Just to be perfectly clear, I was not criticising the bereaved mother but – rather – the fact that Fox “News” made no mention at all of the other mother who would probably not have said what they wanted.

Related to this issue, yesterday’s F&F had several segments (perhaps 5 in 4 hours) where a former CIA operative (Mike Baker) provided a take on the Benghazi situation that totally contradicted what a former Director of the CIA (General Hayden) had said on F&F on Thursday. Not a peep about General Hayden’s interview in yesterday’s show.

You can see General Hayden’s interview on Ellen’s post on Crooks and Liars (watch Brian Kilmeade’s face as he realises the General is pushing back).

Does anybody have a recording of Mike Baker’s interview? Not the session on the couch that’s supposed to be different (if he’s wearing the same tie as I recall, both segments were probably recorded on the same day.

Another segment that got my goat yesterday was the bereaved mother of the State Department staff who was killed at Benghazi. That segment was also aired several times without a peep about the bereaved mother of a former SEAL who’d asked the Romney campaign NOT to exploit her son’s death.

Two examples of how FoxNews cherry-picks its guests.

A codicil to my last post:

When it is “discovered” that the cancer rate among the populations that got their water, milk and milk products from the area affected by the chemical spills, we can expect outrage to flare up with loud queries: “where was the government while this was happening?” “Where were the reporters?” etc. etc. etc.

A good case in point is the New England Compounding company where failure to enforce the law opened the door to the production and distribution of a product packed with menningitis. Nine deaths and counting.

I’ll continue to do my bit to make sure that that case where it was decided that FoxNews is NOT a news organisation is never forgotten.

As I recall, FoxNews, itself, declared at least one – and in the courts – that it was in the “infotainment” not the “news” business and hence authorised to lie.

Details: On February 14, 2003, a ruling by the Florida Appeals Court reversed the rulings of three (3) lower courts on a case involving FNC and a free-lance reporter called Jane Akre. Ms Akre had been hired to do a piece on a Monsanto chemical plant in the Tampa FL area. Her investigation found traces of chemicals present only in that plant in the milk of local dairy cattle. FNC told her to leave that part out, she refused and they refused to honor her contract. She won all three cases heard by three lower courts before losing before the Florida Appeals Court. Expect the cancer rate in that part of Florida to rise.

Anyway, FNC got off that hook by declaring under oath that FoxNews was N-O-T a news organization. (www.foxbghsuit.com/home.htm)

Good, delegitimize the hell out of these fuckers whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Perhaps FoxGOPTV wasn’t invited because it was a NEWS conference? FoxGOPTV is not a news channel, it’s a GOP propaganda network. This is a fact that anyone with a functioning brain knows.

@al in la “I’M MELTING…….MELTING!”

:^)

@Antoinette. I agree. And I hope that our President will revoke Fux Noise’s White House press credentials as one of his first acts during his second term. The propaganda arm of the Repug-Teabagger Party has no place among real journalists.

Rupert Murdoch’s Soapbox of Hate not invited?!! Could it be that phone-hacking, police & political bribing Rupert has run out of tricks?

Is Chaffetz the congressman who used to work at Fox? I remember hearing an aside by Kilmeade on Fox and Friends last week.

Chaffetz keeps on saying he spent the better part of a day in Libya, occasionally adding that he stayed in Tripoli and spoke only to Embassy staff. So, now, he’s an authority on what happened at Benghazi. I’ll wait for the investigation findings to be released. As recommended by General Michael Hayden (director of CIA and NSA under Bush) on F&F last Tuesday (cf. Crooks and Liars).

Press conferences are for legitimate news organizations. The frauds on this fake network are not journalists.

IN OTHER NEWS: The Wicked Witch of the West was NOT asked to participate in a conference call set up by the munchkins.