Fox News Falsely Claims Media Have Ignored Sen. Reid’s Land Deal »

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I do know J. Soloman has had lots of press coverage.

http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Radical+Right

Fox News Falsely Claims Media Have Ignored Sen. Reid’s Land Deal »

Fox News is arguing that the media are “ignoring questions about Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) land deal.”

On Tuesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity told right-wing pundit Bob Novak that “you don’t see as much in the newspapers about this , Bob Novak, and I wonder if it would be the same if it was a Republican.” Bob Novak agreed, calling it “one of those strange things.” Watch it:

But in reality, the media have extensively covered the Reid land deal, while ignoring the $207 million earmark House Speaker Dennis Hastert inserted into the 2005 highway bill that greatly increased the value of his property in Illinois:

– CNN has devoted 50 times as much coverage to Reid’s case as to Hastert’s.

– According to a Lexis-Nexis database search, Fox News has mentioned the Reid land deal nine times, but has brought up the Hastert deal just three.

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1. Nice.

I was wondering when someone would take this one meta effectively.

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2. The Reid story was on the front pages...

...of each of the two newspapers I read. Not so the Hastert deal which involved the construction of a major highway intersection near the property.

[MrModerate]

3. To anyone but Hannity and the hydrophobes at Fux News . . .

Reid's deal is a non-issue.

Ya know -- Hannity et al are just *dying* for a Dem congress and a Dem president (especially Hilary), because otherwise, they'll have nothing to say at all, and might have to get honest work.

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4. Reed didn't break the law.

If I understand this correctly, it goes like this. Reed did not break the law. He made a profitable land deal.

What he did do wrong was fail to report this deal on his annual public ethics report.

I suppose the Republicans need some sort of straw to grasp, but really, which is the bigger news story, Hastert & Folley or Harry Reed?

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6. What he "failed to report"

was that the property he sold had been transferred to an LLC (Limited Liability Corporation). He was still listing it as his property (which it was). What the idiot right is saying is that he "failed to report the sale" or "made a million dollars on property that he hadn't owned for years". It's all bullshit, spin and rhetoric. It's about as serious as putting a figure on the wrong line on your tax forms.

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7. Thanks for the clarification. n/t

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5. FOWnews and GOP really sound desperate, Titanic Time...!

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8. Lights on, no one's home

Hey Faux...NO ONE IS LISTENING ANYMORE

Even my grandpa, who is 85 years old, told me he had to turn the shit off, and he did (WWII vet who sounds like a Repub but votes Dem every time and watched Fox News all the time)