FOXLEAKS: Bill Sammon's October Surprise

During the final days of the 2008 presidential race, Bill Sammon used his position as a top Fox News editor to engage in a campaign to link then-Sen. Barack Obama to "Marxists" and "socialism," internal Fox documents and a review of his televised appearances show.

Read the whole story here: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102010022

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[Scipio2021]

@drhu Ignoring Republican corruption and the fact that they're all owned by self serving lobby groups doesn't change the fact that the GOP sucks. 10000 more insults towards Democrats can't change this.

What's your answer...a 3rd party, or that we should be content with the level of corruption and incompetence during the Bush era.

Now I assume you'll take 3/4th of a loss and now run from the board. That would be a wise move.

[Scipio2021]

@drhu 1) You didn't dispute me when I said the GOP needs to police their own about corruption. So I must conclude we agree there. You would be anti American if you advocated being content with the level of incompetence and corruption during the Bush era.

2) You failed to say how the Obama admin is more corrupt than the Bush admin. You're probably just repeating what you heard on FOX or talk radio. Even Darryl Issa had to walk back that comment.

[TheJasonDR]

@renijohn012270 Main Stream Media= We deceive, Blacks believe! .....blindingly pumping blood into the political party that should not exist ....the political party that wanted to keep blacks as slaves

[arsenelupin123]

The word socialist is being throwned around. Yeah, by who.

And by the way, if you only had one ideology in your entire life, you're a pathetic fucking prick.

[arsenelupin123]

The fucking bastard. Fucking lying bastard. Shit.

[ipwnorcs]

I wish he had some ties to Marxists. At least Marxists have a philosophy of reason instead of idealist garbage like liberals.

[AmericanResponses]

@AmericanResponses One just needs to look at the Right wing responses to the protests in Egypt to know that freedom and democracy are low on their pole when losing control is Challenged. Just go on Fox to listen to the shit they they have said ...my god wake up!!

[AmericanResponses]

@TheMusicBucket Yeh its simply son ...you don't go" investigating" the cheese on someone elses burger without looking at your own...Tell me the history of America and give me the quotes of the our so called heroes ...Reagan (hypocrisy) is ease but the list is long..tell me that "the government for the people by the people" in the history of that day was not left and socialism given the imperial governments of that day..Tell me were you draw the line between freedom and democracy con't

[TheMusicBucket]

@AmericanResponses

So far I've been able to verify those quotes are really his. As far as the context, the context is kind of hard to explain away on most of those quotes. I never said he was a Marxist, I was referring to the quote with him saying he was drawn to marxist professors. I'll know more when I buy the book next weekend though.

I really don't care about defending the credibility of the other side either, I'm just after the truth.

[AmericanResponses]

@TheMusicBucket "Are they inaccurate?" YOU BET!! ..."Are they taken out of context?" YES "Has Obama renounced his past interest in Marxism?" Yeh he never was a Marxist but I will tell you who has showed more interest in Marxism... Reagan even took us in an illegal war that got us involved with drugs lords and Nun rappers. How much time did REAGAN GET FOR FOR THAT? How about Glenn Beck or fat boy Rush and their family connection to the Nazi party?. So when does it get ridiculous...sigh

[eugeneonegin09]

@drhu sorry, but larry mc donald died over 25 years ago,

[drhu]

@Scipio2021 If you had a REAL Democrat it might work. Don't have any idea who that would be. The party(I am a registered Democrat)has been so deeply infiltrated with the dregs of the sixties that the true Democrat party no longer exists.