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Why are Hilary Clinton, Barak Obama, John Edwards and the rest afraid to appear on Bill O'Reilly's TV show?

2007-06-21 08:38:37 · 6 answers · asked by mark s 2 in Politics & Government Elections

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Bill has a way of stearing the answers in his so called no spin program. He is a bully and a loofa lover that no one wants to deal with!

2007-06-21 08:44:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

Fox News has made their reputations as comedy news because they are not fair and balanced

Why pander to a bunch of neo-cons when they will only try to twist everything that was said.

FOX ACTUALLY SUED FOR THE RIGHT TO LIE

The Right to Lie in the "News"
If ever we needed to know why the biggest media consumers in the world are so badly informed, this pretty well tells it all. The Media Can Legally Lie.
According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts.
Fox editors then tried to force Akre and Wilson to continue to produce the distorted story. When they refused and threatened to report Fox's actions to the FCC, they were both fired.
Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury's words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows.
[...] FOX appealed the case, and on February 14, 2003 the Florida Second District Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the settlement awarded to Akre. The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because Florida’s whistle blower law states that an employer must violate an adopted “law, rule, or regulation."
In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a "law, rule, or regulation," it was simply a "policy." Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.
During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves.
Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so.
OK, pick your jaw up off the floor. That some court thinks they CAN is bad enough, that these people assert their right to do so pretty well kicks it all down the hole. And these guys wonder why their credibility is in the toilet and the net is burning them left right and centre.
Oh, and February 2003, 30 days before Iraq.

2007-06-21 15:43:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

I am not a big fan of O'Reilly but the reason is he will ask them the tough questions and his viewership is more Republicans and that is not the base they are seeking now.

2007-06-21 15:42:25 · answer #3 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 1 1

Because they will get tougher questions that the softballs they are tossed by the liberal media.

2007-06-21 15:42:13 · answer #4 · answered by booman17 7 · 2 1

There afraid of the truth.

2007-06-21 15:42:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Because no matter what you say, a radical will never agree with you.

2007-06-21 15:48:06 · answer #6 · answered by grumpyoldman 7 · 0 0

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