Posted on 11/27/2004 10:59:43 AM PST by upbeat5
It's true—Fox News is a response to the overwhelming liberal media bias.
It is a tribute to the rise of the "new media," including Fox News Channel, conservative talk radio, bloggers and Internet sites, that President Bush was able to barely win re-election. The old media, which we have labeled as the Big Media, are not so big anymore. They have clearly lost some of their ability to manipulate the minds of the American people.
Despite having been exposed as a tool of the Kerry campaign, the CBS "60 Minutes" show still draws huge numbers. It attracted 17.6 million viewers on November 7.
The old media thought they could defeat Bush. They failed. But they won't leave their perch of national dominance without a fight.
On the November 5 edition of his public television program, "NOW," liberal media icon and former Democratic Party official Bill Moyers gave us a hint of what's to come. He warned that the Bush administration could be hit hard by the press with corruption stories. Moyers declared that, "I think the next four years are going to be a bonanza for investigative journalism. I just think every time you wed the state and business together like this, you get corruption flowing like the Mississippi River." His point was that the Bush administration is an insidious combination of Big Business and Big Government.
So this is the game plan—to depict the Republicans as being in bed with corrupt business practices, in order to discredit them and bring the Democrats back into power. That means more Halliburton-type coverage designed to convince the public that the Bush administration has sold out to the big corporations.
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Moyers worked for LBJ. His experience there undoubtedly leads him to expect great corruption.
9.68% of Americans never heard of Halliburton, and the rest don't give a rats ass:) Go DNC and MSM go....idiots.
"That means more Halliburton-type coverage designed to convince the public that the Bush administration has sold out to the big corporations."
Yeah, we saw how effective that gambit was. Maybe they can follow Carvile's advice "Enron 'em to death." That worked great too.
Let 'em waste their time, GW is an honest man and will be right there with them if they find anything.
So how exactly is that different than what the media has been doing for the last 4 years anyway?
I welcome any investigation into corruption they feel they can bring about. It's just like the left's complaints about voter fraud. The more you look into it, the more the left kind of wishes everyone would just move on to another issue.
Hey Moyers--
How about we investigate the corruption of State and Big Business like the NPR's relationship with every lunatic left-wing production company, like the one run by you and your son?
"that President Bush was able to barely win re-election"
52-48% is NOT "barely win re-election"
Since when has Moyers ever had an aversion to the latter?
This will only play to the democratic base though. Even if they could find a real corruption scandal, they sort of indemnified future corruption with the blind support of the Clintons corruption.
herehere,
How about we will pull a public funding (and my tax dollar$) from ALL NPR related matters....the scum.
When Moyers worked for LBJ he became a very proficient liar. He has continued to exist as a partisan liar of extreme magnitude every day of his life since then.
Note to MSM: you aren't Dick Nixon's media.
(steely)
What's new?? Right now, the only downside for libs is losing elections. Personally I am sick of seeing them pull every dirty stunt in their playbook and walking away when it's exposed as fraudulent. Their needs to be a serious downside for these bastards...some serious pain. Suggestions please.
The libs' "reasoning" goes something like this:
Bush and his neocon cronies decided to go to war with Iraq in order to enrich themselves, primarily by getting bogus contracts for Halliburton, where Cheney used to preside.
The fact that Bush would jeopardize his re-election possibilities merely to make his wealthy buddies even wealthier doesn't pass a basic test of common sense. The libs are always ready to assign conspiratorial reasons to republicans, but they are willing to let slide the Clinton pardon of Marc Rich (one of a million examples), which, apparently, Bill did out of the goodness of his heart and pure compassion.
Speaking of Fox, a lot of Freepers thought they got a bit wobbly at the end, and that even Brit Hume was going over to the dark side.
In the 1990s, The supermarket tabloids helped expose the clinton scandals, but then the clintonoids bought them all up. We can't necessarily count on that not happening again. The internet is more promising, at least until they figure out how to censor it. But we won't be safe as long as, contrary to Bill Moyers, most of the really big, corrupt money is backing the Democrats and the MSM.
All three billionaires who got heavily involved in 2004 were Democrats.
The corruption uncovered in Fannie Mae should make Enron look like child's play.... With big-name Dems headed for jail. Hopefully.
Can anyone tell me how FOX News is conservative!? Sean is cool but FOX is now centrist just to get more ratings.
Clean out the rest of the vipers.
I agree. I can't figure out why Brit and Fox News "got wobbly".
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