Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Obama Spokesman Bill Burton Justifiably Calls Out Wickedly Biased Fox News For Being John McCain’s Ministers Of Propaganda

I must commend Bill Burton, fighting back against the right-wing agenda of Fox News in doing everything within its power to rehabilitate the campaign of Sen. John McCain while while gleefully playing the role of obstructionists to history they detest: the possibility of Sen. Barack Obama putting a Democrat back in the White House and giving the United States of America its first black president. Burton stood strong on his opinions of Fox News blatant bias even as Megyn Kelly, who is in the tank for the Republican party, tried defiantly to shout him down as if he was some kind of disobedient slave. Burton maintained his composure even as Kelly ventured well beyond the bounds of professionalism and decency in “journalism” or the Fox News perversion of the once proud occupation.

Here is the statement Burton published that had Kelly throwing a kindergarten-type fit:
“This is a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain, who apparently decided to close out his campaign with the same false, desperate attacks that have failed for months.
In this seven year old interview, Senator Obama did not say that the
courts should get into the business of redistributing wealth at all. Americans know that the real choice in this election is between four more years of Bush-McCain policies that redistribute billions to billionaires and big corporations and Barack Obama’s plan to help the middle class by giving tax relief to 95% of workers and companies that create new jobs here in America. That’s the change we need, and no amount of eleventh-hour distractions from the McCain campaign will change that.”

Obama-Biden campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

It’s great to see the Democrats and independents beginning to call Fox News channel out on its blatant pro-McCain bias. Many independent-thinking Americans and Democrats in America are repulsed by the prime-time bias that sees hour after hour of Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren trashing the Democrats and promoting Republicans. We know that Fox and Friends gets the network off to a fast start in the morning with the freshest Republican talking points. What makes Fox News subpar is the fact that even its news anchors are buying into the Republican talking points and using them as weapons against their Democratic guests.

Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-orton/obama-continues-fox-news_b_138328.html

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