MediaMatters: Fox:"A Lamont Win, Bad News For Democracy In Mideast?"

[leftchick]

this is just so, so disgusting even for fox.....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200608080007


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On the August 8 edition of Fox News Live, host Gregg Jarrett injected a stream of Republican talking points into coverage of that day's Connecticut Democratic Senate primary election, in which Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman was challenged by Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont. Jarrett's rhetoric was accompanied by a series of on-screen graphics that suggested a Lamont victory would be "bad news for democracy in Mideast," and would show that the Democratic Party has "forgotten the lessons of 9/11" and is "soft on terror." Additionally, Jarrett repeatedly suggested that if Lamont wins, it would be a sign of Democrats "becom the sort-of modern-day <1972 Democratic presidential nominee> George McGovern, who got really creamed politically for his anti-war stance." But as Media Matters for America has previously noted, recent polling shows that most Americans believe that the Iraq war was a mistake.

In interviewing Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), a supporter of Lieberman, Jarrett asked: "Lieberman's lost a lot of support because he supported democracy in Iraq. If he loses, is that a bad sign for other candidates who support democracy in the Middle East?"

During the segment, an onscreen graphic also read: "A Lamont win, bad news for democracy in Mideast?"

Jarrett later hosted a panel discussion featuring Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor Mary Anne Marsh and Jan Baran, former general counsel for the Republican National Committee and the 1988 Bush campaign. Touting "a joke going around that Cindy Sheehan will be Lamont's chief of staff if he wins," Jarrett asked Baran if "the GOP" is "secretly pulling for Lamont because he may symbolize this sort of terminal political illness called McGovernism that could infect the Democratic Party."

[keta11]

1. I guess Jarrett cant feel the Ned-mentum!!! n/t

[Vincardog]

2. All right all you RepubliCANT voters. Why not vote for Lamot?

Help defeat the Democrats by slapping down JOE.

[marmar]

3. The Fox lie machine has been churning out record levels of bullshit lately

Full panic mode.

[KoKo]

4. And...MSNBC's Cris Jansing said "anti-defense Democrats" would win if

lieberman loses to Lamont.

Karl Rove and his evil gnomes are very busy today. "anti-defense" Dems....I guess this won't be the last time we will hear that one. We need to start cataloging the attacks they are "test driving" them for November.

:-(

[ClintonTyree]

9. I AM anti-defense.

With 5% of the world's population we spend 50% of the world's total outlay for defense. THAT is a travesty! Our country's priorities are all fucked up. Turn the swords into plowshares, friends! :)

Alright, I agree we need to spend SOME money on defense, but we've raised the level to insane proportions. It's time to gear down the military-industrial complex to sane levels.

[hogwyld]

12. Amen brother!

I think we should cap the military at 1% of GDP. That's still more than any other nation. We could use the rest to rebuild our country, provide universal healthcare, and pay down the debt so our children and grandchildren won't have to. Besides, if we ever invested in a manhattan style project for alternative energy, we would have true security!

[mike_c]

5. perpetual war = democracy, neocolonialism = democracy...

...and serfing for big oil and Israel's expansion = democracy. Get it?

[The Deacon]

6. I Used To Like Gregg Jarrett

Now I wish the tornado had caught him - can't believe the same guy from KSNW is spewing this batshit crazy stuff.

[ClintonTyree]

7. Consider it a blessing.......

that FAUX continues to lose viewership. The fewer people that hear this despicable pack of lies, the better. FAUX is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. A vote for Lamont is a vote FOR sanity and a vote AGAINST, "staying the course". "Staying the course" IS NOT a foreign policy. :grr:

[tabasco]

8. I can only laugh at the absurdity.

:rofl:


I am over the shock that the country has become so much like Oceania.

[mom cat]

10. Seems like the war on Lebanon has been terrible for that middle

eastern democracy. ... just saying.

[warrens]

11. Bwahahahaha, WHAT FUCKING DEMOCRACY?

The one where no one will leave their house or the one that is slowly turning a neighbor into a charnal house? Or, for that matter, the one that still has a FUCKING KING?

God, I hate repuke fascists.

[Bluebear]

14. The one that W and Jesus were going to spread throughout the land!

:crazy:

[CrushTheDLC]

13. FAUX "News" can blow me.

Specifically Laurie Dhue.....

But seriously..... that network needs to crawl back up Murdoch's ass and die already.