White House communications director Anita Dunn: “Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party … Take their talking points and put them on the air. Take their opposition research and put them on the air, and that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.” Glenn Beck: “Can you imagine what America would be like if we didn’t have Fox News?“
MediaMatters: Since Barack Obama’s inauguration, Fox News has frequently engaged in political advocacy against the Democratic Congress and White House. Specifically, Fox News personalities have promoted and encouraged viewers to “join” tea party protests, Glenn Beck’s organization The 9-12 Project and its September 12 “March on Washington,” and town hall meetings; engaged in a witch hunt seeking to “get rid of” Obama administration officials and nominees; implored viewers to call Congress and the White House to protest Democratic policies; and celebrated “victor[ies]” when Democratic legislation has been stalled. [ READ MORE ]
Media Matters president Burns: Fox News “a 24/7 political operation” geared to destroy Obama presidency, progressive agenda
“Voice of the opposition“: Fox News openly advocates against Democratic Congress, White House:
Beck: “Can you imagine what the world would be like if we didn’t have somebody standing up and playing opposition?”
Beck compares Fox News to Jews during Holocaust, other news organizations to silent bystanders
Reference:Glenn Beck, Republican strategist — When the Fox News host pushes a crackpot theory, it doesn’t take long for the GOP to run with it. A timeline
Glenn Beck: “Nobel Peace Prize should be turned down by Barack Obama and given … to the Tea Party goers and the 9-12 Project.”
Rush Limbaugh: “Something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn’t deserve the award.”
Bill Kristol suggested that Obama will be defeated in 2012, because Mikhail Gorbachev won a Nobel Peace Prize, and the Soviet Union collapsed a year later.
Some radio thug suggested that it was an “Affirmative Action” award.
“I think the Nobel Committee couldn’t vote in our election in 2008, so they decided to vote this year,” said Bush GOON John Bolton, who served as ambassador to the U.N. under Bush. “It’s high-minded Europeans talking down to hayseed Americans, saying this is the way you ought to be.”
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy: “The award marks America’s return to the heart of the people of the world.” That deserves a prize. Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, defended the decision. “The question we have to ask is who has done the most in the previous year to enhance peace in the world,” Jagland said. “Who has done more than Barack Obama?“
MediaMatters: Reminiscent of the Friday Freakout that followed the glorious news that Chicago, and the United States, had been denied the honor of hosing the Summer Olympic Games (Hallelujah!), the same Obama-hating voices in the right-wing media are outraged that the President of the United States has won the Nobel Prize. In other words, Obama/America loses = good. Obama/America wins = bad. [ READ MORE ] [ READ MORE [2] ]
Limbaugh: “We all agree with the Taliban and Iran” that Obama does not deserve Nobel
In his latest rant Dick Morris fear-mongers: “Europe wants to reverse the American Revolution and re-colonize us and it sees in Obama a kindred spirit willing to do its bidding.” “……All this heavy lifting, this conversion of America into a European state, deserves a reward. And what is a more fitting one than to give Obama than the Nobel Peace Prize? He obviously doesn’t deserve the award for economics or, given his health care ideas, for medicine. But the Peace Prize expresses Europe’s longing: to take back the nation its overly ambitious and uppity children founded.”
Statement of The Democratic National Committee: The GOP sides with the terrorists.
“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” wrote DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse.
“Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize — an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride — unless of course you are the Republican Party.
The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim.”
MediaMatters: Since Barack Obama’s inauguration, Fox News has frequently engaged in political advocacy against the Democratic Congress and White House. Specifically, Fox News personalities have promoted and encouraged viewers to “join” tea party protests, Glenn Beck’s organization The 9-12 Project and its September 12 “March on Washington,” and town hall meetings; engaged in a witch hunt seeking to “get rid of” Obama administration officials and nominees; implored viewers to call Congress and the White House to protest Democratic policies; and celebrated “victor[ies]” when Democratic legislation has been stalled. [ READ MORE ]
Irrefutable Proof That Sean Hannity is An Unconscious Syphilitic LIAR!:Sean Hannity’s has such “deep-seated hatred” of Obama that he will conjure the most blatant of lies — even when it is so obvious that it will be caught — as in the case below.
VideoGum: Making fun of Glenn Beck is so fish-in-a-barrel that it’s recently become a national pastime, but somehow, Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert managed to rip the weepy, self-righteous, horrible Fox News crybaby and his stupid “9/12 Project” to such shreds that it made Jon Stewart’s Jim Cramer takedown look like Ann Curry talking about “Angie” Jolie’s latest mission of hope. In the 36 hours that have passed since it aired, the video has become an instant classic. In case you missed it, or if you just want to marvel at it again, here it is: [SEE SECOND VIDEO BELOW]
