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Remember, keep on repeating the lie often enough and in time, enough fools will believe you.  Fox and other global warming deniers are chuckling away, believing that the East Coast snowstorms somehow invalidate the concept of global warming.

Fox News took advantage of today’s East Coast blizzard to prove some point or other about Al Gore on Cavuto this afternoon. Guest host Eric Bolling did color commentary as a copy of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” was placed outside Fox News HQ to prove, it seems, that today’s record-breaking snowfall that shut down infrastructure in at least three major cities proves that Gore’s climate change warnings are without merit.

“Poor Al Gore,” Bolling told viewers as the snow piled up around Gore’s book on air. “We should get a camera outside his house.”

See video at end of post.  In fact, these record snowstorms are more an indicator of global warming than not.

The 2009 U.S. Climate Impacts Report found that large-scale cold-weather storm systems have gradually tracked to the north in the U.S. over the past 50 years. While the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased as the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. That’s in part because of global warming – hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow.

But as far as winter storms go, shouldn’t climate change make it too warm for snow to fall? Eventually that is likely to happen – but probably not for a while. In the meantime, warmer air could be supercharged with moisture and, as long as the temperature remains below 32°F, it will result in blizzards rather than drenching winter rainstorms.

Burying Gore’s book in a snowbank, while cutesy, only helps in demonstrating Fox’s complete lack of integrity and unwillingness to deal in honest journalism. Unfortunately, they have an audience dumb enough to accept it all ’cause it’s easier to believe what some teevee guy says than actually trying to understand the science behind it all.
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Another reason why Fox News should be part of the Comedy Network.

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63 + 70 + 60 = 193

Not bad. Their pie chart  was only off by 93.

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Fox News does this on such a regular basis that we hardly notice anymore.
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Let me take a slant different than what you’ll read on most liberal blogs. I’m not going to slam Perino here.  Yes, she’s a typical delusional conservative but I don’t think she’s an idiot.  She’s quite aware of 9/11. What she most probably meant to say was that under President Bush, there had been no attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. It’s sort of 9/11 being the point from which we measure all future acts of terrorism. Fine, I’ll give her that but the fact still remains that 9/11 happened under Bush’s watch and his administration ignored memos and intelligence from the NSA that al Qaeda was planning an attack.

What is more unforgivable is Hannity and the lackey in the video (whoever) sitting there and not saying a single word to correct the gross misstatement by Perino.  Their focus is so aimed at attacking and destroying Obama that even a statement so blatantly wrong flies right over their heads.

Hey, what can we say about Fox that has not been said a thousand times…

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Fox can’t be serious. Last week they got caught inflating crowd numbers at a D.C. teaparty by showing old footage of a previous rally and claiming it was recent.  And now this…

This afternoon, Fox News host Gregg Jarrett proudly announced that Sarah Palin is “continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand new book. Take a look at — these are some of the pictures just coming into us.” But the pictures that the network chose to display on-air appeared to be old file footage of Palin rallies from the 2008 presidential campaign. Individuals in the crowd are seen holding McCain/Palin signs, and others are holding pom-poms and cheering wildly. “There’s a crowd of folks,” an enthused Jarrett observed, referring to the old footage.

There’s a bloody teleprompter in front of her! Who uses a teleprompter at a book signing?

And to think that a few weeks back, Fox was bitching about White House claims that Fox is the propaganda arm of the Republican party and not worthy to be called a news network.  Fox specializes in hallow denials as they get more cartoonish by the day.
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My kind of story.  A conservative blogger is raising a stink over a two year old episode of Sesame Street which was re-broadcast last week.  Here’s how Big Hollywood tells the sorry tale.

Add one more soldier to the Left’s war on Fox News:  Oscar the Grouch.

Last week, in a re-broadcast of an episode that originally aired two years ago, Oscar starts his own news network, GNN (Grouchy News Network).  An irate viewer calls in to berate him that the news is not grouchy enough:

“I am changing the channel. From now on I am watching ‘Pox’ News. Now there is a trashy news show.”

If Mom and Dad watch cable news, it’s better than 50/50 they watch “POX News.”  So what gives? PBS — a network partially funded with my tax dollars — has the right to tell my kids that their parents watch “trashy” news?  The message is clear, I can’t even sit my kids in front of “Sesame Street” without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority. And don’t tell me, “If you don’t like it change the channel.”  There are no channels left! It’s everywhere. Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon.

Here’s the segment our conservative friend is upset about.
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The anger gets more intense.

Later in the episode, Anderson Cooper from 4th place CNN, guest stars as a reporter for GNN.  He interacts with “Walter Cranky” and “Dan Rather-Not” —  Muppets representing real-life liberal news personalities — and they talk about “Meredith Beware-a” and “Diane Spoiler.” But no affectionate nicknames for Fox News personalities; no Spill O’Reilly or Brittle Hume — nope, and the only disparaging characterization of real-world news is reserved for Fox:  Fox is a POX.  It is trashy.  They didn’t even attempt to try “MessyNBC.”

Funny. He’s complaining because Sesame Street didn’t mock any of Fox’s clowns. I’m not understanding the anger here. Is Fox not a pox on fair and balanced journalism?  Is Sesame Street not allowed to be fair and balanced itself? And, is Fox not trashy? Where’s the problem. I’m not getting it.

And here’s his closing.

“Sesame Street” can awkwardly slam FoxNews from the comfort of their stodgy old PBS studios… Meanwhile, we have the cool kids on our side: Dennis Miller, Greg Gutfeld, Andrew Breitbart and yes, even Glenn Beck. And our cool kids are pointing out just how boring, lame, predictable and lazy the other side has become.  No longer will middle-America sit back and feel powerless as these snobs pass judgment on what we find to be informative and entertaining.

We no longer  NEED their approval. We see them for what they are: bitter, pompous and desperate.

Sheesh.  I was willing to say ‘ok’ but then he blew it when he tells us that Glenn Beck is a cool kid.  If he’s right about Beck, then George W. Bush was a smart kid.

If “Mom and Dad” watch Fox News for entertainment, wonderful. But if they watch trashy Pox to get “informed”, then they deserve all the mocking that Oscar and the guys can dish out. Someone’s got to educate these kids on mommy and daddy’s nasty viewing habits. Why not Sesame Street?

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Here is a solid debate on the merits of the Obama administration accusing Fox News of being a non-news network.
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Nico Pitney asks the perfect question…

“If the Republican National Committee had a television network, how would it be any different [than Fox]?”

Exactly. It wouldn’t be any different.
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Fox is going absolutely crazy with what they perceive as the White House picking a battle with them. MediaMatters turns it right around and points out that it is in fact Fox who has picked a fight with this White House…and they’ve been doing it consistently for nine months.

And just in case you’re intelligent enough to not make Fox your source for news and missed it…
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MediaMatters does a wonderful job of unmasking the lies emanating from the right.  Wingnut media types hate them because MM exposes them for what they are – fat-cat, lying scum mostly.  As for conservatives who rely on Fox and Limbaugh for their news, their dislike for MM stems from the simple fact that they just don’t know better.
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I love honest, down to earth, tell-it-like-it-is talk. White House Communications Director Anita Dunn as part of the new We’re Not Taking Their BS Anymore campaign….

“The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.”

“Let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.”

“They’re widely viewed as part of the Republican Party. Take their talking points, put ‘em on the air.”

…and the earth revolves around the sun.

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Not that we needed more proof of Fox News’ “fair and balanced”.  The woman in green in this clip is Fox News producer Heidi Noonan.
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As MediaMatters writes,

We would expect that type of behavior from a producer of, say, a daytime talk show with a live studio audience like Oprah or Maury or Jerry, but from a cable news producer? Really?

There’s a more complete clip of Fox rallying the crowds here.
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Media wars…
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How refreshing to see legitimate news networks battle Fixed News head on and not mince words.  Fixed has been on a mini ad blitz of late stating that they were the only ones who reported on the 9-12 rally in D.C.  They’ve taken ads out in newspapers to make their case.  Aside from the fact that the protests were highly promoted by Fixed News, the fact is that the other networks did cover the 70,000 people-strong protest march.

CNN’s Rick Sanchez takes on Fixed News’ lie and rips them to shreds.
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Sanchez gets it just right. The difference between Fixed and every other news network is that the latter covered the event. Fixed promoted the event.

Sanchez claims that Fixed lied. Well yes, they did…just like they do each and every day. It’s what they do in their role as the propaganda arm of the Republican party. This is why polls show that Fixed viewers are the ones most likely to be misinformed on key issues (e.g. Iraq behind 9/11, Obama born in Kenya, etc.). Those tea party quacks with the lovely signs and messed up notions? Fixed News viewers.

Too stupid or lazy to determine a story on its merits and facts so you need it doctored to fit your preset beliefs?  Odds are you’re a Fixed News viewer.

Fixed News, the home of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Need one say more?

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