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Business as usual:  Fox & Friends spends segment reading off GOP press release to blast Obama

October 22, 2009 8:27 am ET

From the October 22 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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The press release Fox & Friends referenced: 

House Committee on Ways & Means - Republican:  49 of 50 States Have Lost Jobs Since Stimulus Enacted  

Previously: 

Fox & Friends spends segment reading from RNC press release, touting GOP plan "looking out for the health of" seniors

Fox passes off GOP press release as its own research -- typo and all

While interviewing WH official, Fox News again aired "FOXfact[s]" nearly identical to GOP rep.'s op-ed

Fox News' Hemmer "keeping track of the stimulus money" -- by lifting research from GOP website

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (October 22, 2009 8:32 am ET)
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      FOX & Friends is like Monty Python in the Morning.
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      • Author by tbone (October 22, 2009 8:44 am ET)
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        Please don't disparage the boys. They were/are actually funny.

        Fox & Friends is more like The Republican Love Boat.

        "But I don't like Spam"
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    • Author by Bad News (October 22, 2009 8:32 am ET)
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      Gretchen Carlson, I still need your help finding a Vid of you calling Ted Kennedy "A Hostile Enemy of the United States"

      It's not every day a Woman makes a Complete & Utter fool of herself in this way.

      Oh Gretchen Please help me.


      Mr. News
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (October 22, 2009 8:36 am ET)
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      FOX NEWS.REPUBLICAN PARTY MEDIA AT WORK
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    • Author by New Frontier (October 22, 2009 8:44 am ET)
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      Carlson:
      "Maybe some cities have gained jobs".

      Guess I'll have to tune-in to a NEWS channel to find out.
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    • Author by carlh (October 22, 2009 9:04 am ET)
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      No remote inkling of a thought to hypothesize how many jobs the country would've lost without the stimulus? Man, I've rarely wanted to punch my computer screen more than 38 seconds into that clip. What a smarmy attitude.
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      • Author by rwk0007 (October 22, 2009 10:58 am ET)
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        That is a good idea, but they are a news show, not an trend analysis show. If they done research and reported their own findings it would make them blatantly biased. Now if there is a study out there that speculated such things it would have been a responsible thing to report on.

        But yes their attitudes were annoying.
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      • Author by puppienrainbows (October 22, 2009 11:57 am ET)
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        Well then tell us, carl, how many would have been lost? All we know is that after throwing 787 billion dollars at the problem, we are STILL losing jobs. Obama and Biden are incompetent. This economic slide began after Nancy and her pals took control of congress. And until America wakes up and undoes what it did in 2006, this country will continue to slide downhill.
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        • Author by rwk0007 (October 22, 2009 12:25 pm ET)
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          To project how many jobs would have been lost without the stimulus would probably be a possible analysis at this point, but if you wanted to see without other interventions, (Bush's stimulus, the bailouts, the drop in consumer confidence from "fear mongering") that might be nearly impossible.

          Saying Obama and Biden are incompetent is ridiculous, they just have a weak understanding of economics. And of course surrounded themselves by economists with near identicle viewpoints that all come from the same theory of the "science".

          It is also ridiculous to say that it is all the fault of congress when there is plenty of reason to point some of the blame to W for creating the situation. He panicked the populous by announcing a recession on television before the effects were even close to being seen. And of course there is room to blame congress and the current president for prolonging it for not having faith in the self regulating economy again due to all the supply-sider economists in the administration.
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        • Author by marco21 (October 22, 2009 12:58 pm ET)
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          More anti-Americanism from wingnuts. What a surprise.
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    • Author by rwk0007 (October 22, 2009 10:55 am ET)
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      So are people upset because they read a GOP study on the air or because they concluded that the stimulus was not a success?

      Other than some lame jabs at the stimulus, this segment doesn't seem too ridiculous.
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    • Author by marco21 (October 22, 2009 12:57 pm ET)
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      What a crock of BS from the biggest crop of BSers. Can one of these airheads string and coherent thought together long enough to tell us what's the actual percentage of stimulus money already spent? No. Did they mention several Republican lawmakers like Jindal touting stimulus checks and the jobs they provided after saying they'd never take stimulus cash? No.

      Fox is a joke and the joke is they play patriots while being so un-American it's painful to watch.

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    • Author by dadre (October 22, 2009 1:30 pm ET)
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      fox and friends "we distort you decide" It's getting sad at this point. They are acting like they truly believe that the stimulus was suppose to save every single job and that though we were already hemorrhaging jobs at a rate that dramatically slowed by the stimulus package we will suddenly break even by some miracle. The federal government can give out the money but they can't force local governments and businesses to spend it right which isn't happening.

      You then have Republicans touting this study while at the same time throwing stimulus money and telling everyone to see how many jobs they created. You can't have it both ways
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