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Fox & Friends celebrates helping sell "over 1,000" R.I.P. U.S. Constitution tea party t-shirts

August 24, 2009 9:00 am ET

From the August 23 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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    • Author by mfinn7314 (August 24, 2009 9:07 am ET)
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      My belief in the "fair and balanced" mantra of Fox is crushed! ;)
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 24, 2009 9:22 am ET)
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        Saying "fair and balanced" on Fox is like saying, "That's a FACT!" right after you tell an outright lie. It makes you feel more strongly about your opinion/position/argument, but it still don't make it so. On those who have already surrendered their brains ever fall for it.
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    • Author by thundavolt (August 24, 2009 9:18 am ET)
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      What can a person do when you are trying survive the recession. They live for these moments because then can profit off of everyone else and then really have no reason to care about her neighbors. She won't be helping anyone but herself with all the money she gets. Who can blame her. It's the American way.
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 24, 2009 9:25 am ET)
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      This is a funny piece! I totally would have bought one, and worn it often, anytime from November, 2000 to November, 2008!

      They just have no clue, do they? They just keep projecting, and sometimes I think they don't even know they're doing it!

      Olbermann should have been this tasteless. He could have sold MILLIONS of these of the past eight years!
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    • Author by New Frontier (August 24, 2009 9:46 am ET)
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      One afternoon, at a Teabagger's home: "They're right! My government is smothering me! Let's order a bunch of those t-shirts as soon as I get my Social Security check."
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    • Author by dmhack (August 24, 2009 9:48 am ET)
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      Since Fox always fudges numbers, I put the real number of T-shirts sold at 3.
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      • Author by foghornleghorn (August 24, 2009 10:38 am ET)
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        But I bet those "water the tree of liberty" shirts (remember, the one Timothy McVeigh was wearing when he was arrested) flew off the shelves after that pistol-packin' teabagger was interviewed wearing one.
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    • Author by pilotshark (August 24, 2009 9:55 am ET)
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      so wonder how the rest of fox`s crew feels about having to buy these lame shirts. and only a 1000 sold, what happen to that robust viewer ship you all have?
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    • Author by magnolialover (August 24, 2009 10:02 am ET)
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      I wonder, if these Fox-ites could tell us exactly what part of the Constitution is RIP? Since nobody in the Obama administration has, you know, subverted it.
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      • Author by dr. matt (August 24, 2009 10:07 am ET)
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        Invading a country that didn't attack us, putting in warrant-less wire tapping of American citizens, lying over the [non] existence of WMD, indefinite imprisonment for enemy combatants, torture, and.....oh wait....that was the last guy. Never mind.

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        • Author by magnolialover (August 24, 2009 10:23 am ET)
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          Unfortunately, Bush had authorization from Congress to invade and use force in Iraq. He was given that authority from a highly bi-partisan vote. He did nothing un-Constitutional in that regard.

          Warrantless wiretapping, that's a horse of a different color for sure. I consider that an infringement on our Constitutional right of privacy, but there are some, who proclaim that the Constitution has NO inherent right to privacy. I would like to see this one brought before the judicial system for a ruling.

          Lying is protected by the Constitution.

          Torture goes against the Constitution for certain, and along with many treaties and our own laws that we've signed over the years, not to mention the Geneva Convention.

          Indefinite imprisonment, I'd say, is un-Constitutional. We should try these people in a court of law (it's worked just fine for other terrorists that we've nabbed in the past), so why can't it work for the ones we have now? Mostly because the evidence that we have on these folks in circumstantial at best, and I don't think most of it would hold up to scrutiny.
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          • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 24, 2009 10:31 am ET)
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            Unfortunately, Bush had authorization from Congress to invade and use force in Iraq. He was given that authority from a highly bi-partisan vote. He did nothing un-Constitutional in that regard.

            I suppose you're right, but let's not forget that many of those members of congress had no clue the extent to which the executive brach was lying to them, and just how badly the information as presented had been cherry-picked and distorted. Now... I'm not sure if lying to congrees is "unconstitutional" but I'm pretty sure it's criminal.

            "If the president does it, it's not illegal." ~Richard Nixon
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          • Author by Brabantio (August 24, 2009 10:37 am ET)
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            Unfortunately, Bush had authorization from Congress to invade and use force in Iraq. He was given that authority from a highly bi-partisan vote. He did nothing un-Constitutional in that regard.
            Torture goes against the Constitution for certain, and along with many treaties and our own laws that we've signed over the years, not to mention the Geneva Convention.
            It would be unconstitutional to torture American citizens or residents, surely. But why for foreign citizens? The basis for that would be the Supremacy Clause, that treaties are equal to the highest law in the land. But then, why wouldn't that same concept apply to the war? If it violates the U.N. Charter, why is that not unconstitutional by the exact same reasoning?
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            • Author by magnolialover (August 24, 2009 12:57 pm ET)
                 
              Possibly, you could be correct, although, the authorization to use force, was not a declared state of war by Congress. Which is really what they should have done.

              I don't know, legally, if we're beholden to the UN charter or not. I don't know if that's legally binding language for the US to operate off of, or any other nation for that matter, due to issues with sovereignty and things like that.
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      • Author by mjh (August 24, 2009 1:06 pm ET)
           
        "I wonder, if these Fox-ites could tell us exactly what part of the Constitution is RIP?"



        I figure it doesn't make much difference -- ever since Dumbya said it was just a "g-d piece of paper," anyway . . .

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    • Author by dr. matt (August 24, 2009 10:05 am ET)
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      But, but, but, they are "hurting the troops" by saying the Constitution is dead while the troops are fighting so hard to defend the Constitution! Idiots....

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      • Author by Rasta Farian (August 24, 2009 10:18 am ET)
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        But, but, but, I thought that the only way you could hurt the troops was by "making things up?"

        Wait, what? FOXnews does that, too? My bad...
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 24, 2009 10:32 am ET)
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        IOKIYAAR!

        (Say it with me, "EYE-OH-KEY-YAAAAR!!!")

        Their hypocrisy knows absolutly no bounds.
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    • Author by mk3872 (August 24, 2009 10:05 am ET)
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      Wow, what a big bucket of WRONG to dissect here ...

      Is it worse that they are active promoters and advocates of a particular political position while pretending to be an actual fair & balanced news station

      ... or ...

      Is it worse that Fox News felt that nothing that the Bush / Cheney / Gonzalez trifecta did for 8 years did nothing to diminish the U.S. Constitution??

      And what exactly has Obama done to diminish the Constitution??

      Yuk, this is kind of vile stuff ...
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      • Author by dr. matt (August 24, 2009 10:08 am ET)
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        Is it worse that Fox News felt that nothing that the Bush / Cheney / Gonzalez trifecta did for 8 years did nothing to diminish the U.S. Constitution??



        But, they were "defending us" from the "evil-doers".

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    • Author by epkklk851 (August 24, 2009 10:35 am ET)
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      James Madison wrote that power wouldn't be lost through some big upheaval but through small and repeated incursions. The Bush Administration used a national crisis to scare us into agreeing to a slow and steady dimunition of power away from the people and Congress and towards the Executive Branch, but all of this escaped the notice of Fox and its fans and now, when we have a President who is trying to be aware of personal freedom and to give people more power over their own health by offering health insurance through the public, we are painting them as the threats to liberty. Clearly, the young woman has no clue what she is talking about and the Fixed Noise crowd is cheerfully crowing at her ignorance and foolishness. Shame on them.
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    • Author by Max Credits (August 24, 2009 10:40 am ET)
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      Later today, Beck will burn an American flag.
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    • Author by snoopy (August 24, 2009 11:04 am ET)
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      So, 1000 people finished their interview wardrobe today with fox's help. How quaint.
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    • Author by John Paradox (August 24, 2009 11:17 am ET)
         
      "We should sell a product"

      Ummmmm.....like this?
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    • Author by DAWUSS (August 24, 2009 11:18 am ET)
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      I see the thumbs down anon voter paid another visit today
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    • Author by rkcomments (August 24, 2009 11:39 am ET)
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      Fox news - insulting American intelligence one brain at a time.
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      • Author by John Paradox (August 24, 2009 5:21 pm ET)
           
        Fox news - insulting American intelligence one brain cell at a time.

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    • Author by marco21 (August 24, 2009 11:43 am ET)
         
      They must be so proud shilling for their wingnut audience of radical morons.

      Btw, I'd like Ashleigh or any other wingnut to explain how our constitution is "dead."



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    • Author by princeofwheels (August 24, 2009 11:49 am ET)
         
      I have some "Pick Me Monty and give me Door #3" T-Shirts ready to roll.

      If I could get Fox to push them, the same 1000 people would buy them without even knowing the meaning. I could tell them it is Door #3 of the Right to Deal Bill being pushed by the Republicans.
      They'll believe it.
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    • Author by sloucho84 (August 24, 2009 12:10 pm ET)
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      "You can't even know what's in either bill..."

      WHAT?! You can read it! I love how people who don't know how our Republic works are the ones decrying the death of the Constitution. Shameless.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (August 24, 2009 12:55 pm ET)
         
      I've got a T-shirt for you, FOX...right HERE! ;>)
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    • Author by knowlies (August 24, 2009 4:25 pm ET)
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      Riiiight. The Chenney years were rife with, at the very least, questionable actions in regards to violations of the Constitution.

      Fox News: Not a peep.

      Obama wants to reform health care.

      Fox News: "Socialist!" "Nazi!" "The death of Freedom!!!!"

      Disingenuous twits, all of them.






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