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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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McNamara31 | Oct 02, 2012, 10:27 AM EDT

Ex Nixon man Roger Ailes is a political genius and that is why Ruppert Murdoch pays him millions for what he has created in Fox News. Ailes created a network for people to come to have their existing biases reinforced rather than hear the news of the day. Ailes had long planned to build a GOP tv which he finally did with Fox News. The master marketing strategy by Ailes, was to promote his station as the "Fair and Balanced" one, when he knew all too well his mission was to be the GOP mouthpiece and smear and demean all who he saw as a threat to the GOP, and their candidates. Don't believe me folks, get informed and read about Roger Ailes’ history and then read the report by Farleigh Dickinson University who polled viewers and found that Fox viewers were "factually" the most uniformed in the nation. Now do you think that happened by mistake; or a good old Roger Ailes strategy to smear and misinform?

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Seanmor | Oct 02, 2012, 10:26 AM EDT

Maggie47: In my opinion the defense forces of this wonderful country would better off NOT to have the likes of Obama in their ranks. During the presedential campaign of 2008, his wife said that she was never proud of being an American, and his favorite clergyman called on God to "damn Amertica. While I served in the Marine Corps (as an Irish citizen) I wouldn't want the likes of Obama in my unit.I always say,"God bless America", and my wife, a D.A.R. member, is very proud to be an Americam.

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Maggie47 | Oct 02, 2012, 07:49 AM EDT

Seanmor, add to that President Clinton and President Obama. McNamara and Kerry, Give us a few facts.

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Seanmor | Oct 01, 2012, 11:57 PM EDT

The article reminds me of what I learned in a college course (under the G.I. Bill) in the late '70s: "The media are a means to mould the morës".Since ABC, NBC and CBS are all left-leaning, Fox News provides a welcome alternative which is fair and balanced. However, this question comes to mind: In what branches of the military did Bill O'Reilly, Seán Hannidy and Pat Buchannan serve?

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Monsoonman | Oct 01, 2012, 11:42 PM EDT

Your perception that they are a mouthpiece, is because of the fact the rest of the media tows the liberal line...Fox and now Univision is way ahead of the rest of the media in exposing the corruption and competence of this administration..I'll bet you still think Fast and Furious is just a grade B movie?

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curtisjohnson | Oct 01, 2012, 10:57 PM EDT

The problem is they've become the mouthpiece of the war party and bought into the idea that democracy can be exported militarily as if its some cheap commodity, even to sectarian states with no middle class or democratic values.

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Monsoonman | Oct 01, 2012, 08:55 PM EDT

Not all of our Brethren have been sucked down the socialist narrative...If JFK were alive today he wd have no part of this far far left democrat party. He wd call for their arrest

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rgray222 | Oct 01, 2012, 07:43 PM EDT

Fox news is a testament to the fact that people do not like change. The broadcast networks had a stranglehold on the news that people watched and read. For generations they spoon feed liberal bias to the population and because they all were in the same choir we thought we were getting honest news. Many people (even today) hate Fox news with a passion but those same people have never watched Fox or never made a serious effort to. There is little doubt that Fox is right leaning but they are not dishonest nor do they lie like ABC, NBC, CBS or CNN. The American people have been given biased information for generation so it will take a bit longer for them to be more accepting of Fox. Once you actually open your eyes to the media bias, media agenda and the media dishonesty you are amazed that you ever fell for that load of rubbish!

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Maggie47 | Oct 01, 2012, 06:21 PM EDT

Thank God for Fox News. They are Fair and Balanced"

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Monsoonman | Oct 01, 2012, 03:49 PM EDT

I agree the british occupation of our homeland has made it acceptable to make strange bedfellows by folks who still live on the island and our brethren throughout the world. But being pals w/ahmadenajad/jihadisim/marxism, socialism,communism certainly is not going to advance outr interests and freedom. You just exchange 1 set of shackles for another. Sean Hannity speaks out on freedom and that's a fact

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WoundedKnee | Oct 01, 2012, 03:36 PM EDT

Hannity may be Irish-American by family, but not by his own interest or identification. He knows nothing about Ireland, its history and culture, and appears to care less. That's his prerogative, but it was embarrassing to listen to his stupid faux Oirish buffoonery on radio last St Patrick's Day. From what I've heard of this guy--and I got to admit I find his radio rants turgid and uninformed and hence avoid them--Hannity is actually a big admirer of Britain, especially of people like Thatcher, who was a genuine enemy of Ireland.

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McNamara31 | Oct 01, 2012, 10:02 AM EDT

ED, Now I know you're far to bright to believe: "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" ...You know Roger Ailes an ex Nixon operative and employee of Rupert Murdoch (whose organization thinks nothing of tapping the phones of thousands) created GOP TV. The vast majority of what appears on FOX has to fit the pro GOP, anti Obama narrative delivered by blondes in heals and arrogant Plastic Paddys between commercials to "buy gold". Now, that my friend is "fair and balanced".

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DaddyMac22 | Oct 01, 2012, 05:55 AM EDT

Actual headline I heard on Fox once; ''Spinach will kill you! Find out how, next, on FOX!''

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kerry214 | Oct 01, 2012, 12:24 AM EDT

Hey Ed, why don't you stuff it ? And if you think Kimberly Guilfoyle is such a Irish rising star ask the Irish of San Francisco what their opinion is of the Fox Network Operative.

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