News Hounds Media Digest # 201

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News Hounds Media Digest #201
8/4/08 to 8/11/08

 

Melanie:  

ºººº  The GOP issued a directive as to how its operatives should bash Barack Obama and lo and behold, Fox's business "news" guy (hey, he's a "fair and balanced JOURNALIS," right?), fell in line. 
http://tinyurl.com/6cgn3a

ºººº  Did you see the video Paris Hilton made in response to John McCain's video of her?   What was your first thought?  Fox's was to nominate Hilton the  president of the Unites States because she (laughably)  had a better energy plan than Obama but there was no mention of what she said about the wrinkly white haired guy.

http://tinyurl.com/5lq4c2 

Ellen: Could Hannity's bigoted double standard be any more evident? In the same segment, he attacked Barack Obama for "playing the race card," yet warmly received a guest's comment that most blacks in Tennessee are racists.

http://tinyurl.com/627kcn

Ellen: FOX News still portraying Obama as a Muslim. Even as a guest told Hannity & Colmes viewers that Barack Obama is "a serious Christian," FOX News producers ran a series of banners on the screen suggesting that Obama is a Muslim and a less than complete Christian.
http://tinyurl.com/5pfmbo

Deborah : Bill O'Reilly informed his audience that he's bored with "gotcha" politics and plans a more "investigative"approach in September. He went on explain that Obama will be the one investigated not McCain.
http://tinyurl.com/6ca4rb

Deborah: Bill O'Reilly continued attacking Robert Wexler bring the Palm Beach Post into the smear campaign. This time, BOR's traveling ambush guy cornered Palm Beach Post editor, Randy Schultz, on the walkway leading to his front door.
http://tinyurl.com/5ve9te

Chris:  FOX's unofficial motto, "We don't need no stinkin' fact-checkers," was driven home with a Happy Iraq propaganda segment that was patently false, as exposed with a phone call by some guy with a blog.
http://tinyurl.com/5d9rgw

Chris:  Speaking of fact-checkers, Brian Kilmeade rewrote history to Bush's benefit on the purported reasons for invading Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/5f6ont

Priscilla: Since Eric Burn's departure from Fox's News Watch, this once "fair and balanced" show has turned into the usual Fox smear fest and forum for RNC talking points.
http://tinyurl.com/5ryvw6

Priscilla: Fox News does seem to have affection for haters (see their recent embrace of Jerome Corsi) and no affection for Muslims. It is, thus, easy to understand why they do have affection for Muslim hater Mark Steyn.
http://tinyurl.com/6254ba

Outrageous Quote:  Last week Jane Q. Obama-hater rose to infamy for announcing on FOX "I don't understand how people can just blindly follow someone just because they slapped a Democratic label on him. We need to vet this man and he is dangerous and with the abundance of ties and affiliations that he has. Rezko, Odinga, just to name a few. With friends like those, who needs al Qaeda?"   Vote in this week's anti-Obama, anti-Democrat free-for-all at http://tinyurl.com/6pcbzu , brought to you by the "fairandbalanced" network.

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