I think what really gets me about some of the haters out there of Fox News is that they really believe that outlets like CNN or MSNBC is the gold standard when it comes to balanced reporting (”balanced” btw is very subjective depending on who you talk to).
This is not the first time and certainly not the last time (as long as ratings and politics are a factor) CNN has been caught with their pants down. Michelle Malkin provided a very good overview of “plant-gate” and all campaigns that were involved.
Digging out more CNN/YouTube plants: Abortion questioner is declared Edwards supporter (and a slobbering Anderson Cooper fan); Log Cabin Republican questioner is declared Obama supporter; lead toy questioner is a prominent union activist for the Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers [LINK]
Everybody is something… Aren’t they running for president over everybody? They should get tough questions, no matter who is asking them. With the republican approval ratings so low they are lucky that any of the question askers were republicans. There is a web site set-up for disgruntled republicans that now support Obama… None of them should be able to ask a question to the republican candidates?
CNN is the ministry of propaganda for the DNC.
Everybody is something… Aren’t they running for president over everybody? They should get tough questions, no matter who is asking them.
Then tell that to your boy Obama and ask him why he is so afraid to go on Fox News. If he is being questioned LIVE, how is the network going to misrepresent his platform?
I do agree with you, however do you remember the response from some Democrats and Liberals when Tim Russert asked Clinton on illegal driver’s licenses in NY?
From time to time the LA Times will post a critical piece on Obama that makes some legitimate points. You should see the cries of bloody murder.
Then tell that to your boy Obama and ask him why he is so afraid to go on Fox News.
Because they are a bunch of liars who REPEATEDLY said that he went to an Islamic madrassa. What kind of NEWS organization would do something like that without even checking it? I wouldn’t go on there either. Maybe he’ll start back going on there after the primaries. He doesn’t need them now anyway AND it is SO OBVIOUS that they want Hilary to win anyway. He answers tough questions directly from the people all the time, including from the many Republicans who come to his talks in Iowa, NH and SC… And you can easily go to his youtube page and watch a ton of them.
do you remember the response from some Democrats and Liberals when Tim Russert asked Clinton on illegal driver’s licenses in NY?
Not from me!!!… Those are Hilary supporters. Of course they are going to raise hell. What else are they going to do. I didn’t like it when Obama kinda got caught with the same thing at the next debate. Not really because of the question though… I didn’t really like how he handled it.
From time to time the LA Times will post a critical piece on Obama that makes some legitimate points. You should see the cries of bloody murder.
Again… From Obama supporters… I’m sure no one in the Clinton camp said anything. Of course if you back your person you are going to try to point out every piece of inconsistency in anything critical of them… That’s the nature of politics.
Because they are a bunch of liars who REPEATEDLY said that he went to an Islamic madrassa. What kind of NEWS organization would do something like that without even checking it?
Give Obama more credit than that. I don’t think a person who is running to be the next leader of the free world is so easily offended by a false report.
Are you suggesting CNN has reported everything right about Republican candidates? Please tell me that is not what you are saying.
Look, Obama, like everyone else are nothing more than politicians who are going to do what it takes to get the public to focus more on their likability and personality than their actual record. Republican candidates flatly refused to show up at most Black-hosted debates and Democrats have refused to show up on Fox News.
Are you suggesting CNN has reported everything right about Republican candidates?
I’m saying that CNN was not stupid enough to call a presidential candidate a Muslim, former madrassa pupil without checking if it was true or not. They actually went to the school and investigated it before they allowed their hosts to repeat something false all day long.
Please tell me that is not what you are saying.
Sure… I’m saying it. Please point me to an example where CNN repeatedly reported something blatantly wrong about a republican candidate for a whole day. Then after getting called out by that candidate, all his supporters, and a rival network, finally apologized (on the morning show only btw). I must have missed that.
Look, Obama, like everyone else are nothing more than politicians who are going to do what it takes to get the public to focus more on their likability and personality than their actual record.
I and a lot of other people happen to like both (personality and record) in the case of Obama.
I’m saying that CNN was not stupid enough to call a presidential candidate a Muslim, former madrassa pupil without checking if it was true or not. They actually went to the school and investigated it before they allowed their hosts to repeat something false all day long.
And THIS is why Obama will not go on Fox News. Man! And folks believe that Bush is a pushover.
Sure… I’m saying it.
I do you one better. Why did CNN give the impression that the questioners were “everyday Americans” when in fact they were plants from the Clinton, Edwards and Obama campaign? Let me guess, Youtube was up at the time but Google was down. Using the same logic that you have been applying to Fox, seems to me that your disdain for untruth disguised as truth would be consistent —regardless of the questions asked.
And THIS is why Obama will not go on Fox News. Man! And folks believe that Bush is a pushover.
Maybe being compared to terrorists is not a big deal to you… But to a U.S. Senator running for president maybe it is… I’m sure he isn’t boycotting them forever. He’ll be back on there. But you can’t just let them just get away with stuff like that either… Ask Al Gore, John Dean, John Kerry, etc…
I do you one better.
Come on man… Those situations are in no way similar… But I’ll just let that go.
Both cases presented something as if it were truth. Nothing to “let go”.
I wonder how a “President Obama” would react when the likes of Hugo Chavez or Robert Mugabe works him over if his psyche is this fragile.
I wonder how a “President Obama” would react when the likes of Hugo Chavez or Robert Mugabe works him over if his psyche is this fragile.
A lot better than the dumb a** we have now.
I watch both CNN and FOX, and believe neither. Or to put it less cynically, I watch both and take both with a grain of salt.
Clearly FOX is a mouthpiece for the neocon/big government wing of the Republican Party.
Clearly, CNN is a mouthpiece for the Socialist wing of the Democratic Party.
None the less, the same complaints are true of all the other major media outlets.
Now, if I could find a truly fair and balance news source, which recognized that Ron Paul is the only hope for saving America and the Republican Party, I would be happy. Of course, there are some fools who would think that THEY were biased.