Fear of Obama Fed by Fox News

[Joanne98]

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(Via http://www.mediamatters.org ) Playing clip of Beck, CBS's Greenfield notes "fear" of Obama "fed ... by Fox News pundits".

[lillypaddle]

1. Scary stuff

indeed. Where, when does it ever stop?

[Wink]

2. I love Beck. He's craaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy.

He's the perfect leader for these lunatics. I love how these people just out and out lie.i.e. I have Fox programmed off my tv yet I knew about the (Obama is a Kenyan Communist Nazi and we suddenly care that the gov't is spending tons of money) march.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Jeff Greenfield is with Media Matters? The journalist who turned Republican

and went on an attack of Democrats a few years ago?

Boy, am I confused?

[ginnyinWI]

24. Jeff Greenfield is with CBS.

The segment looked like it came from the show, "CBS Sunday Morning".

[Suji to Seoul]

4. God told that POS Congressman to discriminate against gay, support an unjustified war

support racial profiling, tell the poor and sick to kiss off and support massive top heavy tax cuts to the upper 10% of the population?

Is that the God you listen to, or do you listen to your corporate masters, Congressman?

[ginnyinWI]

26. Walter Jones is one of the better repubs.

For one thing, he's been against the war since way-back-when. And he voted to reprimand Wilson--one of only seven repubs.

They aren't all the same.

From Wikipedia:

Jones was initially a strong supporter of the conflict in Iraq, but then became one of the leading Republicans opposed to continued involvement in Iraq. Jones became well-known for leading the effort, along with GOP Rep. Bob Ney, to have french fries renamed "freedom fries" in House cafeteria menus as a protest against French opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.<15> Jones later modified his stance on the war to a considerable extent. In 2005, he stated that he had come to believe that there had been little reason to go to war, despite his earlier support, which had been based upon selective intelligence supplied to Congress. He said of his previous position on the fries, "I wish it had never happened."<16> In July 2006, the names were quietly changed back.<17>

[tblue37]

29. Yes, he is a silly man sometimes (Mr. Freedom Fries), but he has

a conscience and when he realized what a boondoggle the war was, he turned against it. He also visits the wounded diligently--as does his wife.

[BluDemocratGirl]

5. What a bunch of UFO's (Unidentified Fucking Oafs)!

[NikolaC]

6. I Just Love

how the media is all up in arms and starting to gang up on Faux over the teabaggers. Yet, where were they when hundreds of the thousands marched to protest the installation of Bu$h by the Supreme Court or the hundreds of thousands who protested the Iraq war? Just because they are waking up now about Faux and how scary the rhetoric has become on the right does not mean that they can be excused for their past actions which has cost the lives of many.

[Hansel]

28. No the media is not ganging up on Faux over the teabaggers.

The only reason for this story is that Fox took out an ad claiming that CBS didn't cover the teabagger rally in Washington DC. If Fox had not done this, there would not have been a story.

Fox really thinks that they are so powerful that they can influence the majority of the American people with their garbage since they were able to get a small percentage of people to buy into their crap. They feel empowered now to go up against the entire MSM with this ad attack because they drank their own kool aide and believe that the teabagger movement is larger than it is and the people in it really represent America.

It hurts them even more that Obama refused to go on their "news" show. These stories tend to make the American people sympathize with his decision and understand it better.

The ad was their jump the shark moment and the biggest blunder they have ever made.

[calazini]

41. I think you're wrong on this one

Obama is right in ignoring (rather than engaging) these
lunatics.  These people are the fringe of the fringe.  Anyone
saying that Fox news presents 'both sides' has lost their mind
and objectivity.  I'm hoping that they will have EPIC FAIL
under their own stupidity.  Jikes, I need to change the
profile pick before I make myself and all of you ill.

[GivePeaceAchance]

7. How can that guy say we only get one side, nice if it were true.

I think it's totally impossible to avoid their point of view they shout loud enough, geezus...

[nosferaustin]

8. Louisiana Congressman?

He referred to Joe Wilson as a Congressman from LA.

[Alcibiades]

10. That's horrible

I liked much of the rest of the report, but it's hard to retain credibility about anything when you get basic political facts right. If you don't know Joe Wilson is from SC, you don't know he started his career with Strom, or that he led the charge to keep the Confederate battle flag flying over the SC capitol. What makes it worse it that, presumably, some editor or fact checker also had to sign off on this report, and they didn't notice it, either.

[nolabear]

17. They actually corrected that later in the show.

It happens. I'm just glad they're exposing this. CBS Sunday Morning is way conservative in a non-fringe, old, traditional manner, and showing them how crazy the fringe elements are can only help.

[KyleA]

9. These morons are getting way too much coverage by media

They are a fringe minority of the population who wll be forgotten once the economy improves. Fuck um

[politic_vic]

11. And the man actually said they were not all republicans at the rally, really?

[nolabear]

18. Those guys who show Obama as Hitler are LaRouchies.

Everybody's on the bus, and for the same reason. THEY want to be where Obama is.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. Some of them don't think the Republicans are right wing enough.

All the really far out right wingers I've met refuse to identify themselves as Republicans. I betcha Glenn Beck doesn't call himself a Republican. (If you pressed him he'd probably say he's 'an American' or 'a Patriot')

The same trick works for Christians. All the craziest, wing-nuttiest televangelist-watching whack jobs refuse to identify with a denomination, insisting that they are simply 'a Christian'.

[Plucketeer]

12. There may be some truth to Beck's statement

He claims that the other networks are staffed by LUNATICS! Certainly, Beck is qualified to identify such! :crazy:

[chasitynola]

15. Agreed.

I thought the same thing when I watched the clip. Goes back to the theory that you dislike in others what you most dislike in yourself.

And we don't need Joe to be linked to Louisiana. We have enough of our own problem politicians! Yikes. Stay in SC...please.

[calazini]

42. Yeah, so that makes him an expert on who's crazy??

This man lost it long ago. He is in no position or state of mind to judge or evaluate anyone's sanity. On edit, I'll change the profile pic. Yuck!

[Piewhacket]

13. Yup. Murdoch.

[proReality]

14. Flag desecration...

...at right about 4:40. These ignorant "patriots" have no clue about flag etiquette.

[chasitynola]

16. Seriously...

the flag has been desecrated horribly for a long time...expecially directly after 9/11. Are these people not aware that using the flag as clothing, etc. is a huge no-no? Patriots, indeed.

[Stumbler]

20. Can someone ask that lady

to name one liberal voice of opposition that can be found on Faux Noise? Either as a host or a frequent commentator? I can find liberals, moderates and conservatives on CNN and MSNBC, but when I tune into Faux, the most "liberal" voice I hear is from some mild-mannered, ill-informed or outright ineffective-communicator from the middle. So which 'both sides' are being represented? Crazy and Conservative?

[StreetKnowledge]

21. They once had Alan Colmes......but he left.......

.....and Hannity hasn't got the balls, brains or skills to handle a real liberal opposite him.

Glenn Beck is dangerous. In StreetKnowledge's America, Beck would be in jail and watching Beck would result in a $500 fine.

[dontgetfooledagain]

22. WHAT CAN I DO?

i have given up trying to help "scared" posters on some discussion forums i'm on, through calm rational discussions. they will not read my posts, or read them and aren't willing to listen (consider other sources than WND, FAUX or BOSS LIMBAUGH) or won't go to my links or YELL at me or FLAG my posts. trying to nicely educate to other points of view is futile.

the time has come to REALLY DISCREDIT FOX NEWS, if not take them down legally...

i would be willing to work for that goal, to the best of my abilities. are there groups that are working on this?

does it help to send particularly RACIST or CRAZY-ASS (and several actually threatening-to-the-president) posts that i have copied to certain entities? if so, WHO? would sending stuff like that to KEITH or RACHEL help, or would that just end up nowhere?

[kenfrequed]

36. "the left?"

Wait a minute. I am about as far left as one can get and I can easily say we have been shut completely out of the dialouge (as per usual). How the hell can they possibly claim 'the radical left' is dominating anything?

[Laf.La.Dem.]

23. Wilson from Louisiana??

We have enough dick heads GOP here in Louisiana - please do not add Wilson.

Fox "news" always give two sides - the FAR RIGHT and the FAR RIGHT CRAZIES.:mad:

[paparush]

25. Wilson's from Louisiana? ORLY? eom

[paparush]

27. Beck Mainlining Rove there...calling the msm extreme...demonize your opponent by accusing them

of the very things you, yourself, are doing.

[stopbush]

30. It those nuts represent the "heart of Amerika," then it's time to

reinstate the Aztec religion and start cutting out a few of those hearts. They're diseased.

[Red Knight]

31. Fox has created a cult

Listening to C-SPAN callers robotically praising Fox today, I couldn't help but think of programmed people doing the bidding of Murdoch . Easily manipulated, controlled.

Scary.

[CJCRANE]

32. And Fox News claim to be the only ones with the truth

and not to believe the other news channels. It's a classic tactic to lock in their believers...viewers.

[TexasLady]

33. I am glad to have seen this

I missed it on the telly. It is all over the place in my neck of the woods. Lotta loonies here.

[Hutzpa]

34. On the telly?

oh! haloo How do you do? Do I know You?

[penndragon69]

35. Rally's like this

are what you get when a bunch of inbreed, uneducated rural ditto hicks get together.

They are also the reason why the right fights soo hard to keep high speed internet access out of rural areas.

Imagine what these people might learn about the right if they could actually access the information for themselves

rather than hearing it from their local Govt. KKK leader.

[me b zola]

37. Look at the 54 second mark

Beck's blackboard that says 'the tree of...'. I had to go back and freeze frame it because at a glance to me it looked like Obama's head was on a drawing of someone being drawn & quartered. Anyone else get that impression, or is it just me?

[AsahinaKimi]

38. " I serve GOD and not Rush Limbaugh" ??

What happened to serving your constituents? What happened to serving the Constitution and the Bill for Rights which you swore under oath? What happened to serving the People of the United States of America?

oh...yeah, those are not important! :sarcasm:

[Mister Ed]

39. Teabagger: "I listen to Fox News, which gives you both sides..."

Both sides being the far right and the ultra far right?

:crazy:

[tkauf0310]

40. Fox

I can't even finish watching this. My husband's health care is with the VA. Every VA we have been to, four of them, has Fox on TV. From this day forward, every time I walk in and there is Fox on the TV, I will lodge a complaint about that boil on the butt of humanity network.

[Quantess]

43. You could request that they please change the channel.

Several DUers have posted about how they asked establishments to please change the channel, or they would take their business elsewhere. I suppose you can't use that last threat at VA hospitals, but it definitely is worth speaking up about.