Fox News focuses on coverage which manufactures phoney scandals to distract viewers from real issues, like the loss of manufacturing jobs to the Third World, the widening income gap between rich and poor, reforming the tax code, corruption in Washington, the dangers of Unrestricted funding for PAC's.
Instead it's Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and IRS. And the constant denigration of the working poor. The right's favourite target are the working poor. All to deflect attention from the ongoing transfer of wealth to the top individuals and corporations, which is facilitated by the current tax codes.
If you keep people agitated and angry, they don't think as clearly.
You clearly do not watch Fox. Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS etc....were the main topics for months.
Umm.... that was the point she was making.
Those were important topics and people should've been jailed, or at least fired over them, including Hillary Clinton.
Yes they were important topics and I agree people should be held accountable, but the mainstream news doesn't think it's even important to report on at all, but Fox also reported on the topics that Dragonlady seems to think that they did not cover when they have.
My point was that Fox still hasn't let up on these so-called scandals. I guess they really had nothing they could use to discredit Obama sufficiently, so they started making stuff up. Until "If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance", they really didn't have much on Obama, so they started making stuff up. That the conservatives here think there really is something to these things shows how successful Fox has been in its scandal-mongering. The mainstream media gave these stories the level of coverage they deserved and moved on.
There have been numerous investigations of Benghazi, 7 in total, plus 13 hearings. The cost of just the House Intelligence Committee hearing was $3 million. There was one done only by Republicans because the Democrats refusing to participate, and they all said the same thing:
1. There was no cover-up.
2. There was no "stand down" order.
3. Yes, mistakes were made, but there was no conspiracy, and the information given the American public was reflective of the confusing intelligence reports at the time.
No one should be fired or arrested. But Fox news continues to be absolutely deranged on the topic. It has barely mentioned the findings in the reports because none of them agree with the official Fox position which is that is the biggest scandal of Obama's Presidency.
). Like the TM story, they eventually got it right, but nobody cared. However unlike Dan, I miss my dog.
