Sorry, I didn't realize a deaf person was watching the video. Let me assist your lipreading skills by providing some quotes from this video that you apparently did not hear:

Huckabee: "It's gonna cost about 200 million dollars a day for this entourage to go"
Hannity: "200 million dollars a day, three thousand people"
Guy whose name I don't know: "As much as a billion dollars for the trip"
Another guy whose name I don't know: "Half a billion dollars, it's gonna be somewhere around there" (oddly enough, on a show called "Follow the Money"!)
Same guy, later on in the clip: "It's a trip equipped for a king - er, president. 40 planes, 6 armored cars including the Barackmobile, you know, the beast? The entire Taj Mahal, 570 rooms in all, an entourage of 3,000 people, three choppers, 30 bomb-sniffing dogs, a total cost: $200 million/day!"


How do you function on a daily basis which such poor listening comprehension?

+1 to chopping the thread up.

New title - Fox of Faux

Pretty good. Well I forgot about Huckabee dang.

I think we should have a thread discussing cable / tv news in general

Ah, the "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" argument.

Here you go: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/41...thread-917158/

If I had mod powers, I'd move the last few pages of this thread there.

Bipartisanship

So I don't care to watch the video. So what? All he had to do was tell me. Are there only two shows mentioned?

The clips appear to be taken from several different shows and I don't recognize everyone involved. I'd need a Fox News expert like you to tell me who they all are and what shows they're on.

Regardless, "but the shows I watch don't lie so blatantly!" is a pretty lol defense of FNC.

adios is failing pretty hard here

Is he trying to not fail?

Here's a good recent example of MSNBC lies and smears. A few weeks ago the brilliant Rachel Maddow did a show about right-wing extremists. She said that former Republican Congressman Steve Stockman was so close to the militia movement that he "actually received advance notice that the Oklahoma City bombing was going to happen."

The only problem with that story is that Rachel Maddow lied. The Congressman did not receive advance notice. The fax in question was sent to his office about an hour after the bombing.

To her credit, she did correct her smear on a subsequent broadcast. But how in the world did she not attempt to fact check such a ridiculous claim in the first place? It would have taken 15 seconds to google that story and find out the actual facts before going to the air with false information.

Was this something prewritten or just an off the cuff remark?

Either way, you have to give credit that she corrected herself afterwards. Has anyone from Fox corrected the story on the costs of the trip to India and the number of warships involved?

(i ask seriously, not rhetorically, im really curious to see if they have)

It was from a special about right wing extremists, so I am sure there was plenty of time spent putting it together. A mistake like that shouldn't have occured on that type of program. I think it was a situation of a story that they wanted to be true, because it fit in nicely with the theme of the program. And I do agree that making a correction does show some integrity. It's much better than leaving it go.

As to your other question, I have seen O'reilly make corrections a few times, but I couldn't say for others. O'reilly is the only prime time Fox show that I watch on occasion.

Obama's trip to India cost 2 billion dollars.

W. played golf and went to his ranch.



What is different about these two sentences.

People. Come on. Fox News is terrible. Seriously. MSNBC sucks. CNN sucks. But Fox News.....that's a whole other galaxy of suck. If it continues to suck hard enough for long enough, I fear we may get drawn into its gravitational field.

They really suck. Other networks fire people for doing this. Doing this is like putting a caption under "Fox News" that says, "We're REALLY NOT THE ****ING NEWS. It's really just Fox '**** We Say'."

Can people really argue with this?












And I could (and have) go(ne) on, and on, and on.


I love it when they asked the questions for about a year. Anybody remember that ****?

Stuff like:


John McCain: Secret liberal?

Iraq: Harboring the anti-christ?

Atheists: Going to hell?

Gay marriage: Could it potentially destroy America?




So people. Listen. Let's just say that this stuff is entertaining for some people, ok? I don't hate people that watch Survivor. Or Twilight. Or iCarly. Or Fox News. Or MSNBC. But let's try to remain objective. If you want to know what's going on.....I mean what's REALLY going on......try to dive beneath the muck and do a little fact checking. Christ.

Yeah, pretty much case closed.

The first is false and the second is true?

Very good grasshopper. You show promise.

People have different taste. Maddow speaks to low IQ people, slowly and repeats herself. Beck, Olberman, Ed, speaks to the half nuts members of our society. All of them plus Hannity have one point of view. They all bore me to death. All so predictable.

But they all have their fans.