Do not adjust your TV sets. That high-pitched, relentless whining sound coming from the screen is just Fox News
By David Neiwert Wednesday Oct 21, 2009 3:00pm
It used to be that, when you got a persistent, high-pitched and annoying whine emanating from your TV set -- you know the kind, that high-pitched squeal that feels like a drill in your eardrums -- you'd just go whack the TV set until it stopped, or call your repairman.
Now, it just means you have to turn the channel off Fox News.
All this week, nearly every single Fox News program has tackled the insidious "war on Fox" being waged by the Obama White House. It's been constant and petulant -- and bereft of any awareness whatsoever that they're actually constantly proving the White House's point about a bias in not just the opinion shows but also their "news" product.
It has, however, produced surreal moments like the one above, on Sean Hannity's program last night, with a panel featuring (among others) Steven Crowder of Pajamas Media TV, when the host burst forth with one of his "factual" declarations that actually was a falsehood, followed by a surreally un-self-aware discussion about how the White House doesn't want to be fact-checked:
Hannity: Let me see if I can sum this up. Is it that they want to distract from the debates that they're losing -- the American public overwhelmingly, according to every credible poll, is against Obamacare -- are they trying to distract? Are they trying to intimidate? What's the strategy?
Crowder: I think this is a huge indictment on every other mainstream news source. The fact that the fact-checking is so appalling -- I mean, what does that say about other news networks, that they've given them this free pass, this open lane to this administration?
Yyyyeah. Right. Well, speaking of fact-checking, how about this fact: According to every recent credible poll -- including the most recent Washington Post/ABC poll released just yesterday morning -- the public in fact strongly supports a public option with its health-care reform package. In fact, support has risen from 52 percent to 57 percent in recent months. The most recent CBS poll pegs the support at 62 percent.
If by "Obamacare" Hannity means a public option (and he does, having used the term that way previously), then he not only is wrong on the facts -- he has reality exactly reversed.
These are, of course, "opinion" shows. But "opinions" should be based on, you know, actual facts. Because otherwise, they're just lies. Maybe on Fox, we should stop calling them "opinion shows" and start calling them "Newspeak shows."
And the excuse that Fox's bias is relegated only to these "opinion shows" and does not extend to its news reportage is, as we've noted, a grand load of hooey:
If you watch Fox's daytime "news" programs -- from Fox & Friends to Happening Now to Special Report with Bret Baier (where this report aired) -- you'll find that, while they lack the viciousness of the "opinion" programs, they nonetheless are heavily slanted with an anti-administration bias. "Reporters" like Carl Cameron and James Rosen constantly bring on Republican spokespeople and reliably transmit GOP talking points as though they represent fact (when in reality they usually have an estranged relationship with the truth). Anchors like Gretchen Carlson and Trace Gallagher regularly comment on the news they're reporting with an unmistakable right-wing slant.
Media Matters has documented this in extensive detail. They've also come up with a video that illustrates the point beautifully:
Remember: Friends don't let friends do Fox.








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....kiss my black ass!
please please ...for 1 week maybe, just boycott this ENTIRE empire of $h!t ... that means TV shows,family guy the simpsons whatever, movies, whatever crappy books they publish, Myspace and everything else controlled by Ruprecht the Evil Aussie $h!tstain... STARVE THEM OUT !!! its all they understand! STARVE THEM OUT!!!!
Don't forget G4TV.
http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
...and I'm GD serious ...boycott EVERY slimy company on that list ...
A couple of weeks or so ago I noticed a short lived meme by trolls visiting this site and other lefty sites "Just go back to watching American Idol, moonbats and let the adults do the work...
Under Other [Newscorp assets], toward the bottom:
I wondered where that little piece of bs admonishment went, AI never seemed like must see tv for the leftie, and now it dawns on me, it's on FOX!
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CJR, Media Matters, FAIR, Democracynow.org, Pacifica Radio,
the only hope left for your country, seriously ... (plus maybe LL Bean and a good Alexander Valley Cab-Sauv ... :)
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YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! lets do this!!!!!
...but please start with Frikken American Idol ...
Can never bring themselves together enough to do this... Most really will not give anything up from their everyday life , to accomplish a goal in which they really desire..
...the alternative is giving up a lot more than AMerican Fu&%ing Idol ...
FOX is unarmed and unmanned.
FuckNews brought a KNIFE to a GUNFIGHT...and they're WONDERING HOW ALL THOSE HOLES GOT THERE...
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they bring a big fat checkbook to an auction .... big difference
STARVE THEM OUT!
http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=newscorp
You got me again, I am not watching those [Deleted] Fox news clips today.
BUT!
Nattering Namebombs of Negativity, is that how Grayson put it?
[Use something else as a pejorative please. This isn't South Park. Thank you-Sitemonitor]
Ok, I do know how to conduct myself here, but it is just so fun, letting the beast out. I grew up around these people, what can I do, I am screwed 36 and a potty mouth. I was gonna use the F*****(bundle of sticks) instead, damn glad I didn't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w54_CH2-qTQ
I like south park a couple bong rips and I think I am back in central Pensylvania public schools again.
So anything that could describe a homosexual can't be used to describe FOX on here? I am for gay rights exactly why I was assaulted twice by these nuckle draging neanderthals.
I don't even know what "perjorative" even means. That's even 7th grade english class isn't it. I had staight A's. I would love to talk to some of you guys on the phone or in person, you'd be gasp gasp gasp I imagine. OH yes, I am stubborn in my mind, I think no single word should be bad or even banned, the real meaning is what is offensive.
Kill the link on South park if you must.
Your really gonna get mad at me when I support Arlen Spector after he helps me out of this horrible workers comp experience. Yet just another joke, but I did email the man and told him I need his help now badly. I also asked him to vote for Hr. 676 a real progressive bill.
Which one of you did that? Susie? David? Who am I offending over and over with my wit and charm?
David - is there a reason you're still watching FOX? I even hate watching the AL series on it ...
I watch it so you don't have to.
Though I think I will end up filing for workmen's comp from the brain damage.
At this point, I feel like a mortician on his 2,364th corpse.
I cancelled cable years ago because I felt FOX was benefitting from it. At the time they were cheerleading Bush War2: The Early Years.
I am so glad not to be exposed to their stupidity and hate. So again thanks.
"I watch it so you don't have to."
You're a better man than I.
and Thanks
Thank you too, Mr. Neiwert...you torture lover. :)
What IS this Obamacare you Zombie Army soldiers are whingeing on about? Don't like it? Quit your gd bitching and change it you lazy little dick. Oh wait, you might not get paid for that.
I don't think you even KNOW WTF of what it is you are speaking.
Also, what LeftandLeft said.
Is the Whambulance on the way???
The WHINE machine has been kicked into high gear....what a bunch of two-year olds...Hanratty, Bill-the-clown, beck, Cackling Crowley, the whole bunch has really got their bunch tied in a lump...
"Every credible poll" in Hannity's world consists of only two polling organizations, Rasmussen, and IBD/TIPP. Rasmussen is a well respected polling organization on predicting outcomes, but is reliably biased to the right on issue polling. That's why conservatives only quote Rasmussen in their arguments.
IBD/TIPP, on the other hand, isn't respected by anybody on the left or the right. They mail their questionnaires to participants, which nobody else does, and their questions are so biased that they can only considered push polls. As an example of how inaccurate IBD/TIPP are, during the 2008 Presidntial campaign they had John McCain winning the youth vote 74-22. Wow.
But that's why Hannity loves them so much. They tell him what he wants to hear, reality be damned.
Incredible pole...!
FOX News, Fabricating Overblown Xenophobia.
"That high-pitched, relentless whining sound"
I thought I had tinnitus. . .
When a spoiled bullying child finally gets a light smack or a minor dressing down, what does he do? Look at himself and decide, maybe I should grow up and change my behavior? No, he plops his fat ass down and whines and cries and throws the biggest tantrum this world has ever seen.
What is the solution here? How does the adult discipline the out-of-control child?
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can act like a civilized human being." Puts the burden on them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3azMQLBN_0A
It'll never happen but all should just pretend Farce news doesn't exist , ignore them and let just let the A holes feed their propaganda and absolute nonsense to their brain dead and psychotic audience .We know what they are about and it's going to just go on and on , why give them publicity or pay any attention to them ? As for you Bush SR. , you are pathetic , almost as pathetic as the Son you blessed the world with . As for the incivility on the left and on the right there is one big difference you two bit phony jackass , the left ,and people like Maddow and Olberman tell the truth and have the facts on their side while your pals on the right like Beck , Hannity and Limbaugh are chronic liars , racists , saboteurs and treasonous scum bags who have no conscience . Your son and the "abuse" he took or gets is well deserved , the SOB should be in prison ... at the very least !
Funny, I thought it was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=472Dqz9ZYo4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jXseSuuSrE
You know how Fox defenders will say the news and opinion divisions are different, so blah blah blah. Ok well forget that its a BS excuse anyway cause the news division is way fucked up over there anyway (Tea party protest coverage/exploitation/promotion clears that right up) and focus on the Opinion part.
My question for the defenders would be: Just because its opinion, doesn't mean it ok to blatantly lie to promote an agenda.
As I was flipping channels, I happened on Becka, just in time to see him doing some creepy thing and showing pictures from a book, looked fake, that just said MAO on the cover. He was showing pictures of various forms of torture.
I honestly don't KNOW if he is really that ignorant or really that demented, or really that selectively forgetful, but it was HIS PRESIDENT BUSH and co conspirator CHENEY who ORDERED torture and HIS PARTY along with some Blue Dog light thugs assistance that has SLOWED and tried to completely STOP Obama from ENDING the torture regime. I don't believe, for one minute, that as long as they keep Gitmo open that there aren't SOME still being tortured or at the very least abused by gung ho Bush worshipers.
It's awfully FUNNY that Cheney hasn't appeared in public since he stated categorically that "We NEVER had ANY EVIDENCE that ALQUADA was involved in 9/11 after, a few days earlier having stated that "We NEVER had any EVIDENCE that BIN LADEN was involved in 9/11. I WONDER if he maybe realized that he's JUST CONFESSED TO WAR CRIMES because if they NEVER had evidence that they MADE UP to invade Afghanistan and them IRAQ, that ALONE is a crime. The Constitution clearly STATES that the United States CANNOT INVADE another country for purposes of taking control of their natural resources and that's exactly WHY we invaded Iraq AND why Cheney and his OIL buds were PLANNING it since January 20th 2001, LONG BEFORE 9/11.
AND, just because the leaders of a country does not instantly BOW to the powers that run the U.S. does not mean that those "powers" get to pick and choose to recognize their sovereignty.
Any casual observer of FOX REPUBLICAN NEWS will immediately conclude that they do, in fact, have a political ax to grind, whether it's "news" or "opinion", it does not matter. Example; Did FOX get all excited and bothered by the corruption in the Iraq War contracts with Halliburton and others, the same way they got hot and bothered about ACORN? Did Shannity spew vitriol against that lyin' sack of shit Scooter Libby, the same way he does every day against any 'pick-your-choice' Obama staffer?
How does one frame an argument against that imbecile Glennbeck who equated volunteerism with Mao's China? What does one say against lunacy like that? Is it possible to argue with a mad man?
How does one argue against an uber-mendacious Goebbels-like character that is Shannity. Nazi Joseph Goebbels said" "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it". There is no bigger emulator of Joseph Goebbels than Shannity. Shannity wins the annual Joseph Goebbels award for Extreme Lying and Hypocrisy In the Service Of The Party.
The best tactic is to do what is being done by Crooks and Liars and Think Progress, and Talking Points Memo, et al, which is to document and expose this bile that FOX NEWS spews out, and let the American people decide. President Obama does right by ignoring FOX NEWS.
Would there that all intelligent free-thinking decent Americans do likewise.
Rep. Alan Grayson: The party of "no" is well on their way to being the party of "nobody"
"There are 307 million Americans. Only 3 million watch Fox. That means over 99% of Americans have the good sense not to watch Fox."
Everyone knows Fox 'Always Lie and Blame the Democrats' News is a wingnut Terrorist organization. The Republican/Conservative lies and distortion are instigating and promoting hate, fear and violence toward the good people of the United states as EVERYONE at Fox tries to destroy the Freedoms and Democracy of Americans.
Bravo for the White House to call Fox on their continual Lies!
They act this is is new. Does the phrase "main stream media" mean anything to anyone. The right has been attacking the media since Nixon. The left FINALLY strikes back and even some left wing people are saying it's not a smart move. It's worked pretty damn good for the right and still is. Once again the right is outraged by the left using the same tactics they do...see Alan Grayson. The right can claim the lefts health care proposals want people to die yet when the left does it OMFG!!!!! STFU!
there is an easy way to s-them-t-f-up ....see above ...
It's amazing in this time of youtube and every body with a cell phone camera, it's amazing these people think they can't be called on their lies.
I know that they like being ignorant because they think it makes them look cool, but I still can't understand how any group of people can be this deliberately stupid.
If you think Fox is anything but Rupert Murdock’s propaganda tool you are a brainwashed TOOL!
Considering that you cannot even SPELL correctly, shows you could only benefit from being here.
Uniformed? Clearly some kind of sexual fantasy on your part that is not welcomed here.
You registering here just to post asinine statements only shows how pathetic YOU are.
And you read like Palin reads and writes. Go away fool, O'Reilly's on to put more bullshit into your intellectually bankrupted skull.
You have zero credibility here.
called the Randi Rhodes show today by the name of Dennis, I wonder if it is the same as our pet troll?
Glad to hear you listen to Randi. She can be abrasive at times, but I know I can count on facts from her.
and wondered the same thing...he rambled on the radio like he rambles in his writing. Dumb, dumb, dumb...
this aint gonna end well ...
I go out for a bit and come back to a deleted reply to me. I am curious about what was said. I saw the word uninformed and I can only assume that I was being called out for being uninformed.
I place a lot of stock in history, I believe the old saying about those who forget the past. All I see from conservatives is a constant attempt to rewrite history to make themselves look better; that is being uninformed, Fox likes to "uninform" its viewers.
Ignore me, I'm ranting. I dont know what comment was posted in reply to me and so I'm just talking.
All I could stand of the lunacy that is fox! I have been saying this for a while now, but after everything that has been happening I have been forced to expand my former conclusion.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, successfully argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.
NOTE: Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so.
http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin...
There is a video with "Courtesy of Corporation" under it that goes into detail about the case and details of how FOX pressured employees to lie or distort the facts in the investigative report.
What is more appalling are the five major media outlets that filed briefs of Amici Curiae- or friend of FOX – to support FOX’s position: Belo Corporation, Cox Television, Inc., Gannett Co., Inc., Media General Operations, Inc., and Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc.
This is dangerous to the public because the public not only has a right to know but NEEDS to know about potential products that among others can cause CANCER.
according to all credible polls, at least 50% of red state GOP types want public option, when the poll isnt a push poll you do get the right data.... if you ask them do you want a government take over of health care its no, but if you ask them are you in favor of a public option it yes.
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fux noise, all lies all the time........
just who are they speaking to?
but at least the foxettes spray on tan and fake tits are always good for a chuckle.....
Hey Gary , lets hope that mental healthcare is included in Obama's healthcare reform package , you are in need .
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Greenspan Institutionalized, Markets Dip
Wall Street markets dipped today on news that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been institutionalized at the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York.
After beginning the morning with modest gains led by the banking and technology sectors, the report of Greenspan's complete mental breakdown sent jitters through the trading floor, leading to a sell-off that left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.4% and the NASDAQ down 0.3% on the day.
"A system in which the independence and individuality of abstract capital inherently circumscribes the independence and individuality of an increasingly restive population of living people is not viable – certainly not in the long term," raved Greenspan.
The drop marked the second consecutive day of declines after high-frequency loudspeakers were needed to dispatch a colony of vultures seen circling the New York Stock Exchange yesterday morning.
Still, bullish analysts point out that the sell-off precipitated by Greenspan's nervous breakdown was significantly smaller in scale than the slip triggered last Thursday by SEC Commissioner Troy Paredes' abrupt resignation to a fortified compound in Wyoming, and the moderate decline sparked by Friday's news of the decapitation of Michael Cavanagh after the former JPMorgan Chase and Co. CFO climbed into an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo and attacked a 600-pound black bear.
Remarked Stephen Platt of Goldman Sachs Chairman Lloyd Blankfein: "Everything is fine. The economy is doing well. We are experiencing a recovery. Please resume trading."
the FOX has-beens are so yesterday. there has always been, and will always be, a significant segment of the population that professes to adhere to a set of tenets that can never be considered constructive in a society that has any real desire to advance the race as a whole in a positive way.
contrarians.
naysayers.
conservatives, (as they now define themselves).
really, best to more or less ignore them. i honestly think that the peril is overstated. anyone with vision in the normal range acknowledges FOX for what it is. i don't mind the charade of portraying opprobrium as news, my beef is that they should just get out of the business altogether: it's a unalterable rule of the universe, that a right-winger cannot have humor. that, my friends, WOULD be the wingularity.
they just aren't very entertaining; they're the scolds that they always accused us of being.
In the future - everything will be very different. It will be interesting to see how news-o-tainment evolves.
I have a feeling all the current big media outlets are dinosaurs. This is the first broadband presidency. I look for a brighter future as more people are better informed. There might even be a good side to the misinformation being put out there, some of the curious are likely to find the facts.
*fingers crossed*
We shouldn't criicize his opinion after all those years he spent in the military putting his life on the line defending us....no wait.
Well he is entitled to his informed opinion with the college education he received...no strike that again. Why is he a great American? Why is anyone listening to him?
he's a great American because his dopey listeners tell him he is.
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Remember the good old days, when we made fun of Bob Dole because he always held a PEN in his paralyzed hand?
Well, today it's Sean Hannity. He doesn't seem to have a paralyzed arm/hand ... in fact, his are always flailing about. But he always has that PEN in the hand.
What's with that?
Hannity is an actor. He works for a Theatre company. The pen is a prop.
Hannity is real sick but that won't save his soul.
He largely pulls everything he sez out of his ass.
It's Faux News Channel itself that hopes no one can distinguish between an opinion show and a hard news show. Throughout the entire O'Reilly, Beck and Hannity hours, the word "NEWS" is prominantly displayed at the bottom of the screen. Not "FNC", but the word "NEWS".
MSNBC doesn't to this. CNN doesn't do this. In fact, even the news programming on ABC, CBS and NBC don't headline every moment of their programming with the word "NEWS" at the bottom of the screen. Only Faux News Channel does this.
And only Faux News Channal further muddies the water by promoting their opinion shows with the slogans, "Fair and Balanced" and "We Report, You Decide".
It is refreshing to have a NEW type of WAR...
I seem to prefer the war on FOX instead of the War on Christmas..
Someone at the white house have an opinion that FOXnews is not a real news station, and now that makes it a war? Hell, we have been saying that for years!
I like how Hannity says this is only the beginning and they'll be coming after the other station soon.
sound like we need to cue in some "Pink Floyd" music at this time for FOXnews.
My mom pays minimal for cable, and many people don't know that you can ask for the channel you want to watch, and cut out the one you don't. The cable company must provide an alternative for the low income of the channel they want to watch. I have boycott FOX station long ago!
Fox actually exists in an alternative reality which reports the news as conservatives want to hear it. In their world it is factual reporting. They want to believe all that they do is protecting the US from evil libruls and their heathen ways. They believe they are in the majority and will resume their rightful rule soon and that the most recent elections were rigged and that Socialists have taken over their guvment.
And the perfect proof that conservatives cannot be funny. Try as he might, he just can't quite pull it off.
Last video of his I saw he was doing a "Rain Man" impression. Just the way to prove that your party is still relevant, do a 20 year old shtick. What's your next ground-breaker, you gonna do Who's on First?
Give it up, kid.
For sometime now, I have been bothered by Sean Hannity's appearance. His hair was weird. It reminded me of something.
Now I remember. Remember the original Police Academy? There was a scene when G.W. Bailey got his head caught in a horse's "posterior". The next day, he arrived at work with a haircut just like Sean's.
Sean Hannity - for years we thought he had his head up a horse's a$$, now his haircut proves it!
These guys are coming off like immature little crybabies. They've been harping on Obama since the day he took office. Their "fans" think this giant injustice has been done to them which shows the intellectual average of their viewers. It'll never be said that anyone at Faux has an ounce of class. Now they're crying about Maddow & Olbermann being invited to an off the record lunch. Did they seriously expect an invite? What a bunch of fools. The liars got called out and don't know how to respond!
A Republican Wingnut’s Night-time Prayer
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray to God my soul to keep
I voted for Bush the Texacutioner
Who put more people to death than an executioner
The highest execution rate of any governor in history
How he was elected president is still a mystery
The biggest serial killer since Timothy McVeigh,
mocks Karla's pleas for clemency during her final days
I hold stoutly to my world view
Despite being contradicted by what is proven true
I believe the earth to be only 4000 years old
“Intelligent” design is the view I hold
Even though evolution explains how life changed and adapted
verified by countless experiments not retracted
the scientific facts should be stricken as inadmissible
teaching creationism to our children is permissible
Take some parts literally, others out of place
And I can use the Bible to judge the whole human race
Pat Robertson said 9/11 was a punishment from God
That innocents died instead of him he didn’t find odd
For lifestyles of feminism, liberalism, and being gay
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson said over 3,000 people died that day
That God will punish them for their remark
Pride has hidden from a judgmental heart
“After the last tree standing is felled”
“Christ will come back” I heard James Watt tell
you see evangelicals don’t care about generations
because they won’t have to be here to face elimination
“compassionate” conservatives fantasize about journeying through the air
As Left Behind: The Series plays out below everywhere
While pollution they caused brings about ecological collapse
It doesn’t bother them that people will die perhaps
by Cherokee American
Other than having nothing to say or to contribute intellectually MS hannity further proves through her relentless whining that she is really a Closet Queen and would like other to know it as well.
If there is any further proof that we need the Fairness doctrine the last few months should make the case for it.
With the Fairness Doctrine most of the Wacko, Hate Mongering, Goose Stepping, Nazi, Fascist, Socialist, lying, Truth Twisting, Fear Mongering Disappears.
So how about it lets put IDIOTS like this CLOWN out of business.
Bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
Fattity's high pitch whining and crying is because the He-She never went through puberty and his brain never fully developing either.
I only got as far as 1:44 in this short clip... teh stoopid!! it makes me crazy to hear these whiny efftards, bitch and moan about nothing. They need their collective heads knocked together, in the metaphoric sense, not literally. I don't want to advocate violence. The outrageous bull$hit that masquerades for the news spewing from these entertainers is over the top and totally seditious.
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