This is the Fox News game in a nutshell

[Hailtothechimp]

A few minutes ago they had on a guest named Dog Holtz-Eakin, who was introduced as the "former head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and now the president of the American Action Forum."

What is the American action forum, you might ask? I asked that question too, but it isn't like Fox News is going to enlighten us on that score. Here's their website, if you're interested.http://americanactionforum.org/about

he spouted out the usual right-wing line about overhauling the tax code, but there was no attempt to challenge anything he said.It was just accepted as fact. So much for "fair and balanced," right?

One look at this organization reveals its "center-right" orientation, and the list of people who are affiliated (and presumably receive checks) are not exactly balanced, either: Norm Coleman, Jeb Bush, Elaine Chao, and so on. Not a centrist in the group. And yet, Fox News provided the American Action Forum with a, well, forum, for their right wing views.

I can see it, and we who come here not to troll can see it, but the vast majority of the American public is unaware. And we wonder why the right wing is winning on this front.

[Major Nikon]

1. It's all part of the big right wing lie

First, you falsely label the objective media as having a strong "liberal bias". Then you label Fox as the objective "fair and balanced" alternative, even though they aren't objective, fair, or balanced. When your actual goal is furthering the right wing agenda, this has many advantages. Most importantly, it allows them to immediately paint any news story which is unfavorable to a Republican candidate as "media bias". Notice how Palin and Cain immediately do this even when they have obviously fallen on their own face. It also gives Republican candidates a place where they can get media interviews where they are thrown softballs all night, and essentially just gives them a soapbox to present their platform almost completely unchallenged. And lastly, it provides a platform where candidates on the left may be routinely attacked and even if those attacks are misleading or outright lies, they will go almost completely unchallenged.

[Zorra]

2. Murdoch's 1% propaganda machine.

The correct answer to the question in the image above is:

Fox News.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Not sure where I saw it or read it, but an interesting tidbit about Fox...

and why people watch it.

Other than the many reasons we frequently list here (Fox says what people want to hear; they don't want facts or the truth), a very simple thing may be involved:

They have large, simplistic graphics and they are LOUD.

Seriously, their audience is definitely older, and these two basic elements may play a larger role than we realized in why people watch them.

It's an easier channel for them to keep on throughout the day because the graphics are bold and concise (even if blatant lies) and they're loud.

:shrug:

[The Doctor.]

4. Fox 'center right'?

Not even close. They are far right.