Thread: Does the US media have a liberal bias?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

post #911

Jeez, you are starting to sound like Giuliani

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

post #911

Jeez, you are starting to sound like Giuliani

Not quite. Giuliani includes a noun and a verb, then 9/11

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Confession: Liberal columnist says left lies, intimidates to silence right

Imagine that!

In a stunning slap at her team, liberal pundit Kirsten Powers is charging in a new book that the left is so intolerant of alternative views that it will use sexist and even racist language to shout down women and blacks who don't champion Democratic causes.

Kirsten Powers, a USA Today and Daily Beast columnist and designated "liberal" on Fox, confessed in her new book that the left aggressively tries to "silence people" who don't fall into the liberal line.

In The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech, she calls out the lefty tactics, especially how they belittle conservative women and African-

Americans. She said the goal is to silence the right and its outlets."

The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech: Kirsten Powers: 9781621573708: Amazon.com: Books

Back to the 'usual suspects' AKA the TDMA

Oh look, another Fox News "commentator" plugging a book to the teabaggers.

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That's right.

Don't address the subject but go to the low-hanging fruit there Hairy.

Predictable.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

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That's right.

Don't address the subject but go to the low-hanging fruit there Hairy.

Predictable.

Is that a dumbass way of saying "Stating the bloody obvious", or is it only obvious to everyone else but you?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

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That's right.

Don't address the subject but go to the low-hanging fruit there Hairy.

Predictable.

Is that a dumbass way of saying "Stating the bloody obvious", or is it only obvious to everyone else but you?

Ever consider the possibility that this gal has a different moral compass, ideological prejudice to speak up for Free Speech?

Just because she's at Fox News, folks there are individuals - case in point - that blowhard O'Reilly who is in favor of silencing the Pamela Gellers of the world. They favor dhimmitude over Free Speech.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

^
That's right.

Don't address the subject but go to the low-hanging fruit there Hairy.

Predictable.

Is that a dumbass way of saying "Stating the bloody obvious", or is it only obvious to everyone else but you?

Ever consider the possibility that this gal has a different moral compass, ideological prejudice to speak up for Free Speech?

Just because she's at Fox News, folks there are individuals - case in point - that blowhard O'Reilly who is in favor of silencing the Pamela Gellers of the world. They favor dhimmitude over Free Speech.

She's written a book that teabaggers will lap up and no doubt will plug it on Fox News because that's her target audience.

One would have to be really gullible not to see it.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

^
That's right.

Don't address the subject but go to the low-hanging fruit there Hairy.

Predictable.

Is that a dumbass way of saying "Stating the bloody obvious", or is it only obvious to everyone else but you?

Ever consider the possibility that this gal has a different moral compass, ideological prejudice to speak up for Free Speech?

Just because she's at Fox News, folks there are individuals - case in point - that blowhard O'Reilly who is in favor of silencing the Pamela Gellers of the world. They favor dhimmitude over Free Speech.

She's written a book that teabaggers will lap up and no doubt will plug it on Fox News because that's her target audience.

One would have to be really gullible not to see it.

That's cool but do you really want nothing but Statist Media from CNN or far left tripe from MSNBC?

I believe she's speaking from her convictions and the book deal is secondary.

Damn Harry you are on a roll of late. Owning the boontard.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Damn Harry you are on a roll of late. Owning the boontard.

Not hardly, johnny follow-along...heh

^ Umm. I am just on observer and I must say that across the board in several threads over the last two days he has got the better of you a multitude of times.

Usually it is me that is debunking and clowning your posts but Harry is taking the lead of late I must say.

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Put. Down. The. Bong.

Damn I have not seen you this worked up since your boy Mitt got trounced.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Damn I have not seen you this worked up since your boy Mitt got trounced.

Maybe he read that post I did about Fox News describing HRC as "probably the next POTUS".

That must hurt.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh look, another Fox News "commentator" plugging a book to the teabaggers.

The constant book selling was the first thing to turn me off to FOX. The final nail was that nerd Bill O'Reilly and his "No Spin Zone" ... The dude is a coward or, pusillanimous pissant, as he would say. FOX News would more appropriately be called "The Spin Zone".

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh look, another Fox News "commentator" plugging a book to the teabaggers.

The constant book selling was the first thing to turn me off to FOX. The final nail was that nerd Bill O'Reilly and his "No Spin Zone" ... The dude is a coward or, pusillanimous pissant, as he would say. FOX News would more appropriately be called "The Spin Zone".

O'Reilly must own a large chunk of Fox. Not only do they let him plug his books and his shows constantly, but they even support the TV versions and play the shit every weekend.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh look, another Fox News "commentator" plugging a book to the teabaggers.

The constant book selling was the first thing to turn me off to FOX. The final nail was that nerd Bill O'Reilly and his "No Spin Zone" ... The dude is a coward or, pusillanimous pissant, as he would say. FOX News would more appropriately be called "The Spin Zone".

O'Reilly must own a large chunk of Fox. Not only do they let him plug his books and his shows constantly, but they even support the TV versions and play the shit every weekend.

MSNBC allows book plugging by its anchors. American news, always middle of the road pablum and biased, though certainly not a "liberal bias", is more like a trumpet for the Empire softened with some alternate POV delivered with a raised eyebrow so you would know what side to be on.

A relatively recent development at the local news level is anchors plugging TV shows, new products, etc right in the regular news broadcast. The message they leave is that there is no difference between "news" and "advertising".

Don't know if this has been covered on this thread or not. Previously, there was much crowing about the "liberal" newsman, Brian Williams, telling tall tales about his experiences in Iraq. Didn't see mentioned Fox's Bill O'Reilly had done the same.



O'Reilly Also Lied About Witnessing Nuns' Execution in El Salvador, Report Claims

Yet more allegations have emerged against embattled Fox News host Bill O'Reilly following claims he embellished his war reporting experiences in Argentina during the 1982 Falklands war and lied about witnessing a suicide in Florida.

According to information collected by liberal watchdog group Media Matters, O'Reilly may also have fabricated a story about witnessing the execution of four nuns during El Salvador's civil war in 1980.

O'Reilly has claimed he has "seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador" and "was in El Salvador and I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head" during his time as a CBS correspondent. The incident that O'Reilly appears to be referring to is the well-documented execution of four churchwomen by the Salvadoran national guard in December 1980. After this event, experts say that there were no priests or nuns killed in the country for more than eight years.

But in his book The No Spin Zone, the host writes that he did not begin covering the civil war in El Salvador until "a few weeks" after he began as a CBS News correspondent in 1981 -- the year after the execution took place.

"Before I went to El Salvador in 1981, I talked with some experienced Latin American experts, people who had seen the brutal wars down there for themselves," O'Reilly said on "The O'Reilly Factor" in February 2002. "I had never been in a war zone before, so I wanted some prep."

The Fox host also said during a 2009 interview on WVVH-TV's American Dreams Show that he arrived in El Salvador "right after" the murders.

"O'Reilly could not possibly have witnessed the murder of the churchwomen if his own timeline is to be believed," Media Matters argued.

Media Matters for America President Bradley Beychok blasted O'Reilly and called the network "a joke" in a statement issued to The Huffington Post:

"Fox News claims to be a real news organization," Beychok said in an email. "Bill O'Reilly promotes himself as the host of the 'No Spin Zone,' Fox News sits in the White House briefing room daily, Mr. O'Reilly even interviewed the President during halftime of the Super Bowl. Now that he's been exposed as a serial fabricator, Fox News should hold him to the same journalistic standards that any news organization would or else admit that their network is a joke not journalism."

A Fox News spokesperson responded to the allegations with the following statement:

Bill O’Reilly has already addressed several claims leveled against him. This is nothing more than an orchestrated campaign by far left advocates Mother Jones and Media Matters. Responding to the unproven accusation du jour has become an exercise in futility. FOX News maintains its staunch support of O’Reilly, who is no stranger to calculated onslaughts.
O'Reilly first came under fire last week when Mother Jones' David Corn and Daniel Schulman published a revealing report calling into question the Fox News host's claims of having been in "a combat situation" during the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina. Several former colleagues and journalists have since joined the chorus of critics claiming O'Reilly embellished his war reporting chops.

Tuesday evening, a former colleague of O’Reilly’s, Tracy Rowlett, told Media Matters that O'Reilly also lied in his 2012 book Killing Kennedy about being present for the death of Lee Harvey Oswald's friend George de Mohrenschildt. Rowlett asserted that O'Reilly was actually in Dallas, calling him "a phony."

UPDATE (11:11 pm): Through a spokesperson, O'Reilly clarifies that he was referring to unbroadcast video footage he was shown rather than having witnessed the execution of nuns in El Salvador first-hand. He released the following statement:

While in El Salvador, reporters were shown horrendous images of violence that were never broadcast, including depictions of nuns who were murdered. The mention of the nuns on my program came the day of the Newtown massacre (December 14, 2012). The segment was about evil and how hard it is for folks to comprehend it. I used the murdered nuns as an example of that evil. That's what I am referring to when I say ‘I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head.’ No one could possibly take that segment as reporting on El Salvador.

O'Reilly Also Lied About Witnessing Nuns' Execution in El Salvador, Report Claims


Sorry if this has already been covered.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

^
That's right.

Don't address the subject but go to the low-hanging fruit there Hairy.

Predictable.

Is that a dumbass way of saying "Stating the bloody obvious", or is it only obvious to everyone else but you?

Not everybody but him, the facts are on the table pull your head out of the sand.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Damn Harry you are on a roll of late. Owning the boontard.

The only ones being owned here are the libtards who choose to live in denial, and you would be one Snubbles.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh look, another Fox News "commentator" plugging a book to the teabaggers.

The constant book selling was the first thing to turn me off to FOX. The final nail was that nerd Bill O'Reilly and his "No Spin Zone" ... The dude is a coward or, pusillanimous pissant, as he would say. FOX News would more appropriately be called "The Spin Zone".

Got some evidence?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh look, another Fox News "commentator" plugging a book to the teabaggers.

The constant book selling was the first thing to turn me off to FOX. The final nail was that nerd Bill O'Reilly and his "No Spin Zone" ... The dude is a coward or, pusillanimous pissant, as he would say. FOX News would more appropriately be called "The Spin Zone".

O'Reilly must own a large chunk of Fox. Not only do they let him plug his books and his shows constantly, but they even support the TV versions and play the shit every weekend.

He draws in the multitude of intelligent listeners, makes perfect business sence.

I have Bloomberg on in living room 24h they have most beautiful ladies who are also very intelligent and smart

Fox is for shower, if in the mood, and no worse than Pariswhatev or Russia Today. They all have their agendas, intl news are reported correctly but then the there is this feature story...

Originally Posted by RPETER65

He draws in the multitude of intelligent listeners, makes perfect business sence.

I wonder if those "intelligent listeners" can spell, because he had to ask one commentator to explain the word "opacity" for the benefit of his viewers this morning.

Fox's business model is about manipulating indoctrinated aging redneck retards who have no common sense at all.