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• REMITROM | Apr 23, 2013, 10:37 AM EDT

  Jack had relations with everything still breathing in a skirt, Bobby (Sr.) had relations with the widow Jacquie, Teddy, after leaving Mary Jo to suffocate, made his first phone call to a married stewardess from Lufthansa whom he was banging while Joan was pregnant and eventually drove Joan to alcoholism. Bobby (Jr.) took it one step further and drove his wife to suicide. The Kennedys are great at self-promotion but despicable human beings who SHOULD merit no attention from any American.

• unclebrendan | Dec 19, 2012, 12:15 PM EST

  I think that using This Kennedy person as the spokesman makes the message meaningless. Maybe the opinion has validity. But I will never believe anything that comes from this person's mouth.

• KweenOHearts | Dec 16, 2012, 03:59 PM EST

  johnshiel, don't allow yourself to be intimidated by the likes of a woolfess in she...ps' clothing. It appears that the eiriamooch has long ago adjudicated to herself the mantle of 'ultimate authority' on every subject. Her job at IC is to put the 'shrieking exclamation point of libtard self-righteousness' on every discussion, no matter what that discussion might be. Hers are the never-failing libbo talking-points, the infallibility, and the last word. Don’t even think of arguing! ----- She will invariably trot out the wisdom and corroboration afforded her by the likes of the most prestigious and rigidly dogmatic apostate, contrarian or pundit whose words ever graced the pages of any rabid liberal rag, book or manual. But if she quotes him/her/it you can bet it’s ‘the gospel’ because she has been duly self-anointed as an 'expert' to transmit the truth according to her [and only hers] sources.---- However, if you want to find out for yourself whether her preaching is or is not biased, simply google David Frum, read through his resume, and you’ll see for yourself how much truth there is in the Repub/conservative bona fides this person accords him.

• LiamScanlan | Dec 16, 2012, 12:53 PM EST

  Grammar police: "and its empowered large corporations" should be "and it's empowered large corporations". It's all this bad grammar on IrishCentral.com that's dividing the nation!

• McNamara31 | Dec 14, 2012, 01:22 PM EST

  People do not watch FOX to be "informed" they watch FOX to have their pre existing biases reinforced. If anyone has a doubt look up the bio on ex Nixon man Roger Ailes who runs Fox. Haters seek hate, bigots seek bigotry and they will find both labelled as "fair and balanced" on Fox.

• Madeliene | Dec 13, 2012, 08:02 PM EST

  No one innAmerica cares what he say's! He is just another kennedy drunk!

• seanomelb | Dec 12, 2012, 09:39 PM EST

  Pitts!! Kennedy never stated that 66 million teaparty drones could not watch fox entertainment(dressed up as news)

• Pittsburghkid | Dec 12, 2012, 07:35 PM EST

  Do you realize that 22% of Americans is 66 million people. So Kennedy want to denie 66 million people their choice in News. I though Democrats were ablut choice, not dictatorship

• eiriamach | Dec 11, 2012, 11:55 AM EST

  johnshiel, in his Nov 20, 2011 article in New York magazine, available on line, David Frum wrote, "I’ve been a Republican all my adult life. I have worked on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, at Forbes magazine, at the Manhattan and American Enterprise Institutes, as a speechwriter in the George W. Bush administration. I believe in free markets, low taxes, reasonable regulation, and limited government. I voted for John ­McCain in 2008, and I have strongly criticized the major policy decisions of the Obama administration. But as I contemplate my party and my movement in 2011, I see things I simply cannot support." In a 2009 Newsweek article, he warned the GOP about giving Rush Limbaugh too much influence in Republican Party policy statements. Thereafter, he tells that FOX News dropped him as a guest and he found himself banned on other broadcasts as well. If he's not a conservative, no one has convinced him of that, and maybe he's really a prophet of the demise of the GOP.

• johnshiel | Dec 10, 2012, 06:39 PM EST

  Mr. Frum is a conservative? On CNN? How can you tell? Usually I can tell a conservative by the things they say, but not in this case. Just wondering... how DO you pick him out?

• Smyrnian | Dec 10, 2012, 03:38 PM EST

  And NBC is a bastion of impartiality? Washington Post? NY Times? Give me a break. 99% of the media is avowed liberal/leftist.

• eiriamach | Dec 10, 2012, 10:50 AM EST

  johnshiel, David Frum, quoted below, is not a "leftist" but a conservative. Those of us who are on the left are deeply concerned, but "enraged" is over-statement. We are concerned because the problem-- which you choose to ignore-- is not policies but TRUTH in the media. We could debate policies IF we were all working with accurate information. If you wish to change policies, begin by finding and bringing to the discussion a set of accurate facts.

• johnshiel | Dec 10, 2012, 10:28 AM EST

  the pot calls the kettle black in this instance... wreckless leftist policies are ripping our country apart and destroying its vitality and, perhaps literally, its integrity. Media orgs like Fox shed light on this and eneble more Americans to percieve the destruction taking place. Is it so surprising that non-leftists are enraged?

• eiriamach | Dec 10, 2012, 07:02 AM EST

  Read it from CNN conservative journalist David Frum: "The real locus of the problem is the Republican activist base and the Republican donor base. They went apocalyptic over the past four years. And that was exploited by a lot of people in the conservative world. I won’t soon forget the lupine smile that played over the head of a major conservative institution when he told me that our donors think the apocalypse has arrived. Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex... the followers, the donors and the activists are so mistaken about the nature of the problems the country faces.... I went to Tea Party rallies and I would ask this question: 'have taxes gone up or down in the past four years?' They could not answer that question correctly. Now it’s true that taxes will go up if the President is re-elected. That’s why we’re Republicans. But you have to know that taxes have not gone up in the past. And 'do we spend a trillion dollars on welfare?' It is false. But it is almost universally believed" --"Morning Joe," MSNBC, Nov. 9, "Why GOP has been lied to by a conservative entertainment complex."

• garabh og | Dec 10, 2012, 12:55 AM EST

  If those being led about by their noses into the Tea Party were to ever gain enough intelligence to comprehend what's been done to them, they would turn with a vengeance on their handlers, whose real agenda is the restoration of a tyranny more evil than that which the founding fathers of America sought to escape.

• StevieJoe | Dec 10, 2012, 12:51 AM EST

  "FOX NEWS" or as they say "FIXED NEWS" is now 50% owned and operated by the Saudi Royal family. Rubert Murdock, the douchbag that hacked all those cell phones in England needed the money to pay off all his fines. So, you have a "news" organization that is owned and operated by billionaires. In what stretch of your imagination can you conceive of the news being slanted other than toward the very wealthy.

• rose528 | Dec 09, 2012, 10:29 PM EST

  all these nazi/fascist party of NO(repugs) just shows how ignorant and uneducated they really are. After all the division of America began with Bush and his administration with the hopes of creating a new Germany Hitler rules nation. it's what they have been planning since 1930"s. Look at the laws they are passing or trying to pass it follows the exact action Hitler used in Germany.

• kermattcait | Dec 09, 2012, 06:36 PM EST

  wonder what his uncle JfK would think, his motto was What you can do for your country, not what your country could do for you, yes he was a democrat, byt would roll over in his seeing what his party is like today.

• kermattcait | Dec 09, 2012, 05:33 PM EST

  It is Obama dividing the country,

• seanomelb | Dec 09, 2012, 04:52 PM EST

  Castigating Kennedy here is a side show by the spiteful.If they cannot make a valid argument on the content of his piece they should leave their keyboards alone. Eiriamach and Ephraim have made a fair and balanced case and that is more than one receives from Fox and more than can be said of they fox marionettes below.

• Maureen15 | Dec 09, 2012, 04:49 PM EST

  Wonder how his brother Douglas feels about this....Douglas works for Fox News!

• eiriamach | Dec 09, 2012, 04:06 PM EST

  The issue isn't news broadcasts from the right vs news broadcasts from the left. As Kennedy says in the interview clip, polarization is the result, not the cause, of the deadlock we have now in Washington DC. And the deeper problem is the MISinformation coming from the right and presented as fact-based "news." When "95% of talk radio in our country is right wing," and many, according to Pew surveys, say that their primary "news" source is FOX, we cannot safeguard our democracy because, as EphraimKibbey says, it "depends on an "EDUCATED" electorate" or at least an informed electorate. MSNBC may be just as political, but it does not present MISinformation as news. Wat the MSNBC folks label "facts" check out against other news sources and congressional records. Do the fact checking, and you'll see how much DISinformation and MISinformation FOX puts out every day. I don't expect FOX to change, but I do expect schools of journalism to be training their graduates in cross-checking the information they publish and in courageously holding the disinformation specialists to account publicly for the harm they do.

• CavanAncestor | Dec 09, 2012, 03:54 PM EST

  Finally, the answer to the question, what's the sound of one hand clapping? Answer: a Kennedy looking for moral high ground.How Quixotic! Kennedy's Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column of the Left. Maybe it daned on RFK one day after visiting his late wife's grave, wherever he has moved her to now. Arrogance is a defined strand in the Kennedy DNA.

• ToryTory | Dec 09, 2012, 03:04 PM EST

  Yeah that's right Kennedy, wouldn't it be so much nicer if the left wing intelligentsia had a monopoly on the media? Let all media outlets mimic CNN, no? Can't stand these people.

• katiemac | Dec 09, 2012, 02:50 PM EST

  Cricitism just because Fox is not part of the Obama propaganda machine? The left has grown uber sensitive. Anyone who disagrees gets labeled a 'hater' and you claim Fox is divisive?

• EphraimKibbey | Dec 09, 2012, 02:48 PM EST

  Sorry, that was "RON" not Rand's attempt to Hijack the convention.

• EphraimKibbey | Dec 09, 2012, 02:45 PM EST

  @patrickesq - you explained the situation perfectly! We definitely NEED voices on both sides of all arguments in America but, when the MAIN voice on one side just makes up stuff to make its audience feel entertained, there is no room for discussion. All the other side can do is laugh. Our local Broadcast Fox News affiliate in Cincinnati did a wonderful job of covering the election in a factual, journalistic way. Their "Reality Check" segments covered the Rand Paul attempt to hijack the RNC convention when no one else was even mentioning it except for a couple of references on the Maddow show. Cable Fox, by contrast, kept denying reality and inventing an alternative universe in which their candidate was winning, the polls and labor statistics were manufactured and the opposition was doing all kinds of treasonous, clandestine tricks in order to win. This "malarky" obviously did nothing to change reality and only served to make Ryan/Romney's loss a shock to their viewers. Our democracy depends on an "EDUCATED" electorate. If half of the nation is voting based upon stuff that Fox and Friends just invented, we are in BIG trouble. I think that Cable Fox viewers are strong enough to handle the truth and would be far better served by the station if it kept them based in reality while it presented the points of view of leading figures on the right about that reality. An essential service they could provide would be fact checking the crazy voices on the right like Akin who spout stuff that makes all those on the right look like a bunch of uneducated idiots. Maybe we need to encourage Fox to stand up and be the Grown Up on the right. Hopefully they will rise to the occasion.

• Madeliene | Dec 09, 2012, 02:43 PM EST

  RF Kennedy is liberal arse, & WE the PEOPLE are sick of them!

• 71regiment | Dec 09, 2012, 02:22 PM EST

  I suppose Bobby got this thought from the New York Times or MSNBC or PBS.

• Eschetic | Dec 09, 2012, 02:21 PM EST

  This MUST have been a "slow news day" for this to see print beyond the broadcast itself. The observation that FOX "News" isn't news and is divisive is about as newsworthy as the sun rising in the East, but unless people actually file written complaints with the FCC (the agency which oversees license renewals and maintains files of such complaints), NO one will bring pressure for accuracy in this branch of the media. Right wingers are constantly bringing complaints about ACCURATE, useful programming in the media - perhaps it is long overdue for mainstream Americans to do something practical about the hate speech, distortions and lies flowing out of the likes of FOX, O'Reilly and lesser sick comedians of the Right. THAT might be newsworthy. As a practical matter, it will take a moderately conservative administration to act on such complaints - the way it took a Nixon to open trade with mainland China, political cowardice being what it is - but you have to start somewhere.

• Joe Kelsall | Dec 09, 2012, 12:29 PM EST

  RFK Jnr is correct. Fox 'News' divides the normal citizens of the USA from the Educationally sub normal.

• patrickesq | Dec 09, 2012, 11:01 AM EST

  No one will deny Fox News their freedom of speech, even though they are a major media abuser of that privilege. Their deliberate distortion of the truth is dishonest and dangerous to democracy. Promoting racial and cultural divisions and demagogues is detrimental to civil discourse and to the general Welfare.

• olovely | Dec 09, 2012, 10:42 AM EST

  Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly and Fox News with its "in its consistent distortions and misrepresentations..." is dangerous and pndirishandprou wonders why we're discussing it on Irish Central? First clue: Hannity and O'Reilly.

• wjb1tex | Dec 09, 2012, 10:22 AM EST

  pndirishandprou----"misrepresentations of facts by the likes of Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly."------------Rachael Maddow, Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton

• pndirishandprou | Dec 09, 2012, 10:15 AM EST

  Although he is absolutely right, we don't need Bobby Kennedy reminding us that Fox News is not only extremely partisan in its news coverage but outright dangerous in its consistent distortions and misrepresentations of facts by the likes of Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. Fox News is the unofficial propaganda ministry of the Republican party. But why are we discussing this on Irish Central?

• handsome68 | Dec 09, 2012, 10:01 AM EST

  Who is this man to talk about dividing the country? He should see to his own family dynamics and attitude towards women before talking about other things he knows nothing about.

• Seanmor | Dec 09, 2012, 09:41 AM EST

  One could make a very long comment about Robert F's claims about the mediabut I'll try to keep my response short. One of the many great liberties our Constitution guarantees us is freedom of the speech. In every generation since the Founding Fathers wrote that produced this great constitution, our armed forces have defended it. As a marine rifleman in the '60s, I had to learn the Code of Conduct, the first article of which satate: "I am a United States fighting man, I serve in the forces which protect our country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense". "Our way of life" includes freedom of speech, which FOX uses to keep us informed of attacks on traditional America, the America that many of us still truly love, including those of us who honorably served in her defense forces.

• Portia777 | Dec 09, 2012, 09:34 AM EST

  Of course- nothing new there- such is the nature of patriarchy for 5,000 years. Has Bobby only woken up?

• JimmieM | Dec 09, 2012, 09:00 AM EST

  Right who do these people at Fox think they are disagreeing with little bobby?....why someone should just shut them down, shoot the fools burn down the building so little bobby and his kind can sleep easier at night.

• wjb1tex | Dec 09, 2012, 08:58 AM EST

  But he probably thinks MSNBC is bringing the country together I suppose. "the right wing control of the American media, starting with Fox News" Wow, the right wing now has control of all the American media. Who would have guessed.