Foxnews: Palin didnt know Africa is a continent

[Raziaar]

Alan Colmes is a weak liberal sidekick put beside Hannity to make Hannity look better.

 

[Laivasse]

if you don't even know him how about you stfu before call him somebody lapdog


shep and colmes are the only real journalists on fox news.

I never called him a lapdog, but he is; all of Fox is Rupert Murdoch's lapdog. You'd have to be joking to suggest otherwise. How about you stfu before creating a straw man that's actually stronger than your own position.

 

[Raziaar]

Piper: Mommy, what did you think of Madagascar II: Escape from Africa?

Palin: I'm glad those poor animals managed to escape that horrible country.

 

[KoreBolteR*]

soo glad mccain and palin didnt win. Palin was just a dumbass. she had powermad written over her face

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

I never called him a lapdog, but he is; all of Fox is Rupert Murdoch's lapdog. You'd have to be joking to suggest otherwise. How about you stfu before creating a straw man that's actually stronger than your own position.

You're being ridiculous. This is like me saying "CNN IS JUST TURNERS LAPDOGS"

CNN may sway coverage wise in a direction he'd like but for you to think that these media moguls have SUCH MICROMANAGEMENT of what's going on is ridiculous. There is no pull on what goes on ESPECIALLY from just pure ANCHORS like Shep Smith.

COMMENTATORS like O'Reilly and others OBVIOUSLY are going to be biased, that's why it's called COMMENTARY. but when we're speaking of the actual NEWS reporting there's not a whole lot you can do to twist it until after the fact.


It's irritating when a news article or video is posted and people go "OH ITS FOX IT DOESNT COUNT. ITS FAKE. ITS BIASED, ETC" when it's just a factualreporting of an incident that can't even be twisted one way or another.

 

[Laivasse]

Nice try attempting to put Fox on the same level as CNN in terms of impartiality, but everyone knows that simply isn't reality - not that I'm saying CNN is 100% impartial but it does a hell of a lot better job of appearing so than Fox does. CNN does have a defined ideological direction but it's far more of a populist one, which means inherently that they have to make more of a commitment to neutrality.

Murdoch involves himself far more in the activities of his media empire than you seem to want to accept. In the build up to the Iraq War, all 175 of the newspapers he owned editorialised in favour of it. He has personally and publicly intervened in some Olbermann/O'Reilly spats recently, including interfering in what got shown on Olbermann's program (and that's now when he isn't his boss...). When recently asked if he had anything to do with the NY Post endorsing Obama, he answered 'Yeah' without skipping a beat. His agenda isn't exclusively conservative, he simply backs winners and adopts whatever combination of positions he thinks will be best for his business. He doesn't need to commit himself exclusively to one particular agenda because his reach is wide enough that he can afford to back a few different horses at once. Fox is one such horse and you won't find it zigzagging or changing directions mid-race.

Palin is BIG NEWS. Her popularity and treatment in the media following this election could decide the entire future of the GOP, depending on whether they decide to run with her as a candidate for 2012 or whether she'll trigger some kind of ideological divide between the fiscal and moral conservatives. I've already conceded that someone like Shepard might have more of a free rein than your average Fox anchor, and so his sharp questions mean slightly less than if they were from somebody else. But you're naive if you think that Fox are going to remain neutral on the matter - on this of ALL matters, when they're never neutral otherwise - and deluded if you think that Murdoch would allow anyone on Fox to accidentally damn Palin like this if he'd chosen to support her.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Palin was just a dumbass. she had powermad written over her face

She really didn't. If she'd seemed hungry for power, I'd had an ounce of respect for her, at least that's a goal. She had nothing on her face that said "I want power". She did have alot of things about her face that said: "What am I doing here? Should I say something about baking cookies? I think I'd better." I mean, come on- Nobody, including herself could have been so deluded as to think that woman was really prepared to be handed nuclear launch codes if McCain had croaked. She'd just have stood there in the oval office with the same look on her face. "What am I s'posed to do with these? '1-Alpha-672-Romeo-998-Echo?' These phone numbers don't even have an area code!"

 

[KoreBolteR*]

She really didn't. If she'd seemed hungry for power, I'd had an ounce of respect for her, at least that's a goal. She had nothing on her face that said "I want power". She did have alot of things about her face that said: "What am I doing here? Should I say something about baking cookies? I think I'd better." I mean, come on- Nobody, including herself could have been so deluded as to think that woman was really prepared to be handed nuclear launch codes if McCain had croaked. She'd just have stood there in the oval office with the same look on her face. "What am I s'posed to do with these? '1-Alpha-672-Romeo-998-Echo?' These phone numbers don't even have an area code!"

haha i guess your right

When bush, mccain and obama met together to discuss the struggling economy am I right when I say that Mccainn sat there and hardly even said a word, even though hes the one who called the meeting? what a joke (if that's true)

 

[jet_porkins]

So when Fox reports bad things about people we hate, they're not lying pieces of shit anymore?

This x1,000,000.

I suppose nobody here ever happened to consider the fact that those allegations may - or may not - have been taken out of context?

 

[Absinthe]

While I'm not totally averse to that possibility, I find it difficult to imagine what possible context that would have originally fit into unless she said "LOL j/k " after demonstrating ignorance on the subject.