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In 1996, Fox News began broadcasting extreme right propaganda labeled "fair and balanced" reporting.

Fox "News" today is little more than an advertising arm of the current White House administration. With a clear intent : disseminate false information to support a government administration that came to power under questionable circumstances; maintain a government administration that remains in power through more questionable circumstances; and disseminate false and misleading information to the American People to support that current [and questionable] government administration.

We, the American People, will no longer tolerate or support advertising or political propaganda in the guise of "news." We will no longer tolerate or accept the brainwashing of America. We will no longer tolerate or support any sponsor who financially supports or contributes to Fox News' continued and mis-labeled "journalistic" practices.

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ANDY SCHUB

Andrew Schub is our Newsletter Contributing Editor. He will be posting weekly stories on things Bush and Fox News you may not know about but should, may know about but do not know enough about, or may know about but dagnabbit you just need to know more.

SENILITY WHAT?
by Andrew Schub

Bush and his administration count on the fact, as a people, Americans have poor long-term memory. And when Pope John Paul II died recently, the right-wing were all too happy to overlook the strong, Um, ambiguous stance Pope John Paul II took against the "war" in Iraq. That was problematic while the Pope was alive. But after he died? Not a problem.

After Pope John Paul II died, , Bush's administration claimed the dead leader of the Catholic church as one of their own seconds. But. That wasn't always the case.

On Fox News anchor O'Reilly's April 8, 2005, radio show, one of O'Reilly's listeners called him on his new found devotion to the Pope, reminding O'Reilly he once called the pope "senile."

O'Reilly vehemently denied he ever said that, but --

He most definitely did, on the December 12, 2002, episode of his FOX television show.

O'REILLY: "Well, wait a minute. Hear me out. We all know, everybody knows -- even Law knows. Everybody but the Pope, who's too senile to know, and I say that with all due respect. I don't think the Pope is lucid, I don't think he knows what's going on, and I say that because Law's been in Rome for five days, has not seen the Pope, has not even talked to the pope, and this is the worst scandal in a century... "

MEDIA MATTERS : THE POPE IS SENILE

So. O'Reilly said the Pope, the foremost representative of the Catholic Church and, um, GOD, was addled, wrongheaded, and senile. And then, after the Pope was dead? O'Reilly and the Pope were on a first name basis.

Nice job, O'Reilly. [cough cough cough]

Andrew Schub

* updated 04.17.05

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