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Sign Language: Nothing Gets by Her, Except Apostrophes

TresSugar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:30:00 -0700

Andrew WK Hams It Up on Fox News

TresSugar — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:30:00 -0700

Rocker Andrew WK, our scruffy Do, Dump or Marry candidate a while back, expresses how much he abhors infidelity on a recent Fox News interview. The irony is that this young rocker has probably been more faithful to his wife than lots of politicians who pay lip service to it. (Mark Sanford, et al - I'm talking to you guys.)

Briefing Book! Fox News Unveils New Post-Election Promo

LibertySugar — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:30:55 -0800

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Networks: What would MSNBC's look like? Fox News debuts first post-election promo. - 23/6
Abstinence: Practicing what they preach? Chicago abstinence teachers save first kiss for the alter. - Jezebel
Schools: Patriotism or brainwashing? Most US voters want kids to say the pledge of allegiance every day. - Donklephant
Tech: Would you upload video suggestion of how to improve your city? SF Mayor Gavin Newsom gets a YouTube page, and asks for videos but disables comments and ratings. - SFist

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GiggleSugar — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:00:00 -0800

Stripper, 44, Charges Age Discrimination

~~Exotic dancer~~ Stripper Kimberlee Ouwroulis filed a complaint against a ~~Gentleman's Club~~ strip joint in Toronto because she claims she was let go due to her age. She started stripping at 40 after a nasty divorce, was doing well monetarily, and had regular customers. But one day, her boss said, "Your time is up here." (Click here for her account.) I don't doubt that there were customers who preferred her looks and age, but I also don't doubt that stripping is mostly a young woman's game. What I find incredible is the hysterical conversation that comes up over this in this Fox News clip. First, anchor Megyn Kelly gets wished "Happy Birthday" and says, "Thankfully I'm not yet 44!" (Isn't that a tad inappropriate given the subject?) Then, the Fox News legal analyst says that if Ouwroulis's boss merely made "just one remark, that's not discrimination." Ummm, wha? "You're too old, scram!" isn't discrimination? I didn't go to law school, but that doesn't sound right. What does all of this bring up for you all? About stripping? Age? Fox News? Etc.? Sound off in the comments below.

Sarah Palin Hits the Postelection Interview Circuit

LibertySugar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:46:29 -0800

TV journalists have been striking the Sarah Palin iron while it's hot. Last night FOX News aired Palin's first postelection interview, after Greta van Susteren traveled to Alaska to debrief with Palin. And this morning, Sarah's chat with Matt Lauer aired on the Today show.

Speaking with Greta, Palin indicated that she would leave the decision to run for president in 2012 up to God. She said:

Faith is a very big part of my life. And putting my life in my creator's hands - this is what I always do. I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. . . . And if there is an open door in (20)12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door.

And regardless of her propositions for 2012, Palin believes the 2008 campaign trail wrapped up without any bitter loose ends. She told Matt Lauer this morning that: “I have nothing but honor and admiration and love for him and for his family. And I think that that is mutual. In fact, I talked to him just today, again - and [we’re] touching base nearly every day."

Now that the election is one week behind us, do you think we can put Sarah Palin behind, or has her time in the spotlight just begun?

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Fox News' Megyn Kelly Is Obsessed With Her Hair

GiggleSugar — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:49:59 -0700

"News at 11: I can't do a thing with my hair!" You know, as much as I'm a hater of Fox News, from the perspective of a lady with hairanoia issues of my own, I can relate, Megyn. Who cares that serious news is going on around you at the Democratic National Convention? This cow lick needs tending to, and it needs tending to now! (You gotta love the guy in the background supplying thought bubbles - especially the one about getting more Dippity-Do! Wheeee!)

Fox News Won't Air Anti-Obama Ad, Time For a Real Debate?

LibertySugar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:30:06 -0700

Fox News says it won't air an ad connecting Barack Obama to a 1960s radical William Ayers. The ad was produced by American Issues Project which happens to have a board member who was paid as a McCain consultant until July 2007. Thanks to its nonprofit status, AIP can spend an unlimited amount of money. Election experts worry that the ad is illegal because it advocates a candidate, which cannot be done with nonprofit funds. Fox News did accidentally air a portion of the ad, but even a nominal rejection signals that ads like these are starting to raise eyebrows.

Ayers is a college professor and former member of the Weather Underground, a radical organization that wanted to end the Vietnam War through acts of domestic terrorism. He served with Obama on a board until 2002, and also held a campaign event for Obama when he first decided to enter politics in the 1990s. The American Issues Project ad hits Obama hard saying:

Obama's political career was launched in Ayers's home. And the two served together on a left-wing board. Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?

Obama hasn't backed away from the Ayers issue. To find out what he says about Ayers, and to see the ad itself, read more.

Obama has painted the connection as innocent, saying the following:

Mr. Ayers is a 60-plus-year-old individual who lives in my neighborhood, who did something that I deplore 40 years ago when I was 6 or 7 years old. By the time I met him, he was a professor of education at the University of Illinois. We served on a board together that had Republicans, bankers, lawyers, focused on education.

While it's important for voters to have crucial information about the candidates and their policies, advertisements by somewhat rogue groups definitely toughens the task of sorting out truth from smears. What do you think of the ad?

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87% of Fox Viewers for McCain: News Watchers Discriminate?

CitizenSugar — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:00:03 -0700

Though media may or may not be biased (depending on your perception of it) viewers it seems might be. In a recent Rasmussen poll, the cable network of choice was a big indicator of how a viewer plans to vote in November.

The network that was most closely tied to a candidate? Fox News, with 87 percent of viewers saying they're likely to vote for John McCain. (The results are similar to 2004 when 88 percent favored Bush.) Though Fox has an anecdotally popular niche among conservatives, they're not the only ones with pals; other networks lined up as well. Over at CNN, 65 percent said they'll vote for Obama compared to 26 percent for McCain, and at MSNBC it's 63 percent to 30 percent for McCain, with the major networks showing similar results.

The results do bring up an interesting question about coverage - to see what it is, read more.

Do networks cover stories in a way to cater to one population or another - or do people seek out coverage they feel closely allies with their own beliefs? Or as one blogger at NewsBusters asks, "Chicken and egg question: which came first, Obama supporters or pro-Obama media coverage? Did all the glowing, sycophantic, journalistically unprofessional coverage of Obama by CNN, MSNBC, and the nets create this support?" What do you think? Any merit to this musing? When you pick your news source, what do you look for?

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Rapper Nas Gives Petition to "Propaganda Machine" Fox News

CitizenSugar — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:55:15 -0700

Rapper Nas joined with the Color of Change and MoveOn to deliver a petition to the offices of Fox News yesterday. Just after his controversial album hit number one, Nas took the podium protesting the racist attacks he sees coming from Fox against Black Americans and Barack Obama.

Delivering over 600,000 signatures to the network, Nas delivered a prepared speech saying, "We already knew that Fox is not a news network; they are a propaganda machine . . . Fox poisons this country every time they air racist propaganda and try to call it news. This should outrage every American that Fox uses hateful language to talk about the person that may be the first black president."

Fox declined receipt of the signatures, but issued a statement: "Fox News believes in all protesters exercising their right to free speech, including Nas, who has an album to promote."

That album now called Untitled had an original, much more controversial title. Does this affect his statement against Fox?

To see clips of the Fox language Nas finds offensive - served up on last night's Colbert Report (where the petition was delivered after Fox refused to accept it) - plus Nas's interview with Stephen, read more.

Nas was in studio with Stephen too - see the episode with his interview including talk of his feud with Bill O'Reilly.

Does Nas and the Color of Change/MoveOn petition have a point? Is Fox racist?

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Jesse Jackson Also Used the OTHER N Word! Hypocritical?

CitizenSugar — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:47 -0700

Thought last week's Jackson nuts heard round the world was a slip of the tongue? According to Michelle Malkin, the camera kept rolling - and recorded right over Jackson using the far more inflammatory N word. He said:

Barack . . . he’s talking down to black people . . . telling n*****s how to behave.

OK, I've heard rap, I get that the term is used colloquially. . . but the Rev. Jackson is the same man who condemned the usage of the word for all when he said this following Seinfeld's Michael Richard's n-word meltdown:

Its roots are rooted in hatred and pain and degradation. And whether it’s hatred toward African-Americans or whether it’s self-hatred, a concession toward it is still wrong.

Who are we to believe? The Jesse Jackson who drops the N bomb, or the one who despises it? Though the Fox event may be rooted in campaign rhetoric, the bigger, and more important, question is illustrated in Jackson's second quote: where he asserts that the word be retired from all usage. Should anyone use it - or is its power too great and negative connotations too deep to ever utter in modern society? Is a some-can, some-can't approach so hypocritical that it negates any cries of protest when instances like the Richard's explosion occur?

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