Fox News and The Washington Times get caught playing defense for the GOP. It’s like they’re not actual news organizations, but rather propaganda organs for the Republican party. Oh, does that hit too close to home?
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July 14th, 2009
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Where is the story here? A Fox News correspondent (TPM says it was a Fox News Channel correspondent, but they provide no evidence of that and based on TPM’s piss poor track record, their word doesn’t cut it) and a marketing guy from the Washington Times.
Wow.
Wow, some industrial grade spin from Jay out of the gate!
“TPM’s piss poor track record”? Considering the Michelle Malkin fanclub site HotAir bragged just yesterday about their awesomeness being matched only by TPM (not to mention the journalism awards garnered by TPM to date — how many has HotAir won again?), seems to me they must be doing something right!
And an editor from the Wall Street Journal’s website calling his OWN paper’s NEWS reporting (the only good thing in the otherwise fishwrap worthy WSJ) on the subject “Ridiculous”?
Obviously Jay is trying to run interference for one more item in the copious list of evidence of right-wing news bias, so he seems to have deliberately neglected this comment in the TPM story…
If I may use small words so that Jay will get it: TPM is reporting on the FOIA obtained emails from The State, which will be coming out in more detail. We already have names of specific people from WSJ and WashTimes, some of whom have apparently already responded with some CYA. But TPM is “making up” the Fox News guy. I’m sure when more detailed info is published Jay will explain that the guy must surely be some Daily Kos mole at Fox or something.
In any case, tell me more about that “liberal media”…
Right winger “Jay” is defending Republican Messiah Moon’s Washington Times?
Remember Republican’s coronation of Messiah Moon as their leader?
If I recall correctly the Republicans coronation of Messiah Moon was actually in the Capital of the United States.
If I remember correctly it was with long Kingly robes and there was even a Kingly Crown put on his head.
Is “Jay” a double secret ‘Moonie’?
Right winger “Jay” apparently doesn’t know that Rupert Murdoch’s FOX Propaganda is run by Republican Nixon’s, Republican Reagan’s, and Republican Bush 1’s, and Republican Giuliani’s Republican media strategist Roger Ailes.
“Jay”, the fan of militant right wing extremist Michelle “Concentration Camp Advocate” Malkin, is getting spoon fed his “news” by Nixon’s media strategist.
Rupert Murdoch, whose FOX Propaganda is run by Nixon’s ol’ media strategist, now owns the Wall Street Journal now has it’s contemptible editorial (opinion) pages dictating who will be employed in the purported “news” pages:
In an email to Sanford press secretary Joel Sawyer, Brendan Miniter, an editor of the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com, called out his own paper’s first-day coverage (sub. req.) of the story, writing: “Someone at WSJ should be fired for today’s story. Ridiculous.”
(and keep in mind, all the TPM is doing is re-reporting what the South Carolina newspaper The State has dug up through good journalism.
Has Fox News put a nice big (D) next to Sanford’s name yet?
Rheinhard, Bill O’Reilly has won awards. Are you going to start kissing his ass? The fact that TPM has won awards does not excuse their shoddy ‘reporting.’ They only slightly improved their stature when Greg Sargent left and took his propensity for getting shit wrong numerous times to the Washington Post.
Even if everything they wrote is true (which is highly suspect), who cares? How do those few examples lend any credibility to Oliver’s claim that the “Right Wing Media Covered For Mark Sanford”?
Answer: It doesn’t.
And News Reference, take your meds.
Rupert Murdoch’s media terrorist Bill O’Reilly lied about receiving awards that he never received.
Bill O’Reilly did, however, encourage a terrorist attack on an American city.
Murdoch’s terrorist network is no different than Hezbollah TV.
Why do you support terrorists, “Jay”?
At this point I don’t really care. If people don’t realize FOX and the Moonie Times aren’t house organs of the dying GOP, they’re too dumb to be listened to.
Jay, since you seem to be pretending to have something in your butt, perhaps you could enlighten us as to what exactly constitutes TPM’s “shoddy reporting”?
Or am I misunderstanding the wingnut dictionary, that “shoddy reporting” means any factually correct stories that make conservatives look bad?
Right winger “Jay” apparently doesn’t know that Rupert Murdoch’s FOX Propaganda is run by Republican Nixon’s, Republican Reagan’s, and Republican Bush 1’s, and Republican Giuliani’s Republican media strategist Roger Ailes.
You forgot that Ailes was also Limbaugh’s radio produced.
Radio PRODUCER, not “produced.”
Interesting, I did not know that Republican Nixon’s media strategist Roger Ailes was responsible for bringing Rush Limbaugh to television.
According to Museum.TV, Republican Nixon’s media strategist Roger Ailes produced Rush Limbaugh’s TV program.
I’d also forgotten that Roger Ailes was President of NBC’s cable channel CNBC.
http://museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/ailesroger/ailesroger.htm
Conservative media everywhere….
Thanks for the tip, “Randy Brown”.
Hey Newsy, this isn’t on-topic, but I’ve just got to ask — I’m madly curious about a couple of your stylistic tics.
I’ve noticed that you have a tendency to put other people’s usernames in quotation marks (e.g.: Thanks for the tip, “Randy Brown”.) I think it’s fairly obvious to everyone that most commenters here — surely you and I — are using pseudonyms, so I’m wondering why you feel it’s necessary to “point that out” with “quotation marks” around the “names” they choose to “use”. It’s a bit “distracting”, and — to me at least — comes across as rather “condescending”.
I’ve also noticed your tendency to preface names with adjectives (e.g.: militant right wing extremist Michelle “Concentration Camp Advocate” Malkin or right winger “Jay”.) I won’t argue your characterization of either Malkin or Jay (look, Ma, no quotes!), but I do question the necessity of the relentlessness of the characterization. Sometimes it gets ridiculous, as when you make references like “Republican Nixon” — like somehow we might have forgotten his party affiliation. Again, the impact of this kind of writing is distracting at best, condescending at worst.
Perhaps you’ve got a top-notch rationale for these idiosyncrasies that I haven’t considered. You’re welcome to enlighten me, and of course you’re free to disregard me entirely. Just on the off chance that you’re not aware of how you come across, however, I thought I’d offer this modest critique.
Well looky here! Seems TPM’s “shoddy reporting” has been borne out, because today we learn:
I’m sure Jay will enlighten us any day now about the cornucopia of stories that Josh Marshall has just fabricated, or something.