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Fox Attacks Obama Part II: The Virus Is Spreading [VIDEO]

Posted by Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films at 12:10 PM on March 14, 2008.


What is infuriating and requires IMMEDIATE ACTION is that so many in the media have been catching the FOX virus and spreading it.
Fox Attacks Obama PART II

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No surprise that FOX has been at it again: smearing, distorting, attacking Obama. What is infuriating and requires IMMEDIATE ACTION is that so many in the media have been catching the FOX virus and spreading it. By way of a cure, we bring you the next installment in our highly successful FOX Attacks! series. Together, we have battled them effectively, halted their fake debates, and put pressure on Bill O'Reilly for on his attacks on homeless vets. And so far, over 6 million people have seen our FOX Attacks!

A special thanks to all of you who contributed to the tickers for this film! Your contributions made this video possible. You turned this into a collaborative filmmaking process, declaring our collective outrage over FOX's propaganda. If you didn't get the chance to contribute this time around, you can put your message to Murdoch in the next FOX Attacks! film for a contribution of $199. Space is very limited though, we can only include 25 messages.

Of course, Obama isn't the only Democratic nominee that FOX and their ilk have gone after in this Presidential race. Chris Matthews, once a Roger Ailes hire, has been demonizing Hillary Clinton every chance he gets. Our friends at Media Matters have more on how Matthews is modeling himself after Bill O'Reilly. With your support we can and will continue the fight.

Robert Greenwald sits on the board of the Independent Media Institute, AlterNet's parent company. AlterNet is a nonprofit organization and does not make political endorsements. The opinions expressed by its writers are their own.

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Robert Greenwald is the director/producer of "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism."


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Ok, all you Obama heads...
Posted by: LeftWright on Mar 14, 2008 1:04 PM   
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do you still think your guy is "electable"?

Or, maybe, just maybe he's being set up to take the fall in the fall?

[No, I'm not a Clintonista, I don't vote for any corporate candidates]

Do yourselves a favor, step back and look behind the curtain, stop watching the dog and pony show.

PLEASE.

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

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» RE: Ok, all you Obama heads... Posted by: pdxlinuxchix
» Keep enjoying the show, gazooks, Posted by: LeftWright
» LeftRight, you are a tool.... Posted by: Fencerider
» Who can Beat McCain? Posted by: indepentent
» RE: Ok, all you Obama heads... Posted by: Longdream
Terrorist
Posted by: HeKnew on Mar 14, 2008 6:39 PM   
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See the red button on your remote?

Push it!


Direct Democracy

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» RE: Terrorist Posted by: flymulla
Corporate Fox Anti Obama? It Couldn't Be A Better Sign ...
Posted by: gazooks on Mar 14, 2008 6:41 PM   
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... for all Americans sick of the malignancy ravaging freedom and destroying the promise of our social dynamic.

This overt propaganda, brazenly inciting the basest and most despicable prejudice, fear and hate is exactly the future we will inherit unless we act to elect the man they so despise, and defy this shameless exercise of intimidation. This little clip says it all about the battle ahead. It will be most interesting to hear the repudiation from Clinton.

Obama isn't a messiah, though Jesus was crucified by agents of the same base sensibility as seen on Fox. The evil that they represent is exactly the same fear mongering that drove Hitler. They fear Obama as an authentic, dynamic leader of the people of this country who are rapidly losing what little we have left to these self same corporate, parasitical thieves.

This is no less than a declaration of war by these pigs on all of us and on an honorable, intelligent and very decent man. Enough of this shit.

Crunch time.

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Hillary has had it 100 times as badly, and you didn't care, in fact you enjoyed it, didn't you?
Posted by: johnp on Mar 15, 2008 3:32 AM   
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It's too late to make the case for media treachery in the actions of abusing Obama. Obama has managed to "sell" you his candidacy. But Obama is not getting 100th the abuse from media that Hillary has been getting. But when Hillary has had to endure this abuse, most of you enjoyed it, and you still enjoy it. You join mainestream media's vicious and unfair attacks against Hillary. You have been in bed with your enemies, when it came to Hillary, buying into their attacks. And, in the course of this, you looked like hypocrites and cowards. You look like hypocrites and cowards, because thats what you are, and now, when it's time to defend a candidate that seems to have persuaded you, that he's more in line with your political pretenses, you have no legitimacy. When Hillary needed you to help her, because abuse was directed constantly at her, instead of defnding her against injustice, you joined the attacks on her. Because her politics were moderate, and you demanded "radical," you joined mainstream media, in their treachery, and in their unjust hate against Hillary. Now mainstream media can ignore your demands. You no longer have any political clout.

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» Waaaah!! Posted by: Fencerider
» RE: Hillary has had it coming. Posted by: riversmom
I'm sorry
Posted by: walldodger1969 on Mar 15, 2008 4:27 AM   
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After watching the video I can't see the keys because of the vomit..there , all gone.
When ever I go to a public place I demand the owner change the channel from fox.. or he loses me as a customer..ya all might want t start doing the same.

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» I do that also, Walldodger. Posted by: Ellie1
My Perspective...
Posted by: dave16 on Mar 15, 2008 6:48 AM   
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Please see www.discussrace.com

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Obama's Never Been Bought
Posted by: gabbyone on Mar 15, 2008 8:16 AM   
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I noticed that a lot of the replies talk about how Obama unlike Hillary has never been bought.
That's because except for the Chicago Press the media has given him a pass. If you think Obama hasn't been bought you are kidding yourself.. He is a Chicago politician as he likes to remind you all the time....a
Retzo politician and that crook bought everyone as the trial will show.
The Chicago Sun Times reported that “As a state senator, Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko’s successful bid to get more than $14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens.”[Chicago Sun Times, 6/13/07 ] Obama looked the other way on 11 slum buildings old Tony had in his district and then when asked about them claimed he didn't know they were there. That was until people told the media in Chicago they had called Obama's office about them.
He was been boughT by Exelon who had nuclear waste leaking in Braidwood, IL which Obama promised the people he would stop ....what did he do,took contributions from Exelon then he went to the Senate and voted for a bill supporting Exelon.....Obama told the Maytag
company he would keep the plant from closing and that he would talk to the Crown family. He talked all right and they gave him a big
$200,000 bundled contribution and Crown told the press recently that Obama never mentioned the Maytag problem to him. These are just the tip of the iceburg. Just yesterday he admitted there was another $250,000 from Rezko he forgot to mention in contributions....I thought this guy had such good judgement...ready on day one with the right answer. Now he says, this Chicago syle politican....I guess I was naive about Rezki,
naive about my minister....who I told last Spring I needed to distance myself from...Not bought.....got a bridge to sell you.

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» RE: Obama's Never Been Bought Posted by: DreamFast
» The BEAUTY of DEMOCRACY Posted by: Prairie Waif
» RE: Obama's Never Been Bought Posted by: Longdream
FAUX NEWS
Posted by: Dottie on Mar 15, 2008 10:27 AM   
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I no longer watch faux news because I cannot stand any of there talking heads. They all sound the same blah,blah,etc,etc. MSNBC is almost as bad Joe Scarborough should go back to Florida and sit on the beach. Chris Matthews should take a course in how not to interrupt your guest when he/she is speaking. PBS is still the way to go in my opinion.

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» RE: FAUX NEWS, FAUX CHARGES Posted by: Basenjis
I've given up in Fox news and Obama
Posted by: TWilliams on Mar 15, 2008 5:42 PM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Who cares about what Fox news says. All of the other news sources are telling the same story.

I wish the press would have done a better job exposing Obama in the beginning. I now feel I have wasted my vote.

I cannot believe people here support the United Trinity Church and also support "Reverend" Wright and his anti-Semitic and anti-white rants. Anyone where who says he is not anti-Semitic and not anti-white simply needs to watch his videos on YouTube or look at his churches literature.

I have been a visitor to AlterNet for years. I am also a life-long Democrat. I can say with 100% certainty I will either vote for McCain or not vote at all if Obama is the Dem presidential candidate. I do nt see how anyone can believe Obama's message, especially considering who he has associated himself with for the past 20 years of his life.

I blame AlterNet and all of the other hate-mongers on this site for not speaking the truth.

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Barack Obama is not Jesus!
Posted by: Longdream on Mar 16, 2008 10:25 AM   
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The Fux News Twit said it, and we all know that everything said on that particular piece of lunar landscape is a lie or worse, so....

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Getting the Apocalypse back on Schedule
Posted by: ceti on Mar 16, 2008 1:52 PM   
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People should have realized that these attacks were coming, either to pigeonhole Obama, and make him even more compliant to the same forces that are destroying this country, or to push a McCain presidency which will lead to WWIII.

The malevolent forces were not going to countenance even a small break from orthodoxy that Obama represented, with fighting back. And they will make the Obama-Clinton feud look like a picnic.

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How to kill Fox News - A Primer
Posted by: Shenonymous on Mar 18, 2008 7:34 AM   
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The only way to end the kind of media reports that Fox engages in is for it to catch the Refuse-to-watch-Fox News deadly virus and it will die and just go away. Can you refrain from watching that programming?

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