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Nominations Needed for Free Republic's Faux News Awards
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 | Kristinn

Posted on 04/26/2005 9:16:06 AM PDT by kristinn

Nominations are needed for Free Republic's Faux News Awards, which are to be presented this Saturday outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner by the D.C. Chapter.

10 winners will be announced. First Place will be awarded the Buckhead, the rest will get framed Sixty Minutes Faux Bush National Guard documents.

The criteria for nominees is as follows: A news reporter, editor, commentator, producer, executive or organization who has lied, fabricated, tried to dupe the public or stretched the truth so far that the truth is unrecognizable and called it news.

Please provide documentation for your nomination if possible. Links and/or excerpts are the best documentation for these awards.

Nominations will be accepted until Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. EDT. Voting will commence as soon as the nominations are sorted out.

Link to details of Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner freep.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awards; dcchapter; fauxnews; frauds; liars; propagandawingofdnc; propagandists; schadenfreude; tools
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To: BillF

Whoever was behind the bogus exit polls last November. (I'll look it up tomorrow.)


81 posted on 04/27/2005 8:05:58 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: Bars4Bill; Howlin

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Is there a follow up to that thread? Is it true that Burka Barbie is expecting his baby? Did Ken really in response attempt to demasculinize himself only to tragically realize he lacked genitalia?


82 posted on 04/27/2005 8:16:23 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (The murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo - NOT IN OUR NAME)
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To: kristinn
How about Chrissie Matthews for calling Zell Miller a segregationalist and Zell calling him out for a little code duello brushup? A Letter To Chris Matthews - (Zell Miller's publisher challenges "Chrissy" - tonite MSNBC)
83 posted on 04/27/2005 8:31:11 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (The murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo - NOT IN OUR NAME)
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To: kristinn

Right, at # 74 I suggested the promoters of the phony exit polls, but I'm not sure that any news organizations really bought into them or promoted them except internally. In other words, it might flavor the coverage without being revealed to the viewers/listeners.

Remember that technically the exit polls are supposed to be embargoed until the polls of the applicable state close. (Drudge broke the embargo, but then debunked the demographics in the samples relatively quickly, IIRC.)

On election day, I first heard of alleged exit polls with Kerry in the lead was on Sean Hannity's radio show. He was cautioning that the exit polls were horribly inaccurate 4 years earlier and should be considered highly suspect.

Later, Dick Morris stated his belief that someone connected to the Kerry campaign or the DNC was able to inject the skewed early exit poll data into the mix. I don't believe that it was ever resolved whether the skewed exit poll samples were simply luck-of-the-draw statistical flukes or purposeful manipulation. Morris wanted Congress to investigate whether this was a failed attempt to discourage GOP turnout.

Many of the left-wing "Bush stole the election" tin-foil hat wearers base their stolen election belief on the flawed early exit polls.


84 posted on 04/27/2005 8:45:41 PM PDT by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: kristinn

Do we have a Fake but True division?


85 posted on 04/27/2005 8:58:06 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
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To: BillF

Nominating the documentary Fahrenheit 911.


86 posted on 04/27/2005 9:01:13 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: BillF

OK. The hype about Air America. I'll have to research that to see if anyone deserves special recognition.


87 posted on 04/27/2005 9:40:29 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: COUNTrecount
Hey!

Shouldn’t that shirt have the words

“Of my Wife’s Money” between the lines

“I Just Spent” and

“250 Million”?

88 posted on 04/28/2005 5:13:22 AM PDT by SWO (IRAQ is a Campaign in WW IV, the ISLAMOFACISM War)
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To: BillF; rabidralph
Here's a funny photo I found on another FR thread, while looking for MSM Faux News awards nominees...


89 posted on 04/28/2005 7:37:57 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: deadhead; kristinn
Link to that FR thread.

Link to the only existing CNN Archived election day report from Jane Arraf in Baquba.

Of course it doesn't say a word about Arraf's wrong-way Corrigan moment; but it does have this little tidbit, from Arraf to Wolfie Blitzer..."This, for all of its faults, for all of its chaos, for all of the things that went wrong, that didn't go as planned, was very, very real, Wolf."

Now, this link to CNN's Iraq Election Day Video Log may hold more info on Arraf's errant report; but unless you are a Premium Service subscriber or an AOL Broadband or Road Runner High Speed Online customer, you can't watch the videos to find out.

90 posted on 04/28/2005 7:53:12 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: William Creel

"Do I get an award for having no life and posting often?:P"

I just stumbled upon this. ;D!


91 posted on 04/29/2005 8:35:00 AM PDT by poobear
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To: kristinn

Skinner (to represent everybody on DU who puts out lying garbage).


92 posted on 04/29/2005 12:28:46 PM PDT by meandog (FU-DU lurkers)
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To: kristinn
Does it have to be from just the past year? Here's the email I wrote blasting MSNBC and Jonathan Broder for an *incredible* fabrication in 1999:
###### My email to MSNBC

Subject: LIES in your news coverage -- retract immediately

You have serious, inexcusable errors in your online "news" article at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/261596.asp

It would take too long to run through them all, but one of the most egregious is the following assertion:

There are also provisions for background checks on those who sell weapons at gun shows and a restoration of the five-day waiting period that was part of the Brady gun-control law but excised by the Republican-controlled Congress three years ago after intense pressure by the gun lobby.
This is some of the most erroneous, incompetent, propagandizing reporting that I have seen in quite some time. It is beyond incorrect -- it is fantasy made up out of whole cloth. In truth, the Brady five-day waiting period switched over to an "instant check" system late last year DUE TO PROVISIONS WHICH EXISTED IN THE LAW FROM THE DAY IT WAS ENACTED IN 1993. Enacted by a Democratic-controlled Congress, for that matter. Have your "reporter" check out 18USC922(t)(1), if by chance he knows how to do that "research" thing he must have heard about in passing.

There has been ABSOLUTELY no legislative change to the waiting period provision since the day it was enacted, not by the "Republican-controlled Congress", nor by the "gun lobby", nor by anybody else.

Perhaps Mr. Broder was hallucinating about the 1997 (not "three years ago") Supreme Court decision which found the Brady Law's background check unconstitutional. Even so, that did not affect the "five-day waiting period" in the least, and not even a high school journalism student would be so incompetent as to mistake the United States Supreme Court for "the Republican-controlled Congress" or accuse them of bowing to "intense pressure from the gun lobby". What drugs is Mr. Broder taking these days?

Excuse me for being blunt, but I just have to ask -- where does your "reporter" Jonathan Broder get this shit? Does he simply make it up as he goes along, or is he merely a mouthpiece for the frequent lies of the "anti-gun lobby", with no effort on his part to check the "facts" as they are (mis)presented by HCI, the VPC, and the CPHV? When are your alleged "reporters" going to start learning that these organizations are more than willing to misrepresent reality to further their political agendas? And when are your "editors" going to get back from vacation and start fact-checking these alleged "news" stories?

I'm used to shoddy reporting from MSNBC on firearm issues, but this one sinks lower than even your usual low standard.

This sort of crap has been misinforming the public about firearm and political issues for far too long now. Only an electorate which has all the best information -- not biased propaganda -- can hope to actually make wise decisions about the course of our society, and on how best to help prevent tragedies like Littleton from reoccurring. You do the nation a huge disservice by repeatedly misleading them on these issues.

I will accept nothing less than an immediate and prominent retraction (not merely the silent removal of the lying propaganda in question), and an explanation from the editorial staff, or preferably Mr. Broder himself, as to how such a piece of fantasy could make its way into a "news" article. In addition, if Mr. Broder was relying on misrepresentations from anti-gun lobbyists, he would be doing the public a great service if he were to identify the unreliable source of information, so that future reporters (the kind that actually care about facts) will know that these sources can not be automatically trusted in the future. God knows he should have identified his source in the first place -- that's what real reporters do; are there any in your employ?

If I do not hear back from you, I will follow up on this topic via letters to all appropriate parties, both within MSNBC and outside it, and I will continue until some semblance of actual journalism returns to MSNBC.

CNN was responsible enough to publicly retract "Tailwind". Can we expect similar accountability from MSNBC? Or have you given up any semblance of integrity when it advances your staff's political agenda?

I await a response.

#### End of email

Needless to say, no response or retraction or explanation ever materialized.
93 posted on 04/29/2005 12:40:39 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: eyespysomething

How easy it is to forget!


94 posted on 04/29/2005 1:26:53 PM PDT by jwalburg (If I have not seen as far as others, it is because of the giants standing on my shoulders.)
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To: kristinn

Arrianna Huffington for just being an idiot, who is as phoney as the year is long.


95 posted on 04/30/2005 11:41:36 AM PDT by Bullish
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