Rumsfeld dines with Fox News CEO

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CAGiversary!
Must just be getting their stories straight for the public on the progress of the war in Iraq. Dam liberal media:

Roll Call: Rumsfeld dines with Fox News CEO, Wall Street Journal editor, William Safire
Rumsfeld drinks with Fox News, Sen. Thune
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3/9/2005
RAW STORY
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Roll Call’s Mary Ann Akers will reveal Thursday that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dined earlier this week with Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and Sen. John Thune, the man who took out former Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Tom Daschle, RAW STORY has learned.

The dinner, Akers is set to report, included Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, conservative columnist William Safire and Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot, and their wives.

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“There was also talk at the dinner of Thune’s victory over Daschle,” Akers adds. “The Senator thanked Gigot for The Wall Street Journal’s ‘anti-Daschle editorials,’ the source said, adding that Rumsfeld seemed ‘very eager to hear about the race.’”
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=167
 
Like they said on the Simpsons last night "Fox News! Your source for evil!"

Then Krusty had a halo over his head and the democratic had a USSR flag behind him and devil ears.

Of course at the end they went "Hannady and the other idiot".
 
Or.... it could be that Roger Ailes was in the Reagan administration, Cheney has worked for 3 Republican administrations and the two are actually friends.
 
So you don't see this as a huge conflict of interest? Isn't journalism supposed to be "fair and impartial"? Obviously not with Fox News.
 
No, I don't see it as a conflict of interest.

Just like you don't see George Stephanopolous hosting This Week on ABC despite having a major role in the Clinton administration being a conflict of interest.

Now what's more of a conflict of interest, two friends having dinner that served in Republican politics together for decades or a Democratic operative hosting, asking questions and forming opinions on one of "insider" Washington's most influential shows. I'll put my money on Stephanopolous hosting This Week, suceeding the long term non-partisan David Brinkley being more a conflict.

However you'll bitch that a dinner was far more sinister.
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']No, I don't see it as a conflict of interest.

Just like you don't see George Stephanopolous hosting This Week on ABC despite having a major role in the Clinton administration being a conflict of interest.[/quote]

Actually I do see a problem with that. Hell even my dad, a die hard republican saw a problem with that dumbfuck.

But thanks for trying to tell others what we think about certain topics, please try it again so I can point out how big of a dumbfuck you really are.
 
[quote name='E-Z-B']So you don't see this as a huge conflict of interest? Isn't journalism supposed to be "fair and impartial"? Obviously not with Fox News.[/quote]

Depends if Rumsfeld paid the tab, but for some of them it's not really a conflict of interest. A CEO is not a journalist, he's there to run the company, not give news updates or editorials so it's technically not personal conflict of interest. I can see where it would make people skeptical of Fox News, but c'mon most people already are.I don't know too much about him though, if he's out there on the news room cutting floor deciding what goes out on there or he has tight control over his reporters then that's probably a conflict of interest, and the WSJ editor though I could see as a conflict of interest there. But I wouldn't get up on a high horse too quickly, I'm pretty sure if you did enough digging you could probably find things like this have and do happen with reporters and policitians on both sides.
 
[quote name='David85'][quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']No, I don't see it as a conflict of interest.

Just like you don't see George Stephanopolous hosting This Week on ABC despite having a major role in the Clinton administration being a conflict of interest.[/quote]

Actually I do see a problem with that. Hell even my dad, a die hard republican saw a problem with that dumbfuck.

But thanks for trying to tell others what we think about certain topics, please try it again so I can point out how big of a dumbfuck you really are.[/quote]

:-({|= Sorry David, wasn't addressed to you. Thanks for the fumbduck though, I appreciate the love.
 
So I guess you wouldn't see any problem with the heads of ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN news getting together with the democratic party and democratic senators.

Ted Kennedy could even could even buy them some rounds.
 
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