Posted on 04/26/2005 9:16:06 AM PDT by kristinn
Nominations are needed for Free Republic's Faux News Awards, which are to be presented this Saturday outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner by the D.C. Chapter.
10 winners will be announced. First Place will be awarded the Buckhead, the rest will get framed Sixty Minutes Faux Bush National Guard documents.
The criteria for nominees is as follows: A news reporter, editor, commentator, producer, executive or organization who has lied, fabricated, tried to dupe the public or stretched the truth so far that the truth is unrecognizable and called it news.
Please provide documentation for your nomination if possible. Links and/or excerpts are the best documentation for these awards.
Nominations will be accepted until Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. EDT. Voting will commence as soon as the nominations are sorted out.
Link to details of Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner freep.
Hands down winners complete with link:
http://www.nytimes.com
This Santa Cruz Sentinel article by Chris Watson about Jane Fonda is recent and the biggest BARF I've seen in a long time. Previous FReeper thread with details: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390665/posts
Dan Blather and Eason Jordan should be at the top of the nominee list.
truth.org
Moveon.org
Just two nominations.
I'm sure they never leave though.
Many in the media have continued to spin, distort and misinform the public about Terri Schiavo.
Only 10 winners? This is gonna be tough! So many lies, too little winners! lol
Turn on the evening news. Any report about Iraq could be an instant winner...
The AP, for ther false reporting about a crowd booing at a Bush rally when they learned that Bill Clinton was rushed to the hospital.
http://spinswimming.blogspot.com/2004/09/ap-bias-strikes-again.html
Dan Rather/60 Minutes must be a given...
John Kerry- I will sign the 180 form!
Who ran the Schiavo obit a day or so early, complete with MS being at her bedside when she died?
Two words: Global Warming
gmtao! :-)
The Boston Globe is lobbying big time for this award.
In the catagory of "Just Because I Can"
My nominee: Scott Lindlaw of the AP
Scott wrote that a Republican audience for President Bush booed at the mention of former President Clinton's upcoming heart surgury - "Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them."
The only problem was that the crowd did not erupt in a chorus of boos as AP had reported. While there may have been some booing, many in the crowd clapped respectfully when the President offered his good wishes to Clinton
Powerline facts about incident:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211229/posts
Do I get an award for having no life and posting often?:P
LMAO!!!
Transcript! - that just popped into my head. If I have the energy later, I'll look up the transcript.
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