Letter to the editor: Be very afraid

By Sharren Hall, Broken Arrow - 11/6/2009


When we learned that the White House had tried to blackball Fox News from the media rotation, it should have sent cold chills up our spines. If this were done in a business, they would be violating the anti-trust laws. American laws and freedoms are what separates us from other countries and makes us great. This administration has buried us in massive debt, buries us in unprecedented bail outs, buried us in huge unemployment and wants to bury us in ignorance by censoring freedom of speech. If the health care bill being written behind closed, locked doors passes and you are 60 or older, they will try to bury you.

The American people are angry, scared and worried at the direction this administration is taking us. Censoring freedom of speech because it exposes bad things and bad people is a file and repugnant action only compounded ten fold when id comes from the leader of our great country. Thank goodness for NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN for standing up for the Constitution's freedom of speech and press by refusing to be in a media pool without Fox News.

If you voted because you wanted change, you got change - that is not in the best interest of the American people. We should be afraid. Be very, very afraid.



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Tulsa World Reader Comments
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Angry Citizen!, Bluejacket (11/6/2009 8:40:26 AM)
Congress should regulate the free for all media! It is treasonous to say anything bad about the U.S. Government. Hopefully, we will soon see Der Furer round up these thought criminals who have been polluting our fair society with their ideas and propaganda.

Jester1969, Broken Arrow (11/6/2009 9:47:32 PM)
I just have to LOL when I read all the rants about Fox News. You people act like all Fox does 24 hrs a day is play Beck, Hannity and O'Reilly. Just as Zoltar said, those three shows are commentary just as Olbermoron and Maddow are for MSNBC. Olbermoron ends his show by counting down how many days it has been since Bush gave his mission accomplished speech. Are you going to try to say that his and Maddow's shows are fair and balanced? What about CNN dedicating a whole show to fact checking SNL, LOL! They are still considered to be "News". My guess is because they are just an extention of the current administration. The hypocrisy by the left is amazing. The POTUS wants to go to war with Fox because they can't control their message as they have done with the other channels. Just ask Anita Dunn "Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control." No organization is truly unbiased. They all have their slant. Fox just slants the wrong way according to the POTUS.

Jester1969, Broken Arrow (11/6/2009 10:07:27 PM)
Zoltar, Isn't the Louisiana AG James "Buddy" Caldwell a Democrat? If ACORN wasn't a real issue, why would a Dem like Caldwell be going after them? Is he getting campaign contributions from Fox?

zzx375, BA (11/6/2009 7:02:01 AM)
Coming to the TW web site enables me to catch up on Fox and MSNBC not watching either. I am curious as to why no one mentions Air America. Did they tank?

FIRE GUNDY, TULSA (11/6/2009 9:27:00 AM)
Fox News is infotainment. Fruits&Nuts has it right comparing it to TMZ. I think it's more like Jerry Springer myself, but either way the White House has the right to choose what entertainment shows administration officials appear on. As an example, Obama can go on Letterman and later be a butt of his jokes, that's probably to be expected, but the difference between that and Fox News is that he and Leno, (etc etc) don't deliberately mistate facts to fit a position or agenda.

KJNOKIE, TULSA (11/6/2009 6:57:01 AM)
I am afraid--of the people who watch and believe all the propaganda spouted by Fox news.

Democrat, Tulsa County (11/6/2009 5:52:38 AM)
This administration didn't "bury us" with the bailout. That was the old administration. The debt that is being increased by this administration is for providing a stimulus to work the economy out of the mess inherited by this administration from the last administration. The last administration sent its spokespeople, including the Vice-President, to appear on FOX News because of the favorable treatment that FOX News gave them. I don't recall seeing Cheney interviewed by Chris Mathews, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann or anyone else on MSNBC. The Bush administration's boycott of MSNBC didn't appear to prevent that network from exercising its first amendment rights. They somehow continued to report many of the misdeeds of that harmful administration. I seriously doubt that FOX News, a propaganda agency for Republicans, will stop being critical of the Democrats and the Obama administration and I seriously doubt that the Obama administration will censor the reports of FOX News.

Democrat, Tulsa County (11/7/2009 6:27:46 AM)
Conservatives are whining.

Democrat, Tulsa County (11/7/2009 7:38:29 AM)
Winning??????????? The last two general elections restored Democrats to power in the US Congress and to the presidency. If you are talking about last Tuesday's elections, New Jersey is your only victory worth talking about. It is a blue state and a Republican won the Governor's race. Congratulations. You will get no whining excuse from me. We lost. In Virginia, a state that was pretty solid for the Republicans until recently, the Republican won. I accept that the Democrats failed to build on their recent success in electing Governors, US Senators, and in helping to elect Barack Obama, because the Republicans had the better candidate. Again, congratulations, but winning Virginia use to be an expectation of the Republican Party. That is not a huge accomplishment. Now, how about upstate New York? Are you bragging about the outcome of THAT special election? That particular district is a safe district for Republicans, yet the DEMOCRAT won. How do you explain that one?

Democrat, Tulsa County (11/7/2009 7:41:28 AM)
Popeye: Evidently the name-calling by others has no effect on you. After all, you refer to some commenters a "liberal sycophants." Look up the word "hypocrite" in the dictionary.

Democrat, Tulsa County (11/7/2009 7:59:52 AM)
Popeye: I did not avoid anything. I made my comments and caught you referring to others as name-callers while you were guilty of name-calling in the same post. BTW, the Republicans voted AGAINST the WPA back in 1935. They referred to public works jobs as "boondoggles" and as "socialism." How ironic, that you would now support the WPA. LOL!!! It is no secret that we have millions of people who are here illegally. There is nothing that needs to be admitted there, my friend. Now, let's see who benefits from having millions of people here illegally? Is it either party on election day? No. Non-citizens can't vote. Is it American union workers? No. These workers/voters, who often are Democrats, do not benefit from competition. Is it corporate America and other employers who benefit? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. We have a winner!!!!!!!!!! Why do you suppose that Republicans want to punish the illegals and not the businessmen who hire them? Why do you suppose that Republicans wish to build a flimsy wall that is a few hundred miles long as the way to keep out people desperate for a better life on a 2,000 mile-long border. The humanitarians among Democrats help the business-oriented Republicans form a majority to prevent effective policing of our southern border. Consumption taxes are regressive. I understand why wealthy people want them. You should understand why those of us who are not wealthy prefer progressive taxes. It is all about where the burden of taxation should fall most heavily. I believe that the heavier burden should fall on those most able to bear it. You believe in placing the heaviest tax burden on those least able to bear it.

Democrat, Tulsa County (11/7/2009 9:40:59 AM)
Popeye: I'll look for your reply after you return from work. First let me laugh about your situational acceptance of Democratic Party programs that have been created to clean up after Republican messes. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Now, where wer your responses to my refutation of your points concerning aliens here illegally and your preference for regressive taxes? I didn't believe that you could respond and you proved me to be correct. Thank you for playing the game. You received your consolation prize from Dr. Strangelove who thought that you made a good post without explaining how it was good.

Democrat, Tulsa County (11/7/2009 9:50:38 AM)
Billo: Don't confuse Popeye with facts or logic.

Democrat, Tulsa County (11/7/2009 10:50:24 AM)
Billo: I just found another thread on which Popeye cut and pasted the same lame comment that he made here at 7:45 am. It was just as easy to refute there. In fact, it was easier. I was able to be more concise the second time around.

Democrat, Tulsa County (11/7/2009 4:14:20 PM)
Billo: The difference between what you paste and what Popeye pastes is found in the word "lame." (It is missing from your paste-jobs). :)

Tim Denver, Denver (11/6/2009 12:26:23 PM)
It is the responsibility of the media, including False News, to give accurate and unbiased news. False News is not doing that; therefore, it is not serving the best interests of our country, or the news media in general.

Tim Denver, Denver (11/6/2009 6:40:20 PM)
insider, you said it best. As always.

Middleway(MB), Undisclosed Location (11/6/2009 9:19:55 PM)
I watch fox as well as msnbc, cbs, abc, cnn, cnbc..basically all of the major news outlets. I also watch democracy now, link tv, and a few other left of center news sources. newsflash...ITS ALL BIASED!! im not a libtard, or a republipuke. Just a regular guy, pretty much in the middle of alot of issues. I can see bias and speculation a mile away. I can also see the revisionism thats becoming rampant. I think ALL media is either corporate influenced or agenda influenced, and its no longer reporting for the sake of reporting, unless you seek out independant journalism, like on u tube.

FUTURE WORLD, Tulsa (11/6/2009 7:54:25 PM)
wkmd, " Watch our fox news but also be aware of reality and reconcile the two with your own beliefs". That about sums it up nicely.

Mr. Brown, Kanagawa, Japan (11/6/2009 7:10:05 PM)
ANGRYLIBFEST'09 is apparently in full swing. I watch FOX. I enjoyed it when they accused Democrats of blocking efforts to reign in Fannie and Freddie, specifically named the culprits, and backed it up with video of the debate. I always enjoy seeing video and reading truthful quotes attributed to people who make them. Whatever happened to CNN's hourly Iraqi War body count? Why stop in the middle of the war? Because the elections are over, that's why. They inflamed you dummies, got control of the House and Senate, and commenced to doggie paddling in the swamp they promised to drain...

Popeye, T-Town (11/7/2009 7:38:01 AM)
It's fascinating to watch the melting liberal support for this administration grasping for anything to hold onto. The fact that the letter mentions, ""When we learned that the White House had tried to blackball Fox News from the media rotation, it should have sent cold chills up our spines...""; yet no liberal poster addresses, of attempts to defend, that action -- is noteworthy. Another observation, ""If this were done in a business, they would be violating the anti-trust laws."" Is also avoided. ""This administration has buried us in massive debt...in unprecedented bail outs...buried us in huge unemployment and wants to bury us in ignorance by censoring freedom of speech..." speaks to the mindless spending of Obama and his Congressional crew, obviously. The Stimulus, Health Care Bill, Cap and Trade, and more are hardly the fault of the previous administration. And none of the liberal sycophants even attempt to address the statement, ""The American people are angry, scared and worried at the direction this administration is taking us."" The truth is this: For anyone to be able to defend the current administrations activities, they have to be either locked in a tenured job (teacher or government worker), retired, pensioned, disabled, entitled or comfortably medicated. No reasonable person that is gainfully employed and paying taxes, has children or a family, or otherwise tries to live a responsible, productive life cannot be concerned. Your name calling and berating have little effect on me, obviously. I yam what I yam and I do give a da*n.

Popeye, T-Town (11/7/2009 7:45:24 AM)
As usual Democrat you avoid the fray. I gave you a marvelous soap-box from which to spout the defense of "your" administrations actions; and you dissolved as expected. Aren't you a teacher? Special Education perhaps... Here are some REPUBLICAN ideas for meaningful change, Democrat. Paste them on your fridge: 1. Bring back the WPA and put all of the people living on entitlements and government support into the program. a) Make them a workforce. Some of the "disabled" could work in job placement roles or run daycares for the parents out working. b) Train the workforce for specific jobs that benefit the infrastructure and that would make them desirable employees when they completed their service. They would eventually finish their service if they were forced to do something while on the dole. c) Others could serve in an administrative capacity tracking hours worked, training, benefit absorption and more. d) We have millions of people, receiving government subsistence, who are uneducated, unproductive, unskilled and in a hopeless situation. It is a travesty that we don't give them meaningful work so that they can at least learn the value of having earned something. 2. Admit that we have millions of illegals in our midst. Admit that they are probably never going to be forced out of the country. Admit that we have to recognize the ones here, but stop anymore from coming illegally; then we need to offer them a path to recognition: a) Establish a $1,600.00 (whatever) fee, per person, for registering with the Social Security Administration. b) Get them Social Security Numbers so they can be tracked. Make them file tax returns every year or face immediate deportation or fines. c) Stop treating them at hospitals, or at the very least reimbursing the hospitals that treat them, unless they have valid SocSec Cards. Then, start billing them for services rendered. 3. If we are too weak to modify the tax code completely and establish a consumption tax to replace the income tax; then establish a Federal consumption tax of say 1.5% that would be totally refundable to ANYONE filing a Federal tax return. Hard-working, honest, tax-paying citizens would not mind paying a little bit every purchase knowing that at the end of the year they would get it all back. Plus, the increased revenue from dead-beats and illegals could put billions of dollars toward the deficit.

Popeye, T-Town (11/7/2009 8:39:01 AM)
Democrat, my dear friend, and I mean that: That Republicans voted against the WPA before Johnson's Great Society is hardly noteworthy. There is a huge workforce sitting idle, with their hopes and dreams on indefinite hold, being robbed of the possibility of ever having achieved anything meaningful. Now, I have to go to work... Sad but true. I put in six days a week and am thrilled to have the opportunity to do it (particularly since my daughter was accepted to T.U. and our savings and investments were incinerated by whomever). Have a great day. Keep up the fight, because a rope laying on the ground is just that; until some fools pick up both ends and head in different directions!

Zoltar, Boltar (11/6/2009 9:01:39 PM)
I’m proud to report my wife and I watch Fox News every day and we're not seeing the lies and distortions you Libtards are referring to. In fact when they report something they back up the story with the statement "We report - You decide", now how can that be misconstrued as biased news reporting? Do you hear that anywhere else? You make up your own mind to believe what their saying, nobody is trying to force-feed Fox's ideology down anyone's throat, unlike MSNBC, CNN, CBS and all the really biased liberal news stations! The Fox evening shows like Bill O’Rielly, Glen Beck and Sean Hannity are just commentary, not news. They are all paid to give a slant, just like they do on the leftist Obama media. Fox just does a better job of this and their ratings will attest to that. The conservative listeners love Fox and hate what our President is doing to our country, that is a fact that’s undisputable! You libs just can’t stand hearing the “truth”!

Zoltar, Boltar (11/6/2009 9:53:44 PM)
If Fox is not a real news organization then why is it for a long time they were the only station reporting the corruption and scandal going on with ACORN?...... So here we are months later and what appears in the Headlines tonight in the TW: "Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in Louisiana", when the Louisiana Attorney General gets through with this ACORN office I would bet $100 they will be disagreeing with you on whether or not Fox is real or not! Baaaawaaaaaahaaaaaaa!!!!!


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