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(Hot Air) Ironic White House strongarms its political allies to make Fox News less balanced. Wait, what?   (hotair.com) divider line 190
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that1guy77 [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 05:58:46 PM  
Interesting tactic. Should also be interesting to see how this plays out.

 
Falcc 2009-11-06 08:39:55 PM  
Guh.. buh.. uh?

Wha?!

 
Dr. Mojo PhD [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 08:41:21 PM  
This strategy has Paul Anka's guarantee*
*Guarantee void in Tennessee

But seriously, this is what you do with clowns. You don't pay attention to them. Why should a woman keep going back to the man who beats her? And why should we care when the woman-beater's defenders and friends cry out that she deserved it because she never even gave him a chance?

 
SurahAhriman 2009-11-06 08:43:15 PM  
Refusing to associate with absurd hacks is a matter of integrity. Refusing to associate with people who associate with absurd hacks is a similar matter of integrity, depending on how much absurdity we're talking about.

/But it's probably just political maneuvering.

 
crab66 2009-11-06 08:44:06 PM  
Blogs citing blogs. Welcome to a brave new world of bullshiat.

 
RockIsDead 2009-11-06 08:46:14 PM  
Our opinions uber alles.

/'hack' is in the eye of the beholder
//'tolerance of dissent' requires actual 'tolerance' not mere talking point bullshiat.

 
jaerik 2009-11-06 08:47:26 PM  
So we're linking to Michelle Malkin's blog about another blogger who spoke to an anonymous consultant about his perception of the "tone" used by an undisclosed White House source about an his/her appearance on an undisclosed Fox show?

As news?

 
El Pachuco 2009-11-06 08:47:50 PM  
Despite the fact that no names are mentioned, I firmly believe that somebody somewhere said something to someone else, so therefore the whole article must be true.

 
ACallForPeace 2009-11-06 08:48:19 PM  
So Obama wants the Democrats to refuse to talk to Fox. Sounds like a good idea, Fox doesn't really care what they say anyway. Fox just likes demonizing/occasionally lying about Democrats.

And I like how Ed implies you must be a Leftie to hate Fox News. No, you just have to have common sense and care enough about the truth. And of course a hard-Left agenda isn't pushing through Congress. There are no hard lefties there.

I will, however give credit to Fox for not name dropping on the shooter yesterday, while MSNBC said something about a guy with an "Arab sounding name". And they did beat CNN in the coverage, but that's like beating up an amnesiac cancer ridden guy in a wheelchair.

 
Hobodeluxe [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 08:48:30 PM  
jaerik: So we're linking to Michelle Malkin's blog about another blogger who spoke to an anonymous consultant about his perception of the "tone" used by an undisclosed White House source about an his/her appearance on an undisclosed Fox show?

As news?


welcome to Fark.

 
Dr. Mojo PhD [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 08:50:58 PM  
RockIsDead: Our opinions uber alles.

/'hack' is in the eye of the beholder
//'tolerance of dissent' requires actual 'tolerance' not mere talking point bullshiat.


The validity of your opinion is best demonstrated on the third line of your post, where you confuse, deliberately or not, the word "tolerance" with the word "acceptance".

There are many things I tolerate which I do not accept. It is an important distinction. We tolerate the dissent of Fox News -- at least you implicitly admit they're bias since they are, in your own words, "dissenting" -- because to do otherwise would violate a fundamental principle of liberated countries; namely that of freedom of expression.

We do not accept their chicanery, however, because to do so requires an odious level of idiocy that only a person such as yourself is capable of willfully demonstrating day in and day out.

It is the reason why we can tolerate Fred Phelps, but we do not accept him.

Ipso facto, you're some kind of giant moron.

 
Hick [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 08:53:45 PM  
i302.photobucket.com

 
5h4wn 2009-11-06 08:58:41 PM  
Is Obama a domestic terrorist sympathizer that wants to kill your grandmother, enslave whites, and turn our military into a hippie commune?

Find out tonight on Fox News. But our first story of the evening, why is Obama trying so desperately to discredit us as a news organization?

 
LordJiro 2009-11-06 08:59:30 PM  
Hick BOTH SIDEZ AER TEH BAD!!!1

/so watch Fox and vote Republican

 
Giltric 2009-11-06 08:59:34 PM  
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.


/B..b..both are bad

 
crab66 2009-11-06 08:59:48 PM  
Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?

 
AdolfOliverPanties [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 08:59:55 PM  
What a well-sourced article. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who heard the White House threatened a strategist. I guess it's pretty serious.

 
Dr. Mojo PhD [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:00:38 PM  
Hick, ah, ad hominem tu quoque.

There's a few things I like about tu quoque.

First, it has just enough a whiff of legitimacy that you think it's a valid argument, either to state or repeat. It's pretty much endless humour at your expense.

Second, it's guaranteed you'll never learn. Let's face it, ad hominem tu quoque being a Latin term, and therefore related to French, and therefore related to gay surrender in the minds of Conservatives, will not be something you could ever possibly bring yourselves to look up and learn from.

Oh, the petty joys I get.

 
EL_FABREZ 2009-11-06 09:01:29 PM  
Let Fox be. They're doing a great job screwing over the Republicans.

 
rohar [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:02:42 PM  
Wait, FOx could be more imbalanced?

 
KingPsyz 2009-11-06 09:03:03 PM  
i141.photobucket.com

 
Hick [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:03:41 PM  
crab66: Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?


Because you don't like the message?

 
thalidomide new and improved 2009-11-06 09:04:58 PM  
crab66: Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?


Because your sense of humor is broken.

 
The Why Not Guy [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:05:13 PM  
RockIsDead: //'tolerance of dissent' requires actual 'tolerance' not mere talking point bullshiat.

Says the guy who uses the term RINO in a good 35% of his posts.

 
rohar [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:05:34 PM  
Hick: crab66: Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?

Because you don't like the message?


So help me out, 'cause I don't get it. What's the message?

 
KingPsyz 2009-11-06 09:06:20 PM  
Hick: crab66: Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?

Because you don't like the message?


there was a message? I just saw a poor attempt at political humor.

 
Hick [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:06:52 PM  
EL_FABREZ: Let Fox be. They're doing a great job screwing over the Republicans.

How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama. Fox news ratings are through the roof because that is the only network that will give an opposing view. MSNBC ratings are in the toilet.

 
Emposter 2009-11-06 09:08:50 PM  
rohar: Hick: crab66: Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?

Because you don't like the message?

So help me out, 'cause I don't get it. What's the message?


Both sides are bad...hence they must be equally bad...so watch Fox.

i42.photobucket.com

 
Spankubb 2009-11-06 09:08:57 PM  
crab66: Hick


Why are conservative political cartoons never funny or original?


FTFY

 
ACallForPeace 2009-11-06 09:09:08 PM  
Hick: Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama. Fox news ratings are through the roof because that is the only network that will give an opposing view. MSNBC ratings are in the toilet.

Technically true. However, Fox is not the only network that does criticize Obama. MSNBC does too. And Fox being the only one giving an opposing view? That's an outright lie, and Fox's views are just "make money slander Democrats".

 
ferioritycomplex 2009-11-06 09:09:24 PM  
FTFA: The message was, "We better not see you on again," said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to run afoul of the White House.

Who the fark is the strategist? If you're getting threatened by the White House, you farking tell people and get your story heard. Then the White House backs the fark off.

Unless this strategist is lying out of his ass (or doesn't exist at all). Which is most likely the case. The problem with anonymous sources is that, without any sort of confirmation, they're just farking rumors. Rumor-mongering isn't reporting the news, it's fabricating the news.

 
crab66 2009-11-06 09:09:38 PM  
Hick: crab66: Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?

Because conservatives don't have a creative bone in their bodies and pretty much just rehash whatever the left does.


I fixed that for you.

 
The Why Not Guy [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:09:40 PM  
Hick:
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama.


Are you sure this is the claim you want to make?

 
The All-Powerful Atheismo 2009-11-06 09:09:49 PM  
Hick: EL_FABREZ: Let Fox be. They're doing a great job screwing over the Republicans.

How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama. Fox news ratings are through the roof because that is the only network that will give an opposing view. MSNBC ratings are in the toilet.


If you add the viewership of all of the Liberal MSM Mainstream Lib Media, it far outweighs fox's. way to go.

 
crab66 2009-11-06 09:10:54 PM  
Emposter: rohar: Hick: crab66: Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?

Because you don't like the message?

So help me out, 'cause I don't get it. What's the message?

Both sides are bad...hence they must be equally bad...so watch Fox.



Hey that looks familiar....

 
rohar [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:11:02 PM  
Emposter: rohar: Hick: crab66: Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?

Because you don't like the message?

So help me out, 'cause I don't get it. What's the message?

Both sides are bad...hence they must be equally bad...so watch Fox.


Snirk,

Honestly, Hick can't normally shut his mouth. I'm curious to see his critique.

/I'll be damned if I know why I'm curious

 
Dr. Mojo PhD [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:11:51 PM  
Hick: crab66: Hick


Why are conservative cartoons never funny or original?

Because you don't like the message?


Mmm, that doesn't quite answer his question and in reality is a total non sequitur.

How about you try again. Here's a handy reminder of the question that was asked you, so hopefully you don't attempt to dodge it again. Don't worry, we won't mind repeating it to you endlessly until you do.

1. Why are conservative cartoons never funny?

(Here you must either a) adequately demonstrate that conservative cartoons ARE funny and that his premise is false or b) explain why they are never funny).

2. Why are conservative cartoons never original?

(Here you must either a) adequately demonstrate that conservative cartoons ARE original and that his premise is false or b) explain why they are never original).

His use of a disjunction throws a little trickery into the mix. Is it an OR or a XOR? Who knows!

Fun.

No more non sequitur answers boy, hop to it!

 
crab66 2009-11-06 09:12:34 PM  
The All-Powerful Atheismo: Liberal MSM Mainstream Lib Media

I farking lol'd.


Liberal MSM Mainstream Lib Media Lib Lib Liberal Media MSM Libe Media Lib Mainstream Media.

 
KingPsyz 2009-11-06 09:14:34 PM  
Hick: EL_FABREZ: Let Fox be. They're doing a great job screwing over the Republicans.

How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama. Fox news ratings are through the roof because that is the only network that will give an opposing view. MSNBC ratings are in the toilet.


Ahh the ratings argument, thus proving FOX's news* is *FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

If it's news ratings shouldn't matter. Fact is it's 90% opinion on FoxNEWS* and even the so called straight News* is peppered with off hand comments and opinions. Things you expect from a backwater CW affiliate, not a cable news network.

I have heard displeasure with Obama and many of his actions and policies on MSNBC as well, even on their commentary shows you kids claim are in the tank for Obama and his OMGMUSLINTURRORISTSEKRITSOCIOFACIOMAOIST plot to steal America from good ol' common White folk Real Americans™

But the fact that FoxNEWS* likes to dabble in the ol horseshiat and misdirection and label it as important news while throwing anti government protests is what has brought down the scruitiny of late.

 
Dr. Mojo PhD [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:15:29 PM  
Hick: How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama.


Yep. That's why we call them biased. Other networks don't only criticize Obama. Keith Olbermann, for example, has criticized Obama and other people. That's why they are a respectable channel, your cartoon is false, and people hate Fox. All in one.

 
RockIsDead 2009-11-06 09:18:22 PM  
Dr. Mojo PhD: Hick: How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama.

Yep. That's why we call them biased. Other networks don't only criticize Obama. Keith Olbermann, for example, has criticized Obama and other people. That's why they are a respectable channel, your cartoon is false, and people hate Fox. All in one.


Jeez, you idiots actually believe this crap.

 
Dr. Mojo PhD [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:19:59 PM  
KingPsyz: Ahh the ratings argument, thus proving FOX's news* is *FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

If it's news ratings shouldn't matter. Fact is it's 90% opinion on FoxNEWS* and even the so called straight News* is peppered with off hand comments and opinions. Things you expect from a backwater CW affiliate, not a cable news network.

I have heard displeasure with Obama and many of his actions and policies on MSNBC as well, even on their commentary shows you kids claim are in the tank for Obama and his OMGMUSLINTURRORISTSEKRITSOCIOFACIOMAOIST plot to steal America from good ol' common White folk Real Americans™

But the fact that FoxNEWS* likes to dabble in the ol horseshiat and misdirection and label it as important news while throwing anti government protests is what has brought down the scruitiny of late.


THE RATINGS ARE ALL THAT MATTERS, STUPID LIBTARD RETARDED LIBERAL COMMUFAG. JUST BECAUSE SCIENCE ISN'T BASED ON CONSENSUS DOESN'T MEAN NEWS REPORTING ISN'T, AND THAT'S WHY THE COMPANY THAT SUED TO LIE ON AIR AND SUPPRESS FACTS SHOULD BE TRUSTED OVER EVERYBODY ELSE, BECAUSE IF YOU DISCOUNT THE FACT THAT ALL OTHER NETWORKS COMBINED ATTEMPTING FACTUAL NEWS COVERAGE OUT RATE FOX, THEN FOXES' NON-FACTUAL NEWS COVERAGE ACTUALLY HAS THE HIGHEST RATINGS AND THEREFORE SHOULD BE TRUSTED BECAUSE THEY ONLY CRITICIZE OBAMA. FAG.

 
KingPsyz 2009-11-06 09:22:57 PM  
Dr. Mojo PhD: KingPsyz: Ahh the ratings argument, thus proving FOX's news* is *FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

If it's news ratings shouldn't matter. Fact is it's 90% opinion on FoxNEWS* and even the so called straight News* is peppered with off hand comments and opinions. Things you expect from a backwater CW affiliate, not a cable news network.

I have heard displeasure with Obama and many of his actions and policies on MSNBC as well, even on their commentary shows you kids claim are in the tank for Obama and his OMGMUSLINTURRORISTSEKRITSOCIOFACIOMAOIST plot to steal America from good ol' common White folk Real Americans™

But the fact that FoxNEWS* likes to dabble in the ol horseshiat and misdirection and label it as important news while throwing anti government protests is what has brought down the scruitiny of late.

THE RATINGS ARE ALL THAT MATTERS, STUPID LIBTARD RETARDED LIBERAL COMMUFAG. JUST BECAUSE SCIENCE ISN'T BASED ON CONSENSUS DOESN'T MEAN NEWS REPORTING ISN'T, AND THAT'S WHY THE COMPANY THAT SUED TO LIE ON AIR AND SUPPRESS FACTS SHOULD BE TRUSTED OVER EVERYBODY ELSE, BECAUSE IF YOU DISCOUNT THE FACT THAT ALL OTHER NETWORKS COMBINED ATTEMPTING FACTUAL NEWS COVERAGE OUT RATE FOX, THEN FOXES' NON-FACTUAL NEWS COVERAGE ACTUALLY HAS THE HIGHEST RATINGS AND THEREFORE SHOULD BE TRUSTED BECAUSE THEY ONLY CRITICIZE OBAMA. FAG.


I sorta love you now, my new member of my favorites. But don't call me a fag, I don't ride a Harley...

 
Dr. Mojo PhD [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:23:56 PM  
RockIsDead: Dr. Mojo PhD: Hick: How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama.

Yep. That's why we call them biased. Other networks don't only criticize Obama. Keith Olbermann, for example, has criticized Obama and other people. That's why they are a respectable channel, your cartoon is false, and people hate Fox. All in one.

Jeez, you idiots actually believe this crap.


HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

That took me five seconds and the words "keith olbermann criticizes obama" in Google to find. I also left clicked twice, once to search and once to go to the first page that appeared on the results.

Do you think you can summon the mental faculties to do that? If typing all those words is too hard, feel free to just copy and paste my search term to save yourself the effort. We won't fault you, we understand the need for baby steps.

 
LordJiro 2009-11-06 09:23:59 PM  
RockIsDead: Dr. Mojo PhD: Hick: How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama.

Yep. That's why we call them biased. Other networks don't only criticize Obama. Keith Olbermann, for example, has criticized Obama and other people. That's why they are a respectable channel, your cartoon is false, and people hate Fox. All in one.

Jeez, you idiots actually believe this crap.


So you're claiming that MSNBC, and Keith Olbermann in particular, don't criticize Obama? Or that Fox does anything BUT criticize Obama?

 
jake_lex [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:24:51 PM  
I think overall it's a smart strategy, because it makes Fox more and more a chamber of wharrgarbl less likely to feed news to the rest of the media.

Fox turns more and more into the place where teabaggers go to get their talking points, and less likely to have any sort of impact outside of that relatively small circle.

 
dgc360 [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 09:25:35 PM  
RockIsDead: Dr. Mojo PhD: Hick: How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama.

Yep. That's why we call them biased. Other networks don't only criticize Obama. Keith Olbermann, for example, has criticized Obama and other people. That's why they are a respectable channel, your cartoon is false, and people hate Fox. All in one.

Jeez, you idiots actually believe this crap.


I hate to do a bu-bu-bu-Bush here, but fark it. Here's some homework for you. Compare Fox News during the Bush years to MSNBC during Obamas one year. Chances are the number of criticisms you find will be the same, and we still have three more years to go in PRESIDENT Obama's term.

Three more years, and hopefully seven. I can't wait to see the collective teabaggers heads explode when he wins another term.

 
EL_FABREZ 2009-11-06 09:25:57 PM  
Hick: EL_FABREZ: Let Fox be. They're doing a great job screwing over the Republicans.

How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama. Fox news ratings are through the roof because that is the only network that will give an opposing view. MSNBC ratings are in the toilet.



There are liberals that watch Fox News. Beck and Hannity can be pretty amusing if you don't take the seriously. But at the same time I think they are poisoning the GOP by giving the "conservatives" a false hope that they can control the Republican party.

 
USP .45 2009-11-06 09:25:58 PM  
Dr. Mojo PhD: This strategy has Paul Anka's guarantee*
*Guarantee void in Tennessee

But seriously, this is what you do with clowns. You don't pay attention to them. Why should a woman keep going back to the man who beats her? And why should we care when the woman-beater's defenders and friends cry out that she deserved it because she never even gave him a chance?


damn I thought I was psychotic. Mojo has finally farkin lost it. I would not want to be an unsuspecting coworker right about now.

/leaves thread with 10ft pole untainted

 
Emposter 2009-11-06 09:26:42 PM  
RockIsDead: Dr. Mojo PhD: Hick: How so?
Fox is the only network that will only criticize Obama.

Yep. That's why we call them biased. Other networks don't only criticize Obama. Keith Olbermann, for example, has criticized Obama and other people. That's why they are a respectable channel, your cartoon is false, and people hate Fox. All in one.

Jeez, you idiots actually believe this crap.


Reality, as we all know, has a liberal bias.

Hence, we shouldn't trust it!

 
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