WP: Cheney Praises Fox News Channel

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Vice President Calls Network 'More Accurate' Than Others

By Mike Allen

Vice President Cheney endorsed the Fox News Channel during a conference call last night with tens of thousands of Republicans who were gathered across the country to celebrate a National Party for the President Day organized by the Bush-Cheney campaign.

Fox News styles its coverage as "fair and balanced," but it has a heavy stable of conservative commentators that makes it a favorite around the White House. It is unusual for a president or vice president to single out a commercial enterprise for public praise.

The comment came as Cheney took questions from supporters at 5,245 parties that were held in 50 states to energize grass-roots volunteers building a precinct-by-precinct army for President Bush's campaign.

"It's easy to complain about the press -- I've been doing it for a good part of my career," Cheney said. "It's part of what goes with a free society. What I do is try to focus upon those elements of the press that I think do an effective job and try to be accurate in their portrayal of events. For example, I end up spending a lot of time watching Fox News, because they're more accurate in my experience, in those events that I'm personally involved in, than many of the other outlets."

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[Fenris]

1. As if I needed another reason to distrust FOX

[Pallas180]

2. that must mean he's going to put Murdoch in charge of his propaganda

station in Iraq.

[AussieInCA]

3. Im Dick Chenney and I endorse Faux News (aka Bushco Pravda)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. 9 out of 10 people who prefer watching Dick Cheney's butthole get licked

over open government prefer FOX NEWS.

[AussieInCA]

5. How about WP ask him about Iraqi instead of bullshit stories like this

Or maybe on the energy policy.

and while they're at it they can let us know what brand of toilet paper he uses (and there must be a lot..I want to buy stock in that company)

[ClintonTyree]

6. Translation.............

"because they're more accurate in my experience, in those events that I'm personally involved in, than many of the other outlets."
Translation; They adhere to the official Party propaganda and have no investigative or journalistic integrity. They parrot everything we tell them.
Great job Faux!

[Skittles]

17. that quote right there should scare the bejesus out of Americans

really

[rooboy]

7. This will backfire on Faux...

now they have no comeback when any librul accuses them of shilling for the administration. An endorsement is about as final as it gets...

[truthisfreedom]

8. oh, man, i wouldn't want to be faux news now. this is the clincher...

total proof that they are in cahoots. what a bizarre move on cheney's part. has he slipped a cog too?

[LizW]

24. It's called arrogance.

Why bother with keeping up appearances when you've got the election riggers to put you in office?

[girl gone mad]

9. Talk about..

a circle jerk!

[pinniped]

10. Another moran who worships those trash talkers.

I still remember the survey and more than 60% of repukes surveyed rely on that crap channel for their version of news.

Pathetic losers.

[0007]

22. ......and those 60% waddle like pigs to the fast food joints

oink oink

[JohnOneillsMemory]

11. ="please just watch Fox so we don't lose all our core voting base..." n/t

[richmwill]

12. Funny

Hahaha- Of course. If I had an organization that only reported good things about me, even when I royally screw up, I'd love them too!

[President Jesus]

13. detailed campaign contributions: Cheney, Murdoch, Ailes

Murdoch
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_result.php?last=Murdoch&first=Rupert

Dick
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_result.php?first=Richard&last=Cheney&st=

Roger Ailes
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=NY&last=Ailes&first=Roger

[Democat]

14. Partisan activities in churches? Wasn't that unethical when Dems did it?

When Gray Davis did something political at a chuch in California, the Republicans were outraged - this article says people were campaigning for Bush in churches. Is that allowed for tax exempt organizations?

[Garion_55]

15. uhhhh.......hello????????

[Maeve]

16. But that is EXACTLY what Cheney wants!

"Accurate", in this case, means "what we want you to believe"; don't make the mistake of thinking he means "really TRUE"!!

Truth is what he says it is...Humpty Dumpty had nothing on Cheney when it comes to making words mean what he wants them to mean.

[Just Me]

18. When a high-level elected official endorses a particular news source,...

,...you know there is something really screwed up in this country (especially a source that has an OBVIOUS right-wing swing).

This kind of stuff is frightening.

[Shopaholic]

20. Well why wouldn't he like it?

Howard Stern is right-why does Bush/Cheney need to run political ads--they've got their an entire damn "news" channel running their "ads" all day long for Bush Co.!

[Toucano]

19. From the man who said the CIA intelligence was accurate

Cheney has got a real strong record on judging accuracy of things he hears.

[DoYouEverWonder]

21. I wonder what else they talked about

on this conference call?

I bet, the main theme was celebrating how Cheney got away with murder on 9-11, and the 9-11 Cover-up Commission gave him a get out of jail free card today?

[Corgigal]

23. In Cheney's world

of course it is. You know that world, where you send young people to their deaths because they were trying to get some college funding or you bomb people's towns for the sake of peace. You know that one.