For a long time,
I’ve been telling you that Fox News isn’t the philosophical preserve of
conservatism many would like to believe. Many people believe that Fox is the
only network that features conservative programming and guests. No few of my
colleagues and politicos are fully aware that my criticism of Fox News is
warranted and factual, but they dare not say same for fear of their scholars
and pundits not being invited to appear on Fox News programming. My opinion is
and always has been that slanted reporting is not reporting you can trust. Drew
Zahn, a news editor at WND.com, pulled back the curtains and shined the bright
light of truth on Fox News’ political donations. (Fox News Parent Company
Funneling Money To Dems; 7/23/13)
Rupert Murdoch’s
News Corp owns Fox News; and Zahn found that News Corp donations favored Obama
5-to-1 over Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election campaign. “According
to data accumulated from the Federal Election Commission by the Center for
Responsive Politics and published on OpenSecrets.org, the total contributions
by News Corp political action committees, employees and their families favored
Democrats by a more than 2-to-1 margin in the 2012 election.” And if that isn’t
bad enough, News Corp supported the radical left for nine of the last thirteen
election cycles dating back to 1990 up to and including the pivotal 2012
elections.
Zahn found that during presidential election cycles support for left wing Democrats
by News Corp, i.e., Fox News, increased. In 2008 News Corp/Fox News donations
favored Obama over McCain by a 3-to-1 margin. And if there’s any doubt about
what Fox supports, here’s a stunner for you: News Corp donations favored Al
Gore over George Bush by a 3-to-1 margin in 2000.
Do you really think
those donations did not buy bias reporting for Obama and left wing candidates?
You’re darn right it bought favorable reporting – it’s just that Fox is
cleverer at making the Democrat “ass logo” look like a Republican “pachyderm
logo.”
This explains why
Fox keeps the extreme radical racist, former ACORN member and Obama devotee
Jehmu Greene around after she called Tucker Carlson racist pejoratives, live
on-air. It explains why they hired Jesse Jackson’s daughter, Santita Jackson as
a Fox News Contributor. It explains why Fox News allowed their bottle blond
T&A Kewpie doll Megyn Kelly to smear Herman Cain before it was made known
that Kelly was friends with the Herman Cain slanderer, Sharon Bialek. Kelly was
forced to publicly make known that she lived in the same building with Bialek
and her boyfriend; that they went to the same gym, and worked together in
Chicago. There were also rumors that Kelly and Bialek paled around together.
I make no pretense
of my disdain for Fox News, albeit I have great respect for Neil Cavuto and
Greta Van Susteren. Beginning in 2008 when Fox News became the “Let Karl Rove
Bash Sarah Palin Network,” I began decreasing my intake of Fox News. At that
time it became apparent to me that Fox News was just a more polished version of
MSNBC. I stopped viewing Fox News for good in 2012 when they refused to remove
Jehmu Greene for spewing racial pejoratives at an on-air guest who was besting
her bigoted viewpoints. Fox News gave Greene a complete pass when she spewed
racist insults that they would not remotely tolerate from a white male.
What Zahn didn’t
point out is the incestuous and tangled relationships many party insiders (on
both sides) have with Fox. Does anyone think Karl Rove, et al were unaware that
News Corp, i.e., Fox News, was donating to Obama by a 5-to-1 margin over
Romney?
Now comes word that
since 1992, Fox News has been one of the very top donors to Hillary and Bill
Clinton, the number nine top donor to be exact. This news comes on the heels of
our finding out the Fox News debate moderators were instructed to destroy presidential
candidate Donald Trump. And that comes on the heels of my saying that Frank
Luntz was a Fox News stooge running bogus focus groups being validated by none
other than Politico. (See: Donald Trump Wants Fox News Star Fired; Cheryl
Chumley)
I’ve been “inside
the beltway.” I know what it’s like when the camera lights go out. I know how
the game is played and manipulated to keep people joined to one side or the
other.
Those of us who are
in the news and information business know slanted reporting when we see or hear
it. But much to my chagrin and that of others, Fox has done a good job of
pulling the wool over the eyes of many of its viewers. Fox doesn’t care because
they know they don’t have to. People are going to watch them; pundits and
politicos are going to bow before the News Corp throne to continue appearing as
guests on their programming. And the people will continue to receive opinion
intended to manipulate their decisions without realizing it.
Mychal S. Massie is
an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. He was
founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the
former National Chairman of the conservative black think tank, Project 21-The
National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives and a former member of its
parent think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research. Read the
entire Bio here
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