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Old 09-21-2006, 04:34 PM   #1
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More Right-Wing Garbage From FNC

Sorry dpakman, I stole this from your radio show.

Fox's Buttner: "Thank God and thank President Bush" that there haven't been terror attacks inside the U.S. "despite the opposition of some very misled people"

During a discussion of how the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy in Syria will affect the stock market, on the September 12 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Fox News senior business correspondent Brenda Buttner asserted that "Wall Street is very insular" and "the market's going to go down" if a terror attack occurs in the United States. Buttner then claimed: "Thank God and thank President Bush it hasn't happened here yet," adding that "they've [terrorists] been trying and President Bush has been trying to stop them despite the opposition of some very misled people." Fox News touts Your World as "the No.1 business news show on cable."

From the September 12 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:

NEIL CAVUTO (host): Brenda?

BUTTNER: These despicable militants are trying to hit us over there. They're trying to do it over here. They just haven't been -- been successful today. Just as [Fortune magazine senior writer] Adam [Lashinsky] said, they will try to do it again tomorrow; and Wall Street is very insular -- they don't see anything except what's right in front of their face. And if it happens here, the market's going to go down. Thank God and thank President Bush it hasn't happened here yet. But they've been trying and President Bush has been trying to stop them despite the opposition of some very misled people.
Someone please defend this.
Tell me again how only pundits like Hannity and O'rly are the ones that are parrots of the right?
This is the senior business correspondent saying these things. It's not an opinion piece.
 
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Old 09-21-2006, 04:37 PM   #2
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Sounds like his opinion to me Every time someone on Fox news doesn't hate on the president you are going to take it to mean they want to sleep with him?
 
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Old 09-21-2006, 04:40 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Stylerod View Post
Sounds like his opinion to me Every time someone on Fox news doesn't hate on the president you are going to take it to mean they want to sleep with him?
She's not a pundit, she's a reporter

How would you feel if Tom Brokaw would have went in 1999 "Thank President Clinton for our great economy, Thank God and Thank Clinton"
 
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Old 09-21-2006, 04:40 PM   #4
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Stylerod, his point is that this lady is not paid to give opinions. She is a business correspondent.
 
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Old 09-21-2006, 04:40 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Stylerod View Post
Sounds like his opinion to me Every time someone on Fox news doesn't hate on the president you are going to take it to mean they want to sleep with him?
It's a news show, not an opinion show.
 
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Old 09-21-2006, 04:44 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent View Post
It's a news show, not an opinion show.
No anchor or news host has ever given an opinion on their show? That's interesting. Dan Rather, Tom Brokow, Walter Conkrite, etc never gave an opinion while interviewing someone? Ever? Wow, that's news to me.
 
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Old 09-21-2006, 04:45 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Stylerod View Post
No anchor or news host has ever given an opinion on their show? That's interesting. Dan Rather, Tom Brokow, Walter Conkrite, etc never gave an opinion while interviewing someone? Ever? Wow, that's news to me.
i don't seem to remember anyone ever thanking god and the president in the same sentence during a business report.
 
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The fact they are even talking about "thank president bush and god for no more terrorist attacks" on a show which is supposed to be about business and finance.... raises a red flag for me.
 
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Old 09-21-2006, 04:47 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Stylerod View Post
No anchor or news host has ever given an opinion on their show? That's interesting. Dan Rather, Tom Brokow, Walter Conkrite, etc never gave an opinion while interviewing someone? Ever? Wow, that's news to me.
When they flash to a correspondant, that correspondant is supposed to report the news, not give thier opinion.
 
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Originally Posted by Publius View Post
i don't seem to remember anyone ever thanking god and the president in the same sentence during a business report.
So it has to be that exact same statement? Well, ok, I guess maybe you haven't.
 
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Originally Posted by WickedLou9 View Post
When they flash to a correspondant, that correspondant is supposed to report the news, not give thier opinion.
Is this a written law somewhere? Maybe in the constitution or something?
 
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Originally Posted by Stylerod View Post
So it has to be that exact same statement? Well, ok, I guess maybe you haven't.
Don't try to defend this crap. There is no way to defend something that is indefensible.
 
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Originally Posted by Stylerod View Post
So it has to be that exact same statement? Well, ok, I guess maybe you haven't.
Really? You honestly don't see a problem in this? Not necessarily a partisan issue, but not even a problem regarding journalistic ethics and the like?
 
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Originally Posted by Stylerod View Post
Is this a written law somewhere? Maybe in the constitution or something?
Journalistic ethics. Yes it's written somewhere.
 
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Originally Posted by WickedLou9 View Post
not give thier opinion.
Except when they're asked how they think an attack on the US would affect the economy, then it's all their opinion.
 
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Here

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And I don't see what's wrong with her statement; thank God and thank the president we haven't been attacked yet. Bush is working very hard to keep us from getting attacked. He deserves some credit.
 
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Originally Posted by ballz2wallz View Post
Except when they're asked how they think an attack on the US would affect the economy, then it's all their opinion.
That's not all they did and you know it.
 
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Originally Posted by WickedLou9 View Post
Journalistic ethics. Yes it's written somewhere.
really! Ok.


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And I don't see what's wrong with her statement; thank God and thank the president we haven't been attacked yet. Bush is working very hard to keep us from getting attacked. He deserves some credit.
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