News Hounds Media Digest # 199

[News Hounds]

News Hounds Media Digest #199
7/21/08 to 7/27/08

Ellen: Dick Morris wants a war against Iran in order to help John McCain get elected. 

http://tinyurl.com/63hug2

 

Ellen: Sean Hannity, in a bullyboy pique over Barack Obama's successful Berlin speech. suggested that Obama did well because he's a European socialist who shares their disdain for America.

http://tinyurl.com/6l4c3s

Deborah: Bill O'Reilly declared that he lost all respect for Al Gore calling him an "evil enabler" and "coward" who only cares about "pounding home his propaganda" because Gore appeared at Netroots.
http://tinyurl.com/69eehe

Deborah: Bill O'Reilly calls MoveOn "the new Klan".
http://tinyurl.com/68fwdw

Melanie: 

 

--  One of my favorite posts ever. Four+ years on, it's pure and simple - a perfect example of how Fox shills for the ruling class and counts on the ignorance of its audience.

http://tinyurl.com/6autuy

 

--  Per Fox, a potential president who surrounds himself with the best and the brightest brains he can find, to advise him on the myriad critical issues facing this country is, well, he's a fake:  It takes a very "large village to prop up an empty suit."

http://tinyurl.com/5pfboq

Chris:  Scott McClelan confirmed that the White House funneled Talking Points directly to FOX News, where they amplified for the "desired results."
http://tinyurl.com/5tcdpm

Chris:  FOX promoted the talking point all week that the media is in the tank for Obama and fostering bias against McCain but facts don't bear that out.
http://tinyurl.com/564j35
http://tinyurl.com/5z2fw2

Priscilla: The Fox Special Report "Grapevine" seems to be in the business of reinforcing the notion that if there isn't global warming, there's global warming "skepticism."
http://tinyurl.com/5or558
http://tinyurl.com/59rvcm

Outrageous Quote:  Jonathan Hoenig's contempt for cooperation and selflessness was our winner last week:  "There is a belief now that individuals, especially young people, should essentially ... 'devote themselves' to something greater than themselves -- sacrifice their own wants, their own interests, to serve the common good, whatever they happen to believe it is at the time. To me, that's very un-American."  Hoenig continued with this honorable mention about our brave troops:  "People who serve in the military do so voluntarily, and I think they do so out of their own self-interest. They do so because they want to attack and kill a militant Islam. They do it very selfishly."   Hold your nose and vote for the next stinker at

--
News Hounds
"We watch FOX, so you don't have to."
http://www.newshounds.us/

News Hounds t-shirts, bumper stickers and more now available!
www.cafepress.com/News_Hounds