Fox News Drifting Leftward?

American Thinker ^ | 1-26-12 | James Simpson

[radioone]

Cliff Kincaid at America's Survival has launched a call for Fox News to bring back Glenn Beck.

This announcement comes on the heels of troubling revelations about Beck's firing and other disturbing trends at Fox. It quickly got front-page coverage at the Huffington Post, presumably to launch a campaign of ridicule and smears before Kincaid's idea builds momentum. No matter how much they sneer, the left is terrified of Beck.

Beck's firing was the work of George Soros, Kincaid has revealed. Soros funded Color of Change, the organization founded by Van Jones that launched a boycott against Fox after Beck (really Trevor Loudon) outed Jones as a communist. But Soros is also behind the groups Jewish Funds for Justice and Media Matters, both of which attacked Beck as an anti-Semite for his reporting about Soros' activities during WWII. Soros admitted in a 1998 CBS 60 Minutes interview that as a teenager in Hungary, he had participated in the confiscation of Jewish properties but felt no guilt about it.

[y6162]

Soros’ Media Matters is running opposition research on Fox News execs and is apparently blackmailing Ailes.

[JamesA]

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.

[panaxanax]

“I knew about Soros, et al...”

As did I. Many didn’t and he woke them up.

[Venturer]

I watch the MSM to get the weather and half the time they cannot even get that right.

Fox has been drifting left for a while now. plus they have so many commercials they haven’t got time for the news.

[Bigg Red]

I agree with you about Beck.

[panaxanax]

“Beck has served his purpose but his pessimistic attitude is hard to take day in and day out....”

Well, you could just bury your head in the sand and pretend that the America we all love and our way of life isn’t under attack on every front.

I suggest you start watching the ‘Rainbows & Unicorns’ channel if you want to avoid the truth.

[panaxanax]

Thanks to you all.

[Little Ray]

It is inevitable that any organization, unless explicitly Conservative, will eventually be overtaken by the Left.

[bonfire]

Let FOX know how you feel! Link to all their emails:

America Live w/ Megyn Kelly

kelly@foxnews.com

America’s Newsroom w/ Bill and Martha

americasnewsroom@foxnews.com

Bulls and Bears

bullsandbears@foxnews.com

Cashin’ In

cash@foxnews.com

Cavuto on Business

cavuto@foxnews.com

Forbes on FOX

forbes@foxnews.com

FOX & Friends

friends@foxnews.com

FOX News Specials

fncspecials@foxnews.com

FOX News Sunday

fns@foxnews.com

FOX News Watch

newswatch@foxnews.com

FOX Report w/ Shepard Smith

foxreport@foxnews.com

FOX Report Weekend

foxreport@foxnews.com

Geraldo at Large

atlarge@foxnews.com

Hannity

hannity@foxnews.com

Happening Now w/ Jon Scott & Jenna Lee

happeningnow@foxnews.com

Huckabee

huckmail@foxnews.com

The Journal Editorial Report

jer@foxnews.com

On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren

ontherecord@foxnews.com

Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld

redeye@foxnews.com

Special Report w/ Bret Baier

special@foxnews.com

Studio B w/ Shepard Smith

studiob@foxnews.com

The O’Reilly Factor

oreilly@foxnews.com

War Stories w/ Oliver North

warstories@foxnews.com

Your World w/ Neil Cavuto

cavuto@foxnews.com

[Soul of the South]

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.

[Soul of the South]

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.

[Robert Drobot]

You wrote, ”....And Kimberley Guilfoyle has the hottest legs on television....”

I would dare you or any FReeper to attempt matching wits with KG. Your Freudian condescending sexist revelation is no badge of honor, rather it is quite descriptive of you; in which case it is understandable that you employ the use of a synonym rather than your true name here.

Kimberley Guilfoyle is as sharp as a tack in her knowledge of both statute and case law, and could easily manage her own show given her years of interviewing and critiquing of news events which demand not only a legal background, but more importantly the ability to explain issues in common terminology for those of us not schooled in the butchery of the English language by a profession that prides itself in its abuse of every written tongue.

I’m of the opinion Kimberley Guilfoyle would make an excellent conservative Constitutionalist AG or Solicitor General.

Unwarranted demeaning suggest fear or envy or both.

[reformedliberal]

I agree.

You can add to the list of Beck’s accurate predictions that his opponents will be praying for a return to the days when he was only on one channel for one hour/day.

I catch his GBTV sporadically, since it is at an inconvenient time, right now. I do watch parts of previous day’s shows on replay. This week was again one of those where he sliced through the fog of the current media and brought interesting people on to speak and share. Yesterday’s show centered on the surveillance society and while I did already know _some_ of what was presented, some was new to me. Anyone can take advantage of his 2 weeks free offer and review the GBTV show that is live at 5pm eastern on weekdays.

Does he cry on his radio show? I never watch/listen to it. He occasionally chokes up for a bit on the TV show. He is obsessive and he knows far more than he is able to present coherently in even 2 hours/day plus an hour of The Blaze. I think he tends to work to exhaustion and takes pains to be comprehensive and balanced. I see him constantly asking his guests if his own predictions are accurate. Usually, they say “Yes”. Sometimes, they say :”It isn’t quite that bad or quite that imminent”. He never castigates a guest who doesn’t agree with him totally.

So, he hates Newt? Aren’t we all still entitled to our personal opinions? Is he over the top? What presenter isn’t? Conservatives have wanted a conservative TV channel. Back in the 90s there were several that really sucked, were boring and never went against the establishment. Now, there is Beck and the criticism is against his personal faith, his personal style and the fact that he isn’t in lockstep with some mythical conservative consensus. Some carp that he is making money. Isn’t that what capitalism is all about?
Has anyone done some rough calculations of what two sound stages, a news operation, the staff to run it all and the utilities to keep it going must cost? I think he has put aside a nut to take care of his family and is reinvesting everything back into his business. I think his books and concerts, plus the network and The Blaze show an active creative mind, ADD or not. No one is forced to watch, read or listen.

Now, I actually am reading some FReepers saying that they have “warmed” to The Five because some female presenter has good legs? So, how many of the Beck haters are really working for Cass Sunstein?

[iowamark]

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.

[wayoverontheright]

She is the sharpest among them all. And she has the best looking legs.

[JoeGar]

“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.

[panaxanax]

We agree on Beck. Everything you said is 100% true.

As for Kimberly what’s her name leg’s, that is pretty shallow. I personally think ‘she’ might be a guy in drag. Ever notice how she always sits at the front and when the camera pans out she starts bouncing her legs around and wiggling like she’s about to pee herself?

[reformedliberal]

No sat TV here for 7 months, and counting. I am not even sure who this woman is. I have detested Beckel since the 70s. I appreciate the obvious lack of look-alike female presenters on GBTV. As a woman, it is refreshing to see women as diverse as Amy Holmes and S.E. Cupp and the former CNN staffer, all of whom appear to have been hired for their brains and ability.

The shallowness is something I see here often in recent months. I think these are mainly younger FReepers who have been infected by the culture. Also, it is tiresome to watch FReepers flame each other over Mormonism and party cohesiveness with the GOP. I will vote against zer0. I have been interested in politic since I was 11, but it has declined into tribalistic cronyism, so I am mostly ignoring the process at the moment.

I still remember an America where “I may disagree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to speak.” I also recall a country where personal faith was not to be denigrated. I was drawn here by the wide-ranging discussions between many people with the ability to articulate their thoughts and bring their accomplishments to the conversation. This is still present, but we have way too many folks who seem to equate conservatism with being a curmudgeon.

[reformedliberal]

Beck does far more than bash Newt.

As a conservative, I can find all I want of the establishment viewpoint anywhere on the web. Sometimes, though, I want to sit back and watch TV on a larger screen and so far, GBTV is the only outlet available and even that takes a streaming device.

The establishment has become a monolith. Beck is a dissenter. He makes formerly arcane information available to a wider audience. Certainly conservatives possess discernment and can decide for themselves which information to accept and which to subject to further investigation.

Beck has always said not to take his information on any perceived authority, but to do your own homework.

Works for me.

[smalltownslick]

But she has the nastiest, most unlistenable voice....