Fox News is running an entire program on Obama/Ayers

[supportivemom]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 9:37pm

Okay- this is ridiculoous! The name of the program is something like Barack Obama- Friends of Radicalism- or something to that effect. As usual, I was just switching the channels. They just did this whole portion on Ayers, his views, and how Obama has crossed paths. I think Fox News has seriously crossed the line on this one. I see on madbrian's thread a McCain tie with an anti-semetic group. Okay Obama- you must fight back on this one! It's just like on the movie American President were Shepherds opponent found a picture of his girlfriend burning a flag- which she was doing 20 years prior in protest of Apartheid. This bashing is just getting old!

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 9:38pm

Because every other "news source" ignored it.

[romantico]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 9:41pm

They got their orders from the McCain camp.They don't think, they follow orders. Fox is not news. It is no different than E or VH-1.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 11:39pm

Playing the guilt by association card will be the death of the McCain campaign! They can't play the wacky preacher card with the videos of Palin being protected from witches. The guilt by association door being opened by the McCain camp invites Obama to explore the many strange bedfellows McCain has been involved with! BRING IT ON!

[supportivemom]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 11:50pm

Yeah- they're discussing this on CNN. Chris Plante from the Republican side is ridiculous. When the Obama side brought up the fact that she was mayor of a small town and governor of a small state (brought up because Plante said that Obama has been given so much leeway), Plante started arguing that no one questioned Howard Dean's qualifications. The Obama supporter kept yelling back at him that Dean was NOT the nominee! Then Plante started arguing about how big the state of Alaska is compared to Dean's state. Puhleeze- the size of the state doesn't even compare to the population! I live in the largest city in the nation- land mass wise- and we aren't even in one of the top tv markets. Plante was spitting out the same garbage I have been hearing on all the shows and he's just like the others- he never shuts up and he kep interrupting and cutting off the other guy. It's just getting too dirty!

[KrissySim]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 1:00am

It's just getting too dirty!

In a close race it becomes a street fight. Each side trying to trip-up the other, each side trying not to slip, each side looking for the coup d’état.

It's interesting to watch if you don't have a personal stake in it. In any case it tells you something about human nature.

[ljay889]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 1:07am

Fox is not news. It is no different than E or VH-1.

- Someone hasn't watched MSNBC lately.
Updated On: 10/6/08 at 01:07 AM

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 4:14am

Hannity; College dropout, no journalism degree, close "friend" of that skank Falwell, and an altogether a bigger, more obnoxious voice than Rachel Ray. BWAAAAAAAAAAh........Big Ratings. Name of the game. Whomever talks over each other the loudest, and whom plugs up his/her ears with better earplugs, and cuts off the most sentences in 2 minutes is the CHAMPEEN!! LOL LOL LOL
From Wiki
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Education

Hannity graduated in 1980 from St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary high school, located in Uniondale, New York. Described as "an indifferent student",[4] Hannity dropped out of New York University for financial reasons and later decided to pursue a radio career.[3] In 2005, Jerry Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University awarded him an honorary degree.[5]

Professional life

Hannity hosted his first talk radio show in 1989 at the volunteer college station at UC Santa Barbara, KCSB-FM, while working as a general contractor. The show aired for 40 hours of air time;[6] Hannity has since called the show "terrible."[7] Hannity's weekly show on KCSB was canceled after less than a year when management charged him with "discriminating against gays and lesbians." This was after two shows featuring the book The AIDS Coverup: The Real and Alarming Facts about AIDS by Gene Antonio. The station later reversed its decision to dismiss Hannity due in part to a campaign conducted by the Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Hannity decided against returning to KCSB.[8]

After leaving KCSB, Hannity placed an ad in radio publications presenting himself as "the most talked about college radio host in America." Radio station WVNN in Athens, Alabama (part of the Huntsville market) then hired him to be the afternoon talk show host.[6] From Huntsville, he moved to WGST in Atlanta in 1992, filling the slot vacated by Neal Boortz, who had moved to competing station WSB. In September 1996 Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes hired the then relatively unknown Hannity to host a television program under the working title Hannity and LTBD ("liberal to be determined").[9] Alan Colmes was then hired to co-host and the show debuted as Hannity & Colmes.

Later that year Hannity left WGST for New York, where WABC had him substitute for their afternoon drive time host during Christmas week. In January 1997, WABC put Hannity on the air full-time, giving him the late night time slot. WABC then moved Hannity to the same drive time slot he had filled temporarily a little more than a year earlier. Hannity has been on WABC's afternoon time slot since January 1998.[10]

He has been vocally critical of and has drawn criticism from liberal groups such as Media Matters for America.[11]

In 2005, Fortune included Hannity in the article "25 People We Envy Most (Lucky Hall of Fame Getting Paid to Mouth Off)" [12]

As the No. 2 radio talk-show host in America, Hannity signed a five year contract in July 2008 said to be worth "about $100 million." [13]

Conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel, in their book Common Ground, describe Hannity as a leader of the pack among broadcasting political polarizers, which following James Q. Wilson they define as those who have "an intense commitment to a candidate, a culture, or an ideology that sets people in one group definitively apart from people in another, rival group."[14]

Television

Hannity is a co-host of Hannity & Colmes, an American political "point-counterpoint"-style television program on the Fox News Channel featuring Hannity and Alan Colmes as co-hosts. Hannity presents the conservative point of view with Colmes providing the liberal viewpoint. Hannity has had on air clashes with show guests such as Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer of Human Life International, who challenged Hannity on his public dissent from the Catholic Church on the issue of contraception.[15][16] Hannity has stated that if the Catholic Church were to excommunicate him over the issue, he would join Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church, the church associated with Liberty University, who awarded Hannity his honorary bachelor degree.[17]

In January 2007, Hannity began a new Sunday night television show on Fox News, Hannity's America.

[romantico]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 7:06am

Well we are not talking about MSNBC we are talking about FOX News, the title in this thread. Besides, DO NOT even pretend to argue that MSNBC is a nearly as bad as Fox. Don't go there. Fox is mocked and has proven wrong on MANY stories. They are given talking points memos daily and are told to stretch the truth,exaggerate, and down right lie.

FOCUS!

Updated On: 10/6/08 at 07:06 AM

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 10:25am

This came under the guise of "Hannity's America," which, truth be told, is not a place most thinking people would want to be.

Beyond his usual partisan hack jobs, Hannity also does "investigations" that tend to resemble National Enquirer cover stories....the National Enquirer of the 1960's that is...

And thanks for all the background info, Thetiny magic...as much as I despise him, I've never wiki-ed him. Just more confirmation on why I despise him so much.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 10:52am

When you can't win on the issues you have to reach for the mud.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 11:33am

It's interesting to watch if you don't have a personal stake in it.

We ALL have a personal stake in this election!

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 11:37am

Of course they're running this program, what else are they going to show, Sarah's old pageant clips?

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 4:06pm

Has anyone else noticed how much Fox News and McCain's campaign ads use fear to persuade their viewers?

[KrissySim]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 4:08pm

It's interesting to watch if you don't have a personal stake in it.

We ALL have a personal stake in this election!

Uh huh, DBillyP , that's why it is more than just "interesting" !

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 4:17pm

I cannot believe Sean Hannity had Andy Martin on. Good God he is the biggest anti-Semite ever. Google him!
WTF?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 4:25pm

Has anyone else noticed how much Fox News and McCain's campaign ads use fear to persuade their viewers?

"Stalking children...are you kids about to die? Find out at 10!"

McCain and Palin are really pulling out scare tactics as a smokescreen to try and deflect all the innaccuracies of...well, pretty much everything they discuss. The problem is, most Americans cannot be bothered with such annoyances as facts or truth. They thrive on drama and McCain/Palin are masters at drama. If they are not elected, they could have prolific careers as university drama majors.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 4:35pm

"A McCain advisor said the GOP will attempt to "turn the page" from the economy and ramp up attacks on Obama. "It's a dangerous road, but we have no choice," the advisor said. "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose.""

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 4:44pm

John McCain's campaign boggles my mind. He is following the Clinton campaign almost verbatim in his tactics (if that's what you call them). Clinton LOST with these strategies and so will McCain.

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/6/08 at 4:54pm

Are we ever going to see the end of the hippies versus the squares? Cause that's the fight Old Man River is still fightin'!