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BVS said:
Interesting :hmm:

Makes me wonder... would the Tea Party even exist without the conservative talking heads?

It truly would be a different America without them.

One can only dream :love:
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i'd imagine so. of course every country is always going to have far right political groups, but by and large they're seen as a joke, at least here. and you certainly don't have them on the news very often, nor do bills not get voted in because god forbid one of them might disagree with it.

no government's perfect and i certainly don't agree with a lot of things here either, but it is at least nice to only see such politicians on tv once in a blue moon.
 
Well, there's been those stories floating around about Fox News helping to fund and create the Tea Party groups and such, so yeah, without them it'd be much harder for a Tea Party to exist.

Harder, but not necessarily impossible, however. They just perhaps would not have quite the traction they do now.

MrsSpringsteen said:
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Yeeeeeeah, you know that "Epic fail" thread in the Lemonade Stand area? I'd say this pretty well qualifies. Sheesh :doh:.

Angela
 
Tucker Carlson filled in for Sean Hannity Tuesday night on Fox News and made a shocking claim: Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick should be executed.

Carlson led a panel discussion pegged to President Obama's recent phone call with the Eagles owner, in which he applauded the Eagles for giving Vick a second chance following his time in jail over his dogfighting scandal.

But Carlson is not as forgiving as Obama or the Eagles.

"I'm a Christian, I've made mistakes myself, I believe fervently in second chances," Carlson said. "But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs? Kind of beyond the pale."

YouTube - Fox News' Tucker Carlson thinks Michael Vick should be executed
 
I have mixed feelings about Obama "backing" Michael Vick. Yes, okay, second chances are well and good, and he served his time, but I think too many people are treating it like a "forgive and forget" kind of thing. I don't think what he did should be so easily forgotten. That kind of cruelty doesn't just go away after some jail time.

At least the White House (?) came out with a follow-up comment that Obama didn't condone the crime, or something like that. It made me feel a little better about it.

But "executed"? Oh, fuck off, Tucker.
 
BREAKING: Cable TV news personality says dumb thing, sparks message board discussion. Ratings slightly up.
 
MrsSpringsteen said:
Tucker Carlson filled in for Sean Hannity Tuesday night on Fox News and made a shocking claim: Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick should be executed.

Carlson led a panel discussion pegged to President Obama's recent phone call with the Eagles owner, in which he applauded the Eagles for giving Vick a second chance following his time in jail over his dogfighting scandal.

But Carlson is not as forgiving as Obama or the Eagles.

"I'm a Christian, I've made mistakes myself, I believe fervently in second chances," Carlson said. "But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs? Kind of beyond the pale."

YouTube - Fox News' Tucker Carlson thinks Michael Vick should be executed
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Sounds to me like this is less about what a horrible person Michael Vick, and more about what a horrible person Obama is.
 
I have zero respect for Michael Vick. Animal abusers piss me off :mad:.

However...

corianderstem said:
I have mixed feelings about Obama "backing" Michael Vick. Yes, okay, second chances are well and good, and he served his time, but I think too many people are treating it like a "forgive and forget" kind of thing. I don't think what he did should be so easily forgotten. That kind of cruelty doesn't just go away after some jail time.

At least the White House (?) came out with a follow-up comment that Obama didn't condone the crime, or something like that. It made me feel a little better about it.

But "executed"? Oh, fuck off, Tucker.
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Ta-da, you pretty much stated everything I was going to say.

Angela
 
Well NFL=not for long, as long as you can make money for us. At least he did do time.The head of the HSUS supports Vick getting a dog again.

My dog that I loved so much died two years ago. She was attacked once by a rottweiler at her vet's office (she survived that but it was just the year before she died) while I was taking her to the door and it was probably the most horrific experience of my life so far. I just can't imagine anyone intentionally doing what he did to dogs.
 
BVS said:
Interesting :hmm:

Makes me wonder... would the Tea Party even exist without the conservative talking heads?

It truly would be a different America without them.

One can only dream :love:
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Talking heads did not start the Tea Party movement.


Americans thinking about the Constitution and freedom started the movement.


The Tea Party is closer to Libertarian principles than the two major U.S. parties.
 
People with influence and power started the Tea Party. And manipulated a lot of Americans in the process.

Also...

MrsSpringsteen said:
My dog that I loved so much died two years ago. She was attacked once by a rottweiler at her vet's office (she survived that but it was just the year before she died) while I was taking her to the door and it was probably the most horrific experience of my life so far. I just can't imagine anyone intentionally doing what he did to dogs.
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:( :hug: I'm so sorry to hear that.

Angela
 
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It's sponsored, sort of like a bowl game is sponsored. The Koch Industries Tea Party or the Tea Party Presented by Koch Industries. Your choice.
 
From the looks of it, I think Tucker was just looking to do something to bring attention to him seeing as he hasn't really been in the spotlight for quite a few years now (at least since the Crossfire incident with Jon Stewart.)

But I will say this. Fox News is probably the only news network whose bias is clearer than other cable news channels (CNN, MSNBC, etc). Everyday, we see people like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and the Fox and Friends people call Obama every name in the book; racist, communist, socialist, bigot, the list goes on. And here they are saying that it's only the opinion people who do this. Well there are leak memos that talk about how people behind the scene are telling the hard news people to use different terms for a news story to give the impression that the government is under too much control (like the healthcare issue.) I also don't like how they have treated the liberals they have on their shows. Sure they would give them time to speak for like 5 seconds and then they will start interuptting them and try to prove them wrong while making themselves look so idiotic in the process. ANd also, during the Bush adminstration, FOX told everyone that criticizing a President in war time is unacceptable and will make you look like a hater. So why do they do it now under the Obama adminstration? And if i hear Bill O Reilly use the word "pinhead" one more time, my head will explode

Now MSNBC, these guys use to be a fairly conservative network back in the day. This was evident when they pulled hosts who were very critical of the Iraq War during the time it started. Then after Bush's approval ratings went down, MSNBC decided to become a liberal network and now try their very best to defend Obama. I also seem to find everytime I watch MSNBC, they are always criticizing Fox News. Wether it is Ed Shultz, Dylan Ratigan, and ESPECIALLY Keith Olbermann, there will always be some airtime to point out what sort of stupid things FOX did. We get it, FOX is awful, but let's get to other issues now. I remember hearing Rachel Maddow one time say that MSNBC and FOX News aren't the same thing recently. But I have to say that isn't true. I remember Dylan Ratigan have a Tea Party member on and Dylan pretty much told his opinion on the matter for almost the entire time, saying that his presence was a waste of valuable oxygen, cut off his mike, and told him he was being offensive on using his show as a veichle to sprew his propaganda.

But hey it's just my opinion (Something these network's hosts don't say enough times)
 
the iron horse said:
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The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker

The anti-government fervor infusing the 2010 elections represents a political triumph for the Kochs. By giving money to “educate,” fund, and organize Tea Party protesters, they have helped turn their private agenda into a mass movement.​
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Tucker Carlson returned to "Hannity" on Monday and walked back his statement that footballer Michael Vick "should've been executed" for his abuse of dogs.

He had made the statement on last Tuesday's show after it emerged that President Obama had spoken with Vick. Sean Hannity joked that he'd read that Carlson was "destroying the show" during his break and asked him to explain his comments.

"This is what happens when you get too emotional," Carlson said. "I'm a dog lover, I love them and...I know a lot about what Michael Vick did...I overspoke. I'm uncomfortable with the death penalty in any circumstance. Of course I don't think he should be executed, but I do think that what he did is truly appalling."
 
Fox News is the most distrusted name in news, while PBS is the most trusted, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling.

The study was released on Wednesday. It is the second annual TV news trust poll PPP has conducted. The poll finds that PBS is the most trusted news outlet by a wide margin, with 50 percent of respondents saying they trust it, as opposed to 30 who don't.

Fox News is the second-most trusted network, but also the most distrusted one, with 42 percent trusting it and 46 percent not trusting it. That's as compared to the 43 percent who said they didn't trust CNN, CBS or ABC. But Fox News was one of only two networks that saw its distrust levels increase from last year's study. Last year, 37 percent of respondents said they didn't trust Fox--a nine-point difference from the 2011 poll.

Public Policy Polling: Our Second Annual TV News Trust Poll
 
I don't even think it's worth looking at the regard a plurality of Americans have for Fox News. Fox knows very well the demographic it's going after, and it positions itself as the only bastion of hope/news for conservatives who think the rest of the media is out to get them with liberal bias.

As far as whether to trust them or not, it's pretty obvious to someone who gets news from several US and non-US outlets that just about everything on Fox is spun by the editors writing the copy or the onscreen graphics.

I don't think it takes a human interactions or speech researcher to watch Megyn Kelly and loathe the passive-aggressive, almost mocking tone that she uses to spew the teleprompter text out to the viewer.
 
I'm in a communications ethics course right now and I'm still waiting for the day they bring up Fox News. We've talked about CNN and MSNBC already.
 
Well, in the US, especially in academia, it's considered liberal bias to accuse Fox News of anything, so I'll be surprised if we talk about Fox News so much. It's much better to talk about whether Anderson Cooper should have helped people when he was in Haiti reporting on the earthquake than, gee, I don't know, Al Waleed bin Talal.
 
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