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the American public had no problem voting for her over others that were better qualified. Don't misunderestimate her.
Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.”
Indeed, a former Fox News employee who recently agreed to talk with Media Matters confirmed what critics have been saying for years about Murdoch’s cable channel. Namely, that Fox News is run as a purely partisan operation, virtually every news story is actively spun by the staff, its primary goal is to prop up Republicans and knock down Democrats, and that staffers at Fox News routinely operate without the slightest regard for fairness or fact checking.
“It is their M.O. to undermine the administration and to undermine Democrats,” says the source. “They’re a propaganda outfit but they call themselves news.”
And that’s the word from inside Fox News.
Note the story here isn’t that Fox News leans right. Everyone knows the channel pushes a conservative-friendly version of the news. Everyone who’s been paying attention has known that since the channel’s inception more than a decade ago. The real story, and the real danger posed by the cable outlet, is that over time Fox News stopped simply leaning to the right and instead became an open and active political player, sort of one-part character assassin and one-part propagandist, depending on which party was in power. And that the operation thrives on fabrications and falsehoods.
Meanwhile, Media Matters revealed that during the 2009-2010 election cycle, dozens of Fox News personalities endorsed, raised money, or campaigned for Republican candidates or organizations in more than 600 instances. And in terms of free TV airtime that Fox News handed over to GOP hopefuls, Media Matters calculated the channel essentially donated $55 million worth of airtime to Republican presidential hopefuls last year who also collect Fox News paychecks.
And of course, that’s when Murdoch wasn’t writing $1 million checks in the hopes of electing more Republican politicians.
I could list all day the instances when Fox personalities attacked the administration.
I suspect you might have a different definition of "attacked" than the rest of us do in this context.
But the assertion that FNC is a propaganda outlet that wants to destroy the Democrats is correct. I mean, that's pretty impossible to deny at this point, isn't it?Not a ton of examples offered in that piece. And his assertion that FNC was a mouthpiece for Bush or never criticized him in any way is simply wrong. I could list all day the instances when Fox personalities attacked the administration.
Not a ton of examples offered in that piece. And his assertion that FNC was a mouthpiece for Bush or never criticized him in any way is simply wrong. I could list all day the instances when Fox personalities attacked the administration.
"Yeah, I don't know that for a fact"--translation, here's our token CYA nod to actual reality, which would be that lots of rabbis from all four American Jewish movements (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist) signed it. But whatever, the important point here is there are true, "Orthodox" Jews--like Beck's and Ailes' AIPAC buddies, for example, never mind that most of them aren't Orthodox--who are mostly[radio show co-host] PAT GRAY: And now remember, this is all fueled by an organization that Soros funds, that has a bunch of progressive rabbis that came out against Glenn and said--
BECK: OK, you have to--hang on just a second. When you talk about rabbis, understand that most--most people who are not Jewish don't understand that there are the Orthodox rabbis, and then there are the Reformed rabbis. Reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just--radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the Reform Judaism, it is more about politics. I'm not saying that they're the same on--
GRAY: No, obviously not.
BECK: --and they're going to take it at that, but--stand in line.
GRAY: "Glenn Beck says--"
BECK: It's not about terror or anything else, it's about politics, and so it becomes more about politics than it does about faith. Orthodox rabbis--that is about faith. There's not a single Orthodox rabbi on this list. This is all Reformed rabbis that were--that made this list.
[executive producer] STU BURGURIERE: Yeah, I don't know that for a fact. I know that certainly this organization is a progressive political organization. And that's fine.
I was already laughing as soon as I read the "sourced to sify.com" part, but discovering that satire site was even better...A Fox News website has picked up a hoax story about an Islamic council in Pakistan protesting the use of padded and colorful bras and presented it as fact. The story was illustrated with a picture of a woman's mid-section and carried the headline "Pakistan: Islamic Clerics Protest Women Wearing Padded Bras as 'Devil’s Cushions.'" (UPDATE 9:30: Fox has now pulled the story. See the original here.) The lead of the Fox Nation story, which sources the piece to the Indian news website sify.com, reads:
The Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan has protested the use of padded and colourful bras by Muslim women, and recommended that Pakistani Muslim researchers should try to invent an innerwear that makes female assets unnoticeable.
...The sify.com story linked by Fox cites a "report" from yet another site called Roznama Jawani...a Pakistani version of The Onion, featuring such stories as "Karachi Preparing a Huge Ass Bat to Beat the Shit Out of Kamran Akmal," "Altaf Hussain Challenges Imran Khan to a Rap Battle to Settle Differences," and "Man From Peshawar Sues Red Bull. Says he has no wings!" The bra story on Roznama Jawani features a crudely photoshopped image of an Islamic council meeting with a large sign that says, "Future of Padded Bras." The story quotes an anti-padded bra protester saying that "Padded bras are evil as they make the breasts look bigger and perky...Only devil women show off private parts."
Salon, March 14
I was already laughing as soon as I read the "sourced to sify.com" part, but discovering that satire site was even better...
Actually, I was hoping people might enjoy a chuckle over a lighthearted story about a news network's gaffe. Hope dies hard, eh.
Fox News map of nuclear power plants in Japan.
You'll notice one on there called "Shibuyaeggman." Problem is, it doesn't exist.
There is however, in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, a nightclub called the Eggman. They've got it in the right spot on the map too.
I'm not even sure how they make the mistakes they make.
He then said that whatever one called God, "there's a message being sent. And that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just saying."