Media Matters apparently does not get bored sitting around all day finding evidence of Fox News slanting their coverage, even though that story has been pretty much cracked by now. Still, this is somewhat new? They have audio of Fox managing editor Bill Sammon, on a cruise ship, of course, talking about the leading journalism teevee channel’s groundbreaking, round-the-clock coverage of Barack Obama’s nonexistent socialism, revealing a bit too much. “At that time, I have to admit, that I went on TV on Fox News and publicly engaged in what I guess was some rather mischievous speculation about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism, a premise that privately I found rather far-fetched,” he said. Yeah, but don’t we all have to constantly breach our ethics in our job? Isn’t that what it means to work in America? This Simmons guy should just shut up and make himself believe the things that aren’t true. It makes things easier.
“CRUISE SHIP CONFESSION.” Lolz. What can you say? Media Matters people are also just putting in the effort to do what they’re supposed to do to get paid. Capitalism! Work! The copier needs toner!
Here’s a little taste of what Simmons had to do for his job (his job was lying to half the country):
On October 21, 2008, Sammon appeared on Greta Van Susteren’s show, where he referred to Bill Ayers “talking about being a Marxist.” Sammon then said, “I have read Barack Obama’s books pretty carefully, and he in his own words talks about being drawn to Marxists. … Now all this stuff’s coming out about whether he’s a socialist. I don’t know why anyone is surprised by it, because if you read his own words and his sort of, you know, orientation coming up as a liberal through college and as a young man, it’s not a huge shock.”
REALLY PHONING IT IN. C’mon, Sammon, look lively! It’s almost like you lost your soul or something. [Media Matters]
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I'll bet he never believed Obama was a Facist or a Communist or a Nazi, either.
Why, he may have not even believed Obama was a *gasp* KENYAN. Or a Muslim.
If we learned anything from George Costanza, "It's not a lie, if you believe it."
An honest person at Fox?
Honest Andrea, I thought you liked felafels.
Pink slip in 3…2…
You are thinking he works for NPR, not Fox.
Fox calls this "Fair and Balanced".
No no no, you don't get it.
When liberals say something that's actually completely true but makes real patriotic god-fearing conservative Murkins uncomfortable, THAT is when the pink slips are issued.
A conservative being caught with his pants down in an attempt to mislead the American public to further a political agenda, why, that man deserves a trophy!
Honestly? Almost none of them think Obama is so terrible. It's a job. A prostitute's number one job is to make sure he/she gets paid.
Honesty among themselves while getting paid to lie to the masses does not an honest person make.
"Hee hee, can you believe what I made those chumps think? They are voting against the government programs they live on and LOWERING OUR TAXES! Fucking comedy gold!"
'Cause — duh — WINNING.
If honesty means admitting to fellow travelers that you lie whenever you can to make the other side look bad, sure.
At Fox, I think that is as good as we hope for.
Off the record-sure, on the air, not so much.
Can't lose what you never had.
LOST? That would imply he ever had a soul. Not so sure about that. He has Mrs. Newt's vacant eyes.
Which Mrs. Newt?
This one: http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/2011/03/27/sunda...
All of them.
Fox News: We peddle bullshit, you decide.
Fox News: We PIDDLE bullshit, you decide.
(GASP!!!!!) Faux Noose Lies????? My entire perception of reality is shattered. BUT THEY ARE "FAIR" and "BALENCED". "THEY" "REPORT" AND LET "(ME)" "DECIDE"!
We report, you decide… what we've already decided for you!
The Lies go in lies go out! You can't explain it!
(and yes I know I used that one on the last post, so suck it)
Never an (unintentional) miscommunication!
“I have watched Bill Sammon's shows pretty carefully, and he in his own words talks about being drawn to Republicans. … Now all this stuff’s coming out about whether he’s a liar. I don’t know why anyone is surprised by it, because if you read his own words and his sort of, you know, orientation coming up as a conservative through college and as a young man, it’s not a huge shock.”
"don’t we all have to constantly breach our ethics in our job?"
Ethics are obsolete. Republicans understand this.
Hey, I gave up ethics for the 2½ years I worked at Hell-Mart, and that was for a LOT less.
That adorable scamp, impishly undermining the notion that the press should try to be honest and factual! So mischievous!
Dontcha just wanna give him a noogie? Such a card!
What? Obama's not a socialist? Well, that's no fun.
Well, at least he's still a foreign born mooslamic atheist.
"Ethics are situational."
- the Jesuits
Fuck the Indians, no I mean literally fuck them, while in the church.
It's not a metaphor in the Pacific NW.
Heavily, selectively, and misleadingly edited video surreptitiously recorded under false pretenses or GTFO.
Is this Sammon trying to swim upstream at Faux?
Nah, he's a carp like all the rest, and he'll be back with the socialist, Marxist, Leninist, Kenyan, where is the fucking birth certificate in 3, 2, 1…
He went there already. In the very next part of the same speech, claiming the bailout of GM justified his prior mischief.
Don't ask me how giving a reach-around to capitalism proves you are a socialist. I don't have a chalk board that big.
And this is why we need to defund NPR.
my boy is pretty sure he heard some 'morning edition' reporter say 'teaBAGGER' this AM.
if he's right, you know there's going to be hell to pay. but it'd be worth it…
Go to BBC World Service, etc
Fox news pushes their agenda of acting like an asshole and telling the teabaggers and others it is okay to be an asshole. The surprising part is that one them actually feels bad about his behavior, the rest of them surely don't.
Nope, he doesn't feel anything other than vindicated (ie the ratings are really good when they scare the oldz about the brown guy in the White House).
He doesn't really seem to feel bad at all in that quote; he admitted lying, but seems to think there's nothing wrong with it.
Hasn't he already reneged on that statement and announced that Barry is after all a socialist? Looks like a reneger to me.
This isn't so much an "admission" as it is "bragging."
How many dildos and bottles of lube were on that cruise ship?
All of them, Katie.
Wonder if they needed a T square to wedge 'em all in.
Best not to think about all the naked spankings he's going to have to take from over Roger Ailes' dimpled, greasy knees because of this.
In the end, this is nowhere near as important as whats coming up in 9 days, of course.
The first Yankees-Red Sox series of the year?
Lady Gaga performing at the Toyota Center?
Hitler?
Shhh. Keep it under your hat.
National Free Abortion Day? I always enjoy the parades and the picnic.
Jesus?
Carrot Top?
Man-O-man. What a passive aggressive way of explaining it.
It wasn't a lie it was "mischievous speculation" and he didn't spout propaganda he "privately found (it) rather far-fetched".
I think I will go down to the store and "mischievously misappropriate" a new imac. Not steal.
Bernie Madoff was just "mischievously speculating".
…and then Sammon goes on to cite specific reasons like "massive transfers of wealth" and "sweeping regulation of the finance industry" which makes America's leaning toward socialism seem "all too real".
Oh yeah. Big time. I'm drowning in transferred wealth, right here. I've received so much transferred wealth I just don't know what to do with it.
SO MUCH.
You could play that tape, they could read(?) the story, hell, Fux could report it on it's own stupid shows and the mouth breathers that think that shit is news won't budge an inch, and still want their fucking country back.
Shorter Sammon: I never actually believed all the shit I peddled, except for the stuff about Obama being a n***er.
and yet even on that point they don't want to give him "credit" for that–he's only half, you know. Doesn't even count. I am sure he could hail a cab in NYC or walk around a dallas mall with his pants hanging down and not get tasered, he's so white.
Hey, hey, I will speak for Dallas. We like to tase anything slightly darker than beige. We have a fan chart in our other holster.
Hopefully he admitted it only because he has terminal ass cancer and will die soon, so we can spraypaint his confession on his tombstone (or with urine, either works).
IOW, fuck him.
But what about that story about B Hussein Obama turning all our sacred Burlington Coat Factories into mosks? Surely that was true.
It's like the time I mischievously suggested Sarah Palin™ was called barracuda because of her insatiable sexual appetite. Or the time I mischievously suggested George W. Bush is stupid.
License to rage?
Long-term rentboy?
In other news: Satan is Evil
"Mommy, what happens to my body when my soul leaves?"
"It becomes a Fox News Exec, honey."
" … Hold me, Mommy."
Mommy…can't I just go to hell?
So which one of our brave Democratic senators is going to step up now and conduct an investigation into FOX News' propagation of ignorance and evil? Anyone? Hello? Maybe someone feels slightly guilty about voting to defund ACORN based on heavily-edited videos and without so much as a hearing or waiting for the results of an investigation and would like to do a good turn to compensate? Still waiting here…
If they are using Socialist to mean "a corporate hack who generally ends up supporting GOP policies", well then, yes, Obama is a raging Socialist.
"cruise ship"? Or the James O'Queef dildo laden party boat?
cruising ship.
On the other hand, it was pure gospel truth when Fox reported that the Kenyan usurper who stole the election with fraudulent Acorn votes and using black panthers to intimidate whites at the polls is an anti-colonialist who plans to give Amurrica back to the savage redskin indians, and kill your parents with roving death-panel squads.
I laughed when I first read that. Then I thought, "Holy fuck!"
"and kill your parents with roving death-panel squads."
I hear they plan to use Amtrak.
And broadcast the carnage on PBS.
Lincoln characterized the Fox News viewers as "Some of the people."
Name calling evidently has a profound effect on our Barry. Look what you made him do, you meanies.
Name calling has a profound effect on our boy Barry. Look what you made him do you FUX meanies. And who knew the country was so susceptible to lies repeated over and over very loud.
Media Matters does what James O’Keefe wishes he could do with more credibility. But seriously, how is this guy still employeed? Isn’t this a breach of professional ethics? Or if you just work at Fox, the slogan is “Fuck it, everyone knows we’re partisan hackery anyway”?
But is Roger Ailes the reincarnation of Joe Goebbels?
Inside every fat network owner is a skinny nazi propagandist trying to get out.
Is that why James Earl Jones did the station id for CNN?
whatever. when you give in because it's easier to let someone fuck you over then to fight them–that's one thing. but it's too much to take when the person who has fucked you over wants you to like them afterwards or like them for how they fucked you over.
When I publicly engage in some rather mischievous speculation about Bill Sammon, I do not find the premise that he is a douchebag to be in any way far-fetched.
Jack, regards yer alt text, he does kinda look like Gollum in a coat and tie.
I swear I killed something that looked like him in World of Warcraft last night.
Someone should do a study about what second language Fox talking heads actually speak. Their definitions of the words they use can't be found in any english dictionary.
On top of that, they then combine words randomly to make something sound bad. Obama is a "Marxist Nazi". The fact that nothing like that could ever exist doesn't stop their teatard cheerleaders from repeating (and misspelling) it all every chance they get.
mischievous speculation – agitprop.
Potato – potahto.
Let's call the whole thing off..
(please)
That guy is a socialist.
Every time I read another one of these FUX items, I just don't know whether to be sad or angry. So i just make myself another Sapphire martini.
"I'll have a drink. Then I'll decide."
Faux News intentionally lies to further an obvious right-wing agenda?
In other news, water is wet.
Yawn. Call me when they admit they are a wing of the RNC. Even then, that will only rate a golf clap.
If you can't believe that Faux News believes what they want you to believe, well, then… oh I give up.
That cruise needed more Somali pirates
Headline of the day: "Bryan Fischer: What Part of 'Killer Whale' Does Sea World Not Understand?"
Tell me you're joking.
Great. Just great. What other part of my world view do you need to shit on today, Wonkette. Are you going to tell me that Obama is not the secret clone of Malcolm X, raised in Kenya by the Red Chinese to bring Unionism to the United States.
I just don't know what to believe any more. <sob>.
That's the beauty of Obama. As he said, himself, in his books, he's a blank slate. And, he'll do nothing to correct your perception of him. You don't have to choose, man. He can be your Negro Jesus or your Indo-Malay-Kenyan Auntie-Christ.
People with Judeo-Christian values watch their programs.
Sammon swimming upstream in his Santorum! Actually all of these fucks at Fox don't believe half the shit they spew, they just know it pays well so they spew it.
He didn't lose his soul; he sold it. And for a profit, I would imagine.
This reflects poorly on Fox News…They will lose credibility because of this…
Cold, dead eyes of a killer, as always.
Me too.
And yet, some lonely Wingnut will post a comment on some message board tonight about how only Faux Noise viewers know the Real Truth, and everyone else are sheeple.
I'm giving this shmuck a pass because he has a seriously ill child and he probably really needs his job, big-time. There but for the grace of God, go I.
If he has a seriously ill child, you'd think he'd have taken the time to review his life and be the best example he could for said child. If anything, knowing his situation makes me even less symapthetic of him. If this man has the mercy of God Almighty, he certainly doesn't need any of mine…
I have the mercy of God, I have three healthy children and grandchildren. I said nothing of his relationship with an Almighty. His child suffers from a congenital condition. Sammon is a prick and a lying asshole and I wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire; I'm only saying a part of me can understand that he may be under pressures that I've been spared and I can almost understand why he would jump through certain hoops to meet the needs of his family. I have a soft spot in my heart for the parents of special need children. Palin is an exception because the cunt actually uses her retarded child in photo ops and as a selling point for her particular brand of snake oil.
Someone get this guy an eye wrangler, stat! One of those puppies is trying to escape the native habitat that is that man's face.
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