Just when you think Fox News can't get any lower, they do. It all started last week on The O'Reilly Factor. Bill O claimed that the "liberal media" was somehow avoiding the truth about how the war in Iraq is going. He claims that the "liberal media" is making the war seem worse than it actually is. He cited so called factual reports that claimed zero Americans were killed in Iraq last week.
That, as you can guess, was a lie. The truth is that, sadly, 6 of our brave men and women lost their lives in Iraq last week. There is a reason the "liberal media" was not talking about it-----because maybe the "liberal media" likes to present facts.
The next night, Bill O apologized, citing that there was a mistake in the information he received. Not that I believe O'Reilly; I'm sure what he said was said for his partisan purposes, but whatever. Lying to make his Republican friends look good and right on all the issues is nothing new for Bill O. But then this story hit a new low.
After Bill O has publicly apologized and acknowledged that he was wrong, Fox used this same information again. This time it was on Fox and Friends. Maybe one time can pass as "just a mistake", but when it happens twice, especially after the mistake had been acknowledged, it is no mere coincidence.
The truth is, that while people on Fox claim that "us liberals" don't care about our troops, I think the exact opposite might be true. The "liberal media" tells the American people the truth. There is nothing rosy about the Iraq War. People are being killed needlessly over there. By Fox making up their own facts and pretending that all is going well is unfair to the American people who are looking for the facts. It is especially unfair to those 6 who lost their lives that week. They were basically thrown to the side by Fox in order for them to make themselves and the GOP look good.
***I would also like to say, on a side note, that I'm sick of Republicans calling the media "liberal". I mean, seriously, liberal??? There is only one show where I can see a clear liberal bias as far as the news stations are concerned, and thats Keith Olberman. I mean, for crying out loud, we have a whole channel of nothing but GOP conservatives. Talk Radio is dominated by Conservative voices. So I wish before Republicans would criticize the media for being too liberal, they should look at the facts. But then again, it seems like saying the truth and giving the facts is considered being "liberal" to Republicans. Apparently their new synonym for truth is "liberal". So if I, and others, are "liberals" because we give the American people the cold hard facts, then I'm glad to be called "liberal".***
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He, and most right wing nuts, use such twisted logic regarding the war and those who are opposed to the war. It just makes me ill. They make absolutely no sense at all. But even more scary is that many people believe what they spew. What backwards, upside down world are they living in? How can the media make the war seem any worse then it already is?
I just wrote a monster post about a related topic on my blog. I enjoyed reading yours.
Bill O'Rielly and other Journalist on the Fox news channel are right wing neocons who are only relevant to people who can not think for themselves. They are a sad bunch of nothing. The big problem is that they hate democracy because of its checks and balances. They love the low road.
I have come to the realization, after talking to an older gentleman yesterday, that Faux News may now be hurting the GOP with their totally biased programming. He said that he used to be a staunch Republican and used to love Faux News, but he has come to understand that Faux News and the GOP go hand in hand in their deceit of the American people. He said he proudly put up signs for George W Bush and convinced friends to vote for him, thinking he was on his side (as a veteran) but he said after the tax cuts, he saw what was once a no-pay on his veteran benefits start with a small co-pay and increase every year. He feels he and his fellow veterans have been betrayed by the GOP. He no longer considers himself a republican but an independent. He also said that there was no way that he would support Rudy Giuliani in ANY election, even if it meant not voting for anyone. He doesn't like Hillary either.
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