Posted on 05/24/2013 4:01:31 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Dear colleagues,
The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government's efforts to criminalize the pursuit of investigative journalism and falsely characterize a Fox News reporter to a Federal judge as a "co-conspirator" in a crime. I know how concerned you are because so many of you have asked me: why should the government make me afraid to use a work phone or email account to gather news or even call a friend or family member? Well, they shouldn’t have done it. The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth.
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Flashback:
Behind the War Between White House and Fox
Roger Ailes ‘thinks Palin is an idiot’
I wonder if he still thinks that Palin is stupid?
What??? Put down the bong!
No, bong...Ailes has been trying to quietly cozy up to the Obama Regime, and now it’s come back to bite him squarely on his fat butt. I guess you haven’t noticed the left turn at Fox News since 2010?
I think ailes is stupid... fired Brit Hume’s wife as News Director and crapped on Conservatives by slamming left and keeping an openly gay flamer as head anchor. Coddling old bill o’bloviator was another dumb move. Palin has been right all along and rupert and ailes only care about their success and getting along with the powers that be... until that got them injured and along with that... an attack on our First Amendment. Maybe they will wake up?
LLS
“keeping an openly gay flamer as head anchor.”
Apologies for my ignorance, who is that?
Apologies for my ignorance, who is that?
The guy who leads into the O'Reilly Factor? Who else could it be?
Well, Roger, how hard are you going to fight back? Are you going to reverse your move into ‘moderacy’ and give Conservatives their time in the sun, or are you going to stick with the rovian attacks on us even now that you know we were right all along?
Your words are hollow if they are not followed up by action. Are you brave enough to stand by your words?
WE are watching.
Miss the beauties but not the beasts.
shep
“We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era...”
The Obama regime is on a political witch hunt for communists and communist sympathizers?
Surprised I ain’t, but I did not know that................. Well that explains all the drama.
At 2:00 and 6:00 CST I have to turn Fox News off because of Shepherd Smith. Cannot stomach the idiot any longer. Fox needs to get rid of Shep
“Ailes has been trying to quietly cozy up to the Obama Regime”
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Everything else in Amereka is going Communist, Why would FOX want to be left out?
If America is ever to recover, it will be many years down the road from the Obamination.
I can’t watch him either & the TV is on something other than FOX when he’s on.
Same here. They also need to get rid of Chris Wallace. I can’t stand that flaming liberal.
He seems to contradict himself - we now know McCarthy was right - almost like he agrees with Zero's folks.....
Shep Smith. Can’t you tell?
LLS
My guess is that Fox will push further left.
LLS
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