Re: 2 or 4 wire smoke detector question.


"Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You have to understand that Fox is not a
news network. They just make up most
of the crap they report.

Name something they made up

Since you asked...

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Here are just a few examples gleaned from the web at:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich8.html

I figured you weren't smart enough to make the accusation on your own, there
is a large difference between getting reports in error (which every network
does) and making stuff up

At least the stuff made up by your bud Dan Rather



"Keep in mind that in the first three weeks of March, before the bombs
started officially dropping, Fox was spreading all sorts of
Pentagon propaganda. Iraq had "drones" that it could quickly dispatch to
major U.S. metropolitan areas to spread biological agents.
Saddam was handing out chemical weapons to the Republican guard to use
against coalition troops in a last-ditch red-zone ring around
Baghdad. Given what we now know about Iraq, these reports seem to be
laughable fantasies, but they were effective in securing
public backing for the war. The following is a short chronicle of lies,
propagation of lies, exaggerations, distortions, spin, and
conjecture presented as fact. My comments are in brackets [ ]s."

March 14: On The Fox Report anchor Shepard Smith reports that Saddam is
planning to use flood water as a weapon by blowing up dams
and causing severe flood damage.

March 19: Fox anchor Shepard Smith reports that Iraqis are planning to
detonate large stores of napalm buried deep below the earth
to scorch coalition forces. Fox Military Analyst Major Bob Bevelacqua
states that coalition forces will drop a MOAB on Saddam's
bunker [!!] and give him the "Mother of All Sunburns."

[After my last article, one sniveling neocon after another wrote me to
tell me I was unqualified to assess defense matters because I
wasn't a "defense analyst" (never mind that the article wasn't on the war,
and the "real" defense experts made one wrong prediction
after another on this war). It's interesting how these sniveling
Frumsters cheer on the college-uneducated Hannity and Limbaugh
when they make defense analyses supporting the neocon view. I do know
enough to say that the informed Bevelacqua's suggestion that
a MOAB would be used on a bunker was puzzling to say the least (given the
reports of less-than-dazzling performance of daisy cutters
outside caves in Tora Bora). Anyway, later reports confirmed that GBU-28
bunker busters were used during The Decapitation That
Apparently Failed.]

March 23: The network begins 2 days of unequivocal assertions that a
100-acre facility discovered by coalition forces at An Najaf is
a chemical weapons plant. Much is made about the fact that it was booby
trapped. A former UN weapons inspector interviewed on
camera over the phone downplays the WMD allegations and says that
booby-trapping is common. His points are ignored as unequivocal
charges of a chemical weapons facility are made on Fox for yet another day
(March 24). Only weeks later is it briefly conceded that
the chemicals definitively detected at the facility were pesticides.

[Jennifer Eccleston has to be the worst reporter employed by any network.
She began one segment with a "Hi there!" ? in no response
to any segue from the relaying anchor at Fox headquarters in New York.
Her bangs are long and constantly blowing in her face in the
wind. Her head wobbles from side to side with her nose tracing out a
figure 8 all the while arbitrarily syncopating a monotone
voice with overemphasis on the last syllables of different words (e.g.,
Bagh-DAD?). The old, white-haired flag-waving yahoos like
her not for her professionalism ? she has none ? but because of her
innocent Britney Spearsesque beauty; i.e., she's a typical young
piece of meat which dirty old men with too much time on their hands
fantasize about.]

March 24: Oliver North reports that the staff at the French embassy in
Baghdad are destroying documents. [How could he know this?]

March 24: Fox and Friends. Anchor Juliet Huddy asks Colonel David hunt why
coalition forces don't "blow up" Al Jazeera TV. [The
context of the discussion makes it clear that she doesn't know the
difference between Al Jazeera and Iraqi TV!!!! Juliet Huddy is a
beautiful woman but not very bright.]

March 28: Repeated assertions by Fox News anchors of a red ring around
Baghdad in which Republican Guard forces were planning to
use chemical weapons on coalition forces. A Fox "Breaking News" flash
reports that Iraqi soldiers were seen by coalition forces
moving 55-gallon drums almost certainly containing chemical agents.

April 7: Fox, echoing NPR, reports that U.S. forces near Baghdad have
discovered a weapons cache of 20 medium-range missiles
containing sarin and mustard gas. Initial tests show that the deadly
chemicals are not "trace elements."

[In the coming weeks, this embarrassing non-discovery is quickly stomped
down the Memory Hole. The missiles were never mentioned
again.]

April 9: The crowd around coalition troops toppling the Saddam statue in
Baghdad looks strangely sparse despite the network's
assertions to the contrary. The perspective is always in close and even
then there is no mob storming the statue to hit it with
their shoes. Just a handful of people. It's constantly asserted that
there's a huge crowd. [I'm perplexed. Where's the huge
crowd?!]

April 10: Fox "Breaking News" report of weapons-grade plutonium found at
Al Tuwaitha. [In the coming weeks this "discovery" was
expeditiously shoved down the Memory Hole as well.]

April 10 (2:59 EDT): A report noting with surprise "how little" the
Iraqis were celebrating the coalition invasion. [An
interesting contradiction of the allegations of widespread celebration
just the day before with the toppling of the Saddam statue.]

April 10 (3 p.m. EDT: Reporter Rick Leventhal) Fox "Breaking News"
report: A mobile bioweapons lab is found. Video of a tiny tan
truck?about the size of the smallest truck that U-Haul rents ? which had
its cargo bed and fuel tank shot up with bullets after a
looter tried to drive it away. Repeated assertions that this is most
definitely a "bioweapons" lab. A graphic sequence is shown of
a large Winnebago-type vehicle that is massive compared to the tiny truck
found. The irony of this escapes the Fox newscasters and
defense "experts."

[This was the first "bioweapons lab" found, not the larger one later found
in Mosul. A week later it is briefly conceded that the
tiny truck was probably never a bio weapons lab, but promises that real
ones will pour forth from the landscape continue. The
second phantom lab, a large tractor-trailer truck was discovered around
May 2 by Kurdish fighters.]

April 10: To show that France is in bed with Saddam Hussein, Fox begins
running old footage of Saddam Hussein's September 1975 trip
to Paris to meet with Jacques Chirac and tour a nuclear power plant.
[Because Fox strives so hard to be "Fair and Balanced," it's
all the more curious how it fails to inform its audience about another
trip four years later, this one to Baghdad on December 19,
1983 made by Reagan envoy and then former secretary of defense Donald
Rumsfeld (see pic below). The network again, because it's so
very "Fair and Balanced," also inexplicably forgot to tell its audience
about another trip by Rummy to Baghdad, this time on March
24, 1984, the very same day that a U.N. team found that Iraqi forces had
used mustard gas laced with a nerve agent on Iranian
soldiers. Rummy obviously wasn't too concerned about the charges of
gassing, as in 1986 when he was considering a run for the
Republican presidential nomination of 1988, he listed his restoration of
diplomatic relations with WMD-using Iraq as one of his
proudest achievements.

But all that's an eternity ago for Imperial Conservatives with a 20-second
attention span. The Fox newscasters rename Jacques
Chirac "Jacques Iraq"(yuk, yuk, yuk ? what a side splitter!) and keep
going.]

April 7: Repeated ominous footage of barrels buried in a below-ground
shed near Karbala. The implication is that the Iraqi
landscape is replete with these types of shelters, all of them brimming
with evidence of chemical weapons. [These were revealed to
be agricultural chemicals as well.]

April 13: Fox Graphic: "Bush: Syria Harboring Chemical Weapons."

[My favorite Fox war commentator is definitely Colonel David Hunt. From
my canvassing of all the cable network war coverage, it's
hard to find an analyst who is more dogmatic. When coalition forces weren
?t greeted with hugs and kisses like he predicted and
instead encountered stiff resistance from Iraqi forces in Basra and other
places, Davey was all denial. Everything?s going perfect.
Rummy is God, hallelujah and praise Dubya! There's not a problem in Iraq
that can't be solved by blowing some Iraqi's brains out.]

April 15: Fox analyst Mansoor Ijaz claims that the top 55 Iraqi leaders
(along with the whole stash of chemical and biological WMDs
they have taken with them) are now living it up in Latakia, Syria. [This
is the same 55 that appeared on the deck of cards and is
still being captured ? far from all living it up in Syria.] On The Fox
Report anchor Shepard Smith completely breaks with any
pretense of objectivity and openly mocks actor Tim Robbins after playing
an excerpt of Robbins' speech to the National Press Club.
"Oh, that was so powerful!" Smith mocked. [Impressive objectivity there,
Mr. Smith.]

April 16: Fred Barnes on Special Report with Brit Hume blames the looting
of the Iraqi National Museum on the museum staff. [Right
now there are so many claims and counterclaims about the looting it's hard
to tell what happened. In a Fox segment on May 19 a
coalition official asserted that 170,000 items were definitely not
missing. Of course he refused to give a ballpark estimate of
what was missing, which he'd surely have in order to plausibly deny that
the original estimate was wrong.]

April 18: Bill O'Reilly opens his show calling Iraqis "ungrateful."

April 21: Bill O'Reilly opens his show calling Iraqi Shiites "ungrateful
SOBs" and "fanatics." He concludes that "[we] can't
tolerate a fundamentalist state" in Iraq.

[Whoa, O'Reilly. I thought we promised the Iraqis that we were going to
implement democracy, not democracy that gives the U.S. the
election results it wants. That's not democracy, now, is it? By now it's
quite clear that despite the spinning on The No Spin
Zone, Iraq is descending into chaos.]

April 22: Lt. Colonel Robert Maginnis states on The O'Reilly Factor that
the probability of finding WMDs is a 10 out of 10. [This
is the same Robert Maginnis who predicted a double-ring defense of Baghdad
in the Washington Times on January 7.] O'Reilly states
that if no WMDs are found within a month from today, then that spells big
trouble. O'Reilly promises to explore the issue a month
later. [Cool, let's hold his feet to the fire on that promise. On an
earlier show he said that U.S. credibility would be "shot"
if no WMDs were found. ]

May 8: Fox News Military Analyst Major General Paul Vallely states on The
O?Reilly Factor that "Middle East agents" have told him
that Iraq?s WMDs along with 17 mobile weapons labs (1 of which was
captured around May 2) are now buried in the Bakaa Valley in
Syria 30 meters underground. He also claims that France helped Iraqi
leaders escape to Europe by providing them with travel papers
[a charge that even the Pentagon later denies although it's apparent
that's where Vallely got his information].

May 11: On The Fox Report with Rick Folbaum it is conceded that the
nefarious captured trailer contains not a shred of evidence of
WMDs, but Folbaum hints that what?s important is that the trailer could
have been used to make them. [Hmmm. I thought we went to
war for actual WMDs, not for the ability to make WMDs.]

May 16: Special Report with Brit Hume. Muslims, citing Islam's ban of
alcohol, are torching liquor stores and threatening their
Christian owners. Under Saddam's secular regime, Christian names were
banned and schools were nationalized, but guns and alcohol
were freely available; there was tolerance for Iraq's 1 million Catholic
and Protestant Christians. In New and Improved Neocon
Iraq, there's a letter circulating in Baghdad threatening violence to even
the families of women who refuse to wear the traditional
Muslim head covering. [The report is yet another interesting and
reluctant concession of unintended consequences.]

May 19: O'Reilly discusses a number of inflammatory and bogus charges
that were floated in the U.S. media about France (e.g.,
France supplied Iraq with precision switches used in nuclear weapons,
French companies sold spare parts to Iraq for military planes
and helicopters, France possessed illegal strains of smallpox, France
helped Iraqi leaders escape to Europe by providing them with
travel papers). Recall this last charge was made by Major General Paul
Vallely on May 8 on The O'Reilly Factor. Again, the
Pentagon denies all such charges although much of the Beltway thinks it's
obvious that the Pentagon is the source of them. O'Reilly
claims that Vallely is only irresponsible if the charges don't turn out to
be true. O'Reilly refers to documents that prove that
the French government was briefing Saddam right until the war started.
[Briefed on what?]

May 20: O'Reilly concedes that the Private Jessica Lynch rescue story
could be a fraud, as asserted by the BBC and Los Angeles
Times columnist Robert Scheer. "Somebody is lying," he states. He says
that if the U.S. military has concocted a fraud, then it
will be a terrible scandal but if the BBC and Scheer are wrong, nothing
will happen to them. He says he is skeptical of the BBC and
Scheer.

To prove his point he brings on no other than Colonel David Hunt. [Geez.
Transcript here.] Over and over, Hunt calls the
allegations of staged rescue an "assail on the finest soldiers in the
world." He claims that the ambulance with Lynch in it that
drove up to a Marine checkpoint was never shot at, its drivers demanded
$10,000 for information on Jessica, Saddam Hospital was
guarded by uniformed Iraqi soldiers and Fedayeen, Jessica's life was
saved, and coalition forces didn't trash the hospital. What
were his sources for this information? The special ops members on the
raid, some of whom are his friends and former colleagues.
Over and over Hunt kept saying, "They're the best soldiers in the world,
they're the best in the world. Why would they make this
up?"

[What followed next was an exchange that's priceless and one of many that
goes by far too un-analyzed on Fox every day:]

Hunt: In my opinion it's an assault, an effrontery to the finest men and
women in our service, it's an assault on Jessica, it's an
assault on these great guys, these great special operations guys ... at a
minimum we should no longer buy the L.A. Times, no longer
buy the Toronto Free Press, and shut the BBC off. It's a government to
government issue...this is calling into question the
veracity of the finest soldiers in the world and it's uncalled for, it's
absolutely unbelievable."

O'Reilly: If you [Hunt] turn out to be right, nothing will happen to
Scheer...he'll just go along blithely printing his lies and
living his life and getting paid for it.

[To the Colonel: U.S. special ops soldiers may be the best in the world
at what they do, but how does it logically follow from that
assessment that particular actions taken during the raid were not
excessive and unjustified? How is the BBC's story an assault on
Jessica?! What do you mean when you mention a "government to government
issue" given that the U.S. government now controls Iraq?!
Is the Pentagon the most effective check on its own possible misdeeds?
How convenient if you're suggesting that it is. Who is
your source that Iraqi doctors were trying to ransom Jessica? Why hasn't
this allegation made its way into any other news reports?]

[To O'Reilly: If the raid does turn out to be mostly staged, there'll be
no terrible scandal precisely because you, Fox News, and
the Pentagon will assert just the opposite and allow yet another
embarrassment to slide into the Memory Hole. This is exactly why
your demand for accountability from the BBC and L.A. Times is so hollow
and hypocritical. Instead of plumbing the U.S. military to
investigate itself, why don't you interview Iraqi doctor Harith
al-Houssona as the London Times did on April 16 (where the story was
first broken, not by the BBC or Robert Scheer) who actually saved Lynch's
life instead of the U.S. special ops who could have
jeopardized it? The doctor testifies that all Iraqi forces left the day
before the raid and that Jessica was delivered by an
ambulance that had to return to the hospital because it was shot at by
Marines. Why would he lie? You say you automatically trust
the Pentagon. Why, when tales of Lynch's heroics in fighting off 500
Iraqi soldiers with one hand while severely wounded and tales
that she had amnesia have already been proven bogus?]

May 22 (5:54 a.m. CDT): Richard King, a military doctor, appears on Fox
and Friends with promises by the show's hosts that he will
verify that the Jessica Lynch rescue wasn't staged. King doesn't prove
anything. He states that he arrived at Saddam Hospital the
day after the rescue, concedes damage and mal-treatment of doctors at the
hospital, and that he "was told " that the hospital was
guarded by hostile forces but doesn't specify who told him. [The testimon
y of the hospital staff contradicts this last hearsay.]

May 22: O'Reilly fails to live up to his promise to make a big stink if
no WMDs are found by today. In his Talking Points Memo he
wonders why the U.S. has caught such informed Iraqis as Dr. Germ and Ms.
Anthrax and has gotten no leads. He states that more time
is needed [contradicting what he said more than a month ago, when he said
that if no WMDs were found after 2 months U.S. credibility
would be "shot" and there would be big trouble]. He ends his Memo saying
Bush must candidly address the situation soon.

June 2: [Unfortunately for O'Reilly, Bush isn't candidly explaining
anything.] A video clip on Fox and Friends is shown with Bush
in Poland claiming that "[w]e found" weapons of mass destruction. His
evidence? Two trailers found near Mosul that were supposedly
used as mobile bioweapons labs. [A June 7 article by the Times' Judith
Miller reports serious doubts by some analysts that the two
trailers were used as mobile bioweapons labs. Said one senior analyst
about the initial CIA report, it "was a rushed job and looks
political." Yes, they violated U.N. resolutions but this is another red
herring to suggest WMDs.]

June 4: O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo: [Surreal.] O'Reilly says that
the WMD issue has now been politicized [!!]. The war was
a just war because there's now great progress between Palestinians and
Israelis and that alone made the war worthwhile [?!!]. Also
the mass graves and other horrors discovered add to the case for war. The
intelligence was either wrong or more time is needed to
find the WMDs. [Again contradicting what he said on and before April 22.]

June 11: Fox reports a bus blast in Jerusalem caused by Hamas, killing 15
and wounding at least 100. [Looks like the real reason
for war according to O'Reilly (Israeli-Palestinian peace) has also
disintegrated, but don't expect O'Reilly to admit it.]

===============

Here's another article on Fox from:
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/03/30/fox_news/index.html

The Fox of war

The Bush administration's case for invading Iraq may have been riddled
with unreliable claims, but that didn't stop White
House-friendly Fox News from pumping it into America's living rooms.

By David J. Sirota

March 30, 2004 | Before the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration made
many declarations to build its case for war: There was "no
doubt," as the president said, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction,
including nuclear weapons, making it an imminent threat to
America ; Saddam Hussein was working closely with Osama bin Laden and
al-Qaida; and the invasion would minimize civilian casualties.

While many intelligence and military experts knew how hollow these claims
were, there was one place where the Bush administration
was given an open microphone: Fox News. By the time U.S. soldiers were
headed across the desert to Baghdad, the "fair and balanced"
network, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, looked like a caricature of
state-run television, parroting the White House's daily
talking points, no matter how unsubstantiated.

Of course, Fox and the White House had forged their nexus well before
Iraq. Immediately after 9/11, for instance, Fox chief Roger
Ailes (a former Republican Party media consultant) wrote a confidential
memo to President Bush saying that America wanted him to
"use the harshest measures possible" in the war on terrorism. On the eve
of the Iraq invasion, the Washington Post reported that
neoconservative Fox contributors, such as Murdoch-owned Weekly Standard
editor William Kristol, were "well wired" into the White
House, meeting periodically with top administration national security
officials and "huddling privately" every three months with
Karl Rove, who was urging Republicans to seek maximum political advantage
from a war in Iraq. Fox News became the White House's most
reliable amplifier -- claims went from the podium, into the news scripts,
and out to the American public as fact.

Fox News began by broadcasting the Bush administration's line that there
was "no doubt" Iraq had WMD, despite repeated warnings by
the intelligence community that the WMD case for war was weak and dubious.
As early as August 2002, Fox News contributor Fred Barnes
said, "We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that [Saddam Hussein] has been
pursuing aggressively weapons of mass destruction,
including nuclear weapons." He was refuted a month later by UPI, which
reported that "a growing number of experts say that the
administration has not presented convincing evidence" that Iraq was
pursuing WMD or nuclear weapons. (UPI is owned by the Rev. Sun
Myung Moon, who also publishes the conservative Washington Times.)

But that did not stop the drumbeat. By spring, Fox was rolling full steam
ahead. On March 23, 2003, Fox headline banners blared
"Huge Chemical Weapons Factory Found in Southern Iraq" -- a claim that
never panned out. On April 11, a Fox News report announced:
"Weapons-Grade Plutonium Possibly Found at Iraqi Nuke Complex." Sourced to
an embedded reporter from the right-wing Richard Mellon
Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the story was soon debunked by
U.S. officials.

Bill O'Reilly, host of the most popular Fox News show, "The O'Reilly
Factor," took to the airwaves on March 4, 2003, to ramp up the
claim that not only did Iraq have WMD, but nuclear weapons. He stated
definitively that "a load of weapons-grade plutonium has
disappeared from Nigeria" and that the theft "should send a signal to all
Americans that a nuclear device could be planted here."
When he was challenged on his assertion, he insisted, "You cannot refute,
and neither can anyone else, that we have plutonium
missing in Nigeria, we have two rogue governments, North Korea and Iraq,
who are certainly capable of aiding and abetting people who
will plant an atomic device, a nuclear device in a city in this country."

O'Reilly was referring to a story that week about radioactive material
missing in Nigeria. But it was not plutonium, as he claimed,
or anything nearly as lethal as plutonium. It was a compound called
Americium 241, wholly unsuitable for the creation of the
imaginary "atomic device" O'Reilly referred to. The compound is commonly
used for industrial purposes, as opposed to plutonium,
which is used primarily for weapons and nuclear reactors. The compound, in
fact, was misplaced by Vice President Cheney's old oil
firm, Halliburton. (The Nigerian operation under Cheney has sparked an
international bribery investigation by the Justice
Department.)

On the Saddam-al-Qaida connection, Fox never considered that the
connection was nonexistent. Barnes declared on Oct. 9, 2002, that
"the CIA now believes there's a real connection between Saddam Hussein and
al Qaeda, the terrorist group that attacked the United
States." He provided no evidence. For years, in fact, the CIA was
reporting the opposite.

Sean Hannity, host of the Fox talk show "Hannity and Colmes," claimed with
no proof on Dec. 9, 2002, that al-Qaida "obviously has
the support of Saddam." He specifically ignored a Los Angeles Times report
of a month earlier that found "U.S. allies have found no
links between Iraq and al Qaeda." Hannity later announced on April 30,
2003, that he possessed documents proving a "direct link
between Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network" and the Iraqi regime, and
disparaged critics of the war, saying, "If you listen to the
people on the left, they're not fazed by this evidence." They may not have
been fazed because earlier that month the Miami Herald
reported that senior U.S. officials confirmed they had found "no provable
connection between Saddam and al Qaeda."

In June, the chairman of the U.N.'s terrorist monitoring group reiterated
that there was "no evidence linking al Qaeda to Saddam
Hussein." A month later the L.A. Times reported that declassified
documents from the 9/11 commission had "undercut Bush
administration claims before the war that Hussein had links to al Qaeda."
That was of no concern to Fox News contributor Ann
Coulter, who went on the air in September to proclaim: "Saddam Hussein has
harbored, promoted, helped, sheltered al Qaeda members.
We know that."

Before the war began, Fox tried to minimize the inevitable human cost.
Hannity echoed the administration line, claiming in January
of 2003 that "Iraqis are not going to be bombed by the United States. The
United States will use pinpoint accuracy, like we always
do." Within the first few days of the invasion, the New York Times noted
that aid groups estimated "thousands of civilian
casualties, many more than in the recent conflict in Afghanistan or the
Persian Gulf War of 1991."

Before the war, OReilly issued a promise. "If the Americans go in and
overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I
will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration
again, all right?" This February, on ABC's Good Morning
America, he offered an apology. "My analysis was wrong and I'm sorry. What
do you want me to do? Go over and kiss the camera?" But
he explained that his lack of skepticism wasn't his fault. "All Americans
should be concerned about this, for their families and
themselves, that our intelligence isn't as good as it should be." The next
day, back on Fox, O'Reilly claimed the controversy over
his apology was a plot by the "left wing press" who "used my words to
hammer the President." Then he introduced his next guest on
what he called "the no spin zone."

But Fox didn't reflect when the network's talking heads were proved wrong.
Instead the talkers blamed others. Hannity said on Aug.
20, 2003, that "all the predictions of liberals and Democrats in this
country were wrong about thousands of people [being] dead,
innocent civilians murdered, and we'd anger the Arab world." Yet, the U.S.
military reports that it "has received more than 15,000
claims" for compensation for noncombatant Iraqi deaths, with Amnesty
International reporting at least 10,000 civilian Iraqi
casualties. Meanwhile, the latest Pew Poll shows burgeoning
anti-Americanism, not only throughout the Arab world, but worldwide
after the Iraq war.

The Fox-Bush alliance was summed up, apparently without irony, by Bill
O'Reilly himself. In his column this week, O'Reilly observed,
"There is nothing wrong with news organizations endorsing a candidate or a
columnist writing about his or her political preferences.
But actively participating in political campaigns ... is absolutely
against every journalistic standard, and it is happening --
usually under the radar."

After a review of the record, however, it is clear that Fox was an
enthusiastic participant in the White House's campaign of
disinformation leading the country into war. And it was not under the
radar -- it happened in our living rooms every night.

===============

Regards,
Robert L Bass

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