Happy Thanksgiving...
from johnny dollar's place.

• Bachmann and Beck need to be held accountable for inciting crazies.
• At what point does irrational rhetoric become criminal?
• MICHELE BACHMAN & GLENN BECK BOTH NEED TO BE ARRESTED FOR INCITING VIOLENCE & TERRORISM ON AMERICANS!

From this profile of the cancer survivor and volunteer, it appears suicide is unlikely. We'll find out. But at some point, unhinged hostility to the federal government, whipped up by the Becks, can become violence.

We know what 9/12 was. It was crazy anti-government day in Washington, DC. It was fomented by Glenn Beck...Why, you may be asking, would a census worker be the first victim in the war on the government? Perhaps it's because Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann have spread rumours that the 2010 Census is being conducted by ACORN members as a means of rounding us up....Lynching is intended to terrorize, to silence, to shame, to humiliate, to send a message that "your kind" will not be tolerated here.

Handy Guide to how Republicans and Fox News are responsible for Census worker being hanged

• FOX distorts, people die.
• Do people have something to say about how the Right Wing Media machine is NOT affecting people with hateful messaging?
• There's gotta be some accountability for the lies and hate being pushed by the people who profit from it.

The real murderers of this man are the Glenn Beck's, and Rush Limbaugh's, and Michele Bachmann's who have spread the deadly poison of hate and fear of our government and the Obama administration across the land.

• Fox continues to incite their ignorant sheep audience to commit violence. They promote violent attacks, then deny they did it. Fox is completely dishonest, hateful, and disgusting.
• We all know that the person or persons who did this to Bill Sparkman will be caught and brought to justice. But what makes me mad is the fear mongers at Fox News, Right Wing Watch, WND, Michele Bachmann and other members of the Republican Party, who spread paranoia and hysteria, will never be brought the justice. They are as guilty as the person who killed the census employee for making some people of this country afraid of their own government.... They are guilty and they know it.
• Thr murderers were most likely influenced by glen beckkk, sean kkklanity, billo the kkklown, kkkomedian rush limbaugh and certain buffoons in the house of congress.
• Several spouting geysers of insane opinion on the rightmost of the right wing gin up paranoia and conspiracy theory about what mild-mannered Census workers have in mind when they come out to benignly COUNT people...one such worker ends up bound and gagged and hanged and naked and DEAD, with his ID taped to his neck like he's some kind of hunting trophy and with the word "FED" scrawled on his chest in felt-tip pen (perhaps because three-letter words are the limit of his murderers' spelling ability) ...and you can't connect the glaringly obvious dots linking the frothing rhetoric to the violent action?
• There's no "whipping up" being done, and the evidence speaks for itself. Fox News is guilty of instigating murder.
• They got away with the death of doctor Tiller and will most certainly get away with the death of the census guy.
• We are all waiting for the big one, when they do-in Obama. We will all fake surprise , moan for a few days and decide that it was freedom of speech to blame for his death and not talk radio or Foxnews with their 24/7 vitriol.
• The fearful and violent are eating this stuff up. To think that Fox will deliberately whip up violence in order to make cheap political points against the Democratic administration just blows my mind. How do these people look at themselves in the mirror?
• In regards to this case, Michelle Bachman, Beck, O' Reilly, Limpnuts and Insannity should all be arrested as accessory to murder. Unfortunatley [sic] it will never happen.
• Well Glen [sic] we hope that you are happy? A man in Kentucky is now dead because of your's [sic] and other Republicans [sic] hate filled speaches. (Acorn+census bureau+Obama).We were laying bets for when you would get it done. you finely [sic] stepped into it. did not take long.... A man was hung in a forest because of you.No matter how much you beg, God is not going to forgive you for this.

I expect you will argue that Lou didn't get fired -- that he got fed up and quit the network he had been with for three decades.... Maybe your fall-back position is that it wasn't a real bet. I don't know. But I think that if you'll stop spinning for a moment, you'll agree that in the court of public opinion, you lose.... CNN did the right thing. Now it's your turn.

O'REILLY: And I will pay that debt. I will donate $10,000 to Habitat for Humanity.

FOX News is passing on "false information" to the public. This must end.... I think it's time we started to take action and the first step is to file an FCC complaint report here. Please join me here and at CrooksandLiars.com to expose these "Hoaxes" by News Corp.

I've long been shocked at the dreadful quality of Foxnews.com, which seems deliberately designed to make almost any information hard to find. Has anyone tried to figure out what time a given program, say, Live Desk, is on ?

I just saw a hilarious smackdown of ME by the Jon Lovitz (i.e Pathological Liar) of right-wing snews bloggers, Johnny Dollar.

The morally counterfeit Dollar takes me to task for reporting that a liberal YouTuber had his account suspended for posting Fox clips while conservatives were permitted to continue. Dollar pointed out that one of the users I cited has been suspended and he calls me a liar for saying otherwise.

However, that account was not suspended until long after I wrote my article.

And Dollar doesn’t acknowledge that the other users I cited are indeed still up and running, Fox clips and all.

The selective nature of Fox’s legal actions prove that they are only interested in squelching liberals.

Dollar also demonstrated his champion ignoramus status by utterly failing to understand copyright law and the concept of fair use.

Half-brained Dollar is so obsessed he spent 846 words on his dishonest and moronic attack on my column that was only 572 words.

Let FOX News know that "real journalism" requires issuing a correction.

• Don't hold your breath waiting for a correction.
• O’Reilly has never apologized for either comment.
• But hey, if it’s propaganda you want, what’s the point of making a correction if it works against the message.
• But no, rather than apologizing to those people, he (in typical Fox fashion) diverted the issue by smearing them...
• Although BOR offered the corrections, there was no apology.
• There's no excuse for this untruth going uncorrected... I'm not holding my breath for a correction.
• Correct the record. If you don’t correct the record then we can simply assume you are a lyin’ sack of feces.
• Other news organizations handle corrections differently. In these New York Times corrections, the newspaper states directly which information was incorrect and what the correction inforrmation is.
• FOX did not issue a retraction or correction, they simply disappeared the earlier story and replaced it... FOX should have left the original and published the follow-up rather than scrubbing the earlier one. One wonders who told the FOX webmasters to do that, and if it's considered S.O.P there?

Bennett, however...misquoted General George Casey, chief of staff of the Army, as saying that losing diversity would be a worse tragedy than Fort Hood.

Why would Fox do this? It certainly wasn’t because they were upset that their content was being recorded and distributed without their permission. They have not bothered to remove other Fox-owned content posted by sycophantic fans like TheRightScoop, BuckFarack, GlennBeckDailyClips and ConservativeNewMedia. But the liberally-inclined News1news has been shut down.... Clearly this is not a case of protecting intellectual property. The selective nature of Fox’s legal actions prove that they are only interested in squelching liberals.

While Jon’s clips contained no added commentary, they were often segments in which Fox News personnel looked foolish. This was not Jon’s doing. He just posted the unadulterated video and the FoxPods acted naturally.

BECK: Forget about the Republicans, because most of them are fake. Forget about the Democrats, because most of them are fake.

BECK: Forget about the Republicans, because most of them are fake. Forget about the Democrats, because most of them are fake. And forget about the frog, because it was fake!

What Fox is doing here is an unabashed curtailing of speech - THEIR OWN! They are prohibiting the dissemination of information and ideas based solely on political criteria. I wonder if the First Amendment advocates at Fox will now mount a campaign exposing Fox as anti-speech.

So Rupert Murdoch lied when he told his shareholders that Hill was fired. Hmmm. Lies from Fox World? Who woulda thunk it?

A week later, he started investigating the rumor that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was building concentration camps around the country. When that didn’t pan out, he set about exposing the secret communist artwork adorning Rockefeller Plaza...He couldn’t sell FEMA death camps because the facts weren’t there to back the story up.

While Pakistani leading TV channels have voluntarily devised a code of ethics, America lags behind. Fox News's Shepherd Smith just could not resist the temptation to give away the identity of the alleged killer. Throwing journalistic ethics to the winds, Smith did not hold his tongue.... Every American anchor and his guests thereafter latched on like leeches to the name Nidal Malik Hasan.

[Fox] covers it, they are "promoting" it and if they don't they can be accused of NOT covering it and it shows another example of pro-GOP "bias".

Will Fox News Mock Passivity of Fort Hood Soldiers The Way It Did Va Tech Shooting Victims?

[William] Bennett wasn’t done misinforming, “What bothers me is the Army, is the military… General Casey this week said, ‘This was a horrible thing that happened let's hope that diversity is not a casualty. Because if diversity in the military is a casualty, that will be a worse tragedy than this.’” That’s not at all what General Casey said. He said, “I'm concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I've asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that. It would be a shame -- as great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.” It’s very telling that Bennett would twist Casey’s words to make a desire for diversity sound so terrible. Bennett continued to scorn Casey for what he did not say: “A worse tragedy? The loss of some diversity will be a worse tragedy than the loss of innocent people?” Hannity, who should know better, agreed, “Yeah.”

CASEY: And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse.

But instead of showing forbearance, Fox News deliberately whipped up fear and, probably, intolerance, in their audience, by calling on “military analyst” Ralph Peters.

Some other network – okay, maybe we’d believe somebody actually misheard. But Fox . . .

Robert Gibbs had a press conference, and someone asked him if the President watched the election returns, to which he replied, “No.” Someone then asked him if the President watched the HBO documentary about his campaign instead, to which Gibbs replied that he didn’t know.... According to whoever is the CYA guy at Fox News, it was a “simple mistake.” Sure, it’s a mistake anyone can make – I know I, personally, am constantly mixing up “yes” for “no,” and “I don’t know” for “absolutely.”

GIBBS: One thing I should contextualize – the President obviously got updates about the election last night.  He did not watch – as I told some of you – did not watch election returns.  I wouldn’t read a ton into that since he didn’t actually watch election returns when he was running.  If you did watch the movie on HBO – we called him and told him he won Iowa.  He did not watch election returns.

MacCallum seems to have a little trouble overall with the whole journalistic fact-checking integrity thing. Back in May, she failed to report accurate facts on the story about Madonna adopting an African child.

In another example of journalistic excellence, as reported by News Hounds’ Priscilla, MacCallum also elected not to check into polling data or statistics in a discussion she “moderated” back in April about President Obama’s speech at Notre Dame.

CARLSON: Could it be that the military was exercising political correctness in not approaching him as seriously as they would have had he not been a Muslim?

CARLSON: It puts any Muslim American in a tough situation here because by all accounts most Muslim Americans living here are living here peacefully. I mean, this is the extreme element--potentially--of this religion, and we don't know exactly if the religion was his motivation or not, or if it was the act of war, or that he went nuts. I mean, we don't really know right now.

JOHNSON: You won’t countenance special screenings for Muslim soldiers, will ya?

JOHNSON: Well that's absolutely accurate, and it calls for restraint, and it calls for concern for fellow citizens. And obviously whether an assailant is Christian, or is Muslim, or is Jewish, is irrelevant.

JOHNSON: You can't, you won't countenance special screenings for Muslim soldiers, will you?
RIVERA: You know, it's a hard--
JOHNSON: You can't. As a civil libertarian, can you countenance that, Geraldo Rivera?
RIVERA: It's a hard step for me to take, to countenance. This is an American born person.
JOHNSON: Yeah it is!
RIVERA: This is not a naturalized citizen.
JOHNSON: Right!

OLBERMANN: Since we’re asking questions, I have one for Carlson, Johnson, and Kilmeade. You guys ever wonder if you all succeeded inside a company like Fox mostly because you’re not Muslim or black or Asian or Hispanic?

The Live Desk aired a caption referring to the "govt [government] option," a term right-wing pollster Frank Luntz suggested Sean Hannity use on his program because the term doesn't poll as well as "public option." Featuring captions that use language endorsed by a Republican strategist is only the latest evidence that Fox News is actually a conservative political organization.

Since July (3 months ago) the Factor ratings have not went [sic] up at all, no increase, none. He averaged 3.4 in July, and he averaged 3.4 in October, earth [sic] to O'Reilly, that is not an increase. Billy has such a giant ego he has to lie about his ratings, even though he already has the #1 rated show on cable news.

We're real close to Katie Couric numbers. We beat everybody else. Good Morning America. Nightline. I think the Today show is a little bit ahead of us, but it's close.

O'Reilly lied once again about his ratings. He gets about 3.4 million viewers a night, and that is total viewers. Katie Couric gets anywhere from 5.2 million to 5.9 million, so O'Reilly is a liar when he says he is almost beating her.

O'Reilly does not beat Good Morning America. Nightline, or the Today show. Setting aside the fact that these shows do not even compete with O'Reilly, he still fails to beat them. In fact, the Today Show nearly doubles O'Reilly's numbers.
Total Viewers: Good Morning America: 4.0M
Total Viewers: Nightline: 3.9M
Total Viewers: Today Show: 5.5M
...And this is just a small sample that shows O'Reilly is a biased liar.

There are never any Reality Checks on Conservatives.

Notice that O'Reilly never does an ambush on any Republicans, ever, he just does it to liberals and Democrats. While claiming to be a nonpartisan independent, which is just laughable.

Watch Peter Johnson say death panel as a statement of fact: "With regard to the death panel, has anything changed?"

JOHNSON: The tremendous percentage of dollars that we pay in the last months and years of our life--there is a determination by the House, to focus on those medical costs. No one is saying it's a 'death panel', but people have to understand that there is a tremendous interest in reducing costs in people's so-called later years of life...

On Studio B Smith slapped down Shannon Bream’s lack of “fair and balanced” in her reporting on the campaign for governor in New Jersey. Bream, true to form, conducted an on-air interview with the Republican candidate, Chris Christie, but looked blankly at the camera for a moment when Smith asked her when she would interview the Democratic candidate, and current Governor, Jon Corzine. It probably hadn’t occurred to her that it would be a, you know, good, journalistic thing to do. Clearly flustered, and a little defensive, it seemed, Bream replied, “We have in multiple requests, and when it comes in, we'll let you know.”

I think Beck was so excited by this possible evidence of Washington Corruption that he promoted it all week as his BIG NEWS, but could never get the story nailed down. There were no facts. No goods on Anita Dunn or her husband. No declarative statements. Just this smear left out there about Anita Dunn’s husband.

Fox Business As Usual - Attacking Obama

Meanwhile, "fair and balanced" Fox continues to ignore the formal voter-fraud investigations that have been launched against regular guest Ann Coulter.

• I'm glad crooks and warmongering neocons like Jew-liani and yourself are NOT associataed with Dr. Paul anymore. Your a disgrace to true libertarianism.
• Hey Goldberg, how would you like it if we linked your boy McCain in with the ZOG machine, maybe a little ditty about taking down the ZOG Machine JEW BY JEW BY JEW will get the white people up in arms and against McCain and the ZOG machine.
• Morris is a paid global business lackey and a Likudnik Zionist Jew
• Jew me, sue me / Everybody do me / Kick me, kike me / Don't you black or white me