Posted on 12/25/2006 10:01:31 AM PST by Mike Bates
Fox News took another turn for the worst when it started airing a new show hosted by Erich "Mancow" Muller, a loud-mouth shock jock whose radio program was the subject of repeated indecency complaints to the Federal Communications Commission. Muller's employer admitted the essence of the charges, paid a substantial fine of $300,000, and let Muller go in 2005. Fox News has tried to make him a star.
The complaints were filed by David E. Smith, now head of the Illinois Family Institute, who objected to Muller's airing of sexually graphic material. Muller, who poses as a conservative on the Fox News Channel, trumpets his own right to "free speech" but sued Smith for filing indecency complaints against him. The Muller suit was completely frivolous, of course, and was eventually dropped.
Before getting his own show on Fox News, Muller made regular appearances on the Fox & Friends show.
Despite Muller's sleazy background, the conservative-oriented Newsmax.com website ran a positive story about his new Fox show and his career. The story made no mention of his history of filthy routines.
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Years ago I was duped into appearing on Muller's radio show to talk about the United Nations. I didn't know who he was at the time. When the interview quickly degenerated into insults and interruptions, I hung up the phone. Muller gave out my home phone number over the air, generating dozens of harassing calls to me and my wife, who was pregnant at the time. I complained to Muller's employer and received a financial settlement without having to file suit.
This is the kind of person Fox News has hired. It's amazing to see so many conservatives duped into thinking he's one of them.
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I have never heard Mancow's radio show so I cannot comment on that. I have seen him on FOX and friends and he seems to have calmed down quit a bit compared to when I first saw him.
I did catch a part of his show on FOX and he seemed pretty professional and not the mouth he can be on F&F....I have not watched it since so I really don't know.
Merry Chistmas and a blessed New year.
No sweat. MSNBC learned their lesson pretty quick with Michael Savage.
On a good day, Mancow is a jerk. Hopefully, his show will air only when I can't see it, or any re-runs.
Merry Christmas
The reporter Cliff Kinkaid is a certified conservative so there must be something to this. Never heard of Mancow however.
You (the author of the article) are probably a UN apologist, which is why you didn't like the "tenor" of the interview with Mancow. Obviously that experience gave you a natural bias towards Mancow, which shows clearly in the article. Fox=bad, Mancow=bad. Got it. Now go away.
Or you could figure out how to operate the knobs on your 19" Sony.
Cliff Kincaid, president of America's Survival, Inc., also serves as editor of the Accuracy in Media (AIM) Report.
Through America's Survival, Inc., organization (www.usasurvival.org), he has been an advocate on behalf of the families of victims of terrorism and has published reports and held conferences critical of the United Nations.
A veteran journalist, media critic and policy analyst, Cliff concentrated in journalism and communications at the University of Toledo, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and came to Washington through a national journalism program headed by conservative author and journalist M. Stanton Evans. At his college newspaper, Cliff won an award for editorial writing from the Society of Professional Journalists.
He has appeared on and been quoted by many media organizations. He was a guest co-host on CNN's Crossfire (filling in for Pat Buchanan) in the 1980s, where he confronted the then-Libyan Ambassador to the U.N. with evidence of Libyan involvement in international terrorism.
His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Chronicles, Human Events, Insight, and other publications. He served on the staff of Human Events for several years and was an editorial writer and newsletter editor for former National Security Council staffer Oliver North at his Freedom Alliance educational foundation.
Kincaid's career in Washington, D.C. includes the following:
In 1981, Cliff wrote an article in Human Events, the national conservative weekly, which exposed the influence of CIA defector Philip Agee in media attacks on a State Department report on Communist activities in El Salvador and Central America. Kincaid's article was cited in a Senate speech by then-Senator John Tower and by many news organizations and columnists.
In 1981, Cliff wrote a Human Events story, based on a document captured in El Salvador, on how a Salvadoran Communist agent had manipulated U.S. leftist and Marxist groups.
In 1983, Cliff's article in Human Events on the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) made Kincaid a target of attack in the leftwing and communist press.
In 1986, Cliff wrote an article for Conservative Digest, "Playboy Hugh Hefner's Politics of Hedonism," examining the political connections of the Playboy company to the liberal-left and the Democratic Party. This became a 1992 book, "The Playboy Foundation: A Mirror of the Culture?" published by the Capital Research Center. Playboy retaliated with a full-page attack on Kincaid in its January 1994 issue.
In 1987, Cliff debated leftist lawyer Daniel Sheehan of the Christic Institute on C-SPAN and exposed his "legal terrorism" against members of the military and intelligence community. Sheehan's "Contragate" lawsuit was later thrown out of court for lack of evidence.
Kincaid's other books include:
Profiles of Deception (with Reed Irvine) 1990.
The News Manipulators (with Reed Irvine and Joseph C. Goulden) 1993.
Global Bondage: The U.N. Plan to Rule the World (1995).
Global Taxes for World Government (1997).
Michael New: Mercenary or American Soldier (with Daniel New) 1998.
The New United Nations' Welfare Giveaway (2000).
The Hijacking of American Foreign Policy (2003).
Why You Can't Trust the News (with Reed Irvine and Notra Trulock) 2003.
Cliff is married and has three sons.
is that what those things are for?
What are you so excited about? As far as I know, Mancow only had that one episode several weeks ago, and hasn't been back on since.
The FCC fined FOX 300,000 but allowed cBS to investigate themselves with the Dan Rather agitprop and lies.. Must have been Colin Powell's son that was head of the FCC at the time..
The incest is deep and nasty..
he was the first media call what Reid was doing at the hospital with Sen Johnson for what it was..BS concern for Johnson and more worry over power for the senate
Mamcow is not sleazy!!!!
I am a semi-regular listener to Mancow's radio show and he often states that he is a libertarian who did/does not support the president on many issues; however he is often unyielding in his defense of/support for him. His show has many elements of his arch rival Howard Stern's adolescent fixations (a lot interviews with/references to porn stars, etc.), but there are also heavy doses of testimony of his Christian faith, which he admittedly struggles with. While his show is clearly crafted to appeal to the 18-35 y.o. male demographic, there is an interesting subtext to his show that is mature and thought provoking. I'm 45 and for the most part I enjoy his show. On balance I would have to say his opinions are conservative most of the time.
Should I put my flame suit on yet?
I've heard him. I don't really care about the conservative/nonconservative angle. He's a dope and he won't add either enlightenment or entertainment.
I think Mancow would have to be considered a strong conservative voice. I've never heard his radio show but his appearances on F&F are always mom, apple pie and America.
No, I never heard of Mancow either.
I'll suspend judgment on Mancow, since I never heard of him before. But I like and trust Kincaid, so I'm disposed to blieve him. Fox does sometimes like to play with sleaze.
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