Frum: Republicans work for FOX News Now
David Frum admits what most of the media ignores -- that Fox News works for the GOP -- but then turns it on its head.
Frum: "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."
Frum has been outspoken against a lot of the tactics the GOP has been using since Obama took over office and even called the passing of HCR the GOP's Waterloo.
The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each given copies of two books. One of them was Cleon Skousen’s Five Thousand Year Leap. Skousen, who died in 2006, is one of the legendary cranks of the conservative world, a John Bircher, a grand fantasist of theories about secret conspiracies between capitalists and communists to impose a one-world government under the control of David Rockefeller.
There’s always been a market for this junk of course. Once that market was reached via mimeographed newsletters. Now it’s being tapped by Fox News.
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It’s not a new message of course. In fact, big parts of it seem almost self-consciously copied from Peter Finch’s legendary declamation in the movie Network.
Of course, Finch was only pretending to be crazy. He was an actor performing a role. Then again – so probably is Glenn Beck.
But what about Fox News? What’s their excuse?
Frum seems to be under the impression that Glenn Beck's blend of stupid and crazy is some sort of departure from Fox's previously high standards. If only that were so.
John Birch is alive and well in the Tea Party movement. Beck is acting as a transmitter for all things crazy, but he was just the latest extension of what Fox News has always been. And for Roger Ailes, it's not about news, but ratings anyway -- and crazy brings ratings.
AILES: I'm not in politics, I'm in ratings. We're winning.
Here's my piece on everything Ailes said on THIS WEEK: It's very revealing. Ailes exposes Fox News' GOP philosophical connections
What's with Frum? Why is he speaking the truth all of the sudden? They're going to take away his secret decoder ring.
and they can't get out.
that the rethugs were a wholly owned company by Faux Noise. Point is proven.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
familiar that tail wagging the dog thing.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Frum: "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Oops the master has become the slave. Shit happens when money is involved.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
and you get your feet stepped on.
and you get fleas.
You reap what you sow.
to join the reality-based community, but Frum is already being demonized and ignored by his fellow Republicans and we should probably do the same. Lipstick on a pig and all that...
Boy is Rush gonna be pissed when he sees this. He thought the republicans worked for him.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Up next: Republican primary battle between Beck and Limbaugh surrogates.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Luntz works for Fox and he puts together the talking points and all the rest get their faxes in the morning and that is what they promote.
That's probably very close to the way it works. I think joe scarborough may be on Luntz's mailing list as well. He often says the same things you can turn over to fox and friends and hear. Many mornings the conversation on Joe's show will be almost identical to the one on fox.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Roger Ailes has spent a career peddling fear and lies to the gullible masses. Nothing has changed other than the venue.
Yes, we trust that Fox will consistantly peddle fear and lies...
for more than 1/2 hour, you would know that they also get plenty of critisism from most of us.
He is beyond evil in the way some guy with a big magnifying glass watches an ant farm. He could observe with it, watching the ants closely; he could act like God concentrating fire from the heavens on any unfortunate ants in his purview. He actually is amoral, beyond the human ethical framework. It is no wonder that the MSM is in awe and will not blaspheme against him.
All you need to become a republican alpha dog is airtime. Their demographic will swallow anything.
Since 52% of Fox News is owned by a Saudi Arabian prince...Does that mean that the Republicans therefore work for Saudi Arabia?
How Un-American can you get?
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
the Bushes worked for the Saudis and for the Bin Ladin family. I would think that the precedent is so well established at this point that it qualifies a socially acceptable behavior for GOPers.
We behead, you decide.
Fakir and Balanced.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
rim shot.
Not that I'm doubting, I'd just like to file that one away for future use.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=ezyLJrAu1SIC&...
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
While they are reeling from this defeat, Obama should tee up comprehensive immigration reform as his next big initiative. The Republicans will not be able to resist their hate filled racist roots and the effect could very well destroy them.
Than seeing Republicans hoisted by their own petard.
Frum is a COMMUNIST!
Since the '08 elections their job has been primarily to provide a phonied up opposition.
The Democrats do what the moneyed interests want, and FOX pretends that there's significant opposition from "conservatives."
And the centrists eat it up and follow right along.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Frum better watch out. The republicans will be asking to see his birth certificate.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Canada. Not sure if Frum get the socialist healthcare frum socialist Canada but if he maintains an address frum socialist Canada Frum would be elegible for healthcare frum socialist Canada.
Frum was big in the unite the right here in Canada, but his strategy was to gag all the nutbars and make sure that, as much as possible, they don't say anything before checking with the boss. It worked, and now the Conservatives run the government.
it's just a wee bit hypocritical for the right, after being happy to use Fox and Rush to further their own agenda while they were in power, to be now complaining that they've sold their souls to the devil. Fox and shock jock right wing radio have more than damaged the Republican party, they have actively and deliberately damaged the entire country... and the right is just now waking up to this 'official' reality?
My hope is that enough Republicans with a smidgen of decency and conscience left at the bottom of their bought-and-sold souls (and yes, there are a few left) will do what is necessary to pry the poisoned talons of Fox and Rush off the throats of the rapidly expiring corpse of what used to be called journalism in America. Even if that means... I know this sounds like heresy... working WITH Democrats.
Good luck convincing the 'base', Mr Frum. You're gonna need it.
to disentangle themselves easily if at all. Fox controls the communications with the base other than mailing lists and if Fox decides to make a divorce messy then messy it will be.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
knowing the harm to the nation, the GOPers/right we're strill eager to cut a deal with the devil. they didn't care so long as their short term tactical objectives were advanced.
Frum better avoid small planes for the next while..
Coulter tells Muslim student to 'take a camel'
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/03...
and made to face criminal charges for hate speech prior to her arrival in-country. they made specific effort to inform her that freedom of speech in Canada did not include the right to foment division and discord. I hope they arrest her and throw the book at her.
I thought Canada was too smart to let her in the country. Karma is on her ass and I hope I'm around to see it when it catches up with her.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I still recall Coulter saying, back in 2006, her belief that Canada had sent troops, of the combat variety, to Vietnam.
She was confronted in an interview by the CBC, if I recall correctly, and was proven wrong.
I have to wonder if the Canadians were waiting for her - with rocks and garbage. Probably not, as Canadians are among the most mannerly people on the planet.
However, I look for her to get into trouble in Canada this time.
The long neck, the protrusive....
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
From what I heard, it didn't work out well. She had to cancel her appearance in Ottawa because of the anti-ann protesters.
She told the press that she didn't feel safe.
Apparently, we Canadians aren't always so warm and welcoming.
Actually, it was very stupid of the university administrator in Ottawa to write to Coulter with the warning about Canadian hate-speech laws. He's not the police, after all.
It's a pure gift to her, proof to her silly followers and her media employers that she is still relevant. No doubt she will hype her 'controversial' status in Canada for all it is worth, sneering all the way to the bank.
I look forward to the day when she comes to Canada (or anywhere else) for a speaking engagement, only to face an empty auditorium. Her career continues only because of her self-serving publicity mongering. If enough people ignore her calculated sound-bites, she will wither into has-been-hood.
the empty auditorium. Freak shows still draw crowds.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I think Annthrax is losing much of her audience to Mary Ann aka Sister Sarah. Just think we hardly heard from her during the '08 election. Even the reactionaries are over her for the most part.
Same beady, baggy eyes, same balding pate, same thick neck wattle.
Same paranoid ideas, same desire to mold public discourse, same use of slander to demean opponents.
Roger Ailes comes to look more and more like Jabba the Hut. His inner corruption and degradation is playing itself out on his body.
Frum: "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."
this would assume that either the GOP or faux news actually set an agenda. they don't. they are merely the hands and the mouths--respectively--for the ruling class. faux is as much of a pawn as the GOP.
and, as far as frum is concerned--careful, he might appear to be thinking outside of the partisan box... but trust this asshole at your own risk.
is the winning entry of the day.
Wasn't this asshole the "Axis of Evil" creating asshole?
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
i have been saying to my inbred pals, that fox is a combo of the character from network, and lonesome rhodes from a face in the crowd..... if you know that story arc of these flicks, you know what rupert and roger are doing. they know that there is a anti intellectual audience for their product. and that is what is is to the corporate overlords, product. if they could sell to the dems flower power again, they would.
what the inbreds dont realize that all their aryan news models are reading a teleprompter that has a written script, written by the management... the mean looking school marm' fetish that the inbreds get from fox is what they crave...
WE all knew that already. But to hear Frum say this out loud is going to scramble their simple minds for sure. No doubt, he'll be stoned to death by the reich-wing party loyals. But truth hurts, and these ass holes don't know how to deal with truth. They deal well with their fantasy-land reality...and they prop themselves up over and over again with the pinheads like vannity, limpballs, bor, etc, etc. But call it what it is, and they are likely to go nuts.
republicanism is a mental disorder. Needs to dealt with carefully, or they'll ALL grab their guns and head to the streets.
The foundations are financed via the oil and gas fortunes of Fred G. Koch, a founding member of the John Birch Society. David is a libertarian who "provides a significant amount of funding for the Cato Institute's $4 million annual budget."
These delusional people are controlled by many voices...
Study the symptoms not the virus...
their policy of "managed conflict" for fun, profit and consolidation of power into their own hands thatis derived from the powers that they pit against each other.
She has a r4eality deal with Discovery.
http://www.frumforum.com/meanwhile-in-princip...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
A huckster pushing absolute cr@p to suckers and the mentally impaired!
In order to gain the political power they've enjoyed for decades, Republican moderates and fiscal conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots, racists, sexists and misanthropes) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. They made a strategic decision to manipulate and exploit the ignorance, fears and hatreds of dysfunctional and vulnerable voters in order to win elections rather than lose them by being intellectually and morally honest.
Today, those who conspired with the devil are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the demons they empowered and the karmic reality that they don't have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without continuing to accept and "advocate" the immoral values, hypocrisies and corruptions that are dividing and destroying their party.
The survival of today's shrinking Republican Party has become so dependent on extremism that they have no significant power left WITH or WITHOUT the support of America's increasingly pernicious lunatic fringe.
The idiom "caught between the devil and the deep blue sea" is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are suffering the consequences of their treachery.
Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and the inflammatory insanities of mercurial GOP teabaggers, birthers, deathers and desperate egomaniacs like Glenn Beck are costing them their viability.
Either way, you've just admitted Fox is not a legitimate news organization. It's the propaganda wing of the Republican party.
Is this legal? Can anyone simply declare they are a news organization and be accepted and treated as such by the People's government? Fox should only be granted "Opinion Media" credentials henceforth, and never again professional press credentials at any event anywhere.
- Tom
It's videotape and the Internet that's undermining a 'strong Republican Party.'
The Republicans rely on misinformation and a stupid populace for their power. They are great at campaigning, but terrible at governing. The way they gain power is to lie to the people to get them to vote against their best interests. A stupid populace is the GOP's best friend.
In the past, it was easy for them to tell their lies and get away with it. They could say one thing one day, and lie about it the next. It was just to difficult to go to the library and go through the microfiche files to fact check them. Now, all it takes is a couple of seconds with Google to expose their lies and hypocrisy.
Go and watch "Orwell Rolls in His Grave' again or for the first time.It's at "freedocumentaries.org"
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
John, I understand you must be extra careful about how you approach conspiracies, what with considering a run for office and all. But to deny the aspirations of David Rockefeller, et al, is to be willfully blind.
Catch a short expose of the Rockefeller gang here.
Many, not all, of the "conspiracies" that Fox claims to have exposed are in fact the hard work and dedicated results of tenacious investigators, not in any way affiliated with Fox or the slime that oozes all over their microphones. Often, Fox appropriates the investigated and analyzed results only to CLAIM they uncovered something sinister.
"Republicans work for Fox".
Simply stunning.
...or is Roger Ailes looking more and more like Jabba the Hutt as years go by?
http://www.blessedquietness.com/jabba.jpg
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