Huh? One-hour smear special of Obama on Faux News tonight? Legal?

[Seen the light]

What the hell is this??

Remember the Sinclair Broadcasting Group thing with John Kerry back in '04? They're doing the same thing to Obama tonight on FNC. An hour devoted with no pretenses to just bashing Obama.

Can they do this?

[anonymous171]

1. No one really takes Fox seriously, so it's fine.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. You must live up north

down here in the babble belt fox is taken seriously.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

12. It still has as many viewers as CNN and MSNBC combined

FOX is faded from its 9/11 heights, but still America's top source of cable news.

[WeDidIt]

19. And they're still not a pimple on KAtie Couric's butt

and she's the worst of the netowrk newsers.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Yes, they can.

It's cable -- no FCC regulation.

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

3. I thought FAUX bashed Obama 24/7 anyway?

How is tonight any different?

[Seen the light]

7. They usually pretend to be "fair and balanced". Tonight...

Not even that.

Whatever, I'm back to the Olympics.

[muntrv]

4. Not since the republickers got rid of the Fairness Doctrine.

[Bluzmann57]

5. It doesn't matter whether they can do it or not

They will do it and say "damn the consequences. Full speed ahead!" After all, thw White House will protect them.

[WeDidIt]

6. So O'Reilly's on, huh?

OR is that Hannity?

Hold it, that would be two hours of Obama bashing.

:shrug:

[nc4bo]

8. What's really disgusting is that Democrats have no media network

available to them to counter punch the 1 hour pigfest.

[Spazito]

9. It's faux and the repubs are desperate....

They are having to play their "Aces" much earlier in hopes of a "hail-mary pass" for McCain.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

10. It's unreal. I was documenting some of the atrocities >>>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6660461

Tomorrow night is the McCain one. I'm sure the tone will be just the same... cough, cough.

[Seen the light]

14. Oh they're doing one on McCain too?

That should be interesting. Tonight's freaky thing was just "Obama the drug addict", "Obama the sleazeball" stuff all night long (or at least in the 20 minutes or so that I watched).

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

18. This is a full-on hit job unlike anything I've seen.

This thing exceeds the Sinclair Kerry documentary.

They showed a picture of his step-father with the face digitally blurred out. Why? I don't know. But it sure made him seem sinister.

[Orangepeel]

13. Who's gonna stop them?

:shrug:

[Divine Discontent]

15. sure sign they're scared Obama is winning - they would do this as much or early if

McSame was 10 points up...

[HeeBGBz]

16. They're bashing him pretty bad on CNN, too

Fucking tools.

[Whisp]

20. Dobbs was bellyaching how unfair it was that Obama had more media coverage.

he didn't mention the time spent on him like this Fox tear-down. to him more coverage is good coverage.

what a dumbsicle.

[randr]

17. Fact is that Obama actually did well with the born again crowd

He held his own and picked off the younger crowd as expected. He will do much better than Kerry with these folk and they know it.
This is just my personal gut feeling as I have yet to see or hear of any post event polls or even questions asked of the audience in attendance. This adds to my skepticism.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. There is no law in this country anymore.

It's whatever the rich and powerful can get away with.

[Median Democrat]

22. Its The $250 Million In Kind Campaign Contribution From News Corp

At a certain point, I would like to see a challenge to all these free replays given of McCain's attack ads. In other words, a comparison of all the free play given to McCain's attack ads on Fox News, and an analysis of the fair market value of such national showings. I recall that the Paris Hilton ad was only played six times, but it receives hours of National air play, particularly on Fox.

The election challenge I would like to see is the DNC sue the RNC and McCain for failing to declare the fair market value of this free air play on their campaign disclosure statements.