Posted on 06/22/2006 10:14:40 AM PDT by NJRighty
The always modest, always charming Howell Raines, executive editor of the New York Times, has a new autobiography out, The One that Got Away, a sequel to his 1993 memoir Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis.
Dipping into his latest book on his love of fly fishing, we find Raines still rising to the conservative-bashing bait.
On page 189, he lets fly with thoughts about liberal bugbear Fox News: Fox, by its mere existence, undercuts the argument that the public is starved for fair news, and not just because Fox shills for the Republican Party and panders to the latest of Americas periodic religious manias. The key to understanding Fox News is to grasp the anomalous fact that its consumers know its news is made up. It matters not when critics point this out to Foxite consumers because theyve understood it from the outset. Thats why theyre there. Its chief fictioneer, Roger Ailes, had been making up news in plain sight for a half century.
(Excerpt) Read more at timeswatch.org ...
Probably not, IMHO Raines made it up, or he's delusional, or maybe he's lying, or he can't remember if it was FOX or CBS (Is Raines that old?) ... It seems if he knew of some instance where FOX "made it up", he would site it... Isn't that what real newsmen do?
Do liberals ever smile? I can't remember the last time I have seen a liuberal on TV smile while making an argument about politics.
The only emotion I ever see from them is real anger.
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Oh my! How could he EVEN go there? lol. Even if what he was saying were true, it would be the biggest case of the pot calling the kettle black of all time. What a moron.
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Pot. Kettle Black.
I guess this is another case of a liberal accusing someone else of exactly what they're doing themselves.
My first reaction was who is Howell Raines. Sorry pal out here in flyover country we don't read the NYT and don't care what you think of Fox News. I love Fox News, it's the only reason I have cable.
My second reaction was that this "made up news" stuff is more liberal projection. They are the ones that have been running bogus stories not FNC.
Bingo!! Preach it brother...
Whoh! Right you are. How goes it today?
I have only one thing to say about Howie boy. "May the bird of paradise FLY up your nose."
BTTT
I am feeling a little sick today. Tigger is really trying to move in on the former kings' territory.
Understandable. It takes time to recover from traumatic events. Give Tigger some credit.
If she does not knock it off, I'll put her outside. LOL Just kidding, she is in her own way trying to be helpful. She is also hungry. There is food in the dish, but she does not seem to get it for some reason.
This is just yet another case of leftists going crazy because they know that when both sides of a story are presented (i.e. Fair and Balanced) viewers are going to flock to that over the liberal talking points everytime.
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