OT: Bret Baier, how full of sh*t?

[no_such_reality]

So I don’t watch Fox news. I’ve never heard of Bret Baier. Suddenly, my facebook feed has several links to Bret claiming two FBI insiders saying ‘indictment’ likely ‘unless obstructed’.

Now, it’s Fox news, which as far as I can tell in the past is the diametric opposite of CNN.

So is this guy just a TV version of Rush Limbaugh?

Personally, I find this very kind of reporting line very inflammatory and reckless unless they’ve carefully vetted their sources, which as of late seems a source is nothing more than someone running their mouth with any tenuous connection.

[outtamojo]

[quote=no_such_reality]So I don’t watch Fox news. I’ve never heard of Bret Baier. Suddenly, my facebook feed has several links to Bret claiming two FBI insiders saying ‘indictment’ likely ‘unless obstructed’.

Now, it’s Fox news, which as far as I can tell in the past is the diametric opposite of CNN.

So is this guy just a TV version of Rush Limbaugh?

Personally, I find this very kind of reporting line very inflammatory and reckless unless they’ve carefully vetted their sources, which as of late seems a source is nothing more than someone running their mouth with any tenuous connection.[/quote]

It’s what sells. If not Fox, the Fox audience will just find some blogger spewing the same garbage and elevate him/her to demigod status.

[zk]

Maybe. And maybe this is why:

http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-fbi-trump-2016-11

I’ve been busy (and I still am – the parade is tomorrow) following the World Champion Chicago Cubs around the country and watching them win, and there will be more to follow on the Clinton / FBI subject later. But for now, just this link.

[outtamojo]

And so apparently it is legal to leak stuff as long as it is not on a private email server…

[NotCranky]

I just love how people counter partisan click bait with partisan click bait and feel all smug and genius and vindicated! It’s fricken epidemic. Ate we that stupid?

[outtamojo]

Yes. But I’m not the smug one

[NotCranky]

[quote=outtamojo]Yes. But I’m not the smug one[/quote]
You got me there, well I think maybe that was directed at yours truly? I am feeling pretty proud. Don’t worry, soon something will bring me down a notch. Overall though, I am a great man.

[outtamojo]

[quote=Blogstar][quote=outtamojo]Yes. But I’m not the smug one[/quote]
You got me there, well I think maybe that was directed at yours truly? I am feeling pretty proud. Don’t worry, soon something will bring me down a notch. Overall though, I am a great man.[/quote]

I prefer to be on the bottom rungs- that way nothing/nobody can knock me lower.

[La Jolla Renter]

[quote=no_such_reality]Personally, I find this very kind of reporting line very inflammatory and reckless unless they’ve carefully vetted their sources, which as of late seems a source is nothing more than someone running their mouth with any tenuous connection.[/quote]

Do you only find it reckless when it comes from a conservative news station?

Both sides do it. Personally, I don’t mind it from either side if it is true. And in this case it looks like there is more than just a little truth to it.

It’s just shocking that law enforcement has turned on the party that has shit all over them for the last 8 years… absolutely shocking!

[Anonymous]

[quote=La Jolla Renter]It’s just shocking that law enforcement has turned on the party that has shit all over them for the last 8 years… absolutely shocking![/quote]

If you are claiming that law enforcement is pursuing cases out of spite or revenge, you are saying they deserve to be shat on.

[La Jolla Renter]

maybe 10% spite or revenge and 90% truth, integrity, & justice.

Perhaps they just reached a point that they couldn’t look the other way based on the level of corruption.

[Anonymous]

[quote=La Jolla Renter]maybe 10% spite or revenge and 90% truth, integrity, & justice.[/quote]

Or maybe some other made-up numbers.

[Anonymous]

Well the big ‘surprise’ is that he made it all up:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/04/fox-news-apologizes-clinton-report/93300254/

Oh yeah, both sides do it.

Brian Williams lost his career because of a fish tale that was not relevant to anything.

Bret Baier told a blatant lie in an attempt to influence the election (and of course to score a few more ratings.)

The right will continue to repeat Bair’s lie as if it were fact, and he will keep his career where he will continue to tell more.

Yeah right, both sides are the same.

[FlyerInHi]

Fox et al were good to Republicans and the right.
I think the regular viewership is 4 million.

Don’t know about breitbart. But right wing media is now bad for the Republican Party.
If the right wants go descent further into anger and conspiracy theories, let them go. They just marginalize themselves.

[zk]

[quote=Blogstar] feel all smug and genius and vindicated! [/quote]

You could be a reporter for Fox “News.” You see what you want to see and take it as fact when in reality it doesn’t exist.

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