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Fox & Friends runs "clarification" after the Texas Education Agency criticizes their "highly inaccurate" reporting

March 11, 2010 7:55 am ET

From the March 11 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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Texas Education Agency criticizes Fox & Friends for "highly inaccurate" reporting

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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (March 11, 2010 8:08 am ET)
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      Suggestions that Texas has used to distort what is taught in USA schools for decades.This should be done by an independent gorup from all regions of the USA.There is more attention given to this matter because of the internet.People are not as easily fooled as they used to be.One person now has the ability to fool many.But that fooling is now more temporary.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (March 11, 2010 8:09 am ET)
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      We were just trying to make it simple...

      Because our viewers are so stupid and easily led.

      Just suggestions...?

      Not the way you originally presented the proposed changes...

      Typical FOX News right wing propaganda.
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    • Author by AB-001 (March 11, 2010 8:13 am ET)
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      Everything I hoped from from F&F! Dance of the Weasel Words. Pity it wasn't delivered by Gretchen; her self-righteous indignation yesterday was classic--and as the folks in Texas emphasized, totally unwarranted. Maybe Doocy drew the short straw this morning.

      Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when this poo=poo hit the fan yesterday at F&F headquarters.
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    • Author by Reinhard (March 11, 2010 8:15 am ET)
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      Doocy's still lying
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (March 11, 2010 8:18 am ET)
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        I wonder if he lied about the weather when he was just a weatherman.
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        • Author by blk-in-alabam (March 11, 2010 8:25 am ET)
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          All weather people lie,especially when a storm is coming.
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        • Author by ojnabieoot (March 11, 2010 8:56 am ET)
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          "And we have a big thunderstorm coming up this weekend, no doubt due to the Democrats' shameful vote on extending unemployment benefits to lazy Americans."
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    • Author by nate (March 11, 2010 8:39 am ET)
         
      Doocy didn't come close to addressing issues the Texas Education Agency had with F&F previous report. All he did was make it sound like F&F really didn't say anything wrong. grrrr...

      read the agency's press release:
      http://mediamatters.org/blog/201003100032
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    • Author by jbrantow (March 11, 2010 8:57 am ET)
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      "trying to make it simple" for their ignorant dumbed down viewing audience.
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    • Author by Dem02020 (March 11, 2010 9:02 am ET)
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      The whole thing sounds contrived to me.
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    • Author by RKAllen (March 11, 2010 9:03 am ET)
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      I drove to and from from Houston to Dallas this weekend and just scanned various radio stations looking for "talk radio." While I couldn't possibly tell you who these radio personalities were, I would love to point out a few of the topics I heard in the eight hour round trip regarding the public school system in Texas.

      - Our children are being programmed at public schools to kill the elderly.

      - Children in public schools are exposed daily to sexual harrassment by their teachers, violent bullying, and a leftist liberal social agenda that is teaching them to be government pawns.

      - Heathcare Savings Accounts are superior to any kind of insurance, government or private, and buying into school subsidized insurance programs teaches your children how to be dependent on the government.

      - A dozen or so references to Obama's "usurping" the office of President and using his position to fill our school system with "leftist perverts."

      - A holy army of Christian American citizens taking the country back for God and denying anyone of desenting opinion from having any voice at all in the teaching of our children. (This is not embellished... the host discussed this for over an hour and was unashamed that he would deny people the right to speak. In fact, he was encouraged by it and encouraged his listeners to embrace the idea of "silencing the oppositions voice")

      - A discussion on taking back the word indoctrination and getting parents to understand that indoctrination of God was not only okay, but expected. (One caller sang praises to this and said she "indoctrinates" her children happily)

      - deprogramming children from public schools and a shift of focus on home schooling or school programs through your church.

      - School/Church programs that focus on chastity, including declarations and ceremonies that, "remind the child," that their parents support the decision to, "remain pure for their wedding."



      Those of us "progressives" in Texas have a LONG way to go.
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      • Author by nerzog (March 11, 2010 9:24 am ET)
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        Hate Radio is a national nightmare. The Republicans have built a cottage industry that thrives on controversy, fear, and partisan hatred. They have no interest in promoting compromise, or even admitting the truth. Their livelihood depends on keeping their audience afraid and/or pi$$ed off.

        Troglodyte Talk Radio is a bigger threat to our Republic than Al Qaeda, Hugo Chavez, Iran and the Gay Agenda combined.
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        • Author by nerzog (March 11, 2010 9:38 am ET)
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          By the way, I'm being sarcastic about the "Gay Agenda". I don't consider it a threat, even if it does exist.
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        • Author by dogbreath (March 11, 2010 9:41 am ET)
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          Here in Colorado, we get our share of right wing radio from Colorado Springs. James Dobson, anyone? Although he retired their is another wingnut to fill his slot with mindless, unquestioned rhetoric. What amazes me is the shear number of them. How can they all stay on the air? I find it absolutely abhorrent that the public airwaves, especially on the AM side, have become little more than founts of hatred and misinformation.
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          • Author by AB-001 (March 11, 2010 10:03 am ET)
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            And isn't that "Pastor" Pete Peters out in Colorado? He represents the uglier aspects of this movement. The code word/weasel word vernacular of Limbagh (Massa's massah, black man child) is barely a notch above this shortwave radio broadcaster. Vile as he is, at least Peters is honest enough to embrace his bigotry over the airwaves. The $400 million boys hide behind their twisted semantics
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            • Author by papa bear3 (March 11, 2010 10:23 am ET)
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              These guys are getting paid by someone. Their talking points are consistent down to the same catchword as you go from channel to channel. Is there some daily AM hate meeting where the head hater gets his crew together around the country to pound this stuff out.

              And the listeners, the true believers, do they spot inconsistencies or a straying from the approved dogma?

              The pressure seems to have been ratcheted up recently just as the health-care vote is to come up

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            • Author by dogbreath (March 11, 2010 10:52 am ET)
                 
              I actually haven't had the joy of hearing him on the radio. He is a pure wingnut, division 1.
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          • Author by nerzog (March 11, 2010 10:32 am ET)
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            How can they all stay on the air?


            Well, that's the $64,000 question, isn't it? The Hate Radio apologists will try to tell you that it's because Conservative Talk Radio is somehow "superior" to Liberal Talk Radio. Any random sampling of the Troglodytes blathering on local Conservative Talk Shows will lay that myth to rest. For the most part, they're ignorant, untalented, obnoxious talking-points parrots.

            I think they're being subsidized, either by the station owners or by the RNC. There's a story there for some brave investigative reporter.
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            • Author by dogbreath (March 11, 2010 10:56 am ET)
                 
              There are wealthy Cons who slip money into this pipeline. There is a guy in Newport Beach, CA, whose name escapes me, who funds a tremendous amount of this crap. And I am sure he is not the only one. There is definitely a story there which undoubtedly needs to be told.
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    • Author by knowledgereigns (March 11, 2010 6:00 pm ET)
         
      This is NOT a good enough correction/clarification/apology. Not accepted.
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