Iraq War Inquiry
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Did you know that there’s an ongoing UK inquiry into the Iraq War, in which former prime minister Tony Blair is testifying? If you only paid attention to U.S. media, you probably didn’t.
Oh, look, Mark Halperin wrote an effing book.
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Read it last night and heard it reported on Fox News this morning on XM.
Fox News, the most trusted name in news.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair Defends Backing Iraq Invasion
You might want to add them to your Favorites, Oliver.
You know that’s an AP story, right? Or does the big Fox News logo distract you so? And the story is hardly getting heavy coverage.
I don’t go to the AP website to get their news stories, no, if that’s what you’re asking. I’m just saying Fox is covering it. People who watch, listen or read Fox News services, a large and ever-increasing number of people, are aware of the story. But I laud your efforts to educate those who don’t follow them.
I don’t go to the AP website to get their news stories, no, if that’s what you’re asking.
Dennis, you moron, the story at the Fox link is from the AP.
You do know what a wire service is and how they work don’t you?
WTF does that matter, fafaroo? Is there something wrong with Fox picking up an AP wire story and reporting it? Oliver says “If you only paid attention to U.S. media, you probably didn’t.”
I’m saying if you paid attention to Fox, you probably did.
I do, and I did.
The story is also at CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/28/england.iraq.inquiry/
MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35138705/ns/world_news-europe/
You’ll note that the story at MSNBC is the exact same article at the Fox News link you provided.
Please tell me you think there’s some huge difference between reading the exact same article verbatim at Fox and MSNBC.
WTF does that matter, fafaroo?
It doesn’t really matter Dennis, unless, of course, one has already invested energy and touting the superiority of Fox News over other news organizations. Which you did.
But how can Fox be superior to MSNBC in its coverage of this story when they ran the exact same wire service article?
What is your freaking point, fafaroo, as if you even have one? OW says the story is getting virtually no coverage here in the states. I tell him I’ve read it on Fox’s website and I’ve heard it on the Fox XM channel. AP has nothing to do with the fact that Fox is covering it, and neither does your point that MSNBC and CNN are, too. In effect, you’re agreeing with me that people are covering it.
Quite frankly, I’m sitting here shaking my head that anyone down at MMFA’s world headquarters wouldn’t know what was being reported at Fox News at any given moment. I just hope his bosses don’t read this thread and think he’s sloughing off.
AP has nothing to do with the fact that Fox is covering it
The story of Fox’s site you linked as evidence that Fox is reporting the story is an AP story. You are clearly too dumb to understand that this is not an example of Fox covering the story.
That’s getting off-topic, fafaroo. That’s not what I’m about, as you know.
If you want to know more about Fox’s superiority over the other cable news outlets, maybe we can discuss it on the appropriate thread. I’m just letting him know that Fox has it’s viewers covered with regard to the Tony Blair/Iraq testimony.
Oliver, go back and read what you wrote before you call anyone else dumb.
I paid attention to Fox XM and Fox’s website and I was aware of the UK inquiry. I haven’t watched any TV today, but my guess is they’ve reported on it there, as well. fafaroo let us know that CNN and MSNBC have also, so I’m confused as to where you’re getting your information on this.
The bigger version of what i’m saying is that it should be a bigger story. As it is when it is mentioned, its being done in passing.
That’s getting off-topic, fafaroo.
Dennis, your first comment in this thread included an off topic link to a poll about Fox News’ trustworthiness. This was followed by gloating:
“You might want to add them to your Favorites, Oliver.”
and then this weird denial:
“I don’t go to the AP website to get their news stories, no, if that’s what you’re asking.”
What makes this weird, Dennis, is that you clearly linked Fox’s coverage of this story to its trustworthiness. But, Dennis, MSNBC ran the same wire story, almost verbatim.
In other words, you entered this thread to push the idea that reading Fox news kept you better informed. In this instance, you’re totally wrong. Because MSNBC ran the same story.
Now if you want to deny that you ever intended to assert the superiority of Fox news over other news outlets, be my guest. That would certainly be in keeping with your record of hackery to date.
Don’t have to go to APs website to get “their stories” because FOX runs AP stories on its own website.
All I know for sure is that the people askin’ Tony them questions are obviously terrorist-lovin traitors.
you guys should be ashamed of yourselves for picking on morans like dennis.
That’s getting off-topic, fafaroo.
Translation: “You caught me with my pants down, so I’m going to try to change the subject.”
No, Zython, despite your continuous displays of complete idiocy I’ll go ahead and answer you this time. fafaroo knows that what Oliver posted was in error, as both he and I pointed out. He doesn’t want to admit either that he proved it by pointing out that CNN and MSNBC reported on this story, and he doesn’t want to defend directly Oliver’s error, so he resorts to his usual nitpicky obsessing of something else besides Oliver’s point.
If I asked you how I was caught with my pants down, you wouldn’t be able to answer with any semblance of intelligence, so it’s pointless to do so. Arguing with fafaroo about crap he wants to argue about is about as interesting to me as talking to a brick wall. A step above reading your infantile retorts, but not by much.
Interestingly, a casual check on Media Matters website shows nothing on the Tony Blair testimony.
“Oh look, this could be the next Watergate. Check out the 50 stories we have on James O’Keefe. We’re live-blogging it now.”
Dennis, you came to this thread to argue with Oliver.
I commented here to point out that you were full of shit.
Very simple.
fafaroo, or is it Fafaroo now?
You only come on here to argue with either me, Frank, or Farris. Solely for that reason and never to make a point about a thread. 100% of the time, with no exceptions. Ever. And it’s rarely about the point someone made, it’s always something ancillary that you think you can see a flaw or a point of disagreement that you might just decide to grab hold of for no other reason than the fact that arguing for you is an alternative to other compulsions far more damaging to you. And I’m all for that for you, I’m just tired of playing your games. Sorry.
Let me ask you something, Dennis.
Do you trust Fox more than the AP and if you do, how do you reconcile that with the fact that a lot of what you read at Fox comes from the AP and that you can’t tell the difference?
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=associated+press
Interestingly, a casual check on Media Matters website shows nothing on the Tony Blair testimony.
Does someone really need to explain to why this statement is entirely irrelevant and completely stupid?
You’re caught with your pants down here when you implied that Fox was the only American news source wiriting about it.
Your welcome.
No, Zython, despite your continuous displays of complete idiocy I’ll go ahead and answer you this time.
Says the guy who has so far failed to prove me wrong on any subject.
the story at the Fox link is from the AP.
Increasingly, there doesn’t seem to be much of a difference.
Media Matters is a British organization?
Dennis’ decent into ridiculosity continues.
Interestingly, a casual check on Media Matters website shows nothing on the Tony Blair testimony.
SQUIRREL!
Check out the 50 stories we have on James O’Keefe. We’re live-blogging it now.”
ANOTHER SQUIRREL!
IT’S HEADED RIGHT FOR US!
Jaim, you went off the reservation mentally there for a while again, descended into ridiculosity if you will, to somewhat borrow the phrase I think you meant to say, this time against the blog author. I assume this is your extension of the fig leaf in order to slowly get back in good steed with him and the rest of his followers. No problem, liberals are very forgiving to their own as long as they know you’ll still back their causes- kind of like you’ll see here sometime relatively soon with the John Edwards rehabilitation tour. But if you’re going to take a shot at someone’s intelligence, or perceived lack of it, and seeing as you’re a current teacher with an English master’s degree, it might be a good idea to proofread your barbs before you hit the send button. Was my comment ‘decent’, in which you agreed with me, or was it ridiculous, in which you don’t understand the relevance of what I said?
Oliver wrote this while working in an environment with loads of information-gathering technology, and a large number of co-workers monitoring current events. Nevertheless, he laments, incorrectly, that no one in the US is reporting on the Blair story, but Mark Halperin’s expose is topic #1 among the, what you guys call, villagers. I inform him that Fox has reported on it, at least in two different venues that I know of, based on my direct observation. This draws criticism from several. No one agrees with Oliver or even remotely backs his point, but everyone wants to take issue with other things I have said. I remark that MMFA has nothing on this story, implying maybe that that was how Oliver got that impression, perhaps engrossed in his own assignment for that particular day and not aware of what Fox (or MSNBC or CNN or a fair number of blogs) was reporting. If you go to MMFA’s website, you’ll see that it’s not the Mark Halperin book that they’re obsessed about, but the James O’Keefe story, in which they are trying feverishly to make into the now 15th or so ‘next Watergate’. My hunch is that the O’Keefe explosion that went off in the office of MMFA has gotten everyone there so completely overworked and over-stressed that OW just kind of phoned it in on this blog post.