Fox Refuses To Carry VoteVets Energy Independence Ad

[The abyss]

Source: huffingtonpost.com

Via Ben Smith, it seems that the internets are a-buzz today because of Fox News Channel's decision to not carry this ad from VoteVets, which "seeks to make the familiar case that climate legislation would have national security benefits by reducing the oil profits of hostile Middle Eastern states."

It is, indeed, a "familiar case." Tying our dependence on foreign oil to "regimes that do not like us very much" was a pretty standard talking point, repeated endlessly by John McCain while he was on the stump in 2008. It's also a pretty familiar refrain from VoteVets, who had previously made this argument in another well-traveled advertisement.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/fox-refuses-to-carry-vote_n_564622.html

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I hadn’t seen this on DU. I’ll post here. If need – please move.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Yeah. FAUX NOISE said it was too confusing....

Interesting comment on the intellectual abilities of those they assume watch their station

[Grassy Knoll]

9. What are you trying to say ?

dunt tred on me bro...

[BrklynLiberal]

14. ROTFLMAO!! Perfect.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Ilsa]

2. Their viewers are too simpleminded to handle compound connections

and causations.

Fux management is a bunch of douchebags. Fine. Let MSNBC make money from the ad revenue.

[Tx4obama]

3. Yep, old news. It's been on DU the past few days.

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x246672 Excerpt: Saudi prince Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, owns a seven percent stake in News Corp. (which owns Fox), so even suggesting that the U.S. should eliminate its dependence on foreign oil would appear to be a conflict of interest for the network."

and

Here's a video that was posted here on DU a few days ago regarding the issue:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x463134
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDb32GVWYP0

[The abyss]

6. Thanks!

Sorry - I had not seen it posted on DU.

[Jefferson23]

They can't air it, they are Fucked Up News...no rational thoughts allowed.

[Mr. Sparkle]

4. I thought the righties believed in free speech,

maybe it is time to scratch that old canard off the list as well.

[and-justice-for-all]

5. Fuck faux noise...

why waste your time and money.

[RedCloud]

7. Off with its head since it "is" a person.

[atreides1]

8. I have a problem with this ad

Mainly because when it talks about "regimes that do not like us very much", then the picture they show is of the president of Iran.

Now the last time I checked, the US wasn't getting any oil from Iran, and hasn't been for quite some time. Maybe I could get behind the ad if they showed pictures of the Saudi royal family, or even Hugo Chavez, how about Stephen Harper, since we get more oil from Canada then we do from Iran, granted the PM of Canada isn't really a tyrant, at least not to those Canadians who like him.

In other words, tell the truth about where we get most of our oil from, and quit using Iran as the poster child for every ill that we suffer.

[w4rma]

11. "We" would like to be getting oil from Iran. (nt)

[w4rma]

10. Don't the Saudi Royals own something like 49% of Fox News?

I know they own a *humongous* percentage, whatever that is.

[fasttense]

12. This is censorship. They don't censor their giggly little girls in mini-skirts

They just censor ideas.

[City Lights]

13. Fair and balanced! We report; you decide!

Fuck off and die, Fux.

[activa8tr]

15. I think TYT or Liberalviewer did a video about this recently.