News Hounds Media Digest #190
5/26/08 to 6/1/08Deborah: After Father Michael Pfleger visited Obama's church on Sunday and did a flamboyant routine mocking
Hillary Clinton, FOX News did their best to spin the incident
into a major scandal.
http://tinyurl.com/5tvzwh
Bill O'Reilly had one of his anger episodes
because
Scott McClellan granted his first book interviews to NBC. The Today
Show interview was hard enough for BOR to swallow
but then McClellan dared to choose Keith Olbermann's Countdown instead
of The O'Reilly Factor for his evening venue.
http://tinyurl.com/47ujx8
Ellen: FOX
News regular Dick Morris told Sean Hannity that the black community is
fundamentally anti-white. Hannity, who fashions himself as someone who
cares about racial issues, did not object.
FOX
News spent a lot of time disparaging Scott McClellan as a disgruntled
ex-employee trying to cash in by turning against his former employer
now. So why has FOX News hired Dick Morris as a "former Clinton
advisor" instead of holding him to the same standard?
http://tinyurl.com/5dxkr3
Melanie:
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Fox's "business news" anchor compares George W. Bush to - are you
sitting down? - Abraham Lincoln. Fox is drinking its own Kool-Aid.
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Saturday night, immediately after the DNC rules committee decided how
to handle Florida and Michigan, Fox, which claims to be the place to go for election news, was on tornado watch.
When the road gets rocky for Republicans and their legislation, Fox is
there to smooth things out. As the conduit from the White House to the
public, Fox is willing and able to "explain" to its audience the virtue
and practicality of the Republican "brand."
http://tinyurl.com/6go5vz
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