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The Obama campaign has made their contempt for FOX News pretty clear lately and you can add Bill Burton's appearance on the network yesterday to the list. Burton squared off with Megyn Kelly after he released the following statement after the network ran with the Drudge-fueled smear of the day.

"This is a fake news controversy drummed up b the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain, who apparently decided to close out his campaign with the same false, desperate attacks that have failed for months. In this seven year old interview, Senator Obama did not say that the courts should get into the business of redistributing wealth at all. Americans know that the real choice in this election is between four more years of Bush-McCain policies that redistribute billions to billionaires and big corporations and Barack Obama's plan to help the middle class by giving tax relief to 95% of workers and companies that create new jobs here in America. That's the change we need, and no amount of eleventh-hour distractions from the McCain campaign will change that."

Like Oliver Willis says, if this is a prelude to how an Obama administration would handle FOX, it's gonna be a fun four years. I can't wait.

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This gets better every time....Carl Lindner contributed $300,000 to McCain's presidential campaign (payoff for pressuring regulators?)...

conservatoire's picture

is that here right in front of them is someone presenting a DIFFERENT OPINION from Faux News. And what does the "anchor" do? She talks over him, interrupts him, and generally tries to shout him down.

The jokes write themselves.

First?

No Obamanation's picture

You turn a deaf ear to the mainstream media in which they practically worship Barack Obama. Do they report the good things about McCain? No, when Sen. McCain defended Obama, the media didn't find that newsworthy. Countless times McCain has voiced positive things about Obama and there is no coverage; however, when Obama does something to the same effect, then the media goes crazy over it. FOX News brings to question a tape that was broadcast over public radio, and this jokester, who cannot soundly make a point, says that it is a fabrication. This outlines Obama's character and policies to the T. Smarten up, and do some research about your candidate. This country is in for a rude awakening. If we become an Obamanation you will regret your vote.

jwf's picture

Is that you?

No Obamanation's picture
HA

No, I have standards.

jwf's picture

If you're a con, your standards are nonexistent.

chicano2nd's picture

Step on them accidentally and they smell up the whole area. Scoop them up and trash them where they belong. Pretty disposable and irrelevant in the long run.

Good things that McCain has done? Sang like a bird as a POW. Tries to hide the truth about missing POWs and berates families and those who still don't know whether or not their government has abandoned their loved ones. What is he afraid might be released about him?

Mike The Riverine's picture

Naw, it's probably Troll ****** in his brand-new Obamanation Halloween costume....

[It isn't, so let's not indulge in personal attacks on other posters who aren't even here - site monitor]


Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years

LeftandLeft's picture

...because he's embarrassed. I don't know where these hypocritical "I voted for Bush twice" goofs get the temerity to NOT be ashamed and feel responsible for the worldwide shit box we're all in. And yet they still expect to be listened to.

Mike The Riverine's picture

My apologies, Site Monitor. Your correction is fair.


Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years

Freewayblogger's picture

You know, for eight years we've had to put up with having an idiot son of an asshole as President. He bankrupted this country both morally and financially and we more or less had to sit back and watch it happen while the media made excuses for him. It was no picnic, believe me.

Thanks to FOX and the McCain campaign, however, you all (and by that of course I mean "Y'all") are going to have to eight years of living under someone you've been led to believe is a Communist Muslim Terrorist. Enjoy.

Oh yeah, did I mention he's black?

No Obamanation's picture

It is always a race thing with all of you uneducated liberals. Elect a president because he is black? Why not. He looks like me, maybe he will help me out. The two major reasons at least 90% of the black community is voting for Obama is the fact that he is black. The other 10%, along with the 90% crowd I'm sure, are voting for him because you always want things handed to you. You cannot get anywhere yourselves. Wow, quit being so lazy. You want people who work their entire lives to get to where they are prospering to give money to you. You who sit in your slums, sell drugs, make violence, and work at KFC. That sure is respectable. You are doing so much for this great nation. Sounds like you can keep the African in African-American because it doesn't sound like you want to be just an American. I think you should have a high school diploma to get voter registration. That would eliminate some of the idiots from destroying this country.

jwf's picture

of blacks are going to vote Democratic anyway because the repuke party is openly hostile to any non-whites. And I'm sure you have a lot of best friends who are black...

No Obamanation's picture

Actually you are correct about the best freinds comment. My very first and still best friend is black. Not only is he a republican, but he is voting for McCain. The republican party is not "openly hostile" to non-whites. There may be those who classify themselves as republican, but it does not make them a white supremacist(sp?). I have a diversity of very close friends AND family who are non-white. God loves them all the same, as do I. This does not need to be about race, it needs to be about the morals and views of a candidate. And you yourself can be cast among the non-white haters as beign racist. You probably thing you have been oppressed to huh? Poor thing. Can't get anything because of your race. WRONG. I would wager that you had no problems with your race and if you did you were probably at the cause of those problems.

jwf's picture

I glow in the dark, and if you don't think being white helps your standing in this country you're more ignorant than the KFC workers and high school dropouts you despise. And your posts call into question YOUR education. Were you home schooled? It shows.

No Obamanation's picture

I was not homeschooled. I went to a public, very diversified, all-american highscool where I graduated second in my class behind a very smart and talented "not so white" man. I also have a bachelor and masters degree from a great accredited college. I have seen my share of race discrepancies. And the majority of them where an upper hand for the so called "minority".

jwf's picture

this great education from a great accredited college (Liberty University?) where apparently you never learned how to compose a coherent paragraph. Stop pissing and whining that a few minorities may have had a little help.
I had a professor who used to say to his students that cream and bastards rise to the top. If you didn't end up where you fantasized you would, maybe you're just not good enough.

No Obamanation's picture

But I am voting for what is best for this country. You need to take a look at yourself and wonder why things aren't going the way you want them to.

LITU's picture

Milton Freidman's economic ideology is a failure. It is nothing more than a blueprint for oligarchy. Do you know what that word means?

The fact that you (apparently) support the conservative agenda means that you also support Friedman economics. Therefore, you, too, are a failure.

Care to argue this with me? Though I would be at a disadvantage, cuz I only have an undergraduate degree in Finance.

Take your best shot.

Plisko's picture

I always get a chuckle when the people who helped run this country into the ground come into blogs and start lecturing us about what's best for America.

albabe's picture

Anyone that votes for McSame is voting for more of the same.


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Fair Witness's picture

I'm a homeschooling parent. We're not all religious zealots with idiot children; I homeschool because I have two highly capable children who are bored to tears in public school.

We're not all God Bothering morons afraid the schools will teach our kids about "teh gays" or that they're descended from apes.

Just sayin'.

jwf's picture

comment was directed toward the troll. He just sounds like the stereotypical redneck Rushbot. My apologies if you were offended by a cheap stereotype on my part.

Fair Witness's picture
Naw

I just don't want my kids lumped with this person whose brain and spinal cord are obviously not even touching.

FloridaPalmFlower's picture

jwf - I don't care which side of the aisle you're on... by saying - ...helps your "standing in this country?" is obnoxious because you actually buy into that loaded garbage. You don't see any prejudice OR ignorance in that belief? You might glow in the dark, but it's not from the color OR shade of you skin. It's appears obvious that your parents got paid to put you into the "infant nuclear toxic pablum experiment." They never told you about it? Researchers were trying to determine whether babies would grow to adulthood without solid ethics, integrity and a good moral code. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news - you passed.

jwf's picture

to make a joke-evidently you didn't get it. You need to read all the posts leading up to this one. I was trying to explain to a racist troll who said he had a "black best friend". I grew up in a very nice, suburban, almost all white town, 5 miles from Newark, NJ. I eventually bought a home here. Blacks were (and are) regularly steered away from homes by real estate agents. Utility companies regularly get requests not to send black or dark-skinned technicians for service calls. My jobs have taken me all over the area and I occasionally overhear horribly racist statements by business people and individuals who must think I'm deaf or a racist like them. I've seen business people say they "wouldn't hire
any n-----s". Several years ago on the NJ Turnpike, 5 black kids with no weapons and no criminal records were shot by State Troopers who thought they were dangerous. So you can pretend that we live in a color-blind society, but we don't. Just spare me the sanctimonious horseshit that you don't see color-we all do. And if you don't think that being white helps your chances just a little bit, you need to get out more often.

LITU's picture

any Black person voting for the Republican party is shooting themselves in the foot.

I would call that ignorance.

No Obamanation's picture
And

You wrote the book on Ignorance, Right?

Makes sense.

UncleDave's picture

you just added a few chapters.

albabe's picture

The problem here is the kind of ignorance... This ignorance you speak of is "arrogant..." and uninformed. Bad combination.

McCain should be judged on one thing here... his pick for VP. He shows his judgement... and obviously he has none.


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LeftandLeft's picture

Never in my 39 years(all black) have I met a black person who is voting Republican that did not have a self serving angle. LISTEN! WE BLACK FOLK HATE YOUR PARTY AS MUCH AS YOUR PARTY HATES US!!! Stop trying to run from your history(and present)!
It will take many generations of filtering out the vile racist feces that is the foundation of your wretched party before us AFRICAN AMERICANS would even consider taking your bullshit serious!

albabe's picture

Wow... arrogant self loathing crap... amazing. This guy thinks he makes sense.


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albabe's picture

No offense... but I do have Black friends who are voting Conservative... I have gay friends that are voting GOP too. They even like Bible Spice.

And as much as I think it has more to do with being somewhat self-loathing... I can't seem to convince them otherwise.


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LITU's picture

F*ck you, in French?

Never mind, I know the answer.

I would like to know, if you're of enlistment age, and presumably you're fit enough to qualify, why you aren't a standing member of our armed forces? And to take it further, why you're not actually serving?

Cuz you sure flap your lips in protest of a better America. Makes me wonder what kind of America you hope to secure?

me_over_here's picture

Most black people, myself included, don't vote against our interests. We would've voted the Democrat regardless of race.

That was one hateful bitch in that video.

chicano2nd's picture

that My best friend is a...crap.

You have just exposed yourself for what you really are!

Racist maggot.

No Obamanation's picture

I love everyone, even you. Just dont think anyone should be treated differently, just because of their race. Yet you do. Sounds like you are the racist maggot. But like I said, I still love you, and so does God.

jwf's picture

that all the redneck, racist, Dittoheads such as you seem to channel "God"? How do you know he loves me? Does he talk to you in your sleep like he "speaks" to Bush?

UncleDave's picture

Jebus!

chicano2nd's picture

Just come clean and God will forgive you to screw up again for the next time you need forgiveness and on and on and on.

In the old south many "good Americans" worshiped God on Sunday....after lynching a Negro that Saturday night.

LITU's picture

(repeat) A-f*cking-Men

FloridaPalmFlower's picture

never see themselves as that-a-way! LeftandLeft, you are so RightandRight! Having lived in the "old" south (Alabama) most home-grown "'Bamaites" truly believed and said: "...I'm not a bigot! Mah granny always said to be kind and polite to them negroes, cause it's not their fault that God made them inferior to white folks..."

albabe's picture

You love me? Don't you think that old Christian Bigoted crap about "love the sinner... hate the sin..." has had it's day? It's crap... read the Bible.


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Plisko's picture
Wow

"Sounds like you are the racist maggot. But like I said, I still love you, and so does God."

I have not seen such a vain use of Gods name in a long time. Don't be surprised when you wake up in hell.

Gimmelibertee's picture

Your god apparently favors racism, bigotry and hatred. I don't need nor want YOUR god's love.

UncleDave's picture
WOW

You sure told us librils off,there boyeee! Makes me wanna vote McShame,you betcha!

albabe's picture

Black? Wow... How non sequitur was that... or just stupid? Probably just stupid.

As for the rest of your non linear comment: How non sequitur was that... or just stoopid? Probably just stoopid.


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albabe's picture

Wait a sec... So you think most "Libruls" are uneducated? Wow... I am... educated that is. And your diatribe seems pretty nonsensical and vapidly superfluous to me.... but maybe that's the part of me that is less educated. I think I just made as much sense as you.


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KG's picture

Where are you getting your facts about African Americans with all the trash you're spewin'. Why is it when white folks vote for another white person it isn't about race? How come it has to be race when a black person is voting for another black person? You sound like old Rush. But I will say this, people like you who bottle up hate like you do will always say stuff that does not make any sense. Screwing up is an equal opportunity job and all races and nationalities have applied for it. Oh by the way, I've heard some white voters are voting for the McCain/Palin ticket because Sarah Palin is "one of us". Hmm sounds like George Bush back in either 2000 or 2004 when someone asked who would you like to sit down and have a beer with? Now we know where that has gotten us do we.

In closing Obamanation--you seem to portray yourself as an elitist. You need to stop harboring falsehoods in that "pea-brain" of yours before you give yourself a heart attack.

Gimmelibertee's picture

If the "smart" people gave us 8 years of Bush - I'll take my chances with the "idiots"

Sticksman's picture

This is precisely what I feel. I'm thoroughly enjoying listening to the right wing nut job religiofascist 'tards piss themselves into a frenzy seeing that they're probably going to lose. As Freewayblogger says, we've had to put up with a fucking moron leading this country into a sewer in every way without oversight and without consequences while the rest of us who were aware enough to see this nightmare unfold had to suffer because there was no political countervailing power. Well SUCK IT THE FUCK UP YOU CONSERVATIVE SHIT FOR BRAINS! Welcome to our former hell and I hope you enjoy it for 8 loooooong years.

No Obamanation's picture

Never thought I would see someone so stupid. Even though God loves you as you are, I think you need a new outlook on life. Too busy at trying to get back at someone because your feelings were hurt. Sounds like you need to suck it up and on that note, I will end my lunch break. I have to get back to my Job, you know "that three letter word J-O-B-S Jobs".

UncleDave's picture

3 letter word? You just stepped in it,boy.

No Obamanation's picture

I was referring to the ignorance of one Joe Biden.

Joe Biden Can't Count

Check yourself man.

UncleDave's picture

you were leaving. Want to stay and make more of an ass of yourself. Please do. I haven't had this much fun in days.

albabe's picture

"Joe Biden Can't Count"

That's all you got? Figures.


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JudyLou's picture

but only in an advisory capacity." That's you, NoO. Please stop your patronizing and go away.

Sticksman's picture

You never thought you'd see someone so stupid....well you still haven't seen me. Perhaps you meant "read something so stupid" and even then it would be quite an exageration to write. I see you are a god fearing christian type of republican nuisance. Well stuff your antiquated belief system up your ass ok? You'd be surprised actually that I'm quite spiritual...perhaps not now as people like you draw my ire but my notions of god are a bit more evolved and let's leave it at that. My feelings aren't hurt. That's not what my post was about. I wanted to give you people, you ignorant, backwards thinking, unevolved fear mongerers an understanding that for those of us progressive types that have been absolutely appalled, disgusted, shocked and angry over the complete disregard for traditional American values including diplomacy and the BILL OF RIGHTS these past 8 pathetic years that now you get to taste what it's like to have no voice representing YOU. And I hope you choke on it. We sure had to. Don't worry about me, I'm quite happy most of the time and my outlook on life is quite positive despite realizing that half of my country is made up of complete ignoramousis after the 2004 election. I'm sure YOUR job isn't being a copy editor but whatever job you do have you better pray that you keep it because if you lose it and you're out on the street in this economy...who knows you might wind up thanking your god that Obama is the president so that you'll get your unemployment.

LITU's picture

you need to actually READ something. Try this: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/m...

When you're done reading it, come back and argue against it.

McCain is, to put it bluntly, a sycophant. As a two-tour Vietnam vet, I am 1000% opposed to the (hero) John McCain. The man is no such thing! He is, and has been, a COWARD, and a traitor. He votes as one who hates his military peers.

If there is bias towards Obama it is because McCain's record dispels his patriotism.

No Obamanation's picture

And the rollingstone is always right. This is an article from someone else's perspective, classic he said she said. Do you think FOX News would run something like this about Obama. Where are the sources, other than Dramesi, for this story? Do you have audio? I can say that I was in the same POW camp and commit that McCain was running the camp itself. Would that be admissable? I think not. Sounds like you are the coward for belittling a great hero of America.

UncleDave's picture

RePug. Starts name calling when His arguments are met with better ones. You may go now.

LITU's picture

too loudly if I were you, sonny. A lot of us combat veterans take exception to the likes of you, as we take exception to the betrayal of McCain.

Try this on for size, find a source that disputes my assertion, THEN come back with your insults.

You should be more respectful of people like me who were willing to die for the likes of you.

In retrospect, I regret the decision.

No Obamanation's picture

Oh i should be more respectful. As it were I couldn't be, because I already do respect whole-heartedly those who do military works. I could, however, become less respectful of those of the likes of you. You regret the decision. Wow you gave up that easily. No thanks.

LITU's picture

Another fourteen year old.

LITU's picture

you own me EXTRA respect, cuz I put in EXTRA time for this country. BTW, what contribution have YOU made?

(Eating cheeseburgers at your computer does not qualify as patriotism.)

Gimmelibertee's picture

So you respected John Kerry in '04? He was an actual war hero that SAVED lives....

LITU's picture

to read the article, or was it too erudite for your junior high edumacation?

There is no he-said, she-said.

UncleDave's picture
Oh!

He has two degrees don't you know?! I'm just wondering how he wrote his disertations.

LeftandLeft's picture

He must have found them after they fell off a truck.

jwf's picture

either Crayons or claymation.

Grey Seal's picture

If you can provide links to video clips about the Obama bias, maybe it would be easier to make your case. If everyone here could see for themselves what you claim is true, then you could make your point.

albabe's picture

"If we become an Obamanation you will regret your vote."

Was that a threat? I regret the last inane failed two terms of an idiot puppet President and I had nothing to do with it... You can't possibly mean things could get worse than that? Unless of course you mean you and "your kind" will make damn sure our country will go even more into the toilet?


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theoriginalwham's picture

The right wing media executed some shrewd context adjustments with this interview clip from 7 years ago. The context of the interview--which any intelligent person would seek out rather than lapping up information spouted by a clearly biased outlet--was a conversation about the inherent flaw of the founding of the United States in that the Constitution provided liberty to white, landowning males, while an entire population of Black Americans was left in utter subjugation (remember the 3/5ths compromise?). The Constitution provided a provision that the issue of slavery would be tabled until ten years after ratification, because the only way to unite the colonies was to not address the disparities in attitudes toward slavery. He was making legitimate points that the Constitution never provided means for incorporating African Americans into American society after emancipation. The government only said what they could not do to African Americans, but it said nothing of incorporating the once subjugated population into society by providing them with the resources necessary to survive in a society that hated them (remember 40 acres and a mule?). These things never came. And as much as the right would love to tell blacks to get over it and that America is perfect despite the evidence, these policies perpetuated by the Constitution have had lasting effects that date to our countries founding. So, Obama, when viewed in its original context, makes a very legitimate point that SHOULD be obvious to all Americans.

Gimmelibertee's picture

Maybe you should research THIS issue and get the facts instead of letting Fox give you your opinion.

Oh - and since they're "countless", give me 10 examples of McCain saying something positive about Obama during the 20 weeks or so they have been campaigning against each other.

I'll wait.....

.....or are you blowing smoke like a typical wingnut?

Pinotdrnkr's picture

Who does the hiring and does his wife know??

Pole dancing on her resume, I'm willing to bet.

Gorlock's picture

How can any legitimate news media provide "positive" coverage of McCain, when he's running a totally negative smear campaign?

John's picture

Definitely FOX 1 Obama 0

I have no idea from what perspective this was watched but Megyn Kelly definitely took him to task.

We can talk about Sarah's clothes but not Obama's words, friends, wife, etc... give me a break. Then to go on to say that this ia a fake story....so they made up his voice or something? He even mentions the words redistributing wealth.

LeftandLeft's picture

And John, NO one cares about that sorry ass bitch's clothes, or where the Hell she shops. It's the blatant and continuous hypocrisy that Sarah the Seccessionist and her party has displayed when she criticized Obama as an "elitist". Also Obama and his wife were grilled all spring and summer about a myriad of overblown bullshit and lies from people like you....and nothing stuck. You losers want to now go retro and bring back recycled crap that nearly everyone is sick of since your candidate has produced ZERO FUCKING SOLUTIONS!
And why don't you ever coming to this site with any positive ideas from that fraudulent "war hero" of yours?

YOU PEOPLE HAVE GOT NOTHING BUT ANGER AND HATE.

John's picture

And yet, here you are typing in caps....anger issues?

and on the subject of Obama, you call them lies but they aren't, he did sit on a board with Ayers, he did sit in a church for 20 yrs with Wright, are these lies? If they are then Obama is lying himself because he admitted these were true.

So after 20 years he never heard Wright say anything bad? Give me a break. After sitting on a board with an unrepentant terrorist, he didn't know anything about the man, give me a break, these are not lies, they are indeed truths that some people like yourself wish to not acknowledge.

The truth shall set you free, try it sometime. :)

chicano2nd's picture

Sounds like you know zilch! If you have and you still insist that means he is chummy to the point of being dangerous for the country, then you are one stupid anal orifice.

Can't you think for yourself. What, someone says something from the pulpit and you think no one is thinking critically about what is being said.

Do you think there are republican-like idiots everywhere?

John's picture

[Deleted. Off topic-Sitemonitor]

Gimmelibertee's picture

Did McCain cheat on his wife? Did McCain take gifts from his buddy Keating and hook into his scandal? Did McCain sing like a canary as a POW?

We need to know the REAL McCain!

Different Anonymous's picture
.

Why are they always blonde...?

roooth's picture

it's a subliminal aryan supremacy massage.

Abbybwood's picture

A Brunette trying to look like a blonde which makes her REALLY stupit.


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

roooth's picture

as stupid does

shaggles's picture

A fun 4 years indeed. It's going to be crazy. A day or 2 ago Neil Cavutto was bemoaning the potential loss of the fairness doctrine under an Obama administration. HA! Are you kidding me? If the fairness doctrine was enforced FOX News would not exist. Liberals have been begging for the fairness doctrine for the past 20 years.

of the fairness doctrine.

For a news channel that labels itself as "fair and balanced" to see the re-instatement of the fairness doctrine as a major evil is a bit hypocritical.

It would be like a devout Christian complaining about a fairer distribution of wealth being a bad thing.

... oh wait.

shaggles's picture

Cavuto was claiming that Obama was going to do away with the fairness doctrine and silence all critics.

Abbybwood's picture

I hope John Amato will consider an open thread referring to Faux News' coverage of the Election returns. Watching them go down in defeat will be too fun. I love watching Hannity Rolly-Polly squirm.


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

roooth's picture

of Hee Haw

DannyEastVillage's picture

...makes me nervous. McCain is still saying he's going to win and that the pundits are misled. I really am afraid of what they have up their sleeve--and assholes.

an american's picture
omg

that woman needs a slap across the face...that man was pretty impressive. didn't get phased, didn't back down. very well handled. i agree, if this is how fox noose is going to be treated, let the good times roll

pissed off patricia's picture

That's why that guy has the job he has. He can stay cool and calm no matter what kind of whacko he's having to deal with during this campaign.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

masha's picture

unlike the infighting jokers at the mccain campaign

pissed off patricia's picture

Joe Scarborough started on this subject this morning about the old interview and Andrea Mitchell set him straight. She explained what Obama was talking about at the time and put the whole thing in context. Not at all what it is being made out to be by Fox et al.

Fox is even trying to blame the crashing stock market on the fear of Obama being elected. I guess if Obama had agreed to do ten town hall meetings with McCain, the stock market would be in fine shape these days.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

shaggles's picture

I saw an ad from the Motley Fool recently that said something like "Are you afraid of what will happen to your portfolio under an Obama administration?" Pure hogwash in my opinion. I actually suspect that the markets will have a good bounce after Obama is elected. Any worries over taxes will be over shadowed by the tremendous boost in consumer confidence once we know Bush and his policies are finally on their way out.

when a jackass wearing a buffoon hat and with "fool" tacked on to his business is taken seriously as a market commentator.

Never mind a jackass like Kramer the screamer.

You know what I am afraid to happen to my portfolio? That it will be handled by MBAs... never trust a jackass who thought it was a great idea to invest almost a quarter million dollars to learn about selling high and buying low.

and that eliminates almost all from the right

cmhmd's picture

I thought Bill was great, but in right-wing land ( I checked on redstate.com), Bill got told, not the other way around.

Amazing.

ron's picture

He should have said, "If this is fair and balanced, why don't you let me finish without you interupting?"

albabe's picture

She was too busy interrupting him, and telling him he was interrupting her... Don't ya just love a Right-Wing Nut Ball Bustin' Harpy? Not me.


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liberal traitor's picture

Black is white.
Up is down.
War is Peace.
Ignorance is Strength.
Freedom is Slavery.

Obama is a Socialist AND a Fascist Dictator AND a Muslim AND a Bad Christian AND so on and so on...

At some point all that cognitive dissonance causes dementia.

right on_exclamation point here's picture

just look at McSame! he's proof positive that cognitive dissonance causes dementia.

LeftandLeft's picture

That was the worst, most slanted hate filled interview I've ever seen in my fucking life!

roooth's picture

the more hateful they will get. This is pulling the thin veneer of civility off of their racist hatefulness and showing who they really are, and it ain't pretty.

It's good in a way, because the uglier they get, the less believable their jingoistic nationalism sounds and the more asshattedness they display, the more America is rejecting them completely.

And that is a bitter pill for them to swallow. They're still in denial about it, they think it's just that their message isn't getting out, (hence this week's meme that the media is in the tank for Obama, not because McCain has becoms a bottom dweller but because all the media is liberal).

But their massage has gotten out - completely and accutrately. And Obama has articulated why their message and their core beliefs are completely at odds with what most Americans really believe this country is.

Not to mention what the Constitution and Bill of Rights defines it as.

America has heard their message and rejected it. Me, personally, I will be so damn grateful to have a president who has actually read and understands the Constitution, because we've seen the results of having a president who hasn't and McCain and Palin obviously haven't either. If for no other reason than that, I would be supporting Obama.

masha's picture

pushback until fox foams at the mouth in anger and hopefully, people will see that they're not credible.

you have to hand it to obama and axelrod. they are not playing it coy. gone are the days when democrats just accept crap from fox. i suppose it's part of an overall strategy to unite americans. they figured they need to expose fox so that america will be rid of its divisive and lying ways. respectful and truthful yet forceful opposition is what america needs. dissension doesnt have to come with hatred.

DannyEastVillage's picture

she doesnt' do a very good job of concealing how angry she is at how things are turning out. Her voice was almost trembling with anger, and the tightness in her face. (And, of course, her hair doesn't move.) She's a pretty pissed off chick trying to..god what IS she trying to do?? Find a way to live with herself?

albabe's picture

It wasn't an interview... unless it was her interviewing her.


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Biff Limbaugh's picture

i'd shag her but at least she would know why i lied to get her into bed.

Renman's picture

FOX will lie, cheat and steal as they take quotations and speeches out of context, as they did in this discussion about an old Obama speech. And then pretend to be fair and balanced. The media, especially this part of the media, must be crushed in the coming years. They are the anti-Americans and lying to the public is not their Constitutional mandated and protected job. Crush. Them.

wisedup's picture

This is why I never watch fox-republican-news and never will. Ratings are dropping like a rock,but with murdock's money he doesn't care.

LeftandLeft's picture

A perfect example why I never, ever watch Fox. That interviewer Kelly was a disgrace to anyone with a sense of fairness.

sctobrien's picture

he accused Faux of having an agenda and her denying it and defending their "reporting"...

http://obriensbriarpatch.blogspot.com

Freewayblogger's picture

Off topic, as usual, and I promise to stop blogwhoring once I've got someone like this in every city:

http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/10/ro...

right on_exclamation point here's picture
you

ROCK!!! Way to go, Baby!! Peace and love...

Rduke's picture

The symbolism of the PEACE symbol is twisted to actually be the historical symbolic representation of DEATH..

Not peace..

You have to turn it around so the arms are stretching upwards... not down.

Until people get the peace symbol CORRECTLY formatted .. we will not even be able to dream about peace.

(THE SYMBOL HAS BEEN USED FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS.. AND HAS FAILED IN EVERY WAY SHAPE AND FORM)

Your friendly local Shaman...

But shit .. who listens to us anymore..

xoites defends Constitution's picture

Guess what? That lie was made up by the John Birch Society back in the 1960s. And they have never gotten ANYTHING right!

albabe's picture

Wow... I Wikied it... and I guess all your say must be a special secret.


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ocinemod@sbcglobal.net's picture

Burton responded just like a neocon would have. He was cool. On point. Unflappable. Tough.
It works!

bushisaliar's picture

OMG .. I know why I NEVER watch that moronic propagana channel

barely made it through that bloviating bitches comments

does ANYONE ever have a chance to answer a question on that sewer of a channel?

jnratliff's picture

I always avoid fox like the plague!
It is the most unfair unbalanced sorriest pile of shit on TV. The others come in second when compaired to fox.
The only people that watch fox are the knuckle dragging morons that want to believe the shit they hear on fox.
Or they come to look at the skin deep pretty fake news casters they have on the air.
In the real world there is no way they could call themselves fair and balanced with a straight face!
What a joke lol.

No Obamanation's picture

obviously not. Check the polling.

westerberg's picture

Just because McCain is getting more bad press doesn't make anything unfair. He gets bad press because his campaign has been a train wreck. How else can you report negative news?

LeftandLeft's picture

If his football team loses 62-0, does Grandpa and his peons expect the Media to ask the losers the same fucking questions as the winning team?

No Obamanation's picture

What do you mean how can you report negative news. Do you even get News? You want to see/hear negative news reported, turn on CNN and listen to Nancy Grace. She not only reports negatively but she is so far in outerspace and has no clue about anything.

dadams's picture

fake new crap
is anchored with news readers who
are either miscreant whores or shit-heads.
i am looking forward to an Obama admin.
putting this bunch of race-baiters in gitmo.
fnc is a domestice enemy combatant corp.

windswept's picture

"Like Oliver Willis says, if this is a prelude to how an Obama administration would handle FOX, it's gonna be a fun four years. I can't wait."

it's gonna be a fun EIGHT years

liberalNmoderation's picture

And furthermore!
I think that Faux Noise will become increasingly marginalized during the upcoming Obama administration....and that will drive Faux Noise absolutely insane.

Can't friggin WAIT!

Dene's picture

Yes, that's exactly it. "Fair" to them means that people are saying complimentary things about both candidates in the same measure (well, really they just want it positive towards McCain, but this is what they're claiming to belive). As if any time something sleazy happens on the Republican side somebody needs to make up something bad on the other side to make it even. Really she's not denying Fox's bias at all. She's just claiming that because McCain gets negative press elsewhere their being pro-McCain makes them fair and balanced.

Cat Atomic's picture

She was actually admitting their bias, but somehow in her little peroxide-addled brain she's twisted it into a holistic sort of fairness.

Winski's picture

Everything seems to be just fine in KoolAide land....The Rove smear machine is in high gear, Hannity has got crowds bowing and scrapping for more hate, Billo the clown has still got an IQ lower than a bag of hammers and Beck will soon be there to save the day... How much better can it get??

New truck of KoolAide on the way and Dimension Oblivion seems to be right on course... AMAZING how so many people in one group can get together and generate so much hate in one place... and smile while they're doing it..

Just remember..what goes around comes around....

Mr. Anon's picture

That woman is as wrong as she is hot. This is why fox gets the viewers, They have the best eye candy money can buy.

"They have the best eye candy money can buy" I have had friends like you...no matter how cruel or nasty a woman is to them as long as she's "hot", they tolerate her bullshit. You are so weak.

liberalNmoderation's picture

I don't think Mr. Anon is anything like a fox viewer, simply because he said that. I tend to agree with him...they attempt,(successfully I might add) to appeal to the lowest common denominator of humanity, by having empty headed, malleable, yet strikingly attractive women host some programs.
I think Mr. Anon was callin them out on their tactics, not puttin up with her bullshit...
Don't be so quick to come down on someone.

LeftandLeft's picture

...it's just that women like that bitch Kelly deserve ZERO credit and should be judged by their conduct...especially at this time.

Amitola's picture

empty headed - just terribly misguided. For instance, Megyn has a JD degree and Monica Crowley, also now a Fox bimbo, has a PhD, I think in international relations.

So, it just goes to show that even intelligent people can be brainwashed.....or paid off.


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

liberalNmoderation's picture

I knew where ya was coming from...we're all on the same side.

And Amitola...you are quite correct.
Because they sound like they're idiots by spewing their hateful garbage...doesn't necessarily make it so.

roooth's picture

When I was in the Navy there was a really hot woman at one base who was just that bad and who NEVER shut up.

I asked one of the guys once why they would put up with her when they obviously didn't like anything but looking at her. He said, crudely but profoundly, they weren't actually listening to what she said so much as envisioning what they could put in her mouth to shut her up.

There's your Palin/Megan/Perino/Coulter fans in a nutshell. Ask any one of them to explain any of these women's (political) positions and watch their eyes glaze over.

liberalNmoderation's picture

He goes after gorgeous, yet air-headed,self absorbed women.
And gets burned every time.

Sec_Humanist's picture

should have listened to your mother.


"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.

liberalNmoderation's picture

Yup!

Cat Atomic's picture

Over the next 4 years, Fox is going to be reduced to a TV version of the G. Gordon Liddy show. A fringe operation that speaks only to the looniest of the loons. Say good-bye to your access, Fox-- you're about to become irrelevant.

Liberal AND Proud's picture

The right does not play by the Marquis de Queensbury rules.

They want a street fight..oooooooook...give em one.

It's time to slap the stupid outta these wussy bullies.


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

roooth's picture

I think it's even better that Obama is playing by the rules AND kicking their asses! Because he's just that much better, and the bullies are starting to bawl!!

jnratliff's picture

they are already a fringe operation. Maybe when the fat turd roger ails kicks the bucket or murdoc or both fox will end.
I don't see how they can keep paying so much money to such ignorant fools to be on the air?

jwf's picture

See You Next Tuesday.

jnratliff's picture

She has a pretty face but she is ugly to the bone!

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