Fox started drifting leftward at least three years ago They are still slightly better than the rest, but not by as much as we need.
And unfortunately, Beck’s time has come and gone too.
Make it about anyone else....and I will back it, especially against Soros.
that being said, I for one do not want to see Glenn Beck crying again....let they who would pay for his online videos enjoy this crybaby...
No to Beck. Fox doesn’t need another mouthpiece slamming Newt and breaking out the pom-poms for Romney.
I like Glenn Beck, but I wouldn’t want him back on Fox in his current iteration. He’s clearly backing Romney, and obviously holds Newt in disdain. Beck’s Fox show was crisp and informative at first, then toward the end degenerated into an ominous tone, consistently predicting apocalypse. It just got to be too much of a downer for me to watch.
As to “The Five”, the show that replaced Beck’s time slot, I’m warming to it. Bob Beckel is the only lefty viewpoint, and his unabashed liberal views get thrashed, cordially, I might add, by the other four. The tone of THE FIVE is decidedly more upbeat than Beck.
Eric Bolling is clearly in the Gingrich camp. Andrea Tantaros seems to me to be in the Gingrich camp. Both Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino consistently bash Obama policies, I can’t tell if they’re for Romney or Newt, they’re certainly not lefties.
And Kimberley Guilfoyle has the hottest legs on television.
Rabbis call on Murdoch to sanction Beck
By Paul Farhi, Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
A coalition of rabbis wants Fox News chief Roger Ailes and conservative host Glenn Beck to cut out all their talk about Nazis and the Holocaust, and it’s making its views known in an unusual place.
The rabbis have called on Fox News’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, to sanction his two famous employees via a full-page ad in Thursday’s editions of the Wall Street Journal - one of many other media properties controlled by Murdoch’s News Corp.
The ad is signed by the heads of the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements as well as Orthodox rabbis.
“We share a belief that the Holocaust, of course, can and should be discussed appropriately in the media. But that is not what we have seen at Fox News,” says the ad, signed by hundreds of rabbis and placed by the Jewish Funds for Justice, a nonprofit advocacy group. Earlier this month, the group organized a letter-writing campaign asking Murdoch to remove Beck from the air.
The rabbis were prompted by Beck’s three-part program in November about liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros, whom Beck described as a “Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps” during World War II.
Soros was a young teenager in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the war and hid with a Christian family to escape the Holocaust. He once described accompanying his surrogate father while he confiscated property from Jews deported by the Nazis.
The Jewish Funds group has received financial support from Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
Ailes, in a November interview with the Daily Beast Web site, called NPR executives “Nazis” for their decision to fire Juan Williams, also a Fox commentator. He later apologized to the Anti-Defamation League, but not to NPR, saying, “I was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word, but I was angry at the time because of NPR’s willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough.”
But Ailes, in the same interview, defended Beck’s frequent use of Nazi references to describe his political opponents by attributing outrage over such remarks to “left-wing rabbis who basically don’t think that anybody can ever use the word ‘Holocaust’ on the air.”
In the Journal ad, which is also appearing in the Jewish Daily Forward newspaper, the rabbis write that they are “deeply offended” by Ailes’s dismissal of those who object to such language.
“It is not appropriate to accuse a 14-year-old Jew hiding with a Christian family in Nazi-occupied Hungary of sending his people to death camps,” says the ad. “It is not appropriate to call executives of another news agency ‘Nazis.’ And it is not appropriate to make literally hundreds of on-air references to the Holocaust and Nazis when characterizing people with whom you disagree.
“We respectfully request that Glenn Beck be sanctioned by Fox News for his completely unacceptable attacks on a survivor of the Holocaust and that Roger Ailes apologize for his dismissive remarks about rabbis’ sensitivity to how the Holocaust is used on the air.”
Thursday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an observance established by the United Nations in 2005.
“This is not an issue for liberal or conservative rabbis, but an issue for all,” said Mik Moore, chief strategic officer of Jewish Funds for Justice. “After all the calls for civility following the shootings in Arizona, we all think this is the wrong approach.” Moore declined to specify the cost of the ad, saying only that it cost “six figures.”
I was watching fox n friends this morning and it seemed they were all slamming Newt. I turned off the TV realizing now even they are in the tank for Romney. Fair and balanced, don’t think so.
Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News parent company, is 80 years old. When he dies the corporation will be managed by his children, professional management or be broken up. In any event the source of “fair and blanced news” will be folded into the global crony capitalist state and become another propaganda mouthpiece for the socialist elites.
A news source where conservative ideas can be objectively presented is only possible if it is owned by a person wealthy and powerful enough to stand up to the elite establishment. No doubt the second generation Murdoch heirs will want to fit into the politically correct international elite society and will succumb to peer pressure or government pressure to reinvent Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
The aging Murdoch is under attack on several fronts today and we see the leftward drift of Fox commentary even while he still lives. the government bureaucracies around the world are no doubt ready to pounce on News Corp as soon as Murdoch’s body assumes room temperature. His heirs and professional management will be under tremendous pressure to conform in order to preserve intact as much of Murdoch’s empire as they can. Soros himself may be preparing to buy pieces of the company. Imagine the new improved Fox News as a mouthpiece for George Soros.
Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News parent company, is 80 years old. When he dies the corporation will be managed by his children, professional management or be broken up. In any event the source of “fair and blanced news” will be folded into the global crony capitalist state and become another propaganda mouthpiece for the socialist elites.
A news source where conservative ideas can be objectively presented is only possible if it is owned by a person wealthy and powerful enough to stand up to the elite establishment. No doubt the second generation Murdoch heirs will want to fit into the politically correct international elite society and will succumb to peer pressure or government pressure to reinvent Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
The aging Murdoch is under attack on several fronts today and we see the leftward drift of Fox commentary even while he still lives. the government bureaucracies around the world are no doubt ready to pounce on News Corp as soon as Murdoch’s body assumes room temperature. His heirs and professional management will be under tremendous pressure to conform in order to preserve intact as much of Murdoch’s empire as they can. Soros himself may be preparing to buy pieces of the company. Imagine the new improved Fox News as a mouthpiece for George Soros.
The latest in bizarre Cliff Kincaid rants. He used to claim that the Clintons were running Fox News.
Glenn Beck is doing nothing but bashing Newt Gingrich. He is the very last thing any conservative would want more of.
“Beck” had good ratings, but the boycot killed the show’s income to FOX. Its replacement, “The Five”, also leads the 5pm EST cable ratings by a very wide margin. Between the two, I’d bet that “The Five” makes more money for FOX.
Since I can sift through the bs and decide for myself, I have no problem with FOX.
And the notion that FOX has gotten less conservative is stupid and ignorant at the same time. I prefer "The Five" over Beck at 5:00. You get to see four people, from various levels of conservatism, beat the crap out of Bob Beckel everyday.
O'Reilly is just as bombastic and annoying. Hannity hasn't changed. Greta still loves Sarah and still bores me to death! Shepard Smith is still unwatchable and "Red Eye" ROCKS!
FoxNews has never been “RIght”. Maybe just not as overtly liberal as their competition...