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By: About rally, jon stewart, fox, sean hannity, footage | Find me About

About rally, jon stewart, fox, sean hannity, footage | Find me About — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:53:48 +0000

[...] Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart confessed to being embarrassed some time ago when two young amateur journalists scooped them on the activities of ACORN in several cities. He’s made up for it a good bit this week when he caught Fox News Channel spicing up …Read Original Story: Fox News: Fluffer for Michele Bachmann – The Moderate Voice [...]

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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:13:24 +0000

[...] Comedy Central’s JonStewart confessed to being embarrassed some time ago when two young amateur journalists scooped them on the activities of ACORN in several cities. He’s made up for it a good bit this week when he caught Fox News Channel spicing up …Read Original Story: Fox News: Fluffer for Michele Bachmann – The Moderate Voice [...]

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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:12:50 +0000

[...] Comedy Central’s JonStewart confessed to being embarrassed some time ago when two young amateur journalists scooped them on the activities of ACORN in several cities. He’s made up for it a good bit this week when he caught Fox News Channel spicing up …Read Original Story: Fox News: Fluffer for Michele Bachmann – The Moderate Voice [...]

By: Daniel_Olson

Daniel_Olson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:21:06 +0000

I don't even know Carson or his work, so I don't know one way or another whether he deserves Olbermann's contempt. But smearing someone as a racist by pruning a quote so as to make him sound like he is saying the exact opposite of what he is actually saying? I'm sorry, but what Olbermann did is FAR worse than what Fox did, which is to try to inflate crowd size.

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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:11:16 +0000

[...] Comedy Central’s JonStewart confessed to being embarrassed some time ago when two young amateur journalists scooped them on the activities of ACORN in several cities. He’s made up for it a good bit this week when he caught Fox News Channel spicing up …Read Original Story: Fox News: Fluffer for Michele Bachmann – The Moderate Voice [...]

By: GreenDreams

GreenDreams — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:47:02 +0000

That's pretty weak tea, Daniel. No mis-stating facts or substitution of pictures. It was one of his snarky “worst persons” bits and you disagree that Carson deserved the “deward”. I'll look at more of their examples to see if there are anything similar to the Fox distortion that was the subject of this post.

By: Daniel_Olson

Daniel_Olson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:56:30 +0000

You want an example of Olbermann's dishonesty? That's an easy one. Try this:

http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2009/11/...

He prunes quotations so as to make his enemies say the opposite of what they actually said. You can't get much more dishonest than that.

By: GreenDreams

GreenDreams — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:27:35 +0000

I disagree about MSNBC. I have seen Maddow and even Olbermann admit errors promptly and without dissembling when they err. Am I wrong? Show me a factual error even close to the deception on Fox that went uncorrected. I readily admit that Olbermann goes way overboard with snark and sarcasm, Maddow much less so, though she can be mocking. But I think she's the smartest interviewer on TV and is unafraid to interview “hostile” subjects. Other “lefty” outlets with high integrity, Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz. None of these have supported “lefty” conspiracy theories (e.g. 9/11 'truthers') as Fox does, and regularly, on air, disagree with those who do.

By: About hannity, footage, fox, sean, rally video, jon, stewart | Find me About

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:10:23 +0000

[...] Comedy Central’s JonStewart confessed to being embarrassed some time ago when two young amateur journalists scooped them on the activities of ACORN in several cities. He’s made up for it a good bit this week when he caught Fox News Channel spicing up …Read Original Story: Fox News: Fluffer for Michele Bachmann – The Moderate Voice [...]

By: TheMagicalSkyFather

TheMagicalSkyFather — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:44:35 +0000

I caught that and I must admit Hannity moved to the top of my “I hate their opinion but have respect for them” list because of it. To be honest it blew my mind, I have become so used to the screamers not retracting or even trying to be honest that I was stunned and impressed. I agree though MSNBC, the rest of Fox(Shep excluded of course) and CNN(Clinton News Network) will sadly not join what is a very honorable act…admitting you made a mistake or were mistaken.

By: Daniel_Olson

Daniel_Olson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:16:35 +0000

Thanks, and by the way, Sean Hannity admitted last evening that Jon Stewart was right and apologized on the air. They could have done more, like admitting that it wasn't exactly an inadvertent mistake and by announcing that they were firing the editor responsible. Still and all, I won't hold my breath waiting for MSNBC or any other lefty outlet to ever do as much about their scumbaggery.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/12/video-han...

By: TheMagicalSkyFather

TheMagicalSkyFather — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:47:40 +0000

That was an excellent example, I answered to Daveinboca but I did not want you to think I was dodging you or a valid comparison and it is a perfect example. Thank you.

By: TheMagicalSkyFather

TheMagicalSkyFather — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:45:14 +0000

I basically agree with everything you said. I would note that my intention was not that they needed to take his side but more that they should not have been defending the indefensible. They could have done some investigations. They could have discussed valid or even not valid options to resolve the issue but instead they waved an American flag said we are the best in the world and seemed to attempt to close the case which I found offensive on many levels. I love me some MM but mostly from the 90's but I think the fix for healthcare is a multi faceted hybrid approach that will probably take a decade or more before it is totally in place due to the amount of problems in the system and I do not think single payer is the best route anymore. I did before the 2008 election but as ideas began to be put into legislation(even though I do not like all of it) I began to believe as I still do that we are beginning the journey to fix the problem that otherwise I thought would only be fixed with single payer. So their is a positive for the free marketers, this process has actually moved me personally away from single payer since I prefer the hybrid approach but at the same time it has also moved me closer to Obama to be honest though that is not surprising I do not like Dems much more than Repubs they just did not have the ball during a rather ugly time period. I am an Obama Dem, once he is gone or they stop acting like him(if they try to treat him like Reagan) I will likely move to another party. I also do not think CNN is moderate but it is the moderate I suppose between Fox & MSNBC, I think CNN is third way or Clinton version center left but that is my opinion.

By: About hannity, footage, fox, protest video, sean, rally video, jon, stewart - Find me About

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:12:09 +0000

[...] Comedy Central’s JonStewart confessed to being embarrassed some time ago when two young amateur journalists scooped them on the activities of ACORN in several cities. He’s made up for it a good bit this week when he caught Fox News Channel spicing up …Read Original Story: Fox News: Fluffer for Michele Bachmann – The Moderate Voice [...]

By: ProfElwood

ProfElwood — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:11:48 +0000

"Right after Sicko came out CNN was on the other side of that."

That goes back to concept of "moderate". They are less liberal than Michael Moore, so they think that they're moderate and unbiased.

As people have pointed out before, this problem has been building for decades, and those making their fortunes off of it aren't going to let anyone cut off their money supply. You'll notice that the main thing that Republicans rail on is "tort reform", which is also a great way of ignoring the main players that are messing up health care in our country. Is sanity really that difficult to achieve?

By: About hannity, fox, daily, sean, rally, protest footage, jon, stewart - Find me About

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:58:32 +0000

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By: JeffersonDavis

JeffersonDavis — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:43:07 +0000

“I would say Jon is on the strong left without a doubt “

Yes, that's true. But he appears to be a liberal libertarian type. He tends to sling it in all directions. I respect him for that, even though I don't agree with him. But the man IS funny.

By: TheMagicalSkyFather

TheMagicalSkyFather — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:56:33 +0000

Right after Sicko came out CNN was on the other side of that. According to CNN at the time, thanks to Gupta of course, we did not have a “problem” its just that we needed to tweak it a bit since our healthcare was best in the world but if we tweaked it too much we would become the worst in the world so we should probably leave it alone. Ignoring of course that it is the best in the world for those that can afford it and nothing but an emergency room and a much worse condition when you get their for those that can't(afford insurance not the care the care is a topic no one really discusses). CNN much like Fox and MSNBC sadly follows their audience though and that made a good deal of their viewers angry and they got a good deal of mail and sadly caved to it. Dont get me wrong they were originally being unfair as well but bolting to the other side of the debate does not make you an honest broker of information just a propagandist on the other side. I would expect no less of the Clinton News Network though.

By: TheMagicalSkyFather

TheMagicalSkyFather — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:47:05 +0000

I would say Jon is on the strong left without a doubt he just seems to try to avoid being a hypocrite which I greatly respect. The SNL thing reminds me of the SNL School Room Rock which was also a little to good to be on TV.

http://vodpod.com/watch/699870-snl-school-room-...

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:33:40 +0000

Yes, I watch the Daily Show frequently and like Samantha Bee & the Middle East impersonator especially. I'd say Jon is 70/30 listing to portside, but his putdowns of MSNBC & NBC & CNN are as devastating as any he does against Fox. Just not as frequent. Ditto for SNL, which had a few sendups of Obama recently, then semi-retracted perhaps, as the stuff went viral and SNL was actually threatened with a lawsuit when a Jewish couple was portrayed as having made obscene profits off the Subprime Mortgage Scheme. In the skit, Pelosi and Frank were portrayed as clueless morons, as was GWB who nodded to everything everyone said, including George Soros who walked in and said he was buying the US dollar. Great skit, but the YouTube was pulled to take off the Jewish couple's greedy remarks.