2009 at 6:36 pmjb says:
Heads buried in the sand, a$$es waving in the air.
Balls stuffed somewhere in between.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:38 pmJuan says:
POS much?
Says the POS! LOL! You got nothing bovine. Next?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:39 pm<BILLIE AND BRITTIE PROVE REVEREND WIGHT WAS WRONG, GOD DIDN,T DAMN AMERICA.THE GOP DAMNED AMERICA
October 13th, 2009 at 6:40 pmConservatives for Patients’ Rights, the operation that’s running a national campaign against a public health care option, is now publicly taking credit for helping gin up the sometimes-rowdy outbursts targeting House Dems at town hall meetings around the country, raising questions about their spontaneity.
Ah, poor Jeffy Bovine and rest of the brown shirts need someone to think for them! LOL! ;)
October 13th, 2009 at 6:42 pmWhat a bunch of world-class fcuking PINHEADS.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:42 pmSomebody has them by the balls. I’m not sure if its Billy Graham or Murdock. Why else would grown men act and speak in such obvious disconnect from reality?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:43 pmNot only was Fox covering up the crimes of the Bush Regime by reporting way less than the other news channels, but they were also focusing MOSTLY on porno:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHEXzlNHC8Q
Fox figured….hey, porn is much more interesting than war and it’s the only way for us to keep our neck drooling knuckle dragger viewers focused straight at the tv!
See?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:45 pmRevising the past again…so typical of right wingers.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:45 pm*waving to my favorite Uncle*!
October 13th, 2009 at 6:50 pmGAWD– DAY-UMMM! I shore wouldnt’-a wanted to be standin’ anywher near them two stooges when the LIGHTNIN’BOLT came down through the roof!
October 13th, 2009 at 6:55 pmkay – porn – wasn’t that the first call to duty for ashcroft?
hmmmmmm….
…
D.A.EMERT – you don’t have to YELL so much…
but i did give you a thumbs up…
October 13th, 2009 at 6:56 pmYes Katy, I believe it was. Ashcroft got a boner every time he saw a female statue with her breast(s) exposed and decided to cover them up! LOL
October 13th, 2009 at 7:10 pmJuan,
October 13th, 2009 at 7:26 pmYou’re wasting your time with these elitist pin-head progressives. They have no come-backs except defamatory and vile sick comments. They don’t have a clue or recognize that the majority of voting Americans are Center-Right.
Kenneth says:
And yet Conservatives lost big in the last two elections… strange.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:28 pmYou’re wasting your time with these elitist pin-head progressives. They have no come-backs except defamatory and vile sick comments.
Wow. Self PWN.
Awesome.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:30 pmJust watched the Ad on fox news for the national review magazine. Their slogan is “Lots of pictures, not too much reading, and hate you understand!”
October 13th, 2009 at 7:41 pmKenneth
Thats because they arent. Witness the last two elections. You are a liar. You are a punk and you are a brainwashed moron. Juan isnt making points. Juan is telling lies and poking at us. Like YOU. Both of you are astonishingly stupid. YOU are a hypocrite. Insulting us while snivelling like the PUNK you are about our insults. Just STFU until you grow a brain, which most likely will NEVER HAPPEN
October 13th, 2009 at 7:44 pmWell Kenny is a self loathing punk. He only drops by to remind us how mind bogglingly stupid he is.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:45 pmKenneth says:
Juan,
You’re wasting your time with these elitist pin-head progressives.
We’re “elitist” and “unemployed” as you and juan like to claim? LOL!
Kenneth says:
They have no come-backs except defamatory and vile sick comments.
“comebacks”, “defamatory” “vile sick comments”? LOL! How are you? 12?
Kenneth says:
They don’t have a clue or recognize that the majority of voting Americans are Center-Right.
And you came to that conclusion despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary – how? LOL!
What lunatic told you that “talking point”?
Americans are “center-right” while 2/3rds of them want “socialist health care”? LOL! You lunatics really crack me up! With your “put downs” and 12 your old antics. You really should get a job and “get some” and maybe you won’t be such whiny little “boys”! LOL! ;)
October 13th, 2009 at 7:49 pmBill Oreilly told his viewing audience “if you can’t say anything good about America/Bush” when we started the Iraq war, “then just SHUT-UP…we’re at war it’s Un-American!”
October 13th, 2009 at 7:52 pmMy, My, how the worm has turned…..
o/t, sorry, but does anyone else get an error message when using the voting buttons claiming you’d already voted on that comment? Even when you’re just working your way through the thread for the first time and clearly did not vote on the item?
It may be my browser or TP’s software (I’m leaning toward the latter).
October 13th, 2009 at 8:21 pm123
It is larger than TP. It happens at other sites too.
My guess is it is a problem between java and flash.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:40 pmBut f-em.
That’s as much I’ll say.
FoxNews is utter bollocks, as are the stupidheads who are glued to it.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:51 pmHey Brit, hey Bill. Stop trying so hard to convince us that you’re newsmen. Besides, that’s not what Ailes is paying you all of that money to do.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:59 pmremember those shipping pallets stacked with cash that disappeared off an Iraq airfield? man wasn’t fox all over that? (snark)
the only thing these idiots should be proud of is their awesome ability to suck each others’ ____s. they seem to practice a lot on air.
October 13th, 2009 at 9:21 pmThere has been much written on the myth of the liberal media. When folks claim, as they often do to support the idea that the media is “liberal,” they say that most journalists vote democrat. While this is likely true, it has little if anything to do with the bias in the news. Journalists, those writing the stories or reading the teleprompter have no say in what stories are aired, the programers, managers, and analyists do – and of course they are all loyal to their advertisers. It’s terrible logic and I’m so tired of hearing it.
If you think of the most conservative, racist, sexist journalists out there – these guys, Pat Robertson…Rush…all those guys who have constant access to the media – if they are the far right, who is their counterparts on the far left? NBC? NPR? Give me a breaK! There is no far left in the mainstream media. Zero. The media is conservative. Period.
October 13th, 2009 at 9:32 pmI would like to speculate that Hume and O’Reilly are Murdochs front men trying to shore up the image of FOX. The cozy relationship between FOX News and the Bush administration is turning out to be a big liability for Murdoch.
Is FOX News a credible news source?
The Obama administration refused FOX a place at the table. The simple gesture begs the very question of FOX’s credibility. With the back drop of the last 8 years, Murdoch’s chickens have come to roost. The big result is a serious loss in advertising dollars.
Who wants a product association with Murdoch’s organization?
The President has determined FOX News is not a legitimate news organization, and will not extended that recognition to FOX News. FOX News has been put in its rightful place, a branch of the RNC.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck then……?
And note, no political capital has been spent (good politics on the cheap).
October 13th, 2009 at 10:33 pmIs Fox News a credible news source?
How many times did they change the R to D after the name of GOP politicians involved in scandals.
They did it to several. I definitely remeber them doing it with Tom Foley.
These bastards are total and complete liars.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:01 pmMore and more Faux news is being viewed as Fox,”News”. They will always have some appeal to the tin foil hat crowd but their continuous disregard for the truth and blatant reshuffling of lead stories to suit their partisan purposes is already eroding their thin veneer of journalistic credibility. In circles that used to call for,”the mainstream media to be more fair and balanced” there seems to be more reluctance to quote them as a,”source.” Fox’s use of far right institutions as sources of news seem recently to have piqued the public’s interest in who are behind these institutions.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:50 pm.
So FOXPRAVDA covered…
Lies about Al-CIA-Duh ties?
Lies about WMDS?
Lies about Plame/Wilson?
Lies about SPYING?
Lies about TORTURE?
Lies about DETENTION?
Lies about RENDITIONS?
Lies about DENIAL OF DUE PROCESS?
Lies about JESSICA LYNCH?
Lies about PAT TILLMAN?
Lies about IMMINENT THREATS?
Lies about CONTRACTORS/PRIVATE MILITIA?
… They did?
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October 14th, 2009 at 1:21 am1-5-07 Radio Factor(from my notes)
O’Reilly gave another 6-month deadline for Pres. Bush and Iraq. Oddly, he played a clip of himself 18-months earlier where he(O’Reilly) was calling for a deadline of 1 year! He somehow thought this was “proof” that he could be critical of the Iraq policy!
(Just more proof that he is a Bush water carrier)
2-14-07 Radio Factor
Accused NBC’s David Gregory of being a “Lefty” for asking a tough question during Pres. Bush press conference. Bill said that Gregory believes that Bush can’t be believed because they were wrong about WMD’s. Bill said this was “the world Pelosi and the left live in.”
Some time ago, during an appearance on “Good Morning America,” O’Reilly said this about WMD’s and the Bush Administration, “Look, if we get in there and they don’t have anything, I will apologize and I will not trust this Administration again!”
David Gregory was doing what you(Bill) promised that you would do, showing skepticism toward an Administration that was proven to be dishonest and misinforming the public(the folks). Now your still defending them like a good little water carrier.
2-20-07 Radio Factor
“Scooter Libby”–called the case “a total political boon-doggle.” O’Reilly said he doesn’t know anyboky that cares about this case. (doesn’t know anyone concerned about treason?) He called it a “total waste of time and money.” (treason?) More defending the Bush Admin.
2-26-07 Radio Factor
Claimed that the “far-right doesn’t exist!” “They’ve got no power!” Said that is why he goes “after the Left and not the right!” (pathetic excuse) (Well, at least he is on the record now about going after the Left and ignoring the Right.)(He’ll deny it at some point, but it is now his word against his word!)
3-8-07 Radio Factor
O’Reilly attacked NBC war correspondent Ricard Engle(sp?) for actually reporting EXACTLY what he saw when he went out on the streets of Bagdad(burning cars, etc…)Bill said that Engle was a self-described “pacifist.” O’Reilly said that he wouldn’t care if Engle was a “paid analyst” and not a “straight reporter.”(Huh? You’re not making sense Bill.)
3-14-07 Radio Factor
Wow, Bill finally mentioned the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales scandal that has been in the news for a while. He simply stated that it wasn’t a big deal and the “left” was using it to “bludgeon the Bush Administration.” (Defending the Bush Administration as usual)
3-19-07 Radio Factor
4 year anniversary of Iraq invasion. Defended VP Cheney and Halliburton on there war profiteering and questionable contrqacting work by saying there “was no evidence.” (Really? Did you do a Factor Investigation or are you just taking George and Dick’s word for it?) (More boot licking of this Bush Administration)
3-21-07 Radio Factor
Defended Bush Administration over the firing of US Attorneys. Called it a “witchhunt” and waste of time and taxpayer money. (Is there anything this Admin. could say or do that would turn O’Reilly into a skeptical reporter?)
3-22-07 Radio Factor
Opens the show by saying “Look, I don’t want to have to defend the Bush Administration!” (Now that funny!) Then goes ahead and defends them. Bill called this a “trumped up, get Bush scandal.”
3-26-07 Radio Factor
Said Sean Penn “hated Bush and America.” O’Reilly pretends that he is protecting us(the folks)-including those “bombthrowers on the Left” who are “hurting America!” Bill said Pres. Bush wasn’t dishonest or a Liar.” (despiste evidence to the contrary!) (more boot licking as usual)
This is just scratching the surface, I’ve got more evidence of his right-wing partisanship than would be required in a court of law!
October 14th, 2009 at 9:22 amO’Reilly and Hume are just complete and utter LIARS!
Oh yeah, they covered it. In bullshit.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:45 amYeah they really know what they are doing. They are like a jet without power going straight into the dirt.
October 14th, 2009 at 10:46 amBy the way: since all the attention is on afgan……does anyone remember ussr went bankrupt and fell apart trying to fight a war there against u.s.bombers and missles??
For a pipeline folks and for opium.
Get real news from someone and surely not the media!!
These two Joeseph Gloebell want-to-be’s will end up in the same place as that fasscist war-mongering A-hole Tony Snow.
IN HELL!
October 14th, 2009 at 11:10 amIt’s okay if O’Reilly and Hume sit there and tell bald face lies. They know that people who watch them are flat out stupid and will never search for the truth. People who tune to Fox believe that “Whatever” they hear on that station is true.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:25 pmThank you for your sharing.!
October 17th, 2009 at 10:53 amBrit Hume Scolds the White House, Defends Fox. vajina daraltma
October 19th, 2009 at 7:22 am