How Deep Is The Bottom Of The Barrel For Fox News?

NASHUA, N.H. — Aides to Barack Obama, one of two candidates to travel with Secret Service protection, have a policy of not discussing issues related to the senator’s security — unless the potential threat is conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly.

Secret Service officials separated O’Reilly and Obama aide Marvin Nicholson after the Fox News Channel personality grabbed Nicholson on a post-speech rope line in a high-school gym here. According to a witness, O’Reilly reached with two hands for Nicholson — who at 6-foot-8 had a slight height advantage over O’Reilly — because he stood between O’Reilly’s cameraman and Obama as the newsman called out for the candidate’s attention.

“He started pushing me and telling me to get out of his shot,” Nicholson told reporters afterwards. “Then he said I was ‘low-class.’ ” MUCH MORE

I wish that was the end of the story, but it actually gets worse. Ron Paul did participate in Thursday night’s Republican debate, and when he did, Faux News ambushed him with a question that was inappropriate, refused to allow him to respond to the issues that were presented until Mr. Paul asserted himself and demanded to return to the issues being discussed at the debate:

Fox ambushes Ron Paul with ‘9/11 Truthers’ question

RAW Story
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Friday January 11, 2008

During Thursday night’s Republican debate, after the other candidates had been invited to exchange views on whether the Reagan conservative coalition is now a thing of the past, Fox host Carl Cameron turned to Ron Paul with a very different question.

“Many of your supporters call themselves ‘9/11 Truthers,’” Cameron began. “They believe that the US government was in some way complicit with the 9/11 attacks or covered it up. Are you prepared to either embrace that rhetoric or ask those supporters to abandon it or divorce themselves from your candidacy?”

“Well, I can’t tell people what to do, but I’ve abandoned those viewpoints,” Paul replied. “I don’t believe that, and that’s the only thing that is important. … But I would like to take an opportunity to talk about the issue that we’ve been debating here for the last 20 minutes.”

Rather than letting Paul join in the general discussion, however, Cameron continued to attempt to corner him on the 9/11 question, demanding, “Would you ask them to cease that rhetoric tonight on your behalf?”

“Well, it doesn’t do me any good,” answered Paul, “so if they care about me they should, but the only thing I have control over is what I believe and what I say. I can’t tell them what to do. … So please, could I participate in the current debate …” MORE

Ron Paul is my second choice, not first, but when any Presidential candidate is treated with bias and a so called “news network” attempts to badger a candidate and slipped in a question that was off-subject and meant to discredit the candidate, their bias and obvious attempt to make Dr. Paul appear as a radical should insult the intelligence of anyone, Republican, Democrat, or Independent. It’s up to the people to decide a candidate’s merit by debating issues that are fundamental to all of the candidates and voters alike, and none of us need to witness Fox’s hatred of Ron Paul exhibited in such a childish and malicious manner.

I’m sorry their cars were vandalized and that there’s a “hatred for Fox News”, however, the common thinking is that if they would actually produce news that was real, non-biased and “newsworthy” - and they didn’t attempt to influence a nation by peddling lies and propaganda, the anger wouldn’t be there. Just a few months ago, President Bush seemed to be amazed that he was disliked by the majority of America. Bill O’Reilly seems to be taking the same train of thought, indignant because they know they are despised for their lies and bias, and opposed universally for becoming arrogant as they blatantly ignore the facts and continually use their status as a news source to pepper the people with a barrage of hate, lies, spin and propaganda so brazen that even the commonest of men are now seeing who they really are - and it’s a sad state of affairs to believe that besides President Bush, I’d bet Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are the most ridiculed people in America. It’s sad when the messenger is as corrupt as those sending the message - so much so, that they have now become the epitome of everything that’s representative of bias and corruption in the MSM.

William Cormier

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