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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 02:19 AM
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FOX News Priorities: One Missing White Girl More Important Than.....
FOX News Priorities: One Missing White Girl More Important Than A Supreme Court Nominee Or A Traitor In The White House Compromising National Security

Last night, the entire second half of Hannity & Colmes was devoted to the "breaking news" about a lake being drained in Aruba as part of the search for Natalee Holloway. There were several FOX News Alerts on the same subject throughout the first half of the show. A discussion on the role of religion in Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' life and legal decisions received a fraction of the time. There was absolutely no mention of Traitorgate though it's obviously an important issue to Alan Colmes because he hosted Ambassador Joseph Wilson on his radio show immediately following H&C.

It's not like there hasn't been news in the Traitorgate story. On Monday, Associated Press reported that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card that the Justice Department had opened an investigation, then waited 12 hours to tell anyone else at the White House. Can you say paper-shredder? But that news went unreported while Sean and Alan and Jug and Beth Twitty, Natalee's mother and stepfather, analyzed the fine points of the Aruban investigation and whether or not it has been thorough enough.

Of course, the extended time gave Sean ample opportunity to show off his detective skills. "There's a couple problems I have with this (new witness') report. I believe it's probably accurate. This person has come forward late but we know that they lied on this point so that might help them. Can we (my empahsis) check phone records? Can we check the time of the chat that they had on IM? Have they been forthcoming in any of those ways to help you? ...Have we gotten any word back on those samples at all? ...Do we want to go back to the issue, revisit the issue of these two brothers which have been released here and yet we know that they lied and we know they obstructed? At this point in time, isn't it time to revisit their involvement in this case?"

Sean wasn't the only legal expert, of course. Jug and Beth were ready as ever to express their superiority over the Arubans and their sense of entitlement to dictate legal procedures. Once again, Beth revealed that she doesn't need a trial to know whether or not someone is guilty when she said, "We've been looking to - if I could use this term - to nail (my emphasis) the three (suspects) together at that time and so this would be huge..."


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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 02:31 AM
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1. "Jug and Beth"
Jug Twitty for president. :eyes:

Where's the dead girl, Beth??????

No body yet. Have we checked all the 3rd world bordellos?
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 01:05 PM
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3. They must defend the virtue of Southern womanhood.
This story has great Fweeper Appeal for a number of reasons.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3726586
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 02:37 AM
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2. That's why
Do we not know that Fox stands for "fluff"? ? ? helloooooo

They brought you Monica Lewinsky (paid big mouth operative) in prime time as a meet mr. bachelor show!

I cannot even stand to watch that network. More power to ya.

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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 01:38 AM
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4. Results 1 - 10 of about 117 for Natalee Holloway Fox. (0.09 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 117 for Natalee Holloway Fox. (0.09 seconds)



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Aruban Firefighters Drain Lake in Holloway Search
All Headline News - 19 hours ago
... a lake in the city of Oranjestad, Arbua in the search for missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. The local police commissioner confirmed to Fox News that ...
Will There Be A Resolution To The Natalee Holloway Case? Useless-Knowledge.com
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WJXX Readers’ letters about the Holloway investigation in Aruba
Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - Jul 26, 2005
... Thank you to Geraldo Rivera and Greta Van Susteren and all of Fox News for keeping this story of kidnapped teen Natalee Holloway current and going. ...
New Witness Emerges In Natalee Holloway Case Blogger News Network
Aruba Case Reward Now $1 Million FOX News
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Is Greta Van Susteren Delusional?
News Hounds, CA - 10 hours ago
... her busy schedule of "reporting" on Natalee Holloway to give ... they ever did before." -- perhaps Fox viewers would ... comments, her coverage of SCOTUS vs Holloway). ...

Natalee Holloway's Top Spotted In Fox Video?
Blogger News Network - Jul 24, 2005
Reader Robert J emailed to tell me that alert Scared Monkey's readers claim to have spotted the top of Natalee Holloway in a video from Fox News. ...

FOX News Priorities: One Missing White Girl More Important Than A ...
News Hounds, CA - 23 hours ago
... & Colmes was devoted to the "breaking news" about a lake being drained in Aruba as part of the search for Natalee Holloway. There were several FOX News Alerts ...

DISAPPEARANCES HAVE EERIE PARALLELS
Miami Herald, FL - Jul 24, 2005
... other day, `Mom, when they find Natalee, she's going ... The intense media coverage of Holloway's disappearance has ... recently, including the O'Reilly Factor on Fox. ...

The Supreme Challenge: Zero Visuals Times 9
Washington Post, United States - Jul 25, 2005
... statutes, that's not the most exciting stuff," says Fox's Greta Van ... Scott Peterson, runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks and missing-in-Aruba Natalee Holloway. ...

No mention of Rove scandal on Special Report 7/25/05
News Hounds, CA - Jul 26, 2005
... Most Fox viewers know more about Natalee Holloway and Aruban law than they do about Karl Rove and the definition of treason, ssshh! ...

Van Susteren an unlikely fit, hit
Chicago Tribune, United States - Jul 22, 2005
... desk in a brightly lit studio on a recent night, the Fox News Channel ... viewer about a development in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba ...

Hair and Duct Tape; Latest Discovery in Holloway Disappearance
All Headline News - Jul 18, 2005
... Aruban police told FOX News that four strands of hair will undergo DNA testing in Holland to determine if they are those of Natalee Holloway; results may be ...


New! Get the latest news on Natalee Holloway Fox with Google Alerts.


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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 01:55 AM
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5. Is Greta Van Susteren Delusional?
Is Greta Van Susteren Delusional?

FNC's Greta Van Susteren took time out from her busy schedule of "reporting" on Natalee Holloway to give the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz a couple of quotes for his Monday (7/25) column. In the process, she provided readers of that column with a couple of real howlers.


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Here's Van Susteren on Roberts himself:

"He's distinguished himself in his career, but there's no novelty associated with him," Van Susteren says. "We've had white men who've gone to Harvard and been at the top of their class and are smart."


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But wait! It gets better! Here's Van Susteren explaining why the Holloway case continues to get big coverage on her program while Roberts's SCOTUS nomination is virtually ignored:

"I see it as a lesson in how we collect evidence," says Van Susteren, whose ratings have soared since Holloway's disappearance in late May. "Far more people are going to be touched by trial courts and police investigations than by Supreme Court decisions. I would not be so arrogant to think that only the Supreme Court matters. More people now know about Aruban law than they ever did before."


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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 02:06 AM
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6. It's Fox. Leave it be.
I don't think the people watching Fox would care much about Rove, even if they did know about it.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 02:14 AM
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7. i havent watched or followed this case from the beginning
there are so many damn threads on this person, still, after all this time. i figure something must be up. but not a clue. my right wing, fox new, rush listening brother has brought it up a couple times and i tell him, the girl is dead, it happens, it happens here in the u.s......why the big deal with this one. and he shuts up. i am not getting what the story is, anymore......it has been what, 3 months. weird
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