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Would you care to provide a few concrete examples? Oh please.

A news article on the Fox News website during October 2004 by Carl Cameron, chief political correspondent of Fox News, contained three fabricated quotes attributed to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The quotes included: "Women should like me! I do manicures", "Didn't my nails and cuticles look great?" and "I'm metrosexual [Bush's] a cowboy".

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604040009Gibson falsely claimed that FISA court judges said Bush "didn't break any law" in authorizing warrantless domestic surveillance

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604030007O'Reilly misrepresented five editorials to accuse "left-wing print media" of having no solutions to immigration woes

On March 23, 2003 the FOX News channel headline banners were rolling: "Huge chemical weapons factory found in Iraq... Reports: 30 Iraqis surrender at chem weapons plant... coal. troops holding Iraqi in charge of chem. weapons." On the next day the Dow Jones Newswires reported, that, U.S. officials had admitted that morning that the site contained no chemicals at all and had been abandoned long ago.

Would you care to provide a few concrete examples? Oh please.

A news article on the Fox News website during October 2004 by Carl Cameron, chief political correspondent of Fox News, contained three fabricated quotes attributed to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The quotes included: "Women should like me! I do manicures", "Didn't my nails and cuticles look great?" and "I'm metrosexual [Bush's] a cowboy".

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604040009Gibson falsely claimed that FISA court judges said Bush "didn't break any law" in authorizing warrantless domestic surveillance

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604030007O'Reilly misrepresented five editorials to accuse "left-wing print media" of having no solutions to immigration woes

On March 23, 2003 the FOX News channel headline banners were rolling: "Huge chemical weapons factory found in Iraq... Reports: 30 Iraqis surrender at chem weapons plant... coal. troops holding Iraqi in charge of chem. weapons." On the next day the Dow Jones Newswires reported, that, U.S. officials had admitted that morning that the site contained no chemicals at all and had been abandoned long ago.

I mean, they make shit up all the time, so the Internet can't be any worse.

For a good reference for just how "managed" mainstream news networks are, check out Media Matters.

Especially interesting is the false claims made by the administration in the lead up to the Iraq war. They have a great section detailing several media personalities.

Also, most on topic, the search results for their domestic spying topic.

For a good reference for just how "managed" mainstream news networks are, check out Media Matters.

Especially interesting is the false claims made by the administration in the lead up to the Iraq war. They have a great section detailing several media personalities.

Also, most on topic, the search results for their domestic spying topic.

For a good reference for just how "managed" mainstream news networks are, check out Media Matters.

Especially interesting is the false claims made by the administration in the lead up to the Iraq war. They have a great section detailing several media personalities.

Also, most on topic, the search results for their domestic spying topic.

For a good reference for just how "managed" mainstream news networks are, check out Media Matters.

Especially interesting is the false claims made by the administration in the lead up to the Iraq war. They have a great section detailing several media personalities.

Also, most on topic, the search results for their domestic spying topic.

Is this the same Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006 that the Tories (er, Republicans, scuse me) advertised put "firm new limits" on Presidential power, as a compromise against launching a full Senate investigationinto the warrantless wiretapping program?

It's strange, because I've seen tons of reporting, but very few stories actually mention the name of the Act. how are citizens supposed to participate when they can't even identify legislation? Do //congresspeople// even know which laws they're voting on? .... don't answer that question. I don't want to know. *forehand*

There are police on the internet?!? Oh sh...

Yes there are! You didn't know about Bill O'Lielly's secret police?

The reason partisan journalists are bias is because they think all facts point towards their viewpoint as "truth."

Case in point.

Much like I follow the NYT editorial page and the network tv sunday morning yak-yak shows, because they (and now daily kos) drive the Democrats' talking points and policy positions.

That's a nice red herring, but the fact of the matter is that Fulton Armstrong had been a publically identifed intelligence officer for several years before Kerry let his name slip, along with Sen. Lugar (funny, though, how you don't mention him).

At first, I thought it was fairly amazing how an outfit that calls itself 'newsmax' could be so off base on this issue....but then I saw the big ad for the DVD 'The Religion of Evolution', as well as the ads on the side promising "super strength" and "'lost art' power-throwing secrets", and suddenly, it made a lot more sense.

www.mediamatters.org

The group may be liberal, but facts are owned by no party. Any channel that has to remind you that they're "real journalism, fair and balanced" every hour is neither fair, balanced, nor real journalism.

Please excuse my offtopic post.

For each of the three misperceptions, the study found enormous differences between the viewers of Fox, who held the most misperceptions, and NPR/PBS, who held the fewest by far. Eighty percent of Fox viewers were found to hold at least one misperception, compared to 23 percent of NPR/PBS consumers. All the other media fell in between.

CBS ranked right behind Fox with a 71 percent score, while CNN and NBC tied as the best-performing commercial broadcast audience at 55 percent. Forty-seven percent of print media readers held at least one misperception.

As to the number of misconceptions held by their audiences, Fox far outscored all of its rivals. A whopping 45 percent of its viewers believed all three misperceptions, while the other commercial networks scored between 12 percent and 16 percent. Only nine percent of readers believed all three, while only four percent of the NPR/PBS audience did.

(Not to mention the previous administration's similar attempts.)

Potential exists in a gamete; how troubled are you by the loss of billions of potential lives during the course of one man's life? How troubled are you by the thought that people using condoms or birth control pills actively want these gametes to never realize their full potential as human beings

Your examples are not extremes. There are people who actually feel that using birth control (condoms, the pill, the sponge, etc) are tantamount to abortion. I am not joking. This lady, Karen Brauer, has made it to the Ohio Supreme court with her "I am a pharmacist, birth control is murder" message

I find that most people don't care about where life ends or begins. They simply want to control other people having sex because sex is evil and anyone who does it any other way but married, in a bed and horizontal (man on top of course) is an evil sinner who will burn in the lake of fire. (Somehow this thought makes them happy.)

Have you seen what's being classified as non-fiction? I wish we can sue the garbage that's passed as non-fiction from both extremes. I'm sure the right-wing can spout stuff about Michael Moore's books, and Ann Coulter? Rush Limbaugh? John Gibson's War on Christmas??? Half lies (or half truths, it's the same thing!) to straight up lies. It's all fiction. Check out http://www.mediamatters.org/ and search for ann coulter or rush.

• Judith Miller
• Deborah Howell
• Armstrong Williams
• Tim Russet

...and so on and so forth. I suppose that picking a few from the other side would spoil the image you're trying to convey?

--MarkusQ

P.S. And before you start drawing unfounded conclusions about my politics, I happen to be a fiscally conservative registered Republican, who happens to hold my side to a higher standard than the "opposition". Where I was brought up, cheating to win meant you had lost, no matter what the scoreboard said.

• Judith Miller
• Deborah Howell
• Armstrong Williams
• Tim Russet

...and so on and so forth. I suppose that picking a few from the other side would spoil the image you're trying to convey?

--MarkusQ

P.S. And before you start drawing unfounded conclusions about my politics, I happen to be a fiscally conservative registered Republican, who happens to hold my side to a higher standard than the "opposition". Where I was brought up, cheating to win meant you had lost, no matter what the scoreboard said.

But, since Meehan is a Democrat, expect this to get absolutely no mention in any news outlet.

Right, like the way they raked Colin Powell over the coals for presenting false and plagiarised information to the U.N.? Oh wait, that's right. There was a total media blackout about that incident.

You really need to pay more attention. The media is not "liberally biased." It is biased towards its own ends, which means selling high-end advertising, toadying up to the corporate elites, and fomenting fake controversies whenever possible to stir ratings. The big corporate outlets very infrequently deal with anything of substance.

If the media appears to you to be giving the Dems a free pass, more likely it's because they rarely cover anything the left wing does, unless it's particularly showy or the right wing makes noise about it in their thousands of media outlets, consummate showmen that they are.

Put down your Ayn Rand novel and visit Media Matters on a daily basis to get a deeper picture of what's going on.

That's ironic - you seem to have ignored some key facts involving John Lott. Pulling stats out of bodily orifices != "discovery", and creating sock puppets to defend your arguments doesn't even rise to the level of scientific rigor seen in the Professor Emeritus of Gilligan's Island.

The answer to your example is: "The house where people aren't home, and don't have a security system". There's a reason why burglaries aren't news, and "home invasions" are - burglary is a much lower-risk occupation when nobody is around.

You can see some real facts on burglary statistics here: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_02/html/web/offreporte d/02-nburglary08.html (I hope you won't get the vapors changing from Mary Rosh to the Real World). The FBI stats show that the Northeast (home of gun control) has the lowest rate of burglaries per person, and is the only region where burglaries are declining.

You should be modded down because you are reiterating the Republican talking point that started the whole flamewar in the first place. The simple fact remains people took issue with the fact that the WaPo "reporter" tried to paint the Democrats as also guilty by intially saying that Democrats had recieved contributions from Abramoff when infact Democrats had recieved no money from Abramoff
The distinction since you obviously don't get it is that Abramoff who is the only one on trial and has plead guilty; His clients money that was contributed to the Democrats (EVEN if he directed his clients to do so) is not at issue here.

The Republicans have been trying to say in essence:
If a man donates to Red Cross, and the Red Cross is later convicted of Bribery of a government official, then that man's donation to Red Cross makes him just as guilty.

They are doing this so they can throw doubt on the Democrats by association even though there is NO evidence the tribes (Abramoff's clients) were involved in the foul play other than to be the victims of being scammed out of their money by Abramoff.

Media Matters has the situation described pretty well:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601150001/

I am not saying the Democrats are squeaky clean, but in this case, it does appear that the Republican's are the only ones with direct ties to already plead guilty Abramoff. Note, the direct ties are the ONLY ones that are trial at the moment and Republicans have yet to provide any evidence that there was wrong-doing on the side of the tribes to make the donations recieved by the Democrats illegal.

This may help some people understand the nature of the dissent, albeit from a less than neutral stance: http://mediamatters.org/. If it's off the main page, look under Abrahamoff. I do not, however, advocate Media Matters, other than for a 'point of view'.

I think that's the real problem.
Being very "liberal" with the truth isn't a good thing in a case like this.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601180006
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100008
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100004

I think that's the real problem.
Being very "liberal" with the truth isn't a good thing in a case like this.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601180006
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100008
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100004

I think that's the real problem.
Being very "liberal" with the truth isn't a good thing in a case like this.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601180006
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100008
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100004

Go away, little troll.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512240002#9
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601170014

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512240002#9
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601170014

Really, I'm getting tired of this crap.

What you quoted is not the same as the thing Bush did. While you can of course be of the opinion that it's also problematic, it's legally an entirely different matter.

So stop acting as if it were the same.

Really, I can't understand why some people are so desperate about defending this administrations conduct in this matter that they are resorting to simply lying.

At the time the statement you quoted above was made, physical searches did not, I repeat not violate FISA, because physical searches weren't covered by FISA at the time.
However, what Bush authorized, clearly is covered by FISA and illegal according to it.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601170014

"Forget college, forget healthcare, we need radio bandwidth and tax cuts for the richest to help fight the terrorists."

Anyone else interested in seeing the person that actually modded this +5 Interesting? Lets not forget that In fact, the percentage of GDP spent on health is higher in the United States than in countries with government-provided health care and the government pays over 300 billion a year in grants towards college.

Heaven forbid we spent 1/200 of that on television. Crazy liberal whiners.

Quite a few more facts on the supposed equivalence of Bush and Clinton on wiretapping.

The whole issue here is that these are taps that do involve foreign communications.

Your claim has been thoroughly debunked. The law doesn't stipulate that only one end of the conversation has to be foreign and the other can be a domestic tap on a US citizen. Both ends must be foreign for this to be legal. FISA specifically states that the president can authorize a warrantless order only if there is "there is no substantial likelihood that the surveillance will acquire the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party". US Code Title 50, 1802.

Sorry, but Rush Limbaugh is 100% guilty in promoting this crap. Here's a link to his actual crappy and massively missinformed quote. http://mediamatters.org/items/200508090007

His quote came from Aug 3, 2005. The article you quoted came from May 6, 2003.

Just goes to show if Rush says it, it's probbably wrong.

They used to have a much better foam but due to some enviromental concerns they had to stop using it.

That's a popular meme spread by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, but the truth is the Columbia Accident Investigation Board found that the section of foam that broke off and damaged Columbia had been made with freon.

This idea that the foam was just fine before we made it freon-free is just more bullshit from the "loot and pollute" segment of the far right. Shame on them for trying to use the deaths of the Columbia crew to prop up their anti-ecology agenda.

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation -- news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda -- every day, in real time." Here's their staff.

Certainly that is an objective, unbiased source of, something. I failed to find your purported study, however.

As for your troll: ""..."religious school you got your degree at presumably did." I wasn't aware that UAF was a "religious" school. Thanks for pointing that out.

65 million years is a LONG time change. Studies show, without doubt, climate could not change at the current pace without human intervention. Let me point you to a study. I don't care how many rocks you get off to looking at, if you read this response to a similar argument of Rush Limbaugh's (he's an idiot), it may just tell you more about climate change than the religious school you got your degree at presumably did.

Limbaugh falsely denied human causes of ozone depletion, global warming

As noted yesterday by Onan. You know that anti-torture thing McCain passed a day or so ago? It has dependancies on the Army Field Manual. Loophole in the law: change the field manual and classify it. Done. (Yeah, you can still buy the field manual online but not the classified "How to beat your prisoner to death without leaving any physical marks" section)

Oh man, fuck Christmas.

Seriously - are you kidding me with this "There's a war on Christmas" bullshit? FOX News wasn't raking in enough cash already from all the Christmas commercials for Kill 'em All Barbie and Girls Gone Wild Brand Toddler Gear ? They had to start publishing books about some bogus attack on Christianity? And who did they pick to lead this particular charge?

John fucking Gibson. This guy has wiener written all over him.

Bill O'Reilly gets all the credit as the biggest nutcase in FOXville, but Gibson really deserves his own special wing in the happy house. This motherfucker's embedded assignment reads "Up Karl Rove's ass."

What makes him such a dick? I mean, besides making a fortune by screaming hysterically about how oppressed Christians are by the other twenty percent? How about advocating bombing countries that don't vote the way we want in their own elections? Way to encourage democracy, fuckhead. And maybe he was kidding when he wished, on air, that the French had gotten the 2012 Olympics instead of the Brits so the terrorists would "blow up Paris," but it might have been just a touch over the top to call for it again on the day of the London train bombings. Classy move, asshole.

And really? That's just scratching the fucking surface. Anyone remember who was responsible for the bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City? John does: Iraq. And speaking of Iraq, Gibson thinks Rove deserves a fucking medal for outing that CIA agent. And, like any good reporter, he wanted to burn the Florida ballots after his buddy Bush got "elected" rather than, I don't know, count them? "Is this a case where knowing the facts actually would be worse than not knowing?" That right there is why sometimes it's useful for journalists to go to, what do you call that fucking place? Oh yeah, journalism school.

And now he's all worked up about Christmas being stolen. What is this, the fucking Fairytale Network? It's a national fucking holiday and we're spending gobs of our hard-earned tax dollars on wreaths and lights for your special Santa day. But these bastards are all "But they call them Holiday trees!" Here's a clue: no, they fucking don't. Ok, maybe in a couple places, like on FOXNews.com and at the White House, but if Christmas is under attack, I'm Kris fucking Kringle.

And guess who's stealing Christmas, according to Gibson. Go on -- guess. "A cabal of secularists, so-called humanists, trial lawyers, cultural relativists, and liberal, guilt-wra

Oh man, fuck Christmas.

Seriously - are you kidding me with this "There's a war on Christmas" bullshit? FOX News wasn't raking in enough cash already from all the Christmas commercials for Kill 'em All Barbie and Girls Gone Wild Brand Toddler Gear ? They had to start publishing books about some bogus attack on Christianity? And who did they pick to lead this particular charge?

John fucking Gibson. This guy has wiener written all over him.

Bill O'Reilly gets all the credit as the biggest nutcase in FOXville, but Gibson really deserves his own special wing in the happy house. This motherfucker's embedded assignment reads "Up Karl Rove's ass."

What makes him such a dick? I mean, besides making a fortune by screaming hysterically about how oppressed Christians are by the other twenty percent? How about advocating bombing countries that don't vote the way we want in their own elections? Way to encourage democracy, fuckhead. And maybe he was kidding when he wished, on air, that the French had gotten the 2012 Olympics instead of the Brits so the terrorists would "blow up Paris," but it might have been just a touch over the top to call for it again on the day of the London train bombings. Classy move, asshole.

And really? That's just scratching the fucking surface. Anyone remember who was responsible for the bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City? John does: Iraq. And speaking of Iraq, Gibson thinks Rove deserves a fucking medal for outing that CIA agent. And, like any good reporter, he wanted to burn the Florida ballots after his buddy Bush got "elected" rather than, I don't know, count them? "Is this a case where knowing the facts actually would be worse than not knowing?" That right there is why sometimes it's useful for journalists to go to, what do you call that fucking place? Oh yeah, journalism school.

And now he's all worked up about Christmas being stolen. What is this, the fucking Fairytale Network? It's a national fucking holiday and we're spending gobs of our hard-earned tax dollars on wreaths and lights for your special Santa day. But these bastards are all "But they call them Holiday trees!" Here's a clue: no, they fucking don't. Ok, maybe in a couple places, like on FOXNews.com and at the White House, but if Christmas is under attack, I'm Kris fucking Kringle.

And guess who's stealing Christmas, according to Gibson. Go on -- guess. "A cabal of secularists, so-called humanists, trial lawyers, cultural relativists, and liberal, guilt-wra

Oh man, fuck Christmas.

Seriously - are you kidding me with this "There's a war on Christmas" bullshit? FOX News wasn't raking in enough cash already from all the Christmas commercials for Kill 'em All Barbie and Girls Gone Wild Brand Toddler Gear ? They had to start publishing books about some bogus attack on Christianity? And who did they pick to lead this particular charge?

John fucking Gibson. This guy has wiener written all over him.

Bill O'Reilly gets all the credit as the biggest nutcase in FOXville, but Gibson really deserves his own special wing in the happy house. This motherfucker's embedded assignment reads "Up Karl Rove's ass."

What makes him such a dick? I mean, besides making a fortune by screaming hysterically about how oppressed Christians are by the other twenty percent? How about advocating bombing countries that don't vote the way we want in their own elections? Way to encourage democracy, fuckhead. And maybe he was kidding when he wished, on air, that the French had gotten the 2012 Olympics instead of the Brits so the terrorists would "blow up Paris," but it might have been just a touch over the top to call for it again on the day of the London train bombings. Classy move, asshole.

And really? That's just scratching the fucking surface. Anyone remember who was responsible for the bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City? John does: Iraq. And speaking of Iraq, Gibson thinks Rove deserves a fucking medal for outing that CIA agent. And, like any good reporter, he wanted to burn the Florida ballots after his buddy Bush got "elected" rather than, I don't know, count them? "Is this a case where knowing the facts actually would be worse than not knowing?" That right there is why sometimes it's useful for journalists to go to, what do you call that fucking place? Oh yeah, journalism school.

And now he's all worked up about Christmas being stolen. What is this, the fucking Fairytale Network? It's a national fucking holiday and we're spending gobs of our hard-earned tax dollars on wreaths and lights for your special Santa day. But these bastards are all "But they call them Holiday trees!" Here's a clue: no, they fucking don't. Ok, maybe in a couple places, like on FOXNews.com and at the White House, but if Christmas is under attack, I'm Kris fucking Kringle.

And guess who's stealing Christmas, according to Gibson. Go on -- guess. "A cabal of secularists, so-called humanists, trial lawyers, cultural relativists, and liberal, guilt-wra

Oh man, fuck Christmas.

Seriously - are you kidding me with this "There's a war on Christmas" bullshit? FOX News wasn't raking in enough cash already from all the Christmas commercials for Kill 'em All Barbie and Girls Gone Wild Brand Toddler Gear ? They had to start publishing books about some bogus attack on Christianity? And who did they pick to lead this particular charge?

John fucking Gibson. This guy has wiener written all over him.

Bill O'Reilly gets all the credit as the biggest nutcase in FOXville, but Gibson really deserves his own special wing in the happy house. This motherfucker's embedded assignment reads "Up Karl Rove's ass."

What makes him such a dick? I mean, besides making a fortune by screaming hysterically about how oppressed Christians are by the other twenty percent? How about advocating bombing countries that don't vote the way we want in their own elections? Way to encourage democracy, fuckhead. And maybe he was kidding when he wished, on air, that the French had gotten the 2012 Olympics instead of the Brits so the terrorists would "blow up Paris," but it might have been just a touch over the top to call for it again on the day of the London train bombings. Classy move, asshole.

And really? That's just scratching the fucking surface. Anyone remember who was responsible for the bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City? John does: Iraq. And speaking of Iraq, Gibson thinks Rove deserves a fucking medal for outing that CIA agent. And, like any good reporter, he wanted to burn the Florida ballots after his buddy Bush got "elected" rather than, I don't know, count them? "Is this a case where knowing the facts actually would be worse than not knowing?" That right there is why sometimes it's useful for journalists to go to, what do you call that fucking place? Oh yeah, journalism school.

And now he's all worked up about Christmas being stolen. What is this, the fucking Fairytale Network? It's a national fucking holiday and we're spending gobs of our hard-earned tax dollars on wreaths and lights for your special Santa day. But these bastards are all "But they call them Holiday trees!" Here's a clue: no, they fucking don't. Ok, maybe in a couple places, like on FOXNews.com and at the White House, but if Christmas is under attack, I'm Kris fucking Kringle.

And guess who's stealing Christmas, according to Gibson. Go on -- guess. "A cabal of secularists, so-called humanists, trial lawyers, cultural relativists, and liberal, guilt-wra

MediaMatters.org just launched a redesign in which they use some hairy javascript code that parses the DOM's visible and invisible fields to populate their autosuggest: http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/media_person alities

Well said... You can always peg a Rushbot/O'Reillybot inside of 5 seconds when they unleash an uninformed and simplistic statement about the ACLU. O'Reilly and his ilk are successful because they manipulate the uninformed. The best way to do this is through the creation of "enemies"... the ACLU... George Soros and his "War on Christmas"...etc.

Our most imperious and grandiose asshat, Herr Seigenthaler Sr., seeks to discredit Wiki and other "open" and "user supported" knowledge portals.

Why?
Because some asshat posted some obvious bullshit about him on Wiki.
Hmmm... Haven't we (those of us that use the internet) figured out by now that the internet is a place that will never be locked down and 100% verifiable, like the way (ahem... let me clear my throat first...) Our Shining Light of Truth and Beauty, our oh so un-biased and abso-motherfucking-lutley truthful Broadcast Media are?

If our most imperious and grandiose asshat, Herr Seigenthaler Sr had half a fucking brain, he would have either had Wiki remove/correct the offending and incorrect information, or joined Wiki and removed it himself.

And if Tony Blankley if and the Washington Times say so, it must be true.

> "It is impossible for the Democrats to stop anything in the House."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster
> Nice try though, playing the victim. You are perfect Democrat material.

who the parent up as insightful??

first of all, the filibuster is only in the house, one of the US's 2 legislative bodies. the article was about a vote in the House, not the senate.

secondly, the Republicans can take away the filibuster in what the *Republicans* called the Nuclear Option http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option_(filib uster)

I emphasized the "Republicans* in the previous sentence because a Republican came up with the term..."Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), one of the proposal's leading advocates, coined the term before Republican strategists judged it a liability and urged Senate Republicans to adopt the term "constitutional option" instead."

More info at
http://mediamatters.org/items/200505180006

O'Reilly is not civil. he's a thug and bully who has to get his own way and be seen to "win" every argument on his show and can't stand it when someone stands up to him.
one word to sort this problem out: falafel.
BTW just about any day on http://mediamatters.org/ will point out his outrageous statements. sharp and civil it ain't, unless we're using very differnt definitions of the word.

http://mediamatters.org/

Overly Critical Guy wrote:
> For the record, all my liberal friends tell me constantly that Fox News is
> oh-so-biased and CNN is oh-so-great, without EVER citing a single example for
> either case. It's just become conventional wisdom for them without question.

So, for the record, 1) you choose to associate yourself with people who don't support their positions with evidence, and 2) rather than do any research, you prefer to post comments to a blog? This doesn't reflect well on you.

987 search results for "fox news channel" at Media Matters. Start reading.
http://mediamatters.org/archives/search.html?topic =FOX%20News%20Channel