Keith Olbermann - Faux News Revealed

[Nomad559]

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[Caoimhe]

1. Thanks! n/t

[ixion]

2. excellent!

nice to see some real journalism exposing FAUX for what it is.

[IndyOp]

3. "We wish her well" Keith said at the end with a sly grin...?

I wonder what Irene said on the phone when Countdown called her for a comment?!?!

Something about them going to hell? A threat that could be prosecuted?

:wow:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. K & R, the intrepid Nomad559! Thanks...:-)

:yourock: MKJ

[Sabien]

5. hotel rooms

Why are all the television sets in hotel rooms that I've been in recently tuned to Faux News when you turn the thing on?

Coincidence?:shrug:

[Berry Cool]

8. Because Dick Cheney just checked out of the room?

:shrug:

[theHandpuppet]

22. Not just hotel rooms

Try all the hospitals and doctors' offices. You can't escape from this crap, even in the local pubs and restaurants. I feel as if I'm trapped in Orwell's 1984.

[classysassy]

50. Military post

most of the military with their saw dust brained commanders are tuned to faux.

[FoxNewsSucks]

30. Go to a pawn shop,

You can buy TV remotes for 50 cents or a dollar each. Get the most common TV brands, Toshiba, Sony, etc, and then use the menu function on the remote to DELETE Fox "News" out of the tv lineup. Then it will skip over the Fox channel. I do it all the time. I did it to every tv at the gym I go to. It's fun occasionally watching someone stand there going up and down the channels and they can't find Fox so they give up & watch something else.

[LuckyLib]

43. Great tactic. It really is all over. I make a comment to the office

staff that I can't believe an enlightened professional office would show such garbage. They're usually embarrassed!

[astroBspacedog]

54. And the Bank of America.

Can't stand it when there is a long line, it gives me the creeps.

[bbernardini]

6. Anybody else having trouble getting this to load? nt

[Rene]

7. I'm not seeing any link/article here.......anyone know reason why?

[texpatriot2004]

9. Faux, still making things up as they go along. It's not news. nm

[TheBaldyMan]

13. it still needs highlighting every time it happens, in that way it is news

how do you feel about the death toll in Iraq? People are dying every day - just bacause it has become commonplace does not preclude it being newsworthy.

[orleans]

10. thanks n/t

[CanuckAmok]

11. The problem here is....

... Being a gearhead, I used to belong to a site that discussed high-performance engines. Needless to say, there were lots of right-wingers on the board (In fact, I could count the identifiable liberals or even centrists on one hand).

In the "lounge" type area of the site, discussions would occasionally turn to politics. One regular subject was the "Hollywood Liberal" bullshit, and the "Liberal Media Bias" bullshit.

The thing is, these guys, even the ones who were as dumb as a sack of hammers, knew Fox News had a conservative agenda. They didn't care.

In fact, one guy actually said "yeah they have a bias, but it's my bias".

People don't watch Fox News to be informed; they watch Fox news to be reassured. They want to know the so-called War on Terror isn't unwinnable. They want to know George W Bush is a competent leader doing an exceptional job under nearly impossible circumstances. They want to know the economy is on the upturn and that the climate and environment aren't becoming lethal. They want to know that hundreds of millions of other Americans are as frightened and powerless as they are.

Sadly, all the "big" news outlets are pretty much the same. MSNBC has just been busted for airing "Video Press Releases" as news items.

I like Keith Olberman, but he himself admits he's a product of the same machine as Ann Coulter and Robert Moody. Each has his or her agenda.

Converting someone from Fox to CNN isn't going to make them any more informed. A discerning society consists of citizens who find find their own information, from a number of sources, and do the math themselves.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. You nailed it. The medium is the massage. Fox strokes its viewers.

In the well known typo, McLuhan's line "The medium is the message" became "The medium is the massage", and when he saw it in the galley proofs he decided it had resonance and kept it.

Fox viewers, and to a lesser extent, their masters at Fox and the RNC and the Whitehouse, think that they are writing reality. It's a fantasy, meant to stroke them and soothe them and suppress their thinking. Fact is, as Oblberman says, Fox is losing viewers and the Repugnants are losing voters.

[Skittles]

17. you nail it, CanuckAmok

I like to say, they know they are being lied to but they approve of the lies

[Freedom_from_Chains]

20. they watch Fox news to be reassured

Yep, and on Sunday they go to church for just a little more assurance that things after here will be o.k. also.

[civildisoBDence]

28. Amen, Canuck. Talk radio host Neal Boortz put out a challeng to anyone who could prove

that FoxNews had a conservative bias. As a mass comm professor who studies politics and has a website that compares the political leanings of various news outlets (it's called Newsprism), I though Boortz would want to hear what I had to say.

Silly me. I got one sentence out before he hung up, called me a jerk, and asked, "Is that all you bring to the table intellectually?"

Better question: why are so many right wingers hostile towards academics????

And why do they persist in denying global warming when nearly every climatologist in the world believes the science behind it is solid? Why do they persist in supporting a war that the CIA, NIE, and a dozen retired generals all acknowledge has been a disaster?

Sean Hannity wrote in his book (Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Despitism, Terrorism, and Liberalism): "With the capture of Saddam Hussein, the war in Iraq is largely over..." Why can't he admit he was wrong??? There's NO doubt about it.

It's all about money, not truth.

[mojowork_n]

36. Very thoughtful reply, nicely done

And on the flip side, you have to believe that Fox News (and Hannity and Pigboy and all the rest) are only too keenly aware of their listeners' collective fear and ignorance, and know just which buttons to push to best exploit the naivete, insecurity, and blind, patriotic trust.

I saw a tag line on Kos the other day which sort of echoed that assessment. It was a quote from Al Franken along the lines of "...conservatives love America like a four-year old loves its Mommy."

...Because Mommy herself is the warmly glowing, living embodiment of 'truthiness', justice and The American Way.

But on a completely different note, as an admitted gearhead, can I ask you a tech question? Which fuel burns cleaner in an average 4-stroke engine, in decent condition -- regular gas or premium? I know premium is actually harder to ignite (for the higher knock resistance), so is it also more difficult to burn it all up completely, leaving no deposits or soot behind?

[Anakin Skywalker]

47. You Hit It On the Head!

"People don't watch Fox News to be informed; they watch Fox news to be reassured."

I sensed that about the rightwingtards.

[SydneyBristow]

12. here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mrY1G9VWw

way to go man!

[Joey Liberal]

46. Thanks for the link! n/t

[StrictlyRockers]

14. Slam! Keith to Fox, "Here's your ass."

Fox to Keith, "Oh, thanks for handing that to me."

[madhoosier]

15. Talking points memo to the Democrats;

Talking points memo to the Democrats;

Re; Plan for Iraq.

If a republican breaks into a house then smashes a china cabinet filled with china with a baseball bat, how is it a reflection on a democrat’s competency if he can’t fix the mess?

The Bush policy to destroy the government of Iraq without having a plan in place to establish a replacement government created a state with no government what so ever; this is also known as anarchy.

There is no doubt that the destruction of Iraq’s governmental infrastructure is the exact outcome the Neocons in the Bush administration sought because they also sought to privatize as much of the Iraqi infrastructure as possible. Iraq was to be the petri dish of the Neocon experiment to prove privatized infrastructure was a better alternative to governmental oversight of a nation’s infrastructure. It needs also to be mentioned that the corporate clients of the Bush cabal were to profit handsomely from the privatization of Iraq’s infrastructure.

That the cultural divisions of the Iraqi population were ignored is a testament to the self centered arrogance of the Neocons, they simply couldn’t envision any other outcome to their plans than their chosen outcome.

Throughout history incompetence, arrogance, and greed often create disastrous results.

That those whose policies have resulted in disastrous outcomes now demand their critics to propose simple, sound bite ready solutions, to the problems they have created, is just one more example of their arrogance and incompetence.

Instead of floundering while attempting to “find a solution to the problems in Iraq” it would be a better policy to assess how we got to the point we’re at, while also suggesting that there simply are very few good alternatives available due to the scope of the Neocon’s failures.

[brg5001]

34. Well-said, Madhoosier!!

Thanks for posting that!

As an ex-conservative, I knew instinctively that the miserable failure that is President Cheney's Iraq "policy' would be covered up with pathetic attempts to blame those who opposed the breaking of the china cabinet (or the smashing of the hornet's nest..pick your metaphor).

I am tired of hearing talking heads like Chris Matthews imply that it's now the Democrats' job to come up with a plan to instantly turn Baghdad into a peaceful Swiss village. The right question is being asked of the wrong people! Finally, some Democrats are starting to point that out. The very idea that it's our job to put Humpty back together is part of the continuing crime perpetrated by the Neocons, which will go down as one of the all time worst debacles in the history of international relations. They got is into this HELL, so why aren't the pundits asking THEM how they are going to get us out? I know the answer: Because outside of Helen Thomas and Keith Olbermann, most reporters are still not asking THEM why they got us IN!

I am also fed up with editorial writers who claim that Americans don't want hearings or subpeonas. Is Congress to supposed to conduct oversight by conjecture?

We can't change direction until we figure out HOW, WHY and WHO put us on this path in the first place.

[jdadd]

18. Thanks...

Faux news..."We distort you conclude"

[Maryland Liberal]

19. We wish her well....

He He He

[Postman]

21. Way to go Keith! ..."we wish her well"...I love it....

Couldn't help but laugh at that often used line, which in Fox News speak means - go f**k yourself.

[theHandpuppet]

23. Who here has seen the documentary "Outfoxed"?

Didn't come to my neck of the woods here in WV but perhaps I could find it at the local Blockbuster?

[Marnieworld]

29. You could also buy it at Amazon

And other places I'm sure. It didn't come here in PA either but it was so worth the purchase. My mother worships Fox News. This past weekend she was visiting me and she wanted to put it on and I asked her, "What if I could show you a DVD that would prove to you that they are lying and manipulating you? Wouldn't you want to know?" She actually said no. And she even called CNN the communist news network. I gave up.

[StrictlyRockers]

33. I saw "Outfoxed" at a house party. I think it was organized by MoveOn.

It totally opened my eyes up (more) to how Faux News is pure propaganda. It's bad.

The fairness doctrine was an excellent idea. It was a terrible thing to get rid of that law. I think it was changed under Reagan.

[apnu]

35. You can buy it directly from Greenwald for 13 bucks here

http://www.outfoxed.org/

Trust me, its a keeper, don't bother renting it, buy it watch it, lend it to your friends.

[mw]

24. Fox 'News': The Official Republican News Agency

[bonito]

25. Very telling they don't want the end of the "war on terror"

Which is why the democratic party must investigate and bring to light this " war on terror" because you can bet these neocons will do their best to perpetuate it.

[Fluffdaddy]

26. UNBELIEVABLE

[pnorman]

27. Here's the update on that:

Olbermann on Coulter's Anthrax boy

[The Count]

40. This needs a thread of its own!

[Mad_Dem_X]

31. I'm falling in love with this man

Go, KO! :thumbsup:

[eagler]

32. This is EXACTLY why we NEED THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE

revised renewed reinstated.

[Seabiscuit]

37. Faux News: "A Rosetta stone of jaundiced journalism" - BINGO!!! n/t

[cobaindrain]

38. thank you keith

[IWantAChange]

39. Faux provides the message to those that just don't want to consider change

its laborious, requires thinking and effort, it's far easier to just have someone confirm your beliefs, not challenge you and allow you to live your life in ones' personally constructed cocoon.

[Reader Rabbit]

41. Is this something that can be reported to the FCC?

One would think it's a far more serious issue than Janet Jackson's nipple.

[mamalone]

42. Goodness

Gracious, that boy is so stinkin' A.DOR.A.BLE!


and smart too...:loveya:

[Pierzin]

44. Class Act Keith Class Act, hahahaha!!

Great Piece!
Now why doesn't the rest of the media just call on the cabal to step down?? No one beleives a word they say any more, unless you count the crackers and the lemmings.

Way to go again Nomad559!!!

[David Zephyr]

45. WHY HASN'T ANY OTHER NEWS ORG. PICKED THIS UP? FEAR?

What is going on in this country?

If any other organization makes any mistake, Fox is all over them like shit on flies?

Where is the courage here?

[Anakin Skywalker]

48. Rightwing Freeptards Are Like Little Spoiled Children

who just hate to have their insular world views challenged. They watch Faux News because it says the things they want to hear.

[jgruhl]

49. Bwahaha

I love you Keith!

[Up2Late]

51. That's Great! But you know what still bothers me about Olbermann?

It's that he's on MSNBC saying all this great stuff, but other than his show, MSNBC is almost as bad at doing the same sort of thing as Fox "news!" Why is that?

I mean, if I was rating Fox "news", MSNBC, CNN/HLN and regular CNN on a 10 point scale (10 being least actual News to 1 being the most actual news) I'd have to rate Fox as a 10, MSNBC as a 9, CNN and CNN/HLN both would get 8s! They all suck nearly equally!

Couldn't Olbermann get MSNBC to clean up their act a little? Or should we all just be grateful that at least we have his show?:shrug:

[bagrman]

53. Be glad he hasn't been disappeared yet.

[mcg]

52. Faux News: the WWF of the news channels. nt

[Supply Side Jesus]

55. Olberman should get a pulitzer

or a Peabody or something!!!
This man has been spot on all year!