FOX Liars (Part One)

Well your right, they did say it several times. You got them real good on that one. But now let me ask a question. We know that the Obama administration does not want to jail anyone for not getting insurance. But can they the way it's written up?

 

OReilly isn't news but a talking head. NBC is even worse with their propaganda.

 

Well even though O"Reilly said no one at Fox said it and they did. What they said is the truth, you can go to jail for not buying Obama care.

Flout the mandate penalty? Face the IRS

Americans who fail to pay the penalty for not buying insurance would face legal action from the Internal Revenue Service, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

The remarks Thursday from the committee's chief of staff, Thomas Barthold, seems to further weaken President Barack Obama's contention last week that the individual mandate penalty, which could go as high as $1,900, is not a tax increase.

Under questioning from Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Barthold said the IRS would "take you to court and undertake normal collection proceedings."

Ensign pursued the line of questioning because he said a lot of Americans don't believe the Constitution allows the government to mandate the purchase of insurance.
Friday, Brown reported that Ensign got a clarification on what the result of "normal collection proceedings" might be, and got it in writing (HT Hot Air):

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.

Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-bl...ealth-insurance-you-could-go-ja#ixzz2gJJhQV4T

 

MSNBC's Chris Matthews given this years Puppy Love Award.


While he faced stiff competition, you just knew he was a shoo-in to win this. A packed ballroom of Media Research Center 2013 Gala attendees chose MSNBC's Chris Matthews as the winner of the 2013 Puppy Love Award, beating out ABC's Diane Sawyer and CNN's Piers Morgan. Matthews won this DisHonor Award for his June 5, 2013 pronouncement that President Obama was "clean as a whistle" and that Republicans were motivated by "ethnic" and racial animus rather than sincere disagreements over policy.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2gJQOSu8v

 

MSNBC's Ratings Still Dropping While Fox News, CNN, HLN Enjoy Second-Quarter Boost




By Randy Hall | July 4, 2013 | 14:10

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The ratings from April through June brought good news for the dominant Fox News Channel, the resurgent Cable News Network and HLN -- which was previously known as the Headline Network -- but that period saw MSNBC deliver its worst quarterly prime-time showing among total viewers and adults from 25 to 54 years of age since 2007.

According to a report released by Nielsen Media Research, CNN reclaimed the runner-up slot from MSNBC for the first time since 2010. Also, the “Lean Forward” network fell 16 percent to third place in prime-time ratings and nine percent to come in fourth in its “total day” numbers.

The second quarter was an especially difficult time for Rachel Maddow, whose show's average audience of 774,000 was the smallest since its debut in September of 2008. According to Joe Flint of the Los Angeles Times, a large part of the problem is All In With Chris Hayes, which airs before Maddow's show and has yet to click with viewers.

During its first full three-month period on the air, All In generated the lowest-rated 8 p.m. hour in the 25-54 demo for MSNBC since the first quarter of 2006. In addition, the network’s 10 p.m. program -- The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell -- also had the lowest rating for that important demographic since the fourth quarter of 2006.

Nevertheless, the network did manage to improve its month-to-month numbers from its lows in May, when it fell below perennial fourth-place channel HLN.

Meanwhile, CNN's meager prime-time audience jumped almost 50 percent for the quarter to an average of 666,000 viewers, a dramatic rise from last June's 21-year low. In total viewership, the network was up year-over-year by the same amount in both total day and prime-time numbers while in the 25-54 demographic, the network soared 77 percent.

But after several major breaking news events, including the Boston Marathon bombing, Oklahoma tornadoes and the murder trial of Jodi Arias, June saw the network slide to its smallest audience (total day and prime-time) since last August, before new president Jeff Zucker took the helm.

According to Michael O'Connell of The Hollywood Reporter website, Zucker's first big programming launch was the debut of the morning program New Day. Even though the show has only been on the air for about two weeks, it has started off down double digits in total viewers and the key demo from the time period's quarterly average.

While some broadcasts have done better than others -- Anderson Cooper's 10 p.m. block has surged by devoting his show to covering the George Zimmerman trial -- one CNN prime-time broadcast that hasn't done very well is Piers Morgan Live.

Morgan began the second quarter with a slight title change from Piers Morgan Tonight, but that didn't prevent the anti-gun activist from drawing an average of only 121,000 viewers in June in the important demographic, his lowest-rated month since premiering in January of 2011 and 42,000 behind Dr. Drew on Call on HLN.

Of course, the Fox News Channel continued to dominate the cable news race for the 46th straight quarter in both “total day” and “prime-time” rankings. In addition, Fox aired the top 13 programs in cable news based on total viewers for the entire quarter and had nine out of the top 10 programs in the 25-54 demographic.

While two prime-time programs -- The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity -- have lost some of their audiences, the channel's biggest improvement was in total day viewership and is due in large part to the success of America Live With Megyn Kelly. From April through June, the two-hour afternoon news program saw its second-best quarter to date.

Kelly's sterling record probably had a lot to do with the announcement on Tuesday that she is headed for a prime-time slot after she returns from maternity leave. The news release doesn't say what changes might be made to Fox's current evening line-up, but stated: “A new schedule will be announced at a later date.”

NewsBusters reported in May that after double-digit gains during the 2012 presidential election, MSNBC's ratings fell to a seven-year low during the week of May 13-17.

Just one week later, Nielsen ratings indicated that MSNBC had fallen into fourth place behind Fox News, CNN, and HLN.

How far must the "Lean Forward" channel's ratings fall before they make obviously needed changes? Unfortunately, liberals usually decide that the reason for low ratings is that they just aren't liberal enough and must keeping digging the hole they're in ever deeper.


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It sounds to me as though you would like to legitimize everyone lying all the time.

 

Well if you keep listening to MSNBC and Obama, you'll know what lying is all about.

 

Good one, you sure got me that time.

 

In fact, it is quite easy for anyone with an IQ approaching double digits to differentiate between news shows and opinion shows on Fox. This is definitely not the case on MSNBC. Fox on the other hand has has more left wingers on their payroll than all the alphabet soup bunch combined.

Romney missed the point that Fox made and you missed as well, Obama called it an act of terror in the Rose garden and then spent the next forteen days acting as if it was something else.

 

You present more fine examples of FOX News type misleading characterizations. You're just an amateur though, they've honed it to a fine craft.

[video=youtube;UmXNVdAsudQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmXNVdAsudQ[/video]

 

In a prior post you called opposition to Geraldo 'token' now you claim it took bravery for Geraldo to give his POV....Honestly, your credibility here is pretty slim.

 

Why do you people always have to mischaracterize my statements? Probably some personality defect resulting from years of viewing FOX News on a daily basis.

 

What gets me most of all is how MSNBC keeps playing the race card. Like saying the Texas governor was calling Obama the black cloud hanging over the country by editing out his word of (debt). Editing Zimmerman's audio tape to police to make him look like a racist. Editing the tape of a Black man carrying a pistol and rifle and trying to pass him off as a White man, who could be out to get Obama. While covering the Republican National Convention, they cut out every minority speech to make it look like no minority favored the Republicans. It's just one dirty racial trick after another.

I don't know how you guys can set there and except crap like that.

 

No doubt about it, they were quick to jump on that and then he turned out to be innocent.....or at least technically not guilty.

 

We'll I have to give Fox credit. Someone there honestly tried to tell the truth. And Geraldo actually did. Good for him! That is true honesty trying to get through.

 

Steve Doocy sure looked nervous about not being able to shut Geraldo up. Are we supposed to believe Doocy isn't gay?

 

I don't think you want to talk about race and Rick Perry in the same sentence. After all, he is a member of the (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) Head Hunting Club in Texas.

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He proved he's all mouth until someone gets in his face with the truth.

 

With regard to my statements about Geraldo you wrote:

They are nearly convincing at making token efforts to appear "fair and balanced".

Then you wrote: Yes, it was a very brave effort on Geraldo's part.

If they (the folks at FOX) are just making 'token efforts' then how is Geraldo 'brave' to speak his POV? Moreover, if FOX is so biased, why do they have Geraldo on in the first place....With his own show? You Fox haters make no sense at all.

 

Face, mouth, oh I get it. We don't want to be too obvious with the homosexual innuendo.

 

Wait - people still get TOLD their news from a TV???? How ridiculous.

 

Well...Geraldo is a persuasive man and can make a good argument. Doocy isn't in the same league but, that is the beauty of Fox, you get to see controversy. I don't care if Doocy is gay, why do you?

 

Sounds like circular logic to me, maybe if you continue following it you'll eventually find the tail. Obviously they have token liberals like Geraldo on FOX News to give themselves the appearance of being nearly objective. Guys like Geraldo and Juan Williams give FOX plausible deniability.

 

Have to love how Fox keeps having the opposition on to give the opposite views. As for saying few are watching Fox in the morning, that could be true as Fox is mostly news untill 1:00pm when Megyn Kelly comes on. Then it picks up quite nicely. So much so Kelly will be moved to Prime Time. No one can say that Fox doesn't give the opposite a good chance to air their side. Several of your videos prove that.