Good grief, FOX's decision to run a special on global warming that accurately reflects the scientific consensus is really driving righties around the bend.
In the course of ranting about FOX's inexplicable capitulation to science radical lefties, Cliff Kincaid floats this theory:
Some observers think FNC turned its airtime over to [Robert] Kennedy [Jr.] because he may be in a position to help or hurt them. It has been reported that Kennedy wants to run for high office in New York, where FNC parent News Corporation is based. FNC is said to be cozying up to New York Senator Hillary Clinton for the same reason.
Who, I wonder, are these "some observers," and why are they not named? And why must Hillary Clinton play a role in every single right-wing conspiracy theory, no matter what the subject?
Ah well. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to contemplate the full ramifications of this wingnuttery.
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Kit Stolz Posted 6:55 am
21 Nov 2005
FOXNews is tightly tied in the public perception to a President and a political party whose approval ratings are plummeting. Mightn't covering global warming be a conveniently non-political way for FOX to show its independence of the failing Bush administration?
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jdhlax Posted 3:01 pm
28 Nov 2005
The Clintons are very pro-corporate, so they don't threaten the power elite. Hillary is even pro-Iraq war. By portraying Hillary Clinton as some raging commie or whatever, the right makes a right wing Democrat seem as if she's way off the radar by being too far to the left. This has the effect of portraying actual liberal Democrats or more progressive types like Greens as extreme radicals who aren't even worth listening to.
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