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Fox News' Doocy failed to challenge Romney's false claim that Rezko "financed [Obama's] house"
Summary: On Fox & Friends, Mitt Romney falsely asserted that Antoin Rezko "financed [Sen. Barack Obama's] house," a claim that Steve Doocy did not challenge. In fact, the Obamas established a land trust to purchase the property and took out a $1.32 million mortgage on the home, financed through the Northern Trust Co.
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Posted by dbeden4153
Steve Doocy fails at life ;)
But really, anyone else here hear about the "fake" story that Fox & Friends peddled into a slander lawsuit in the state of Maine? It was thrown out because they couldn't prove malicious intent, but the judge called F&F something like "unprofessional and gullible."
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 5:55:21 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wzwriter in reply to dbeden4153
Here's a link. Fox & Friends reported a parody story as true, and wound up being sued as a result:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jm5fuAMctHaGbZZ8X8MJo_VOqvuAD913E7S00
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 6:11:35 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by captfoster2 in reply to dbeden4153
Last night Olbermann reported that a judge in Maine called the Fox and Friends crew a seriously inept group. I guess there was some lawsuit?
I don't know all the details but this is quite funny!
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 10:17:13 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by captfoster2 in reply to captfoster2
Ah..... missed the offered link above on the F&F lawsuit.......
Thanks
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 10:18:41 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by IRONY 101
I often wonder how people who watch FOX exclusively or who are affiliated with FOX can purport to speak so authoratatively about what the so-called MSM does or does not report. I certainly didn't learn of the Rezco conviction from FOX. And if there was any impropriety on the part of Barack Obama with respect to Antoin Rezco why hasn't FOX investigated it and reported its findings? No, instead FOX tells its moronic listeners about how the MSM is not reporting on a certain even while FOX itself can't find the energy to conduct an investigation of the improprietits that they suggest occurred.
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 7:23:09 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by captfoster2 in reply to IRONY 101
IRONY,
How dare you point out the fact that FOX Noise is nothing more than a mouth piece of the corporate Republican party and that they have no credibility what so ever! Never did and never will!
Do you hate America or something?
You must be a frinken liberal?
You must hate the troops?
You must want whoever our enemies are to win!
; )-
Talking like a right-winger is NOT fun.
Posted Friday June 6, 2008 7:52:24 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wzwriter in reply to captfoster2
Talking like a right-winger is NOT fun.
But it DOES give your brain a few minutes off.... :-)
Posted Friday June 6, 2008 8:34:07 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by princeofwheels in reply to wzwriter
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Posted by nerzog
The fact that we keep hearing these chicken-sh*t charges against Obama leads me to believe that they really don't have anything on him. I could be wrong, though.... maybe they're holding it for after the convention.
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 7:38:11 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by my4cents1172 in reply to nerzog
Spending hours in the car on my commute (in Boston), there is no 'talk' choice at all. All the available bandwidth is occupied by either Rush or his wannabees.
The only agenda these talk radio guys seem to push is Republic Talking Points, repeat irrelevant, illogical, insane points ENDLESSLY about Democrats and make it seem like they matter to the electorate and to the general election.
A new phenomenon here these days is that one host guest-invites the other and they both kiss each others you-know-what and have a 'Democrat'-hatefest. Any caller that lasts more than half a minute is invariably kissing their collective a$$es too.
These talk radio host are like pests and a pesticide is very much needed.
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 10:12:09 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by pete592 in reply to my4cents1172
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Posted by anotheramerican in reply to my4cents1172
my,
Get xm. It is great. Right wing talk next to Air America on the dial plus lots more.
Posted Friday June 6, 2008 1:31:41 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by oscar the grouch
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Posted by watershed
I will never forget when Stephen Colbert introduced a video segment on Doocy with "Jimmy? Pinch me off a Dooce." That's still my favorite Colbert line.
Also, "The friendly friends over at Fox and Friends."
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 8:26:36 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by hurricaneyankee52983
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 10:21:06 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Science101 in reply to hurricaneyankee52983
How funny, and I'd like to see your proof on that.
If it were true, people with the likes of HRC, McClelland, Gay/Lesbian advocates, and Phil Donahue wouldn't even do interviews/shows on the network.
Their opinion shows - OReilly, H&C, etc may lean to a direction, but you are spewing hivemind, liberal conspiracy BS.
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 10:53:18 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by pete592 in reply to Science101
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Posted by heru in reply to Science101
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Posted by wzwriter in reply to heru
I've been waiting for a year for Christopher Columbus to say something that makes sense. Still waiting.
You could wait until hell freexes over - unless he realizes that everything he thinks is right is wrong, Columbus will NEVER say anything that makes sense.
Posted Friday June 6, 2008 8:35:58 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by anotheramerican in reply to heru
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Posted by eweston8542983 in reply to anotheramerican
Not if you keep putting up straight lines like that.
Steady fingers steady.....Whew!
Actually you are fully a part of the discourse you bemoan.
Posted Friday June 6, 2008 2:10:20 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wolf kotenberg
Posted Thursday June 5, 2008 11:59:34 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by eweston8542983
In fall 2003, former FOX producer and writer Charles Reina weighed in publicly on FOX's journalistic ethics, posting a long comment on the widely read insider media news web log editied by th Ponyter Institute's Jim Romenesko.
Not once in the 20 plus years I had worked in broadcast journalism pior to Fox--including lenthy stays at the Associated Press,CBS radio, and ABC/Good Morning America---did I feel any pressure to toe the management line. But at Fox,if my boss wasn't warning me to "be careful" how I handled the writing of a special about Ronald Reagan("You know how Roger(Ailes) feels about him"),he was telling me how the the envirenmental special I was to produce should lean("You can give both sides,but make sure the pro-envirenmentalists don't get the last word").
But the roots of FNC's[FOX News Channel's] day-to-day on-air bias are actual and direct. They come in the form of an executive memo distributed electronically each morning, adressing what stories will be covered and often,suggesting how they should be covered...The memo was born with the Bush administration, eary in 2001,and,intentionally or not has ensured that the administration's point of view consistently comes accross on FNC.
From The Republican Noise Machine, by guess who?
Posted Friday June 6, 2008 1:25:59 AM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by snoopy in reply to wolf kotenberg
Here, for your viewing enjoyment, fox news memos!
Nov 14, 2006
and another...
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Posted by marklweb2553
Doocy and the Fox and Friends show are really a disgrace. Romney clearly doesn't know the facts of the Obama home purchase transaction and any good journalist would have called him on that fact.
The Obama house purchase was a "boneheaded" mistake by Obama, which he readily admits. Rezko knew Obama was interested in buying the house, but it sat on a double lot and was going to cost $1.9 million to purchase. Neither Rezko nor Obama had the financing to buy the double-lot.
Iraqi-British billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, who was convicted of corruption in France in 2003, was interested in investing in Rezko's Chicago pizzeria business. Rezko arranged a deal with Auchi, where Auchi provided financing to Rezko's wife to buy the double lot, Auchi would donate $10,000 to Obama's Senate campaign, and Rezko would use his Chicago political connections to get approval of Auchi's pizzeria investment. There's a good chance that Rezko even met with Obama in Auchi's presence, as this was Rezko's m.o. for proving to investors and developers that he had political clout. There's no evidence Obama knew anything about the deal between Auchi and Rezko.
Rezko's wife split the double-lot and sold the house to Obama, at a substantial discount. She also later deeded a small strip of land to allow the Obama's to complete some backyard improvements. These were the bone-headed mistakes, because Obama should have known that he was being offered a substantial discount on the home purchase and small strip of later-deeded land.
Obama was not the only politician caught up in the Rezko mess (in fact, it was the Illinois governor who was involved in the transactions that led to Rezko's convictions). Moreover, hearsay evidence at the trial suggested that Rezko claimed he could have Karl Rove fire a federal prosecutor to assist one of his developer/investor associates.
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