Tim Geithner: The White House Asked Me to Mislead the Public

[MrPots]

Indeed, that comment was from myself and from a personal POV I stand by it. I don't watch Fox news myself, in fact I've blocked it, but considering it's contributors, Rove, Palin et all and the ridiculous parroting snippets I've seen of the program it's nothing more than Liars World to me.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

I thought I remembered post 63 in this thread coming from you. I looked again and it did not. Needless to say, this forum is full of criticisms of Fox News. I don't watch Fox often enough confirm all of them, but I do watch NBC, ABC, etc enough to know that the criticisms heaped on Fox here seemingly ignore the same behavior from other news sources.

There's a steaming pile of false equivalence ^. How do you explain away a major university study that proved that Fox viewers are less informed than any others, including those who watch no news at all?

[4-2-7]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

In sum, Fox won the case, because it established that the FCC's policy against news distortion was not enforceable. The jury believed that the plaintiff had been fired because she threatened to complain about the distortion, but because the policy against distortion did not rise to the level of a regulation, she could not prevail. Yes the can can reasonably be said Fox won a case that said that it was legal for it to distort the news and fire someone for complaining about the distortion. Are you going to suggest that "distortion" is not the same a lying?

Regards,

D-Ray

Quit distorting what the law is. That law applies to all media not just Fox.

[piece-itpete]

I used to occasionally watch it on Sunday. I agree that Mara Liasson, Juan Williams and particularly Dennis Kucinich will indeed rot your brain.

Pete

[4-2-7]

Originally Posted by bobabode

There's a steaming pile of false equivalence ^. How do you explain away a major university study that proved that Fox viewers are less informed than any others, including those who watch no news at all?

Because the Universities are full of left wing propagandist. Feeding the brains of our youth to march the manta like good little zombies.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

How do you explain away a major university study that proved that Fox viewers are less informed than any others, including those who watch no news at all?

Because everybody knows those Ivory Tower University Professors are all a bunch of America hatin Commie Libs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHJCPoWCC8

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Because everybody knows those Ivory Tower University Professors are all a bunch of America hatin Commie Libs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHJCPoWCC8

Indeed. Funny how facts and scientific methods used to ferret out such facts have a distinctly liberal bias.

[donquixote99]

1) I said:

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Nor did I present my source as "authoritative." I present my source as a logical argument that makes sense. One should accept it for that reason, not because it supposedly carries 'authority.'

And of course, in citing 'Truth-Out" as supposedly questionable, you are ignoring the arguments and attacking the source, a form of ad hominum argument (technique 2).

(emphasis added.)


2) You quoted:

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Nor did I present my source as "authoritative."

3) And you replied:

Originally Posted by whell

Good thing.

Comparing 1) to 2), you sure did have to ignore a lot, to come up with a way to throw that speck of snark, that doubling-down on ad hom. How can you expect anyone to respect your opinions, when you pull stuff like that?

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

Because the Universities are full of left wing propagandist. Feeding the brains of our youth to march the manta like good little zombies.

A twofer! Techniques 2 and 12.

Hey--technique 8 as well, if you consider the image of a marching manta....

[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

There's a steaming pile of false equivalence ^. How do you explain away a major university study that proved that Fox viewers are less informed than any others, including those who watch no news at all?

Another non-story spun up by the left-wing echo chamber.

Fairleigh-Dickinson, quite a long way from being regarded as a top tier school, puts out a survey where every group of listeners of each media type got about one question right from each in a collection of rather subjective questions they were asked. The survey results for each group were within the survey's stated margin of error, yet this becomes an indictment of Fox News. Brilliant!