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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 02, 2012, 10:03 PM EDT

Wait a minute...Answer what Fast and Furious is 1st

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curtisjohnson | Oct 02, 2012, 09:58 PM EDT

"I'll bet you still think Fast and Furious is just a grade B movie?" Never saw it. Other than the initial incursion into Afghantistan after 911, what do you believe justifies all of these military and non-military interventions (and the first intervention in Iraq)? Do you think the American people or the people of the host nations are better off for it? This is what the American public has been brainwashed into believing by both parties but particularly Fox News.

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Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 07:59 PM EDT

That's BS NPR is a far left propaganda machine and was outed over a year ago for it..."You people" are so uninformed, it is pitiful. All you can say is "Fox lies", yet you don't know a thing about the many hugely important subject I brought up

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lcobryan | Oct 02, 2012, 07:56 PM EDT

Monsoonman, your brain is waterlogged. Study after study has revealed Fox news watchers are the most ignorant of the truth. By the way, there is no comparison btw NPR (which is radio) and major network broadcasts. PBS Nightly News Hour is the most respected daily reporting on the bube. Simply reporting events w/out bias.

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Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 07:31 PM EDT

Yawn, do you dunces actually know the death/destruction on the US southern border? Do you know why our Ambassador to Libya got killed? Do you know what the Muslim Brotherhood stands for?...I asked a few other things earlier and all I got back was the sound of crickets....Why? Because your NPR/abc/nbc/cnn, etc news sources don't want you to know about it.

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McNamara31 | Oct 02, 2012, 07:20 PM EDT

Seanmor... Google what Karl Rove did to McCain after the adoption of his little girl which caused McCain to lose the South Carolina primary election to Bush. It's a despicable action that McCain will never forget.

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Dunkelly1 | Oct 02, 2012, 06:34 PM EDT

Fox News is a disgrace to the profession of Journalism. It is a mouthpiece for the Republican party and has No fair and balanced reporting.It espouses the so called values of the far right, the party of corporations and billionaires. Make no mistake about it.

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Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 06:23 PM EDT

Seanmor, thank you my fellow countryman for your service to our country. You are on the spot w/your comments on how hugely biased the media is in the states...I think it is even worse in other countries. The agenda is to dumb down the public and not give them the info that would make them an intelligent electorate. The comments you see attacking Fox news, show that ignorance, aka contempt prior to investigation. Your comment on Sinn Fein is also on the mark. I hope Gerry Adams lives to see the day Ireland is one country under the Irish flag.

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Maggie47 | Oct 02, 2012, 04:35 PM EDT

Seanmor, Thank you for your service to my adopted country. I too have brothers who served this great nation at the time were not citizens.

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Seanmor | Oct 02, 2012, 03:39 PM EDT

During the 2008 presidential campaign as well as the present one, Republicans received the same negative coverage from the mainline press as Sinn Féin has received from the media at both sides of the Irish border. It wasn't until 2010 that I discovered that John McCain and his wife had adopted a severely handicapped child from the Indian subcontinent at the request of Mother Teresa. Why did the liberal media keep that kind, compasionate deed by the McCains hidden fro the public? In the mean time, radio, T.V. and most newspapers continue their unrelenting attacks on Sinn Féin, especially for that parties support for full independence and sovereignty for the whole Irish nation.

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McNamara31 | Oct 02, 2012, 03:36 PM EDT

Monsoonman Oh I forgot ...We're all supposed to forget Bush (and his damage) ever existed. The GOP have him hidden in the closet like a crazy uncle; not even allowed to show his face at the convention.

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Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 01:45 PM EDT

Do you have any deeper understanding than the talking points? Please tell us how "Bush lied and people died....again

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McNamara31 | Oct 02, 2012, 01:34 PM EDT

Monsoonman.... There you go with the Fox style "Lib" talk. Truth is, facts are, the one's who have to wake up as you put it, and get their heads out of the sand, are those who refuse to believe the "reality" that we are in this debt because of two unpaid wars and then a financial crash enabled by deregulation. The financial crash of 2008, was equal to the one of 1929 that actually took 10 years for the country to completely recover from.The GOP crashed and burned the American economy and now they simply can't understand why this president doesn't have it all fixed and thriving.(And BTW obstructing everything in sight) And their answer: he's a Muslim, a socialist, and not one of us. What was it that PT Barnum said? Or was it really Karl Rove?

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Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 12:46 PM EDT

You misinformed Libs who prefer to bury your head in the sand, rather than hear a discouraging word about your messiahs, better wake up. You are being bankrupted/sold out by the very ones promsing your free ride. You see it already in the european socialist countries where the govt's are starting to run out of other peoples $ and the unionized govt workers are rioting. Of course you probably don't know about because the news you get doesn't want to upset you. Ir how about the black mobs in Detroit who attack stores and gas stations and just take them over, their chant is "we own this"...No you don't know about that either.

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jerrydonovan | Oct 02, 2012, 10:55 AM EDT

Is this the same Murdoch who owned the biggest circulated newspaper in Britain and perhaps the world.Yes,that's right the one which had to close down abruptly because of its CRIMINAL activity.Fox news the people, who,if they accidently stumble over the truth ,get up and continue on like nothing had happened!

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