NOTE: Murdoch also owns the ‘Murdoch Street Journal‘ a.k.a WALL STREET JOURNAL, ….and The ‘Fixed News Channel’ a.k.a FOX NEWS — Major Republican Propaganda Outlets. All three are constituents of the mother-ship (parent company) — ‘News CORPSEa.k.a NEWS CORPORATION — whose chairman and chief executive is Rupert Murdoch.
As Media Matters for America has demonstrated time and again, Fox News’ Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation.
But never has he so enthusiastically applied his talents for spreading misinformation as he did to the 2008 presidential race, focusing his energies primarily on President-elect Barack Obama. Day after day, Hannity devoted his two Fox News shows and his three-hour ABC Radio Networks program to “demonizing” the Democratic presidential candidates, starkly explaining in August: “That’s my job. … I led the ‘Stop Hillary Express.‘ By the way, now it’s the ‘Stop Obama Express.’ “Hannity’s “Stop Obama Express” promoted and embellished a vast array of misleading attacks and false claims about Obama.
Along the way, he uncritically adopted and promoted countless Republican talking points and played host to numerous credibility-challenged smear artists who painted Obama as a dangerous radical. When he was not going after Obama, Hannity attacked members of Obama’s family, as well as Sen. Hillary Clinton and other progressives, and denied all the while that he had unfairly attacked anyone.
Hannity’s attacks may have also influenced mainstream media coverage. ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos appeared on Hannity’s radio program on April 15, during which Hannity suggested to Stephanopoulos that he ask Obama at the Democratic presidential debate the following evening about his “association with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist from the Weather Underground.” Stephanopoulos assured Hannity that he was “taking notes right now.” Stephanopoulos then did ask Obama at the debate to “explain that relationship for the voters, and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem,” though he later denied that Hannity had exerted any influence on his questioning.
Because of the unending stream of falsehoods and character attacks that fueled the “Stop Obama Express,” and the countless other distortions he promoted throughout 2008, Sean Hannity is Media Matters for America’s “Misinformer of the Year.”
Among the myriad falsehoods and attacks that Hannity promoted throughout 2008, several found their way into regular rotation: Obama will “invade” Pakistan ……[READ MORE]
The “Propagandist Extortionist of the Year” bashes Obama
1.Sean Hannity: Misinformer of 2008 — From NewsHounds.US 2.Top 10 Obama Player Haters of 2008 — This election saw Barack Obama inspire millions of Americans to hope, believe and work for change. However, Obama also managed to inspire millions of haters, who expended an extreme amount of negative energy in taking down the President-elect.
The press probably will give Palin credit for not falling down on stage. She couldn’t deal with many of the questions directly or most of the facts, so she bloviated according to plan. She winked at us; the voters won’t wink back at her. I think people still have a bullshit factor — and that means she survived even as she met the low expectations she’s created. McCain gained nothing; he was the loser — in the first presidential debate, and the vice-presidential one. Palin relied on topline phrases and had little command of facts. Why, she even memorized the name of the President of Iran. But it was mostly blah, blah, blah. At the end, the Obama-Biden ticket is far ahead on the big issues — and Palin’s a parrot repeating memorized phrases, not a plausible vice-president. Biden called her on it every time. — Robert Shrum, Political Consultant.
The “Killa From Wasilla” came to the debate armed to the teeth with Republican talking points. She wasn’t afraid, she had the confidence — that of a robot programmed to “Vomit Policy.”
“Sarah The Barracuda” was pesky, scripted, loud, shrill and incoherent, as she rattled whatever her coaches had crammed into her head, with abandon.
For the entire ninety minutes she shuffled her “cheat sheets,” as if she were taking an “Open Book-Open Notes” Exam or participating in a Spelling Bee contest. She scraped and fought hard, spewing “Gibberish” by the bucket.
Ms. Palin exhibited little spontaneity and looked thoroughly rehearsed — sometimes avoided answering questions directly, instead slid into irrelevant sound-bites about her tenure as mayor of “tiny-town” Wasilla, Alaska.
On foreign policy, Palin stalled — giving generic non-specific answers, and when she resorted to her juvenile chants — “Maverick!,” “We are mavericks!,” “We are a maverick team!,” Biden promptly shot her down: “McCain wasn’t a maverick on ‘the things that matter to people’s lives,‘ citing issues such as health care, education and the war.” “He’s not been a maverick on virtually anything that genuinely affects the things that people really talk about around their kitchen table,” Biden said.
The debate format was not confrontational, and Joe Biden avoided engaging her, for fear of being labeled sexist. Had he forced her to deviate from her script, the results would have been disastrous. She would have forgotten her lines and gone off on some of her moronic, meaningless rambles.
CNN’s political analyst Bill Schneider was critical: “Palin’s answers do not lack confidence, they lack coherence.”
Newsweek’s Harold Fineman: “Palin was like ‘A Wolverine’ Attacking The Pant Leg Of A Passerby.”
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Joe Biden on the other hand was remarkably restrained, awash with policy and his vast knowledge and experience clearly showed. He offered much more detail on a range of topics, from national security to domestic issues, and relentlessly lumped McCain with Bush.
While Sarah acted like a “frisky” freshman debater, Joe was polished and presidential in his delivery.
Per Bob Shrum, Palin did not fall down on the stage — she survived.
Her performance was much better than I expected, because of one and only one reason — the debate format allowed her to stick to her rehearsed script. There were barely any follow-ups by the moderator, unlike in the first Obama-McCain debate, when vigorous follow-ups revealed the stark differences, weaknesses and strengths of the two candidates.
In this debate, Palin was allowed to verbally diarrhea “crammed policy,” like an express train without brakes, spewing useless garbage, winking and giving a “shout-out” to some high school in Alaska!
Give me a break! How stupid does one have to be not to read through this nonsense?
She is a total embarrassment — an affront to intellectualism, a trait I insist must be part of the package of a serious contender for the presidency of this great land.
“Hockey Moms” stay home and manage their families, they do not run for an office where they might be required to manage the largest stockpile of nuclear and biological weapons on earth.
My assessment is that Sarah Palin is not ready. She still knows nothing. Go Home Sarah!
“This is going to help stop the bleeding,” said Todd Harris, a Republican consultant who worked for Mr. McCain in his first presidential campaign. “But this alone won’t change the trend line, particularly in some of the battleground states.”
Partisan right-wing THUGS had other ideas:
“Sarah Palin was sensational tonight,” roared White Nationalist Bigot Pat Buchanan, in a post-debate comment on the MSNBC cable network. “She regained that magic she had at the convention.”
Joining the maniacal squealing, were the SYPHILITIC NATIVIST NAZIS at Fox News. Festooned around their racist brains is the falsehood that Sarah Palin won the debate hands down.
Sarah’s “Spelling-Bee Performance” must have injected a shot of liquid cannabis into their soiled veins.
Morons!
Well, ALLpost-debate polls indicate that Biden thrashed her decisively, while holding back his fire considerably.
But then what’s to be expected of the “FIX” News Channel?
1.Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin — “Women are weapons-grade haters. Hillary Clinton knows it. Palin knows it too. When women get their hate on, they don’t just dislike, or find disfavor with, or sort of not really appreciate. They loathe — deeply, richly, sustainingly. I do not say this to disparage my gender; women also love in more or less the same way.” — Belinda Luscombe
2.Palin Delivers, but Doubt Not Erased — One debate will not erase doubts that have been building about Palin’s capacity to serve as vice president, but the effect of the encounter may shift the focus away from the sideshow that Palin has become and put it back on the two presidential nominees and what they would do for the country. Thursday’s debate adds to the importance of the two remaining presidential debates, the first of which will be held Tuesday.
3.McCain Lost the VP Debate Too — Today McCain pulled out of Michigan; the economic news worsened. The electoral map is smaller; the economy is smaller; and the odds on McCain are longer and longer. The press probably will give Palin credit for not falling down on stage. She couldn’t deal with many of the questions directly or most of the facts, so she bloviated according to plan. She winked at us; the voters won’t wink back at her. Pat Buchanan thinks she won. I think people still have a bullshit factor– and that means she survived even as she met the low expectations she’s created. McCain gained nothing; he was the loser — in the first presidential debate, and the vice-presidential one.
4.She Still Knows Nothing — Palin proved that she can speak in complete sentences, but not that she understands anything about foreign policy.
5.No debate, Biden won — True, the governor of Alaska did better than many people expected. But Joe Biden showed why he’s in a different class
Examining the full content of Wright’s sermons and delivery style yields a far more complex message, though it’s one that some will still find objectionable. For more than 30 years every Sunday, Wright walked churchgoers along a winding road from rage to reconciliation, employing a style that validated both. “He’s voicing a reality that those people experience six days a week,” said Rev. Dwight Hopkins, a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Trinity member. “In that sense, he’s saying they’re not insane. That helps them to function the other six days of the week.”
Wright’s preaching, which mixes theology with the often-troubled history of race relations in America, is in the “prophetic” tradition, one of many that have evolved in black pulpits.
But while the rhetoric may come across as harsh, experts say its goal is to convince bitter skeptics that reconciliation is indeed possible.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Preaches — On Terrorism & America’s Moral Compass
RELATED: To help understand Rev. Wright and his church, please go here: Trinity United Church of Christ Chicago YouTube Channel. Although his most extreme comments are “Inflammatory,” I feel they have been mis-interpreted. TV and Radio “Media Prostitutes,” plucked a few and ran “gung-ho” with them, particularly the “Fixed News Channel” a.k.aFox News Channel — a hate mongering denof snakes and hookers.
Reverend Wright does not preach hate or call upon his parishioners to engage in racist or hateful acts. Overwhelmingly, he delivers a message of empowerment…SAMPLE BELOW
Video Below: Bill Maher & Tavis Smiley Talk About Pastor Wright & Racist
‘Arsonist’ Pat Buchanan
