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2004-08-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

Where have all the children of the left gone?

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Posted by tipper 2004-08-15 04:48|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, a sort of Fox News for liberals"

nice slur on Fox - they deal with facts, something in short supply in Moore's world. Or perhaps the author can point to a lie on Fox?

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-15 8:57:54 AM|| 2004-08-15 8:57:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Googling on "Fox News" lies I get this: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich8.html

which among other things includes a list of lies. I'm removing much which may still be disputed.

March 23: The network begins 2 days of unequivocal assertions that a 100-acre facility discovered by coalition forces at An Najaf is a chemical weapons plant.
March 24: Oliver North reports that the staff at the French embassy in Baghdad are destroying documents. [How could he know this?]
March 28: Repeated assertions by Fox News anchors of a red ring around Baghdad in which Republican Guard forces were planning to use chemical weapons on coalition forces.
April 7: Fox, echoing NPR, reports that U.S. forces near Baghdad have discovered a weapons cache of 20 medium-range missiles containing sarin and mustard gas. Initial tests show that the deadly chemicals are not "trace elements."
April 10: Fox "Breaking News" report of weapons-grade plutonium found at Al Tuwaitha. [In the coming weeks this "discovery" was expeditiously shoved down the Memory Hole as well.]
April 10 (3 p.m. EDT: Reporter Rick Leventhal) Fox "Breaking News" report: A mobile bioweapons lab is found. Video of a tiny tan truckâabout the size of the smallest truck that U-Haul rents â which had its cargo bed and fuel tank shot up with bullets after a looter tried to drive it away. Repeated assertions that this is most definitely a "bioweapons" lab.

April 15: Fox analyst Mansoor Ijaz claims that the top 55 Iraqi leaders (along with the whole stash of chemical and biological WMDs they have taken with them) are now living it up in Latakia, Syria.

May 22: O'Reilly fails to live up to his promise to make a big stink if no WMDs are found by today.

June 4: O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo: [Surreal.] O'Reilly says that the WMD issue has now been politicized [!!]. The war was a just war because there's now great progress between Palestinians and Israelis and that alone made the war worthwhile [?!!].

"they deal with facts"

And then again it seems there's the lying by statistics:
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/21/fox_news_lies_with_s.html
Among today's top stories, a new "Fox News Poll" that says 33% of those surveyed think the media is too easy on Kerry and 42% think the media is too tough on Bush. [...] But let's just look at the numbers they've given us. 33% think the media is too easy on Kerry. That means 66% (or 2/3rds) think the media is fair or too tough on Kerry, right? Isn't that the real story?

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-08-15 7:23:11 PM|| 2004-08-15 7:23:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 There's one! Shhhhhssss.
Lew Rockwell? LOL

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-15 7:46:25 PM|| 2004-08-15 7:46:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 nice sourcing Aris - DNC server was busy?

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-15 7:56:21 PM|| 2004-08-15 7:56:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm with Shipman...Lew Rockwell? LOL!

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-08-15 8:01:30 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-08-15 8:01:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I have no idea what Lew Rockwell is. Was the stuff I quoted correct about what Fox News said or wasn't it?

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-08-15 11:13:13 PM|| 2004-08-15 11:13:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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