Fox News is doing street interviews

[emilyg]

Question - " Can you name 1 specific thing Obama has accomplished."

Not one person could.

[OhioChick]

1. Fox Newz.....

Who Cares?

[NYCGirl]

2. Do you think they could answer if they were asked the same question about

Hillary Clinton? Other than being married to Bill, that is.

[Skittles]

10. HILLARY CLINTON IS NOT THE ENEMY

THE F***ING REPUKES ARE - better question would be WHAT HAS A DECADE OF REPUKE RULE ACCOMPLISHED?

[NYCGirl]

12. No, but in case you haven't noticed, there's a primary going on. And don't think

for one minute the OP had no ulterior motive.

[Skittles]

14. the OP has forgotten who the enemy is too

all the "bots" need to pull their heads out

[NYCGirl]

When you start looking to Fox News to prop up your candidate, you're

too far gone.

[Skittles]

21. I don't support either candidate

and I see extreme suckage from BOTH SIDES

[emilyg]

33. I'm limited as to what I get on TV.

[donheld]

58. So that give you an excuse to post rubbish?

Do you really think Fox was fair and balanced?

[emilyg]

68. I think the people who were interviewed were.

[donheld]

69. So where did they interview people

A Clinton rally or a McCain Rally.

[PseudoIntellect]

61. Hannity >___

Is it just me or does he almost always beg the question out of his guests and give them no time to talk?

[NYCGirl]

81. I've never watched Hannity, so I couldn't answer. NT

[emilyg]

70. When Fox praises Obama you don't have a problem.

[NYCGirl]

82. I've never used a Fox source. NT

[Hieronymus]

74. There you go. Fox prays that Hillary is the nominee.

[Thepricebreaker]

3. Your using fox now to beat up on obama?

[Colobo]

4. Fox News? Why would someone watch that?

[emilyg]

34. see answer.

[SoxFan]

You stay classy, Chappaqua!

[C_U_L8R]

5. Can you name one thing Faux has said that is true?

[oasis]

55. So you think Fox planted a bunch of actors to do street interviews?

:eyes:

[Mz Pip]

6. I doubt

any random person on the street could name one thing Hillary has done either. Or McCain. Probably most people would have trouble naming anything Bush has done, other than the war.

It's only a reasonable question if it is asked about all the candidates. Singling out Obama is just "Gotcha" politics.

[stop the bleeding]

7. Name one positive thing Fox News has accomplished nt

[VolcanoJen]

8. Awesome!

Maybe next, you'll quote Mary Matalin!

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Someone already did that this morning

It was a classic. Sorry you missed it.

[VolcanoJen]

16. Oh... I didn't miss it.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Good

:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

9. Well, Help Fox News next time and email them this, and be enraged that they haven't mentioned

Obama's accomplishments to their viewers......since news is supposed to be about providing information. :crazy:

Also ask them to ask the same question to Hillary supporters, cause I'm still waiting for that answer. :eyes:

Guess that they are back to shilling for Hillary....because after all, she's the easy one to beat.

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OBAMA COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS:
Obama holds assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Veterans' Affairs, and he is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In August 2005, he traveled to Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. The trip focused on strategies to control the world's supply of conventional weapons, biological weapons, and weapons of mass destruction as a first defense against potential terrorist attacks.<61>

Following meetings with U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq in January 2006, Obama visited Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories.

He left for his third official trip in August 2006, traveling to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad. In a nationally televised speech at the University of Nairobi, he spoke forcefully on the influence of ethnic rivalries and corruption in Kenya.

Obama worked with Russ Feingold (D–WI) to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and require disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the "Honest Leadership and Open Government Act", which was signed into law in September 2007.

He joined Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in sponsoring S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections, including fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls, as witnessed in the 2006 midterm elections.

Obama also introduced the "Iraq War De-Escalation Act", a bill to cap troop levels in Iraq, begin phased redeployment, and remove all combat brigades from Iraq before April 2008.<68>

Later in 2007, Obama sponsored with Kit Bond (R-MO) an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges, and calling for a review by the Government Accountability Office following reports that the procedure had been used inappropriately to reduce government costs.

joined Chuck Hagel (R-NE) in introducing legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism.A provision from the Obama-Hagel bill was passed by Congress in December 2007 as an amendment to the State-Foreign Operations appropriations bill.

Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries. After passing both houses of Congress with bipartisan majorities, SCHIP was vetoed by President Bush in early October 2007, a move Obama said "shows a callousness of priorities that is offensive to the ideals we hold as Americans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

THESE ARE BARACK'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE U.S. SENATE TO DATE:

** First legislation, the HOPE Act, which increased Pell Grants to $5100, and later joined Senator Kennedy on the Higher Education legislation that passed July 20, by a vote of 78-18. That legislation also included funding for Predominantly Black Colleges to assist with counseling, tutoring and other needs of low income students. It also creates the Teaching Residency Act which will create a school-based teacher preparation program in high needs schools to provide each teacher with a mentor, content instruction, classroom management skills, a master’s degree and state certification, and a 2 year follow-up program.


**The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006
is an act that requires the full disclosure of all entities or organizations receiving federal funds beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2007 on a website maintained by the Office of Management and Budget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Funding_Accountability_and_Transparency_Act_of_2006


**The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act
Authored by U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL), the Lugar-Obama initiative expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department's ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.
Signed into Law on January 11, 2007.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/chrisblask/gGCPsK


**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_17/news/19664-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
http://www.commonblog.com/story/2007/9/14/164837/331

** The “Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-2125

** S116 - Summer Learning demonstration project to provide summer learning grants and encourage new teaching methods.
http://www.pasesetter.org/demonstrationPrograms/nasd.html

and this one, moved out of committee just a few days ago:
Obama's Global Poverty Act of 2007, passed out of committee just a few days ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) today hailed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's passage of the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), which requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive policy to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief, and coordination with the international community, businesses and NGOs. This legislation was introduced in December. Smith and Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sponsored the House version of the bill (H.R. 1302), which passed the House last September.
http://obama.senate.gov /



Amendments, that have all passed:

S.Amdt.159 to S.Con.Res.18 - To prevent and, if necessary, respond to an international outbreak of the avian flu.

S.Amdt.390 to H.R.1268 - To provide meal and telephone benefits for members of the Armed Forces who are recuperating from injuries incurred on active duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.

S.Amdt.670 to H.R.3 - To provide for Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) refueling capability at new and existing refueling station facilities to promote energy security and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

S.Amdt.808 to H.R.6 - To establish a program to develop Fischer-Tropsch transportation fuels from Illinois basin coal.

S.Amdt.851 to H.R.6 - To require the Secretary to establish a Joint Flexible Fuel/Hybrid Vehicle Commercialization Initiative, and for other purposes.

S.Amdt.1362 to S.1042 - To require a report on the Department of Defense Composite Health Care System II.

S.Amdt.1453 to S.1402 - To ensure the protection of military and civilian personnel in the Department of Defense from an influenza pandemic, including an avian influenza pandemic.

S.Amdt.2301 to H.R.3010 - To increase funds to the Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program and to the Office of Special Education Programs of the Department of Education for the purposes of expanding positive behavioral interventions and supports.

S.Amdt.2605 to S.2020 - Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should immediately address issues relating to no-bid contracting.

S.Amdt.2930 to S.2349 - To clarify that availability of legislation does not include nonbusiness days.
S.Amdt.3144 to S.Con.Res.83 - To provide a $40 million increase in FY 2007 for the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program and to improve job services for hard-to-place veterans

S. Amdt 41 to S. 1 To require lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political parties for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and the aggregate amount of the contributions collected or arranged.

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Barack has Written a total of 890 Bills and Co-sponsored Another 1096 since he started serving in the U.S. Senate.

[emilyg]

35. I don't bother with any of your repetive, long posts.

[jlake]

40. lol ~ seconded!

[Binka]

56. My My My Speaks Volumes About You

You will watch Faux News but not read a substantive post from a fellow DUer? Weird dear sweet Em. Put her on ignore then sweet Em, those of us that love the cat do not need your scat spamming up her threads.

[emilyg]

64. Excuse me

She has posted same-old so many times it's spam.

[FrenchieCat]

65. Maybe because you act like you still don't have a clue.......

But so, my post is not even for you, it is for those who like to read threads about Fox attempting to deride Sen. Obama right here at DU! :)

[emilyg]

67. I would suggest you don't have a clue.

[ChromeFoundry]

11. Faux News?

Why are you wasting your time?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. Maybe the Hallmark Channel should interview people.

[Ichingcarpenter]

28. The over 55 "Murder She wrote" and "Walker Texas Ranger" Crowd

would be willing to take any question from the early 90's on current events.



Maybe even do a telethon on that channel!

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Jay Leno did a street interview

where no one could name the capital of the US.

[DUyellow]

18. not one person that they showed, doesn't mean thats all there were.

[Yael]

19. No quote from sassy lil ole Ann Coulter to go with this tidbit?

[Double T]

20. And there YOU have it. Not even a roving rethug reporter can find..........

one thing obama has accomplished. bush never accomplished ANYTHING either and look where it got him. Last thing America needs is 8 MORE YEARS of NOTHING.

[Blondiegrrl]

23. Most Americans can't find Iraq on a world map.

Does that mean Iraq doesn't exist?

[blogslut]

24. Was that tonight

Or a month ago? Fox can't come up with a new hit piece?

[DearAbby]

25. when are you going to pull RUSH and ANN COULTER

out of your ass to defend your candidate? Unfortunately We are fed horsecrap by the media. Wa all have railed against it for years now. Many people when asked, could not tell you who the Sec'y of State is, or who heads the Department of Homeland Security...that is another thing we need to change Return the media back to the people, to keep people better informed to make correct decisions.

So what is your point? Really.

[emilyg]

36. My point is - thought it was interesting

If they ask what Clinton has accomplished,I'll post that, too.

[DearAbby]

38. okay then :) n/t

[City Lights]

26. Fox Noise interviewed dumb people? Stop the presses!

They feed their sheep slop. No surprise there. Did you enjoy the meal?

[Forkboy]

27. Emily, that shit goes on with every candidate in every party in every race.

There's no doubt at all we could find people clueless about Hillary or Edwards or Obama or Kucinich or Bush.

Ok, with Bush it may really be representative. :)

[emilyg]

37. I agree. Thank you for a decent response.

[Forkboy]

42. You'll always get a decent response from me.

:hug:

[whatchamacallit]

29. You guys and Fox

what a great team!

[Johnny__Motown]

30. or they edited the good answers out

[Ichingcarpenter]

46. Faux edits things out or edits things in? Unbelievable!!!!

[Dogmudgeon]

77. Good. God. Almighty.

Do I laugh at that, or do I weep?

Welcome To The 21st Century -- No Jet Packs, But More Than Enough Irony To Go Around.

(Slaps forehead. Considers taking two ibuprofens instead of one.)

--p!

[TheCowsCameHome]

31. Did they find Ann Coulter turning tricks on some dark street corner?

That would be worthwhile news.

[Avalux]

32. Wow! Can't believe you're using Fox News to bash Obama.

:rofl:

[emilyg]

39. Can't believe you think this was bashing.

[Avalux]

41. So what exactly was your point in posting this? n/t

[emilyg]

49. I thought it was interesting how little man on the street knows.

[Exilednight]

43. I could do the same thing with Hillary and edit the video to show that no one has answer.

[Moloch]

44. Can you name anything John McCain has accomplished?

nt

[Thepricebreaker]

57. accomplished yes... is it good? no...

[Ichingcarpenter]

45. I saw someone ask a college student once

[angie_love]

47. You actually admitted to watching Fox? I would never watch that wing nut piece of trash

[emilyg]

50. Perhaps you have more money than I have

and can afford Dish or other providers. My choices are limited.

ed. Yes I watch Fox news - most certainly not ashamed of it.

[angie_love]

51. ummm you don't have cnn?

[emilyg]

63. ummmmmmmm

I watch both - thank you for your concern about my TV habits. Better than Idol.

[Ichingcarpenter]

53. Faux news is a cable news...... Cable is more expensive than Dish or DirecTV

so, you watch Fox news because you are "most certainly not ashamed of it."


Thank you for sharing....

[emilyg]

62. I have what my condos provide.

[UALRBSofL]

48. emilyg---blind faith

:rofl:

[RoadRage]

52. Yeah.. and FAUX would NEVER think about perhaps...

Editing those clips and showing only people who didn't know much about Obama? Hannity would never stoop that low, would he? Na... he's really "fair and balanced".

Ironic that you say that only Clinton gets a bad shake in the press, but show up with a great example of Obama getting skewed.

If Fox wanted to be "Fair & Balanced" they could find 3 or 4 who knew what they were talking about, and a few who didn't to show that all types of people are going for Obama.. but that isn't the angle they want to show.

How often do you use FOX as a solid news reference anyway? Only when it supports your cause, i'm sure.

[emilyg]

72. About as often as you do when it suits your candidate.

[RoadRage]

76. No..

I'm sure there have been times when Obama has been portrayed in a positive light on Fox, but i've never started a post with "Hey, look how great Obama is per FOX".. or vice versa.. "Hey, look how crappy Fox thinks Clinton is".

[Raine]

54. I would just bet that if Faux asked about Hillary

the answer would be the same. The only repsonses they will show that are positive is what people answer about MacCain. Do you really think that Faux is fair enough that they show any Democratic candidate in a positive light? If you think so than you perfectly fit with their network. x(

[ExFreeper4Obama]

59. Alot of Hillary supporters seem to like Faux News and the the Neocons

This is HILARIOUS!!!! In order to attack Obama they pull shit from right wing sources.

Fox News?
Mary Matalin?
William Kristol?
David Brooks?
Jonah Goldberg?



:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

66. It's the only place that still reports favorably on Hillary Clinton.....

and that's what Hillary Clinton supporters live for; the good ol' days when Clinton was basically running a one woman race.

[emilyg]

71. Actually they don't

Don't let that stop you.

[Forkboy]

83. When did those right wing sources stop bothering you exfreeper?

[Danger Mouse]

60. Ask them one specific thing Hillary Clinton has accomplished.

I'm guessing you'd get the same response.

[emilyg]

73. Of course.

[Danger Mouse]

84. So the question was loaded.

Which is typical of Fox News. It's not difficult to point out the absolutely depressing ignorance of the average American.

[Eric J in MN]

75. Can they name what Bush accomplished? What Bill Clinton accomplished?

Big deal.

[GoldieAZ49]

78. neither are running, they should have asked about McCain

it would be more relevant

[RememberWellstone]

79. Haha

No one even knew he was 6 months ago much less what he has accomplished.

[mculator]

80. Plagiarism!

[npincus]

85. HRC's accomplishment: voting for the IWR and not reading the NIE

prior to her vote.