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Bottom line is they all spin the facts, ya just have to dig and try to unspin them yourself
Agree 100%, just wish more people would do that.
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Glenn Beck addressed the Vancouver SNAFU. He had said Vancouver when he'd meant another Canadian city hat had already hosted the Olympics...Calgary. Read the correction here:
Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - White House attacks Glenn
....if you dare.

Valerie Jarrett had one property she juuust couldn't sell, huh? Geee, but what a tidy sum it would've brought when it would've been sold (and yes, it would have been sold to the Olympic committee), torn down, and rebuilt for additional Olympic-related structures. That property, by the way was delapidated. I'm sure it would've made a nice parking lot for several million bucks.

Chicago, and several other major cities are in bad shape financially. When New York's Governor stated NYC would be broke by the end of this year, was FOX reporting a lie? Cap and Trade meets resistance, so the EPA steps in. Is that a lie? Keep in mind, Beck has that red phone, and he begs the White House to call and dispute his statements. They have yet to do so. Anita Dunn had that job for a couple weeks, til video surfaced of her admiration for Mao Se Tung...you know. He murdered approximately 50 million people, give or take a few mill. Easy come, easy go. Then she got dumped. Van Jones said he was a Communist, he wants to destroy our way of life. Soon as video of him surfaced, he was gone too. Valerie Jarret was shown speaking highly of Mr. Jones, stating how fortunate "we" are to have him. Funny how these people, so fervent in their beliefs, run and hide once the word gets out. Didn't hear it from the so-called journalists at the other networks. Wonder why?

Oh, and if you actually paid attention, you'd see that they commentators on FOX you speak of and call liars, actually have guests with opposing points of view, and they actually let them speak. That's unlike the left, which proclaims freedom of speech, until it's something they don't like, then they attack the speaker to shut him up and discredit him. Sound like anyone you know? You would do well to open your eyes and consider the possibility that said politicians, claiming a better way for you if you trust them, typically have only motivated self-interests in mind. Give them the power, and they will grind you into dust on their way to those goals. Read the Constitution, then look at what's happening. If it doesn't make you sick, you're just not getting it.
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JohnRPollard - It is scary to think that 'News Sources' have no oversight? My mistake was to think that someone on FoxNEWS wasn't reporting, well... The News!

I apologize, I don't mean to seem upset it is just frustrating to think that such hate and mis-information is given such an open platform in the guise of News. Where do people turn to for the truth? The internet?? That is a scary thought indeed.
No need to apologize. You have to realize that these cable networks run 24/7 and there simply isn't THAT much news to report on any given day. So the airwaves are filled with programming "fluff", largely comprised of opinion commentators.

The networks, MSNBC, Fox, etc, prefer the "opinion commentator" format for one simple reason -- it's comparatively cheap. Guests come on the show, and shoot the breeze or debate about whatever subject happens to be vogue. No travel and on-location costs, no fact checking staff, no film editors/producers, etc.

Fox didn't invent this by any means. And they're no worse an offender than any other network. Their crime is that they are the only major news network with a conservative slant, whereas all the others have a liberal slant. Consequently, the pile-on by the liberals tends to get concentrated on them solely, whereas conservative's angst with the overwhelmingly liberal media is more widely dispersed.

The bottom line is, we don't have to listen to any of it, and not as many people do as some would suppose.
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