Hillary and Obama?

[coollikeme]

Why won't they interview on Fox News. I have not seen them on any shows on Fox News. Why? Shouldn't it make people suspicious that they are not willing to appear on one of the major television stations.

[Brand X]

This is the word on the street. Fox news is pro republicain. Look at the interview with Bill Clinton. He makes a comment to the same matter. This is what I heard so being a neutral observer I am just telling what I have heard. Be honest I am an NBC news man so I can't prove what I heard about Fox news. But if that is true then that might be why they don't want to go there. They might feel the questions would be lopsided not in their favor.

It's what I heard so it has to be true right?

[coollikeme]

on any channel, does not matter. It is hard for me to vote for a President that avoids the channel I watch. CNN and CNBC are left leaning channels, and McCain interviews on there stations. What are Dem's afraid of, are they hiding something. If they can't handle a TV station how can they run a country. Makes me wonder?

[Dan.Linehan]

Fox News is a joke. I mean that literally too, Fox News actually reported on a parody news story as if it were real news, that's how poor their journalism is.

And here are a few screen caps of them tagging Mark Foley as a Democrat when he was soliciting his sixteen year old page.

Heck, here is a whole long page of misleading and fictitious Fox News screen-captures.

To answer your question, Cool, they aren't appearing on Fox News because doing so wouldn't be ethical. Fox News does everyone a disservice with their inaccurate reporting. There's nothing good about legitimatizing that.

Maybe instead of depending on a news network that is famous for lying, you should read some books instead? Faith of my Fathers by McCain or The Audacity of Hope by Barack.

[Jennihul]

Fox news is a joke. I second that.

I treat them like the Enquirer of 'legitimate' news sources.

"We report, you decide" which is their motto came from them being on the receiving end of so much criticism.

Jennifer

[oberlee]

Originally Posted by coollikeme

on any channel, does not matter. It is hard for me to vote for a President that avoids the channel I watch. CNN and CNBC are left leaning channels, and McCain interviews on there stations. What are Dem's afraid of, are they hiding something. If they can't handle a TV station how can they run a country. Makes me wonder?

Hmmm...Coollikeme, first, you're assuming that NBC and MSNBC ARE left-leaning stations. I really don't believe they are, which is why McCain has no problem being interviewed by them--THEY ARE LEGITIMATE NEWS STATIONS. FoxNews is not. They pretend to be fair by making a point of bringing on people from various points of the political spectrum, but what they do is get one or two "left-ists" who are wallflowers and get trampled by the caustic right-wingers. Like the Hannity and Colmes guy, don't remember which.

Regular news stations don't label people as "left" and "right" and so the stories end up being much more objective, imo. If you watch FoxNews for more than an hour, you actually lose brain cells. It's true.

Keith Olbermann on MSNBC is my favorite. You can't say that's not a smart guy.

[coollikeme]

Is the absolute worst news guy ever. His rating are so low, he might as well be the crap at the bottom of the toilet bowl. Bad joke, but you get my point!!! CNN and CNBC if you think they are not a left leaning channel. Then you must be blinded by Obama love for America. Hope you don't mind being taxed, the DEMS are coming.

[frajilthunder]

The mass media as a whole, and especially FoxNews, has done a terrible disservice to our country by propogating false and misleading statements about Iraq. In an '03 study, FoxNews viewers were found to have held misconceptions about the pre-war Iraq more frequently than other news sources. Here's the link, the Fox stuff starts on page 12.

http://65.109.167.118/pipa/pdf/oct03..._Oct03_rpt.pdf

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by coollikeme

Hope you don't mind being taxed, the DEMS are coming.

I don't mind being taxed, I mind when billions are wasted though.

Iraq has cost 500 Billion so far! How can you be worried about the Dems wasting money when so much has been flushed away in Iraq?

The US budget for Iraq in Fiscal Year 2007 came to $4,988/Iraqi. This is triple Iraq's per-person GDP. It's like spending $121,000 per person ($484,000 per family of 4) in the US. Why not just bribe the whole country?

If the Dems did raise taxes at least it would be for things we actually need, in THIS COUNTRY. Day care, health care, etc.

[Dan.Linehan]

Conservatives recommend Barack Obama.

This illustrates the issue of getting caught up in the Democrat / Republican labels.

The presidency of George W. Bush illustrates the point. In 2001, President Bush took command of a massive, inefficient federal bureaucracy. Since then, he has substantially increased the size of that apparatus, which during his tenure has displayed breathtaking ineptitude both at home and abroad. Over the course of Bush’s two terms in office, federal spending has increased 50 percent to $3 trillion per year. Disregarding any obligation to balance the budget, Bush has allowed the national debt to balloon from $5.7 to $9.4 trillion. Worse, under the guise of keeping Americans “safe,” he has arrogated to the executive branch unprecedented powers, thereby subverting the Constitution. Whatever else may be said about this record of achievement, it does not accord with conservative principles.

[coollikeme]

being taxed Dan? If you think the Dems aren't going to figure a way to blow billions then you are in for a shock. At least the billions we are spending now, are trying to stop terrorist.

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by coollikeme

being taxed Dan? If you think the Dems aren't going to figure a way to blow billions then you are in for a shock. At least the billions we are spending now, are trying to stop terrorist.

Spending billions to stop what terrorists? Al-Qaeda is not in Iraq..

[escapee]

I think America and the world has three + 1 choices.

1 ) Continuation of war on "oil terrorist" in Iraq for another (n+5) years, a bloody war with Iran and possibly Russia to forcefully secure Petro-dollar link to ensure that paper dollars remains the #1 foreign reserves for some years. ( Mc Cain or Hillary ).

2 ) Sit and wait for the demise of dollars and monetary system, and sink the world into hyper-inflationary chaos , civil wars or massive social unrest until a new monetary system is devised ( Obama or Hillary )

3 ) Ron Paul as president/world savior/"messiah" to abolish the unconstitutional Fed, uphold non-interventionist policy and start implementing commodities backed currency to restore integrity and confidence of monetary system. Iran begins to trade oil with US gold dollars . Everybody wins and nobody dies in war. The world is rescued from the brink of chaos and destruction.

4 ) Obama/McCain/Hilarry to adopt Ron Paul's stance and goes to 3)

Don't take my post too seriously ya ?

[coollikeme]

I was hoping to never hear his name again, Escapee thanks for the reminder lol.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by coollikeme

Why won't they interview on Fox News. I have not seen them on any shows on Fox News. Why? Shouldn't it make people suspicious that they are not willing to appear on one of the major television stations.

From a European perspective......Fox News is a Public Toilet. It stinks.

They are gung-ho moronic idiot sensationalists.

They typify unfortunately what every non-american thinks of the USA at the moment. It's regretable but hardly avoidable that what the adminstration and media create, the population are perceived as so.

[Doku]

Not that I like either of those two, but I think that the others have pretty much hit the nail on the head. Fox News is "Fair and Balanced" between the right, and the extreme right. Either of them going on Fox "News" for an "interview" would be the modern day version of the Inquisition, or the Salem Witch Trials (with a dash of Benny Hill thrown in)