Fox News And Right-Wing Bloggers Attack Gore’s Nobel Prize

[Poiuyt]

Fox News And Right-Wing Bloggers Attack Gore’s Nobel Prize

On Fox and Friends this morning, co-host Steve Doocy wasted no time in attacking the announcement that Al Gore has been named a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. “Here’s something extraordinary,” Doocy sarcastically said. “What do Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, and that crazy Jimmy Carter have in common?” Co-host Gretchen Carlson responded, “They all won the Nobel Peace Prize?”

Fox then displayed a chyron of the last few winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, causing another co-host Brian Kilmeade, to complain: “There’s the last five winners — see Mohamed El Baradei. What do they have in common? I don’t know about the 2006 winner, but I will say 2005 and 2007 both anti-Bush.”

The Fox panel then turned its attack on An Inconvenient Truth, noting a recent court ruling by a British judge that Gore’s film should be accompanied by “guidance notes” when shown in school. That ruling is now being challenged by schools and teachers. After reporting on the British controversy over Gore’s film, Doocy said:

You know, I’m not a scientist. I don’t know if any of that stuff is true. I don’t think any of it’s true. I just know that my daughter watched the movie last week. … took three shots at George Bush. And my daughter, who’s just 18, was turned off by how it was political. So there you go.

http://thinkprogress.org/

[Coexist]

1. are they paranoid much?

it's gotta be all about them.

[Horse with no Name]

2. Yet she isn't turned off by how political Doocy is?

Do they really just hemorrhage at the mouth and not think about what they say?

[flvegan]

3. "...that crazy Jimmy Carter"

These people are brilliant.

[AX10]

4. Murdoch should be deported and his...

company should be smashed up!

[EnviroBat]

5. Could it be because your daughter is a little, brainwashed psychopath?

[poverlay]

10. Heaven forbid his daughter's beautiful mind be sullied with reality. That wouldn't be fair now.

She needs to join Barb Bush's "Beautiful Mind" club. They could sit around and crassly avoid viewing others' suffering all day long.

[ixion]

6. ah, the sound of neanderthals beating their clubs against the rocks

:evilgrin:

[LSK]

7. Colbert ripped Steve Doocy last night

with that hair bit.

[me9399]

8. and...

Gretchen Carlson is a has been washed up former Miss America.

[Johonny]

12. Colbert just iced him

Why do such light weights think they can out smart him?

[Burma Jones]

9. Do You Know those local TV reporters that are going around eating pies and

generally showing the audience that they're just as stupid as they are? That's Steve Doocy, idiot...I mean feature - reporter for Channel 4 in DC.

Fox News is blocked on my TV, who wants their kids to see that trash?

[KansDem]

11. Man, are they scared or what?

It's been barely 6 hours since the announcement and Fox, CNN, and the usual suspects on the neo-con roster of fascist hate-mongers are on the offensive.

Sweat much, neo-cons?

[janx]

17. Hell, Hannity was doing it YESTERDAY!

:rofl:

[WinkyDink]

13. Henry Kissinger. Still waiting for the RW's knock on him.

[DinahMoeHum]

14. Yeah, SUCK IT, Freepers !!!

:P::nopity::P:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. I really, really, really hate that Fox morning show

Something about the idea that there are some people out there who wake up to watch that crap to get the day's marching orders for their right wing talking points.

Thankfully, I don't think the audience is all that particuarly big.

Still, the perky "hosts", especially that dumb arse Brian Kilmeade, really annoy me.

[AX10]

16. It is my least favorite show on that channel.

Of course, they're all bad, but that show bothers me more for some reason.

[dysfunctional press]

24. why even watch fox news?

i've never seen their morning show, and have absolutely no intention or desire to do so.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. The worst was the ambush--I mean interview--of Janeane Garafalo in Feb. 03

Video is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JCakTroF88

Right before the Iraq War started. They actually invited Janeane on the show, and Brian "Please take me serious as a pundit and not a second rate sports reporter" Kilmeade immediately laid into her, parroting the false WMD claims of the White House at the time, and at one point shouting at Janeane "Saddam Hussein must love you!"

It was the single most unabashedly blatant example of how unfair and unbalanced Fox News really is. Yet in the end, Garafalo was right and Kilmeade was wrong. I knew it from the day I saw it, but isn't it funny you'd never hear anyone making the same WMD claims today after being proven so wrong.

[Phillycat]

18. God forbid Gore runs, as far as they're concerned. Gore would beat the Repuke.

Since they know Hillary will get beat in the general, they REALLY need him not to run.

[onenote]

19. so it doesn't occur to them why the winner of a "peace" prize would be opposed to bush?

No one could really be that stupid.

[IntravenousDemilo]

20. And in other news, Dog Bites Man. n/m

[Bitwit1234]

21. Anybody who is on, watches or is connected to Fox News

has to be an certifiable as crazy as the people who believe it is news. That says it all.

[me9399]

22. like my mother in law

I love the woman but thank goodness she does not vote.

[alfredo]

23. So they attack the person that brings good press for the US.

[LeFleur1]

25. Fox

Don't expect much from media outlets that schedule a stain on humanity like Ann Coulter on their shows. If they allow her to use them to run at the mouth spewing her poison, why would they recognize a statesman and a patriotic American such as Al Gore who has actually done something good for the world?

Anyone who listens to them for the truth is too far gone to matter.

Turn Faux off. Their lies and toxicity are too much to endure.

[alfredo]

29. I'd give up on life if Fox was the only outlook for news.

[madmom]

26. The man who wins a peace prize is smeared,the man who starts a war is glorified, WTF!!!

[spanone]

28. ah the global warming deniers......history will not be kind

[Bleacher Creature]

30. Like clockwork -- they attack the messenger rather than the message.

This crap's getting old, and WAY too predictable.

[Spirochete]

31. Too bad for them

The fact that all the right-wingers hate Gore's winning so bad just tickles me pink, because there isn't fuck-all they can do about it, except snivel, piss and moan.

[WFF]

32. So some of the past Nobel Peace Prize winners have been anti-Bush?

I think that should be a prerequisite!