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Fox News on the Hutton affair

 
 
Twig the Wonder Kid
13:48 / 03.02.04

http://blugg.com/stuff/foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.htm
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
14:27 / 03.02.04
Bob Holy Fucking Christ is that genuine??
 
 
Baz Auckland
14:37 / 03.02.04
...that's really...odd and nasty.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
15:07 / 03.02.04
What does it say? (No sound on my computer, very frustrating).
 
 
Baz Auckland
16:27 / 03.02.04
"Today the British Broadcasting Corporation was forced to PAY UP for its blatant Anti-Americanism before and during the Iraq war. A frothing at the mouth Anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest.

The BBC, the 'Beeb' was one of the worst offenders in the British press because it felt entitled to not only pillory America, Americans and George W. Bush but felt entitled to lie, and when caught lying, felt entitled to defend its lying reporters and executives.

The incident involved the reported Andrew Gilligan, who made a fool of himself in Bagdhad when the American invasion actually arrived in the Iraqi capital. Gilligan, Pro-Iraqi and Anti-American, insisted, ON THE AIR, that the Iraqi army was heroically repusling an incompetent American military.

Video from our own Greg Kelly of the American army moving through Bagdhad at will put the light to that. After the war, back in London, Gilligan got a guy named David Kelly to tell a few things about pre-war assessments on Iraq's weapons programs and Gilligan exaggerated, liieed, about what Gilligan had told him.

Kelly committed suicide over the story, and the BBC, far from blaming itself, insisted its reporter had the right to lie, exaggerate, because, well, the BBC, knew the war was wrong and anything it could say to underscore that point had to be right.

The British government investigation slammed the BBC today and a beeb exec resigned to show they got it. But they donnn't. Next time you hear the BBC bragging about how much superior the Brits are at delivering the news rather than Americans who wear (bad British accent) 'flaagsss in their lapellsss', remember, it was the Beeb caught lying."
 
 
SMS
16:43 / 03.02.04
This is, of course, a commentary, and not Fox's news reporting.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
02:22 / 04.02.04
The problem with Faux is that6 it does not differentiate between editorial and reporting...and is perversely proud of it. They have their "reporters" give comments, smirks and insults to those who don't share their conservative views. Just watch the look Brit Hume gets on his face when "reporting" about the Democratic primaries.

I know England has a lot of partisan reporting, but the US just isn't used to it...and worse, when it is partisan, the people who ARE partisan try to cloak it in "objectivity"...as witnessed by Bill O'Reilly' CONSTANT claim that he's not a Republican, despite mountains of evidence that he is a registered Republican.

So, when Faux reports something, I give it as much credibility as I give the news reports done by Televangelists.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
09:14 / 04.02.04
Good lord.

I must say I don't think I have ever heard a British journalist being quite as, erm, outspoken as that. Is this chap a pundit or a journalist?

Not to mention the fact that his report is inaccurate in many respects.
 
 
SMS
14:40 / 04.02.04
From the title of the segment "My Word," I would assume that he is acting as a pundit during that segment.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
19:59 / 04.02.04
And now, My word.

But the BBC toed the Government line during the war much more than other broadcasters.
 
 
■
20:27 / 04.02.04
Can I just check that this is REAL? Or is this just a bit of satire by someone who has done a Bushwhacked bit? It scares me. It also makes me wonder if British defamation laws might not be such a bad thing..
So, can someone tell me when and where this was aired before I go showing it to people?
 
 
■
20:34 / 04.02.04
Uuuhhhh. I knew they were bad, but not this bad.
The official transript is here.
I feel sullied and unclean.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
05:15 / 05.02.04
Oh it's real. In fact, he then wrote this when people complained.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
11:22 / 05.02.04
So who's going to be the first to establish the website 'www.HelpJohnGibsonStudyJournalism.com'?
 
 
_Boboss
14:03 / 05.02.04
i've already emailed him telling him what a cunt i think he is. that good enough?
 
  
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