JOHN STOSSEL-20/20 FRIDAY 7/12/02 10PM - "HOW MEDIA FOOLS PUBLIC"

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[The South Texan]

Must see TV!

[jodorowsky]

It's probably Joey Skaggs -- those were his pranks.

[DeweyCA]

This is a good show. I believe it was first aired back in June 2000.

[DeweyCA]

And BTW, I usually tape his specials and show them to friends, and to the high school kids in my Sunday School class. We have to educate the kids about the lies in our society.

[freeforall]

Like the fat squad or the cathouse for dogs.He also protested to rename the gypsy moth.

[CyberAnt]

Excuse me ... are you saying you think John was the one who did the hatchet job on Forbes tax plan??

You are oh so wrong!

It was John Stossell who exposed it, along with Bernie's book "BIAS".

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the hatchet job on Forbes tax plan

IMHO the one who did that was Forbes--in that, when people complained about the loss of the mortgage deduction, he replied on the basis of the high personal exemption.

In fact, to loss of the deduction would be 100% offset by the fact that the income paid to the lender would be tax-free. IOW, the homeowner would refinance at a low interest rate corresponding to the tax-free income.

[montag813]

I will believe that the Hillary fiasco will be reported on when I see the broadcast with my own eyes. Hillary personally got a right-wing Jewish public access show (which had been on for 5 years, is against the law to do so since shows are added and removed by lottery and cannot be censored by law) removed from the air during her campaign because they attacked her.

Let's see if Hillary and the Gay Mafia ay Disney actually allow the segment to air.

[teeman8r]

your stossel impression was right on... i truly believed john was typing it himself.

[ladyinred]

Gotta love this guy!
Anyone who will actually tell the world on ABC that Hillary was booed and then it was covered up is a hero to me!

[IoCaster]

He shoots, he scores!!

LOL! Oh man, that was priceless. Great post.

[NYCVirago]

. Remember when some people booed Hillary Clinton at a fund-raising concert after September 11th? MTV replayed the concert, but changed the boos to applause.

Wasn't it VH-1, not MTV, who aired and re-aired this program?

[M_Man]

That show with the the little brainwashed schoolkids was scary, it reminded me of the children in THX1138. I've got Stossel's Special on tape still, and trot it out everytime I think it'll sink in with some fence-sitter who I think will topple our way.

I've got room on the tape for this Stossel Special too.

Come to think of it, I haven't watched 20/20 since then.

[L.N. Smithee]

Could that be my pal, Cap'n Janks from the Howard Stern show? Janks once fooled THREE networks in one day when JFK, Jr. died and he scammed them into interviews by pretending to be a Coast Guard Officer. I think some of those interviews are still online as audio files.

No, it couldn't be him, unless he is the same person who came up with the dog brothel, etc. Reread the paragraph.

By the way, Janks is a cold-hearted jackass, and so is Stern for egging him on.

[dead]

It was VH-1, but MTV is the parent company that owns VH-1, so blaming either channel is correct.

[BlazingArizona]

I love the sort of braindead, bewildered yet outraged, look of complete confusion on Barbara Walters face after each Stossel piece.

Bawbwa Wawa's look after each Stossel piece is just like the look I got from the Barnes & Noble clerk this week as I checked out with a copy of Ann Coulter's "Slander".

[Aquinasfan]

Remember when some people booed Hillary Clinton at a fund-raising concert after September 11th? MTV replayed the concert, but changed the boos to applause.

Whoa.

John Stossel bump.

[Aquinasfan]

LOL! Oh man, that was priceless. Great post.

Ditto bump.

[TheEaglehasLanded]

STOSSEL is a LIBERTARIAN, they know about bias because they hardly get covered even by cspan. THINK how much coverage NADER and GREEN PARTY gets in comparison.

[Freedom4US]

And they've been doing it for years. I was told that the earth would run out of Oil by 1990 in the 1970's. I'm still waiting. At that time, we were "heading into an Ice Age"; later, "Global Warming"; now, they just say "Climate Change" so they have an out I guess. It's a national tragedy, and nobody calls them on it. Talk to a teenager today and they honestly believe we are "destroying the planet" etc. etc.

They are manipulating perception on a vast scale in order to further a leftist, socialist agenda. What's really funny is someday even the mouthbreathers will wake up and realize they've been completely, utterly, had. Why do you think they want to round up all the firearms?