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Fox News & the Irish Americans behind it, are an inconvenient truth to the liberal dominated media

Posted on Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 07:29 PM

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Since television was first introduced to the US, it was immediately seized upon and dominated by three networks, ABC, CBS and NBC. Television news commentators were invited into every home in America. We knew them as Cronkhite, Rather, Mudd, Couric, Brokaw and dozens of others, all dutifully reading their scripts on our screens. Telling us "all the news we needed to know."

They dominated the information we received, especially when teamed up with the New York Times and CNN.

But then a great entrepreneur by the name of Murdock noticed the unholy alliance that had gripped control of America’s information media and decided to throw a bombshell into the middle of it. He introduced Fox News to America.

Although not a broadcast channel with the audience that the 3 entrenched networks had, Fox News propelled itself into huge popularity on cable television. Many say it spearheaded the popularity of cable television.

All of a sudden viewers, many of whom thought they were being read propaganda by the broadcast channels, were able to hear another side of the story. The popularity of Fox News grew like wildfire as people flocked to hear the other side of the story, or as Fox likes to say “Fair and Balanced” coverage of the information.

Names with an Irish twist to them like Hannity, O’Reilly, Kelly, Guilfoyle, Crowley & Buchanan give Fox a crew of talented, fearless, journalists, who don’t back down from a fight. In fact they live for the political brawls and relish challenging the status quo.

The addition of Fox & internet news sites to the information medium has caused a revolution in the way news is received and now questioned by the public. CBS news anchor Dan Rather found this out the hard way when he was caught trying to take down George Bush with a false hit piece just prior to the 2008 presidential election. As a result Rather lost his job, CBS suffered a huge black eye and loss of its credibility.

The exposure of Dan Rather’s attempt to sway the Presidential election with false and misleading information has shown how vulnerable the public has been for years of having 3 major news networks all with a liberal bias. The Fox presence, along with internet news sites have exposed this bias thousands of times as they cover stories the main stream media chooses to ignore.

The inconvenient truth facing the main stream media today, is that the information they were able to mete out to the American public, is now available to millions unfiltered through Fox and alternative information sources. The main stream media lost its stranglehold.

Imagine the comfort of the Obama administration, if pugnacious Sean Hannity wasn’t around to inform us how dire the Libyan embassy situation really is, as well as expose the whole Obama Mideast policy disaster?

Or if Bill O’Reilly wasn’t pointing out that our leader has left Washington leaderless. While he plays over a hundred rounds of golf we sank into 16 trillion in debt without a budget for 3 years?

If Megan Kelly wasn’t warning us about Obama’s justice department’s involvement in the Fast and Furious gun running scandal?

Or Pat Buchanan’s warning we are losing the battle of civilizations as the Obama administration kow tows to foreign powers, while cutting the legs out from beneath our friends and allies?

Or Kimberly Guilfoyle keeping her cool as left wing nut Leo Terrell, unleashed a tirade of invective as he got caught in her special brand of logic.

Thankfully Fox News is here getting stronger all of the time, countering the dishonesty dished out by the main stream media. Keeping it fair and balanced.

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Monsoonman | Oct 07, 2012, 05:58 PM EDT

Clearly the "commentator" is not a professional commentator. Doen't know how to shape an artument to refute the articles truths...Just throws a personal attack & runs away into his safe little anonymous hole

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The Commentator | Oct 07, 2012, 10:28 AM EDT

I think Mr. Farnan should learn English if he is going to pass himself off as a journalist. Perhaps he is affiliated with Fox. That would explain it. Kowtow is one word and it explains the relationship of Fox News to the Republican Party.

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Monsoonman | Oct 06, 2012, 06:40 PM EDT

The lefties on this thread mob up to attack Fox News and protect the aura of their holey messiah in the whitehouse. I coin it the musk oxen syndrome. Anne Coulter calls it the mob mentality. Either way it is a sort of herd mentality that is easily manipulated by unscrupulous leaders who feed their paranoia. It is shocking to see the willful ignorance on display...They really can't handle the truth

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milfordmama | Oct 06, 2012, 06:07 PM EDT

We are not afraid to say we love Fox News (and in lefty/liberal Massachusetts, you need to know you will be scorned.). Once in a while iI turn over to CNN & MSNBC to see who is ranting and raving over there. I really find Fox News, especially daytime to be immensely fair and balanced. They always have guests who present both sides of an issue. The people who criticize have not really watched it. Yes, at night there is more opinion but not in the daytime "news" hours. They really do not show any bias. I resent that those who just follow the "D" party line (like some of the commenters here ) try to say we Fox watchers are stupid, in my home all four of us have graduate degrees and like to be really informed, not lied to by the network news and the other cable news who lie for Obama and want him re-elected so badly.

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The Commentator | Oct 06, 2012, 11:05 AM EDT

The article is a joke. Everyone is well aware that Fox is a lackey of the Republicans. As far as Obama's success in getting legislation passed; Obama tried to work with the Republicans but the Republicans were afraid of the increase in taxes for the filthy rich and have a mandate to cause problems for Obama. They have no concern for the American people who are not very wealthy and only care to line their own pockets. They passed tax laws/regulations that benefit the very rich and don't want to see changes that benefit the 98% who are not very rich. In fact, Romney has stated that he doesn't care about 47% freeloader of the population and he is going to eliminate funding to the Public Broadcasting System which is a free channel for many disadvantaged people who cannot afford cable television. Another shining example of his war on the poor. He is supposed to be a member of a church that cares about the disadvantaged, but his actions do not demonstrate that. The defeat of the budget proposals were due to the added Republican amendments. The Republicans don't care because the upper echelon is rich enough that the economic woes of the USA don't significantly affect them and they will get enough money from the lobbyists and like ilk that pay for favors.

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Monsoonman | Oct 05, 2012, 08:40 PM EDT

Additionally you refuse to acknowledge facts that are readily available in media you refuse to tune into. How can you consider yourself informed? Interesting when I talk to folks in relatively sealed vacuums of info, they are shocked to know there is an alternative universe outside.

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Monsoonman | Oct 05, 2012, 08:04 PM EDT

Were you aware Obamas budget proposals were defeated 98-0 in the Senate? & almost the same ratio in congress. Now why is that? Because Obama is a mathematics retard & even the crooked politicians in DC know his budget is an outrageous slap in the face to economics/logic. So if you think Obama is an economic messiah who is going to lead the US out of it's economic wasteland...You are delusional

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McNamara31 | Oct 05, 2012, 07:54 PM EDT

Monsoonman So I'm delusional because of the information "you choose to fill your head with". A bit of transference on your part don't you think.

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Monsoonman | Oct 05, 2012, 12:33 PM EDT

Do you know the (sic) budgets obama submitted to congress (senate/house of reps)didn't receive ANY votes from those politicians of either party? You are delusional because of the information you choose to fill your head with. And yes Nancy Pelosi IS retarded mathematically...Look what she did with our deficits while she was speaker of the house

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McNamara31 | Oct 05, 2012, 12:16 PM EDT

Monsoonman We can play this game ad nauseam however the figures are right their in front of you, and then you come back with "far left of obama-pelosi-reid are mathematically retarded and do not know what a budget is". You KNOW far too well the the GOP has refused to pass anything and in doing so has greatly hurt this country and its financial status in the world.

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Monsoonman | Oct 04, 2012, 09:51 PM EDT

Good question Seamus-Americans have been dumbed down w/their tax returns. Election day should be the same day as taxes due. McNamara, not saying the rino republicans don't have a hand in the debt growth. But the far left of obama-pelosi-reid are mathematically retarded and do not know what a budget is. You can see that by the fact there has been no budget for the last 3 years

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McNamara31 | Oct 04, 2012, 02:33 PM EDT

Monsoonman... The number one problem facing the middle class is that the American economy is broke.The real question is historically which party has run the government in a fiscally responsible manner and which has not. Instead of listening to false Fox rhetoric here are the factual stats as reported in Forbes in May: Reagan (‘82-85) 8.7% Reagan(’86-89) 4.9% Bush 1 (’86-89)4.9% Clinton (’94-97) 3.2% Clinton (’98-01) 3.9% Bush 2 (’02-05) 7.3% Bush 2 (’06-09) 8.1% and finally Obama (’10-13) 1.4% Forbes 5/4/2012 Data from OMB,CBO & Haver Analytics. Obama is the smallest government spender since Eisenhower.

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seamus60 | Oct 04, 2012, 02:04 PM EDT

As not residing in the USA I am not in any position to imply I know very much on the dailly stuff that afect yous. But I am very curious as to how many people in the USA appear to be either inocently ignorant or just complacent when filing their tax returns. I come at this from an angle of interest in just how well informed the American public are on such matters via all these many media outlets.

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Monsoonman | Oct 03, 2012, 11:53 PM EDT

Yes make yr replies brief and dont put any links in them. Copy your posts before you send in case they dont appear

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curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 09:40 PM EDT

site keeps blocking my responses re the wars

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