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by Jeremy Earp
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 18, 2023
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen
As mainstream U.S. media outlets pause to remember the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it’s clear that there’s a lot they hope we’ll forget – first and foremost, the media’s own active complicity in whipping up public support for the war.
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by Natalia Marques
Peoples Dispatch, May 17, 2022
May 22, 2022
After a white supremacist shooter murdered 10 Black people in Buffalo, many have pointed to the institutionalized racism behind the attack.
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation, Mar. 7, 2021
March 10, 2021
The superficial distortions propagated by many American politicians and pundits only serve to sustain the status quo of oligarchic tyranny.
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation, June 16, 2020
June 21, 2020
President Trump’s favorite news channel Fox has been caught out falsifying protests in Seattle, giving the distorted impression that the city is overrun by armed anarchists. That conveniently set Trump off on a rant in which he threatened to send in military forces to “take back” the city from “domestic terrorists”.
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Updated: Sept. 24 and Sept. 25, 2011
Note: replaced video Nov. 16, 2011
VoteRonPaul12 on Oct 9, 2011
September 22, 2011 CNN
By Jerry Mazza
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at Online Journal
www.jerrymazza.com
Nov. 16, 2010
Miracle of miracles, memories of an even younger, crusading Rivera talking on his show, Geraldo at Large on Fox News about the “Building What?” TV ad campaign!
Geraldo began with the standard reference to all those edgy protestors who rallied in front of Larry Silverstein’s new Building 7, shouting “9/11 was an inside job.” He added “c’mon, get a life.” But then, lo, he turned the phrase to say perhaps these protestors weren’t so nutty after all.
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.foavc.org
Oct. 9, 2010
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In trying to understand how so many Americans adore people like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh I have come to this critical understanding: Poorly educated, terribly informed, intellectually deficient and downright stupid people need idols. They feel angry, frustrated, ignored, cheated and disillusioned by so much going on in American society. They find the emotional, political and philosophical rants by talk show, loud mouth celebrities matching and justifying their feelings. Of course, those celebrities work hard to fan the flames of all that unhappiness and discontent, and also perpetuate ignorance and hate. They sell stupidity to gullible dummies, teaching them who to blame for their misery.
LiberalViewer
August 20, 2009
Even Fox News recognizes the big gap between the opinions of Republicans and the opinions of Democrats when it comes to President Barack Obama’s attempt to get health care insurance reform, particularly when it comes to the “public option” or, as Fox News calls it, “government run aspect,” but Fox News may actually have significant responsibility for this Republican opinion gap as I show in this video.
You can find the full text of HR 3200, the health care bill passed in the the US House of Representatives, to which I refer in this video at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z…
The two clips of Fox News pollster Frank Luntz and his focus group feedback graphs come from Fox News’ August 19, 2009, broadcast of “America’s Newsroom” which I have not been able to find online.
You can see more of MSNBC’s August 18, 2009, broadcast of “The Rachel Maddow Show” from which I took two short clips from my video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpi5Pa…
The two clips of Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson come from Fox News’ August 18, 2009, broadcast of “Fox and Friends” which I have not been able to find online.
And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list…
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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Wexler Makes Case for Health Care Reform
Weiner Fights for the Quality, Affordable Healthcare on The Ed Show and CNN
British Citizen Speaks Out About Health Care
Dennis Kucinich: Health Care Reform Is ALL About the Left!
Why Single-Payer is the ONLY Sensible Health Care Reform (Explained in Plain English)
cmdrgmh
June 01, 2009
Bill O’Reilly and his Fellow Fox News have incited the Murder Of Dr. Tiller who was gunned down by a Psychotic Pro-Lifer in Kansas. O’Reilly has ranted about the victim for years and right up until last week he continued his hateful speech. Fox has responsibility in this case. BY calling the victim a murderer and “Tiller The Baby Killer” (His words not mine), on a national TV show day in and day out, O’Reilly is culpable. Boycott Fox News. Don’t watch. Call their sponsors. Due what ever it takes to remove them and get them Off The Air. Enough Is Enough. It’s not funny anymore Billo. You Need To Go. Permanently.
Updated: here’s the transcript
by Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader for President in 2008
Nov. 7, 2008
Fox talk show host Shepard Smith repeated my question that was posed for Senator Barack Obama in an interview with Fox radio station KTRH Houston but deleted the last several words after giant corporations. The full question posed to Senator Obama that is his to answer in the coming months was as follows:
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These videos may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
A 12-year-old American girl visiting relatives during the conflict in South Ossetia has thanked Russian soldiers for saving her from the Georgian attack. However, America’s Fox News attempted to cut her and her aunt off air.
Kremlin failed by keeping western journalists away
The Russian government was too slow to react to the PR campaign launched by Tbilisi in the world’s media, believes Seamus Milne of Britain’s Guardian newspaper.
Ossetians collect evidence of Georgian ‘genocide’
South Ossetian residents and local journalists have launched their own investigation into claims of genocide perpetrated by Georgian soldiers. They accuse Georgians of attempting to destroy Ossetian graves and memorials to locals killed in earlier conflicts.
Rescuers restore war-hit settlements in South Ossetia
While the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali is attempting to return to some kind of normality, there are other locations that have also suffered from the Georgian attack. A number of South Ossetian villages were battered by severe strikes — with some of them turning into ghost towns.
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All the Propaganda That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times, Again, Tells It Like It Ain’t
Russia-Asia cooperation a nightmare for US hawks
“Gori in ruins”? See for yourself + Paul Craig Roberts on Russia Today + Georgia is a US Project
Inventing Your Own History As It Happens By John Steppling
Satire
by R J Shulman
Dandelion Salad
featured writer
Robert’s blog post
June 16, 2008
CHICAGO – Fox News reported that Senator Barack Obama’s dog, Bark, a German Shepard hates America. “That dog took a dump right in front of my American flag,” said William Boykin, Obama’s neighbor. “There is no question Obama’s dog peed on a tire of an SUV with a ‘support our troops sticker,” said Fox’s Bill O’Reilly.
6-9-08
Out Of Gas/Economy Stupid
With gas over 4.00 a gal., McCain and his oil buddy’s Bush and Darth Dick started out at 1.47 a Gal. and now over 4.00 a gal.
Fox Slime’s Obama Again
The Phony Fox News Tramp E.D. Hill continues to slime Obama and She looks real Stupid doing It.
McCain Caught Lying On Tape
McCbush gets caught lying to the media on tape. McSenial is really senial.
Scott McClellan To Testify To Congress
Scott will testify to congress on June 20th 2008 about the Bush Admin.
[Moyers goes after Fox Reporter/Ambusher]
The Video Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Want You To See!
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Democracy Now!
June 9, 2008
Broadcast Legend Bill Moyers on Media Reform: “Democracy Only Works When Ordinary People Claim It as Their Own”
More than 3,500 people gathered in Minneapolis this weekend for the fourth annual National Conference for Media Reform, organized by the group Free Press. The thousands of participants took part in panel discussions and strategized on efforts to fight media consolidation and democratize the airwaves. We play the electrifying keynote address by legendary journalist Bill Moyers.
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Bill Moyers Takes on Fox News Producer Sent by Bill O’Reilly to Media Reform Conference
Before the National Conference for Media Reform began, Bill O’Reilly of Fox News attacked it on the air as a gathering of “crazy” people. O’Reilly also sent a producer to confront Moyers in what became an animated confrontation.
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by R J Shulman
Dandelion Salad
featured writer
May 10, 2008
NEW YORK – Fox News will broadcast a documentary called President Obama: Be Afraid, Very Afraid in which they will report among other things that as President, Barack Obama will annex Kenya as a state. “We have absolute proof,” said Bill O’Reilly, “as sure as a black person says pass the M F tea, Obama made a promise to his father Barack Hussein Sr., that if he grew up to be President, he would make their home country, Kenya a state.”
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