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Fact Check: Reich Claims Non-Existent Fox News Led Conservative Charge in 1994
Big Journalism ^ | Jan 26th 2010 | Frank Ross

Posted on 01/27/2010 6:41:15 AM PST by kingattax

Former Obama economic advisor, Clinton Secretary of Labor, and Berkely Prof. Robert Reich claimed yesterday in his column at Salon.com that Fox News played a role in the conservative resurgence of 1994:

In December 1994, Bill Clinton proposed a so-called middle-class bill of rights including more tax credits for families with children, expanded retirement accounts, and tax-deductible college tuition. Clinton had lost his battle for healthcare reform. Even worse, by that time the Dems had lost the House and Senate. Washington was riding a huge anti-incumbent wave. Right-wing populists were the ascendancy, with Newt Gingrich and Fox News leading the charge. Bill Clinton thought it desperately important to assure Americans he was on their side.

But Prof. Reich overlooked one minor detail: Fox News Channel’s first broadcast wasn’t until October 7, 1996.

The plan for FNC wasn’t even outlined until January of 1996, so what could explain such a patently false claim? Is the professor suggesting that even in 1994, Fox News’ imminence did in fact play a role in the political upheaval of that year? Or is this a moment where Fox Derangement Syndrome enters the realm of full-blown paranoia?

Either way, where was Salon on this one to save Reich from himself? And would Prof. Reich tolerate fact-checking this poor from his college students?


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: kingattax
Always reminded me of Doctor Loveless...


61 posted on 01/27/2010 7:56:57 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: F15Eagle

Okay, so the Selma March in 1964 was nothing like the movie “The Terminator” and how John Connor was conceived and cannot be compared to how Obamas parents met.


62 posted on 01/27/2010 7:57:52 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: rarestia

Yeah, Stick to stuff Academics really know about.

Like that Peer-reviewed Global Warming Stuff.


63 posted on 01/27/2010 7:58:15 AM PST by Dryman ("FREE THE LONG FORM!")
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To: F15Eagle

Obama wants to save his nation, that is the Nation of Islam.


64 posted on 01/27/2010 7:58:35 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: kingattax

wow has FNC only been around since the end of 1996? seems much longer ago.


65 posted on 01/27/2010 8:00:03 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: maggief

THAT was funny!


66 posted on 01/27/2010 8:05:01 AM PST by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
They know their base very well.

Ah but they don't know US!

And at the rate things are going, pretty soon,

"All their base are belong to US!" LOL!

68 posted on 01/27/2010 8:14:51 AM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: rightly_dividing
Yep, you just described the liberal left voter.

And that's what they count on.

69 posted on 01/27/2010 8:16:36 AM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: kingattax

70 posted on 01/27/2010 8:16:41 AM PST by Niteranger68 ("Hey John Kerry....why the long face?")
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To: Red Boots
I never realized how easy it was to be an intellectual. I thought you actually had to know stuff, not just SAY stuff. My dumb.

This is why the first victims of the communist purges are the "Intelligentsia".

Because they REMEMBER.

71 posted on 01/27/2010 8:18:56 AM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: hflynn
If ever a guy was to small to see the big picture it is Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiichhhhhh.

He couldn't see the forest for the bushes?

72 posted on 01/27/2010 8:20:50 AM PST by Defiant (The absence of bias appears to be bias to those who are biased.)
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To: Outlaw Woman
A strategy which seems to work for some of the population

A segment, which according to polls, is dwindling at a rapid rate! LOL.

73 posted on 01/27/2010 8:20:50 AM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: F15Eagle
They must have replaced Karl Rove's Hurricane Machine with a TIME TUNNEL!


74 posted on 01/27/2010 8:23:45 AM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: left that other site

Good point....Mass is a great example isn’t it?


78 posted on 01/27/2010 8:31:11 AM PST by Outlaw Woman (If you remove the first Amendment, we'll be forced to move on to the next one.)
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To: kingattax
Right-wing populists were the ascendancy, with Newt Gingrich and Fox News leading the charge. Bill Clinton thought it desperately important to assure Americans he was on their side...
...But Prof. Reich overlooked one minor detail: Fox News Channel’s first broadcast wasn’t until October 7, 1996.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

FAIL!

The most incisive and redefining event for both "progressives" and "professors!"

You can't make up stuff like this.

79 posted on 01/27/2010 8:39:42 AM PST by Publius6961 (He is not America; he is an employee seemingly unable to rise to minimal expectations.)
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To: kingattax

Finally! He always sounds like he is lecturing to children. I always knew that he was full of crap and eventually he’d trip up big. He won’t be getting the audiences he’s been getting after this.


80 posted on 01/27/2010 8:43:07 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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