Jimmy Carter Gets Fox News

[babylonsister]

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=2758

Jimmy Carter Gets Fox News
Posted by: Mark @ 6:35 pm


Appearing on the NBC Nightly News, former Pres. Jimmy Carter demonstrated that he still has keen insight into the state of modern media:

Brian Williams: How do you think it came to be that such high numbers of people believe that this American-born Christian President is either foreign born or a Muslim or both?

Pres. Carter: I think the number one factor is Fox News. It’s totally distorting everything possible concerning the facts. And I think their constant hammering away at these false premises about our incumbent President has a major impact on the consciousness of America. A lot of well-meaning people, including many of those in the Tea Party movement, believe what is said in this constant hammering away by Glenn Beck and by others who have no regards for the truth.

I have nothing to add.

[Turborama]

1. I can only add a Kick and a Recommendation.

And some gratitude for sharing. :thumbsup:

[Divine Discontent]

61. President Carter was one of the most humble God fearing, loving, intellectual presidents we've had,

and isn't it horribly sad, that those supposed "bible believers" in the teabagger movement think of him as the worst (remembering they don't acknowledge Obama as president)?

Talk about insane dichotomy.

Jimmy Carter was a wonderful humane president, and it's so sad that their false cowboys, Reagan & Bush, could be so revered for such asinine reasons...

[pretzel4gore]

2. $13 trillion and counting...

when Jimmy left WHouse, the natdebt was a reasonable $1 trillion...regan doubled it , bush doubled again, clinton held the line, then junyer gave the keys to the store to the pigs...we're bankrupt forever...just like reagan wanted us to be (btw, they name hospitals after reagan...lol)

[AspenRose]

18. I'm still trying to figure out how they can name National Airport after him

after what he did to the striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

[Bleacher Creature]

33. I live in DC (you may as well) and REFUSE to call it that.

Whether it's a cab driver, ticket agent, etc. -- 99% of the time people don't have a clue when I insist on calling it Washington National Airport.

[Citizen Worker]

88. A close friend and former flight attendant refused to call it anything but

National Airport when announcing arrival.

[sce56]

36. It is called pouring salt on the wound! n/t

[BonnieJW]

49. I live in Virginia

and I refuse to call National Airport anything but National Airport or DCA.

[PSzymeczek]

68. I will never refer to Washington National Airport

using that senile fool's name. And I do not want to see his face on any legal tender, paper or coinage.

[HillbillyBob]

90. I tell them when I absolutely have to travel never

raygun the bastards airport.

I was navy air traffic. I got outted, when I returned to civilian life I could not get a job with civilian FAA..
How things could have been different if i wasn't just a fag.
Im not exactly bitter, but I get flashes of real pissed off at the shit these mfrs have pulled.

[The_Casual_Observer]

98. Many very wealthy & powerful friends owed him debts of gratitude after he left office

these are tokens of their appreciation for greatly increasing their fortunes by cutting their taxes, lifting regulations, unbounded defense contract spending & on & on.

[DFW]

105. I won't call it anything other than National Airport. Same goes for Helen Thomas n/t

[onlyadream]

34. to back it up

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

[RayStar]

42. Debt

Thanks for the time line explanation

[Supersedeas]

54. an actor from California and a cowboy from Connecticut--Repub legacies to cherish

[happygoluckytoyou]

58. Ronny.... Dubya.... the only 2 presidents who could hide their own Easter Eggs

[ShadowLiberal]

91. Actually that's wrong, we reached $1 trillion in debt under Reagan, not Carter

I know that we reached $1 trillion in debt under Reagan because I remember reading about it in my high school history book, and how all Reagan did about it was just make a speech going 'oh it's so horrible that we have so much debt'.

Also there's one thing Carter missed in his statement, he forgot to call Fox News a propaganda organization, because that's what they are. Democrats should start calling it a propaganda organization, if everyone starts doing it like Fox does with the Muslim rumors and stuff then Fox's credibility will take a huge hit.

[Turbineguy]

3. Yup

That pretty well covers it.

[geckosfeet]

4. ... or how to call someone a liar with a bit of flourish

[liberal N proud]

5. He nailed them on The Daily Show last night too

Carter was great with Stewart on last nights episode. I recommend you catch one of the reruns today.

[babylonsister]

6. Thanks. I didn't stay up for that; will check out tonight's rerun. nt

[damonm]

20. Link to the full eppy:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-september-20-2010-jimmy-carter

[AC_Mem]

26. I just watched the episode at your link

Fantastic! Thank you for posting the link.

[babylonsister]

29. Thanks very much!

:hi:

[xxqqqzme]

82. Yes it was a special interview.

Jimmy gets a kick out of Jon. President Carter did look exhausted though. That little sparkle in his eye wasn't obvious. I hope he is well.

[karynnj]

7. Nicely said by Carter

This has been said by others - notably the President, but we need repetition of that - and the matter of fact tone here is perfect.

[flpoljunkie]

8. Gee, 'Morning Blow' hasn't shown that clip. Of course, they harped on the 'superior' one though.

[TuxedoKat]

10. Yeah

Mike Barnicle was particularly petty and unprofessional in his comments about Pres. Carter.

[PSzymeczek]

70. Mike Barnicle

is a waste of protoplasm, for the most part.

[GoCubsGo]

77. I cannot believe...

...that people even pay attention to that plagiarist.

[stray cat]

9. What's not to get?

[Bitwit1234]

11. fox -- above all shows the need for more and better schools

in this country. Instead of getting rid of teachers we should have more honest, intelligent ones. Look at the intelligence gap in schools around the world. I believe truly truly believe that the republicans in their last reign, deliberately dumbed down our schools to make the public more pliable.

[wizstars]

19. Thomas Jefferson:

"an educated and informed citizenry is the archenemy of tyranny"?

This is why Repigs want us fat, dumb, and happy--so they can impose their tyranny on us.

[snort]

35. Fat, dumb, happy?

You make tyranny sound attractive. I demand tyranny now!

[CLANG]

40. Happy sounds good, but FAT and DUMB?

What in the world would my bridge buddies say at the club in the Hamptons?

[snort]

41. "Please pass the sweet and sour shrimp"?

[Enthusiast]

12. K&R...nt

[cordelia]

13. K & R

With thanks for posting this.

[Overseas]

14. K&R! //nt

[COLGATE4]

15. Way to tell it like it is, Mr, President!!! Too bad that our current

Democratic leadership doesn't take Faux to task the same way - it might actually help level the playing field, if only by a little.

[Cha]

16. The current Admin has taken fauxsnooze to "task" many many times

..it's quite clear how the Obama Admin regards faux..they pull no punches.

[Spazito]

22. Obama suggests Fox News is like 'talk radio'

snip

"I think what our advisers have simply said is that we are going to take media as it comes," Obama told NBC's Savannah Guthrie. "And if media is operating basically as a talk radio format then that's one thing, and if it's operating as a news outlet that's another. But it's not something I'm losing sleep over."

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod said this weekend that Fox is "not really a news station." That echoes similar comments made by White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/64271-obama-suggests-fox-news-is-talk-radio

[BonnieJW]

51. Then WHY

do they have a front row seat in the press room??? I've been told that the admin does not have a say about who gets which seat in the press room; however, I believe they could state that ONLY legitimate news agencies will be seated. If faux gets a seat, then Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert should get seats as well.

[RedCloud]

17. he should call his cable company and demand it get removed from the server!

[DirkGently]

21. Glad to hear Carter's not on the Enemies List today.

Earlier in the week it was implied on this forum that he was a old drunk for expressing the wrong thing on someone or another.

[totodeinhere]

45. Was that over his spat with Teddy Kennedy?

A lot of liberals sing Carter's praises today, but back when he was president he was considered anything but liberal and he took a constant hammering from the left.

[liberation]

65. No, it was far current than that. Something he said disagreeing with some of Obama's policies.

Apparently, even Mr. Carter was not "moderate" enough for some of the ultra moderates in this site. So he was thrown under the bus faster you could say " uncle."

[TomClash]

23. And Fox intentionally lies

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Joseph Goebbels

It's another part of Rupert's playbook.

[femrap]

24. The sound of TRUTH

is like a beautiful symphony.

[harun]

25. Hope this gets 1000 rec's.

[Rambis]

27. "The 2000 presidential election, if you can call it an election" Jimmy Carter

I gave him a lone standing ovation at the University of Iowa Iowa City Iowa after he said that May 11, 2007.

[Uncle Joe]

28. Kicked and recommended, Jimmy nailed it.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[daleanime]

30. How much better off we would be...

if Carter had been a two term president?:dem:

[PSzymeczek]

69. For one thing,

we'd be a lot closer to a fossil-fuel-free America.

[lark]

75. Oh God YES!!!!

Then, here's something else to think about, how about after 8 years of Carter we had 8 years of Gore - just think about how much better off we'd be without 9/11, either Iraqui war, no mega tax cuts for the rich, no giving all that money to oil companies for nothing, all the growth from a green economy, no paying companies to relocate their jobs offshore, they'd have to pay the same tax rate or even more to do that so wouldn't, no government contracts to convicted scumbag companies like Haliburton, probably an Israli/Palistinian peace treaty, so many things wrong with us would have never happened if we had these 2 men as president for 8 years.

Instead we had the incompetent Repug traitors

puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[nolabear]

31. K&R for integrity and an appreciation of same

[Oceansaway]

32. K&R...n/t

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

37. K & R n/t

[DeSwiss]

38. K&R! n/t

[Sheepshank]

39. ever since Faux New was given legal/court leeway to lie

they've run with it and with no end in sight.

[cascadiance]

46. Perhaps if we can ever get a progressive majority on SCOTUS, Jane Akre & Steve Wilson could appeal?

Don't know if the statue of limitations/deadlines have run out to do an appeal on the Monsanto case.

If it has, then perhaps they could continue to challenge WTVT's license based on this false "we can lie if we want to" premise, and if that can be brought to court, a new test for the legal "right" to lie by Fox News can be put before the courts. Obviously based on corporate personhood's "right" to lie, and perhaps in one fell swoop a new SCOTUS majority could also strike down the total BS Corporate Personhood "interpretation" that has lead to Citizen's United and other crappy rulings.

[Sheepshank]

48. I know there would need to be some level of proof for the courts.

but surely there is a difference between making honest mistakes and willful lying?

[Raster]

43. I stand and applaud! That my friends, was a President of the United States of America!

Kick for James Earl Carter, Jr., the 39th President of the United States of America:kick:

[frogmarch]

44. Beautiful! K&R

[old mark]

47. You really don't need another Rec, but here - I always liked Jimmy Earl....nt

[h9socialist]

50. Makes up -- a little -- for that pot-shot at Ted Kennedy.

[awoke_in_2003]

72. the truth is now a "pot-shot"? nt

[h9socialist]

109. Considering that the accused cannot defend himself . . . Yes!

[bobburgster]

52. JC still calls it like it is!

Nice to hear the blunt truth!

[JNelson6563]

53. Right on Mr. President!

President Carter summed it up nicely. :toast:

Julie

[MindandSoul]

55. Good for President Carter!!!! I don't think anyone ever gave him enough credit!

[HughMoran]

56. I like JImmy

Jimmy speaks the truth.

[tclambert]

57. But . . . but . . . they're fair and balanced!

They say so right in their ads. It must be true or it would be false advertising, and the government would shut them down.

[GentryDixon]

59. Well said, Jimmy.

K&R

[indimuse]

60. KNR! n/t

[RoccoR5955]

62. K & R WTG President Carter! n/t

[Blue Owl]

63. Pretty sharp for an 86-year-old

n/t

[DesertRat]

64. President Carter will turn 86 next week

and is still as sharp as a tack!

K&R

[riverbendviewgal]

66. In Canada Harper's party wants to put up FOX NEWS NORTH

and he wants us Canadians to pay for it.....

NEVER..!!!!!!
.80,000 of us signed a petition refusing to be forced to pay for "Fox News North" (aka SunTV) on our cable bills, the Sun media empire threw everything they had at us - smear pieces in their newspapers, threatened lawsuits, and SunTV frontman Kory Teneycke even admitted insider knowledge of a criminal sabotage of our petition!

All DU Canadians should sign it too.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/crtc_no_handouts/97.php?cl_tta_sign=85d868c1e6ef55c17138367394491e49

[Roy Rolling]

67. OPEC

Jimmy Carter broke the back of OPEC with his energy initiatives. That brought oil down from $40 a barrel to eventually $10 a barrel. That is why so many people hate him---he's bad for the oil industry profiteers who had a good thing going when the US was on its knees from high oil prices.

[madmax]

I'll say it again...

If we had listen to President Carter back then we wouldn't be in the mess we're in - not only Iraq but, so much more.

President Jimmy - you were right!

[madmax]

71. I'll say it again...

If we had listened to President Carter back then we wouldn't be in the mess we're in - not only Iraq but, so much more.

President Jimmy - you were right!

[demigoddess]

73. yeah but i still hate what he said in the 60 minutes interview.

when they talked about there was no war, no shots fired, no missile shot off. He said it was his religion. He should have said it was the right thing to do, it was the smart thing to do. Not that it was his religion!!!! This can bite us in the butt. And it also kind of ignores the attempted rescue of the hostages in Iran.

[Fire1]

87. "This can bite us in the butt." It's a little late for that! By 200

years.

[davidwparker]

74. Last. Blue-D-In-Blue-Circle. President.

[veganlush]

76. indeed......n/t

[tavalon]

78. We're lucky to have such a great statesman still with us

We used to share a religion and we both walked away from it for the same reason. There is little with him that I disagree with. May he continue to live well.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

79. I *heart* Jimmy Carter

He's right. Glad his blunt words got air-time.

Fox Spews is evil.

[hulka38]

80. He is not afraid. n/t

[blaze]

81. Thank you President Carter. nt

[highplainsdem]

83. K&R

[Hepburn]

84. Oh, perfect!!!!!!!

:applause: Bravo, President Carter!

[Canuckistanian]

85. K&R

And nothing else.

[Fire1]

86. President Carter always was one of my favorites. n/t

edit: to add "s"

[Patchuli]

89. I love Jimmy Carter nt

[babylonsister]

92. I had no idea how popular President Carter is/was. WOW! nt

[donheld]

93. +1000

[demmiblue]

94. Happy to K&R!

I love me some President Carter.

:patriot:

[2critical]

95. Re: does anyone believe Faux News?

I mean, nobody in my friends or family believe that Fox News is an actual news source. We all chalk it up to Republican/corporate propaganda. I don't know anyone who takes it seriously.

[Stumbler]

96. If access to information is vital for the survival of democracy, then Fox is treasonous....

Willfully and knowingly providing false information on a routine basis for the premise of propping up one political view over all others is counter to the concept behind the 'free press' clause of the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Or have I gotten something wrong with this analysis?

[Beartracks]

97. Of course he gets it -- it's part of basic cable!

Okay, just jokin' around. :rofl:

I caught Jimmy Carter on the Daily Show, and he is right on.

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[moondust]

99. Kick for JC.

:kick:

[lupinella]

100. Just Yay!

Love me some Pres. Jimmy!
He always seems like a wonderfully nice guy who is intent on the public good.:applause:

[zehnkatzen]

101. K+R

Jimmy Carter is, after Barack Obama, the President most unfairly maligned by Republicans (if ever they fairly maligned a Democrat, which I'm pretty sure never has happened).

If you believe in Hell, then a special place must be reserved for those who've trash-talked Carter.

[David Zephyr]

102. K&R. And he was the superior of ex-presidents.

He set the standard that Bill Clinton is following.

[The Wizard]

103. It was Howard Dean

who was the first public figure to peg Pox News as the propaganda arm of the Republican Party. Everything Murdoch does is to advance the pro corporation Republican agenda.
Actually, Murdoch should be stripped of his citizenship and deported. Simply put, he's a fucking traitor.
When Sarah Palin advises Christine O'Donnell to speak through Pox News it says they're not even hiding the fact that Pox is a 24/7 Republican campaign ad. The place really needs to be shuttered.
That their viewers take Glenn Beck seriously speaks volumes.
They are a big part of why the Citizens United decision made corporations people. It was Pox that first called the 2000 election for Bush. This gave the corporate slugs the cover they needed to report the same tripe. And as we know, it was the worst leader since Caligula who appointed the far right Justices Alito and Roberts who tilted the balance of the court to the extreme right.
Thanks Pox News and Rupert the Pirate for killing democracy and the truth.

[DFW]

106. Howard tolerates Chris Wallace, disdains the rest of them

Howard was head of the Democratic Party. He knows as well as anyone what's news and what's partisan propaganda.

Of course, Fox Noise never made a serious effort to disguise its purpose in the first place. Only idiots swallow
the "fair and balanced" line, and these people are the same ones who believe slogans like "you're in good hands
with Allstate," or that "Nationwide is one your side." But as a political propaganda organization, it should
register as such, and be subject to federal regulation as such. Since corporations are people these days, it
should also be subject to penalties for crimes such as incitement to riot, RICO act violations, and conspiracy
to commit murder (such as in Kansas).

[The Wizard]

110. Second that one (NT)

[Daphne08]

107. "Murdoch should be stripped of his citizenship and deported."

I couldn't agree more, but I don't hold out any hope of that occurring. Besides the damage has already been done. Another right-wing billionaire could/would just take his place.

I vividly remember when Rupert Murdoch first purchased the New York Post. There were dire warnings from serious journalists and commentators that he would cheapen and demean that newspaper.

It was also predicted that Murdoch's brand of so-called journalism would adversely affect the entire profession in America. Clearly that has occurred.

Fox News Channel is obviously an aberration, but nonetheless, it continues to have a detrimental effect on the other cable news outlets.

What he is doing (or is allowing to be done by Roger Ailes) is a threat to our democracy, and I truly believe that.

[Name removed]

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[earcandle]

104. Can our government stop being corrupt? Jimmy Carter says yes. Jimmy Carter says yes!

[bindelh]

108. Defeat Bohner 2010

Another Great Democrat