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Fox News Bias on Health Care Reform Issue
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Fox News Speaks for Majority on Health Care Reform?
by LiberalViewer 758,542 views
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Earlier this month, when Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" totally decimated the credibility of Fox News in general and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly specifically because of the way that the supposed straight news anchors on Fox News like Megyn Kelly keep aggressively opposing health care reform under the guise of speaking for the majority of the American people, I thought it might make Megyn Kelly and the other Fox News anchors a little more circumspect on the subject, but, this week, despite that drubbing from "The Daily Show," Megyn Kelly continued using questionable poll numbers to pretend to speak for the majority of Americans as I show in this video.
The clips of "The Daily Show" that I use in this video come from the segment broadcast on Comedy Central on March 3, 2010, which is available online at http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-march-3-2010/anchor-management
The clips I use of Megyn Kelly and Bernard Whitman come from a segment on the Fox News program "America Live" broadcast on March 16, 2010 (that I have not been able to find online).
The clip I use of Megyn Kelly misreading a poll about the American Dream comes from a segment on that same program which is available online at http://media2.foxnews.com/031610/031610_al_cain_FNC_031610_14-17_FNC_MED.mp4
The graphic I use of from RealClearPolitics showing a variety of poll results regarding the health care legislation from President Obama and the Democrats comes from the page available online at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_and_democrats_health_care_plan-1130.html#polls
The graphic I use of from Gallup showing a variety of poll results regarding the health care legislation from President Obama and the Democrats comes from the page available online at http://www.gallup.com/poll/126521/Favor-Oppose-Obama-Healthcare-Plan.aspx
And, finally, the graphic I use from Xavier University showing a poll result regarding the difficulty of reaching the American Dream comes from the page available online at http://www.xavier.edu/politics/documents/American-Dream-Presentation.pdf -
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Fox News Bias on Health Law Constitutionality?
by LiberalViewer 41,458 views
160+ Fox News Bias videos at http://bit.ly/FoxNewsBias
More Fox News bias on health care reform at http://bit.ly/nj4E4i
Fox News bias on health care reform, or "Obamacare" as they like to call it, has been extensive over the years and, most recently, has failed to prepare viewers for the likelihood the US Supreme Court will find the law constitutional given that Congress had a rational basis to believe that the practice of self-insuring for the cost of health care, in the aggregate, substantially affects interstate commerce, as I show in this video.
The clip I use of Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace comes from a longer segment of Fox News' August 11, 2011, broadcast of the GOP Presidential Debate from Iowa available online at http://bit.ly/r8stTb
The clips I use of Fox News anchor Geraldo Rivera and Florida's Republican Attorney General, Pam Bondi, come from a longer segment of Fox News' October 2, 2011, broadcast of "Geraldo at Large" (which I haven't found available online)
The clips I use of former Michigan Governor Granholm and Bill Maher come from the "Overtime" segment of HBO's September 30, 2011, broadcast of "Real Time with Bill Maher" available online at http://bit.ly/qHnpyC
The images and quotes I use from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Thomas More Law Center v. Obama comes from the page at http://1.usa.gov/qCFLK1 -
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Leaked Memos Show Fox News Bias Is Different?
by LiberalViewer 86,846 views
140+ MORE examples of Fox News Bias at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
Media Matter's revelation this month of leaked memos from Fox News, including Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon's email reminding Fox News' supposed journalists to continue mislabeling the "public option" proposed in some health care reform plans as a "government run plan," confirmed the Fox News bias I documented in my August 2009 video titled "Government Run Health Care Is Fox News Myth?" allowing me to update my October 2009 video titled "Is Fox News Bias Different" with recent clips of Rachel Maddow's discussing of the topic on "The Late Show with David Letterman," as I show in this video.
The clips I use of Rachel Maddow's appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" come from a longer segment CBS broadcast on December 16, 2010, which is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLlO1ve1Oqw
The clip I use of Rachel Maddow on MSNBC comes from my October 27, 2009, video titled "Is Fox News Bias Different?" available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwD-zdBl6cI
The clips I use of Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson on "Fox and Friends" come from my August 20, 2009, video titled "Government Run Health Care Is Fox News Myth?" available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tknEpQ6f2Gw
The image I use of the leaked Fox News memos comes from the Media Matters page at http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012090003 -
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Health Care Reform is Big F-ing Deal!
by LiberalViewer 31,152 views
OVER 100 MORE examples of Fox News Bias at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
When Vice President Joe Biden spoke a blunt truth to President Barack Obama right before the President signed historic health care legislation into law last week, the coverage on Fox News was somewhat exaggerated while the benefits of the bill were downplayed during Fox News coverage of the bill signing as I show in this video.
The clip of Martha MacCallum covering Vice President Joe Biden's statement to President Barack Obama that health care reform is a "big fucking deal" comes from the Fox News program "America's Newsroom" broadcast March 24, 2010, available online at http://media2.foxnews.com/032410/032410_ms_biden_NM_032410_10-13_FNC_MED.mp4
The subsequent clips of Fox News' live coverage of President Barack Obama's speech before signing historic health care legislation into law last week comes from the Fox News program "Happening Now" broadcast March 23, 2010, available online at http://media2.foxnews.com/032310/hn_obama_FNC_032310_12-28_FNC_MED.mp4
The image of my December 26, 2009 YouTube video titled "Fox News Omits $1.4 TRILLION in Health Reform Deficit Reduction?" comes from my YouTube video page at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1CKADNlAYo -
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Fox News Omits $1.4 TRILLION in Health Reform Deficit Reduction?
by LiberalViewer 36,684 views
OVER ONE HUNDRED more examples of Fox News Bias at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
Fox News coverage of the health reform debate has been pretty bad, as I've shown in multiple videos, and last week was no different when a supposed straight news story and interview of Republican Senator Judd Gregg by Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer on the program "America's Newsroom" examined the cost of health reform, mentioning the deficit and the debt several times, without ever mentioning the over $1 TRILLION in deficit reduction in the Senate bill as I show in this video.
The clip of President Barack Obama's December 21, 2009, news event on government efficiency and effectiveness that I use in this video comes from the PUBLIC DOMAIN video uploaded by the White House available online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtoqHGbO7Ow
The clips of the supposed straight news story and interview of Republican Senator Judd Gregg by Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer on the program "America's Newsroom" comes from the episode broadcast on December 22, 2009, that is available in full online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLfreiCClsc
And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D -
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Fox News Omits Lieberman Lobbying Conflict?
by LiberalViewer 20,464 views
ONE HUNDRED MORE examples of Fox News Bias at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
When Fox News reported on the progressive blog firedoglake calling for Hadassah Lieberman, wife of Sen. Joe Lieberman, to be fired from her job with the anti-breast cancer group Susan G. Komen for the Cure, both the so-called "straight news" program "Special Report w/ Bret Baier" and the so-called "No Spin Zone" on "The O'Reilly Factor," left out an important fact about Hadassah Lieberman, as I show in this video.
The clip from "Special Report w/ Bret Baier" comes from the segment broadcast on Fox News on December 14, 2009, which is available online at http://video.foxnews.com/12529078/political-grapevine-1214
The clip from "The O'Reilly Factor" comes from the segment broadcast on Fox News on December 15, 2009, which is available online at http://video.foxnews.com/12553887/talking-points-1215
The clip of Bill O'Reilly's "lynching" comment about Michelle Obama comes from my February 2008 YouTube video titled "Bill O'Reilly on Lynching Obama Excused By Clarence Thomas?" that is available online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sPlGfpAiE
The image I used of the campaign to get Hadassah Lieberman fired from her job with the anti-breast cancer group Susan G. Komen for the Cure comes from the firedoglake page at http://firedoglake.com/aboutus/
The image I used showing the list of the campaign contributions Sen. Joe Lieberman has received in his career is available at http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00000616&newMem=N&recs=20
You can get more information about Sen. Lieberman recently flip flopping on the medicare buy-in proposal he previously supported at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIb13mYoy0Q
And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D -
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Fox News Politicizes Pap Smears?
by LiberalViewer 35,116 views
When a George W Bush appointed panel's recommendation of less frequent mammograms to screen for breast cancer was followed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' recommendation of less frequent pap smears to screen for cervical cancer last week, the Fox News story I saw on the issue did a reasonable job of explaining the new guidelines, but when it came to covering the way some Republicans tried to politicize this news in the ongoing health care reform debate, Fox News did a poor job, falling into the trap of covering the so called "rationing" controversy rather than informing viewers of the truth, as I show in this video.
The Fox News story from James Rosen, anchored by Martha MacCallum, including the clip of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, comes from the program "Live Desk" that aired on November 20, 2009 (and I have been unable to find this segment available online).
The clip I use of Bill O'Reilly attacking Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in this video come from the episode of his Fox News program "The O'Reilly Factor" broadcast on May 11, 2009 that you can find included in my previous video titled "Calling Murdered Dr Tiller 'Baby Killer' Was Wrong?" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYbAhCdmZs
The first two clips from PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" come from the short news story at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/stnmodule.html?mod=0&pkg=20112009&seg=1
The next two clips from PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" come from the news analysis story at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/stnmodule.html?mod=0&pkg=20112009&seg=3
The image from my wife's Kaiser Permanente webpage can be found using the medical staff directory serach engine at https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/medicalstaffdir/initsearch.do
And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D -
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Lie to Say Illegals Not Insured by Health Reform?
by LiberalViewer 52,793 views
When South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson shouted out "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on health care reform last week, most reasonable people rejected the outburst, but I was surprised to see how much time Fox News spent giving intellectual support to the accusation and particularly surprised to see that support coming from Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News' senior judicial analyst, as I explain in this video.
The public domain video of President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on health care reform last week from which I took a clip for this video is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSJugLUsM58
The 3 clips of Judge Andrew Napolitano are from Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto" broadcast on September 10, 2009 which I have not been able to find online.
The image of title 8 section 1611 of the US Code which I show in this video comes from the Cornell webpage at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/usc_sec_08_00001611----000-.html
The image of the ACLU of Sacramento letter I show in this video comes from the webpage at http://aclusac.org/node/149
And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D -
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Government Run Health Care Is Fox News Myth?
by LiberalViewer 53,966 views
OVER 100 MORE examples of Fox News Bias at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
Even Fox News recognizes the big gap between the opinions of Republicans and the opinions of Democrats when it comes to President Barack Obama's attempt to get health care insurance reform, particularly when it comes to the "public option" or, as Fox News calls it, the "government run aspect," but Fox News may actually have significant responsibility for this Republican opinion gap as I show in this video
You can find the full text of HR 3200, the health care bill passed in the the US House of Representatives, to which I refer in this video at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3200:
The two clips of Fox News pollster Frank Luntz and his focus group feedback graphs come from Fox News' August 19, 2009, broadcast of "America's Newsroom" which I have not been able to find online.
You can see more of MSNBC's August 18, 2009, broadcast of "The Rachel Maddow Show" from which I took two short clips from my video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpi5PaAIj8Q
The two clips of Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson come from Fox News' August 18, 2009, broadcast of "Fox and Friends" which I have not been able to find online.
And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D -
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Is Broccoli Like Health Insurance?
by LiberalViewer 40,788 views
180+ Fox News Bias videos at http://bit.ly/jdC5ju
When the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the health care reform law that Congress passed in 2010 (sometimes called "Obamacare"), some pundits (Jeffrey Toobin, Megyn Kelly) and fake pundits (Stephen Colbert) were quick to make dire predictions about the law based just on the questions from the justices on issues like broccoli, but those predictions may be premature as Dahlia Lithwick, President Obama, and I show in this video.
The clips I use of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelley come from a longer segment of Fox News' March 27, 2012, broadcast of "America Live" which I have not found available online.
The clip I use of Jeffrey Toobin comes from a longer segment of CNN's March 27, 2012, broadcast of "CNN Newsroom" available online at http://bit.ly/HKRdMb
The clips I use of Stephen Colbert and Emily Bazelon come from longer segments of Comedy Central's March 28, 2012, broadcast of "The Colbert Report" available online at http://bit.ly/HtxGju
and at http://bit.ly/Hg1ksa
The clips I use of Rachel Maddow and Dahlia Lithwick come from longer segments of MSNBC's March 27, 2012, broadcast of "The Rachel Maddow Show" available online at http://on.msnbc.com/HqMBpl
and at http://on.msnbc.com/I9w1hE
The clips I use of President Barack Obama come from the public domain video of his April 2, 2012 talk at n Associated Press luncheon, available on YouTube at http://bit.ly/HkVDXZ
The image I use of the US Supreme Court's page for downloading audio of its March 27, 2012, oral arguments is available at http://bit.ly/H8QEak
The image I use of my own previous video titled "Fox News Bias on Health Law Constitutionality?" comes from my own YouTube player page at http://bit.ly/pEcdOW
