Saturday, September 19, 2009

Sometimes an opinion is just a lie

It's going to get harder for Fox News to hide behind the giggles, the puffed up pretense to being offended and accusations of insanity if more of the other networks begin to fight back against Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes's lie machine. Brad Blog covers CNN’s Rick Sanchez's, slapdown of Fox. Sanchez, who seems of late to be more willing to speak up against injustice went after Fox's Washington Post ad claiming they were the only network to cover the 9/12 "tea party" in Washington.

It's good to see someone get mad at the ever increasing torrent of lies, distortions and false claims emanating from Fox. It's going, as I said, to get harder to call the few vocal opponents like Olbermann and even Jon Stewart crazy or inconsequential if CNN is willing to run ads as they did yesterday evening, accusing Fox of "Distorting Not Reporting."

The people who send me wingnut e-mails about things that are designed to outrage the ignorant, often preface them with "why isn't the MSM covering this?" although usually, they are and have been. Fox's WaPo ad seems to have been the "enough is enough" trigger and even ABC declared it “demonstrably false.” The claim that no other networks were there was deemed by the Post to be an expression of an opinion not a lie, which of course doesn't help their credibility, regardless of what they claim the meaning of the word "is" is. Sanchez, concluding his diatribe said this:
“Let me address the Fox News Network now, perhaps the most current way that I can — by quoting somebody who recently used a very pithy phrase. Two words, that’s all I need. ‘You lie.’”




Lets hope it becomes a movement. Let's hope the Glennbeckery, the outrageous liberties taken with the news have finally pushed the timid competition into speaking out for the truth - they way they're supposed to.

6 comments:

  1. The push back has turned mainstream. Long overdue but welcome nonetheless.

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  2. CNN has already started advertising there reporting vs. Fox News 'distortions'

    Looks to me like the battle has begun! Since Fox News has the clowns who entertain they should do quite well....

    Now to turn the boycott of advertisers from just the Glenn Beck Show to Fox News totally...

    Then the claim can be made THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

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  3. Someone should post a list of major Fox advertisers.

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  4. Until CNN dumps Lou Dobbs, they deserve no claim to taking the high road. Nevertheless, here is a link targeting Fox News Advertisers:


    Cancellations [Beck/FOX]
    Aegon Insurance [Beck]
    Ally Bank (GMAC)
    Ancestry.com
    Applebees
    AshleyFurniture.com [Beck]
    AT&T
    Bank of America
    Bell & Howell
    Best Buy
    Binder & Binder [Beck]
    Blaine Labs
    Brez (Airware)
    Broadview Security
    Campbell’s Soup
    Capital One [Beck]
    Clorox
    Closing.com [Beck]
    CLR Cleaner (Jelmar) [Beck]
    ConAgra
    CVS
    Dannon [Beck]
    Diabetes Care Club (Simplex) [Beck]
    DirecTV
    Discover [Beck]
    DITECH.com
    Elations.com
    Farmers Insurance
    FreeCreditReport.com (Experian)
    Geico
    General Mills
    GoToMeeting.com (Citrix) [Beck]
    Healthy Choice (Conagra)
    HSBC [Beck]
    Humana [Beck]
    ICAN Benefit Group [Beck]
    Infiniti [Beck]
    Johnson & Johnson
    Jordan McKenna Debt Counseling [Beck]
    Kraft Foods
    Lawyers.com
    Lowe's
    Mens Wearhouse
    Mercedes-Benz USA [Beck]
    Nutrisystem
    PearleVision/Lenscrafters (Luxottica) [Beck]
    Proctor & Gamble
    Progressive Insurance
    Radio Shack
    Re-Bath
    Regions
    Restatis (Allergan)
    Roche
    S.C. Johnson
    SAM (Store and Move)
    Sanofi-Aventis
    SpendOnLife.com [FOX]
    Sprint
    State Farm
    Sargento Cheese
    TheElationsCo
    Travelers Insurance
    Travelocity
    Tylenol
    UPS
    US Postal Service [Beck]
    Verizon Wireless
    Vonage
    Walmart
    Wyeth [Beck]

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  5. Rick Sanchez makes a distinction between “reporting” the news versus “promoting” the news. This substantiates the point made by Sanchez: Fox News Producer Caught Rallying 9/12 Protest Crowd In Behind-The-Scenes Video

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  6. That's why they call it Fake News. Saddam and Fidel and others used to be very good at ordering up "spontaneous" demonstrations and Fox has been a good student.

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