Fox in the White House

[babylonsister]

Fox in the White House

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Ordinarily, Olbermann would done the verbal equivalent of reaching into McClellan's lying mouth and pulling until his asshole was hanging down around his double chin. If Olbermann wasn't so concerned about being accused of using his forum to railroad a liar, he would've taken McClellan to task for profiting off how he deceived the American public and press about matters as deadly serious as Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the War on Terror.

Then again, if Olbermann had treated McClellan like a hostile witness, we wouldn't have been given this gem about Dick Cheney in the wake of his hunting accident. This isn't a sneak preview or an excerpt from the book because McClellan prefaces this amazing revelation about Cheney and Fox by saying that he didn't include it in the book (Lord only knows why):

Well -- there certainly are allies there that work at Fox News and there's one story that I've told before, I didn't include it in the book, but during the vice president's hunting accident, which was another disillusioning moment for me because I was out there advocating get this news out and get it out now and of course the vice president said, no no, no...

And caused me a lot of fun at the podium for three days before the vice president decided that he was going to go out and talk about this after a little nudging from the president. And we were standing outside the Oval getting ready for a meeting and he looked at me, and he said, you already know why I picked Fox News to do this, because I want everybody else to have to cite Fox News when they do their report. It's just kind of the attitude of the vice president about things.

We've all known for years that Dick Cheney, whenever he hits the road, insists on little amenities being done for him. One of them is that the television in his hotel rooms be pre-tuned to Fox "News".

What's disturbing about McClellan's revelation is that Cheney had factored Rupert Murdoch's propaganda machine into official White House policy. This was reinforced by Cheney coming clean to the American public about the Harry Whittington shooting only to Brit Hume, within the comforting cloisters of his own office and Fox "News."

And what's more alarming than Fox being factored into (un)official White House policy is that this attitude, this criminal bias goes all the way back to Election Night 2000, when George W. Bush first cousin John Ellis, then a temp worker for Fox just there for the election, made phone calls to have Fox anchors call the race for his cousin when the other major networks had already called it for Gore.

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[Enthusiast]

1. I think the "hunting accident"

I believe the "hunting accident" was only a problem because Dickie Boy was as drunk as a skunk when he made that mistake. If you think the worst about these guys you are hitting close to the bullseye every time.

[tom_paine]

2. That and likely worse. Buggering each other? Molesting children? Bestiality?

Like the Emeprors of Rome, our Amerikan Fuhrers are wholly unaccountable to the people and shrouded by a veil of secrecy. They have a Toady Media that, even if it had the acapcity to track down and invetsigate, would NEVER be allowed to print it. Just like Commie China, which is what Amerika has become under BushCheney.

Therefore, while it is not certain to what level of depravity they have sunk, but there is no question they COULD if they wanted to, and rest easy that they would get away with it. And we all know that what the Bushies CAN get away with, they DO get away with.

One might argue this is tortured and perhaps circular logic, which might be true. However, in this case, due to the certain type of evil psychopaths that rule us, such does not necessarily invalidate my speculations.

[Enthusiast]

3. Like I said, think the worst.

They might do about anything. The most despicable vile villain a novel writer could conjure up is about right for Dick Cheney.

[mwb970]

4. cheney is like a cartoon character.

Or a James Bond villain. Larger than life, gratuitously evil, offensive, and off-putting. cheney has got to be the absolute worst person to ever hold power at any level in America. I can't imagine how anyone could be worse than this total jerk. I will be so glad when he is finally, finally gone!!