Posted on 04/06/2007 5:22:27 PM PDT by Williams
Two glaring examples tonight:
Fox News about an hour ago breathlessly reported on this new global warming report, and stated straight out that scientists have concluded the World is facing a catastrophe with millions dying of hunger, draught, and disease, and that man IS the cause. Further, they reported that only drastic economic changes can reverse course.
They did NOT present any differing views. They reported all this as fact. Sheperd Smith was anchoring, but I don't think you can only blame the anchor for the news writing and reporting.
At one point they showed a clip of a scientist predicting catastrophe and the screen title referred to a "GreenPeace Report" on global warming. But I believe the main report was based on the latest UN document, so the sudden reference to a Greenpeace report was confusing. They also mentioned that the report should have been worse but the "government" made the scientists tone it down. I think this was a reference to the Chinese government but I don't think Fox specified that. I was shocked they offered no differing opinion.
Then Smith talked about a US government report that concluded the Iraqi government had no formal contact with Al Queda prior to our invasion, based on interviews with former Iraqi officials and other sources. Shepard smith stated, and this was the shocker, that this new report directly contradicted statements to the contrary by Vice President Cheney as recently as yesterday.
I know exactly what Shepard Smith was referring to, because I heard Cheney on Rush Limbaugh yesterday. Cheney said NOTHING about Al Queda working with the Iraqi government.
Cheney said that Zarqawi started out in Afghanistan, then moved his operation to Iraq because we invaded Afghanistan, then was in Iraq and started fighting us there after we invaded. I'm sure Cheney was right. So why the ill informed attack on Cheney by Shepard Smith?
Let's face it, Fox is more tabloid gossip than news channel, but this certainly looked like two examples of the news side behaving like the MSM.
Is Shepherd Smith Shepherd Smith?
Answer: Yes.
The Breck Girl doesn’t think so.
No, Fox News is not becoming liberal. They are liberal and have been for a long time.
Not a word on OBL’s take on all this. Are we saving the world for him? Why? Someone’s not thinking!
Tonight, the played the same 2 minute piece on painting police cars black and white, back to back two times in a row.
Sometimes FOXNEWS seems like the local public service cable channel.
I wouldn’t know, since I stopped watching about two years ago.
Is Shepard Smith liberal == YES. Did Shepard Smith stand on the bridge night after night following Katrina lying to the audience about access to New Orleans === Yes. Did he forget to have the camera turn around and show the road was clear of water == YES.
So Shepard Smith is the problem, always has been. The solution, turn him off.
Sheperd Smith is a left wing lunatic.
Roger Ailes said at one point that he won’t let global warming “deniers” air their opinions on his station. At least, he ran a “global warming is real and manmade” special, and would allow no refutation at all. I don’t know if they’ve sailed left since then as I’ve not had the channel on after that and Bill O’Reilly’s continual assault on the Swifties.
I don’t watch Shep anymore.
The short answer is YES!!!!
Earlier today, while doing a news report on the Minutemen, Shepard Smith asked, rhetorically, “just who the hell do these people think they are?”
It’s about time for Fox to make a course correction. First step, fire all fa#$)ts that are pretending to be journalists.
Shep Smith.....there’s yer problem!
They appear to now be showing just one side to an argument - what ever it is - and that is not fair and balanced, IMHO.
They’ve always been liberal. They’re just less liberal than the other networks.
If I had a billion dollars, I’d create (Cue “ta-da!” music) The Reagan Channel. 24 hours of pure conservatism, movies, sports, shooting and fishing stories on the weekends, original conservative programming, all of Reagan’s films, and of course, conservative news and information.
When was Fox news NOT liberal?
Don't get so upset about this stuff. Sheesh, it's not the GOP despite what the left says or you may have hoped.
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