The United States of Fox News

Submitted by Jeebus on October 13, 2010 - 7:22am.

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Le Figaro, France

Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, is a
voice of reason in the incredible demagogic (sorry, populist) cacophony.....Krugman notes, as does the Politico website, that all
Republican candidates for the White House — declared or potential — are
employees of Fox News, owned by Rupert Murdoch, the conservative
publisher and defender of traditional values. But he’s also the owner of
the News of the World, a model of gutter journalism. As Krugman says,
it's better than Citizen Kane. The modern conservative movement is
primarily a movement funded by rich men and not, as some would have us
believe, by the "people".

These billionaires are using the tea party to advance their agenda: no
taxes, no environmental regulation and the minimization of social laws.
So they fund scientists who say global warming does not exist or that
cigarettes don’t give cancer; or economists who show that tax cuts for
the rich are actually good for the more modest people; or lawyers who
argue that torture does not conflict with U.S. laws (nor international
laws); or thinkers who mount systems supporting some wars. And these
organizations, which are think tanks of all types, provide refuge for
politicians who lost their seats or are in preparation for a
presidential campaign. What the Koch brothers, who are funding the tea
party, want is not more freedom, as they claim, but the freedom to
pollute for their conglomerate, Koch Industries.

And Fox News, whose Orwellian slogan is "fair and balanced", when it is
exactly the reverse, is part of that system. It became the boss of Sarah
Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum (former senator and candidate for
the White House) and Mike Huckabee. This cable news channel allows
Murdoch to sign checks for several million dollars that go to
organizations that are violently anti-Obama, such as the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce or the Republican Governors Association. But beware of
dissidents, as when Republican David Frum said: "Republicans originally
thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for
Fox." He was fired by Fox in the days that followed. Pravda in the days
of Brejnev* would not have done better. For Murdoch, these politicians
are an investment. Once in power, they know what they owe you.

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October 13, 2010 - 9:20am

Fox We Report/Fabricate-Lie and You Try to Decide, NOT

pegasus8 Says:

Holy Guacamole Batman and Jeebus you are so right. Way to go mojo. You would think with all the evidence that it would be obvious even to a blind man. But, not so fast. All this small government ,privatization of services that are not eliminated are all from the Chicago School of Economics. It is Neo-Liberalism in all its glory with the icon of Friedman at the helm.

Look how some people here , Jeebus, on the Hive blame the democrats and Obama for no increases in social security. Even though SS is tied to the COLA index.Now all of a sudden the old retired people with little money matter. How lame can people get!

What is dishearten is that ignorant, misinform, spoon fed,gullible, propagandized masses, just expect that the minister of information Fox News is truth wrapped in a patina of fairness and balance. Yeh and as Madonna said monkeys might fly out of you know where.

I trying to come up with a clever post as a kind of antithesis to some here on the Hive. Some of these post would be comical if they were not so pathetic and racist. Keep up the good fight. Peace out.

October 13, 2010 - 6:40pm

fox

laotse Says:

It's amazing to me that you go into a restaurant or some place of business and they have a monitor turned to Fox News. As if this was a legitimate news network! People need to speak up and say go ahead and watch this at home in your free time, but in a place of business that the public frequents, this is not okay! Fox is a right wing network with an agenda, and it pisses me off when I am subjected to their propoganda when I come and sit down for a meal or a drink.

October 13, 2010 - 6:42pm

Jeebus that's not true

wayne2008 Says:

I realize these are not your own words, but I have a question about this:

"This cable news channel allows Murdoch to sign checks for several million dollars that go to organizations that are violently anti-Obama, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or the Republican Governors Association"

When, Where was there violence?

More of the same MSNBC sky is falling hype.

I am a protester against what I believe to be mismanagement or corruption in our governments. I am an advocate for the ethical treatment of the mentally ill, and against racism,discrimination in all forms.

October 13, 2010 - 7:03pm

You don't have a very decent grasp of the English language....

Jeebus Says:

do you?

I hardly think they meant actual violence... when you say "violently agree" or "violently disagree" it means that you feel very, very strongly about your opinion... to the point of frothing diatribes and nervous ramblings.....

October 13, 2010 - 7:19pm