Norquist's claim that Fox Nation "takes no position on issues" undermined by Fox Nation -- and Norquist
SUMMARY: Grover Norquist wrote that The Fox Nation "takes no position on issues" -- a claim undermined by The Fox Nation itself, which recently labeled Barney Frank and Chris Dodd a "[d]angerous duo" for supporting "a sweeping overhaul of US financial regulatory structures," and by Norquist, who also wrote that "conservatives, libertarians, and other believers in limited government have found a new home -- at FOX Nation."
In a March 29 entry to FoxNews.com's Fox Forum, author, American Spectator contributor, and Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist wrote that the website The Fox Nation "takes no position on issues -- although unlike so many other Web portals, FOX Nation does begin with the presumption that America is a special and unique place, a blessed land to be treasured and defended." As Media Matters for America noted, however, The Fox Nation -- a website owned by Fox News -- recently labeled Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) a "[d]angerous duo," linking to an Agence France-Presse article that simply reported that Dodd and Frank "promised President Barack Obama on Monday they would work with the White House to enact a sweeping overhaul of US financial regulatory structures by year's end." Nothing in the AFP article in any way characterized Dodd or Frank as "[d]angerous."
Indeed, in the same Fox Forum entry, Norquist undermined his own claim that The Fox Nation "takes no position on issues," writing: "That's right, conservatives, libertarians, and other believers in limited government have found a new home -- at FOX Nation."
Norquist, the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, is also the author of Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives, and is listed as a contributor to The American Spectator magazine.
From Norquist's Fox Forum entry:
I believe that FOX Nation has the potential to do to the Internet what FOX News did to cable television. That is, be a disruptive, transformative -- but also profoundly constructive -- media force.
Just as FOX News brought a new vision and voice to the media landscape in the 90s -- fair and balanced reporting, plus strong debate and commentary --so FOX Nation will bring still more vision and voice in the decade to come. Only this time, the vision and voice will come from you, the American people. That's right: Thanks to FOX Nation, all Americans will now have a landmark forum, a watershed opportunity to speak out on the issues they care about, want to learn more about -- and do more about.
FOX Nation itself takes no position on issues -- although unlike so many other Web portals, FOX Nation does begin with the presumption that America is a special and unique place, a blessed land to be treasured and defended.
So members of the Leave Us Alone Coalition, I predict, are going to love FOX Nation as it fully rolls out in the weeks and months to come. That's right, conservatives, libertarians, and other believers in limited government have found a new home -- at FOX Nation.
The Leave Us Alone Coalition consists of all Americans who want the government to stay out of their lives, confining itself and its power to protecting the vital concerns of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Other than that, we believe, the government -- federal, state, and local --should Leave Us Alone. Let us make our livings, let us raise our children, let us run our lives, without the dead hand of statist intervention.
Well, Grover, you all start your new Fox Nation and leave the rest of us alone. I can't wait until you all secede along with Chuck Norris, and start your utopian government. Good riddance.
Now go home. (said with a British accent like Tracy Ullman) ;-)
"Other than that, we believe, the government -- federal, state, and local --should Leave Us Alone. Let us make our livings, let us raise our children, let us run our lives, without the dead hand of statist intervention."
The above will apply to everyone, except for those who think that they have a constitutional right to privacy, the right to marry who they want to marry, the right to respect the wishes of a spouse, the right believe in something other than Our Lord and risen Savior, Jesus Christ, the right to teach science without influence from those who do believe in our Lord and risen Savior, Jesus Christ, the right to form a union, the right to protest a Republican President, the right to watch movies and the TeeVee and hear cuss words and the use of the name of our Lord and risen Savior, Jesus Christ in vain.
Feel free to add your own exceptions.
Fox News and the right have done more to harm america than our enemies.
Constantly propagating lies and inuendo and as an unpaid mouthpiece for the right wing, Fox and right wing liars on radio have ruined political discourse in this country.
Not to mention how their disinformation results in a massive waste of americans time and hurts our "democracy"
and we lost a lot of soldiers too !
"Fox and right-wing liars on radio have ruined political discourse in this country."
You are absolutely right. The conservatives have known for a long time that the only way they can hold power--now, regain power--is to successfully manipulate apathetic voters with lies.
Right now, they're getting their asses pulverized--but they are far from finished.
Who says they're unpaid? Follow the money. Norquist. Abramoff. Richard Mellon Scaife.
Has a similar ring to it as: Podesta, Clinton, George Soros.
Or: Brock, Clinton, Soros
same old same old?
don't you ever get tired of being a parrot?
Did Ailes secede from the US and started his own country? with its own constitution and laws ?
im sure he wish he could
I believe that FOX Nation has the potential to do to the Internet what FOX News did to cable television. That is, be a disruptive media force
Well, he got the first part right.
How can you still believe your own BS when you have to lie in order to convince people that it's worthwhile?
April Fool's?
I wish.
I checked out Faux Nation yesterday. It is completely Faux! Also, I posted several times and anything they did not like, particularly the comment I made regarding their article, "Obama spurned by Europe" was written the day before the POTUS left the US, they WILL NOT PRINT. They did not print anything that I wrote that had any relation to reality. I used no profanity or name-calling. They are simply Faux Noise on the Web. The folks getting their posts printed are amazingly ignorant. name-calling and illiterate! They really like to picture of Michelle.
If what NOrquist says is the case then what does "finally a place to call home" mean when used as a banner for this website?
its the old "the real americans are here" ploy
Got to love it when right wing idealogs, conservatives, and elected Republicans can be all for small government when its a Democrat in the Oval office...
Where was this collection of assclowns when Bush and Cheney created one of the largest moves toward BIG government in our countries history?
They were all for it then... when it suited their sick un-American ideals! But now that President Obama is trying to find a middle ground by giving some of what has been stolen/taken from We the People... back to us...
Suddenly its.... the government is getting too big!
Grover... Your pathetic pal!
Hey he's made a wonderful career out of being an appologist for some very appreciative and wealthy people.
Do we have to listen to this "limited government" BS again and again? The mantra has given me a headache (actually, the other end). That small group of mindless loyalists to the conservative ideology probably doesn't even know what that MEANS. Here's what it means: government should get out of the way of the tiny group of extremely wealthy and powerful folks so they can acquire more power and wealth, at the expense of everyone else. Anything short of that is (gulp) socialism. Both Faux "News" and Faux Nation are the bulwarks against any oversight or regulation that might threaten their narrow and subversive interpretation of the "American Way". Is this what the authors of the Constitution had in mind? Nah!
Fox Nation is just another place for the Republicans' to spew out their three (3) political principles: 1) Lie; 2) Smear; and 3) Attack. Hmmm...
grover norquist weighing in on this really? is this another april fool's joke?