Fox News Host Refuses To Talk About Russia-Georgia War, Insists On Covering Edwards’ Affair

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filed appropriately at ThinkProgress under 'Braindead Media':
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Yesterday, Russia launched a major military offensive against Georgia, which Georgia has called “a state of war.” Nearly two thousand people have died and the conflict risks sparking a wider war. Also yesterday, former senator John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair in 2006.

Fox News has decided which story is worthy of more coverage. Today, host Gregg Jarrett interviewed PBS’s Bonnie Erbe. “We have these huge stories going on like the one you’re reporting in Georgia,” Erbe noted when asked about Edwards. Jarrett, however, completely ignored Erbe’s comment on Georgia and continued to talk about Edwards, offering praise for the National Enquirer:

JARRETT: You know, his excuse for lying is absolutely stunning. He claims he denied the affair because the reporting by the National Enquirer was “99 percent wrong.” Well, so far, they’ve been about 100 percent right.

Throughout the segment, Jarrett refused to talk about anything except for Edwards’s affair:

ERBE: The American public have told pollsters, this political season they want substance. Both these candidates have expressed support for allowing Georgia into NATO. … We could have been on the verge of nuclear war. Those are the kinds of the things that the American public wants to see discussed.

JARRETT: Right. You know, but getting back to Edwards, during the Monica Lewinsky affair, Edwards absolutely ripped into Bill Clinton.

Erbe called the Edwards story “water cooler talk,” noting again that Edwards’s affair is “not the stuff the American public wants to hear about in this election cycle.” Again, Jarrett wholly ignored her, responding with more Edwards talk:

JARRETT: Well it’s amazing, he thought could get away with it, and if he had become the Democratic nominee, my goodness.


Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/v/to35KSemVbs


LINK to story:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/09/fox-news-edwards/

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1. ..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3771273

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2. Hats off to that lady for calmly staying on point.

And to this Jarrett character to use his own word 'breathtaking' how obvious he made it that Faux is NOT a news channel. A tool of obstruction is what the American media has become, this video shows it in plain sight. Possible nuclear war scenario, not important. John Edwards dick, important. :crazy: Thanks for posting this and Peace. K&R.

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3. It's jaw-dropping how obvious it is! I'd rather the media didn't dwell on ANYONE'S ...

... sex/personal life and stuck to the news we NEED to know. But they do dwell on it - and WORSE - they only dwell on it when it's a DEMOCRAT'S personal life - they never mention the immoralities and transgressions of REPUBLICANS (and as I said I don't want them mentioning anyone's, preferably - I'd rather have some REAL news that I need to know rather than anyone's tabloid trash).

I HATE the lame$tream media.

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4. ibid. Couldn't agree more ....

Same here ...... and if not for the internet ..... well don't even want to think about that one. Peace.

on edit: In fact I just forwarded that old assignment from the DU activist corp. Here .....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=32240&mesg_id=32788

[Triana]

5. Thanks for the reminder! Posted on MySpace as a bulletin..I posted the formatting for that..

...in the thread in case anyone else wants to do it.

And, will be emailing it out as well.