Bjørn Lomborg and Dr. Roy Spencer to be in Fox News special tonight on climate skepticsm and green agenda

Tsk… RoHa got pwned.
As the man said “…the number of viewers doesn’t matter. sarc.” Enjoy your little bubble of reality. It’s safe, it’s cuddly, and you don’t have to think for yourself.
Personally, I don’t watch Fox that often, but If there is a news story that needs to be viewed, I get less tripe from Fox than any of the others.
So.. go ahead, believe what you wish. We will sit here and pity your ignorance.

Ro Ha – A major UCLA journalism study covered US media outlets, addressing their bias and/or balance in citations. Their published study, actually recorded the citations that varied in time, but were over 5 years of records in the case of FoxNews. FoxNews Special Report was the most balanced, but it was just a tiny bit liberal at .503 in their verifiable citations. ABC World News was much more liberal biased at .65, followed by even more liberal media groups USA Today .67, NBC .71, LA Times .73, CBS Evening News .74 and the New York times was the most biased at .79 or basically as they say, “completely in the tank.” They were measuring the “Fraction Liberal” so that .5 would be perfect balance, and FoxNews came in at .503. It turns out that what some complain about as conservative bias in the actual news reports by Fox News Special Report is actually balanced coverage. They covered both sides, or multiple sides of issues, which included major stories and analysis that most of the other media outlets are censoring from the public.

Let’s see RoHa, you say FOX has no credibility, is war-crazed but agree that it has the largest U.S. cable viewership, but you sure can’t get any more of a centralized government figure than a ruthless dictator, can you? Sir, I fail to witness your rationale.

Ben, you got a link to that study?

There’s an old joke that Rupert Murdoch found a niche market for Fox, half of America.
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I’m always amused when someone starts spouting the “FoxNews is a right wing mouthpiece” stuff. The FACT is that FoxNews is the only balanced media. I hear both sides of everything on FoxNews. There is not another media outlet that even pretends to be in the middle.
Yes, there are rabid right-wing supporters on FNC, and there are rabid left-wing supporters too… and even some of those rabid centrists.
However, CNN and MSNBC are ONLY the rabid left-wingers. And they’re pitifully biased. That’s why we call them the communist news network, and MSDNC. One-sided reporting is morally wrong and reprehensible. Ask any right-winger… they’d rather hear BOTH sides than live in a one-sided echo chamber.
That is why FoxNews beats the others in viewership. People actually don’t WANT to be told what to think, they’d rather hear both sides and figure out where they stand, all by themselves.

I can’t stand MSNBC and I’m not a huge fan of CNN, but the thought of Fox News being to the left is laughable.

You all might like this… I sorta thought about it a couple of times… an interesting take on our leader.
Political Twins—Nixon and Obama
Posted Saturday, October 6, 2012, at 6:05 AM
The personalities, policies and political philosophies of Presidents Richard Nixon and Barack Obama are indistinguishable.
Both presidents are poster children for narcissism and arrogance, believing their executive power trumped the separation of powers.
Nixon: “Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.”
Obama: “In the absence of any action from Congress to fix our immigration system,” the president enacted, what some would call unconstitutional, a two-year temporary version of the “Dream Act” which failed to get passed in Congress.
Each president had his own secret “enemies list” while campaigning and governing. Both presidents had an obvious disdain for any press coverage that was critical or negative.
In 1971, Nixon said “The press is your enemy.” “Treat them nice…..but don’t help the bast**ds.” Nixon had approved secret investigations into the press, anti-war protestors, and people in the Democrat party.
The President over the past four years has been available for all the major Sunday news talk shows, except for Fox. The last appearance President Obama made on Fox News Sunday was April 27, 2008, as a senator. He told Chris Wallace in closing the interview, he would definitely be back. That was over 1,600 days ago. Obama, since becoming our defender of the “free press”, said Fox News is a threat; “It’s a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country.”
Nixon once directed his counsel, John Ehrlichman to have the IRS secretly investigate the tax returns of all Democratic presidential candidates in order to look for dirt. He actually joked, “There’s a lot of gold in them thar hills.”
In April, 2012, the Wall Street Journal criticized the Obama campaign for attacking private American citizens who donated to Mitt Romney. Here’s an excerpt:
“So you engage in your democratic right to send a check. Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign…shames you for “betting against America,” and accuses you of having a “less-than-reputable” record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.”
Nixon’s administration established The Environmental Protection Association, while Obama’s administration has used the EPA to enforce his green energy agenda and reward his donors.
Stanford University professor, Peter Schweizer, author of the book, “Throw Them All Out”, said there were 31 Obama bundlers and big donors whose firms received more than $16 billion in clean energy loans and grants. Oklahoma billionaire and Obama campaign bundler, George Kaiser, was the main investor in Solyndra, which received $573 million taxpayer dollars, and eventually went bankrupt.
President Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Salt 1, in May of 1972.
President Obama and Russian leader, Dmitri Medvedev, in 2010 signed START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty. The treaty shrinks each nation’s nuclear arsenal by two-thirds.
Nixon, in 1972, was the first U.S. President to visit the People’s Republic of China. His visit to China warmed the relationship with the U.S, and helped isolate the Soviet Union.
President Obama tried to warm up to China by throwing them a lavish state dinner with Hollywood A-listers and prominent business people in 2011. Yet, now in 2012, the United States has become isolated. China and Russia have become allies.
And finally, Nixon made an appearance on television’s comedy show, Laugh-In, and infamously said the trademark line, “Sock it to me.”
President Obama has appeared on The View, Oprah, the Tonight Show, Late Night, the Daily Show, SNL, ESPN, American Idol, the Today Show, Lopez Tonight, etc.; He’s been crowned “The Celebrity-in-Chief.” Do we really want four more years of a cool, “Pop-Culture President?”
Richard Nixon was forced to resign on August 9, 1974.
Barack Obama will be forced to retire on January, 20th, 2013.
http://www.semissourian.com/blogs/piercey/entry/49806/

On RoHa and Fox – it’s always amusing when someone uses a “reputation” to make a case, when it’s also obvious that they have never taken the trouble to watch Fox for themselves. Much easier to accept the “reputation” as fact, isn’t it? If “everyone has that opinion”, who am I to dispute that and see for myself?

RoHa says:
“…….. have heard about it…….”
Really! And your unbiased source was?

Regarding “opinions”, check out the Dilbert strip for Oct 7, 2012:
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-10-07/
So much for RoHa’s “uninformed opinion”.

Meanwhile….National Geographic gave up all pretence at objective science and history….opting for politically timed, politically driven propaganda FICTION, explained here:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/06/national-geographic-denies-political-bias-influenced-decision-to-release-pro-obama-film-before-election/
We must save the fearless leader who brought us Chu-Hansen-Jackson “Restored” science !

FOX news is pretty clearly centrist/center left. To many people use the political scale of stalin is a moderate and hitler was rightwing to determine left/right. When using the science scale of collectivism/individualism fox new is clearly centrist.
Another issue is the fact that fox news has a lot of commentators on it. Fox news never claimed that say glenn beck was a hard news person… yet groups like MNSBC claimed that oblermann, chris mathrews, etc was/is hard news. When one removes the commentators and stick solely to the news generally that news is center left on fox news.
If you want to see a center-right/rightwing network I would suggest fox business news. They are clearly center-right/rightwing. Its hard not to find a day when someone is not openly calling obama a spade… aka a socialist on that network. Getting someone on fox news even the commentators to call obama a socialist is near impossible.