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Octafish

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29. Rupert's flunky Roger Ailes only lets the ''Right'' people on air.
Sun May 17, 2015, 12:10 PM
May 2015
With Fox News Liberals, Who Needs Conservatives?

They play the left on Rupert Murdoch’s TV

By Steve Rendall
FAIR, March 1, 2012

Fox News co-host and contributor Bob Beckel has called for the assassination of WikiLeaks spokesperson Julian Assange (“A dead man can’t leak stuff”—Follow the Money, 12/6/10), for furnishing guns to school children (“If you give your kid a gun, no bullying”—Five, 1/5/12) and for militant opposition to the “War on Christmas,” which is “completely out of hand” (Five, 12/9/11).

These views are anything but out of place on Fox News, where hosts and commentators are known for fantasizing about murdering progressives (FAIR Blog, 11/10/10), deifying gun ownership (Beck, 6/29/11) and courageously confronting those who would wish them happy holidays (O’Reilly Factor, 11/17/11).

But Beckel is presented as a left-leaning voice on Fox, a counterweight to the network’s army of right-leaning talkers. And he’s far from an atypical specimen there.

As one of five co-hosts on Fox’s new program the Five, Beckel is supposed to serve as foil to four conservative co-hosts. That’s the theory. In reality, Beckel more than occasionally joins his conservative counterparts. (Typically, Five panelists include former George W. Bush aide Dana Perino, Fox News Red Eye anchor Greg Gutfield, Fox legal commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle and Fox Business Network host Eric Bolling.)

For instance, when Beckel’s colleague Bolling (Five, 12/14/11) recounted how he’d kicked a representative from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) off his Fox Business show (Follow the Money,12/12/11) for opposing the display of a nativity scene at a Texas courthouse, Beckel bluntly approved: “Good.” When Five co-host Greg Gutfield (12/9/11) compared FFRF to a woman who’d once demanded that he put out his cigarette, Beckel’s only response was, “Did you deck her?”

Discussing charges that GOP Rep. Mark Foley (Fla.) had exchanged inappropriate messages with male congressional pages (Hannity & Colmes, 10/2/06), Beckel suggested that Foley, because he’s gay, should have been kept away from pages to begin with, likening him to a notorious bank robber: “If Willie Sutton is around some place where a bank is robbed, then you’re probably going to say, ‘Willie, stay away from the robbery.’”

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http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/with-fox-news-liberals-who-needs-conservatives/

Wouldn't want the masses to get any ideas, madfloridian.
K&R! marym625 May 2015 #1
Thank You For Sharing cantbeserious May 2015 #2
You are welcome. madfloridian May 2015 #3
Can't lose strategy by our oligarchy FlatBaroque May 2015 #4
.... madfloridian May 2015 #5
Yeah, and the clowns ain't funny. nt SusanCalvin May 2015 #7
Ah, but it is. F4lconF16 May 2015 #23
Meet the new boss... SusanCalvin May 2015 #6
Thanks for those lyrics. madfloridian May 2015 #24
I just saw The Who last Wednesday in Chicago waddirum May 2015 #28
K&R pa28 May 2015 #8
What they are really saying... Dont call me Shirley May 2015 #9
..... madfloridian May 2015 #10
"3rdWay is to D as TeaParty is to R" BeanMusical May 2015 #15
"3rdWay is to D as TeaParty is to R" Yes, it is fredamae May 2015 #26
"These are Wall Street asshole corporatist Democrats". nt antigop May 2015 #11
thanks, mad. Do they post on DU? nt antigop May 2015 #12
Those quotes make absolutely no sense. Enthusiast May 2015 #13
I think they only pretend to want Democrats to win. Their true objective is for Democrats to lose. DJ13 May 2015 #17
They have their goals. Either party could fulfill them. madfloridian May 2015 #19
the word "bipartisan" could be their main goal. DJ13 May 2015 #20
They tried "post partisan" for a while. madfloridian May 2015 #21
Centrism is alive and well in a number of Democratic think tanks, not only Third Way. merrily May 2015 #14
Kick and R. BeanMusical May 2015 #16
The Democratic Party bought into Reagan's Trickle Down Economics. They believed they liberal_at_heart May 2015 #18
That is true. madfloridian May 2015 #33
Those Kos Quotes are Surreal daredtowork May 2015 #22
R & K!! RiverLover May 2015 #25
Good point. madfloridian May 2015 #27
Acknowledging it would, one way or another, decrease the disposable income of quite a few. merrily May 2015 #34
Rupert's flunky Roger Ailes only lets the ''Right'' people on air. Octafish May 2015 #29
Wow, very enlightening article from FAIR about Fox style Democrats. madfloridian May 2015 #30
Great post, thank you. Cowen is a right wing hack posing as a Dem. What IS interesting sabrina 1 May 2015 #31
I remember those times well. madfloridian May 2015 #32
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