When future historians ask how the United States came not only to practice torture but to celebrate it and treat torturers as heroes, a special place in hell among the journalists who embraced and justified it should be reserved for Chris Wallace.
Fox News has been carrying water for the Bush administration and the GOP since their very inception.
I firmly believe that it was a purposeful manipulation of the facts on election night 2000, that kept Al Gore out of the White House. Essentially FOX News "decided" that Bush had won, and the other news networks, afraid of being scooped, followed suit: with some 85% of the votes counted in Florida and Bush leading Gore by more than 100,000 votes, the networks, starting with Fox News, declared that Bush had carried Florida and therefore had been elected President.
EVERYTHING that happened to our country after the election of 2000 can be laid at the doorstep of Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, and Fox News.
It is well past time that the public and other news agencies stop treating them like they are delivering news to their viewers. What they are delivering is simple propaganda.
I applaud Andrew Sullivan for being courageous enough to call Chris Wallace out on his pandering. We also have Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert you regularly address the obvious manipulations that come out of this network.
I have to wonder when the other news outlets will band together and kick Fox News out of the clubhouse?
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Why do we allow an foriegn nationals, in this case an Australian (and I like Australians) to control so much American media? Murdoch owns Fox, the WSJ, and numerous other news sources. It doesn't 'feel' like this is in our best interests as a country.
ReplyDeleteIt's unfortunate that freedom of speech includes the freedom to utter lies. Which Faux News routinely does.
ReplyDeleteMy TV, usually tuned to MSNBC during the day is OFF. I'm sick that they are replaying the bullcrap that this war criminal is saying.
ReplyDeleteChris Wallace's father was an excellent on-air journalist. Chris is an embarrassment. I agree with Andrew Sullivan that, for all intents and purpose, this was a non-interview. It is also indicates a general acceptance of torture by many of those on the right. McCain did speak against the use of torture but called for no investigations and no prosecutions. I remember the Watergate break-in, the Iran-Contra Affair, and now the non-existent WMDs. In each of these instances a republican was occupying the WH. And each instance led to America being less well-regarded in the eyes of the world. I was reading an article in the Daily Beast from earlier in the month that states that Spain is investigating Yoo, Bybee, Gonzales, and a couple of other former Bush associates for the commission of war crimes. I hope what Senator Whitehouse said on the Rachel Maddow Show last week comes to fruition and that the current investigations will reveal more top officials' roles in the U.S. torture program.
ReplyDelete"Why do we allow an foriegn nationals, in this case an Australian (and I like Australians) to control so much American media?"
ReplyDeleteI don't know half the details but what it boils down to is de-regulation. It used to be that one owner could only own a small portion of the public airwaves in a market (or district or whatever). The rethugs wanted to de-regulate. So now, Murdoch owns most of the airwaves across the nation. This includes television as well as radio. You would be surprised what he doesn't own, which is, very little.
"McCain did speak against the use of torture but called for no investigations and no prosecutions."
ReplyDeleteBut you have to remember, McCain has changed his opinion on torture at least a few different times.
I don't even bother calling them a "News" channel... and what else does one expect from Fox... their motto should be "We distort, you comply." rather than "We report, you decide."
ReplyDeleteThey are and always have been a megaphone not just for the GOP, but also for the neo-con agenda, of which Cheney is a huge boot-licker.
Sullivan was dead-on with his assessment.
The Murdork media promotes propaganda. But maybe Wallace's performance was not all his fault. Cheney's low voice and tone seems hypnotic to me.
ReplyDeleteAn investigation should begin the day the Bush/Cheney regime took power, look under every rock and in every snake hole. The 9/11 investigation should be re-opened. That is what prompted wars and torture. Why did building seven collapse? Never before in history, yet, three buildings fell on the same day, the same way, all owned by the leasehold owner. Two were struck by planes, one was not. And that leasehold owner negotiated a new insurance policy six weeks before the attacks, adding a clause regarding terrorist attacks. There were 46 steel beams in the center of the twin tower buildings, 46, and they were all leveled, demolition style.
Cheney was in control of a military mock terrorist attack training on 9/11 and Bush was in Florida classroom in front of the cameras.
OT but the Youtube of Sarah and Todd's anniversary video.. with Shania Twain's Look's like we made it songisnt that a bit creepy? Didn't Shania and her lover man just have an odd divorce?Do they not think through past a couple of brain cell's before they chose a song to glorify her?That song says Splitsville all over ithttp://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1587557/shania-twain-mutt-lange-separating-after-14-years.jhtml
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree with Andrew Sullivan. I watched the interview while visiting my elderly parents (Fox viewers, ugh). I was appalled at the interview, er, performance. My parents were eating it up; they swallowed it all, hook, line and sinker.
ReplyDeleteI hope more people will follow Sullivan's lead and call it like it is: propaganda.
Thanks for posting this article.
Chris Wallace sold his soul to Murdoch years ago. I wonder how much he got for it? I figure that Murdoch must pay his "journalists" an obscene amount of money to make them abandon even the merest pretense of professional ethics.
ReplyDeleteIf I could ask Chris Wallace a question it would be, "So what's the view like up Cheney's arse?
Thank you for having the courage to speak on this. In our home FOX is known as The FOX Propaganda Channel and is not allowed to be turned on. To call FOX "news" is akin to pissing on the graves of the many formidable journalists who paved the way for credible journalists and credible news networks.
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't for all the wonderful bloggers, HuffPo, Daily Kos, John Stewart, Bill Maher, Colbert, Sullivan, etc. I wouldn't have made it through the last election.
ReplyDeleteI rarely watch the news anymore because no one knows anything anymore. Everyone gets a few talking points & then just repeats them over & over. I do not get MSNBC so I am not including them. It is a shame that we have don't have the same standard of newcasting that we used to have.
Faux News - Fair & Balanced my arse. It's like watching the 700 club and the evangelical stations with a hint on news thrown in for good measure. Fox Network shouldn't even be allowed to call themselves news!
I am not sorry that I did not get a converter in June. I haven't missed TV. I can get what I want of the net. Fox is not an option, unless there is something caught in my throat that I need to vomit up.
ReplyDeleteUm - I think you should do some research into the term bitchslap. It is offensive.
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