Fox News Debate Analysis Sucks! (Vanity)

10/16/08 | bcatwilly

[brytlea]

I think you’re right on the money. That’s why we don’t have leaders anymore, just politicians. They try to figure out what people want and how to frame the argument to make folks believe they are getting what they are asking for. A leader believes in something and then makes the case so that even those who don’t agree can be brought to his viewpoint.

[The Citizen Soldier]

I was watching Hanity a little bit ago & they showed results of their text polling & it was like 86000 voters & JM was like 84 percent winner..

Therein may lie part of the answer. Clearly, Fox News viewers are right-leaning, but the "we're smarter than you are" panel of experts (?) must show how "fair and balanced" (whatever the hell that means) we are.

By the way, am I the only one to notice that anyone living outside the beltway (Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, etc.) is always mocked by these full-of-themselves experts?

[iceman2008]

It's not just FOX almost all the news stations are giving opinions. What happened to un-bias reporting. AKA give us the facts (thats it) and let us make our own decision. I could care less about who won the debate or who is the best speaker. Obama is clueless and god help us if he get the presidency. Maybe he will call McCain and ask him what he would do and then make his decision. We all now Obama can't stick to his policies. A wave comes along and he goes right with it. Now that I think about it..It almost seems like the economy is going down and instead of blaming those that were living well beyond their means or looking at the fact that it is not just the USA in a downward economic fall. We would rather blame Bush and every Republican. Bush and the republicans were not paying these company's to make shoty decision. They knew what they were doing and knew that if they went down, the government would have to lend a hand or the economy would quickly follow.

[OB1kNOb]

Rush is ripping Fox News a new one at the beginning of his show right now. Rightly so. Something happened at Fox for this 180 turnaround. They sold out last night.

[Nam Vet]

I've just about had it with that whole group. I think Dumb and Dumber (Barnes and Kristol) must have contaminated even 'The Krauthammer'. I have been totally baffled at the combined idiocy of the "FOX All-Stars". All-stars my skinny ass !! They have been demonstrating the savy of a bag of hammers lately.

Nam Vet

[MinuteGal]

After watching the "All-Stars" last night, I posted:

Fox is becoming riddled with charlatans including the 200 Year-Old Man, Lanny Davis.......the faux body-language "expert", Aimee Semple McReiman.........the heir apparent to the Russian Throne, Charles Krautmanov......and Spanky McFarland Luntz and his Children of the Corn focus groups.

.....and I mean every word of it.

Leni

[KeyLargo]

I turned them off. I assume they are in the tank for Obama now. Apparently FOX talking heads are currying favor with MSM bosses in hopes of finding employment when Obama put the Fairness Doctrine into effect.

[KeyLargo]

“They’ve maxed out their conservative viewership and their only avenue for growth is into the left”

That’s why FOX pushes for O’Reilly as their super star talking head.

[KeyLargo]

FOX NEWS AND THE SAUDIS

Regular FOX news watchers have noticed the increasing Saudi influence at FOX News ever since the French riots of 2005 when after one phone call, FOX newscasters stopped calling the Muslim rioters Muslims. Now it veers away from any real news in the war on Islamic jihad and pursues missing girls, missing blond girls, missing pregnant girls, missing pregnant blond girls, missing murdered blond girls, missing murdered pregnant girls, and ..... car chases, spousal murders and particularly blond murders (save Fred Barnes and the Beltway Boys and Hume’s news hour and E.D. Hill ).

Fox Guarding the Wolf House Joe Kaufman, Front Page Magazine

Fox News has long been considered a beacon to those that distrust televised liberal media, meaning every channel other than Fox. One of the indicators of the station’s right-leaning bent is that it has, for the most part, gotten the ‘War on Terrorism’ correct. However, with the undue influence of a Saudi Prince related to militant causes and with this month’s acquisition of Beliefnet, a religious resource website that proudly promotes radical Islam, signs show that the war coverage may soon be taking a turn for the worse.

In September of 2005, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal purchased 5.46 per cent of Class B voting shares in News Corp, the company that owns Fox News and a number of other media and entertainment entities. This had replaced the three per cent stake in Class A non-voting shares bin Talal had previously held through his investment corporation, Kingdom Holding Company (KHC).

With his newfound voting rights, bin Talal stated his intention of supporting Rupert Murdoch, the principal owner of News Corp, helping Murdoch to stay in power and avoid hostile takeover by other interested investors. Some have said that this was like making a deal with the devil, as Murdoch has been left vulnerable to the whims of an individual that has been involved in despicable causes.

In April of 2002, bin Talal had donated $27 million during a Saudi telethon that was raising money for the families of suicide bombers. As well, he had given $500,000 to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to be used towards the distribution and propagation of a set of Islamist books for American libraries. The set included Jamal Badawi’s Gender Equity in Islam, which sanctions the beating of women by their husbands, and a version of the Quran, Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s The Meaning of THE HOLY QURAN, which has been banned by the Los Angeles school system.

Utilizing his position of power within Fox News (today, he is the second largest shareholder), bin Talal has worked to influence programming at the station.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/12/fox-news-and-th.html

[brytlea]

Hmmmm