Thu May 31, 2012, 05:26 AM

cali (81,178 posts)

Fox releases 4-minute attack on Obama

By DYLAN BYERS |
5/30/12 2:41 PM EDT

So much for "Fair and Balanced." The Fox News program "Fox & Friends" has produced a four-minute video attacking President Obama (see above).

Over at the conservative website Hot Air, Ed Morrissey weighs in:

Note that F&F isn’t just playing a campaign ad or a YouTube spot from an outside political action committee. Nor does this come from the production company of one of its opinion-program hosts. The video starts with “Fox and Friends Presents” on the screen, making this an explicit argument from the news channel itself.

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No kidding.

For all its blatantly conservative programming, Fox News does a pretty incredible job of swearing up and down that it's nonpartisan. But it's kind of impossible to see how you walk this one back.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/fox-releases-minute-attack-on-obama-124848.html

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9 replies	Author	Time	Post
Fox releases 4-minute attack on Obama (Original post)	cali	May 2012	OP
Gee- Orwell had the same Idea...circa "1984"	w8liftinglady	May 2012	#1
they mock the constitution by hiding under the guise of 'news'	spanone	May 2012	#2
They will stop at nothing	goclark	May 2012	#3
Oh, but walk it back they did	gratuitous	May 2012	#4
So what's new? Their entire show since his election has been a campaign ad against him. nt	nanabugg	May 2012	#5
So based upon Ailes' comment last week	rufus dog	May 2012	#6
propaganda!	Generic Other	May 2012	#7
Preaching to the choir	tularetom	May 2012	#8
Fox & Friends: the dumbest show on TV is preaching to the choir.	Initech	May 2012	#9

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Thu May 31, 2012, 08:34 AM

w8liftinglady (23,015 posts)

1. Gee- Orwell had the same Idea...circa "1984"

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Thu May 31, 2012, 08:50 AM

spanone (72,278 posts)

2. they mock the constitution by hiding under the guise of 'news'

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Thu May 31, 2012, 08:52 AM

goclark (30,404 posts)

3. They will stop at nothing

In all my years of voting....nothing like this

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Thu May 31, 2012, 08:59 AM

gratuitous (49,292 posts)

4. Oh, but walk it back they did

It was apparently one of those infamous self-producing bits that surfaces from time to time. We're accustomed to seeing it in legislation: "Now, how did those tax breaks for fracking get in that highway bill? Oh well, we need to lay more and better highways, so we can't just chip that out of there. Too late now." Fox is using the same ploy for this, as apparently gremlins occasionally materialize in their studios, produce scurrilous spots and put them on the air, and then vanish again.

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Thu May 31, 2012, 09:02 AM

nanabugg (2,198 posts)

5. So what's new? Their entire show since his election has been a campaign ad against him. nt

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Thu May 31, 2012, 09:03 AM

rufus dog (4,947 posts)

6. So based upon Ailes' comment last week

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which one of the FauxFriends is the conservative and who are the remaining liberals.

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Thu May 31, 2012, 09:09 AM

Generic Other (20,452 posts)

7. propaganda!

Disgusting harping on the food stamps. Jesus H. Christ.

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Thu May 31, 2012, 10:46 AM

tularetom (17,485 posts)

8. Preaching to the choir

No fox "news" viewer is going to be swayed by that bullshit, because none of them were going to vote for Obama anyway.

They've already brainwashed all the low IQ, low information voters, most independents/centrists are smart enough to see through that crap.

So they've reached a point of diminishing returns. They'll have to go so far off the deep end to try to reach the remaining voters, they'll become a joke. Even more than they are already.

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Thu May 31, 2012, 01:33 PM

Initech (39,557 posts)

9. Fox & Friends: the dumbest show on TV is preaching to the choir.

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