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Fox & Friends asks if mainstream media coverage of health care was "biased"

March 26, 2010 9:11 am ET

From the March 26 edition of Fox & Friends:

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Previously:

Kitchen sink: Fox's last-ditch effort to rally opposition to health care reform

"Kill the bill": Fox's year-long open activism against health care reform

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    • Author by Reinhard (March 26, 2010 9:12 am ET)
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      Since Fox News is mainstream media, the answer would have to be yes.
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      • Author by afriend (March 26, 2010 9:19 am ET)
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        Since Fox News is mainstream media, the answer would have to be yes.

        you took the words right out of my mouth...
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      • Author by The_Cat (March 26, 2010 10:09 am ET)
           
        FOX is counted among the media outlets, despite the fact that it is 24/7 propaganda, so, you are absolutely right, Reinhard.
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    • Author by nerzog (March 26, 2010 9:14 am ET)
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      [http://www.funnypicture.in/funnypicture/2451_roflmao_cat.jpg]
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      • Author by angels4light (March 26, 2010 11:22 am ET)
           
        You forgot the APMGU part - that is to say, "And Puking My Guts Up".
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    • Author by goesto11 (March 26, 2010 9:15 am ET)
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      Coming up on Fox News after the break...

      The KKK Asks: Are We Racists?
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    • Author by progressivevoicedaily (March 26, 2010 9:23 am ET)
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      I hope people don't let them get away with this crap. Was the media biased towards healthcare? Are you kidding me?? IF by saying bias you mean it was attacked 10 to 1 on every channel possible, except c-span where it's hard to spin, and Fixed noise where the ratio was 10 to 10. These peole lye, make sh*t up, and spew hate daily. I am so sick of the media not pointing this out with a friggin spotlight!
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (March 26, 2010 9:25 am ET)
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      These guys are sweating that there won't be a violent incident somewhere attributable to a teabagger...then everything they've been saying is revealed as flimsy BS. Look at the angry history of the teabaggers...and the town hall meetings they disrupted. Outright violence is not a big step.

      Look at Glenn Beck's "repudiation" of violence. Don't you think Beck has been getting e-mails from his own followers detailing the violence they would like to inflict on progressives? That is why Beck is pre-emptively saying he condemns violence. He knows what the teabaggers might do.

      The MSM, for once, has gotten it right...this is a powder keg.
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      • Author by ScienceBuff (March 26, 2010 9:40 am ET)
           
        These guys are sweating that there won't be a violent incident somewhere attributable to a teabagger - IRONY 101

        When that happens, the teabagger involved will immediately be granted the status of liberal, henceforth and forever to hold that label.
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        • Author by IRONY 101 (March 26, 2010 9:44 am ET)
             
          They will claim it's an isolated incident, not attributable to the "patriotic" teabaggers, but I think their credibility will have been lost among the remaining rational people who might still populate the right.

          Best case scenarion, though, is that enough light has been directed on the violent propensities of the teabaggers such that it mat serve to prevent an actual act of violence. Let's hope so...
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    • Author by smarshall1432997 (March 26, 2010 9:31 am ET)
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      FoxNews Network are masters in how they push their bias so-called news reports in their "SELECTIVE" kind of way every single day, and NOW they want to WHINE about MSM. Hmmm. What a joke, LOL.
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      • Author by uhh...right (March 26, 2010 9:47 am ET)
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        Like reinforcing through pix and words that Obama is Hitler while downplaying the Kristallnacht going on at Dems' offices around the country?
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    • Author by worrierking (March 26, 2010 9:34 am ET)
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      You bet your a$$ it was biased.

      How often did they repeat the claims of death panels killing granny? They presented teabaggers as if they were the majority just because they were the loudest. They treated unsubstantiated claims as if they legitimate. So, yes they were biased.

      The media is a circus and this year they presented a very small car that drove into the center ring and stopped to let out a large group of racists and malcontents who clowned for the cameras.
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    • Author by Dem02020 (March 26, 2010 9:43 am ET)
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      What is the "mainstream media"?

      And before you answer that it's the television network news divisions of ABC and NBC and CBS and CNN and MSNBC and Fox television, and perhaps the national newspapers the NY Times and the Washington Post and USA Today and even the WSJ, I'd point out how few words it took, just two dozen or so and maybe fifteen seconds time to say them, to list what the "mainstream media" is...

      How difficult and time consuming is it to be specific about what you mean when you say "mainstream media"?

      Obviously, in the video clip they avoided saying those words in response to the question of how biased is or was the "mainstream media" in reporting on health insurance reform legislation, because that would have meant effectively asking:

      "How biased is or was Fox television in reporting on health insurance reform legislation"?

      If they had asked the question like that, instead of saying "mainstream media", they wouldn't have been able to keep a straight face.

      So instead they wasted several minutes and maybe more than a thousand words, whining in frustration at something called the "mainstream media" (which I've always fancied they were a part of), and screeching and complaining like losers, because their incessant and biased broadcasting against health insurance reform had no effect, zero zilch zip nada nothing go home the game's over you lost.

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    • Author by phredicles (March 26, 2010 10:01 am ET)
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      "Was health care debate coverage bias [sic]?"

      I see the zero tolerance policy is still in effect at Fox News. Evidently that's zero tolerance for elitist grammar.
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