A debate so "healthy" it makes you sick
October 28, 2009 11:42 pm ET by Jeremy Holden
During the October 28 edition of her Fox News show, Greta Van Susteren purported to host "a healthy debate" about health care reform.
During the first 35 minutes of the show, Van Susteren interviewed Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ), and -- for 10 minutes -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to discuss health care reform. (Van Susteren also interviewed Fox News contributor and former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum and Jeff Birnbaum of The Washington Times about issues not related to health care reform.)
So what, you might ask, makes it a "healthy debate"? The on-screen text, of course. And Fox News graphics wouldn't lie.

To think Fox News has been criticized for being the communications arm of the Republican Party.











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If MMFA is not on top of it, than who else will? They do an awesome job at keeping on top of things.
Pathetic also works, with either word you can't go Wrong.
Shepard Smith is the Soul Survivor of Credibility on Fox.
"On the Record" talk about an Oxymoron Segueing into a complete Crock.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
You have time to call Judge Edward Chin a Radical but no time for This?
If you bumped into Andrea Mackris at the Mall i imagine you would say Excuse Me?
But if you committed "Phone Rape" No Apology, No Contrition & No Empathy for Thee?
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
As evidenced by this.
If we call it a debate, but there's no one from the Democratic side of the aisle, can it still be called a debate?
And you thought propaganda was easy? It's a lot of work.
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And you thought propaganda was easy? It's a lot of work.
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FOX News: Real journalism, fair and balanced. We Report, You decide!
Anyone who advertises their "fairness" is probably lying.
Funny, but I don't remember that happening!
And it's a strawman argument to suggest that a free press isn't even MORE important to those on the left right now versus those on the right who support FoxNews, considering how badly their version of the news is tainted with distortions and omissions!
You seem to forget that Fox News.... IS NOT NEWS!!
Fox is a circus act which claims to be news! A big reason why Bush/Cheney types fall all over themselves clamoring to get their collective mugs on TV and normal people like president Obama stay away as much as possible!
On Mitch McConnell:
Why does this man always look as if he stares at light bulbs all day?
since they have decided to self identify as an opposition political arm of the republican party.. democrats have rightly (and finally) decided to call a spade a spade and treat them as simply the opposition..
if you find fox to be entertaining and worth your time..more power to you..have at it..but don't expect right-minded..intelligent folks to take you seriously..
Discuss.
She's a ghoul who made her career on OJ.
She's also the daughter of Joe McCarthy's campaign manager, and a Scientologist.
what would l ron hubbard do?
start his own religion!
Did you read the posting? I guess that's my first question. Because if you did, you'd see that the topic here is the lack of any opposing voices in this so-called debate. It's not a debate if you don't have two opposing sides, you know. There's a problem if you call something a debate that's not a debate.
That problem doesn't disappear by your claims about what personalities do or don't do on MSNBC. See, two wrongs don't make a right. It's wrong to claim to have a debate without an opposing view being present. And they called it a "healthy" debate. Now, I understand that was a play on words, but it was portrayed as not just a regular debate, but even better. But it wasn't a debate at all.
Do you understand this better now - that the issue was that they claimed they were having a debate, but they weren't?
Complaining about your issues with MSNBC doesn't mitigate the sins of FoxNews in any way. Do you understand this better now?
If MSNBC has claimed to have a debate, but only invited one side, please provide us with an example with links to that event.
I love what she did to Dick Armey on MTP a couple of weeks ago.
After he's been on MSNBC, then you can complain he hasn't been on fox, maybe, but not until.
As to fear, you keep thinking that. The ONLY person on fox who has a chance to keep up with the President is Britt.
If she had a conservative or Republican on, the term "talk me down" wouldn't make sense. The title is literally telling you that a Republican will not be on the segment!
OTOH, "A Healthy Debate" is not even a debate.
Of course not. How could it be healthy if it was infected with facts and un-American, Commie, Pinko, fascist, modern left-wing ideas?
Whose hooker are you?
O'Reilly belongs to the same school as my father did. "He who shouts loudest is the most right!"
Guess I have to cross her off the list. All that remains is Shepard Smith and I'm sure he'll get fired before the next election.
A report on health care from a neighbor to our north.
( <sarcasm> tag for those who need one.)
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