Fox 'News' Taunts Convention Demonstrators; They Respond With On-Air Chants of 'F*** Fox News' »
Posted By jovial 1 year, 2 months ago in NewsThe following video report, as seen live on Fox "News" yesterday, demonstrates that the far-right "news" channel has no clue what the words "raucous", "out of control" or "freedom of speech" actually mean, as "reporter" Griff Jenkins is seen taunting DNC Convention demonstrators, only to receive chants of "F*** Fox News", live on air, in the bargain...
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Grew up In Brooklyn. Joined the Navy in 1976 stayed in 10 years. Aircraft Electronics tech. Worked for Major Govt. contractor then settled in California ...
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jovial1 year, 2 months ago
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jordan111 year, 2 months ago
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They seemed a little surprised @ the crowds reaction to them. LMAO! That's what happens when you leave the la la world of faux news, and step into reality. LOLOL! They've done such a good job of creating a parallel universe, they haven't a clue!
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DropkickaLib1 year, 2 months ago
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jordan111 year, 2 months ago
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What a goof ball that reporter is! "Don't you believe in freedom of speech"...."don't you believe in freedom of speech"......"don't you believe in freedom of speech"......Good lord! He doesn't dictate when people talk, or about what. That isn't "freedom of speech." How old is he? Twelve?
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And LOL @ "F88k Fox News!" Now THAT is freedom of speech, ya goofy 'reporter' you.-
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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Ah, another Code Pink attitude. It is all right to shout over someone else trying to make a statement. Such an attitude. If you don't like what a person is saying yell them down. They seem to be teaching that at a lot of universities these days. Typical liberal mentality.
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smithichie1 year, 2 months ago
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Talk about reporters creating the news, that's what happens when you STAND in the middle of a parade. He would have gotten the same reaction doing that to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Oh, and it looked like a few hundred people, not 1000.-
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 2 months ago
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I am sure it was Fox's deliberate intention to create some news; to send in their people and get the crowd to start swinging, maybe get a riot going and then have the cops come in and bust everyone while the high-price comentators played old clipsof the 68 riot.
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It didn't work that way.
And everyone is a cameraman now.
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tehranchik1 year, 2 months ago
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I don't like the slant that fox came out with on this. Comparing it to a riot?! That's a little over the top---but that's fox.
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To be fair I'm glad I wasn't there and I think the crowd behaved badly as well. I've been to many demonstrations in Portland and our crowds have yet to act like this. I was very uncomfortable watching.-
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jovial1 year, 2 months ago
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Maybe it would be "nicer" for them to just start a libelous email and spread the word through the internet. Or maybe let themselves be interviewed only to find out later that the tape has been edited to make them out to be violent buffoons. The people that walk those protest lines are well aware of the antics of Fox News. They have the right to not be interviewed by people that they don't want to be interviewed by. That includes telling someone not so politely to **** off!
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tehranchik1 year, 2 months ago
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I agree jordan. There are probably thousands that would like to scream out in frustration. But look at the footage---look at it from a different point of view. You aren't right or left--democrat or republican----it's not very appealing. If I were on the fence--this might make me jump to the other side. Please don't misunderstand me. No one likes fox and their bias less than I do. I just don't like to be represented by a crowd out of control like this one was.
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Natureboy1 year, 2 months ago
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Hey, Tehranchik -
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I'm the veteran of quite a few protests as well. Haven't seen the video, Bradsblog is down at present, but considering the status quo, dropping the f-bomb is at best faint damnation.
The problem with actions like this, IMO, is not that they are crusty or rough around the edges, it is that it is at its heart poor strategy, in that we gather with might inferior to that of the state to meet the state head-on. Better that we end-run the state, build local economies, drop out of the global, teach kids that war is a racket, etc. Our present state is FUBAR, and that means F'd up beyond all reform. So lets stop trying to reform it. Build something better that does what the state is supposed to, and the state will wither.
All that being said, its still good to hit the streets periodically to loudly dissent, just so people see that they CAN still dissent without being whisked away to Gitmo. -
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Natureboy1 year, 2 months ago
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Hey, Tehranchik -
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There are two models of protest. The first is that you behave like proper little ladies and gentlemen and tailor your message to be bland and palatable to those who are sitting on their sofas watching the telly.
The second says that social change becomes inevitable when the status quo becomes unbearable, and it is bringing the strife, bringing the upset, shock, distress that helps that happen. Thinking back to the civil rights era and the Vietnam years, this latter model seems to have some validity. -
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Neophile1 year, 2 months ago
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Classic.
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Charlson1 year, 2 months ago
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Was the guy beatened and then arrested for threatening Cheney with the F-bomb? Something similar happened to a man at a mall who told Cheney he didn't support his war in Iraq nor his other policies and Cheney had his secret police, oh, I mean secret service, grab the guy and arrest him in front of his little daughter.
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smithichie1 year, 2 months ago
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Even FOX reported these folks weren't for Obama, however if you wish to lump all libs together it's fair game to lump you with these 2 'fine' folks.
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not2needy1 year, 2 months ago
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I wonder how the anchors on Fox get away with the things they say. Not long ago someone said something very racist, maybe the N word or something, i can't remember, but they all laughed about it. What kills me about that is, they have black reporters who join in.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 2 months ago
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It's an old trick to incite a riot in your oponents meetings.
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Or for newspeople to incite a crowd; shouting people make better news than calm people.
I have read that Martin Luther King worked to train marchers not to be provoked; whether they were spat on, shouted in the face, or even cattle prodded; they were not to strike back, not to riot, to stay on the march.
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donald511 year, 2 months ago
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Oh, if Reagan would not have vetoed the Truth in Telecommunications Act... we would never have seen such deceitful and outright unfair news as Faux Fox Facts!
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Why the regular fox viewers are right on general facts only about 35% of the time... worst of any regular news viewers in America (2003 PIPA Study).-
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schmirt1 year, 2 months ago
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I m afraid the level of facts right for viewers for any newscast would not be very high if I choose the facts to quiz. I saw the study and it appears some of the questions were themselves based on some false premises themselves. The study was discredited and it is funny that the results cannot be duplicated reliably. Of course, new permutations of such studies are attempted until the results confirm the bias of the test organizer---no matter how many other results are discarded.
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Frankly, the level of knowledge for most viewers of ANY network are not that impressive.
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/22/nas-to-deliver-600000-signature-petition-protesting-fox-newss-attacks-on-african-americans/
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TonyByron1 year, 2 months ago
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 2 months ago
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Jovial has provided us angry little people with many a laugh, TonyByron.
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Among the posters on Propeller he is a giant of the qualities you disdain.
Picture him as Gulliver, sitting on the beach of Lilliput, and telling jokes to a mob of miniscule, unimportant people you'd probably stamp on.
But it's a crowded beach, tonyb. There are a LOT of us angry little unsophisticates about this year.
And don't laugh; you didn't get the joke, and it wasn't meant for you anyway.
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schmirt1 year, 2 months ago
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II am sure the take on the story would be completely different if the crowd were prolife protesters and the reporters were not fox news. (See how awful those right wingers are?). One persons crowd of protesters may be anothers mob of 'brown shirts'.
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Perhaps the reporter "taunts" . How aweful!! A group that protests----chants, cheers, outrage' insults, blocking areas---are all elements to disrupt the order/ status quo. It is a mass "taunt". And if you dont buy that, just talk to police who do crowd control. It s all about "taunting".
The resort to obscenity just reflects to level of discourse---usually to make a point . But it is actually a failure because the point is lost. The expressions sabotage the message.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 2 months ago
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The sophistication, civility and intelligence of lloydm65 is so exactly a representation of the neo-con mind and spirit on Propeller, there can no longer be any hesitation, no longer be argumentation or obligation to debate for this nation.
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By the authority vested in me I nominate lloydm65 as the official spokesman for the right on propeller.
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BB641 year, 2 months ago
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Lloyd, I agree. I think Planned Parenthood should take a bunch of photos of this group of youth. Present this to the ultra right wing of my party and you're likely to get us to support all methods of birth control and sterilization. Never thought, looking at this group that de-evolution was possible. Time to start thinning the gene pool.
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Natureboy1 year, 2 months ago
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"told you biting those fart bubbles in the tub would change your views.Now you look at piles of dog poop with hair on top,and mistake them for people"
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Thanks for sharing. You obviously have a fecal fixation. While it is not ours to judge, this is a thread about news and protests. Perhaps you would be happier meeting with people who share your interest on some board dedicated to crap fetishists.
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thejoyofwar1 year, 2 months ago
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LOOK EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT TO GET A JOB WITH FOX NEWS YOU HAVE TO HAVE GAY SEX WITH RUPERT MURDOCH THE JEWISH GAY GUY FROM DOWN UNDER FOX NEWS IS SCUM BUT SINCE THEY SUPPORT RIGHT WING WACKOS THE REPUBLICANS LIKE THEM DIRTY FOREIGN OWNERSHIP THAT IS WHAT REPUBLICANS LIKE
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