In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Fox News Hates Accurate Reporting
or as Fox News itself says: The national forest as pot field story is pure Fox.
Wonkette has got them all in an amazing post:
Fox News Memos: The Whole Batch
From memos written by Fox News chief John Moody which he sends out each morning:Okay we all knew they weren't fair or balanced, but wow, they are so blatant about it internally.
- Let's spend a good deal of time on the battle over judicial nominations, which the President will address this morning. Nominees who both sides admit are qualified are being held up because of their POSSIBLE, not demonstrated, views on one issue -- abortion. This should be a trademark issue for FNC today and in the days to come.
- The tax cut passed last night by the Senate, though less than half what Bush originally proposed, contains some important victories for the administration. The DC crew will parse the bill and explain how it will fatten -- marginally -- your wallet.
- bush's G-8 trip is actually less important than his fledgling efforts to knock together the Israeli and Palestinian PMs' heads. Let's keep in mind that the G-8 contains the most obstreperous dissidents against the war on terror.
[actually the war on Iraq, but who cares about facts]- Heads of state don't leave G-8 meetings early unless they have good reasons. President Bush has two: he has to get to Egypt, and he doesn't like the French. Let's explain to viewers that despite the tepid handshake, Bush and Chirac are far from reconciled, as are the US and Germany. The early departure from Evian should take the sparkle out of the bottled water spa.
- The president is doing something that few of his predecessors dared undertake: putting the US case for mideast peace to an Arab summit. It's a distinctly skeptical crowd that Bush faces. His political courage and tactical cunning are worth noting in our reporting through the day.
- Gas prices are at all time highs in the US. There are reasons for the surge, some economic, some mere business tactics. Remember: US prices, while they seem high to us, are a half or less the cost of gasoline elsewhere.
[i.e. remember to defend the President!- Do not fall into the easy trap of mourning the loss of US lives and asking out loud why are we there? The US is in Iraq to help a country brutalized for 30 years protect the gains made by Operation Iraqi Freedom and set it on the path to democracy. Some people in Iraq don't want that to happen. That is why American GIs are dying. And what we should remind our viewers.
- As we worried yesterday, the death toll in the N Korean train wreck looks like it's being drastically revised downward. that doesn't mean we won't follow the story, to the extent we can get information from the Hermit Kingdom.
[awww... not as many people died... what a pity]- The president meets the PM of the Netherlands and talks about healthcare. Kerry, starting to feel the heat for his flip-flop voting record, is in West Virginia.
One part of a memo stood out for me, so much so I'm giving it a headline:
Fox New has a soft spot for terrorists (if they're white 'Christians')
We have good perp walk video of Eric Rudolph which we should use. We should NOT assume that anyone who supported or helped Eric Rudolph is a racist. No one's in favor of murder or bombing of public places. But feelings in North Carolina may just be more complicated than the NY Times can conceive. Two style notes: Rudolph is charged with bombing an abortion clinic, not a "health clinic." and
TODAY'S HEARING IS NOT AN ARRAIGNMENT. IT IS AN INITIAL HEARING.
Wow, that's very even handed for reporting about a terrorist (remember he may have done the bombing during the Altlanta Olympic games) you know they wouldn't be that even handed when it came to an Arab or Iraqi who placed a bomb anywhere. In fact they almost want to excuse his behavior (i.e. "an abortion clinic, not a 'health clinic'", I guess that makes it somehow okay?).
And Fox News wants to be very careful not to assume Rudolph is a racist, and yes, really, how could you assume that:
Eric Rudolph -- alleged bomber, Jew-hater
NEW YORK -- Eric Rudolph, the U.S. white supremacist arrested over the weekend for four bombings, including an attack at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, was apparently motivated by an anti-Semitic ideology known as Christian Identity.
Rudolph, 36, also wrote a paper espousing Holocaust denial while in high school.
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Rudolph "hated Jews more than probably any other race," Deborah Rudolph, who is divorced from Rudolph's brother, Joel, told ABC's "Good Morning America."
He "felt that, you know, they've been run out of every country they've ever been in. They've destroyed every country they've ever been in. They have too much control in our country," she said.
He considered the TV "The Electronic Jew," she said in an interview a few years ago.
"You could be watching a 30-minute sitcom and the credits would roll and there'd be Jewish names and, excuse my expression, but he would say, 'You f------g Yids.' Any little thing and he would start," she said.
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