’)Of course, Fox considers themselves the voice of the opposition, so it would be in their modus operandi to put the brakes on stories harmful to the GOP…
In a letter dated five days before Sen. John Ensign’s public confession of an extramarital affair, Doug Hampton pleaded to a national Fox News anchorwoman for help in exposing the senator’s ‘heinous conduct and pursuit’ of Hampton’s wife.Hours before the Sun obtained an unsigned copy of the letter, Ensign’s spokesman said the senator disclosed the affair with Cynthia Hampton because her husband had approached ‘a major television news channel before Tuesday,’ the day Ensign admitted the affair. ‘We learned of this fact before the news conference,’ the spokesman noted in an e-mail.
In his letter, Hampton, a former top administrative aide in Ensign’s Capitol Hill office, said: ‘The actions of Senator Ensign have ruined our lives and careers and left my family in shambles. We have lost significant income, suffered indescribable pain and emotional suffering. We find ourselves today with an overwhelming loss of relationships, career opportunities and hope for recovery. Our pursuit of justice continues to place me and my family in harm’s way as we fear for our well being.’
FOX Propaganda: They Distort AND Conceal. (IYAR)
[If You're A Republican]
What would make you think that Kelly even saw the letter on the exact date it was either emailed or snail-mailed?
What would make you think that FNC was not in the process of investigating and authenticating the letter and Mr. Hampton’s implied (rather than detailed) charges?
Be reasonable!
He mailed a letter? Who the hell mails a letter today?
He mailed a letter? Who the hell mails a letter today?
No kiddin’. Especially to Megyn. Not using that as a golden opportunity to see her up close and personal is just too boneheaded for words.
Doug. Dude.
First of all FNC says that they didn’t receive a letter, they say that Mr. Hampton contacted a booker for the Kelly-Hemmer hour, about 24 hours before Ensign went public.
FNC says that Hampton seemed to hedge a bit (how many charges made from disgruntled fired employees do news networks get a day?…) and that they thought they had time to look into the charges more deeply.
That Ensign went public the next day, could just as easily be because FNC HAD made a few phone calls to current and former Ensign staffers.
Wow.
A random letter from a spurned husband that wasn’t immediately investigated by a major news organization! Scandalous….
What ever happened to the old democrat mantra of privacy? As I recall, the POTUS was having an affair with a young intern and there just wasn’t anywhere close to this sort of outrage.
If the lefties were even a little bit consistent, the rest of america might be able to gin up a little more outrage.
Should have sent it to CBS.
Or wherever the hell Dan Rather and Mary Mapes wound up. It would have been on the air before the empty envelope hit the desk.
I know this is (a bit) unrelated, but she’s that distant relative you see only at Passover dinner and can’t believe people have these opinions outside the talking-points circuit. Like people who say “Freedom isn’t free” without chuckling.
I wodner if Megyn’s first husband ever sends her letters
Well, the media and Dems have been sitting on the Rep. Loretta Sanchez adultery story for a year now. This is a bi-partisan game. Google: loretta sanchez scandal. See this recent post–http://latinopoliticsblog.com/2009/06/02/the-making-of-the-%E2%80%9Cloretta-sanchez-scandal%E2%80%9D/
Wow, an accusation of bias and partisanship against the Fox “News” Channel that is actually not warranted. Never thought I’d see the day.
As for comparing Ensign/Hampton to Clinton/Lewinsky, as indefensible as the latter affair was, at least the former POTUS, unlike Ensign, wasn’t engaging in “double adultery” (Lewinsky wasn’t married while Hampton was).
And now it turns out the letter was part of a blackmail plot. Yea those biased Fox guys, can’t trust them for nothing.
Oliver jumps the shark…..again.
The double adultry concept is a bit weak as an example of a moral path to follow.
Oliver jumps the shark…..again.
To be fair, he included the question mark.
As in, ‘Did Oliver jump the shark again or did he knowingly put a question mark in his header knowing it would be interpreted as a true charge since, afterall, it’s Fox News?
Right wingers response to a Republican Senators blatant hypocrisy:
“Look over there!” (Distraction)
“The other side does it too!” (False equivalency)
‘change the subject, change the subject’ (Distraction)
‘ignore it, those that bring it up are mean’ (Distraction)
The point is that FOX Republican Propaganda doesn’t attack Republicans unless they favor a different Republican competitor.
FOX Propaganda clearly ignored the claim, initially claiming they didn’t get the information, then claiming that the information they didn’t admit to getting wasn’t credible (something you could only do by having the information and investigating it).
Then the FOX Republican Propaganda Channel claimed that it didn’t warn Republican Senator Ensign about the letter even while Republican Senator Ensign was apparently claiming that he was preemptively revealing his hypocritical adultery because he claimed that it was going to be revealed on TV. How would he know? It seems FOX warned him to protect him.
And now right wingers are claiming that the hypocritical Republican who had repeatedly assailed others for their adultery isn’t the issue, it’s a dubious charge of bribery being made by the duplicitous, hypocritical adulterer.
The Republican Hypocrite Party at it’s best.
Sorry Dennis, you are correct.
I should have said “Oliver jumps the shark, questions swirl”…..
LOL