Bill O'Reilly and Fox News.
I find
Bill O'Reilly on Fox News
the most entertaining of the right wing pundits who seem to be all
over cable TV these days.
(Where is the so-called "liberal media" these days anyway?)
Not that I agree with hardly anything he
opines,
but at least for the most part he does it with some humor,
even if not always on purpose.
I wonder if Fox News really believes its slogan about being
fair and balanced and whether Mr. Oreilly
really thinks he does not spin the news.
Here are just a few recent items of interest that
I've never heard mentioned on the
The O'Reilly Factor (or Fox News for that matter):
-
According to a CNN online poll 82 percent of Americans
think going to war with Iraq will provoke another attack on the U.S.,
as opposed to 13 percent who think it will prevent one.
(The only polls mentioned on Fox News are those showing how
much Americans support Bush's war against Iraq,
and even then they omit that the support is only there
because people want to show the world that this country
is behind its President.)
-
When examining telephone calls from Al Qaeda in Germany
before 9/11, there were lots of calls to Saudia Arabia and
Egypt and some other mid-east countries but none to Iraq.
(So why is Iraq accused of aiding the 9/11 terrorists and
not Saudia Arabia for example.)
-
During Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations last week,
the CIA's George Tenet sat behind him.
Supposedly his presence was significant because previously
the CIA had said there was no evidence to link Iraq to
the 9/11 terrorist attack. Some astute observers have
noted that Tenet looked straight ahead throughout the speech
except when Powell talked about the Iraqi terrorist
connection and then he looked down.
-
The Iraqis are not the only ones in flagrant violation of UN resolutions.
For example, UN Resolution 242 from 1967 requires Israel to withdraw
from the Arab territories it occupied that year.
And several years ago after the Security Council endorsed the
World Court condemnation of the United States and order
to terminate the terrorist war against Nicaragua,
the United States vetoed it and the Congress voted to escalate the war.
I don't see anything terribly wrong with only presenting the facts
that support your opinion, but it does bother me when a news
organization does this
and claims to be unbiased.
The question I have is are they doing this with forethought
or are they like orthodox religious people who cannot
distinguish reality from their faith and unconsciously block
any opposing thoughts from entering the minds?