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And just maybe FOX news is taking a big viewership decline because of their obvious bias.
Here's some of the article, for the rest click on the link;
Bill O'Reilly already laid down the law at Fox -- namely, that protesters chanting "Fox News Lies" are obviously a bunch of hatemongers trying to shut down other voices. And so that was the storyline all weekend whenever Fox reporters tried to do live broadcasts from the Madison protests.
This mainly involved correspondent Mike Tobin and weekend lamestain anchor Gregg Jarrett, who could barely contain themselves over the supposed "incivility" of the Madison protests. When the chant went up Saturday, Tobin tried to minimize them:
TOBIN: Now, once again, they're chanting about Fox News -- which as we all know is really a diversion from what's going on here.
Jarrett then went on to cite a phony Rasmussen poll supposedly showing most respondents disapproving of the legislators staying out of town to fight Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting schemes -- without mentioning, of course, the polls showing strong public disapproval for Walker's actions as well.
Gee, we wonder why the crowds were chanting as they were.
It continued Sunday:
TOBIN: And you can still hear the passion of the crowds. The heckling is starting up again, the hate that you get from these demonstrators. You can see it in their faces. You can see the passion. But they all come back to the same thing every time.
I was getting the business from a teacher yesterday -- there he goes, he wants to shut down the communication. A teacher was giving me the business yesterday, and the teacher told me she hates me, because it makes her feel good. That's the situation out here, Gregg.
JARRETT: You know, Mike, I hate to put you into this situation, because you're being surrounded there, and yeah, you're being heckled, and there is profanity and vulgarity.
TOBIN: That guy just hit me.
JARRETT: Go ahead.
TOBIN: Ah, that guy just hit me. So to just let you know.
JARRETT: All right. But -- but -- you know -- why do they express such vitriol toward the media?
Memo to Jarrett: Fox News is neither synonymous with nor really even representative of "the media", especially as far as this crowd is concerned. Because the folks in Madison know -- and are giving voice to -- an important truth: Fox News is not a news organization, it is a propaganda organ.And just maybe FOX news is taking a big viewership decline because of their obvious... more
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Woe is he. Media baron Rupert Murdoch is said to be depressed over setbacks to his compulsive efforts to acquire ever more media platforms from which to spew his international rightist propaganda. The news of Murdoch’s depression comes from a trusted ally, Andrew Neil, founding chairman of Sky TV and former editor of Murdoch’s Sunday Times in London.
Neil describes Murdoch’s dismay that criminal activity by his newspapers may frustrate his attempt to assume control over the 60% of satellite network BSkyB that he doesn’t already own. It seems that his minions at News of the World were caught hacking into the phones of politicians and celebrities to obtain information for salacious stories. That behavior may have an impact on Britain’s regulators approving the Murdoch acquisition.
According to Neil, Murdoch is now taking radical steps to salvage the deal. Though years have past since the hacking was first discovered and reported, Murdoch is only now attempting to hold anyone accountable. So he fired an assistant editor. That’ll show ‘em. And this new demonstration of hardball tactics comes after he previously paid millions in hush money to prevent the scandal from being exposed. So his first instinct was to sweep it under the rug and, now that the deal is teetering, he shifts to punishing low-level scapegoats.
The BSkyB deal has also been criticized by media watchdogs because it would give an unprecedented degree of control over the British media to one man. And that one man has made it clear that he would exercise editorial control over the Sky News division of BSkyB. He told a parliamentary inquiry that “Sky News would be more popular if it were more like the Fox News Channel.”
That’s what British news consumers have to look forward to if Murdoch is successful. For their sake, I hope he is not. And if that only makes him more depressed I suppose he’ll just have to live with it.Woe is he. Media baron Rupert Murdoch is said to be depressed over setbacks to his... more
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On Tuesday 11th January 2011, @wikileaks said:
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
10 Jan 2010, 10:15 PM EST
“WikiLeaks: treat incitement seriously or expect more Gabrielle Gifford killing sprees.”
Wikileaks today offered sympathy and condolences to the victims of the Tucson shooting together with best wishes for the recovery of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, a democrat from Arizona's 8th district, was the target of a shooting spree at a Jan 8 political event in which six others were killed.
Tucson Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, leading the investigation into the Gifford shooting, said that "vitriolic rhetoric" intended to "inflame the public on a daily basis ... has [an] impact on people, especially who are unbalanced personalities to begin with." Dupnik also observed that officials and media personalities engaging in violent rhetoric "have to consider that they have some responsibility when incidents like this occur and may occur in the future."
WikiLeaks staff and contributors have also been the target of unprecedented violent rhetoric by US prominent media personalities, including Sarah Palin, who urged the US administration to “Hunt down the WikiLeaks chief like the Taliban”. Prominent US politician Mike Huckabee called for the execution of WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange on his Fox News program last November, and Fox News commentator Bob Beckel, referring to Assange, publicly called for people to "illegally shoot the son of a bitch." US radio personality Rush Limbaugh has called for pressure to "Give [Fox News President Roger] Ailes the order and [then] there is no Assange, I'll guarantee you, and there will be no fingerprints on it.", while the Washington Times columnist Jeffery T. Kuhner titled his column “Assassinate Assange” captioned with a picture Julian Assange overlayed with a gun site, blood spatters, and “WANTED DEAD or ALIVE” with the alive crossed out.
John Hawkins of Townhall.com has stated "If Julian Assange is shot in the head tomorrow or if his car is blown up when he turns the key, what message do you think that would send about releasing sensitive American data?"
Christian Whiton in a Fox News opinion piece called for violence against WikiLeaks publishers and editors, saying the US should "designate WikiLeaks and its officers as enemy combatants, paving the way for non-judicial actions against them."
WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said: "No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder. Those who call for an act of murder deserve as significant share of the guilt as those raising a gun to pull the trigger."
“WikiLeaks has many young staff, volunteers and supporters in the same geographic vicinity as these the broadcast or circulation of these incitements to kill. We have also seen mentally unstable people travel from the US and other counties to other locations. Consequently we have to engage in extreme security measures.”
“We call on US authorities and others to protect the rule of law by aggressively prosecuting these and similar incitements to kill. A civil nation of laws can not have prominent members of society constantly calling for the murder and assassination of other individuals or groups.”
More examples:
http://www.peopleokwithmurderingassange.com/On Tuesday 11th January 2011, @wikileaks said:
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
10 Jan... more
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television bills over nine years because the combined company would gain power to raise prices, a cable-industry group said today.
The enlarged Comcast might demand that customers pay more for NBC programming, and charge more in markets where it has a regional sports network, the American Cable Association said in an e-mailed news release. The Pittsburgh-based group says it represents almost 900 small- and medium-sized cable companies.
The Federal Communications Commission and Justice Department are weighing the proposed $28 billion acquisition, which would give Comcast, the largest U.S. cable company, control of the NBC television network, broadcast stations, cable channels such as MSNBC and USA Network and a movie studio.
Comcast disputed the association’s financial projection. “Once again, ACA has submitted flawed economic analysis,” Sena Fitzmaurice, a Washington-based spokeswoman for Comcast, said in an e-mailed statement. “It relies on assumptions and calculations that are unsupported, directly contradicted by available data, and contrary to previous FCC rulings.”
Comcast fell 13 cents to $20.91 at 4:29 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.
The American Cable Association said control over NBC, a General Electric Co. unit, would let Philadelphia-based Comcast raise prices “way above levels the two would be able to command as separate and independent companies.”
Bravo, USA Channels
The group wants regulators to restrict Comcast from selling NBC TV station signals or its nine regional sports networks in a bundle with national cable channels it would own such as Bravo and USA. It also has asked for binding arbitration in fee disputes.
Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television, has filed documents opposing the merger as it is currently proposed.
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Earlier this month, ThinkProgress published an exclusive series of investigative pieces into the fundraising program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the far right corporate lobbying juggernaut. We uncovered millions from corporations like Procter and Gamble, outsourcing giant CSC, and Microsoft, but also discovered that the Chamber has been actively fundraising from foreign corporations like the Bahrain Petroleum Company and the State Bank of India. We provided documentation for over 80 foreign corporations donating at least $885,000 to the same Chamber 501(c)(6) general account the Chamber is now using to run an unprecedented $75 million attack campaign against Democrats.
Responding to our posts, the Chamber launched a massive smear campaign using its large in-house communications staff and a network of well funded public relations firms:
– *Manipulating Google And Blogs*: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce retains public
> relations giant Fleishman-Hillard for much of their online communications work.
> Fleishman-Hillard VP Pat Cleary posts on the Chamber’s blog, and says he works
> closely with conservative bloggers through RedState. Other Chamber lobbyists
> collaborate routinely with conservative bloggers through the Heritage Foundation’s
> Bloggers Briefing to help get the message out for business lobbyists. As Cleary has
> told conferences of business lobbyists, he helps trade associations like the Chamber
> buy AdWords to promote the business lobby’s message. For example, when anyone
> Googles the words “US Chamber” and “foreign,” they see a link to the Chamber’s
> false response that it receives only $100,000 from foreign affiliates.
– *Paying For Television Pundits*: GOP lobbyist John Feehery has appeared on cable
> television to attack ThinkProgress’ reporting, taken to Twitter call President Obama a
> “business-hating socialist” for calling attention to this story, and even penned an
> article in The Hill newspaper to defend the Chamber and lie about our investigation.
> Feehery never mentioned the foreign corporate direct donations to the Chamber’s
> 501(c)(6). But more importantly, neither The Hill nor any of television outlets
> Feehery appears on disclosed the fact that Feehery’s public relations firm, The
> Feehery Group, counts the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of its clients. Shortly
> after our story broke, Feehery was hired by another public relations/lobbying firm,
> Quinn Gillespie, which is also a client of the Chamber. Moreover, Fox News’ parent
> company is an active member of the Chamber, and hate-talker Glenn Beck met with
> the Chamber’s second in command earlier this year to plot the 2010 election. While
> Fox hosts and Beck have endlessly defended the Chamber’s secret money, there
> has been no disclosure of the network’s financial ties to Chamber lobbyists.
– *The Chamber Owns Fake News Sites*: As the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
> reported, the Chamber owns a variety of news websites in West Virginia, Illinois, and
> elsewhere, while also maintaining a wire service called Legal Newsline. All of these
> websites posture as independently owned and objective journalism outfits, and do
> not disclose that they are fully owned subsidiaries of Chamber lobbyists.
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Unfortunately, the Chamber’s sophisticated smear campaign deceived many reputable media organizations into distorting our reporting. Reporters from the New York Times (Eric Lichtblau), the Associated Press (Alan Fram, Jim Kuhnhenn), McClatchy (David Lightman), Time (Mark Halperin), and other outlets misrepresented ThinkProgress’ reporting by refusing to acknowledge any of our key revelations about the Chamber’s foreign fundraising (the fundraising documents we published, the Bahrainian or Indianian corporate donations). None of these reporters directly contacted ThinkProgress, and instead opted to only interview Chamber lobbyists.
In many cases, these traditional reporters reprinted the Chamber’s lie that it only fundraises from foreign affiliates called AmChams, and that AmChams are composed of only American companies (this has been thoroughly debunked). Ignoring ThinkProgess’ reporting, these journalists reprinted the Chamber’s unproven assertion that it only accepts $100,000 from foreign affiliates. In other cases, these reporters reprinted the Chamber’s false claim that its political operation is equivalent to labor unions. In fact, labor unions face double disclosure because they must reveal their donors to the public through both the Department of Labor and the Federal Election Commission. The Chamber, on the other hand, refuses to disclose both its American and foreign donors to anyone. Although ThinkProgress has demonstrated that the Chamber receives at a minimum of $885,000 in foreign cash every year to its primary 501(c)(6) campaign account, few journalists have bothered to cover the thrust of our story.Earlier this month, ThinkProgress published an exclusive series of investigative... more
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The Official UnOfficial street video of Sly Fox by Nasir Jones off his new album. Bill OReilly doesnt want you to see this! Send to all your friends.The Official UnOfficial street video of Sly Fox by Nasir Jones off his new album. Bill... more
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It's getting pathetic really, how eager conservatives are to accuse black people of racism these days -- a la Andrew Breitbart and his various Shirley-Sherrod-like smear jobs. Aren't these the same folks who squeal piteously that "racist is the worst thing you can call anybody" whenever it's a right-winger who indulges it?
For instance, that recent Gallup poll finding support for President Obama still strong among blacks but down to only 36 percent among whites was evidence of "racism" among blacks, according to wingnut talk-show host Lars Larson yesterday on Fox's America Live with Megyn Kelly:It's getting pathetic really, how eager conservatives are to accuse black people... more
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News Corp. physically expands its definition of "ground zero" to include a quarter of lower Manhattan ------Video
Thanks, News Corp., for not allowing good taste to stand in the way of your obsessive crusade against the construction of an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan near the site of the World Trade Center. Today's Post features a beautiful two-page spread arguing that Ground Zero includes basically everything south of Canal and east of Broadway. They illustrate the argument with a grotesque map of the locations of every place in the area where firefighters found human remains following the attack of 9/11.
I am positive that Post editors were distraught to learn that no human remains were ever recovered at the Burlington Coat Factory building that may someday become the dreaded ground zero mosque (which is still not a mosque and still not at ground zero). But Post editors do helpfully note that remains were found a mere 348 feet away from the building in question, on top of the post office around the corner. (What if someone mails Qurans to the Ground Zero Mosque and they pick them up at that Ground Zero Post Office? Why won't they be more sensitive???)
The "news story" is accompanied by a fact-free essay by fabulist Amir Taheri, who actually claims (using his patented twisted, made-up history) that the Cordoba House will be a place for "raiders" to "train and prepare" for future 9/11s.
The Post says they "obtained" the map from the New York's fire department, although what they actually mean is that they clearly created the map, for the purposes of continuing their successful campaign against this Manhattan real estate project, based on data obtained from the FDNY.
And Fox & Friends picked it up this morning, crediting the Post while conveniently using a different, TV-ready map:
Our Fox and Friends hosts, too, were clearly wishing the map showed remains recovered from the Burlington Coat Factory site. They quoted Faisal Abdul Rauf thusly: "Look, the Imam said, this site is not Ground Zero proper, nobody's bodies were found a-- near that location."
The actual quote is: "This is not Ground Zero proper. No one's body is in that location." Which remains true!
Fox Nation was ready with a story about the map, including links to two different versions and the Post's map.
As the Awl's Choire Sicha neatly illustrates, once you attempt to expand the definition of "ground zero" to include everything in the area, you're calling bars and Goldman Sachs and, yes, the strip club sacred ground.
So! No Muslims building anything within thousands of feet of "ground zero," which now means everywhere, as proven by this important death porn map. Never forget! 9/11 is everwhere, and always!News Corp. physically expands its definition of "ground zero" to include a... more
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In the Kim case, the Justice Department said the analyst in June 2009 knowingly passed information about U.S. intelligence concerning a foreign country to a national news organization and in September of that year falsely denied to the FBI having had recent contacts with a reporter from that news organization. The material was classified top secret/sensitive because it concerned the military capability of the foreign country and related to U.S. intelligence sources and methods.
A person briefed on the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters not included in the filing, said the country was North Korea and the news organization was Fox News.http://intoxination.net/files/faux_news%5b1%5d.jpg
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As you all know, Fox News parent News Corps donated $1 million to the republican governors association back in June...one of the largest donations in history by a media organization.
Not only does this put a cloud on their slogan "fair and balanced" when covering the upcoming gubernatorial elections, it is made worse by the fact that, to date, Fox News has YET to cover the controversy. Even though every other major media outlet has.
It is no secret that Fox News spends a lot time scrubbing thier own Wikipedia articles, but several editors have managed to get some issues on the page "Fox News Controversies".
However, here is what is happening on the News Corp. donation scandal:
On the Fox News main page, someone put this inocuous little statement, heavily referenced, under the controversy section:
In June 2010, News Corporation donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association
Oh HELLS no! Two FNC scrubbers were on the case and according to the history page(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fox_News_Channel&action=history) had that puppy removed.
Giving up on the Fox News main page(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel), a blurb was added on the "Fox News Controversies(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies)" page, which even included the official Fox News and News Corps defense of the donation. It was removed.
The discussion page and the history page on the "Fox News Controversies" section is funny. First the argument was the controversy was "minor", then the argument was it wasn't covered by any other media. When a wikipedia editor listed EVERY media outlet that covered it, then the argument was it required "consensus" from everybody before it could be in the article...and the latest arguement? That NEWS CORPS is not really Fox News so it doesn't belong there.
Yeah...even though the whole controversy is around FN bias, and how they fail to even address the issue, and the fact that they won't allow ANY Dem governor to come on their show and discuss the matter, etc.
Right now, the scandal is scrubbed on Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies).
Update: There are several discussions still ongoing at the talk page of Fox News Controversies on WP. If you are a wikipedia editor on either the LEFT or RIGHT, you are invited to join the discussion. I have no doubt that Fox News Corporation will send people to join tomorrow morning. The purpose of this diary was not to "flood" the opposition--as correctly noted, it is not "majority rule". But to invite people to a debate that some with an agenda were hoping would just be swept under the rug.
Wikipedia only works if there is open and honest debate and discussion from several people. Ironically, the very people trying to suppress this aren't doing Fox News any favors--the omission is a glaring example of bias. All they are doing is hurting Wikipedia as an unbiased source for information.$1-Mil.-Donation-
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For much of the last decade Fox News has dominated the Nielsen ratings for cable news networks. They spend a great deal of their time on air bragging about it too. In reality they haven't got that much to boast about. Their audience is relatively larger because they corral conservative viewers on one network while all the other networks divide the broader, more mainstream audience into smaller shares. And even with high numbers for cable news, it needs to be noted that cable news is a far smaller market than that for broadcast news. The lowest rated national broadcast news program (CBS) still gets higher ratings than the highest rated cable news program (O'Reilly).
So despite their Narcissistic self-glorification, Fox News doesn't have nearly the influence they like to pretend to have. And nowhere is that more apparent than on the Internet. MediaWeek reports(http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/digital-downloads/broadband/e3i831a0b575c6cd1c6905586f8be9aa55e) that Fox News' presence online is dead last in their sector, landing far behind CNN, MSNBC, and even Yahoo News.
"Foxnews.com averages around 12 million or 13 million monthly unique users, according to Nielsen Online, rarely approaching the 35 million to 40 million uniques that leaders Yahoo News, MSNBC and CNN regularly deliver in aggregate."
The article offers speculation as to the reasons for Fox's failure ranging from presentation quality to age demographics to the inability to translate the Fox flavor from TV to Cyberspace. There is some truth in all of that. Particularly the difficulty in recreating an online version of Fox's trademark shoutcasting model, with blustery partisans and rhetorical melodrama. But whatever the reasons, Fox faces some troubling prospects for the future.
Being the number one cable news network may not be such a prize in the years ahead. News consumers, along with everyone else, are moving online for more and more of their information, interaction, and commerce. The next generation may have a very limited relationship with cable news, other than for entertainment and affirmation of positions already held. The preferred destination for learning about your world and your community is increasingly the Internet. This trend is even more evident in younger populations who will shape the future market for news delivery.For much of the last decade Fox News has dominated the Nielsen ratings for cable news... more
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A public library in Burlington County, New Jersey has ordered all of the copies of "Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology" removed from circulation, after a member of Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project complained about the book's content.
The library cited "child pornography" as its reason for removing the book.
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)(http://www.glsen.org/) describes "Revolutionary Voices," edited by Amy Sonnie, as "the first creative resource by and for queer and questioning youth of every color, class, religion, gender and ability." It features first-hand coming-out accounts from gay students, and "reflections on identity," according to the School Library Journal(http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/886066-312/nj_library_citing_child_pornography.html.csp). It was also named as one of the best adult books for high school students by the Journal in 2001.
But, according to Beverly Marinelli, a member of the 9/12 Project in Burlington County, the content is much more sinister than that. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Marinelli called it "pervasively vulgar, obscene, and inappropriate." Marinelli maintained she's "not a homophobe," but called a drawing of Boy Scouts watching two men have sex, "the worst."
The ACLU-NJ obtained emails through a Freedom of Information Act request that reveal that Marinelli met with Gail Sweet, the library's director, in April. Following their meeting, Sweet arranged for the Library Commission to discuss the book's removal that month.
The Commission ultimately supported the decision to remove "Revolutionary Voices" from circulation, though "no official challenge" was made, and "no actual vote by the commissioners" was taken, according to Sweet's emails. The reasoning was that the book constituted "child pornography."
In an email to the library's circulation coordinator, Sweet asked: "How can we grab the books so that they never, ever get back into ccirculation [sic]. Copies need to totally disappear (as in not a good idea to send copies to the book sale)."
Sweet responded to TPM's request for comment with a brief, "Thank you for your interest but I do not have any comments to make."
In emails to Sweet, Marinelli linked to articles by conservative websites Big Government and Gateway Pundit, which quote some of the other content in "Revolutionary Voices" that they found objectionable.
Take this excerpt, for example:
I learned the truth about Santa Claus and masturbation in the same year. I was 9. I had a hunch about Santa, but I had no clue about masturbation. I mean, I had no clue there was anything wrong with it. As far as I know, I've been masturbating my whole life. But it wasn't until 9 that I realized it was an impulse that you had to turn off. Especially in class. Fourth grade craft time taught me shame.
Notably, the Gateway Pundit post that Marinelli linked to is mostly targeting Kevin Jennings, who the right-wing accused of having a "pro-homosexual agenda" after President Obama nominated him as director of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
Around the same time the Burlington library took "Revolutionary Voices" out of circulation, it was also removed from the Rancocas Valley Regional High School library after complaints by Marinelli and others in the local chapter of the 9/12 Project.
Marinelli did not immediately return TPM's request for comment.A public library in Burlington County, New Jersey has ordered all of the copies of... more
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See that empty seat front and center? That was Helen Thomas' official seat in the White House press pool, the only such designation in the press room. It was given to her in honor of her 57 years of covering presidential press conferences.
In the wake of her resignation, three news services are vying to take Thomas' seat: Fox News Channel, Bloomberg and NPR.
But let's be honest: giving Fox News Channel--the same outlet that elevated Breitbart's ACORN and Sherrod scandals to national prominence, that continues to push the NBPP non-story, that employs that inciter of insanity, Glenn Beck--the seat is a slap in the face to any American who actually cares about news.See that empty seat front and center? That was Helen Thomas' official seat in the... more
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Call it a failure to launch.
The White House is disavowing a plan to have NASA conduct outreach to Muslim countries, but a congressman who talked to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about that plan last month said the initiative was very real until somebody slammed the brakes
on it.
Rep. Pete Olson, ranking Republican on the Space and Aeronautics House Subcommittee, told FoxNews.com that Bolden described the outreach program as part of the administration's space plan during a conversation they had in June.
"He confirmed it to me," Olson said. The Texas Republican said he thinks the program existed until the "uproar" compelled the administration to rethink it. Though Bolden mentioned the outreach months ago during a speech in February, it drew widespread attention after he described it as a "foremost" priority during an interview with Al Jazeera last month. The administration initially stood by the claim, but White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that Bolden misspoke and that the outreach is "not the task of NASA." The last thing we need to be doing now is spending precious space dollars ... on outreach to any religion," he said. "We need to spend money on human space exploration." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/14/nasa-outreach-program-confirmed-despite-white-house-denial-rep-says/Call it a failure to launch.
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Fox hypes Bartle's Bull
July 08, 2010 11:59 am ET by Julie Millican
Continuing to serve as the bullhorn for those pushing the trumped up New Black Panther Party story, Fox & Friends hosted Bartle Bull as a firsthand "witness" to the incident. Bull was identified as a "civil rights attorney," "Bobby Kennedy's campaign manager in New York state," "Jimmy Carter's campaign manager in New York state," and a "poll watcher that day." Missing from this identification was the fact that Bull was a McCain "poll watcher that day" who pretty intensely dislikes Obama. And, he's figured out a way to tie the New Black Panthers incident to ACORN.Fox hypes Bartle's Bull
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