OK, here is an article from the Texas Freedom Network.
http://tfninsider.org/2012/04/03/a-new- ... -fox-news/
OK, here's some more! This just keeps on getting better all the time.A New Low for Fox News
By Dan | Published April 3, 2012
Media Matters reports that Fox News anchor Heather Childers today used her Twitter account to promote a bizarre birther conspiracy theory that, during the 2008 presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obamaâ??s campaign threatened to have Chelsea Clinton murdered. The â??threatâ? to have Chelsea rubbed out was allegedly part of an effort to keep Bill and Hillary Clinton from â??going publicâ? with information showing that Obama wasnâ??t born in the United States.
You might recall how Fox News helped far-right activists hijack the revision of curriculum standards in Texas in 2009-10. The so-called â??fair and balancedâ? network actually attacked Texas Freedom Network Kathy Miller at the time, broadcasting photographs of her and two others under the caption â??Textbook Troublemakers.â? One right-wing Texas State Board of Education member made a public point of treating Fox News reporters with cookies at one meeting during the curriculum debate.
UPDATE: Gadfly Donna â??Jeffrey Dahmer Believed in Evolutionâ? Garner, who supported the right-wing hijacking of the Texas curriculum standards, is promoting this same kooky Obama-threatened-to-kill-Chelsea conspiracy. Birds of a featherâ?¦
Don't ya just love it!
Here's another article from MEDIAMATTERS FOR AMERICA
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201204030011
Oh! This is good!
UPDATED: Fox Senior VP: Fox Anchor Knows Obama
Conspiracy Tweets Were "A Mistake"
April 03, 2012 3:45 pm ET by Eric Hananoki
UPDATE: In a statement to Mediaite, Fox News senior vice president for news Michael Clemente said, "The tweets have been addressed with Heather and she understands this was a mistake."
Heather Childers, a "straight news" anchor for the Fox News weekend program America's News Headquarters and co-host of Fox & Friends First, tweeted this afternoon: "Thoughts? Did Obama Campaign Threaten Chelsea Clinton's Life 2 Keep Parents Silent?" and linked to a blog post pushing a conspiracy involving the Obama campaign murdering, or threatening to murder, individuals to keep quiet questions about Obama's eligibility.
From Childers' Twitter:
Childers tweeted a post from godfatherpolitics.com by "da Tagliare," who asks in the title, "Did Barack Obama Campaign Threaten Life of Chelsea Clinton to Keep Parents Silent on Obama's Ineligibility?" The post passes on suggestions from film producer Bettina Viviano about Obama associates threatening individuals to hide secrets about Obama's eligibility. The post also forwards suggestions that the Obama campaign was involved in the murder of former head of the Arkansas Democratic Party, Bill Gwatney; threatened President Clinton; and "told him that his daughter Chelsea would be next if he opened his mouth."
Godfatherpolitics.com has declared that President Obama's birth certificate is a "fraud." Recent posts on the subject include: "World Media Picking Up Obama Birth Certificate Fraud While America's Media Remains Silent"; "Mr. President - Put Up or Shut Up!"; and "Alabama Supreme Court Justice Says Barack Obama Birth Certificate Would Not Stand Up in Court."
In response to a critical tweet from Media Matters executive vice president Ari Rabin-Havt, Childers wrote: "I know Media Matters strives 2b FACTUALLY correct so attach the article plz. I was asking 4 opinion." She did not respond to an email asking why she thought the blog post was noteworthy, and whether she thought it made any valid points. When I tweeted to Childers that I sent her a request for comment via email, Childers replied with the same tweet she sent to Rabin-Havt.
Childers has since deleted her tweets responding to Media Matters staff. A screenshot of Childers' Twitter timeline, taken at 2:34pm E.T.:
Childers subsequently tweeted at 3:30pm E.T.: "My ONE question, "Thoughts?".. article headline... which happens to be a question. Here: http://godfatherpolitics.com/4506/obama-campaign-threaten-life-of-chelsea-clinton-to-keep-parents-silent-on-obamas-ineligibility/#.T3sutNslxbU.twitter"
A screenshot of Childers' Twitter response to me, via an email from Twitter:
UPDATE: After the publication of this post, Childers tweeted that Fox anchors "present both sides but people see what they want." She concluded: "Here's the thing folks... that ONE topic sure got alot [sic] of you tweeting. Why? I apologize if the article offended anyone. Very interesting." From Childers' Twitter:
Yeah! Well . . . . . too late ya little bimbo!Childers has since deleted her tweets responding to Media Matters staff.
Everything you have posted has been copied and saved somewhere on the Internet.
Sorry, but you cant un-ring a bell, and you cant put the toothpaste back into the tube!
OK, here's another article from Texas Freedom Network
http://tfninsider.org/2011/01/03/how-fo ... urriculum/
How Fox News Helped Hijack TX Curriculum
By Dan | Published January 3, 2011
The Austin American-Statesman has published a list of PolitiFact Texas articles that drew the most reader interest in 2010. Number Five on the list is a piece early in the year about Fox News co-anchor Gretchen Carlson telling viewers that the Texas State Board of Education was considering the removal of Christmas and the Constitution from social studies textbooks. PolitiFact rated that claim as a Pants on Fire lie. And it was.
TFN Insider reported about the grossly inaccurate and biased coverage Fox News gave to the state boardâ??s debate over new social studies curriculum standards. In fact, Foxâ??s coverage was so riddled with mistruths that the Texas Education Agency â?? headed by an appointee of Republican Gov. Rick Perry â?? issued a sharply worded press release criticizing the networkâ??s â??reporting.â? The so-called â??fair and balancedâ? network even aired a graphic labeling Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller a â??textbook troublemaker.â?
Truth is, Fox News practically became an active participant â?? and propaganda tool â?? in right-wing efforts to politicize classrooms very early in the social studies debate. In July 2009, two of the networkâ??s â??newsâ? personalities reported essentially as fact a laundry list of distortions about how school textbooks cover topics ranging from Christianity to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Far-right pressure groups used those absurd charges to raise money and skew the social studies debate in Texas.
So we thought it was worth reminding TFN Insider readers that independent sources like PolitiFact are also showing how Fox News has misled viewers, helping activists on the far right hijack the public school curriculum to promote a divisive political agenda. TFNâ??s Just Educate campaign is working to protect classrooms from political agendas by reforming the State Board of Education. Please help by joining that campaign today.
OK, here's some more from Texas Freedom Network.
http://tfninsider.org/2010/05/18/fox-ne ... -balanced/
I know this is old news.
Notice: I uploaded the above image to my Photobucket account to re-size it because it was too big otherwiseFox News: â??Fair and Balancedâ???
By Dan | Published May 18, 2010
Weâ??re not sure when Fox News used this graphic, but we saw it for the first time yesterday. We had heard Fox commentators referred to Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller â?? on the air â?? as a â??troublemakerâ? back in March. Fox sent three news teams to Austin that month to cover the State Board of Educationâ??s debate over proposed social studies curriculum standards.
Kathy and the two other people in the graphic â?? Steven Schafersman of Texas Citizens for Science and Steven Green, a law professor and director of the Center for Religion, Law and Democracy at Willamette University in Oregon â?? have been outspoken critics of the state boardâ??s politicized revision of the curriculum standards.
Distorting whatâ??s really happening in the Texas curriculum debate, Fox regularly features â?? and fawns over â?? spokespeople from far-right pressure groups that support the boardâ??s shredding of standards that teachers and scholars spent nearly a year carefully crafting. The resulting standards are ridiculously bloated and heavily politicized. But Fox labels critics of the board as â??troublemakers.â?
Fox also bills its news as â??fair and balanced.â?
Really?
UPDATE: Yep, itâ??s a real Fox News graphic. It appeared in a piece that aired March 9.
Oh WOW! So, those of us who support education and wish to set higher standards for science education in our public schools, we are now called "trouble makers".
Now I understand the bullying I received in school when I was a kid.
Yeah! When I was a kid in school, I guess I must have been a "trouble maker" because I read too many books on astronomy, unlike those "good kids" who preferred to participate in sports and beat up on the science nerds and techno-geeks!
I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts and lay you 10 to 1 odds that all these right-wing whack-jobs you see on FOX NEWS and in the Republican party were the school yard bullies who beat up on the other kids, and disrupted the classrooms throwing spit-wads and paper footballs.
Yeah! You can make book on that!
OK, one more article from Texas Freedom Network.
http://tfninsider.org/2009/02/02/jeffre ... evolution/
Well . . . . . since this was and old article from February 2,2009 the link to Ms. Garner's E-mail is now defunct.â??Jeffrey Dahmer Believed in Evolutionâ??
By Dan | Published February 2, 2009
The header above is from the subject line of a wild-eyed screed sent circulating around the Internets this past weekend by Donna Garner, a former language arts teacher in Central Texas. Social conservatives on the Texas State Board of Education seem to think Ms. Garner is some kind of curriculum guru. (Never mind that most other folks see her as little more than a right-wing gadfly with an e-mail list.)
Last year Ms. Garner helped the boardâ??s far-right faction (led by board chairman Don McLeroy) derail a more than two-year process revising the stateâ??s language arts curriculum standards. Now she seems to have turned her attention to evolution and proposed science curriculum standards. The e-mail criticizes the state board for giving tentative approval last month to new standards that donâ??t require students to learn phony â??weaknessesâ? of evolution. It mocks three Republican board members, in particular, each of whom voted to keep the â??weaknessesâ? requirement out of the standards. They â??all claim to be conservative Republicans,â? the e-mail sneeringly states. One of the three, Bob Craig of Lubbock, the e-mail notes, â??says heâ??s a â??strong Christian.â??â? And on it goes. (Will any of Ms. Garnerâ??s far-right friends on the board denounce these snide remarks about their fellow board members? Weâ??re not holding our breath.)
Ms. Garner also pretends to know something about science, going on about the difference between â??micro-evolutionâ? and â??macro-evolutionâ? and listing â??weaknessesâ? of evolution (the Cambrian explosion, gaps in the fossil record, yadda yadda yadda). Itâ??s all standard pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo that evolution deniers have been using to try to water down science education in our kidsâ?? classrooms.
But the real kicker comes at the end, when the depth of loathing for evolution and science becomes crystal clear:
This quote has been making the rounds for years in evangelical circles. In fact, Dahmer seems to have proclaimed himself a born-again Christian after his father sent him evangelical materials in prison.Jeffrey Dahmer, one of Americaâ??s most infamous serial killers who cannibalized more than 17 boys before being captured, gave an [sic] last interview with Dateline NBC nine months before his death, and he said the following about why he acted as he did: â??If a person doesnâ??t think that there is a God to be accountable to, then whatâ??s the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? Thatâ??s how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we died, you know, that was it, there was nothingâ?¦.â? (Dateline NBC, The Final Interview, Nov. 29, 1994).
In any case, the e-mail clearly suggests that people who accept the science of evolution are atheists: â??The atheists are winning in Texas.â? Thatâ??s insulting enough for people of faith who see no conflict with science. But what else is Ms. Garner trying to say here with the story about Dahmer? That weâ??re responsible for serial murderers like him? Or worse, that weâ??re all potential cannibalistic murderers ourselves because we accept the science of evolution?
This is repulsive stuff. So what else is new? Remember what Ben Stein (of the anti-evolution movie Expelled) said last year:
Sickening, yes?Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
Itâ??s time for Chairman McLeroy and his fellow board members to come clean. Do they agree with Ms. Garner and approve of the kind of repulsive and shameful rhetoric being used to attack those who donâ??t share her particular religious views? We really want to know.
UPDATE: Correction. Ms. Garner forwarded the original e-mail referenced above, with her own apparent additions marked in red (including the quote from Dahmer). Who signed and apparently wrote the original? Kelly Coghlan, a Houston attorney who wrote the so-called â??Religious Viewpoints Anti-Discrimination Actâ? that the Texas Legislature passed in 2007. That legislation, HB 3678, allows students to turn public school events into opportunities to evangelize. Read more about it here and here. Coghlanâ??s e-mail includes information and links from the creationist Texans for Better Science Education. In any case, whether or not Garner wrote the original e-mail, she amended and forwarded it to her list. Now what do board members have to say?
OK, so what if Jeffrey Dahmer might have believed in Darwin's Evolution! Does that really mean that Darwin's Evolution was the cause of him being cannibalistic?
He probably also believed in Newton's Laws of Gravity, so, should we blame Newtonian physics for Jeffery Dahmer's serial murder spree?
If were going to start blaming scientific theories and/or inventions for all kinds of crimes, then we might as well blame all of science and all inventions for all the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler.
Yeah! Let's blame the Wright Brothers because the invention of the airplane made it possible to fly over cities and drop bombs on them.
Let's blame Isaac Newton, because his laws of motion made it mathematically possible to more accurately calculate the flight paths of projectiles thereby also making it possible for the Germans to launch their missiles to bomb England.
And while we're at it, let's also blame the inventor of the steam engine, because it made it possible to build the locomotives and the railroads in which millions of people were taken to the concentration camps.
Oh! Lets blame the invention of hammers and nails, bricks and mortar, for making it possible to build the concentration camps.
NO! And again I say NO! Absolutely NO!
Scientific theories and inventions are not the cause, or the blame.
People are the cause of murders and atrocities.
You can use a hammer to build a house, or crush a skull.
If somebody is killed by a hammer, it's not the hammer's fault. That's magical thinking!
It's the fault of the person using the hammer. He could have just as easily used a rock, or a wooden club.
Of course, if one believes that God created trees from which wooden clubs can be made, then, let's blame God for creating trees and people getting killed by wooden clubs made from said trees! OK?
YEAH! GOD IS TO BLAME!
Uh huh! That's the ticket!
God started this mess by creating stuff in the first place! Right? RIGHT!!!
OK, now can you all see how ridicules this is?
Actually, if you were to read through out the BUY-BULL, God had killed, or allowed the killing, or authorized the killing of millions of people.
Satan only killed 10 people, as in the Book of Job, but even then, he could only do it with God's permission.
So, who's the real bad guy in this long drawn out fairy tale? Eh?
Yeah! We can just keep on playing The Blame Game until the proverbial cows come home!
OK, getting back on topic again . . . . .
This is suppose to be about how FOX NEWS keeps sinking down to ever lower depths.
It seems that all these right-wing retards have the proverbial bug up their collective ass because America had elected the first black President.
But of course, they know that they can't attack Obama on racial grounds, because that would be much too obvious, and would certainly discredit them, even more than they are already discredited now.
So, instead, they invent other reasons to attack Obama, knowing full well that they can't play the race card card anymore.
Actually, there are fewer and fewer cards they can play now, so, none of these right-wing wackozoids are packing a full deck. They never were.
Sorry! But the casino is now closed! The house wins and you all lose!
Yeah! Uh uh! You all FAIL!!!
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
