FOX Hires ROMNEY ADVISORS To ATTACK Obama – Fails To DISCLOSE They Work For Romney’s Campaign

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The idea that Fox News, News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch exist primarily as a conservative propaganda machine is a cliché, inasmuch as it is ‘the oft-repeated truth. Therein lies the problem: Those of us who are aware of it, have seen so very many instances of it we’re almost numbed. Our capacity for outrage has been overloaded. There’s an all-pervasive marriage to wealth and government influence in News Corp. that even their scandals don’t truly faze us much anymore; like Old Faithful, it’s an amazing spectacle that seems unfathomable when you first see it, but when you watch it happen at 45 minute intervals every day, you take it pretty much for granted. Media Matters is reporting that Elaine Chao, a ‘Fox News Contributor,’ was recently appointed the national chair of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Romney, a fact that Fox has failed to divulge during her appearances. She is far from the only regular contributor attached to the Romney campaign:

Fox News contributors John Bolton and Walid Phares, and Fox regular Jay Sekulow, have all appeared on the network to criticize Obama without disclosing they’re Romney advisers. Fox News contributor Pete Snyder is the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia’s 2012 coördinated committee. And Fox News contributor Karl Rove is the co-founder and adviser for the super PAC American Crossroads, which is spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat Democrats.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/06/another-fox-news-contributor-isnt-disclosed-as/189777

Fox and the G.O.P. have a relationship so close they finish each others sentences. Hell, they write each others sentences. But with the Romney campaign, News Corp has basically absorbed it. From the outside it’s impossible to say which entity is in charge of hiring the others staff; in truth, they are one and the same. Because not only is Elaine Chao a Romney staffer and a Fox News contributor, she’s been nominated to join its Board of Directors. The Wall Street Journal, A News Corp holding, reports:

Ms. Chao, a cabinet member in the second Bush administration, is the wife of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell.Prior to her nomination, Ms. Chao appeared on News Corp.’s Fox News channel in various segments as a contributor, News Corp. said


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444301704577631881409044986.html

As you can see, they’re similarly coy about mentioning her connection to the Romney campaign. You have to wonder at News Corp feeling such a need for discretion; they don’t mind announcing her marriage to McConnell, a man who has somehow misunderstood his role in government to include the taking down of the executive branch (Perhaps he’s employed by Murdoch,as well. They are of a single purpose in that goal).




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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/09/09/fox-hires-romney-advisers-to-attack-obama-fails-to-disclose-they-work-for-romneys-campaign/


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[charlyvi]

1. I wish to God I could say I was surprised.

By the way, that's one weird looking elephox.

[sakabatou]

2. You kinda get used to Fox lying

Unless they do something very outrageous.

[Viva_Daddy]

3. "Fails To Disclose" would be a more accurate motto than "Fair and Balanced".

[fugop]

4. On the plus side ...

I think the only people left who believe Fox is "fair and balanced" are the rightwing crazies who watch it nonstop.

And frankly, I"m not too sure they believe it. They just keep saying it and hoping if they say it enough, we'll believe it too.

But ... no. We don't.

[CanonRay]

5. There really are no rules, standards or ethics anymore for journalism or politics

Anything goes.

[Downwinder]

6. FOX and Republicans fit together.

You can't tell which one lies the most.

[Doctor_J]

7. Is there anyone left who thinks Fox is a news station?

Articles like this are a waste. None with a brain thinks Fox is anything but a Republican propaganda outlet.

[Tigress DEM]

8. It's like watching that one X Files episode where the inbred boys....

It's like watching that one X Files episode where the inbred boys....had their "Mama" on a little shop cart under the bed. She didn't have legs, but she had relations with her children and they were all mutant in some way. I don't remember the rest of it because I've done much to scrub the image out of my mind over the years.

FAUX is SO awful, so over the top, so NOT a news show that you're right, it's easy to just try and pretend they don't matter even though they exist/persist.

Expecting them to be fair and balanced? WHERE would we start?

I guess we just have to keep pointing out their absolute disregard for truth in "advertising" but it makes us sound like harpies.... if only.

[Segami]

9. 'FOX'...HOME'.....both the same creatures.

'HOME' This episode, which aired during the fourth season, is by far the most disturbing episode of The X-Files...ever. This time, it wasn't monsters or mythical creatures. It was in-bred, pig-men that scared the holy crap out of me. It started with a dead baby with severe birth defects found buried in the ground and ended with the discovery of Peacock family, in-breeders who mate with their own mother. The mother was kept on a small cart, locked under a bed and she had no legs (I just gagged).

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[Tigress DEM]

11. Same feeling though, right?

This sense of incredulous wrong happening right in front of my face and nothing I can really do about it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Fairness Doctrine, anyone?