{"id":10413,"date":"2013-06-10T00:04:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10413"},"modified":"2013-06-10T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:04:26","slug":"cant-stand-the-truth-pull-the-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/cant-stand-the-truth-pull-the-plug\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Stand the Truth? Pull the Plug!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As much as they like to claim that they are fair and balanced, the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, are anything but.&#160; For example, this is how they deal with guests who attempt to tell the truth in the face of their misinformation.&#160; Warning!&#160; Watching Faux Noise with no barf bag handy may be hazardous to your keyboard.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"FoxSheep\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FoxSheep\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/FoxSheep.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"261\" \/>I&#8217;m sure by now, most of the readers here have already heard about the recent leaks <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/us-intelligence-tapping-data-nine-us-\" target=\"_blank\">on the NSA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/08\/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining\" target=\"_blank\">their datamining program<\/a> &#8212; which raises all kinds of <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailybanter.com\/2013\/06\/nsa-story-falling-apart-under-scrutiny-key-facts-turning-out-to-be-inaccurate\/\">legitimate questions<\/a> about just what oversight, if any, is in place to protect citizens from having this information abused &#8212; but here&#8217;s what happens over at Fox, where they decide to just conflate this story with the rest of the scandal mongering they&#8217;ve been doing on that network for months on end now.<\/p>\n<p>They allowed one of their favorite Fox &quot;liberals&quot; to join a panel where host Neil Cavuto and his other guests were trying to tie this NSA story into a bigger narrative that you just can&#8217;t trust that evil &quot;big government&quot; because of Benghazi, or the IRS, or the DOJ and Eric Holder, and things got a little testy when Julian Epstein went off script and actually told Cavuto that he&#8217;s not having a serious discussion about any of these issues when he tries to lump them all together.<\/p>\n<p>Cavuto responded by basically pulling a Bill-O\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/heather\/cavuto-cuts-guests-mic-when-called-out-con\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"+id+\" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjczOTYtNjk4NTE?color=006699\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjczOTYtNjk4NTE?color=006699\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" name=\"clembedMjczOTYtNjk4NTE\" align=\"middle\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">One might say they are comparing apples and oranges, but any time the Republican Ministry of propaganda, Faux Noise, compares anything to anything else, the result is pure TEAbuggery. For those who do not want to buy the BS, the Republican party has two solutions: take away their voice, and take away their right to vote.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as they like to claim that they are fair and balanced, the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, are anything but.&#160; For example, this is how they deal with guests who attempt to tell the truth in the face of their misinformation.&#160; Warning!&#160; Watching Faux Noise with no barf bag handy may be <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/cant-stand-the-truth-pull-the-plug\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}