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Fox's Trotta savages Stephanopoulos over possible move to Good Morning America 

November 22, 2009 2:45 pm ET

From the November 22 edition of America's News HQ:

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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (November 22, 2009 4:07 pm ET)
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      "Represented and often lied for Bill Clinton, [b]that's what the job entailed"[/b]

      So people who represent presidents often lie. Does that include all the people who represented Bush, and now are mouthpieces on Fox?

      Did she just indict the majority of on air Fox Noise people?
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (November 22, 2009 4:07 pm ET)
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      "Represented and often lied for Bill Clinton, [b]that's what the job entailed"[/b]

      So people who represent presidents often lie. Does that include all the people who represented Bush, and now are mouthpieces on Fox?

      Did she just indict the majority of on air Fox Noise people?
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (November 22, 2009 4:31 pm ET)
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      Trotter just dramk a big glass of hatorade.Hate can not exist without fear.Hate folloes fear.What you see in the above clip is a very scared woman.She is scared that the crap she sells is coming to an end.She probably told young people there is a future in republican hate media.She knows the truth will dim their future,herself included
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    • Author by clearstate (November 22, 2009 5:57 pm ET)
         
      You're right rwmacdonald2091, she really talking about all of the "Fox Noise Contributors" on Fox Noise. How many of them came from Republican administrations? I'm sorry...99.9% of them! We can name plenty of those who worked under Bush who are now "contributors" on Fox on a regular basis. How many other networks are out there where this can happen?

      Anyone who can cite misc blog postings as sources for your own book and or just say "liberal media bias" then you have a job on Fox. But of course there is no bias there. No one talks about Conservative Media Bias.

      Was it me or at the beginning was she talking about Hannity? He never took language courses, history courses, or even went to journalism school.
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    • Author by rtwmd1230 (November 22, 2009 6:46 pm ET)
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      I'm not a fan. but I think Trotta is quite accurate in her description of the media stars and the Sunday AM inner circle joking. I think she made clear that her criticism applied to many more than just Stephanopoulos.
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      • Author by juliajayne1 (November 22, 2009 7:21 pm ET)
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        I have to agree. I've said many times here that these people (the media stars) are mainly just a bunch of socializing, ladder climbing, inside the beltway cocktail party goers, who don't advance much of anything positive save for their "careers".

        OTOH, who cares if Stephanopolous gets a job at GMA? He seems affable and intelligent enough for the gig.

        And tell me, since I eschew these morning "news" programs, does GMA have a political angle they push? Do they do advocacy journalism like Fox and Louie Dobbs did? I.e. is there a specific reason this broad is getting her pantyhose in a bunch?
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        • Author by MickD (November 23, 2009 9:33 am ET)
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          The morning shows tend to be producer influenced fake sunniness, thus their "politics" (in the 3 minute news segments they might have per hour) tends to lean toward "isn't America so gosh darn special," which leads to...well...you get the drift.
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    • Author by mwjarv (November 22, 2009 7:26 pm ET)
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      Why might Stephanopoulos be good for the job... let's see...

      BA from Columbia in Political Science summa cum laude
      MA from Oxford in Philosophy and a Rhodes Scholar
      Honorary PhD from St. John's College

      Political analyst for ABC since 1996.

      Became the host of The Week in 2002, also being named Washington Corespondent, since then gaining steady ratings and often placing second and sometimes first in that Sunday time slot up against Meet the Press. And hosted one of the democratic primaries in this past election cycle.

      I can't imagine why they might put him in that job...

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    • Author by princeofwheels (November 22, 2009 9:01 pm ET)
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      After Beck turned it down where else would they go?
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    • Author by Ruby (November 22, 2009 10:48 pm ET)
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      I think Stephanopoulos runs a great show. He's exceedingly reasonable, and he doesn't let people talk in circles. A lot of times when I watch those types of programs it all just seems like a lot of people sitting around, using a whole bunch of words to not really say anything at all. But Stephanopoulos, I think, does a good job of not allowing that. He's good at guiding the conversation.

      And Stephanopoulos also talks to people with differing viewpoints. It's not uncommon for him to appear on Hannity's show, and he always handles himself very well.

      I'd say all and all, George is one of my favorites.
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    • Author by Sharpe (November 23, 2009 12:36 am ET)
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      ummmm DID FOX NOT HIRE KARL ROVE (WHO SHOULD BE IN PRISON) AS SOON AS HE LEFT THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE?
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    • Author by Sharpe (November 23, 2009 12:40 am ET)
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      I cant believe they never mention karl rove working at FOX? Diane Sawyer gets mentioned working for a pres but of course, Rove is left completely out of the discussion...
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    • Author by hdgcapate (November 23, 2009 2:58 am ET)
         
      Did she actually think anyone would believe that G.S. was the ONLY journalist that previously worked in the white house to move to TV? That whole conversation was meant for anyone under the age of 12.
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    • Author by christopher howard (November 23, 2009 6:51 am ET)
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      Liz Trotta is a rightwing hatchetwoman. She also got in some trouble a while back for publicly saying she wanted Obama assassinated.

      Funny how both talking heads in this segment posthumously praise Cronkite in order to down Stephanopoulos, but of course Cronkite was loathed by the right and Fox attacked him on a number of occasions.

      And, yes, of course no mention of how Fox is a regular employer of Rove and many other rightwing politicos.
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    • Author by New Frontier (November 23, 2009 8:45 am ET)
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      Trotta:
      "Now we're supposed to say that this is a bona fide journalist; this is an absolute, liberal Democratic-leaning that we're looking at in the entire news department there."

      Absolutely unlike the bona fide, Cronkite-type journalists Brian Kilmeade, Margaret Carlson and Steve Doocy who host Fox News' totally fair and non-partisan, non-Republican-leaning morning show.
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      • Author by epkklk851 (November 23, 2009 8:53 am ET)
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        Or any of the bleached blonde clones who populate the real "news" programs that run during the day. Honestly, I can't tell one from the other in most cases. I am familiar with Dr. Creepy Crowley, because she does the McLaughlin Group (her spray tan usually clashes with her clothes and her teeth are blindingly white.)
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        • Author by New Frontier (November 23, 2009 9:02 am ET)
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          I am familiar with Dr. Creepy Crowley

          I'm not, but that name is cracking me up.
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          • Author by epkklk851 (November 23, 2009 9:11 am ET)
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            Monica Crowley. Her sister is married to Alan Colmes. Crowley actually has a doctorate in International Relations from Columbia. She is one of those Foxtarts who sounds like she is spitting when she talks to or about liberals, but she was glowing (beyond her usual level of irradiation) last week when she was crowing about Sarah's weighty tome.
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            • Author by MickD (November 23, 2009 9:36 am ET)
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              Don't forget the blondes general "deer in the headlights" look for promoting a anti-woman Repub agenda for thirty pieces of silver. I'd need make-up and teeth whitener, too.
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              • Author by epkklk851 (November 23, 2009 10:07 am ET)
                   
                Yes, I am really most offended by the Foxtarts. Many of them are very well educated, they are young and presumably intelligent, and yet, they willing let the corporation remake them into the corporate image and dress them in tight, short clothes and super high heels, attire that robes them of real credibility in the field. I guess the money is pretty good, but what do they do when they can't be spray tanned,bleached, nipped, tucked, and Botoxed any more? Faux Noise will discard them, and replace them with the latest model. I hope they know that, and set it up so they have some money to retire on. In the meantime, I will keep watching Gwen and Margaret and Judy over on PBS.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (November 23, 2009 9:08 am ET)
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      Trotta is correct. There has been a weakening in journalistic standards since she started working in 1965. There is a trend that began in the 1970's to hire attractive, vacuous talking-heads, of both genders to read the news. There are very few real journalists working in TV. Most of them are just new-readers, they aren't even capable of writing their own copy. I have no problem with George Stephanopoulos going over to GMA. I haven't ever watched that show. I don't think that morning news shows are news. I think they are there to get people going in the morning. The weather and traffic reports are far more important than anything else they cover. There is one person she never mentioned in her diatribe against George, Bill Moyers. Bill worked for President Johnson. He is very well-respected in journalistic circles for the depth of his commentary and insight. But you know, if Liz really wants to bring credibility back to journalism, she needs to leave Fixed Spews and then thoroughly condemn their unethical, cheap, shoddy practices and burn every bridge she has there. She'll never do that, of course, which makes her a corporate call girl.
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