Into The Lions’ Den: Barack Obama Visits Fox News Channel
Well you can’t say Barack Obama isn’t willing to face his critics! The president sits down with Fox News Channels’s Bret Baier to discuss the health care reform bill:
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Jon Stewart Hits Left and Right on Media Coverage of Obama GOP Lunch
My favorite parts of this are towards the end of this clip: “More than likely MSNBC replayed it at home with the slo-mo button with their pants off” and about Fox News: “We’re going to cut away because this is against the narrative we present.” Via the Daily Show:
Cheech And Chong On Fox News
Stoner-comedy legends Cheech and Chong somehow got an interview on Fox News, where they called for marijuana legalization. By the end, Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson seems to have had her mind blown.
The United Nations’ Global Tax Plan
Remembering, please, that this story is coming from FOX News, could these proposed taxes really be the beginning of one world governance?
A member of a World Health Organization (WHO) panel of experts that is pondering new global taxes on e-mails, alcohol, tobacco, airline travel and consumer bank transactions, has charged that she was given only selective information at group meetings, that deliberations were rushed and that group was “manipulated” by the international pharmaceuticals industry.
All of her charges were strongly denied by the head of WHO’s Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing (EWG), a 25-member panel of medical experts, academics and health care bureaucrats which is due to present a 98-page report in Geneva on Monday, after 14 months of deliberations on “new and innovative sources of funding” to reshape…
Glenn Beck On Conspiracy Theories, His Critics On The Right And Left, And How He Resembles Howard Beale Of ‘Network’
James Taranto, a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, writes a fawning profile of the increasingly loonie Glenn Beck. Does this mean that we can expect the Journal to become a semi-respectable print version of another of Rupert Murdoch’s “news” outlets, Fox News Channel (which of course is home to Mr. Beck’s TV show)?
Glenn Beck didn’t always believe in what he was doing. “When I was young, I used to hear people say, ‘He’s a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he’s going to be like when he grows up?’ Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn’t even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.”
“Golden boy” was no exaggeration. “I was in Washington,…
Who Is Sarah Palin’s Favorite Founding Father?
Sarah Palin loves to talk about how her political views are based on the words, writings, and examples set by our nation’s founding fathers.
So which one is her favorite? See if you can guess. (Hint: Remember when she was asked what newspaper she reads?)
News Corp. Wants To Bring Fox News To The UK
Note to U.K. regulators: this is a terrible idea. Make sure you watch Robert Greenwald’s classic documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War On Journalism and weep. Variety reports on the head of Murdoch’s U.K. based Sky News calling for the end of impartiality rules there:
The head of Sky News, the U.K. news web that is controlled by News Corp., has defended Fox News — and called for the scrapping of impartiality rules that prevent a U.K. version of Fox News being licensed in Britain.
John Ryley, speaking to the Cambridge Union Society Tuesday, said that he admired Fox News, which was recently under attack from Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law Matthew Freud for undermining journalistic standards.
The Sky News topper said: “At Sky News, we provide impartial and independent news.
“That’s not because Ofcom (the U.K. media regulator)…
Sarah Palin Joins Fox News as Contributor
Politics was just too hard for poor Sarah. But now she’ll get rich on TV. (Thanks John McCain!) Reports Fox News:
2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is joining Fox News as a contributor, the news channel announced Monday.
The former Alaska governor, whose book, Going Rogue: An American Life, became a bestseller weeks before it was released and remains No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, has signed a multi-year deal to offer her political commentary and analysis across all Fox News platforms, including Fox Business Channel, FoxNews.com and Fox News Radio.
She will also participate in special event political programming for Fox Broadcasting. “I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News. It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values…
The Revenge of a Booted Fox News ‘Talking Head’
Via Valleywag:
It’s hard to say what made Rachel Marsden turn on her benefators in right-wing media. True, she was escorted by security guards from her former job as co-host of Red Eye, a sort of late-night lockup for the truly hard-core lunatic fringe within the crazyhouse that is Fox News. But that hardly soured her on the network; she later emailed us saying she’d “always been a big fan of” Fox News chief Ailes, “and am always honoured to be asked to contribute to anything this great man has built.” Fox’s flagship shouting head Bill O’Reilly, meanwhile, was “a real man … awesome … a straight shooter, and one of my favourite people in the biz.”
However, Marsden sure has no love for Fox News now:
I was a “talking head.” I’m not a big fan of the term. “Talking head” implies the presence of a brain, which isn’t always the case. The American cable news network from which I was sprung mostly selected their female talking heads for their tits and legs. I guess nicknaming them “talking tits” or “talking legs” would be overdoing the obvious. It would also totally bust the trailer trash viewing majority who watch the network as the closest thing their old lady will allow them to get to porn.
Fox News’ Brit Hume to Tiger Woods: Turn to Christianity
I think Dan Savage makes a good point here in that by (Brit Hume) saying Christianity is “better” for atonement than Buddhism, he makes the religion a much more attractive option for adulterers everywhere (via Countdown with Keith Olbermann):
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid of Obama’s Latest Big Brother Plan
Before all you loyal disinfo.com visitors get all up in arms about my posting this, please remember that our goal from the time of our founding in 1996 was always to expose multiple points of view on any given issue, and more than anything to highlight media bias. It’s no secret that Fox News Channel has a very conservative tilt, thoroughly exposed by Robert Greenwald in Outfoxed, so take this opinion piece by FNC’s Bradley Blakeman for what it is: an attempt to cast President Obama as an Orwellian Socialist:
The Obama administration seeks to empower a very powerful government agency you have probably never heard of with new and expanded powers that will have a direct consequence on every American if they are successful in their efforts to implement national health…
Mea Culpa: Fox News Keeps Making Conservative-Friendly Mistakes
From Daily Finance:
Every news organization makes mistakes. But when Fox News makes mistakes, they seem to tilt in a suspiciously consistent direction, favoring Republicans and conservatives over Democrats and liberals.
It happened again Wednesday, when host Gregg Jarrett, introducing a segment on Happening Now, described the “huge crowds” that were turning out to greet Sarah Palin on the promotional tour for her book, Going Rogue. “These are some of the pictures just coming into us,” Jarrett said as images of Palin surrounded by throngs of supporters flashed across the screen.
While Palin may indeed be drawing big crowds, it didn’t take long for liberal watchdog blogs like Think Progress and Media Matters to point out that the masses Jarrett touted on Happening Now had nothing to do with Palin’s book…
Glenn Beck Loses Lawsuit Against Glenn-Beck-Rape Website
Glenn Beck has lost his legal claim against the creator of the website www.glennbeckrapedandmurferedayounggirlin1990.com. Using the sort of twisted logic typically deployed by the television host himself, the site was created by one Isaac Eiland-Hall based on the possibility that Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, as Beck has never denied taking part in such an attack.
Two months ago, Beck’s lawyers filed a claim that the website was created in bad faith and broke trademark rules. However, the World Intellectual Property Organization ruled in Eiland-Hall’s favor.
Even Muppets Hate Fox News
It’s no surprise to regular visitors to the disinformation site that we generally take every opportunity to point out just how biased and unfair Fox News Channel truly is (and of course we distributed the classic dissection of FNC, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism), but should children’s TV shows on public television do the same?
Jon Stewart: It’s Fox News’ Job to F-Up The Truth
While Jon Stewart may not be the first to criticize Fox as a news organization, he’s certainly a lot funnier than the Obama administration and Fox’s other critics are.
This is a great defense from Fox News, got to give it to then. They effectively say (as Stewart spends a lot of time on) that most of their shows aren’t real news. So I guess people really don’t want real news, because this certainly has not hurt Fox’s ratings lately or over the last decade.
And I’m glad to see he took a parting shot at MSNBC for being in the tank for Obama — and reminding the White House that they don’t have to speak “truth to power” because “they are the power”…
DeFOX America
From our friends at Brave New Films:
FOX News is on a witch hunt. Their goal is simple: to destroy the Obama administration and the progressive movement. They’ve already forced Van Jones out of the White House. They’ve badgered Congress into passing unconstitutional measures to defund ACORN. Glenn Beck actually keeps an enemies list on a blackboard that’s a regular part of his show.
ACORN is just the beginning. FOX has an enemies list, and they’re going to keep destroying progressive champions until we stop them.
Tell your Congressperson: If you vote to extend the “Defund ACORN Act,” you’re just assisting FOX in their anti-American witch hunt.
The Fox News War: What’s the Upside for Obama?
Five years after activist director Robert Greenwald woke the country up to the Republican Party agenda of Fox News Channel with his bestselling documentary OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Linda Feldmann suggests that President Obama and his team shouldn’t be raising the issue in this essay in the Christian Science Monitor. I’m not so sure; although Greenwald & co. made it obvious to the media that FNC was essentially a propaganda tool for the RNC, the message seemingly hasn’t seeped in deeply enough for the average American TV viewer:
The Obama administration has taken a fair amount of grief for its campaign to marginalize Fox News, saying the cable network is “not a news organization” but rather “the communications arm of the Republican Party.”
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, not a…
The Yes Men Dupe Fox Business Network
Gotta love those Yes Men. As I posted earlier this week, they fooled a lot of people into thinking that the U.S Chamber of Commerce was changing its position on climate change. The biggest suckers were our favorite Republican Party media shills at Fox News. Check out the poor anchor Brian Sullivan:
How Fox News Outsmarted the White House
John Batchelor commentary in the Daily Beast:
The White House’s war on Fox shows its ignorance of the network’s true purpose: show business. And Team Obama is giving Murdoch just what he wants.
After David Axelrod sneaked into Roger Ailes’ office in New York to powwow on Sept. 30, the White House brain trust of David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel decided that it is shrewd and useful to attack Fox News as a Republican tool—or as White House Communications Director Anita Dunn remarked, as “a wing of the Republican Party.” It is a guess that the president is not annoyed by this tactic. It is a better guess that the White House has not had a chance, in its custard pie-throwing glee, to pause and consider why this is a stupid idea—not…
