Posted on 01/01/2008 9:24:07 AM PST by MrArbitrage123
This is the part of the press conference that has about a snowball's chance in hell of being aired on Fox News.
I know that many here hate Mike Huckabee but I think the common ground we may have is in feeling betrayed by this so-called "fair & balanced" network. After 8 or so years, I have no place for them in my home any longer.
It wouldn't be so bad if this underhanded network at least required their regulars to DISCLOSE their ties and endorsements of specific candidates but NO, they deceive their viwers by passing ofgf their "round tables" as objective experts. In the past year Fox News has engaged in intellectual dishonesty of the most egregious kind and have lowered themselves by utilizing the same underhanded, manipulative psychological tactics as the liberal media.
I am so turned off by the actions of these people that I feel the damage to my perception of them is irreparable. Times are changing.
I don’t doubt you.
This strikes me as yet another snake oil sales pitch.
According to you and another watcher on this thread, FOX DID SHOW this on their original presentation, so the whole thing is a lie on Huckabee’s part.
But he knew that a lot of conservatives are upset with Fox because it’s perfectly true that they have been less and less “fair and balanced” over the past few years.
So he takes a shot at him, and naive viewers take him at his word. He figures that by the time the truth comes out, the voting will be over and it will be “old news.”
The problem is, he keeps doing this kind of thing.
Evangelicals, admirably I think, give people the benefit of the doubt when they say they have seen the light and have been reborn and they belong to Jesus.
But if a man keeps preaching at you with that, and you discover he is a repeated liar, then you conclude that he is one of the false prophets, not a true one.
Also, it’s very true that you shouldn’t judge another person when it comes to salvation. But if he is running for president, then it is your OBLIGATION to judge whether or not he is a hypocrite and a liar. What happens to him when he goes to meet his Maker is God’s business, not ours. But if he uses preacher talk to run for office, then we have to make it our business—not whether he will be ultimately saved despite his sins, but whether he should be trusted in high public office.
LOL ... I can appreciate that. My kids cried, and they were all over twenty one.
” ... its too bad he DOESNT know Christ ... . Hes fooling too many people “
Wow, so you are making claim to diety. Christains know that the Word of God says that it is - God - Who looks at the heart of man.
I guess that means that you are a Romney supporter because the Mormon doctrine is that Mormons will become God’s too, just like our Heavanly Father and His Son Jesus. I think the Mormons exclude Jesus’ alledged “spirit brother” Lucifer.
Now nmh, what really surprises me is that you are able to see Huckabee’s heart BEFORE you reach godhood. Am I missing something? Have you named your plannet yet?
Until recently my cable company had the Black Family Channel and they had Rocky & Bullwinkle on every day at 9AM. I loved it.
Well, it was newsworthy if for no other reason than that it shows Huckabee in his true colors. It was a defining moment.
My point was that "foreign policy experience" is not the end-all, be-all of politics, given the fact Ronald Reagan had none when he was elected President.
What the heck are you talking about?
Fox presents both sides. That doesn't mean objective experts, it means one person from each side.
I agree that your perception is damaged beyond repair but I don't think that's the fault of Fox News.
I’m a conservative and therefore can’t support someone as liberal as Huckabee.
Foreign policy isn’t the “end-all” of politics but it is certainly important in this post-911 era.
Quit placing youtube content in the Editorial sidebar.
Thanks,
Your tolerence is underwhelming.
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Who is MrArbitrage123
Are you hiding your ABOUT PAGE?
I reviewed your posts and you are a FOX and Republican hater.
With your joining the FR in May 2007, suspect you are a democratic seminar poster.
Prove us wrong. “
No, Google MrArbitrage and you will see my posts going back to the late 1990’s starting on TMF and you will see my posts at freerepublic.com for several years as well. You will see what a “liberal” I am. Between 1996-1998 I was “4commonsense”.
Dick Morris has been informally advising him. Guess Huckabee and Clinton are strange bedfellows.
Thanks - still LOLing
Great post. Huck is trying as many tricks at this late date that he can. Jay Leno returns to the airwaves tomorrow and Huckabee will be on the show. Ugh. He’s a tricky one. Will he play his guitar, too?
Or are you only complaining about the one that is just the tiniest bit more conservative than the rest ? “
That’s a great question. No, I haven’t complained to my provider about the liberal networks because they are not making any pretense to being fair and balanced. They are the Marxists that they are.
My opinion is that we need a true “conservative network” to make things truly “fair & balanced”. For one thing, conservatism is synonymous with being - correct so why do we need a cable news network that includes liberals on every segment? They own the airwaves already. They have 3 cable “news” networks and 3 out of the 4 major TV networks.
By virtue of the fact that Fox thinks that adding the opinion of someone such as Alan Colmes makes them “balanced”, that to me is an admission on their part that liberalism has significant merit. Is it necessary to balance truth with lies?????
Who are you supporting?
It makes them no different than any other broadcast network of any kind. You didn't know that? They don't operate out of charity, you know. Ratings and ad revenue. That's all it is. Like magazines and newspapers, the content is just stuff to put in between the paid advertisements.
He plays bass.
While I agree with you in part, you need to keep in mind that many consider PBS to be “fair and balanced” and Fox to be very conservative, whereas no other news channel has any bias at all.
A better option would be to write to Murdock and his staff that we’d all enjoy a return to balance instead of the current RINO/liberal balance that exists there now.
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