I used to watch O'Reilly regularly when he very first started. I soon stopped when I saw the transparent tactic he used. Subject broached, guest introduced. Guest consistently a very extreme example of subject. Guest ripped up. Reminiscent of the Dubs. Non JW's are baby eating monsters, and the congregation eats it up.
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by StopTheTears 137 Replies latest jw friends
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Violia
I don't care for O'Reilly either.
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Berengaria
This is merely one of many articles on this.
Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News
Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a "fair and balanced" counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the "prejudices of network news" and deliver "pro-administration" stories to heartland television viewers.
The memo—called, simply enough, "A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News"— is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing Ailes' work for both the Nixon and George H.W. Bush administrations that we obtained from the Nixon and Bush presidential libraries. Through his firms REA Productions and Ailes Communications, Inc., Ailes served as paid consultant to both presidents in the 1970s and 1990s, offering detailed and shrewd advice ranging from what ties to wear to how to keep the pressure up on Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf War.
The documents—drawn mostly from the papers of Nixon chief of staff and felon H.R. Haldeman and Bush chief of staff John Sununu—reveal Ailes to be a tireless television producer and joyful propagandist. He was a forceful advocate for the power of television to shape the political narrative , and he reveled in the minutiae constructing political spectacles—stage-managing, for instance, the lighting of the White House Christmas tree with painstaking care. He frequently floated ideas for creating staged events and strategies for manipulating the mainstream media into favorable coverage, and used his contacts at the networks to sniff out the emergence of threatening narratives and offer advice on how to snuff them out—warning Bush, for example, to lay off the golf as war in the Middle East approached because journalists were starting to talk. There are also occasional references to dirty political tricks, as well as some positions that seem at odds with the Tea Party politics of present-day Fox News: Ailes supported government regulation of political campaign ads on television, including strict limits on spending. He also advised Nixon to address high school students, a move that caused his network to shriek about "indoctrination" when Obama did it more than 30 years later.
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NewChapter
BillO lost all redeeming value with me when he constantly and forcefully referred to Dr. Tiller as Tiller the Killer because he worked in an abortion clinic. The man was shot in both his arms, and that bastard CONTINUED referring to him as Tiller the Killer. Now someone has murdered the doctor, oh, but it would be wrong to criticize that windbag for calling a Tiller a Killer.
Can't stand him and never will. but I'd still like someone to explain to him how the tides come in and go out.
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Berengaria
but I'd still like someone to explain to him how the tides come in and go out.
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FlyingHighNow
Oh spare me, Cheech, you're not offended, you just want very badly to make my comments into something they aren't because I disagree strongly with your view on politics.
Simple people. Simple doesn't mean stupid. Another word would be salt of the earth. Simple in the sense that they want to live their lives and trust the politicians to run America fairly and squarely. So when Fox News says, "Uh hey, Obama hasn't proved he was born in the USA, even though Hawaii has released his long form birth certificate." And the person who likes to keep life simple might just believe it without a second thought. Doesn't mean they are stupid people, just too ready to turn over their thinking responsibility and trust to ruthless politicians and news reporters.
Smarter people?The ones who love Fox news: People who think and are educated enough about politics not to be fooled by the Fox News propaganda. They know it's propaganda, they don't care because they want people to vote for the candidates who will help destroy the middle class. Simple people and smarter people might both make A's in school. The smarter people are just more educated about politics.
Vi, I see you are sensitive because a policeman called you a redneck. Now your comments make sense. If someone called me a redneck or hillbilly, I'd say, "You say that like it's a bad thing." And I'd say it in my best drawl.
Hey, Beks, glad you came back for some additional comments.
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FlyingHighNow
Fox News has been used to brainwash and hornswaggle many a simple person who wants to trust and not to think.... meaning a lot of fundamentalists and rednecks. ~ Moi
Read this again, Cheech. What makes the person simple? Stupidity? No, it's wanting to trust and not to think. Did I say all fundamentalists, which you had no problem with, and all rednecks? No. I said a lot of. Simple and complex thinkers are all around you. Simple doesn't make someone wrong all the time. Complex doesn't make someone right all the time. It's just a difference in how deeply someone wants to dive into thinking.
Da cheech, let me guess, someone called you a redneck and it hurt your feelings.
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Berengaria
Hey Flyin'. I suppose Jeff Foxworthy, Larry, Ron..............are being insulting to their audience? They certainly sell well.
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FlyingHighNow
Hey Flyin'. I suppose Jeff Foxworthy, Larry, Ron..............are being insulting to their audience? They certainly sell well.
Yes they do and I would never think they were racist. I'm an Alabama girl and I think they are funny as heck.
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Violia
well, what I wanted to say was " you think I am a redneck, don't make me really go redneck on your arse.." but alas he was a police officer and well you know , respect the position if you can't respect the person.
I wonder, if I say tree hugging liberal, does it make anyone mad? It is an insult in the conservative world. Or maybe socialist, or elitist?
the words redneck are often preceded by stupid or some such word as are hillbilly or white trash, trailer trash. They are not usually meant as a good thing. google these words and see what comes up. Google images and see what comes up.
Words have the power to hurt or help. I just don't want to hurt anyone and so I will for my new years resolution try and not use words that may sound OK to me but hurt others.
