Show me on the doll where Herman Cain offered you a job . . .
And remember, the NY Post has a history of racism and dishonesty
The New York Post: We don't always issue apologies for political cartoons, but when we do, it is because we were blatantly racist as hell.
Remember that time a corporation called Haliburton/KBR allowed their employees to rape a female contractor named Jamie Leigh Jones? Remember how Sen. Franken fought to have this addressed by Congress and 30 male Republican Senators voted against it? Remember how even Jon Stewart at the time said of this instance "I understand we're a divided country, some disagreements on health care. How is ANYONE against this?" Remember how Fox News covered it? Hang on to that thought for a second, there will be a test at the end of this post.
As voice after voice after voice at Fox News continues to dismiss several women who have come out in public accusing GOP Presidential candidate Herman "I love the Koch Oligarchy" Cain of Sexual Harassment. At Fox, they smear the women accusing Herman Cain of sexual harassment as a "shameless" gold-digging "tart" They question the legitimacy of claims of sexual harassment against Herman Cain, who is a Republican but when it comes to questioning the legitimacy of reports of rape at #OccupyWallStreet anything Fox, NYPost or News Corp can find is absolutely legitimate, just ask any Rupert Murdoch employee!
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Candice M. Giove, a reporter from the New York Post, decided to spend a night in Zuccotti Park and share her experience with the world. It was pretty much what one would expect — a wide assortment of strangers, including protesters, anarchists, and people looking at the protest like it was a mini-Woodstock. But Giove also discovered a disturbing trend of under-reported sexual assaults, as well a transgender group that was contemplating starting its own police force.
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This morning, Giove went on FOX and Friends to discuss what she had seen. The sexual assault angle was buried in the middle and brought up relatively quickly, but Giove still painted a larger picture of what was going on in Zuccotti Park. “It’s really descended into madness and into chaos,” Giove said. “Some of the people that I met genuinely believed in this movement. But others that I met seem to have just joined the party. There’s rampant drug use.”
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Living in NYC you can see daily the smears against OWS that the NYPost passes off as "News". The Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News. So this is how the scam works, Fox & Friends brings on a NY Post writer to tell her "fair and balanced" story, all the while not mentioning that they all work for the same Republican Propaganda network.
You would think that a company that touts itself as "Fair and Balanced" would treat one issue of sexual crimes on one side as equal to the other, the same scrutiny that they demand be given to Mr. Cain's accusers should be given to #OWS accusers, but no, that isn't how Fox or the NYPost or any of Murdoch's NewsCorp outlets work. The sole purpose of News Corporation is to fight for everything the wealthiest 1% want and destroy everything else. Even Steve Jobs said recently to Murdoch that "The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you've cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society."*
*bold text added by the diarist
When it comes to defending the 1% and Corporate owned politicians Fox is there. When it comes to destroying anything that stands in the way of the Republican party and the agenda of the wealthiest 1%, Fox News is there. If I protest the right a corporation like KBR thinks it has to get away with the rape of Jamie Leigh Jones then Fox will attack me and Occupy Wall Street, if I suggest that Herman Cain should be under the same scrutiny the NY Post puts on #OWS for matters of sexual crime than all of that "Fair and balance" malarkey fades away quicker than Marcus Bachmann's sexual preference at a Barbara Streisand concert. Defend corporations who rape? Fox News is there! Defend a GOP Presidential candidate who is accused of committing sexual crimes? Fox News is there! Attack an anti-corporate greed and political corruption movement because of a small handful of tragic crimes that in no way is reflective of the overall movement in order to shift the focus away from your deeply flawed and corrupt field of Presidential candidates in the pocket of billionaires like Murdoch and David Koch? Fox News is there.
Fox News is like the Statefarm insurance commercial, except when you say "Fox News is there" a loud-mouthed anglo-saxon conservative shows up to steal your medicare and give it to the wealthiest 1% in the form of more corporate tax cuts.
Hell, that is exactly what Fox News is for!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality based world.
Peace and love to all, except the lying and despicable corporate Republican propaganda machine called News Corporation . . .
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