Fox News' Doocy failed to challenge Romney's false claim that Rezko "financed [Obama's] house"

Steve Doocy fails at life ;)

But really, anyone else here hear about the "fake" story that Fox & Friends peddled into a slander lawsuit in the state of Maine?  It was thrown out because they couldn't prove malicious intent, but the judge called F&F something like "unprofessional and gullible."

I often wonder how people who watch FOX exclusively or who are affiliated with FOX can purport to speak so authoratatively about what the so-called MSM does or does not report. I certainly didn't learn of the Rezco conviction from FOX. And if there was any impropriety on the part of Barack Obama with respect to Antoin Rezco why hasn't FOX investigated it and reported its findings? No, instead FOX tells its moronic listeners about how the MSM is not reporting on a certain even while FOX itself can't find the energy to conduct an investigation of the improprietits that they suggest occurred.

Are the Republicans this desperate? Yesterday, one of our local Talk Radio Troglodytes said that if Obama picked Hillary for VP, it was because he was too weak to defy the Clintons, but if he didn't pick her it was because his wife wouldn't let him, and he's too weak to defy his wife! This has to be a logical fallacy, but I'm not sure what it's called.

The fact that we keep hearing these chicken-sh*t charges against Obama leads me to believe that they really don't have anything on him. I could be wrong, though.... maybe they're holding it for after the convention.

Now, why would Doocy "challenge" something that he originally brought up?  That would make him look like a doofus (oops, too late, already happened).

I will never forget when Stephen Colbert introduced a video segment on Doocy with "Jimmy? Pinch me off a Dooce." That's still my favorite Colbert line.

Also, "The friendly friends over at Fox and Friends."

All anyone needs to know ,FOX NEWS CHANNEL,bought and paid for by the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE. FOX exists to support and advance  THE REPUBLICAN agenda. Everything FOX SAYS AND DOES NEEDS TO BE SEEN THROUGH THIS CONTEXT.

this proves something i suspected for a long time. FOX " news analysts " spent countless hours over this Rezko thing in the not to distant past. For them to bring it up again must mean their " reporting ain't workin'' "

In fall 2003, former FOX producer and writer Charles Reina weighed in publicly on FOX's journalistic ethics, posting a long comment on the widely read insider media news web log editied by th Ponyter Institute's Jim Romenesko.

Not once in the 20 plus years I had worked in broadcast journalism pior to Fox--including lenthy stays at the Associated Press,CBS radio, and ABC/Good Morning America---did I feel any pressure to toe the management line. But at Fox,if my boss wasn't warning me to "be careful" how I handled the writing of a special about Ronald Reagan("You know how Roger(Ailes) feels about him"),he was telling me how the the envirenmental special I was to produce should lean("You can give both sides,but make sure the pro-envirenmentalists don't get the last word").

But the roots of FNC's[FOX News Channel's] day-to-day on-air bias are actual and direct. They come in the form of an executive memo distributed electronically each morning, adressing what stories will be covered and often,suggesting how they should be covered...The memo was born with the Bush administration, eary in 2001,and,intentionally or not has ensured that the administration's point of view consistently comes accross on FNC.

From The Republican Noise Machine, by guess who? 

Doocy and the Fox and Friends show are really a disgrace.  Romney clearly doesn't know the facts of the Obama home purchase transaction and any good journalist would have called him on that fact.

The Obama house purchase was a "boneheaded" mistake by Obama, which he readily admits.  Rezko knew Obama was interested in buying the house, but it sat on a double lot and was going to cost $1.9 million to purchase.  Neither Rezko nor Obama had the financing to buy the double-lot.

Iraqi-British billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, who was convicted of corruption in France in 2003, was interested in investing in Rezko's Chicago pizzeria business.  Rezko arranged a deal with Auchi, where Auchi provided financing to Rezko's wife to buy the double lot, Auchi would donate $10,000 to Obama's Senate campaign, and Rezko would use his Chicago political connections to get approval of Auchi's pizzeria investment.  There's a good chance that Rezko even met with Obama in Auchi's presence, as this was Rezko's m.o. for proving to investors and developers that he had political clout.  There's no evidence Obama knew anything about the deal between Auchi and Rezko.

Rezko's wife split the double-lot and sold the house to Obama, at a substantial discount.  She also later deeded a small strip of land to allow the Obama's to complete some backyard improvements.  These were the bone-headed mistakes, because Obama should have known that he was being offered a substantial discount on the home purchase and small strip of later-deeded land.

Obama was not the only politician caught up in the Rezko mess (in fact, it was the Illinois governor who was involved in the transactions that led to Rezko's convictions).  Moreover, hearsay evidence at the trial suggested that Rezko claimed he could have Karl Rove fire a federal prosecutor to assist one of his developer/investor associates.

 

I aggree with MY4CENTS. These RIGHT WING RADIO talk show hosts are vermin.They're dividers,not uniters. They seem to forgrt that this country was built on dissent,not marching to one sides tune.

COLUMBUS 1492 is a typical RIGHT WINGER with his head glued to the FALSE NEWS CHANNEL and nothing else.

Of COURSE Doocy "failed to challenge" Romney; he brought Romney on for the sole PURPOSE of making false claims.

Steve Douchy is a glorified fluff reporter.  Twenty years ago, he worked as a clown (disguised as a reporter) at WRC Channel 4 in Washington- which meant covering the local diaper derbies and taking the occasional cocunut creme pie in the face.