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April 15, 2013 · 10:04 PM

Boston Marathon Explosions: Fox News Goes Straight to Clueless Joe Arpaio for Interview

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Fox News and Joe Arpaio are one in the same…clueless.

Phoenix News Times - 2:30 pm

The news is still unfolding about the explosions near the finish line at the Boston Marathon today, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio already has managed to exploit the situation on national television, thanks to Fox News.

“They’re even after the sheriff here,” Arpaio told Fox’s Neil Cavuto.

As you’d expect, Arpaio knew absolutely nothing about the situation but was more than willing to exploit the dead and wounded for some attention.

“I just had a guy send me a bomb,” Arpaio said (per a transcript), 13 seconds into the interview. “Fortunately, it didn’t get to my office.”

Cavuto asked Arpaio about national security, which, of course, Arpaio narrowed down to border security and, of course, himself.

“They’re trying to do a good job at the border,” he said. “I have five threats to hit me with cartels. The latest one last week, so maybe being high-profile from Washington to Maricopa County with certain groups that don’t like the sheriff, and I’ll tell you I’m not leaving.”

Arpaio followed up amid the report on the dead and wounded in Boston, “I’ll be the sheriff for many years.”

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November 26, 2012 · 11:26 PM

Grover Norquist Makes ‘Tony Soprano-Like’ Threats to Republicans Who Dare to Break His Pledge

I was looking for this particular video to embed on TFC and found a pretty good  political You Tube© channel in the process.

Grover Norquist appears to be panicking a bit since several Senators have said they would not honor the Norquist Pledge which most of them signed upon entering office.

NewsPoliticsNow

After defending his anti-tax pledge to Soledad O’Brien on CNN this morning, Grover Norquist turned to Fox News this afternoon to continue the damage control.

Pressed by Neil Cavuto to explain why Republican leadership seems to be indicating they are open to some tax increases to reach a deal to resolve the fiscal cliff, Norquist returned to his line that GOP legislators have a had some “impure thoughts” over the last few days but have not actually voted to raise taxes yet.

Over the course of the interview, Cavuto described Norquist as both a “unique, powerful Wizard of Oz figure who has been able to keep Republicans in lock step with your way of thinking” and as a “Tony Soprano-like” mob boss who will “remember these guys who turn on you.”

As he tends to do, Norquist adopted a modest posture, saying that the pledge is not about him but it is about the American people. But that did not stop him from issuing veiled threats to Republicans who have begun to turn away from him.

Norquist recalled President George H.W. Bush, who failed to secure a second term after breaking his “no new taxes” promise. He also chalked up Tennessee Senator Bob Corker’s election to his embrace of the pledge and questioned how Corker’s constituents will react if he breaks the pledge now.

As the country approaches the fiscal cliff deadline at the end of this year, it appears that a compromise can only be achieved if Republican leaders effectively cast off Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pledge. Whether they ultimately dismiss Norquist and his pledge or stick by it in an attempt to save their seats remains to be seen.

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October 10, 2012 · 6:54 AM

Wednesday Blog Roundup – 10-10-2012

President Barack Obama

The Day In 100 Seconds

Overload: Polling hype sways voters

Romney’s chance to win still only 28%

Fox News Starting To Get A Wee Bit Cocky

Stupid Right-Wing Tweets: Donald Trump Edition

CNN Poll: Ohio Stays In Obama Column After Debate

Romney’s Foreign Policy a Puzzle That Doesn’t Fit Together

Fox & Friends Cheerleads Paul Ryan ‘Sticking It To The Press’

Fox’s Neil Cavuto To “BB”: “We All Love You, Big Bird. We Just Think It’s Time You Flew The Coop”

Fox News Analyst: Deadly Meningitis Outbreak Demonstrates Need For Less Government Regulation

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January 14, 2012 · 1:05 AM

Irony Alert! Fox News’ Stossel Says “Dumb People” Shouldn’t Vote

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Pot, meet kettle…

NewsHounds

On [Thursday's] (1/12/12) Your World, Fox Business Channel’s John Stossel added another bogus argument to the Republican War on Voting when he told host Neil Cavuto that “we shouldn’t have these get-out-the-vote campaigns” because “our intuition sets us astray in a modern economy” and “dumb” or uninformed people shouldn’t vote.  That’s pretty funny coming from the channel whose viewers have been shown to be less informed about major news stories than the average American.

“The people who participate [in voting] oughtta be the ones who pay attention” Stossel declared, ignoring that, according to a 2011Farleigh Dickenson University poll,  people who “pay attention” to Fox News proved to be less well informed than those who get their news elsewhere; in fact, according to an analyst for the polling group, “it can be argued that the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all.” This comes on the heels of a 2010 study by the University of Marylanddemonstrating that Fox News viewers, regardless of political information, were “significantly more likely” to believe false information about American politics.

Stossel has been banging the “stupid people shouldn’t vote” drum for years, as  this 2008 video  illustrates. Here he cites the book  The Myth of the Rational Voter by Brian Caplan, which suggests that “democracies do less and let markets take up the slack” (yeah, we see where that has gotten us!) because voters are guided more by “popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases” than by facts. Wait a minute, don’t those comprise the very foundation on which Republican campaigning is based? Newt Gingrich certainly thought so when he authored a series of propaganda guides including Language: A Key Method of Control for the GOPAC in the early 1990’s.

There is no doubt that huge swathes of the American pubic are “low information voters”, but what Stossel and Caplan are advocating is nothing less than government by an elite, selected by equally elite voters who would probably need a degree in economics to come up to scratch (hence Stossel’s seemingly odd remark about voters astray in a modern economy). And of course, the “right” economics would be libertarian free-market economics – the very economics promoted by the Roger Ailes Fear Factory which – well, whadddaya know! – promotes popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases in the service of the Republican party!

“If you’re not paying attention it’s your patriotic duty not to vote” says Stossel. If Stossel wants to do something truly patriotic about “dumb” voters perhaps he should start with the propaganda “news” organization he works for.

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May 25, 2011 · 3:53 PM

‘Heckuva Job’ Brownie Criticizes Obama For ‘Toasting The Queen’ During Tornadoes

These people are becoming unbearable with their Obama Derangement Syndrome. 

They actually think that the POTUS should have cut his state visits short because of a rash of unpredictable tornadoes, which by the way, is probably a result of global warming, to come back home and direct FEMA and other related agencies to do whatever it is they do. 

Oh, wait!  He did exactly that, while in Ireland and in Great Britain.

Think Progress

After violent storms slammed three mid-western states and claimed 14 lives yesterday, President Obama announced he would be returning from his long-planned European trip to visit Missouri on Sunday. But that wasn’t good enough for Michael Brown, the FEMA director during Hurricane Katrina who is widely blamedfor the Bush administration’s incompetent handling of the crisis that left tens of thousands of New Orleans residents stranded and helpless.

Brown, whose prior experience included working for the International Arabian Horse Association, resigned in disgrace amid a public uproar when it came to light that he had virtually no experience in disaster response — but only after President Bush famously patted him on the back in front of TV cameras, telling him, ”Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” At least 1,836 people died as a result of the worst natural disaster in modern American history, many because FEMA help did not come quickly enough. As the nation reeled at images of the devastation, Brown tried to blame the victims themselves “by noting that the crisis was worsened by New Orleans residents who did not comply with a mandatory evacuation order.”

Yet Brown evidently thinks he has the moral authority to condemn Obama’s handling of the tornado disaster. In an interview with Fox New’s Neil Cavuto, Brown blasted Obama for “playing ping-pong” while people died and “being more concerned with toasting the Queen” than taking care of tornado victims:

BROWN: In this situation, they’re almost tone-deaf. I mean, you stop and think about it, your press office should be recognizing that the visuals that Americans are seeing is of this devastation. Don’t put a visual of the president up playing ping-pong. It’s awful.

CAVUTO: So you don’t have a problem with the president being abroad with the Queen and the Irish prime minster just doing fun stuff?

BROWN: No, I do have a problem with that. It’s not like he’s at a G8 summit. This is not a diplomatic trip of any sort. This is just a — he went to Ireland for God’s sake to visit relatives! It’s time to come home…in this case, the perception is that the president is detached. He’s more concerned about raising a toast to the Queen. People have died.

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