Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
uh...
uh...
david patten show
david patten and dot com
david back and show i'm david patten
producer lewis's here t_v_ director in a time is here
everybody's here really today lewis
rare occasion when everybody actually makes it into the studio
whether or not we want to be here
that's another story louis refuses to say for sure
coming to you from the campus of greenfield community college of course
attorney studio in greenfield massachusetts
a lot to talk about a less i don't even know where to start i guess just with
the first thing on our on our itinerary
sponsored by a
foxnews
ran are very very different story
on foxnews dot com
relatives you basically every single other news outlet louis a few days ago
when we heard reports that a number
of u_s_ navy seals had been killed
and a helicopter crash in afghanistan
it was logical because of the nature of the event how tragic it was and what a
significant loss of represented not only in terms of lives and the number of
people effects
but also to the navy seal team
rightly so
the new york times
ran a story about
helicopter down by taliban fire
a_b_c_ news thirty-one americans killed
including twenty five seals an afghan chopper crash c_b_s_ news twenty two
navy seals that an afghan trapper crash and then send the city
aljazeera c_n_n_ bbc
everybody loves
talking about the tragic crash
in afghanistan except for fox news what story that fox news want to run well
fox news ran a story instead
reporting that the republican party
was calling
for the resignation
of treasury secretary tim geithner
and basically it was an article
that parotid
the republican talking points that have been sent out that morning
so if we are
ann lewis i know we don't even need more confirmation of this has been so long
that we've been covering this extensively
we don't need
any more information we could do it no more information in our conclusions
should still be the same
which is that fox news is a mouthpiece for the republican party
that fox news is not out there to actually provide news there's very
little news actually being delivered
but instead that like many other conservative media outlets that have now
made a habit
i've just parroting the talking points that are sent out everyday
by the republican party they're out there to advanced a particular agenda
because the news
that thirty thirty-one
twenty five depending on which report you looked at that particular day
many navy seals had been killed in a tragic
in afghanistan
but instead
foxnews choosing to push propaganda
talking points as a matter of fact your thought louis any surprise
it's strange to me because
this seems like the type of story
that fox news would normally love to report because the grad with uh...
you know get people angry about the terrorist about this about that and and
pushed the uh... the whole republicans are better at the fencing this was my
thought exactly
if this was during the george w_ bush presidency however
i could understand foxnews downplaying u_s_ deaths in afghanistan because they
needed to maintain the narrative
that we are there for noble reasons we're there for a good reasons and we
are there because we are winning
and you want to downplay the bad news there however you would think as louis
various duly m_s_a_ points out
now on the bronco obama
is the president and he actually sent more troops to afghanistan there would
be an interest among conservative media and saying
obama's president and we've got such a deadly day in afghanistan this is
absolutely horrible
what is going on with obama
however
i think that that heard ridge must have existed among some
ways superseded
by the urge to
who start pointing to
democrats pointing blame the democrats
as it relates to the debt deal i think it was just they've made more sense for
that they were more interested in that propaganda
than the anti obama propaganda as it relates to afghanistan
but i write it was a bit surprising to indeed
and what's what's even more sad
is that there are number now of right wingers that are coming out of the
woodwork and have been out of the woodwork better gladly taking
responsibility for
and even delighting
and the decline of america
you've seen this listen we've talked about it
so those who claim to be the most patriotic americans
seem to have a vested interest in the country doing as poorly as possible
simply
to blame democratic politicians which by the way makes no sense anyway
because whose
who's in power in the house of representatives
we have a divided government here
regardless lewis
we are seeing more and more of the so-called patriots
that want
the u_s_ to do poorly
simply to blame obama
i can't think of anything less patriotic
uh...
but just not
people who were there was here country burned just to make sure obama does not
get reelected with one of actual go ladies and gentlemen of then saying we
were right we need republicans there now of republicans will be elected
really you really want republicans to be handed
a country that is in shambles the shambles you're rooting for now
amidst your so-called patriotism
it makes no sense