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“Pandering to the audience is not a good thing, even if it’s good for ratings,” Goldberg said.
C’mon man. It’s the only reason FOX News even exists.
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Filed under “how not to keep your cushy job…”
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Bernie, your days on FOX are numbered.
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Did he mention O’Reilly and Hannity by name? Maybe Kelly, Erikson and the three stooges in the morning?
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This is FOX News where every yahoo, yokel and idiot can become a folk hero overnight with our patented “Death to Democracy” technology!
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That’s how it is for the right. An angry white guy with a gun is a hero or mentally ill. An angry African-American with a gun is just a criminal.
Well to all those asshats at Fox, Cliven “Ted” Bundy is a punk and a criminal and should be in jail!!!
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A stopped clock comes to mind. Still, it’s interesting how some small cracks have been occurring in Fox’s previously unblemished facade over the last few days.
The cynic in me thinks that Roger Ailes is directing all this self-criticism, much the way that the Soviets and Red Chinese under Mao would occasionally indulge in public displays of self-correction to give the appearance of being interested in truth, when in fact behind the scenes they were every bit as dictatorial as ever.
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Bundy Ranch was a no-go zone before Bobbi Gin Doll ever heard of no-go zones.
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Is this a sign that Goldberg has been given the token job to function as the Fox right of center centrist?
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progress in journalism has been made when BillO admits he did not cover a story.
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Goldberg made the remarks just days after he argued with O'Reilly by saying on air that "Fox News is gonna play down conservative screw-ups."
Goldberg is fast wearing out his welcome at Fox News. Goldberg? What kind of name is that anyway? How does it fit in with the Hannitys the O’Reillys and the Kellys?
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Echo chamber prattle, pure echo chamber prattle.
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What a disgusting sycophant this guy Goldberg is. The objective of Fox News (GOP TV) is the same as that of GOP radio, namely to make the GOP voter base so furious with rage that they will trudge through a snowstorm or a hurricane to vote against Democrats in every single election. To make their base furious with rage requires that nonsense be reported as fact and reality be ignored. And GOP media is monumentally successful.
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Truth to (O’Really?) Power? Bernie, it was good to know ya.
“Pandering to the audience is not a good thing, even if it’s good for ratings,” said the guy who launched a second career by pandering to the right wing’s need to attack “liberal media”
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“Host Bill O’Reilly defended himself by saying that he declined to cover
the story. O’Reilly said at first the situation appeared to be about “a
guy who was being oppressed” and that he didn’t blame his colleagues
“who dove in because it was presented that way.””
Bundy was never “oppressed” by the government. Bundy chose to not pay the grazing fees. That he got in trouble for not paying the fees is nobody elses fault. That Fox saw the story incorrectly is Fox’s fault due to their right wing slant in reporting.
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Precisely right! What Goldberg is doing is pissing off the Fox fanatical base with the truth, thus increasing the support for the rest of the talking heads at Fox News and all of their false talking points. Fox viewers detest the truth. Reality to them is whatever BillO says it is. Any disruption of BAU to the Fox base will only increase the fanaticism amongst that base. Goldberg is the selected fall-guy, chosen to speak the truth, thus pissing off their base for doing so, and getting the Fox base viewership to pledge their allegiance to those talking heads who say what they want to hear, instead of saying the actual truth. Goldberg is strengthening support for everyone else at Fox News.
Indeed: Bundy’s a rube, Goldberg.
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Host Bill O’Reilly defended himself by saying that he declined to cover the story. O’Reilly said at first the situation appeared to be about “a guy who was being oppressed” and that he didn’t blame his colleagues “who dove in because it was presented that way.”
Which says all your colleagues did was allow Bundy and his cohorts to use the bullhorn known as FOX Entertainment to announce their story to your very receptive, President Obama-hating (core) audience. They did no background, investigative checking to Mr. Bundy’s story or his history. Yahoos, indeed.
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