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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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curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 09:39 PM EDT

The site is blocking my responses re the wars. I excluded Afghanistan from my question. Hussein had nothing to do with radical islamists and had them executed upon discovery - the wars there were a colossal waste of trillions and American lives - the US should have left the Sunnis in Iraq and Shias in Iran at each others throats.

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curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 09:37 PM EDT

Regarding the wars, I excluded the invasion of Afghanistan to punish the Taliban/ubl. Hussein hated islamic radicals and had them executed upon discovery in his countries - absolutely know links between him and ubl. We should have left the sunnis in Iraq and Shias in Iran at each others throats - it was an absolute was of money (trillions), lives, and time to ever have invaded Iraq.

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

I said exclusive of the War in Afghanistan to punish al quaeda and those that harbor them. Sadam Hussein was an enemy of radical islamist and had them executed upon detection in his country. He and the sunnis were a good counterbalance to Iran and the shias - we should have left them both alone at each others throats - absolutely no reason to have ever been there for any reason - costs trillions of dollars and American lives. Incidentally, the muppets on Fox News would disagree with you regarding oblitering them and leaving - they blindly believe in the ludicrous proposition that we can export democracy to the unstable regimes which were cobbled together colonial creations.

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curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 08:59 PM EDT

I'm not disagreeing it was outrageous behavior - if you read my post I said I wasn't surprised. People who rely on television as their primary source of information are generally political imbeciles who fall for the phony dichotomy of the two party American party system.

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Monsoonman | Oct 03, 2012, 08:43 PM EDT

If you're an American citizen, or a Mexican citizen you would be outraged about F & F due to the hundreds of deaths it has caused and the illegal cover up. So I consider you uninformed on the matter. as far as Afghanistan war, who said it was to benefit USA? It was payback for harboring the jihadists who killed 3K of us. Same thing w/s. Huseein in Iraq. We shd have obliterated them then left, not nation build. They will always hate us because we are non islam..I don't agree w/the policies

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curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 08:18 PM EDT

I'm not even asking this to be adversarial but I have never heard anyone articulate an adequate answer - outside of the initial invasion of Afghanistan, how have any of these wars benefited the American people - beginning with the original War in Iraq???

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curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 08:16 PM EDT

@Monsoonman I've been called a lot of things but uninformed in not one of them. I knew about the incident just not how it was perpetually referred to on Fox News. Frankly, the incident didn't surprise me.

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Monsoonman | Oct 03, 2012, 05:06 PM EDT

You just don't want to address or acknowledge all of the issues I put forth, always need to deflect with a "well he was worse" answer and then blame bush. Why don't you blame Abraham Lincoln he was a Republican?...It's stereotypical, a sort of pied piper sydndrome, or even a Stockholm Syndrome could be best to describe it.

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Gearoid4 | Oct 03, 2012, 02:11 PM EDT

Good to see Fox News featured here as it breaks the usual cosy liberal,leftist consensus that seems to dominate the US cable channels and media in general.

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McNamara31 | Oct 03, 2012, 01:34 PM EDT

Monsoonman...Compared to the actions and debt and spending accrued by the previous administration, Obama is a saint. And for the multi trillions that have been established since the time of Eisenhower, time and time again its the the GOP that left massive debt behind when they leave the White House.

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Monsoonman | Oct 03, 2012, 11:09 AM EDT

It is so difficult to try to understand this mentality. Because I bring up information, TRUE-FACTUAL, that you are ignorant of, (I am not saying you are stupid), then to you, I am somehow spouting a pro gop narrative? The corruption/incompetence & lawlessness of this administration is staggering, yet you say because it is mentioned here it is simply partisan cheap tricks to mention it? Even though people are/have died by the hundreds? Even though Obama has trampled lawlessly on our laws? Even though he uses our treasury as his personal re-election piggy bank?

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McNamara31 | Oct 03, 2012, 09:37 AM EDT

Monsoonman What does uninformed really mean to you? Uniformed to the "Fox Narrative" that cherry picks all and anything that may appear beneficial to the pro GOP agenda? Today, a anyone who really want's to stay informed an objective, has to read a proper newspaper and watch a sampling of Public Tv, BBC or Euro News for a worldview, the networks and cable. By only choosing to watch cable alone you are not looking to be informed you are "only" looking to have your bias reinforced.

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Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 10:41 PM EDT

But you see you already answered my question...You are uninformed, I am not blaming you, just saying your news sources don't tell you what is really happening. F & F is a major scandal and has resulted in hundreds of deaths, laid at the doorstep of Obama and holder.

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curtisjohnson | Oct 02, 2012, 10:16 PM EDT

I take that back - I googled it and remember the story but not how it was referred to. I certainly don't agree with that an am no fan of Eric Holder. Has nothing to do with my question or points I made.

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curtisjohnson | Oct 02, 2012, 10:14 PM EDT

I have no idea.

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