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How Fox News Gets Away With Its Lies...

Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on May 28, 2012 · Flag

...The mainstream media lets them. Crooks and Liars found a perfect example of Fox News getting a pass on one of its more egregious lies: Roger Ailes told a whopper during a recent speech, saying that Fox News employs only one conservative vs. 24 liberals. But on CNN's Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz somehow missed that - along with several other outrageous Ailes statements - in order to focus on a smear of the New York Times... which Kurtz noted, a Fox spokesman walked back for Ailes. 

As Karoli at Crooks and Liars says, 

So Howie, what about these things that Roger Ailes said in his Ohio speech? Are they over the top? Out in left field? Or are they what most of us would call "outright lies?" Why no mention of these?

Media Matters writes all of the primetime programming for MSNBC. All of it. That’s what a recently published book says.

MSNBC is out of the news business. Brian Williams, a sincere newsman, wouldn’t want to be caught dead over there.

I would love for the AP to go back to being a neutral news source. But it slants stories, slants headlines. It tips to the left.

The only difference between Fox talk shows and those on CNN or MSNBC is that Fox invites liberal voices to engage in dialogue.

If Kurtz wants to excuse or justify these comments by Ailes, that's one thing. But to pretend there's nothing remarkable there to talk about is exactly how Fox gets away with camouflaging itself as a mainstream news operation - the conservative version of CNN and/or MSNBC, if you will - when it is really first and foremost a political operation with an agenda it relentlessly pushes.

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(3/9/20 Updtae: Video is no longer available)

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Ellen commented 2012-05-31 00:27:25 -0400 · Flag
Thanks, Jay. I was away for the holiday and am just now catching up on comments.
Kent Brockman commented 2012-05-29 19:20:33 -0400 · Flag
Fux Nuze Sez

If you don’t like our message you can get your commie, librul ass on a plane to China.
Thx4 Fish commented 2012-05-29 17:30:48 -0400 · Flag
More importantly why is UNC inviting such a propagandist to speak at a grad ceremony? Sure its in the south, but I used to have a good opinion of that school. I’ll have to reconsider now.
Thx4 Fish commented 2012-05-29 17:28:29 -0400 · Flag
The sheer number of lies makes it almost impossible to combat them all. It would be easier to track the truthful things that Fox and/or Ailes say. It would be a short list.
Jay Diamond commented 2012-05-29 13:58:42 -0400 · Flag
Beautifully stated, Ellen.
truman commented 2012-05-29 09:05:09 -0400 · Flag
Jabba T. Ailes has never been a journalist and certainly does not run a news operation. Fux Noise is an extension of the Repug Party. It’s 24/7 political propaganda fueled by hatemongering against anyone who is not a white Christian. The bile that Fux Noise injects daily into the airwaves has done a great disservice to this nation.
Calvin Slaton commented 2012-05-29 01:48:43 -0400 · Flag
I told my wife sometime ago,that fox news and talk radio has really destroyed this great country. Roger Ailes was a close pal to the late great Lee Atwater. That is all you need to know about Roger.








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