Media Matters for America
FOX "news" and the 9/12 Tea Party: "Fair and Balanced", or "FAKE and Staged"????????????????
Fox News producer encouraging a crowd to scream and holler during a "report" by Fox News' Griff Jenkins at the 9/12 protest, the ONLY protest in history PROMOTED by a "news" channel. We would expect this type of behavior from a producer of, say, a daytime talk show with a live studio audience like Oprah or Maury or Jerry.......but from a cable news producer? Really?
Here's what it looked like on FOX "news":
ACORN down...next up for rightwing smears this week: the SEIU! Limbaugh gets paid handsomely to smear people on behalf of corporations and the rich: Rush Limbaugh's HALF-B-B-B-B-BILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT
Limbaugh Names Next Right-Wing Target, Smears All Of SEIU With One Person's Actions
South Carolina is FUCKED UP!!!!!!!!
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South Carolina's Joe "YOU LIE" Wilson:
MSNBC: Here's what Republicans are really like, when they are free to speak frankly in front of their base only. The "Values Voters Summit", where Republicans get to preach to their base. They're crazy agenda will NOT be covered in the "liberal media": ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN...because they're not liberal and it would show America exactly what the Republican party is all about, featuring the "patriotic" song: "Why Should God Bless America? Yes, why should God bless America...if the president isn't a Republican!!!
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"Values": Republican Sex Offenders
NO MEDIA COVERAGE WHATSOEVER! NOT EVEN BY PATRIOT GLENN BECK & FOX "news"! Why isn't FOX "news" covering this? Why isn't CNN, ABC, NBC, & CBS covering this? AND THE TEABAGGERS DON'T CARE, EITHER! Gee, a non-conservative like ME has to point this out in a conservative magazine! Why are all the other "conservatives" ignoring this?
There’s a new issue of The American Conservative going to press today, and it includes a story that will make more than a few congressmen and foreign lobbyists intensely uncomfortable: an in-depth interview between Phil Giraldi and FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. She tells us exactly how Turkish intelligence have penetrated national secrets, suborned government officials, and blackmailed Congress. It’s going to be explosive.'Explosive' Sibel Edmonds Cover Story at 'The American Conservative' to Hit Next Week. 4,000 word exclusive interview with 'the gagged FBI whistleblower on espionage, al-Qaeda, and secrets for sale'...
In this first break-down article, we'll look at the answers given by Edmonds during her deposition in regard to bribery and blackmail of current and former members of the U.S. Congress, including Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY), Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased) and an unnamed, currently-serving, married Democratic Congresswoman said to have been video-taped in a Lesbian affair by Turkish agents for blackmail purposes.
In further breakdown articles, we'll look at her disclosures concerning top State and Defense Department officials including Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and, perhaps most notably, the former Deputy Undersecretary of State, Marc Grossman, the third-highest ranking official in the State Department. Also, details on the theft of nuclear weapons technology; disclosures on Valerie Plame Wilson's CIA front company Brewster-Jennings; items related to U.S. knowledge of 9/11 and al-Qaeda prior to September 11, 2001; infiltration of the FBI translation department and more...
Sibel Edmonds' Deposition Disclosures: Congressional Bribery, Blackmail, and Espionage. Breaking down the formerly-gagged FBI whistleblower's sworn testimony...
SIBEL EDMONDS' DEPOSITION: VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT RELEASED. Long-gagged FBI whistleblower's full under-oath testimony from Ohio election case, details Congressional blackmail, bribery, espionage, infiltration, more...
Tell me if I've got this straight: Republicans are against abortion...but also against contraception. SO...they want you to have children, even if you don't want to! .......BUT they're against health care reform which would lower pregnancy costs, funding SCHIP, and I don't see them going out of their way to adopt any unwanted babies! Do I have that right???
1 - When I ask Republicans on Medicare if they want to shut that down, they shout NO !
2 - When I ask Republicans on Social Security if they want to eliminate it, they shout NO !
3 - When I ask Republicans with children in the public school systems if they want to start paying private school tuition and shut down the public schools (among the MOST "socialist" systems we have), especially the sports programs, they shout NO !
4 - When I ask Republicans eligible for VA hospital care or any other VA benefit to which they may be entitled regardless if they ever heard a shot fired in anger if they want those shut down, they shout NO !
5 - When I ask Republicans if they want their trash pickup, road repairs, sewer systems, snow removal, mail delivery, public parks, public pools, public recreation programs, etc. shut down, they shout NO !
6 - When I ask Republicans with children who receive special education services if they want those programs shut down, they shout NO ! (** There I was a few years ago providing entirely publicly-funded at-home tutoring services for a Republican family's disabled child, who was receiving TONS of other public services as well, and they had the gaul to rib me about my Kerry for President bumper sticker.
I laughed out loud all the way home.)
7 - When I ask Republicans if they want their local public fire departments and police departments shut down, they shout NO !
8 - When I ask Republicans with kids in Headstart or who need to access to unemployment benefits or other public programs when THEY lose their jobs if they want these shut down, they shout NO !
9 - When I ask Republicans who, like the vast majority that join the military, if they joined the service because they wanted a job and wanted college money, etc., if honest, they shout YES ! to that one as the US military, its hospitals, and other services is the MODEL "socialist" jobs and benefits program in America. * Of course, these benefits are the recruiters' selling points.
10) REPUBLICANS WANT HEAVY HANDED GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN OUR PRIVATE LIVES: Republicans want to: take reproductive decisions away from women and doctors; take other medical decisions always from families and doctors (i.e. the Schaivo case); force selected religious doctrines onto everyone; tell individuals who can commit to each other legally and who can't; tell us what books to read, tv shows to watch, music to listen to, etc. and on it goes.
11 - Here is the Bush/Republican record: surplus turned in to massive DEBT; Medicare-D = complicated, donut hole, still 500 billion added to the DEBT; Iraq war DEBT; tax cuts for the rich DEBT; corporate giveaways and no-bid contracts DEBT; warrantless wiretapping, torture, Gitmo, nationbuilding = national disgrace immorality DEBT and monetary DEBT.; corporate deregulation DEBT; Bush/Paulson TARP DEBT; .......
They should be renamed the DEBTpublican Party.
Republicans? "Conservatives"? They "conserve" very little. And "Socialists?" Republicans need to take a good long honest-for-a-change look in the mirror. By their very own definitions and conceptualizations, they are "SOCIALISTS."
