FOX News is SO full of shit.

When will FOX News actually begin reporting the news instead of promoting political agendas? Thats a rhetorical question. It amazes me that FOX News Corp. believes that it is the ONLY news channel reporting the news, and calling every other mode of the press out there "the Mainstream Media" or the "liberal media". In the beginning of radio and television news reporting, the press had the respect and confidence of the masses. People looked to people like Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite for the news and respected and valued their factual news reporting. At what point in history did ALL of the media become liberal and FOX News was the ONLY news outlet that reported the TRUE news? I can tell you when: NEVER.

FOX News reports about 40% news and 60% propaganda (the numbers are arbitrary, don't jump down my throat). Never has divisive propaganda been more evident than this latest stunt by FOX in their full page ad in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post claiming that they were the ONLY news organization that covered the Tea Party 9/12 event in Washington D.C. This was clearly not true at all and the legitimate news organizations accused of being biased for the left are pissed off about it! ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said the ad was "just false" and that ABC has "a real problem with the Washington Post accepting an ad like this. CBS said it had "multiple crews" at the rally and made it the lead story on the "CBS Evening News." CBS Radio News offered hourly reports and CBSNews.com had the story in its rotating lead throughout the day, the network said. NBC declined comment but noted that NBC News had crews on the mall and the event led "NBC Nightly News" on Saturday and was covered on "Today" Sunday morning. MSNBC also covered the story with live reports throughout the day, the network said."

It's amazing to me that there are actually people out there who believe that this pseudo news organization actually reports the news without bias and is Fair and Balanced.

Recycled BullshXX is still BullsXXX!

I recently received an email from a friend that had the title "545 Vs. 300,000,000". It piqued my attention and I was very curious to read it. It made a few decent points but nonetheless, being the semi-intelligent and reasonable person that I am, I decided to do a little fact checking. All of my information and writing is written in red. The original script is in black. Enjoy it and I hope that you come to your own resolutions.

545 vs. 300,000,000

(Interesting how this title suggests an ‘Us against them’ attitude)

EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED (24 years ago when the speaker of the House was Tip O'Neil.)
IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.

Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years. (The same Charley Reese who was a conservative with many libertarian views, returned to the Democratic Party, after the presidency of George H. W. Bush (1989-1993), citing that the senior Bush brought the "Rockefeller Wing" into control of the GOP. He is STILL a registered DEMOCRAT as well as an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration and an opponent of the War in Iraq. In 2004 he supported John Kerry’s presidential campaign.)

545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign
against them..

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against
deficits, WHY do we have deficits? (maybe its because as one of the largest nations in the world, our economy is so complex and ever evolving that its hard to balance anything. Think how hard it is to balance your OWN checkbook. Or maybe its because its the way that Nobel Prize winning economist William Vickrey explains it. "The 'deficit' is not an economic sin but an economic necessity. Its most important function is to be the means whereby purchasing power not spent on consumption, nor recycled into income by the private creation of net capital, is recycled into purchasing power by government borrowing and spending. Purchasing power not so recycled becomes non-purchase, non-sales, non-production, and unemployment.)

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes,
WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The
House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices
equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million
(all 545 of which those 300 million people voted for)
are directly, legally, morally,
and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
(and by the way, only 54 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots during the last four decades of presidential elections. Compare that embarrassing number to Italy's 90 percent, Germany's 80 percent, France and Canada's 76 percent, Britain's 75 percent and Japan's 71 percent. We rank 35th in voter turnout out of the world's prominent democracies. So really, that 300 million number is more like 160 million.)

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created
by the Congress (who are representatives for us the people who elected them). In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a
sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no
legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a
president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician
$1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No
matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to
determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did
is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of
gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and
criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a
budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to
the House of Representatives
(because the House of Representatives, REPRESENTS the will of the people who elected them)
for originating and approving appropriations and
taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the
majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any
budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they
agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million (actually, closer to 160 million) cannot replace 545 people
who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility.
(INCONCEIVABLE, that is, if you are uninformed, and don’t understand that those 545 people the 160 million voted for, were actually elected by the 160 million and chosen, by those same people, to make decisions on their behalf)
I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545
people.
(As a matter of fact I can’t think of any country that doesn’t have any domestic problems! Except maybe Disneyland and Utopia!)
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of
the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to
exist. (Which in turn must mean what the 160 million people who voted for them want to exist)

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they (and by they I mean WE) want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ
(Does anybody really still believe this?)

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not
available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose
jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to
regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this
power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists
disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that
prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. (I guess that makes economists more like people who study Mythology, since the economy is so “mystical” and politicians are like unicorns, since it is an equally mystical force)

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible (them and the 160 million people who voted for them).

They, and they alone, have the power (the power to do what we elected them to do).

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees... (Hey? Didn’t we hire these employees?)

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess! (Oh wait! We can do that now anyway!)

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper. (Who actually wrote this recycled piece in 1985 when the Speaker of the house was Tip O’Neil and the military went on UN missions instead of Iraq. For verification see ^ Orlando Sentinel Archives "Looking For Someone To Blame? Congress Is Good Place To Start". Charley Reese. March 7, 1995.)

What you do with this article now that you have read it......... Is up to you.

This might be funny if it weren't so darned true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor, Tax his mule,(Really? Who has mules anymore?) Teach him taxes Are the rule.

Tax his work, Tax his pay, He works for peanuts Anyway! Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if heTries to think.

Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries Tax his tears.

Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways To tax his ass. (Are you referring to the mule again?)

Tax all he has Then let him know That you won't be done Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers; Then tax him some more, Tax him till He's good and sore. Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in Which he's laid...

Put these words Upon his tomb,Taxes drove me to my doom...'

When he's gone,Do not relax, It’s time to apply The inheritance tax. Accounts Receivable Tax Building Permit Tax CDL license Tax Cigarette Tax (Many governments have introduced excise taxes on cigarettes in order to reduce the consumption of cigarettes. Money collected from the cigarette taxes are frequently used to pay for tobacco use prevention programs, therefore making it a method of internalizing external costs)
Corporate Income Tax, Dog License Tax, Excise Taxes, Federal Income Tax, Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA), Fishing License Tax, Food License Tax, Fuel Permit Tax, Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon), Gross Receipts Tax, Hunting License Tax, Inheritance Tax, Inventory Tax, IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax), Liquor Tax, Luxury Taxes, Marriage License Tax, Medicare Tax, Personal Property Tax, Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service Charge ,Tax Social Security, Tax Road Usage, Tax Sales Tax Recreational Vehicle, Tax, School Tax, State Income Tax, State Unemployment Tax (SUTA), Telephone Federal Excise Tax, Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax, Telephone Federal Tax, State and Local Surcharge Taxes Telephone Minimum Usage SurchargeTax, Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax, Telephone State and Local Tax, Telephone Usage Charge Tax, Utility Taxes, Vehicle License Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Watercraft Registration Tax, Well Permit Tax, Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? (Not Really. Was this meant to be funny?) Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago
(maybe because 100 years ago we didn’t have most of these things),
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world (which it still is, unless you want to live in Dubai or Saudi Arabia)

We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. (Are you implying women should stay home and just birf babies and be in the kitchen barefoot? Oh, you are going to piss a lot of women off with that one!)

What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?' (I can, because I went to school)
And I still have to 'press 1' for English!? (Now that’s just nasty. Really? You had to go all Lou Dobbs on us? Do you really want to pay $30 for a salad at the Olive Garden?)

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!
GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!

Bill O continues his veiled racist attacks on a dead man.



There's an old saying: You can't choose your family. And it's true. The family of Michael Jackson honored his memory Tuesday in Los Angeles, and I do not wish to intrude on that. They are entitled to grieve any way they want.

But Michael Jackson's place in America is a legitimate topic of discussion, and "Talking Points" [and by Talking Points I mean me, Bill O'Reilly] is just about fed up with all the adulation. It's basically grandstanding and pathetic in the extreme. Yes, the man was an all-star entertainer. That's it. So enough with the phony platitudes, OK?

The truth is that Jackson's interactions with children were unacceptable for any adult. His incredible selfishness, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on himself while singing "We Are the World" should make any clear-thinking American nauseous [except for the fact that he co-wrote the song We are the World, which raised over $63 million for famine relief and donated and raised more than 300 million dollars for beneficial causes through his Heal the World Foundation, charity singles, and support of 39 charities].

And why are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton making this a racial deal? Jackson bleached his own skin [actually, he suffered from vitiligo and avoided the sun. I guess that makes it bleaching] and then chose white men to provide existence for his in vitro children [ok. Now who is make this a racial issue? Do you know if the doctors were white, black, hispanic or otherwise?]. I mean, give me a break with all this. To hear Sharpton speak on Tuesday, you'd think Mr. Jackson was Martin Luther King Jr.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REV. AL SHARPTON, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: Those young kids grew up from being teenage comfortable fans of Michael to being 40 years old and being comfortable to vote for a person of color to be the president of the United States of America. Michael did that. Michael made us love each other. Michael taught us to stand with each other.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

And if you disagree with honoring Jackson the man, watch out. Congressman Peter King called Jackson a pedophile [which would be slander if Michael Jackson was still alive, because he was tried and acquitted by a jury], an assessment [actually more of a very biased opinion] not uncommon, and was immediately branded a racist. NAACP official Hazel Dukes and Congressman Bobby Rush both said vile things about Mr. King.

The message is very clear: If you criticize Michael Jackson, you hate black people. Nonsense, un-American and unacceptable.

If you like Jackson, fine. No problem. That's your right. If you do not respect him, that is fine as well. Dukes and Rush are playing the race card pure and simple [kettle calling pot black. No pun intended]. They should be ashamed.

The crowd outside the service was much smaller than predicted. The service itself was very well done, but the media coverage was a bit bizarre. I mean, there's something surreal about watching Katie Couric analyze things with Kenny "Babyface" Edmunds [Bill's biased opinion]. And Charles Gibson didn't exactly look relaxed doing play by play [Bill's biased opinion].

The whole deal illustrates just how crazy the USA is becoming. A cowardly media will exploit any event for ratings. Remember, the same people extolling Jackson today were the ones giving his child molestation trial gavel-to-gavel attention [Yeah. It's called reporting the news. It is an unbiased observation and presentation of the facts]. And after Michael Jackson was found not guilty, the American media did not exactly elevate him to hero status, did it?

But now that he's dead, most likely from an accidental drug overdose [like Elvis Presley Heath Ledger and Hank Williams], he is a hero. How does that work? How does that happen? Just another day in media world.

North Korean Cyber Attack on US

North Korea promised to attack the United States on the 4th of July this year. Its a little gift they seem to want to offer us every year on our Independence Day. The United States, South Korea, Japan and Australia watch and prepared as North Korea conducted missile tests and sent ships out to see, suspected of carrying weapons in violation of U.N. resolutions. On July 4th, the North Koreans launched seven missiles over the Atlantic Ocean in our general direction. None reached our shores, but it was an obvious threat and signal of disrespect.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team reported to federal agencies that multiple US government agencies were hit with a widespread computer attack that began on the 4th of July. The attacks have been ongoing and particularly resilient. Its referred to as a denial of service attack. Various federal systems have been down periodically for periods of time since the July 4th holiday. In addition, South Korean government websites were hit with the cyber attacks. The attacks on the two countries seem to come from the same sources and to be related.

Affected American agencies included the US Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission, Stock Exchange, the White House and Transportation Department. The South Koreans presidential Blue House and Defense Ministry and National Assembly were affected. It is being described as a ‘massive outage’. The attack cause computers to slow down and some to completely shut for hours at a time. As of Wednesday, July 8, 2009, some systems have come back online, but many remain unstable or inaccessible.

South Korean intelligence is reporting that 12,000 computers in South Korea and 8,000 in other countries are being used for the attacks. They are also reporting that the infected computers are still attacking and their numbers are not decreasing.

South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency is reporting that The National Security Intelligence Service (NIS) believes that North Korea may be behind the cyber attack. U.S. officials have confirmed that there has been ‘malicious Web activity’ but would not elaborate and are not releasing any specifics about the attack.

MY OPINION: Hey Cyber-Hacker Americans! Get off your ass and do something! We cannot expect our government to endorse or condone a hacker cyber attack on rogue states and countries, but so what? Hackers! This is a call to you guys. You wanna impress the rest of us? Organize and Hack frickin' North Korea or China. Bring down their infrastructure instead of ours. Do that and we will be impressed as hell! I know Hackers totally have the ability to do it. They just need to organize and coordinate! Make it news worthy!

O'Reilly: Why Are Black Americans So Interested In Michael Jackson? His Kids And Face Were White!

Bill O'Reilly expressed shock today at a Pew study showing that African-Americans are far more interested in coverage of Michael Jackson's death than white Americans.

O'REILLY: Black Americans are much more engaged in watching this stuff than white Americans, even though Michael Jackson has white children -- and he chose to have white children -- and the face deal, don't even want to get into... So what's that racial thing all about?

Ok, first of all, Bill. You are a huge douche bag. Thats my personal opinion. On to the real stuff now. On yesterdays O'Reilly Factor, Bill said that Michael Jackson's passing was not news worthy enough for him to return from vacation. And that he is not worthy of all the media attention he is getting. The subtle racism in his tone and his despise for the man was transparent.

Content analysis of O'Reilly's rhetoric finds spin to be a 'factor'

Editors" This study, published in the academic journal Journalism Studies, was conducted and released without any involvement of any special interest group. The researchers received no grant funding for this study. Additional data, charts and the full text of the study are available online at http://journalism.indiana.edu/papers/oreilly.html.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Bill O'Reilly may proclaim at the beginning of his program that viewers are entering the "No Spin Zone," but a new study by Indiana University media researchers found that the Fox News personality consistently paints certain people and groups as villains and others as victims to present the world, as he sees it, through political rhetoric.

The IU researchers found that O'Reilly called a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.

"It's obvious he's very big into calling people names, and he's very big into glittering generalities," said Mike Conway, assistant professor in the IU School of Journalism. "He's not very subtle. He's going to call people names, or he's going to paint something in a positive way, often without any real evidence to support that viewpoint."

Maria Elizabeth Grabe, associate professor of telecommunications, added, "If one digs further into O'Reilly's rhetoric, it becomes clear that he sets up a pretty simplistic battle between good and evil. Our analysis points to very specific groups and people presented as good and evil."

For their article in the spring issue of Journalism Studies, Conway, Grabe and Kevin Grieves, a doctoral student in journalism, studied six months worth, or 115 episodes, of O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" editorials using propaganda analysis techniques made popular after World War I.

A 2005 Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found that while 30 percent of Americans viewed Washington Post and Watergate reporter Bob Woodward as a journalist, 40 percent of respondents considered O'Reilly to be a journalist.

"We chose Bill O'Reilly because he has one of the most powerful political voices in the media today," Conway said. "But we wanted to get beyond the left versus the right finger-pointing, which seems to dominate most of the discussion of O'Reilly and other media pundits."

Grabe added, "The promo of his show as a No Spin Zone -- that's where he opened the door for us."

What the IU researchers found in their study, "Villains, Victims and Virtuous in Bill O'Reilly's 'No Spin Zone': Revisiting World War Propaganda Techniques," was that he was prone to inject fear into his commentaries and quick to resort to name-calling. He also frequently assigned roles or attributes -- such as "villians" or downright "evil" -- to people and groups.

Using analysis techniques first developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, Conway, Grabe and Grieves found that O'Reilly employed six of the seven propaganda devices nearly 13 times each minute in his editorials. His editorials also are presented on his Web site and in his newspaper columns.

The seven propaganda devices include:

Name calling -- giving something a bad label to make the audience reject it without examining the evidence;
Glittering generalities -- the opposite of name calling;
Card stacking -- the selective use of facts and half-truths;
Bandwagon -- appeals to the desire, common to most of us, to follow the crowd;
Plain folks -- an attempt to convince an audience that they, and their ideas, are "of the people";
Transfer -- carries over the authority, sanction and prestige of something we respect or dispute to something the speaker would want us to accept; and
Testimonials -- involving a respected (or disrespected) person endorsing or rejecting an idea or person.
The same techniques were used during the late 1930s to study another prominent voice in a war-era, Father Charles Coughlin. His sermons evolved into a darker message of anti-Semitism and fascism, and he became a defender of Hitler and Mussolini. In this study, O'Reilly is a heavier and less-nuanced user of the propaganda devices than Coughlin.

Among the findings:

Fear was used in more than half (52.4 percent) of the commentaries, and O'Reilly almost never offered a resolution to the threat. For example, in a commentary on "left-wing" media unfairly criticizing Attorney Gen. Alberto Gonzales for his role in the Abu Ghraib scandal, O'Reilly considered this an example of America "slowly losing freedom and core values," and added, "So what can be done? Unfortunately, not much."
The researchers identified 22 groups of people that O'Reilly referenced in his commentaries, and while all 22 were described by O'Reilly as bad at some point, the people and groups most frequently labeled bad were the political left -- Americans as a group and the media (except those media considered by O'Reilly to be on the right).
Left-leaning media (21.6 percent) made up the largest portion of bad people/groups, and media without a clear political leaning was the second largest (12.2 percent). When it came to evil people and groups, illegal aliens (26.8 percent) and terrorists (21.4 percent) were the largest groups.
O'Reilly never presented the political left, politicians/government officials not associated with a political party, left-leaning media, illegal aliens, criminals and terrorists as victims. "Thus, politicians and media, particularly of the left-leaning persuasion, are in the company of illegal aliens, criminals, terrorists -- never vulnerable to villainous forces and undeserving of empathy," the authors concluded.
According to O'Reilly, victims are those who were unfairly judged (40.5 percent), hurt physically (25.3 percent), undermined when they should be supported (20.3 percent) and hurt by moral violations of others (10.1 percent). Americans, the U.S. military and the Bush administration were the top victims in the data set, accounting for 68.3 percent of all victims.
One of O'Reilly's common responses to charges of bias is to come up with one or two examples of "proof" that he is fair to all groups. For example, in October 2005, Dallas Morning News columnist Macarena Hernandez accused O'Reilly of treating the southern border "as the birth of all American ills." O'Reilly responded by showing a video clip in which he had called Mexican workers "good people." He called for a boycott of the newspaper if it did not retract Hernandez' column.
"Our results show a consistent pattern of O'Reilly casting non-Americans in a negative light. Both illegal aliens and foreigners were constructed as physical threats to the public and never featured in the role of victim or hero," the authors concluded.

An earlier version of the study won a top faculty award from the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association.

Mark Sanford: Governor, Adulterer and Hypocrite

Gov. Mark Sanford (R) of South Carolina set the bar quite high when it came to morals. Thats why he was such a staunch advocate for Bill Clinton's impeachment during his presidency. So for him to admit an ongoing affair of over a year with an argentinian woman is almost unbelievable. What a douche.

Considering that the Republican party considers itself the morally superior party to the Democrats, they sure do screw up pretty good. Twice the pride, double the fall.

FOX news is UNPRECEDENTED in how shady it is!

Hannity is out of his damn mind or dumb as balls!