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Fox, "fair and balanced" in their own special way
by kos
Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 11:38:47 AM PDT

Funny.

On more than one occasion, I worked with Fox News producers and reporters. Once, in Herat, I saw one of the Foxholes approached by a couple of soldiers. One of the soldiers said he was glad they could finally talk to a "conservative" reporter. The reporter laughed and said, "Someone's got to balance out the liberals." But, later, I ran into that same reporter in Bagram. He wanted an interview with some soldiers and, when I grabbed one at random to ask if he wanted to talk to Fox News, the soldier--an Army captain--said he didn't, because, as a Democrat, he wasn't a fan of the network's politics. The reporter, shaken up, said that was ridiculous. The network had no politics, but only told the truth. "Whatever," said the captain and walked off. The reporter, after a few beats narrowed his eyes at the soldier's back and quietly hissed, motherfucker.

Just before Thanksgiving, 2004, a Fox News producer with whom I'd worked a number of times in Kabul and Bagram showed up on Bagram Air Field to shoot what military PA people call "Hi Moms"--the little snippets of video of service members saying "I'm Corporal Bill Jones from Paducah, Kentucky and I want to say 'Happy Thanksgiving' to my wife, Sheila and my parents Don and Lorraine in Louisville." I was confused about why he would be doing this. My unit--and every PA unit--shot hundreds of these every year for holidays, the Super Bowl, the Army/Navy game, etc., and provided them free of charge to all who asked for them. When I asked the producer why he had come, he said he'd had the same question when he was told that he should know better. It was "part of (his) contract," he said, to get on his knees "and give Bush a blowjob" every month or so.

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Hey, the Demo's are getting some good work done:

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Democrats: Restoring Accountability One Bill At A Time
By: SilentPatriot on Saturday, March 17th, 2007

The Democrats are proving they can multitask with the best of them. While our attention has been drawn toward countless scandals, hearings and investigations, Congress has been hard at work restoring accountability and transparency to our government.

Here is a list. Go

here to read a little blurb about each one

The Gavel

H.R. 1309 - The Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007

H.R. 1255 – Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007

H.R. 1254 - Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 2007

H.R. 985 - Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2007

H.R. 1362 - The Accountability in Contracting Act

Fox helped put W in power and it's their duty to keep him groomed. As to the Dems - the House's been doing a whole lot of good work (how much will get through the Senate, much less over W's veto is another matter), and being largely ignored by the progressives hopping up and down about impeachment or Iraq. But then, slogging through the treacle trying to get out of Iraq is what is allowing the Dems to do the other stuff under the radar. Otherwise, Fox would lead the MSM to denouncing the traitorous work of the Dems in trying to get our constitutional rights back.