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Newshounds Media Digest
Issue #30 - Week of 5/1-5/7/05
http://www.newshounds.us


1. Donna: With the continued focus on the state of Florida from Fox News, a story about a 13 year old girl who petitioned the State of Florida for an abortion held the interests of many. Plus, it gave many readers the opportunity to hear Shepard Smith tell his fellow Fox associate, Bill O'Reilly, that he was 'wrong'. http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/03/shepard_smith_says_bill_oreilly_is_wrong_about_florida.php#more


2. Ellen: Anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley admitted on Alan Colmes' FOX radio show to having had sex with a mule. Horsley wasn't joking but our readers' humorous comments on this thread will likely make you laugh out loud. http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/06/bizarre_sex_habits_of_the_extreme_rightwing.php


3. Marie Therese: Bill O'Reilly said last week that he believed that Private Lynndie England and former Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski should be severely punished for their roles in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal. However, during the same show, he recommended that the young Marine who shot three wounded Iraqis in a Fallujah mosque deserves a promotion because of "what he's been through." This post generated a flurry of excellent comments, many by present and former military personnel. http://tinyurl.com/bjxwz


4. Melanie: Fox News creates its own reality and reports it as fact and as "news" to its unsuspecting and trusting audience. http://tinyurl.com/7589j


5. Nancy: Monday night (5/2) on Special Report, Brit Hume, his panel of "All-Stars" and Jim Angle all repeated the lie that Democrats have not offered any alternative plan to Bush's SocSecScam. If they aren't lying about this, but are simply unaware of the existence of at least 4 alternate proposals, then they're the most ill-informed group of talking heads on the air. http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/04/the_spin_never_stops_neither_do_the_lies.php#more


6. ChrisH: The White House needs the stop-at-nothing Hammer out in the field for it. Fox News obligingly ignores Tom DeLay's unique and varied ethics missteps, downplays the more garden-variety corruption, and chooses to highlight instead his "devout and humble servant" shtick. http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/05/tom_delay_works_on_humility_every_day.php#more


7. Deborah: The right wing attack machine is ready to come out in force to destroy Hillary Clinton's character before she even decides to run in 2008. A new website is now up dedicated to this task and they're asking for money to do the job right. http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/03/conservative_death_squad_targets_hillary.php#more



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[ellenfl]

1. thank you! i try to watch fox but . . .

it just makes me retch. thanks again.

ellen fl