We were under the impression that the tens of thousands of citizen protesters in Wisconsin, standing up against Big Government’s attempt to take away their freedoms over the last three weeks, were extremely peaceful. But, apparently, that’s because we were relying on actual news reports and evidence and stuff.
So, in the interest of fairness and balance, here’s what’s actually going on in Wisconsin, according to Fox “News”…
We are hoping that Fox “News” “reporter” Mike Tobin survives the dangerous conditions under which he’s been working. Covering the mobs in Cairo was nothing compared to the dangers faced by Fox in Madison!
Of course, in our never-ending quest for fairness and balance, we should probably also point out that the man who “punched” Tobin, as discussed in the video above, didn’t actually punch him at all. But we only know that because a liberal non-Fox camera happened to be rolling, so that camera should not be trusted. Neither should liberal Eric Boehlert of the liberal, George Soros-funded propaganda outlet Media Matters. He highlighted more evidence this week attempting to suggest seemingly phony WI reporting by Fox “News.” Obviously, his actual, independently-verifiable evidence is probably of the liberal nature as well, so feel free to ignore it.
Also, WI’s Republican state Sen. Glenn Grothman, as seen in the video above being overrun by the “dare I say, violent” and “angry mob” chanting “Shame! Shame! Shame!” was shouted down after he appeared on television referring to all of the protesters as “slobs.” That appearance by Grothman, however, was on the liberal MSNBC, so, ya know. (Later, he would go on to admit that “there were many friendly people in that crowd” and “courteous people there” and that he never “felt threatened,” but, again, ya know.)
For the record, as Bill O’Reilly is only too happy to remind us nearly every day, any mitigating information out there which suggests Fox’s reporting is less than truthful or accurate should be ignored because they remain the most popular cable “news” channel in the nation. Therefore, what Fox “News” reports is truthful and accurate. If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t be so popular, now would they? Suck on that, Liberals!
As Robert Greenwald conclusively demonstrated in Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Fox is simply the propaganda arm for corporate America’s wholly owned, public subsidiary, the GOP, Inc.
The more you watch, the less you know.
Perhaps the FCC should insist on a warning label, like we have for cigarettes.
Of course, it isn’t just Fox “News.”
See,“Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin”: Media Parroting Walker’s False Claims of Taxpayer “Subsidies” for Workers’ Pensions.
The greatest thing about the video above is that it repeatedly shows Mike Tobin insisting that the demonstrators don’t want to hear his viewpoint — as if it’s customary for a “news man” to be sharing his a viewpoint at a demonstration. It’s just more proof that the people at Fox News don’t know what journalism is, let alone how to practice it.
Heraldo Rivera calling protesters RUDE?
For crying out loud.
Colbert pointed out tonight that “Papa Bear” O’Reilly was showing violent imported protesters with apparently imported palm trees in the background of…Wisconsin?
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!
A unionized public employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, “Watch out for that union guy… he wants a piece of your cookie!
Off-topic but very relevant to Bradblog… Voter Fraud discovered in Indiana!
… unsurprisingly it turns out to be the
Republican in charge of running elections.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/indiana_secretary_of_state_indicted_on_voter_fraud.php
The article you linked to, Zap, states:
Let’s hope the state of Indiana can do better than Connecticut where that state’s election commission claimed it could not “make a full and fair determination†of Ann Coulter’s alleged voter fraud despite documentary evidence and Coulter’s own admissions.
Hear hear! Geraldo Rivera is an idiot!!
Does Fox News exist to make other lying corporate propaganda disseminators such and New York Times and CNN look good? The difference is primarily in tone, but not in substance. It’s almost as if they work together, so the other liars look reliable by comparison. Sort of a good shyster, bad shyster routine. New York Times & Fox News: “Same lies, different tone.”
the real question we should be asking is,did the voters of wisconsin really elect walker?
http://www.waukeshacounty.gov/uploadedFiles/Media/List_Documents/County_Clerk/2010_Official_Election_Results/20101102_official_results.pdf
as i understand it,waukesha is the county with the 3rd largest city in wi…and it is the county whr reps win about 2 to 1…
on the above link if you scroll to pages 30 and 31 you will see what i call a “tag”…at the end of new berlins vote report 13 out of 14 precincts report 9 votes each for 2 write in candidates…statistically there is a better chance of these 2 write ins getting hit by lightening on different sides of town at same time than there is for this vote report being accurate
you really have to scroll thru it to see how out of place it is..anyways my point is IF we could get just that 1 counties votes actually hand counted maybe peops would awaken
I find it fascinating that Fox can so consistently report false “facts” which are very easily refuted, yet their audience still believes.
To dispute the factuality of Fox’s reporting is to be a sort of Cassandra, at least within the “conservative” universe, which is our internal North Korea, where (as Orwell predicted) “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” So runs the creed of the Ministry of Truth.
What surprises me is that the propaganda issuing from our own Ministry of Truth can be publicly shown to be false, day after day, yet nothing changes. The people who believed yesterday still believe today.
Orwell assumed that the Ministry would have to suppress all contrary opinion, even contrary thought. How amazing to learn that such steps are not necessary! As long as the Ministry keeps telling the same or similar lies every day, no suppression is necessary.
Roger. Do you think you would look just as good in an orange jumpsuit as your buddy-Karl Rove?
http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-boss-roger-ailes-to-be-indicted-2011-2
If only liberals felt as free to make stuff up.
Just think–these are the outfits that like to describe Obama as “angry,” when he’s practically–I don’t know–a Vulcan.
Ralph, I kindof agree that FOX consistently gets away with so called truths when they arent so in many cases. But like most news these days, people will believe their eyes rather than what they know in their hearts. Oh well.
Orange jumpsuit eh. Oh, i hope not.
Sheila
karenfromillinois (#11) ~
HotJesusinafryingpan. Incredible.
Again.
…I wish we had an army of karens. How many such ‘tags’ would we find buried in the ghostly archives of so many elections past? How many instances of these anomalous, impossible numbers represent certified winners of stolen races; candidates who were bought and paid for long before their name was ever on the ballot…
…and no one even bothers to look at the damn numbers, that show kfromi’s ‘tags’ all over the place. And soon, they *won’t be able to* at all, anymore, what with precinct by precinct results disappearing down the rabbit hatch, a procedural relic now; meant to dodo-extinct any citizen oversight of our election process.
I highly recommend EVERYONE look at the link karen provides, if for no other reason so you can see exactly what she’s talking about / learn to look for them in your own district.
If nothing else, we can at least track the trend of these American election heists; travesties, all. Thank you, karen, for following up on Walker’s numbers…(Brad – you lookin’ at that?)
What strikes me as odd about this story, though, is why would anyone (especially a high-ranking, state election official) bother to vote illegally when we all know the machines are so easily jimmied? Seems incredibly naive.
Why was White was *that* worried about his official “results”? Why risk so much for just one more vote? And how is it that he didn’t know that his high profile position would make it more likely that he’d get caught?…
…Could he really be that much of a douche-canoe?
Oops! Confused threads…merged my thoughts w/ the info from the breaking White story.
Venturing a bit OT here, but…
OF COURSE Clear Channel is paying actors to phone-in to radio shows with pre-scripted scenarios:
http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion/58759/radio-daze/
Digg Patriots, possible Chamber narcs, fake fake fake made up stuff everywhere planted and perpetually circulated by these loaded ass-bags – just to create the illusion of consensus.
That is so effin’ creepy.
Fox News not allowed in Canada, despite bush wannabe Stephen Harper pushing for change in legislation. They have a law that requires news organizations to tell the truth.
O’rielly, what a joke, didn’t he say “video comes in video comes out never a miscommunicationâ€. Why is it that so many fools follow this liar? It looks like that the top republican candidates for president will be coming from “Fake News/ Fox Newsâ€, or should I say “Big Businessâ€, how funny.
I wonder if “Fake News†has a stable of likely republican supreme court justices (I am sure they will all attend the republican state of the union, unlike Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas, scum bags).
The reason there are palm trees in Wisconsin is because of global warning.
Here is a link to a story Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote about Fox not being allowed in Canada. Actually they are allowed in Canada, they are just not allowed to lie or mislead, so they choose not to broadcast in Canada rather than be forced to tell the truth.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/5123-fox-news-lies-keep-them-out-of-canada
We’ll be coming for the Corporate news outlets and their paid propagandists (Murdoch better hire XE or Wackenhut) too….
The problem is that the people who watch Faux News never get to hear the truth because that’s all they watch. And the constant slamming of the “liberal media” and the “mainstream media” only makes them distrust what they do manage to hear.