Fox News: "Blame liberals for high oil and gas prices!"

[Bleacher Creature]

Courtesy of Media Matters. I know I shouldn't be surprised anymore, but I can't help it.

http://clips.mediamatters.org/video/foxnewslive-200504280007.mov

[BrainRants]

1. Is that a screen cap of the subliminal messages they broadcast?

n/t

[Walt Starr]

2. Looks that way to me!

[Mugsy]

8. Didn't Rupert just challange anyone to prove Fox bias?

Am I mistaken, but didn't Rupert Murdoch just challange anyone to prove Fox News was "biased" in any way?

I think that picture just blew that argument out of the water. OMG.

[AlGore-08.com]

13. Alies was part of a panel on media with Al Gore & Jeff Greenfeld

recently and handed out some total b.s. about how unbiased Faux is, you may be thinking about that:

http://www.algore-08.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=218&Itemid=81

Gore, Ailes Square Off

From Reuters

By Paul Bond

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox News chief Roger Ailes on Tuesday defended the top-rated cable news channel from an antiwar heckler while deflecting some good-natured ribbing from former Vice President Al Gore about a perceived rightward tilt at Fox.

Ailes, during a discussion about the media's role in democracy at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, also endorsed the integrity of many bloggers, a sentiment shared by U.S. News and World Report publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, also onstage.

CNN's Jeff Greenfield set the spirited exchange in motion by mentioning a Pew study that found that 52 percent of Fox News viewers are Republican and only 13 percent are Democrats.

"I don't know the relevance of a Pew study," Ailes said. "I do know that 100 percent of the people who work there are liberals."

"What about Herb, the guy in maintenance?" Greenfield joked.

"He's downstairs watching Fox," Ailes shot back.

Gore lamented, in hushed tones followed by thundering oratory, that the political dialogue is not in Congress as it has historically been but instead in "30-second television commercials that are not the Federalist Papers."

Gore's animated demeanor prompted Greenfield to wonder aloud how Gore earned a reputation for being a stiff and dispassionate public speaker.

Quipped Gore, in a news-anchor voice, "Al Gore distinguished himself tonight from the wooden podium behind him."

Gore also questioned the TV news media's role in promoting, or creating, society's "serial obsessions," such as the Michael Jackson trial and the Terri Schiavo feeding-tube controversy.

While viewers might get every aspect of a titillating trial, they apparently weren't told in strong enough terms that Iraq and Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Gore said.

Greenfield, noting that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, asked Ailes, "Were we ill-served by the coverage in the run-up to the war in Iraq?"

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

But as Ailes began saying that Fox News reported not just the Bush administration's claims but also what the United Nations, the Clinton administration and the CIA had been saying, a heckler shouted, "Bulls**t!"

"If you want to come up here, we'll get another chair. If not, you can have another drink," Ailes responded as the crowd of more than 2,000 roared.

"If all the media agrees with the same point of view, that's not good for Americans," Ailes said, noting that but for the efforts of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, no other news outlet would have reported the United Nations' oil-for-food scandal.

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[Mugsy]

15. No, link from MM.

No, here is the original link:
http://www.worldscreen.com/interviewscurrent.php?filename=0405murdoch.htm

And David Brock's reply:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200504200004

[cdb]

10. Are you sure ??

This isn't a parody site, is it?? Oh my fucking god...these propagandists have no shame.

[Straight Shooter]

12. That is one busy-looking screen. And the partisan message?

Fox cannot claim to be anything other than state television now.

edit: Should we start calling them "Foxda"?

[tridim]

14. Reminds me of that Simpsons ep. where they made fun of the Faux crawler

"Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at Foxnews.com. ... Rupert Murdoch: Terrific Dancer. ... Dow down 5000 points. ... Study: 92 percent of Democrats are gay. ... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party. ... Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple. ... Dan Quayle: Awesome."

That real screencap would fit into the parody perfectly. Unfortunately it's real.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. It looked like it was real-time.

I guess they don't need to do it subliminally anymore.

[KurtNYC]

4. It is called superliminal when they do it that way

seriously. Like the blue backgrounds they use behind * -- the brainwashing is in plain site.

[MadHound]

5. Now don't you know, everything bad in this world is the fault of liberals!

Those goddamn godless heathens are responsible for all of our country's woes. You haven't been taking your meds again have you?

[Bleacher Creature]

7. No -- I ran out and the cost of a new prescription was too high.

:dunce::dunce::dunce:

[MadHound]

9. LOL, so true, so sad, so funny, thanks for the laugh

:rofl:

[MsConduct]

6. Yeah and it's our fault the dub is brainless too!

;)

[MadHound]

11. Naw, that's Bab's fault

All that :beer: and :smoke: and :party: at the wrong time.

[MsConduct]

17. LOL okay, I stand corrected! n/t

[ChiciB1]

16. I Just Posted A Thread That Debunks That Idea By Republicans For

Environmental Efficiency. James Di Peso who head that groups just stated on MSNBC that the "corrupt ones" aren't paying enough attention to Global Warming, but are basically lining the pockets of "big oil"!

No kidding, he said it! Check my thread, it has more information... don't want to be too repetitive.

[carnie_sf]

18. It was the Clenis

[Cobalt Violet]

19. How long before they start sending us to the gas chambers?