Fox News provides MA Sen. candidate Brown a forum to raise funds and misinform
In recent days, Scott Brown, the Republican nominee in the special election for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat, has made numerous appearances on Fox News to raise funds for his campaign, solicit volunteers, and peddle misinformation. In the wake of the November 2009 elections, Fox News provided airtime to GOP and conservative candidates, and its on-air personalities celebrated and shilled for them.
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In Fox News appearances, Brown encouraged viewers to visit his website
On Fox, Brown encouraged viewers to visit his campaign website to find out "how to help with donating and volunteering." In appearances on America's Newsroom, On the Record, and Hannity, Brown pointed viewers to his campaign website, solicited funds for his campaign, and also cited RedInvadesBlue.com, where, he said, "we have a money bomb right now that's hitting ... and you can help me fight back against the machine." Fox News hosts Martha MacCallum and Greta Van Susteren said they invited Democratic candidate Martha Coakley to appear on their Fox News shows.
Brown said Fox viewers "can learn more" by visiting campaign website. From the January 12 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:
BROWN: There's political chicanery. I'm used to it in Massachusetts. And people can go to BrownForUSSenate.com, they can learn more about that and how to help with donating and volunteering.
Brown tells Fox viewers where to find his campaign's "money bomb right now that's hitting." From the January 11 edition of Fox News' On The Record with Greta Van Susteren:
BROWN: Martha's a good person, but she's wrong on all the issues. And the people of Massachusetts are upset at the taxing, the spending, the backroom deals. Martha Coakley's position on terror -- it's outrageous. She said tonight that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan. That's the type of person who has a policy that is very scary, especially when we're trying to provide the tools and resources for our soldiers to keep them safe. And if people want to learn more, they can certainly go to BrownForUSSenate.com.
But we have a money bomb right now that's hitting, and you can go to RedInvadesBlue.com, and you can help me fight back against the machine, because the negative ads -- the second I walked off the stage, the negative ads have started. And you all around the country can make a big, big difference in this race.
Brown to Fox viewers: "If people are kind of fed up ... they can go to brownforussenate.com." From the January 8 edition of Fox News' Hannity:
BROWN: If people are kind of fed up with the way things are going, they can go to BrownForUSSenate.com, and they can make a difference and they can stop the business as usual -- not only in Massachusetts, but more importantly nationally. They can give me a chance to go down there and bring some common sense back to Washington.
Van Susteren allowed Brown to falsely suggest health reform will limit mammograms, cervical cancer screenings
Van Susteren allowed Brown to advance the false suggestion that the health care reform bills would prevent women from receiving mammograms and pap smears. In his January 11 appearance on Van Susteren's show, Brown stated that "[t]here are a whole lot of things that are just bad" in the health care reform bills and listed among them "having mammograms go from, you know, 40 to 50 and pap smear testing." In fact, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's recommendations on mammograms are not legally binding. The Senate health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires insurance companies only to cover screenings that the USPSTF recommends, those rated as an A or B recommendation; it does not require insurers to adopt guidelines that recommend against preventive screenings. Similarly, the House health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, requires insurance companies to cover the A or B recommendations of a new task force, the Task Force on Clinical Preventive Services, but does not require insurers to adopt recommendations against preventive services. Further, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' cervical cancer screening guidelines are not binding and are in no way connected to health care reform.
Fox "political analyst" Morris uses position to fundraise for Brown
"Please, please help" Brown, Morris urges viewers. During the January 11 edition of Fox News' Hannity, political analyst Dick Morris urged viewers to "go to DickMorris.com ... to help elect Brown," because if "we win this fight, then there will never be another victory for Obama." DickMorris.com includes a fundraising plea "to help us raise $300,000 for a last minute media buy to push Brown and the Republicans to victory"; Fox News executives allow Morris to solicit funds for Republican efforts despite reportedly telling colleague Mike Huckabee to cease conflict-of-interest promotions that help his political action committee.
Fox provided airtime to GOP and conservative candidates in November '09 elections, and on-air personalities celebrated and shilled for them
Conservative candidates stump on Fox during lead-up to elections. In the two weeks leading up to the November 3, 2009, elections, Conservative Party congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie, and Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell appeared on Fox News and its personalities' radio shows at least 16 times for live interviews lasting a total of 114 minutes and 36 seconds. Christie made at least five appearances, totaling almost 37 minutes on Fox News and its personalities' radio shows; McDonnell made at least three appearances totaling 18 minutes; and Hoffman made at least seven appearances totaling almost 60 minutes.
Fox News hosts, political analysts spend Election Day celebrating and shilling for conservatives and GOPers. On November 4, 2009, numerous Fox News hosts and political analysts encouraged voters to donate to and volunteer and vote for GOP and conservative candidates, including Christie, McDonnell, and Hoffman. The Fox News personalities included Mike Huckabee, Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Tammy Bruce, and Eric Bolling.
Leading up to elections, Fox personalities promoted conservative and GOP candidates and helped fundraise for them. Fox News hosts and analysts offered support for McDonnell, Christie, and Hoffman and their fundraising efforts leading up to the elections. For example, on his November 2, 2009, Fox News show, Hannity told Hoffman, "I hope I'm on the air this time tomorrow night and I'll be able to declare you the winner." On November 3, 2009, on Twitter, Fox News contributor Karl Rove encouraged his followers to donate to the Republican Governor's Association in order to help Christie's campaign. On two Fox News shows in October 2009, Huckabee directed viewers to "go to balancecutsave.com," urging them to sign a petition telling Congress to "balance the budget," "cut their spending," and "save American families"; however, balancecutsave.com redirected visitors to Huckabee's political action committee, which financially supports Republican candidates. Subsequently, Huck PAC apparently emailed petition signers -- who were required to provide an email address in order to sign the "balancecutsave" petition -- a "newsletter" urging political action on behalf of Republican-backed candidates Bob McDonnell, David Harmer, and Doug Hoffman.
At least provide some credible examples or kindly STFU. If Chris Matthews or CNN is using their show to openly solicit funds for candidates, let me know and I will happily condemn them. Until then, I call b.s.
The issue, dum-dum, is that FoxNews, as a legitimate news organization, shouldn't be giving any political candidate a forum to raise money and misinform. No news organization should do that for any candidate!
This is not rocket science.
This is not about your rant about how terrible liberals are. This site is about conservative misinformation in the media. Get a clue, fool.
So far in this thread there have been many accusations of CNN helping to solicit funds for Democratic candidates, etc., and not one bit of evidence to support the accusations.
Please explain how MMfA is censoring/silencing.
Chances of MMfA posting that quote as a headline or even mentioning it, ZERO!
As I said before, "This site is about conservative misinformation in the media. Get a clue, fool."
Therefore, MLK Jr's niece's comments? Totally inappropriate for MMFA to cover here. She's not a member of the media. Her opinion is her opinion. MMFA doesn't object to opinions. They object and debunk nonsense that's not factual. They show the ways that rightwing news media doesn't act like legitimate media sources!
This is not rocket science, yet it baffles people like you! SMH.
In other words, while they claim they did call Martha Coakley, they don't claim they invited her to appear on the same show Scott Brown. All that they are claiming is that they called her. Perhaps they dialled her number, let it ring once and then hung up. That counts as having called her, right?
So, here's a translation from NeoConSpeak to actual English:
Translation: "We never invited Martha Coakley to appear alongside Scott Brown, and we don't plan to. Maybe if we can think up some way of making Martha Coakley look bad on our show then we'll actually invite her, but if she's smart she'll stay away."
We'll see if Martha actually appears on Fox News for an interview. Don't hold your breath.
They also offered Coakley a spot as reported by mmfa: "Fox News hosts Martha MacCallum and Greta Van Susteren said they invited Democratic candidate Martha Coakley to appear on their Fox News shows."
Too bad she appears to lack the political courage to enter the den and beard the lion.
Despite the long winded rebuttal by mmfa...there is only one reason why Brown flew solo on FOX...Coakley refused to step up to the plate.
You're the first to pop up with that old lame excuse.
Coakley better do something fast as Brown is hustling to the finish line. The democrat polling outfit called Public Policy Polling reports that Brown now holds a 48-47 advantage...after trailing by double digits.
I'm with RO's statement "you go with that"...if it makes you feel better to ignore the most current data.
And that most current data comes from a democrat pollster...showing Brown with the lead.
Yup, more confusion over WTIH. Still wondering why this site does not monitor politicians and why it seems to focus only on the media?
Just sayin'
If you think that we don't know that you're full of it, you're wrong.
And he didn't just 'namedrop his website'. He specifically mentioned fund raising and solicited campaign contributions and volunteers.
And when a politician misinforms, then a legit news organization calls the pol on that misinformation. But not FoxNews when it comes to a Republican candidate running in Massachusetts, apparently!
Your strawmen fell flat, you fool. How unusual. How unique for you. NOT!
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That makes her a sure fit with all those MMFA staffers who spend their lives in mommy's basement watching FNC aroudn the clock, so they can blog line by line, every thing ever said on Fox News and scream about it. Oh, not to forget those who sit with headphones on all day to transcribe out of context every word Rush Limbaugh says on the air too.
This thread may break the record for the number of accusations made against CNN, MMfA, et al, that are completely unsupported by links or facts.
Especially since I can actually spell "you".
There may be a job application coming up. Think about it.
I don't comment on subjects that I don't know about already. See, intelligent, confident people don't feel the need to do that, and they understand the pitfalls of trying to talk about things they don't know about. It's not my 'fault' that I know a lot about a lot of things, that I have a ton of common sense, and great reasoning ability. It's not a flaw to have those capabilities. However, you clearly don't comprehend the pitfalls of trying to snow us!
Now, I understand that my skills and your lack of the same makes YOUR job of derailing threads and spreading misinformation harder, but that's too bad and so very, very sad for you.
LOL not to mention Dolly is so humble! It not Dolly’s fault she is better than everyone else!
Secondly, I think being humble is overrated, and I'm fine with anyone tooting their own horn at any time.
But lastly, and most importantly, someone made the accusation that I comment on things that I don't know about - that I'll comment on anything. It's not my fault that the response to that kind of a charge is to do exactly what I did - mention that I don't comment on everything, and that I am not to blame for my ability to comment thoughtfully on a wide variety of topics!
So no, it's not my fault that I'm smarter than most people, nor that I have tons of common sense, and that I have great reasoning ability. It's not my fault that I'm curious, and well-read, and can multi-task and so can learn from one medium while I'm listening to another medium while I am lying in bed while rehabilitating my broken body from a horrific accident.
But you go with the personal insults since apparently that's all you've got. We all laugh at you anyway - you might as well give us yet one more example of why we should do so!
Ladies and gentlemen a perfect example of an elitist liberal I am better than you so if you disagree with me your not only wrong your stupid. After all Dolly is smarter than most people. How do we know this she says so!
I also wonder how much of the money that Dick Morris raises actually goes to help elect Scott Brown and how much goes to help Dick Morris
must... send... money... to brown...
help, media matters, help me!... i'm under fox news' evil grip!... i can't think for myself!...
must buy... o'reilly... factor gear...
You don't see any ethical issues, do you? Perhaps u r just a ditto-head, then?
if brown's opposition wanted equal time on these opinion shows i'm sure they would be more than welcome... but take the white house's recent boycott of fox news... it's much easier to use the excuse of "they're not fair" than to face tough questions...
as for newscorp and fox news head's political positions, they have to have some opinion and preference, don't they?... what might cnn and their parent company, time-warner's, be?... we know former owner ted turner's... ge, owners of msnbc?... perhaps they just live in a vacuum and have no political opinions whatsoever... even though jeffrey immelt is a fixture in the obama whitehouse...
idiots like me, indeed...
Thankfully there are even more millions who don't.
40,000+ people dying each year isn't enough for you? Hundreds of thousands of bankruptcies crippling our economy doesn't bother you? Countless people postponing health care due to lack of funds doesn't bother you?
Let me put this in a way that the nutjobs can understand: 40,000+ dead each and every year = 13+ 9/11's each and every year. We've wasted TRILLIONS in a failed attempt to avenge the 3,000 deaths on 9/11. What do you have against spending money FOR the people, instead of spending for war profiteers/death merchants?
You've thrown that bogus number around here before without substantiation. Well, enjoy the the pity party.
In the meantime, here's some more stuff for progressives such as yourself, to whine about...
You gotta hate this..
This has got to hurt....
and I am sure this is a kick in the pants, too.....
Speaking truth to/about progressives with a shout out to Ted Kennedy, who is certainly prefering it was the blonde that was interested in his seat and not the guy who will probably win it!
Well, I do have pity on the uninsured but I'm not throwing a party in their honor.
Do you dispute the Harvard study that shows 40,000 people die every year due to a lack of health insurance?
I guess a Harvard study doesn't hold water for you. Must be all those liberal elites promoting the liberal agenda.
I believe this 'study' was based upon research that included previously debunked information, poor methodology of gathering data, then added by attempting to extrapolate results close to their liking. Kind of like the folks that tell us global warming is caused by man.
What part of ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION do people not understand?
LimbaughGoebbels started this poison politics broadcasting; which begat GOP perversity such as psychopaths Dubya, Cheney, Gingrich, Lieberman, Inhofe, Scalia, Palin ... candidate Brown creep ... hell just read the entire list of wacko rightwing electeds and has-beens begotten going back 20 years, and the begotten fear-frozen Dems are dithering dunces, dupe-stupids, and complicit 'Good German' powermad nazi nationalist zeroes.
Federal Election Commission EXISTING rules, regulations, and LAWS limit campaign contributions, violations punishable by removal, blacklist, fines, and ....
The dollar value of the 'trade in kind' airtime IS CAMPAIGN monetary CONTRIBUTION.
Goddam WHERE IS Justice Department? Hey, ERIC HOLDER propaganda puppet: Get a clue or get out of the way. Phony. Chickensh!t.
Here (video) is what is gonna be: George H. W. Bush Heckled At Pizza Place
He dares show up in public and some concerned CMV (citizen making video) gets in Herbert's face "you LYING Zionist Piece of Sh!t" -- eL ZiPS -- and that's what all the nasty=politics television brainwashing is coming to, and super-rich Herbert himself fostered and favored this destruction, good buddy super-rich Murdoch, and let the karma boomerang damage knock him, them, jerk O'Reilly, jerk Beck, jerk Dobbs, jerk Hannity ... hell, read the entire list of perpwalkers in the paper, the revolution will not be televised.
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