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<title>Is Michelle Obama A Transvestite? GretaWire Readers Think So</title>
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<summary type="text/plain">We've been so focused on the hate at Fox Nation that we took our eye off GretaWire, a cesspool of racism and homophobia. Those two bigotries were combined in a recent thread called "Barry "married" to a transvestite? You bet." (H/T reader HP)...</summary>
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<dc:subject>FOXNEWS.com</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>We've been so focused on the <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/11/18/another_day_another_death_threat_on_fox_nation.php">hate </a>at Fox Nation that we took our eye off GretaWire, a cesspool of racism and homophobia. Those two bigotries were combined in a recent thread called <a href="http://gretawire.forums.foxnews.com/topic/barry-married-to-a-transvestite-you-bet">"Barry "married" to a transvestite? You bet."</a> (H/T reader HP)</p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>The first comment, from a "member" called "AllAmerican" begins,<br />
<blockquote><strong>I am not alone in noticing that Michelle "obama" is a TRANSVESTITE -- this 'suspicision' is all over the Internet. Why? Because there are plenty of people willing to SEE what is RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR FACES</p>

<p>OPEN YOUR EYES and SEE! Neither child looks anything like either Barry or "michelle".</p>

<p>This entire REGIME is too gross to stomach and now America has two FREAKS living as a "couple" with apparently two adopted girls in the Whitehouse.</p>

<p>Is their "grandmother" still in the whitehouse raising 'the girls'? This "grandmother" is very well paid.</strong></blockquote></p>

<p>Several "exhibits" follow as well as three pages of racist comments such as this one from "member" Bodhi:<br />
<blockquote><strong>Did you see her with that hula hoop<br />
on the lawn, if barry got on her<br />
bad side she would flip that<br />
big ugly hip of hers into his little<br />
curious george body and send him<br />
flying out of the WH on Penn<br />
Avenue on his ass so fast he<br />
he wouldn't be able to say<br />
Jack Robinson. </strong></blockquote></p>

<p>And this one from "member" BabyGotBeck that begins:<br />
<blockquote><strong>Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt.<br />
It is so big. *scoff* She looks like,<br />
one of those rap guys' girlfriends.<br />
But, y'know, who understands those rap guys? *scoff*<br />
They only talk to her, because,<br />
she looks like a total prostitute, 'kay?<br />
I mean, her butt, is just so big. *scoff*<br />
I can't believe it's just so round, it's like,<br />
out there, I mean - gross. Look!<br />
She's just so ... black!</strong></blockquote></p>

<p>And this one from "member" sunflowers:<br />
<blockquote><strong>I've always said, those 2 girls don't look like they have a lick of white blood in them. </strong></blockquote></p>]]>
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<title>Greg Jarrett Talks “Eric Holder’s Hidden Agenda” – Julie Banderas Talks Traffic</title>
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<issued>2009-11-20T17:01:05Z</issued>
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<summary type="text/plain">Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to allow the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of 9-11, in a NY Federal Court, is a contentious one. There are strong opinions on either side of the issue. But if one were watching the Saturday Fox News (and it’s not officially “opinion,” right?) one would have heard information relating to, with the exception of one “fair and balanced” discussion, just one side only. Last Saturday afternoon (November 14th) I had the TV on in the background as I was putting the finishing touches on the Julia Child Beef Bourguignon (and I must...</summary>
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<![CDATA[<p>Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to allow the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of 9-11, in a NY Federal Court, is a contentious one. There are strong opinions on either side of the issue. But if one were watching the Saturday Fox News (and it’s not officially “opinion,” right?) one would have heard information relating to, with the exception of one “fair and balanced” discussion, just one side only. Last Saturday afternoon (November 14th) I had the TV on in the background as I was putting the finishing touches on the Julia Child Beef Bourguignon (and I must say that it turned out quite well). There was a substantial amount of KSM coverage from Gregg Jarrett and Julie Banderas who couldn’t hide their “agita” over the situation. In the time slot from roughly 4:30 to almost 6PM, the supposed “fair and balanced” news was – not so much.</p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>In addition to the video of his comments, Bush’s Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who is totally against the NY venue, was quoted a number of times. So was “America’s Mayor” Rudy Giuliani who is now against the venue. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/sessions-giuliani-backed_n_362479.html">His past support</a> for the Federal trial of Zacarias Moussaoui was not mentioned. The current NY mayor’s support for the venue was not mentioned. Also not mentioned were the 195 <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2009/11/13/exclusive-obama-and-ksm-vs-bushs-195-u-s-torture-trials/">successful terrorist convctions</a>, in US courts, during the Bush and Clinton administration. The “fair and balanced” debate, between former Beltway Boy, Fred Barnes and Julia Piscitelli, was actually “fair and balanced” with Julia making a good case for Holder’s decision. But before and after this discussion, Garrett and Banderas articulated concerns about security in NY, disclosure of secret government information during the trial, KSM creating a circus atmosphere, KSM being acquited, and on and on. Banderas was most concerned about the “traffic nightmare.” (Gee, Julie, try taking the subway like all the commoners do).  Jarrett spoke with Fox’s James Rosen who, predictably, stayed with the Fox talking points. But what was really interesting, during that discussion, was Jarett’s alluding to “Eric Holder’s hidden agenda.” I didn’t think that Jarrett coined this kind of conspiratorial phrase all by himself so I did a little googling and surprise, surprise (not) found a November 13th article in the conservative <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTVkN2ZhMTU0NzcwYWVmYTNmODI1ZTJjMTA1ZDFiODQ=">National Review </a>in which Andy McCarthy laid out his theory that the NY Federal trial is just part of Eric Holder’s “hidden agenda” to give the “hard left” the “reckoning” of the Bush administration that was promised during the Bush administration. Jarrett didn’t provide the “context” (such as it is). And surprise, surpise, this article was linked by <a href="http://www.thefoxnation.com/911/2009/11/13/coming-nyc-stand-trial">Fox Nation</a>. (Fox does love to reinforce the propaganda!)  So if you wanted some “balance” to right wing hystrionics, you didn’t get it in this segment of  Fox non opinion News!  </p>

<p>As I don’t have video, I’m attaching Jon Stewart’s brilliant take down of the right wing hypocrisy regarding this whole issue.</p>

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<title>Andrew Breitbart Trying To Blackmail The Obama Administration With ACORN And Other Videos</title>
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<issued>2009-11-20T08:34:00Z</issued>
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<created>2009-11-20T08:34:00Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Andrew Breitbart and his team of ACORN videographers were back on Hannity last night (11/19/09) with a new undercover video that Breitbart claimed he was “forced to offer” now because California Attorney General Jerry Brown has launched an investigation into whether the filmmakers broke the law by secretly recording “confidential communication.” That was astounding enough. You’d think that if Breitbart really had something big on ACORN, he would have released it a few months ago, when he had maximum media attention, rather than withhold it until he could use it as ammunition against a personal foe. Or you’d think he’d...</summary>
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<dc:subject>Hannity</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Andrew Breitbart and his team of ACORN videographers were back on Hannity last night (11/19/09) with a new undercover video that Breitbart claimed he was “forced to offer” now because California Attorney General Jerry Brown has <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/acorn-video.html">launched an investigation</a> into whether the filmmakers broke the law by secretly recording “confidential communication.” That was astounding enough. You’d think that if Breitbart really had something big on ACORN, he would have released it a few months ago, when he had maximum media attention, rather than withhold it until he could use it as ammunition against a personal foe. Or you’d think he’d at least have the good sense not to broadcast his self-serving machinations. Judging from the very edited video Breitbart presented last night, one suspects that the real reason it was withheld was because it did little to effectively incriminate ACORN. Breitbart, on the other hand, incriminated himself even worse. Near the end of the segment, he told Hannity that he had more videos and “not just ACORN” that he threatened to release during the 2010 election cycle unless the Department of Justice opened a federal investigation into ACORN. With video.</p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>In the latest video (really <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UciAenIhO2M&feature=player_embedded">two</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg0HwXIZmCg&feature=player_embedded">videos</a> of one encounter), Los Angeles ACORN employee Lavelle Stewart is shown talking to the undercover filmmakers, “abused prostitute” Hannah Giles and her “boyfriend” James O’Keef,e in a setting that is obviously not ACORN but in a hallway outside of an office called, “Program for Torture Victims” where Stewart thought Giles would be better served than at ACORN. There is a point where Stewart offers to help the pair, though I could not tell from the edited video what, exactly, she was going to help them do. But Stewart also made it clear she was acting on her own, not on behalf of ACORN. As the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/acorn-video.html">Los Angeles Times</a> reported, Los Angeles ACORN has refuted the video, saying, “The tapes are clearly doctored and highly edited and it is our hope this will be responsibly reported on should this become a news story… It is hard to respond to this tape. It is so heavily edited that it may be constructed to conceal the reality of the interaction… We are going to reserve judgment on the actions of the former employee (Stewart no longer works for ACORN) on this tape until we see the full, unedited version of this interaction.” </p>

<p>Despite the heavy editing, Stewart’s personal cell phone number remains in one video. Another classy move from Team Breitbart.</p>

<p>As has become customary, there was nobody on Hannity to offer a pro-ACORN perspective or even to question the claims of the filmmakers. Hannity didn’t even read ACORN’s refutation. But the fact that the segment did not air until the second half of the show, when the top story was a rehash with Elisabeth Hasselbeck of Hannity’s interview with Sarah Palin the night before, was a strong indication that Fox News producers knew they did not have anything like “what may be the most explosive ACORN video yet,” as Hannity gushed in his introduction. </p>

<p>Predictably, Hannity once again failed to question Giles about her <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/11/17/hannah_giles_caught_lying_on_the_air_about_antiacorn_videos_and_fox_news_and_hannity_failed_to_notice.php">inconsistent statements</a>, saying first that no ACORN employee had refused to help the pair with their scam and then claiming that only employee had turned them down. Nor did Hannity follow up on Giles’ dubious statement, made on Hannity two months ago, that she had been <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/09/16/fox_news_punked_by_acorn.php">“working on”</a> verifying whether or not an ACORN employee in San Bernardino had been telling the truth when she boasted, in a previous video shown on Fox, that she had killed her husband or whether that employee had been <a href="http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22583&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12387&cHash=f1e6ffcdd4">pulling their legs</a>, as she later claimed.</p>

<p>Breitbart complained to Hannity that while there has been no federal inquiry into ACORN, he, O’Keefe and Giles are being investigated (by AG Jerry Brown, in California). “That’s why we’ve been forced to offer this latest tape,” Breitbart said.</p>

<p>"Are you saying, Andrew, that there are more tapes?” Hannity asked, playing straight man because he <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/11/17/hannah_giles_caught_lying_on_the_air_about_antiacorn_videos_and_fox_news_and_hannity_failed_to_notice.php">already knew</a> there were more.<br />
 <br />
“Oh, my goodness, there are,” Breitbart said. “Not only are there more tapes, it’s not just ACORN. (Hannity could be heard delightedly saying “Wow!” in the background). And this message is to Attorney General Holder. I want you to know that we have more tapes. It’s not just ACORN and we’re gonna hold out until the next election cycle or else if you want to do a clean investigation, we will give you the rest of what we have. We will comply with you, we will give you the documentation we have from countless ACORN whistleblowers who want to come forward but are fearful of this organization and the retribution that they fear, that this is a dangerous organization. So if you get into an investigation, we will give you the tapes. If you don’t give us the tapes (sic), we will revisit these tapes come election time.”</p>

<p>Merriam-Webster’s <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blackmail">online dictionary</a> defines “blackmail” as “extortion or coercion by threats especially of public exposure or criminal prosecution.”</p>

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<title>Palin to O’Reilly:  Coulda Answered “Bush Doctrine” Question With “More Context,” Katie Couric’s “What Do You Read” Question was “Gotcha” and “Annoying”</title>
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<issued>2009-11-20T06:14:32Z</issued>
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<summary type="text/plain">On last night’s (11/19/09) O’Reilly Factor, it was the moment we’ve all been waiting for, folks – Sarah Palin was on The Factor to tell us all about how the “gotcha,” “lamestream” media engaged in tactics and asked trip-'em-up questions (you know, like, “What do you read?”) that were “annoying” or asked her questions that “she probably could have answered” with the proper Cliff notes, uh, “a bit more context.” To hear her tell it, she would have done brilliantly if it weren't for the "badgering" questions. There was one person, however, that she absolutely, totally, (almost) completely absolved of...</summary>
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<![CDATA[<p>On last night’s (11/19/09) O’Reilly Factor, it was the moment we’ve all been waiting for, folks – Sarah Palin was on The Factor to tell us all about how the “gotcha,” “lamestream” media engaged in tactics and asked trip-'em-up questions (you know, like, “What do you read?”) that were “annoying” or asked her questions that “she probably could have answered” with the proper Cliff notes, uh, “a bit more context.”   To hear her tell it, she would have done brilliantly if it weren't for the "badgering" questions.  There was one person, however, that she absolutely, totally, (almost) completely absolved of responsibility for her dismal failure in the election and her downright moronic responses in the interviews:  Sarah Palin.  Stay tuned, folks . . . there's a Part II to come!  With video.<br />
</p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>O’Reilly had to toot his own horn a bit, of course, saying that he just couldn’t figure out why Palin didn’t come on his show during the campaign, “Because obviously the Factor’s the biggest cable program with the most people watching.  We certainly were fair to you . . . .”  Oh, yes, Fox News was more than fair . . . and is still applying for the job as Palin’s PR front.  In fact, just recently <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts988">Fox tried to pass off</a> old footage of one of Palin’s campaign rallies as her recent Grand Rapids, Michigan, book signing appearance.    </p>

<p>Palin said of the media strategy of the McCain camp, “It was a bit perplexing for at least those on the vice-presidential side of the ticket and not really understanding where we were going there with the relationships with the media.  It was just an indication maybe of some things in our campaign being out of touch with the normal, everyday, average American who wanted to truly connect with the candidates.”</p>

<p>Although O’Reilly seemed determined – as he stated on Wednesday night’s Factor (see my post <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/11/18/palin_to_oreilly_i_believe_that_i_am_capable_of_being_president_of_the_united_states_reiman_analyze_the_body_language_on_that.php#more">here</a>) – not to conduct a “cupcake” interview, he never promised to be fair and balanced, and it’s a good thing.</p>

<p>“It’s fair to say that you were over-controlled by the McCain people,” O’Reilly stated.  Hey, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t he supposed to be asking questions, not stating answers?  Just askin’. </p>

<p>“They were the ‘experts,’” Palin said, punting responsibility, “They had run national campaigns before . . . so . . . obviously having to put a lot of faith in their strategy . . . those times that I was more assertive were the times that I was called ‘going rogue,’ and that being leaked to the press . . . there were mistakes being made in the campaign, I made mistakes in the campaign . . . .”  Nope, she still can’t string five words together into a coherent, grammatically correct sentence.  It’s comforting that some things never change.</p>

<p>When asked by O’Reilly if Palin had ever gone to McCain with her beefs about her “operatives,” Palin said (crucifix shining brightly around her neck – wait, aren’t Christians supposed to tell the truth?), “I never bad-mouthed any of the [McCain] operatives, I had faith that Senator McCain was working with those operatives . . . .”  Guess Palin-style Christians go the “situational ethics” route:  As reported by <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14929.html">Politico</a> in October 2008, “Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image . . . .”  .  Sounds like bad-mouthing to me.</p>

<p>“Woah woah woah woah woah, wait wait wait,” O’Reilly cried, “You’re frustrated and you’re not seeing their vision, don’t you think you should have gone to the presidential candidate and said, hey, they’re mismanaging me, you’ve gotta let me loose?”</p>

<p>Palin responded with typical Palin-speak, i.e., not translatable as any sort of proper English by any educated person, “Not necessarily . . . Not wanting to burden him with the internal operatives.”</p>

<p>O’Reilly blew the “no cupcake” pledge once again, stating, “You guys could have won the election, I think . . . the press was against you, we all know that.  Bush had a lot of trouble and that hurt the Republican ticket.  But it was close . . . .”  Close?  Obama <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_did_obama_win_by">won 53% of the vote</a>, McCain 46%, with Obama sweeping 365 electoral votes to McCain’s 173.  Right, if it weren’t for that “gotcha” liberal elite media, McCain-Palin would have closed that gap right up.  </p>

<p>O’Reilly went from “cupcake interview” to, like, “sugar-free pudding” interview – he, in his mind at least, pinned her to the wall with his rough questions. </p>

<p>O’Reilly opined, “The two signature moments that got you in trouble, with all due respect, Governor, were the Gibson interview when he looked down at you with his nose, with the glasses on the nose, and he said, [clip of Gibson], ‘Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?’  When I heard that, I said, what Bush Doctrine?’”</p>

<p>Roll the Gibson clip where she fumbles the “Bush Doctrine” question.  I watched it a couple of times for comic relief.</p>

<p>“Do you think that Gibson did that to demean you, to make you look stupid?” O’Reilly asked, moving back into the “cupcake” zone.</p>

<p>Here we go – Palin had to slam the MSM – the same people who, in fact, asked simple questions that did, in fact, make her look stupid:  “Those are the ‘gotcha’ techniques that some in the – what some people call mainstream, others call now the lamestream media, want to participate in . . . had he explained a little bit more, the context of the question he was asking, probably could have answered it.”</p>

<p>O’Reilly cruised back and forth from “cupcake” to “sugar-free pudding” zones, saying, first, “It hurt Gibson because a lot of women said, that’s not fair [it’s a cupcake!]. . . Katie Couric asked you an easy question, and you booted it, Governor. [yummy sugar-free pudding].”</p>

<p>Palin acknowledged, “I sure did.”</p>

<p>Roll the clip of Couric’s “gotcha” question about what Palin reads.  Played that one a couple of times, too, for a chuckle. </p>

<p>“Why did you boot it?” O’Reilly asked.</p>

<p>Palin sneered, “It’s ridiculous to suggest that . . . I couldn’t tell people what I read . . . it was quite obvious that it was going to be a bit of an annoying interview . . . it seemed to me that she didn’t know anything about Alaska, about my job as Governor, about my accomplishments as a mayor or Governor, my record, and a question like that, though . . . I should have been more patient and more gracious in my answer . . . It seemed to me that the question was more along the lines of, do you read . . . .”  So, her mistake was not in being unable to name what she read – her mistake was not being more of a saint and showing patience and grace at the “gotcha” journalist who had the nerve to ask her what she read.  </p>

<p>O’Reilly answered, once again, for Palin, stating, “So that was your inexperience . . . you were fed up, you were frustrated.”</p>

<p>Clearly not wanting to cite inexperience, Palin responded, “It was my inexperience in having to deal with a badgering, condescending line of questioning.  It had no reflection at all on my inexperience in terms of administrative record or accomplishments . . . and you know what, so what, so I wasn’t doing the right thing to ingratiate myself with liberal media personalities to make ‘em like me.  So what . . . I think if most normal Americans were put in the same position that I was there they’d probably look at her and have that proverbial eye roll and say, are you kidding me? . . . .”</p>

<p>O’Reilly commented, “That led in my opinion to the McCain people . . . saying, you know, we can’t trust her out there, because she booted that . . . although Katie Couric . . . says she wasn’t out to get you.”</p>

<p>Pointing a finger at Palin [Tonya Reiman, body language expert, what say you?], O’Reilly said, “But <strong>you</strong> think she was out to get you.”  (Emphasis mine)</p>

<p>Palin continued to spin the interview as a “gotcha,” saying, “. . . I think that she was out to get, if you will, anyone who didn’t believe in her perspective.  It’s not like she was gonna get in there and be, I think, unbiased, objective and fair . . . But it is ‘my bad’ . . . in my response, a very annoyed response, to a very annoying question.”  Damn, if she thinks “What do you read?” is an annoying question, it’s a good thing nobody asked her what her favorite color is, or favorite food.  Talk about “gotcha!”</p>

<p>O’Reilly teased her about her ‘my bad’ comment, which netted him a little cutesie pout, a little shoulder shrug, and a sultry look to the side.  </p>

<p>Whirlwind book tour, sympathetic Fox News hosts, and some PR props for her presidential bid in 2012?  She’s ba-ack!</p>

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<title>On Special Report, Fox Spun GOP Health Care Talking Points Into News</title>
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<issued>2009-11-20T04:07:48Z</issued>
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<created>2009-11-20T04:07:48Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Guest blogged by Nayef On Monday, (11/16/09), Special Report discussed health care reform in a not-so fair and balanced way that just happened to take Republican Mitch McConnell’s spin and present it as news. With video....</summary>
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<![CDATA[<p><strong>Guest blogged by Nayef</strong></p>

<p>On Monday, (11/16/09), Special Report discussed health care reform in a not-so fair and balanced way that just happened to take Republican Mitch McConnell’s spin and present it as news. With video.</p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>Host Bret Baier began the report by mentioning a recent <a href=" http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AP_POLL_HEALTH_CARE?SITE=WDUN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">AP poll</a> which found the public split over their support.</p>

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AP noted the following: “When poll questions were framed broadly, the answers seemed to indicate ample support for Obama's goals. When required trade-offs were brought into the equation, opinions shifted - sometimes dramatically.” Baier did not mention this observation from the AP, which allowed him to add that “lack of broad public support is just one of the problems facing senate’s top democrat as he prepares to unveil his plan.”</p>

<p>Next, reporter Jim Angle showed Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell stating that none of the 99 senators actually saw the bill as it is still with Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader. Fox viewers saw McConnell demanding senators have enough time to look at the bill. So how exactly is this a problem? Angle reported nothing to put McConnell’s partisan comments in context. It was not just speculation but GOP hype presented without verification.There was also no Democratic view presented as balance.<br />
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Angle also made much of the opposition to abortion restrictions from Democrats. So in this case, “fair and balanced” meant presenting Republican and Democrat opposition to the bill instead of presenting support and opposition.</p>

<p>The bill’s cost was also discussed based on the analysis of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The <a href="http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/242141/topic/WS_HLM2_FIN/CMS-Report-House-Reform-Bill-May-Not-Bend-Healthcare-Cost-Curve.html">analysis</a> “predicts that between 2010 and 2019, the overall national health expenditures would increase by $289 billion, or 0.8%, from baseline projections established earlier this year.” Misleadingly, the Fox report says “national expenditure would increase by $289 billion.” The $289 billion figure is in fact an offset in projection over the next 10 years but the Fox report omits both key phrases.</p>

<p>Although Baier noted in the beginning of his report that there is an “even split” on the health care bill, no view supporting the bill was presented. 3 arguments against; 0 arguments for.</p>

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<title>Why Does Fox News Place "Democrat" DUI On Top Of "GOP" DWI?</title>
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<modified>2009-11-20T00:24:56Z</modified>
<issued>2009-11-20T00:05:02Z</issued>
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<created>2009-11-20T00:05:02Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">In the second section of the Fox News website, below the ledes, there is a list of secondary news stories which includes "John Kerry's Daughter Arrested on Suspicion of DUI." But the arrest of GOP Senator Dick Lugar's wife, for drunk driving and hit and run, is way down in the "Politics" section. Interesting......</summary>
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<![CDATA[<p>In the second section of the Fox News website, below the ledes, there is a list of secondary news stories which includes "John Kerry's Daughter Arrested on Suspicion of DUI." But the arrest of GOP Senator Dick Lugar's wife, for drunk driving and hit and run, is way down in the "Politics" section. Interesting...</p>]]>
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<title>Another Defeat For Fox Nation – David Hamilton Confirmed For Appeals Court</title>
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<issued>2009-11-19T23:23:20Z</issued>
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<created>2009-11-19T23:23:20Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Fox Nation was all whipped up into a pitchfork frenzy about the nomination of David Hamilton to the Chicago based appeals court. Usually, a federal appeals court nominee would draw no more than a yawn; but not so for Mr. Hamilton whose evil, librul record produced howls of indignation by conservative Christians throughout Fox Nation. It seems that Mr. Hamilton, described as a “Judicial Anarchist” by the “Christian News Wire,” made some decisions, relating to public prayer and abortion, which the American Taliban (whoops, religious right) disapproved of; so, when his nomination was announced, the right wing witch hunt began....</summary>
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<![CDATA[<p>Fox Nation was all whipped up into a pitchfork frenzy about the nomination of David Hamilton to the Chicago based appeals court. Usually, a federal appeals court nominee would draw no more than a yawn; but not so for Mr. Hamilton whose evil, librul record produced howls of indignation by conservative Christians throughout Fox Nation. It seems that Mr. Hamilton, described as a “Judicial Anarchist” by the “Christian News Wire,” made some decisions, relating to public prayer and abortion, which the American Taliban (whoops, religious right) disapproved of; so, when his <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703031.html">nomination </a>was announced, the right wing witch hunt began. That the charges were totally <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200911030023">bogus </a>was not a problem for those, including Fox Nation, which sought to demonize this man who, in addition to “Saying Yes to Allah and No to Jesus, worked (gasp) for ACORN, for one month after college and the ultra, evil, librul ACLU. But despite calls to Jesus and the best efforts of Fox Nation, Mr. Hamilton was confirmed by a vote of 59 to 39 in the US Senate. </p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>The stage was set, back in March when Fox Nation linked to an <a href="http://www.thefoxnation.com/justice/2009/03/24/obama%25E2%2580%2599s-first-judicial-nominee-acorn-fundraiser">article </a>on the Chicago Tribune blog which was fairly straightforward but sure to get the desired frothing at the mouth from the mention of the frothing conservative reaction. Knowing that their "readership" probably wouldn't read the actual article, Fox Nation titled their thread,<em> "Obama's  first judicial nominee an ACORN fundraiser." </em> The ACORN reference was from one of the conservative critics and not supported by any documentation. And as time for the Senate action drew closer, there was a second Fox Nation linked article in the conservative Washington Examiner titled “Former ACORN fund raiser gets Obama judicial nomination. Yes, you read that right.” The thread was titled <em>"Obama Nominee A Former ACORN Fund-raiser."</em>  No bias there, no sirreee. Fox Nation did a thread about the unsuccessful Republican filibuster against Hamilton followed up by another thread asking why the GOP Senators backed down on the filibuster. But the piece de resistance was the last one which was a <a href="http://www.thefoxnation.com/politics/2009/11/03/obama-judicial-nominee-jesus-no-yes-allah">lede </a>and which linked to the not so liberal Washington Times article,<em> “Obama Nominee, Jesus No; But Yes To Allah.” </em> (The same title as the Fox Nation thread) That produced some real gems from the illuminati posting comments on Fox Nation some of which I've included. Note Bene the genius who thought that Hamilton was a member of Obama's cabinet. But as a Pavlovian excercise in stimulus (ACORN, librul, Muslim, etc) and response (Yer all damned to hell) it was classic Fox Nation.</p>

<p>But at the end of the day, Hamilton prevailed. Has Jesus stopped listening to Fox Nation? </p>

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<title>After Calling Obama A Racist, Murdoch Denies Having Called Obama A Racist</title>
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<issued>2009-11-19T23:02:44Z</issued>
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<created>2009-11-19T23:02:44Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Media Matters confronted Rupert Murdoch about his comments on Australian television saying that Glenn Beck was "right" to call President Obama a racist. Despite incontrovertible proof to the contrary, Murdoch now denies that he said it. Video after the jump....</summary>
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<name>Ellen</name>
<url>http://www.newshounds.us/ellen_elaborates/</url>
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<dc:subject>News Corp.</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Media Matters confronted Rupert Murdoch about his <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/11/10/rupert_murdoch_agrees_with_glenn_beck_that_obama_is_a_racist.php">comments</a> on Australian television saying that Glenn Beck was "right" to call President Obama a racist. Despite incontrovertible proof to the contrary, Murdoch now denies that he said it. Video after the jump. </p>]]>
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<title>Why Didn't Garrett Ask Obama About The Bow?</title>
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<summary type="text/plain">President Obama sat down with Major Garrett for a few minutes in an interview that was aired on yesterday's (11/18/09) Special Report. It was straightforward, fair and respectful. But there was no mention of one of Fox News' biggest stories of late, President Obama's bow to the Emperor of Japan. If Fox News thought the bow so important that the network obsessed over it on multiple shows and gave it top billing on their Fox Nation website, shouldn't Garrett have asked about it? Or does its omission signal the "fair and balanced" network's tacit admission that it's not as important...</summary>
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<dc:subject>Special Report</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>President Obama sat down with Major Garrett for a few minutes in an interview that was aired on yesterday's (11/18/09) Special Report. It was straightforward, fair and respectful. But there was no mention of one of Fox News' biggest stories of late, President Obama's bow to the Emperor of Japan. If Fox News thought the bow so important that the network obsessed over it on <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/11/17/fox_news_obsesses_about_obamas_bow.php">multiple shows</a> and gave it <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911170007">top billing</a> on their Fox Nation website, shouldn't Garrett have asked about it? Or does its omission signal the "fair and balanced" network's tacit admission that it's not as important a story as they've made it out to be? Or did the "we report, you decide" network deliberately pull its punches in order to land the interview in the wake of <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/10/11/white_house_communications_director_fox_news_often_operates_as_almost_either_the_research_arm_or_the_communications_arm_of_the_republican_party.php">tensions</a> between them and the White House? Whatever the reason, it did not reflect well on Fox News. (H/T Nayef)</p>]]>

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<title>Steve Doocy And Brian Kilmeade Unabashedly  Promote Pro-life Propaganda</title>
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<issued>2009-11-19T16:59:50Z</issued>
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<created>2009-11-19T16:59:50Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">I know that Fox&amp;Friends is officially part of the Fox “Opinion” News, so it wasn’t surprising that Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, on last week’s Fox&amp;Friends, did a “cupcake” interview with Democratic US Rep. Bart Stupak – the author of an amendment to the House health care bill which has far ranging reproductive ramifications for American women. Both Doocy and Kilmeade are Roman Catholics so it wasn’t surprising that they allowed their co religionist to peddle his pro-life propaganda regarding a bill which the American Council of Catholic Bishops had a huge hand in drafting and supporting. And in providing...</summary>
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<![CDATA[<p>I know that Fox&Friends is officially part of the Fox “Opinion” News, so it wasn’t surprising that Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, on last week’s Fox&Friends, did a “cupcake” interview with Democratic US Rep. Bart Stupak – the author of an amendment to the House health care bill which has far ranging reproductive ramifications for American women. Both Doocy and Kilmeade are Roman Catholics so it wasn’t surprising that they allowed their co religionist to peddle his pro-life propaganda regarding a bill which the American Council of Catholic Bishops had a huge hand in drafting and supporting. And in providing a “right to life” definition of the bill, the Fox “friends” provided a pulpit, once again, for the anti-choice gospel that Fox preaches to its anti-choice audience. But even if you’re doing “opinion” news, don’t you have some obligation towards objectivity? Not if you’re America’s pro-life newsroom.</p>

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<![CDATA[<p>Kilmeade started the segment by providing the simplistic and misleading “right to life” spin on the bill. He said that the amendment would <em>“bar federal dollars from funding abortions.” </em>The reality is far more complex as it relates to the availability of insurance plans, which cover abortions, to women accessing the proposed health care exchanges. Kilmeade appeared to be agitated when he said that the amendment, according to David Axelrod, might be stripped from the bill. Brian repeated the word “stripped” in case you didn’t get it the first time. A video of Axlerod’s comments, about the President not wanting to change the status quo, was shown. Knowing what the answer would be, Doocy asked a scripted Fox “opinion” question: <em>“That’s got to be disheartening, you guys do your work on Capitol Hill and then they’re some switcheroo at the last moment when, yeah, we’re just gonna take that thing out.”</em>  Stupak said that “they’re not gonna take it out” and asserted that “55% of the country, according to the Representatives, agrees with our position.” (No Bart, just because a Representative votes for a certain bill, it doesn’t mean that all his/her constituents favor it). He continued the anti-choice propaganda that the language of the Hyde language “should remain” when, in reality, this amendment goes far beyond the Hyde Amendment. Kilmeade did the “Fox reach around” when he described what Stupak was thinking: <em>“You’re a pro-life Democrat who worked hard and said “you’re not going to count me and many others aboard if you’re gonna have federal dollars going to abortion…so you’re very happy with the final result.”</em> Stupak reiterated how 55% of the House said “no public funding for abortion” – the “anti-choice” mantra which obfuscates the issue. Stupak continued the propaganda when he claimed that “most people agree that you don’t use public funds for abortion.” – which was more obfuscation because the stat on “public funding” applies to the Medicaid policy and certainly does not apply to the Stupak amendment which, to my knowledge, hasn’t been polled. The lie continued when he claimed “that’s all our amendment says.” Doocy continued the “Fox reach around” when he asked if Stupak’s jaw dropped when he heard Axlerod. Doocy added <em>“you guys have been burning the midnight oil, trying to make this work, making it clear that federal money will not be used to end a life.” </em>Stupak said you just can’t do away with something the majority of the House wanted. (Actually, in “reconciliation” that happens quite frequently) because “David  Axlerod doesn’t like it.” (Uh, Bart, a huge segment of the pro-choice community has been mobilized. It’s not just David Axlerod.) Doocy asked Stupak what will happen if the final bill contains “federal funding for abortion.” Stupak said that would be a problem; but stopped short of saying that he and his anti—choice pals would squelch health care.</p>

<p>Comment: Wow, I sure hope Doocy and Kilmeade score some plenary indulgences on that one because they sure did the bishop’s bidding in totally misrepresenting this bill in favor of “pro-life” propaganda. They really tipped their hand when they referred to “ending a life” when the correct language should have been “what some consider to be ending a life” because not all religions feel that women are murderers. But beyond this, the total lack of any journalistic standards was amazing. There are some serious questions regarding the Stupak Amendment which the guys didn’t address. The Stupak Amendment goes beyond Hyde in that it would prohibit women who pay for their own coverage to have access to plans that do cover abortion because, according to the lifers, this money would spill over into funding abortions. It’s like saying that if you get food stamps (a government subsidy) you can’t use your own money to pay for your abortion. Not noted by the guys is the fact that 17 states currently <a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_SFAM.pdf">allow </a>Medicaid funded abortions because the state funds are segregated. Not mentioned in the interview was the Capps Amendment which would have set up a mechanism for insurance companies to do the same. Marci Hamilton, a legal scholar, <a href="http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20091112.html">contends </a>that this amendment is unconstitutional as it violates “equal protection, due process, and privacy rights.” CNN”s legal commentator, Jeff Toobin, also <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/11/23/091123taco_talk_toobin">argues </a>that the intent of this legislation is make access to abortion much harder as it prohibits the federal plan from offering plans that cover abortion and in so doing will discourage the private sector insurance companies from offering any plans, to anybody, that cover abortions. A new <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/11/end_of_abortion_coverage_for_all_women.php?ref=fpblg">study </a>from the GWU School of Health makes this quite clear. Since the moment that this passed, there has been a lot of <a href="http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2009/11/the-stupak-amendment-deconstructed.html">deconstruction </a>of the onerous consequences of the bill – but you didn’t hear it on Fox&Friends. Funny, on the same day that the guys provided a platform for Stupak, Democratic <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-kirsten-gillibrand/nyc-women-unite-against-s_b_361071.html">Senator Kirsten Gillibrand </a>spoke of how she and other pro-choice women politicians are vowing to defeat the Stupak Amendment. Wonder if Fox&Friends will interview her?  Of all the propaganda pieces I’ve seen on Fox’s morning kid’s show, this one takes the cupcake!</p>

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<title>Palin Says “We Weren’t Fair To The Electorate” Not Focusing More On Rev. Wright And Bill Ayers</title>
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<created>2009-11-19T08:32:52Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">It felt like 2008 all over again last night (11/18/09) as Sean Hannity went out of his way to bring up Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers during his hour-long interview with Sarah Palin about her new book. Why would Hannity waste time on this non-issue, if not for a sheer desire to hate monger against President Obama? In response, Palin had the nerve to pretend that talking more about Wright and Ayers was not negative campaigning, just being “fair to the electorate.” With video....</summary>
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<dc:subject>Hannity</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>It felt like 2008 all over again last night (11/18/09) as Sean Hannity went out of his way to bring up Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers during his hour-long interview with Sarah Palin about her new book. Why would Hannity waste time on this non-issue, if not for a sheer desire to hate monger against President Obama? In response, Palin had the nerve to pretend that talking more about Wright and Ayers was not negative campaigning, just being “fair to the electorate.” With video.</p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>Hannity said to Palin, “I could not understand why the campaign did not focus on Bill Ayers and Father Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright… You wanted to talk about Jeremiah Wright, you write in the book you were told not to.” He sounded astounded as he asked, “Why?”</p>

<p>“I am still perplexed as to why we weren’t fair to the electorate and discussed those associations,” Palin responded. “…I think that it was quite unfortunate… It wasn’t negative campaigning and it wasn’t off-base… Now what you did and other common-sense conservatives – what you guys did was try to do the job that a campaign should have done. We really missed the boat on that.”</p>

<p>“Yeah, it surprised me.” Hannity reiterated a litany of accusations supposedly “proving” Obama and Ayers were close. However, Hannity undoubtedly knows that, as <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05/fact-check-is-obama-palling-around-with-terrorists/">CNN reported</a> in a fact check of Palin’s “palling around with terrorists” charges against Obama during the campaign, “There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now ‘palling around,’ or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.”</p>

<p>Of course, every time Hannity postures about someone else’s “radical associations,” we can’t help but respond by pointing out his bigoted associations with white supremacist <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2008/03/27/think_barack_obamas_pastor_reflects_badly_on_him_take_a_listen_to_sean_hannitys_former_neonaziwhite_supremacist_pal.php">Hal Turner</a> and anti-Semite <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2008/10/06/hannity_gets_into_bed_with_another_antisemite.php">Andy Martin</a> as well as a <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2008/04/28/hannity_admits_i_care_deeply_about_race.php">special fondness</a> for people in the hot seat for racially dubious comments. </p>

<p>“Why not bring up Rev. Wright? …It still amazes me that that was not a bigger issue in the campaign,” Hannity said.</p>

<p>Palin was selfless as ever. “It should have been a bigger issue because I think it was indicative of some of the quote, unquote tolerance of a candidate in terms of hearing a message and being fed things that are not good for our country.”</p>

<p>Hannity wasn’t done with his hate mongering. “Is the president then more radical than he let on? Do you think the president’s radical?”</p>

<p>Palin didn’t want to go there. “I will not hesitate to say that his associations, his associates have been extremely radical and we see that then in some of the appointments that he has made. And again, I think that it is unfair to the electorate to, for a candidate or a campaign to hesitate in calling someone out on what their record really represents.”</p>

<p>“I agree with that,” Hannity said. </p>

<p>Then, as Palin acknowledged that her husband Todd, is not a registered Republican, Hannity “joked,” that “He’s part of that group, by the way, that wanted to secede.”</p>

<p>“Oh, yes, supposedly, right,” Palin said sarcastically.</p>

<p>Not supposedly but actually. It has been proven that Todd Palin was a <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/todd_palin_was_registered_memb.php">member</a> of the Alaskan Independencde Party for seven years. Take a look at their <a href="http://www.akip.org/faqs.html">website</a> which states that their members, "advocate a range of solutions to the conflicts between federal and local authority; from advocacy for state's rights, through a return to territorial status, all the way to complete independence and nationhood status for Alaska." <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html">FactCheck.org</a> points out that Palin attended at least one of AIP's conventions. <a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/aip_founder_professed_hatred_f.php">Talking Points Memo</a> reported that Palin courted the founder of AIP despite the fact that he has expressed hatred for the United States.</p>

<p>So Palin has some significant anti-American associations, and they are a lot deeper than Obama’s tenuous ties to the now-respectable Ayers. But it’s funny how “Great American” Hannity and the rest of <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2004/12/20/the_lies_of_roger_ailes.php">“we like America”</a> Fox News never seems to care.</p>

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<title>Hannity and Palin Blame Rahm Emanuel And The Obama Administration For Her Resignation</title>
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<modified>2009-11-19T08:04:22Z</modified>
<issued>2009-11-19T07:23:32Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newshounds.us,2009://15.17514</id>
<created>2009-11-19T07:23:32Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Thank goodness Fox News is fair and balanced. If they weren’t, Sean Hannity would have wasted time asking Sarah Palin during their hour-long interview last night (11/18/09) about the many inaccuracies in her new book, the response of the McCain campaign to the allegations she made against them and pressed her on why she really quit her job as Governor of Alaska in the middle of her term. Instead, Hannity left all those bothersome details to the so-called liberal media and seemed determined to compensate for every single piece of negative publicity poor, persecuted Palin ever suffered. So during his...</summary>
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<dc:subject>Hannity</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Thank goodness Fox News is fair and balanced. If they weren’t, Sean Hannity would have wasted time asking Sarah Palin during their hour-long interview last night (11/18/09) about the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALIN_BOOK_FACT_CHECK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-11-13-17-38-39">many</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200911150011">inaccuracies</a> in her new book, the <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/18/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5695250.shtml">response</a> of the McCain campaign to the allegations she made against them and pressed her on why she really quit her job as Governor of Alaska in the middle of her term. Instead, Hannity left all those bothersome details to the so-called liberal media and seemed determined to compensate for every single piece of negative publicity poor, persecuted Palin ever suffered. So during his interview, Hannity not only dismissed all <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/us/06palin.html?_r=1&ref=global-home">15 ethics probes</a> filed against her during her two and a half years as governor, he suggested Rahm Emanuel and the Obama administration were to blame for her troubles and her resignation. Palin wholeheartedly agreed. With video.</p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>Palin presented her decision to quit her job as governor halfway through her term as “doing the right thing for my state.” </p>

<p>Hannity not only completely bought her story, he raised her one, so to speak. After a bit of image rehab in which Hannity urged Palin to rewrite her disastrous Katie Couric interview by telling the audience how she wished she had answered the questions, he said (at about the 4:14 mark in the video below), “You talk about the thumping, you talk about ‘<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134">Rules for Radicals</a>,’ and you talk about Rahm (Emanuel) and the Democrats and you got The Chicago Treatment. Do you think they were responsible for a lot of the investigations that ensued which, you know, became very troublesome and expensive for you, which led to the resignation?”</p>

<p>“Absolutely,” Palin said. “But it wasn’t just me. It was the burden put on the state administration. The millions of dollars, the thousands of hours that my staff had to spend just to respond to the frivolous things that were thrown our way and that was all quite unfortunate.”</p>

<p>Obama and Emanuel must have remarkable clairvoyant powers. The <a href="http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/492964.html">Troopergate</a> investigation, for example, began before <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/palin.republican.vp.candidate/index.html">her nomination</a>. And Rahm Emanuel wasn't working for Obama until <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7702408.stm">after the election</a>.</p>

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<title>Palin to O’Reilly:  “I Believe That I Am” Capable of Being President of the United States . . . Reiman, Analyze the Body Language on THAT</title>
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<summary type="text/plain">On last night’s O’Reilly Factor/Body Language segment (11/18/09), Tonya Reiman had some interesting observations about O’Reilly’s interviews with (conservative) Sarah Palin, (MSM) Sally Quinn, and (conseeeeeeeeervative – and male) Lou Dobbs. It’s a shocker, all right: O’Reilly was most respectful to Dobbs, careful not to offend Palin, and, of course, had the most aggressive stance toward the delegate of mainstream media, Quinn. I like Tonya Reiman, I really do. She does a little too much pandering, in my view – I agree with what News Hounds’ Deborah wrote back in 2007 about Reiman’s gig on O’Reilly: “She's [Reiman] managed to...</summary>
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<![CDATA[<p>On last night’s O’Reilly Factor/Body Language segment (11/18/09), Tonya Reiman had some interesting observations about O’Reilly’s interviews with (conservative) Sarah Palin, (MSM) Sally Quinn, and (conseeeeeeeeervative – and male) Lou Dobbs.  It’s a shocker, all right:  O’Reilly was most respectful to Dobbs, careful not to offend Palin, and, of course, had the most aggressive stance toward the delegate of mainstream media, Quinn.  I like Tonya Reiman, I really do.  She does a little too much pandering, in my view – I agree with what <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2007/01/24/tanya_and_twarrior_oreilly_dig_for_dirt.php">News Hounds’ Deborah</a> wrote back in 2007 about Reiman’s gig on O’Reilly:  “She's [Reiman] managed to amuse him or feed his insatiable ego without saying anything too damaging to the subjects or her lucrative weekly gig.”  But someday, when Reiman’s not beholden to Fox News, I’d really like to know the truth about what she sees in O’Reilly’s body language.  With video.<br />
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<![CDATA[<p>First of all, O’Reilly claimed he didn’t want his Palin interview to be a “cupcake” interview, or, in layman’s terms, a “cupcake” interview of a “cupcake.”  Sure, he asked her a couple of gently posed “hard” questions (well, for her a hard question might be, “What did you have for lunch?”)  But anyway, O’Reilly played a short clip of his nearly hour-long interview with Palin, and Reiman was on hand to analyze the body language.  She, of course, didn’t say that the interview was soft, but in so many words noted that he pulled back on being hard on her.  Roll the clip.</p>

<p><em>“Do you believe,” O’Reilly asked Palin, “That you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough, to handle the most powerful job in the world . . . ?”  </p>

<p>“I believe that I am,” Palin said in her usual narcissistic, egotistical, totally deluded way, “Because I have common sense, and I have I believe the values that are reflective of so many other American values.”</em></p>

<p>I actually gasped.</p>

<p>Reiman noted, “I thought she was intimidated by you.”  Music to O’Reilly’s ears – no cupcake interview!  Reiman noted that when O’Reilly started asking questions, Palin’s lips tightened, which is “fear, anxiety,” and O’Reilly seemed happily surprised to hear that.  Reiman went on to say that when O’Reilly pointed his hand at her, and leaned in, his thumb “goes down.”  </p>

<p>“You were trying to make sure that this came across as an interview not an interrogation . . . thumbs are power digits,” Reiman told O’Reilly.  </p>

<p>“I tried to be very respectful to Sarah Palin,” O’Reilly said, the Knight in Shining Armor, “Because so many people have given her a hard time and I didn’t want to do that . . . but on the other hand I didn’t want it to a cupcake interview, and it wasn’t.”  </p>

<p>O’Reilly disagreed that she was intimidated, saying, “I thought she was relaxed . . . .”</p>

<p>Reiman backed off a bit, conceding, “She was guarded . . . very guarded.”</p>

<p>“Here’s the difference,” O’Reilly said.  “She didn’t control this interview . . . and she did control the Walters-Oprah interviews . . . .”  Ah, yes, the all-important control.  Notice how he denigrated Oprah and Walters (two females) for not having “control” of their subject?  </p>

<p>Moving on to Sally Quinn – O’Reilly said last week he “had to rough her up a little – verbally, of course . . . the Ft. Hood thing, she wouldn’t put the terrorist designation on the Major who killed all those people.”  Hmmm, first he’s into “control” of one female, and now he has to rough up another.  </p>

<p>Out of the gate, O’Reilly attacks and demeans Quinn, crying indignantly, “A third grader gets this and you’re resisting it – I wanna know why.”  And here’s a third – he demeans Quinn for not being as savvy as a third-grader.</p>

<p>Quinn wouldn’t commit to the “terrorist” tag, so O’Reilly kept bullying her until she finally humored him, saying flatly, “Okay, he’s a Muslim terrorist.”</p>

<p>Reiman told O’Reilly that Quinn’s final comment was a “that’s enough” comment.  Reiman also pointed out that O’Reilly had the “double chop” with Quinn – both hands pointing at her (no thumb down?) -- and O’Reilly cackled a bit about that.  </p>

<p>“You were very animated, and on the flip side she’s so passive during this interview,” Reiman noted.  Evidently, O’Reilly-speak is catching, because that “animated” thing Reiman talked about was really bullying, and “passive” on the part of Quinn was actually calm, cool and collected,  </p>

<p>Reiman noted a point where Quinn’s mouth turns down into a frown, and O’Reilly boasted, “But she knew she couldn’t win the argument, I was overwhelming her with facts.”  And underwhelming the rest of us.</p>

<p>On to Dobbs . . . there wasn’t a lot to say, because O’Reilly gave Dobbs a pretty wide latitude.  Reiman noted that Dobbs has “excellent body language,” and said he carried himself well.  She denied any defensiveness, thought he was relatively relaxed, saying, “He recognized that this is your territory,” and said the Dobbs interview was a “whole different level of intimidation” than the Palin interview.</p>

<p>“Cupcake” interview – with the female.  “Control” the interview – with the female.  “Rough her up a little” – the female, of course.  “A third grader gets it” – oh, those dumb females.  “Double chop” – only with the female.  “She couldn’t win” – zero sum game, if she wins, I lose.</p>

<p>O’Reilly could sit as still as a statute, and his body language would still scream “sexist control freak.”</p>

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<title>Who Cares About Fox News' Wide Right Segment -- But What's With the Hooters Girl?</title>
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<modified>2009-11-19T03:52:03Z</modified>
<issued>2009-11-19T03:43:15Z</issued>
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<created>2009-11-19T03:43:15Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Wow, for a “family values” channel, Fox sure has a lot of flex in its standards. On the Fox News web page, I let the video immediately following O’Reilly’s Body Language segment run, and lo and behold, there was a little blondie (grown on Fox News’ blond farm, perhaps?) in a Hooters t-shirt introducing the “Wide Right” segment. With video....</summary>
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<![CDATA[<p>Wow, for a “family values” channel, Fox sure has a lot of flex in its standards.  On the Fox News web page, I let the video immediately following O’Reilly’s Body Language segment run, and lo and behold, there was a little blondie (grown on Fox News’ blond farm, perhaps?) in a Hooters t-shirt introducing the “Wide Right” segment.  With video.</p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>“I’m Stacy Gregorian, your fantasy girl . . . .”</p>

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<p>A little wiggle here, a little sultry shoulder move there, and voila – a Foxette in training.  Can't beat the "family values" network for pure sleaze.  </p>

<p>SMH (shake my head).</p>

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<title>Another Day, Another Death Threat On Fox Nation</title>
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<modified>2009-11-19T03:16:10Z</modified>
<issued>2009-11-19T03:01:15Z</issued>
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<created>2009-11-19T03:01:15Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">This one targets Attorney General Eric Holder and appears on a thread about Clint Eastwood so it's also way off topic. Hat tip to reader Dave D. who found the comment. It not only got past the Fox Nation moderators but sat there for more than 24 hours (and counting). We just reported the comment so we hope it disappears soon. But we've got a screen grab to show you what passes for reasonable discussion on the "fair and balanced" website....</summary>
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<name>Ellen</name>
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<dc:subject>Fox Nation</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>This one targets Attorney General Eric Holder and appears on a thread about <a href="http://www.thefoxnation.com/clint-eastwood/2009/11/17/clint-us-becoming-more-juvenile?page=1">Clint Eastwood</a> so it's also way off topic. Hat tip to reader Dave D. who found the comment. It not only got past the Fox Nation moderators but sat there for more than 24 hours (and counting). We just reported the comment so we hope it disappears soon. But we've got a screen grab to show you what passes for reasonable discussion on the <a href="http://www.thefoxnation.com/our-purpose">"fair and balanced"</a> website. </p>]]>
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