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Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided America In a Way Not Seen Since the Civil War
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Posted on 12/08/2012 8:33:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided America In a Way Not Seen Since the Civil War By Noel Sheppard Created 12/08/2012 - 11:13am

Robert F. Kennedy Jr said of Fox News Friday, "It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War."

This occurred during an online video interview with the Huffington Post (video follows with transcript and commentary):

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR: There’s two things happening. One is the influence of big money in politics, and the other is the right-wing control of the American media, particularly starting with Fox News. 95 percent of talk radio in our country is right-wing, and you need, according to Pew survey, and you, so a whole section of our country that that’s what they’re hearing. They wake up in the morning, when they go to bed at night.

Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. I think that that has, that has, it's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and that it’s empowered these large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United States Congress elected - the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

This is pretty hysterical considering President Obama met with representatives from MSNBC Tuesday to discuss tax policy.

It seems a metaphysical certitude Kennedy doesn't see anything wrong with that.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elitists; foxnews; kennedyfamily; rfkjr
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To: Past Your Eyes

“Is he one of the few who hasn’t skied into a tree or crashed a plane....”
Yep he’s missed all that and is drawn to politics and influnence peddling just like all Kennedys.
Just another tapeworm in the body politic.


21 posted on 12/08/2012 8:47:08 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Sub-Driver

I think Fox News helped give us a Republican presidential nominee so liberal that many conservatives voted third party or just stayed home on election day. In that backhanded way, Fox News helped reelect Obama.


22 posted on 12/08/2012 8:50:14 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Gaffer

Shall we put you down as undecided?


23 posted on 12/08/2012 8:50:53 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Sub-Driver

Have no fear. He’ll rape someone, ski into a tree, crash a plane, or overdose. It’s predictable!


24 posted on 12/08/2012 8:52:04 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Sub-Driver
They wake up in the morning, when they go to bed at night.

Anybody understand what this means ?

25 posted on 12/08/2012 8:52:19 AM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Sub-Driver
Sounds like he's back on the smack...*again*.One of the thinks about this punk that truly amazes me is that he had the...cajones...to appear in a Connecticut courtroom as a character witness for his murderer cousin,Michael Skakill.Although there *is* a certain sick symmetry there...a heroin addict defending a murderer.
26 posted on 12/08/2012 8:52:22 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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To: Sub-Driver
heroine users... is there anything they don't know???

the kennedy's are the AIDS of American politics

27 posted on 12/08/2012 8:52:51 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Yes, my opinion does matter a whit of beans to this asswipe’s purpose in spewing his trash.

It will only matter when how he feels, how he is stuggling, how his constituents are struggling, doesn’t matter any more. Everyone will be for themselves by then, and he’ll be a distant memory with all the other losers.


28 posted on 12/08/2012 8:54:44 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Sub-Driver

They have CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Headline News et. all plus they pack presidential election debates with their moderators, own the educational system, Hollywood, and use all to get Obama reelected but they still complain?

It has become clear to me that total domination is the socialist party’s goal. No differing opinion, no independent thinking unless it’s in lock step with the party talking points.


29 posted on 12/08/2012 8:55:09 AM PST by navymom1
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess they divided the country between those who look realistically and try to solve problem between those who live in LA-LA Land and think problems will solve themselves.


30 posted on 12/08/2012 8:55:21 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Sub-Driver
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided America In a Way Not Seen Since the Civil War

Hey Bobbie, don't you have a woman to kill somewhere?

31 posted on 12/08/2012 8:55:21 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Farmer Dean

He may not have skied into a tree (yet), but when he found a new girlfriend, he just left his wife hanging around.


32 posted on 12/08/2012 8:55:26 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Where is the demand that ALL FOUNDATIONS be taxed at the same rate as individuals and businesses? It’s time the putrid Kennedys stop milking the system, while screaming about The Rich not paying enough. They’ve lived off the tax-free ill-gotten gains of their criminal grandfather and great-grandfather, old Joe Kennedy, who ran illegal booze during prohibition. Only the corrupt Leftist media could turn this bunch of drug users and assorted low-lifes into American Royalty!

The Ford Foundation, Johnson Foundation, The Tides Foundation....all Left wing tax shelters that propagate Communism throughout the world. Tax them till they bleed.


33 posted on 12/08/2012 8:55:30 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Sub-Driver
Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News.""""".....

Thank goodness he does not know about Free Republic as the source of most of FOX NEWS commentary.

34 posted on 12/08/2012 8:56:26 AM PST by annieokie
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To: geo40xyz

The Kennedys have been dividing the country since his grandfather made deals with the Nazis and his uncle made deals with the Soviets. Crappy family, through and through.


35 posted on 12/08/2012 8:58:21 AM PST by ryderann
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To: Sub-Driver

Robert F. Kennedy Jr said of Barak Obama Friday, “He’s divided our country in a way that we haven’t been divided probably since the Civil War.”

Fixed it.


36 posted on 12/08/2012 8:58:27 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Sub-Driver
Robert F. Kennedy Jr said of Fox News Friday, "It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War."

A cultural civil war between secularists/statists/socialists and pro-God/freedomists/capitalists have been dividing the country for decades.

37 posted on 12/08/2012 8:59:39 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Sub-Driver
Thank you Lord Jesus that my last name is not Kennedy.

5.56mm

38 posted on 12/08/2012 9:00:06 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Past Your Eyes

Don’t forget...killed somebody.


39 posted on 12/08/2012 9:00:19 AM PST by Conservative4Ever (I'm going Galt.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The buck-toothed freak had an affair with his children’s baby-sitter and drove his former spouse to suicide. Preach to your fellow Democrats, but we’re not buying it Bob.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2145456/Mary-Kennedy-dead-Robert-Kennedy-Jrs-ex-wife-hanged-barn-NY-home.html
The MSM Ministry of Truth and its minions consider any deviation from the party line to be thoughtcrime, so I’m a proud thought criminal.


40 posted on 12/08/2012 9:02:02 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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