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maddog42
02-16-2015, 03:11 PM
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/lies-damned-lies-and-fox-news/?_r=0


http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/fox-news-caught-editing-press-conference-to-spread-lies-video/


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/20/1202992/-Fox-News-lies-on-air-about-gun-polling


Fox is caught lying again and again. I could post 10 more examples.

Clocker
02-16-2015, 03:30 PM
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/lies-damned-lies-and-fox-news/?_r=0



Fox is caught lying again and again. I could post 10 more examples.

I looked at the first link and it was complete nonsense, so I went no further.

Hannity is not a news show, it is pure unadulterated opinion. Fox does not produce Hannity, it is produced by Hannity's company. The guests on Hannity do not work for or represent Fox. Is NBC responsible for people on reality shows that don't tell the truth?

Krugman presents zero evidence that any guests lied. He says the business owner could not have been affected by ObamaCare because he only has 4 employees. If ObamaCare affected the cost of benefits he had promised them, then it affects his business. The two private parties say that their insurance premiums went up. Krugman says they might have been able to save money if they shopped around. He says that without a clue about their financial or health status. Total nonsense.

Tom
02-16-2015, 03:36 PM
Post 10 more - maybe one of them will make sense! :lol::lol:

maddog42
02-16-2015, 03:40 PM
Post 10 more - maybe one of them will make sense! :lol::lol:

How about 20? Must be 30 in this article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/bill-oreilly_b_1773043.html

Clocker
02-16-2015, 04:02 PM
The thread title is "Lies, Damned Lies, and Fox News". How about posting a single lie from a Fox news show.

O'Reilly and Hannity are opinionated wind bags, and anyone that watches them expecting "fair and balanced" news is as goofy as the Obama fan boys that believe his BS.

burnsy
02-16-2015, 04:27 PM
Only the "politics jokers" would think this is news...been going on for years...I read people regurgitating the garbage they see and hear on Fox, MSNBC and even CNN all the time. Brian Williams gets burnt.....which ones don't lie? Its not even "News" or journalism any more. These people are no Walter Cronkites to say the least. I don't have to read links to figure it out, any half wit can figure it out. What's even more astounding is the lug nuts that stick up for these sell outs. "They say what I agree with, it must be true"....yeah, ok buddy...you're a genius............ :rolleyes: People even admit its commentary then they still think its facts.......c'mon man....

davew
02-16-2015, 05:08 PM
I wonder if you could find any lies by the democratic leaders or presidemt?

or what you perceive as lies?

HUSKER55
02-16-2015, 06:55 PM
keep it up....you are ruining his spin :D

Saratoga_Mike
02-16-2015, 07:45 PM
Walter Cronkite's political biases didn't seep into his reporting? Did someone just intimate that? Funny.

maddog42
02-16-2015, 09:42 PM
8. Hannity Falsely Claimed a White House Adviser “Advocated Compulsory Abortion.” Hannity claimed that White House science and technology adviser John Holdren “advocated compulsory abortion” and sterilization. PolitiFact had previously rated a similar claim — made months earlier by Fox News’ Glenn Beck — “pants on fire” false

horses4courses
02-16-2015, 09:59 PM
Not that I expect any of you cons to buy this.
Let me guess - you won't like the source.
The Kool Aid they give you guys is ever so strong..... :eek:

http://aattp.org/category/fox-news-lies-2/

mostpost
02-16-2015, 10:47 PM
I looked at the first link and it was complete nonsense, so I went no further.

Hannity is not a news show, it is pure unadulterated opinion. Fox does not produce Hannity, it is produced by Hannity's company. The guests on Hannity do not work for or represent Fox. Is NBC responsible for people on reality shows that don't tell the truth?

Krugman presents zero evidence that any guests lied. He says the business owner could not have been affected by ObamaCare because he only has 4 employees. If ObamaCare affected the cost of benefits he had promised them, then it affects his business. The two private parties say that their insurance premiums went up. Krugman says they might have been able to save money if they shopped around. He says that without a clue about their financial or health status. Total nonsense.

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/inside_the_fox_news_lie_machine_i_fact_checked_sea n_hannity_on_obamacare/
If you had actually done any research, you would not have even pretended that you looked at the first link. The business owner specifically told Hannity that he was keeping his employees work hours below 30 hours a week so he would not have to provide health insurance. This despite the fact that he only has four employees and is not affected in any way by the ACA.

When Eric Stern called Paul Cox, the businessman, and asked him, "Why the cutback on his workforce?" This is the reply he received. “Well,” he said, “I haven’t been forced to do so, it’s just that I’ve chosen to do so. I have to deal with increased costs.” What costs? And how, I asked him, is any of it due to Obamacare? There was a long pause, after which he said he’d call me back. He never did. Odd that Mr. Cox never called back, unless he figured out that his bluff had been called.

As for the other two couples; it is true that Krugman is not familiar with their financial and health status. But how does that absolve them of the responsibility to investigate if their are better options available? Krugman was merely pointing out that they had failed to do their due diligence.

You basically conceded that Fox News was lying when you said this, "Hannity is not a news show, it is pure unadulterated opinion." My question is this. Why is it all right to lie in support of an opinion? On a news show, you are required to have all your facts correct. Why is it all right to use use incorrect facts to support your opinion. A lie is a lie.

mostpost
02-16-2015, 11:00 PM
The thread title is "Lies, Damned Lies, and Fox News". How about posting a single lie from a Fox news show.

O'Reilly and Hannity are opinionated wind bags, and anyone that watches them expecting "fair and balanced" news is as goofy as the Obama fan boys that believe his BS.I think maddog's second link in the OP addresses that. It shows Fox selectively editing clips of an Obama news conference to achieve the impression Fox wants. Adding the edited clips changes the meaning of Obama's response completely. I assume this was a news show. The words "America's Newsroom" appear in the corner of the screen.

Clocker
02-16-2015, 11:06 PM
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/inside_the_fox_news_lie_machine_i_fact_checked_sea n_hannity_on_obamacare/
If you had actually done any research, you would not have even pretended that you looked at the first link. The business owner specifically told Hannity that he was keeping his employees work hours below 30 hours a week so he would not have to provide health insurance. This despite the fact that he only has four employees and is not affected in any way by the ACA.

Did you even read what I said? The first link in the OP was to something by Paul Krugman. It is nonsense, as I pointed out. Why do I have the burden to do further research about Krugman's nonsense? Why are you ignoring what Krugman said and linking to more stuff I am not going to look at?

P.S. After reading your first paragraph above, I didn't read the rest of your post either. Given the nonsense above, I figured that the odds of finding any relevant content were near zero.

Hoofless_Wonder
02-17-2015, 03:03 AM
Not that I expect any of you cons to buy this.
Let me guess - you won't like the source.
The Kool Aid they give you guys is ever so strong..... :eek:

http://aattp.org/category/fox-news-lies-2/

The first link is the premise that "Big Government" made the measles outbreak worse.

43% of the cases involved persons with an "unknown" vaccination record. Could they possibly be illegal aliens?

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm64e0213a1.htm?s_cid=mm64e0213a1_e#.VN9bZwVMQ_w.m ailto

I would say Obummer and Big Government sure has made it easier for illegal aliens to come and to stay in the U.S.; ergo they made the measles outbreak worse.

Kool Aid is hardly a beverage restricted to any one political point-of-view....

Tom
02-17-2015, 07:38 AM
Breaking New......most liberal have no idea what "news" is.
As evidence by the parade of ignorance in this thread.

So desperate after NBC is exposed in REAL lies......:lol::lol::lol:

horses4courses
02-17-2015, 10:26 AM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-DfCqUCEAE1x38.jpg:medium

Tom
02-17-2015, 10:32 AM
You think Brian Williams is pretty? :eek:

horses4courses
02-17-2015, 10:37 AM
You think Brian Williams is pretty? :eek:

Check.

Doesn't matter what he looks like.
Get much of my news from BBC, but listen to NBC news every night.

I watch and listen to news to do just, and only, that.

reckless
02-17-2015, 10:53 AM
8. Hannity Falsely Claimed a White House Adviser “Advocated Compulsory Abortion.” Hannity claimed that White House science and technology adviser John Holdren “advocated compulsory abortion” and sterilization. PolitiFact had previously rated a similar claim — made months earlier by Fox News’ Glenn Beck — “pants on fire” false

Wow, very serious stuff.

How does this 'serious' lie compare to one lie after another by I was There Williams and NBC news?

How about NBC news doctoring and falsifying the 911 call in the Trevon Martin story solely to make George Zimmerman a racist and murderer?

horses4courses
02-17-2015, 09:51 PM
http://www.newshounds.us/fox_suggests_too_muslim_obama_is_intentionally_let ting_isis_win_war_on_terror_021715

Psychiatrist Keith Ablow, today’s #OneLuckyGuy, was less about Obama’s religion and more about his psyche, even though Ablow has never examined him. “The president has something about his way of being that’s deeply rooted inside him that does not sit well with this country and with the notion of joining forces for autonomy and freedom and identifying real threats for what they are,” Ablow opined. “There’s something that’s deeply ingrained in our president that can’t embrace America as a force for good in the world, as a leader for good. And I’ve said it again and again and now it’s coming home to roost.”

Chickenhawk Andrea Tantaros, acting as host for the segment, suggested she had it figured out: Obama’s too Muslim! “Is it his childhood?” Tantaros “asked,” referencing the years Obama lived in Indonesia. “If he just doesn’t acknowledge the threat and he takes his mind back to where he was as a child, when he remembers a peaceful Islam, the threat won’t exist if he doesn’t acknowledge it.”

According to Ablow, it’s that Obama is too anti-America.

ABLOW: It’s that he’s balancing threats. And to the president of the United States, I believe, that the United States of America is the bigger threat, that he sees that our focus on autonomy, our desire to spread our ideas around the world has been a great plague and he’s, you know, really not up for the idea of saying, “I’m with these guys against them” because he sees them as people who have been put upon.


Read more at http://www.newshounds.us/fox_suggests_too_muslim_obama_is_intentionally_let ting_isis_win_war_on_terror_021715#509IHc38lmuF1mJ m.99


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-Fv2KiCMAAckIw.jpg:medium

horses4courses
02-17-2015, 10:01 PM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B97Rm6RCMAAmcJE.jpg:medium

Saratoga_Mike
02-17-2015, 10:26 PM
Check.

Doesn't matter what he looks like.
Get much of my news from BBC, but listen to NBC news every night.

I watch and listen to news to do just, and only, that.

Try reading a paper - TV news is too superficial.

Tom
02-17-2015, 10:33 PM
Reading?
That is a good one! Maybe if he could find a cartoon newspaper....he seems to be obsessed with cartoons.

Does the Cartoon Network has a news show? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Saratoga_Mike
02-17-2015, 10:39 PM
Aren't the cartoons out of control? I don't care if someone is a liberal or a conservative - don't jam up every thread with crap.

Clocker
02-17-2015, 11:11 PM
Aren't the cartoons out of control? I don't care if someone is a liberal or a conservative - don't jam up every thread with crap.

Just put him on ignore like I did. It raises the average IQ of the posts you do see by about 50 points.

Hoofless_Wonder
02-18-2015, 12:16 AM
Like any other business, FOX News plays to their demographic because it translates to $$$. And if these ratings are any indicator, they doing a pretty good job of it - with almost a 50% share across all the networks, and more than twice the audience of any other network.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/02/17/cable-news-ratings-for-friday-february-13-2015/363484/

With $$$ involved, the truth sometimes takes a back seat. Big shocker.

And this is why, IMHO, Rush Limbaugh who is really a closet liberal, hosts a conservative radio talk show. He's greedy first, honest second.

Hoofless_Wonder
02-18-2015, 12:28 AM
http://www.newshounds.us/fox_suggests_too_muslim_obama_is_intentionally_let ting_isis_win_war_on_terror_021715




https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-Fv2KiCMAAckIw.jpg:medium

Actually, there is a religious test for public office. It's called an election. And if Obama really is a Muslim, doesn't that make him a liar? Anyone who calls him a Muslim is simply questioning his faith, and is hardly guilty of being a bigot.

PaceAdvantage
02-18-2015, 04:33 PM
http://www.newshounds.us/fox_suggests_too_muslim_obama_is_intentionally_let ting_isis_win_war_on_terror_021715




https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-Fv2KiCMAAckIw.jpg:mediumI'm very glad you posted this latest graphic.

I NEVER understand why Obama supporters get so upset when someone suggests he might be Muslim based on his upbringing and his father and where he went to school.

You liberals are showing your true colors by bristling whenever the notion of Obama being Muslim is brought up....you should embrace it...so should he... :lol:

HUSKER55
02-18-2015, 05:19 PM
a liberal taking responsibility for themselves without trying to screw someone else........


good luck with that