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Now Shep Smith pulling an O'Reilly???
Fox News | 08/06/04 | awestruck

Posted on 08/06/2004 1:00:31 PM PDT by Awestruck

I just saw Shep Smith on Fox, talking about the Swift Vets, and saying "hardly any of these guys actually served with Kerry, I mean they were in the same war..." He also has "experts" on the pro-Kerry side and no one on the other side...what's going on with Fox on this issue???


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ads; covwerup; doublestandard; fox; foxnews; lyingliar; mediabias; swiftboatad; swiftboatveterans; swiftboatvetsad; swiftvets
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To: jimbo123

The letter I wrote to FOX...

Dear FOX NEWS,

I'm more upset to see/hear the way the media is handling this issue than I can say. Rather than REALLY checking the veracity of the STORY the SwiftBoatsVets are telling- you are all simply attacking the ad itself. This is insane, why isn't ANYONE in the media checking the story? STOP. LOOK. LISTEN. What if it's TRUE??? From John McCain down to nearly everyone at FOX NEWS- you're all REACTING rather than researching.

I don't know if the story these men tell is true or false. But I will say this- my son is an active-duty soldier in the 101st AB who served in Iraq, and I want to know if the man running against President Bush to replace him as COMMANDER IN CHIEF is lying about his record in the military. Don't you?

I am so concerned at the direction I've seen FOX NEWS headed lately- where is the fair and balanced coverage? Where is the investigative reporting? Where does the buck really stop?

Best Regards,


61 posted on 08/06/2004 1:25:10 PM PDT by SE Mom
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To: syriacus

Well .. nobody was in the same airplane with Bush .. but that didn't seem to stop them from saying he was AWOL.

And .. anytime you have Bob Beckel on (who is a notoriously corrupt shill for the ultra left-wing group of the party), you can bet there's a hit coming.

I change channels. Evidently FOX has forgotten how they got where they are!


62 posted on 08/06/2004 1:25:32 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: America is the Greatest Nation on the Face of the Earth)
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To: alnick

I just wrote him at studiob@foxnews.com


I just wrote him to tell him how he runs off at the mouth when he does not know what he is talking about. I told him a lot more with that...He made me mad.


63 posted on 08/06/2004 1:25:33 PM PDT by americanmother (Thessalonians chapter 2)
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To: cincy29; martin_fierro
Now Shep Smith pulling an O'Reilly???

Did not see it!.......... Shep is an idiot.......... O'Reilly is an idiot............... Hannity is a near idiot.................

John Gibson and Brit are brilliant............ 'nuff said from me!!!!!!!!!

p.s. The girls are beautiful ......... send Patti Anne Browne and Heather Nauert over any time.

64 posted on 08/06/2004 1:25:34 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
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To: Awestruck
Yea I heard Shep .. he also called the Swiftboat Vets liars

Ummmm Shep .. these are the SAME men in a photo that Kerry HIMSELF is using in HIS campaign ads

Soooooooooooooo .. if they are in the photo WITH Kerry ...

What are the chances they did serve with him????

65 posted on 08/06/2004 1:25:39 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: alnick

Try this one:

shepard.smith@foxnews.com


66 posted on 08/06/2004 1:25:47 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: txflake

I love Ben Stein so much.


67 posted on 08/06/2004 1:26:28 PM PDT by txhurl (A splinter, shorter than a staple, about as thick, barely stuck in his skin = Kerry a purple heart.)
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To: Jenya

What I e-mailed to FoxNews:

You have shown yourselves to NOT be fair and balanced by your treatment of the Swift Boat Vets. What kind of people do you think made you the top-rated news show on cable huh?

People like ME and those Veterans that's who.

Many people quit watching Network News, and we can quit watching FOX as well! Then you can preach to the choir, but the donation basket will come up empty.


68 posted on 08/06/2004 1:26:36 PM PDT by hushpad
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To: Awestruck

Time moves quickly. "Served with" has now taken on a NEW MEANING ala the Rats - it means in the same boat, for 1 year, 24/7 - otherwise the source is "a fraud."


69 posted on 08/06/2004 1:26:40 PM PDT by Libertina (Keep this tag line open for John Kerry: He may need to communicate with a commoner.)
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To: sam_paine
If Hard news were a Thanksgiving Dinner, Shep Smith would be a Jujy Fruit at the kiddie table.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA

70 posted on 08/06/2004 1:27:06 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Awestruck

Kinda like how Shep and OReilly aren't part of the same organization, even though both appear on the same network.


71 posted on 08/06/2004 1:27:17 PM PDT by unsycophant
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To: alnick
I told him to look at the ad. Several of the men in the ad ARE THE VERY SAME MEN in the photo that Kerry shows when bragging that his band of brothers support him.

BINGO!!!

Why is ok for Kerry to use them in campaign ads

But these Vets are not allowed to speak up for themselves

If I recall correctly .. these Vets did send a letter to Kerry aksing him to stop using the Photo

72 posted on 08/06/2004 1:27:47 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: Awestruck
It's time for some context.

If Kerry were a fighter pilot, he'd only have a back-seater "on the same" plane with him.

If Kerry were a B-52 bomber pilot, he'd only have about six men "on the same" plane with him.

If Kerry were a tank commander, he'd only have five men "on the same" tank with him.

In each of these cases, he'd still be a part of a larger squadren of men who bunk together, get briefed together, who eat together, and who party together.

-PJ

73 posted on 08/06/2004 1:28:10 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: beyond the sea

What about Tony Snow?


74 posted on 08/06/2004 1:28:15 PM PDT by gilliam
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To: Awestruck

I WANT TO SCREAM!

Each of these boats was like a squad in the Army, which is what, 7 or 8 men? The squads make up a company. Believe me you know the men in your company not just your squad. You know who were the screw-ups, who were good soldiers, who were religious, who had the clap, etc. It was the same for me in the Navy. I was Flight Deck ordnance (6 men), but knew all about the dozens of other ordnance men on the Hanger deck, in the magazines deep inside the ship.


75 posted on 08/06/2004 1:28:31 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Awestruck

I saw that too. Shep needs to do a little research before he blasts off.


76 posted on 08/06/2004 1:28:49 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Liberalism corrupts. Absolute Liberalism corrupts absolutely.)
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To: Libertina

I think it is 4 months 24/7.;)


77 posted on 08/06/2004 1:29:12 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's floats, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Awestruck
Once I was involved in a little movie done locally. In one scene one of the local TV "personalities" had been hired to do this monologue.

Well, the TV "star" shows up and he asks for the script. Then he excuses himself and goes into another room. We can see him through some glass and he's reading the script. We could see his lips move but not hear him.

So, the guy reads the script then comes out. They get him ready then he walks away for a second then comes back and says he's ready to go. They say "action" and this guy does the long monologue (it was a technical training film) and gets every word 100% right! One take! Amazing!

Well, we all thought "this guy is a genius". He's some kind of super brainiac. Well, he was not. Actually, he was not that sharp. He just read whatever they put in front of him on TV when they told him to.

Who can tell me how he did what I describe above?

78 posted on 08/06/2004 1:29:24 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
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To: gilliam
Yes, he is great too. :-)

There ARE many more on Fox also!

79 posted on 08/06/2004 1:29:27 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
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To: Chieftain

I'm suspicious of the timing of your criticism of the spelling of Rassmann's name?


80 posted on 08/06/2004 1:29:31 PM PDT by OldFriend (IF IT'S KERRY.....HELL IS ON THE WAY)
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