Burns: "Fox News is the very definition... of The Big Lie"
April 16, 2010 6:13 pm ET
Burns: If O'Reilly had any integrity, he would come clean and say, "I Was Wrong" about Fox's health insurance "jail time" falsehoods.
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The wingnuts have been doing this all along. The only price they've paid is having to carry a heavier check to the bank.
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Keep the laughs coming O'Reilly. You're the reason I keep coming to this website.
There are a couple trolls who say Media Matters is just as wrong as the liars they call out. MMFA is as extreme as Hannity. Who cares as long as MMFA does not resort to lying, misinforming, and deceit which are staples of Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Coulter, Breitbart and a host of others. So MMFA picks out even the smallest lie and reports on it? So what. A lie is a lie no matter if it is a little "white" lie or a major lie. Misinformation is misinformation no matter how insignificant one might think it is, it's still misinformation. Media Matters is wrong for calling out even the slightest lie or the smallest bit of misinformation? Yeah right, that's the whole purpose of MMFA, to call out and correct ALL of it. You dimwits.
And when it is a pattern.. a continuous stream of lies.. it becomes Orwellian.
I truly think FOX believes the stories that only FOX and its Cohorts create... pass back and forth.. and add to..
FOX is a propaganda machine and Bill-O is nothing but a Tool (LOL)
Sadly tools can be dangerous in the wrong hands.. FOX Viewers are children and children should not be playing with tools..
Now I am off to read any new BJFans post.. Talk about a Tool.. (LOL)
But he won't. The problem is that his viewers are largely unaware of any lie as they watch nothing but Fox but are too stupid to notice inconsistencies and outright lies in their rhetoric. Like we see with Beck, the personalities on Fox can get away with ANYTHING as long as they keep repeating it as a perpetual talking point.
The stupidity of the average Fox viewer tells us that there is no need for him to apologise. Unlike us these people just simply don't CARE about the truth. I've tried talking sense in to a big Glenn Beck fan in the states there from Australia. I sent him an enormous set of long emails detailing the lies, race batings, distortions and fear mongerings that are an everyday occurance on the GB show and Fox in general. I also offered up a challenge that he could select a days GB show for me to watch in the future and I would bet on me being able to prove a lie or significant distortion. It took me hours and I was happy thinking that I had spread some sanity and truth in the world (this guy was a YouTube nut complete with guns in every room and posted daily rantings about socialism and communism and after the HC reform he was threatening violent means of overturning it). But no, unfortunately these people are simply unreachable; all my hours were for nothing; he simply excused it and said essentially in a laughably colert manner, that facts are liberally biased and therefore worthless. That the new world order controls the information I get so you can't believe anything you ever hear (apart from Fox News and right wing blogs and radio!!).
It's a very sad sad situation in America right now. I cannot understand how it is allowable that a 'news' channel can broadcast outright lies and distortions on a daily basis and get no repercussions!? Can someone explain this to me? Why isn't there a law to protect ethical journalism?
The results of the Fox propaganda machine are huge. When I watch footage of the rallies etc I am always amazed at how the rhetoric echoes exactly what Fox and Friends, or Hannity, or Bill, or Sarah have said. It's a very Orwellian era and seems very spooky on the outside looking in.
FOX's MO is to use unfair smears to get people to hate anyone who is not on board with the conservatively-biased viewpoint.
I have never heard anyone here supporting high taxes, redistribution of wealth or limiting personal rights.
I've heard plenty of right wingers wanting to curtail others' rights -- not just gay rights, or minority rights, but speech itself. They pounce on a single word or phrase and beat it to death endlessly (e.g. Sotomayor's 'wise Latina') because they do NOT care about the truth, only the perception of truth, for which lying seems to be (they feel) the most effective tool. Full of trumped up nonsense masquerading as critique, which your post is.
So in a sense they are correct in saying that if you refuse to have health insurance and then subsequently the fine you could go to jail.
Second, the bill specifically includes language that PREVENTS you from going to jail for not paying the fine. Or even paying the fine in the first place if you don't feel like it.
What's that?
Prove it, you say? OK.
In the section defining the individual mandate:
"In the case of any failure by a tax payer to timely pay any penalty imposed by this section such tax payer shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution or penalty with respect to such failure."
So, either Fox is lying or I am better informed than the entire team of crack researchers they like to brag about.
aaaaaannnndddd...
Checkmate!