Where Dummies Go For Business News

August 10, 2010

The Dummies call for other dummies to come watch Fox Business

Notes;
1.” The network that uncovered the truth about so many scary things, like the Obamacare death panels.”

(Small sample from hundreds of references ):

“They’re going to vote against it or for it, that’s right. The Medicare Advisory Board you speak about is a particularly dangerous thing, because it’s going to set up for Medicare only, for the elderly only, protocols and standards of care where they are going to be saying no, you can’t give this person a hip replacement, they are too old, and no, you can’t treat this person with colon cancer with the best drug available. I know it increases the chance of his dying, but it’s beyond the cost parameters that we are prepared to allow. And this will be done by this federal board, which is really the death panel that Sarah Palin was talking about. That’s an oversimplification, but the basic concept isn’t far wrong.” Dick Morris, Fox & Friends, December 23, 2009

“…and I hate to say it because it’s become demonized by the left, the notion of death panels. This notion that death panels is some right wing concept is not accurate. And there is no death panel, per se, but when you act in a way that is reminiscent of Great Britain, and he is the biggest fan in the world and has received Knighthood from Great Britain, and has praised the health care system in the United Kingdom, when you say that, and when people die before they should in Great Britain, and when they die at higher rates in terms of cancer, and when they die of higher rates of heart attacks in hospital, isn’t that in effect a death panel?” Peter Johnson Jr., Fox & Friends, July 8, 2010

1b “FEMA Concentration Camps in Wyoming”

Transcript of Glenn Beck and Steve Doocy, Fox & Friends, March 4, 2010, as found at:http://mediamatters.org/research/200906120029

BECK: They understand freedom. We don’t even understand freedom anymore. We are a country that is headed towards socialism, totalitarianism, beyond your wildest imagination. I have to tell you, I’m doing a story tonight that I wanted to debunk these FEMA camps. I’m tired of hearing — you know about them?

STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Sure.

BECK: I’m tired of hearing — I wanted to debunk them. Well, we’ve now for several days done research on them. I can’t debunk them. And we’re going to carry the story tonight.

KILMEADE: I don’t know anything about them, so –

BECK: It is — it is our government. If you trust our government, it’s fine. If you have any kind of fear that we might be headed towards a totalitarian state, look out, buckle up. There is something going on in our country that is — ain’t good.

2. “Obama’s Marxist leanings”

“Communism. That was the dream of his father. That’s why he left his son, to go back to Kenya and start a communist country. And that was the dream of his grandfather as well, not necessarily communism or Marxism, but to shake off the shackles of imperialism of Great Britain. That was the dream of his grandfather, his grandfather couldn’t get it done. His father then left the United States, abandoned his son, to go back to Kenya to complete the dream of his father. So, Barack Obama — now this is the dream of three fathers. Barack Obama’s grandfather, Barack Obama’s father, and is it Barack Obama’s dream? What is Barack Obama’s dream? You have to ask yourself: what were the dreams of his father? Marxism.” Glenn Beck, The Glenn Beck Program, July 30, 2010

3. “with the secular socialist machine”

Multiple mentions, especially from Sean Hannity, including this May 17, 2010 transcript of an interview with Newt Gingrich discussing his book, “To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular Socialist Machine”.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593070,00.html

4. “black panther voter intimidation cover up”

For a thorough documentation of Fox News promotion of the fake voter intimidation cover up story by Beck, Hannity and Megyn Kelly see Media Matters:http://mediamatters.org/research/201007220032

5. Climategate

For a thorough documentation of Fox News advancing “climategate”, a claim that stolen emails revealed climate change scientists engaged in wrong-doing, such as “fudging data”, see Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/research/201007010052

6 All the gold references
Goldline is a long-time sponsor of Glenn Beck. Tune in to Fox Business or Fox news any day to hear the wonders of gold and free markets and the horrors of floating currencies and taxes.

7. The advertisers

Random sample of advertisers as seen on Friday, August 7, 2010 and Monday, August 10, 2010 mid-afternoon.