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Originally posted by Tim Hancock
Len, we will never hear them admit that the enemy is emboldened by bickering on the home front (even though that is a goal of the terrorist).
Instead, Fox news will be blamed for leading the obviously ignorant, uneducated, war-mongering right wingers to this conclusion.
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Tim, do you have any evidence to support your two assertions? I would love to see evidence supporting the former.
Here is incontrovertible evidence that Fox, the same people who brought you Joe Millionaire, misleads its audience:
I saw this a week ago watching Fox and CNN flipping back and forth, documented it then in another thread.
Fox reported about the Gonzales hearing that it was a jovial affair, "a love fest at times with even democrats embracing him, one calling him "ol' buddy".
That was the entire story with a few clips of softball questions.
Same story on CNN revealed contentious questioning at times, even from Republicans. It showed one Republican talking about just the idea of looking to get around international laws against torture means you've lost the moral high ground.
But here's the topper! Remember Democrats calling him "ol buddy" in the Fox report? We'll, Joe Biden was questioning him on whether he thinks the President is, at times, beyond international law in regards to ordering torture.
Gonzales answers that it's a hypothetical question and that Bush didn't order the torture at Abu Graib and goes on to say that he can't say whether or not he thinks the President can order torture because it may effect the outcome of a future case. What is Biden's response?
Biden says his opinion now has absolutely no bearing on a future case, that it's "malarkey" and says "we're looking for a straight answer here, ol buddy"
Having an independent media source be an apologist for the government is the first step in slippery slope toward Fascism. Not saying that's going to happen in the US, but as a media source, Fox helps shape public opinion. Did Fox lie in their reporting? No, he really was called ol buddy by Democrat.
Is that really what happened? No.
I watch both to get both sides. This happens a lot. IT'S CALLED CONTEXT.
Now I know why so many people are confused in this country. They are being lied to on a daily basis and would never even know it. Poor souls.