Fox News: Avoid 'public option' in health care debate

[ChasC5]

Read more: Fox News: Avoid 'public option' in health care debate - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46186.html#ixzz17dH3vL7y)

Fox News executives told the network's journalists to avoid referring to the "public option" when discussing Democrats' proposals for a government-run health insurance plan, according to internal e-mails released Thursday.

"[F]riendly reminder: let's not slip back into calling it the 'public option,'" said Bill Sammon, vice president and Washington managing editor, in an October 2009 message to the staffs of Fox News Sunday, "Special Report" and FoxNews.com.

Instead, Sammon offered several other ways to discuss the idea: "government-run health insurance," "government option," "the public option, which is the government-run plan" and "the so-called public option." Twenty minutes after Sammon sent his note, Michael Clemente, the network's senior vice president for news, said that "No. 3 on your list is the preferred way to say it, write it, use it.” He appears to be referring to "the public option, which is the government-run plan."

The liberal group Media Matters released the e-mails Thursday. Sammon's message, the group said, "gives credence to allegations that news from Fox's Washington bureau is being deliberately distorted to benefit conservatives and the Republican Party."

Sammon defended his recommendations in an interview with the Daily Beast. The "public option," he said, "is a vague, bland, undescriptive phrase" and one unlikely to stir up tensions. "Government-run plan" is "a more neutral term."

Sammon said he didn't encourage its use because it was preferred by Republicans. "I have no idea what the Republicans were pushing or not," he said. "It's simply an accurate, fair, objective term. Fox News did not respond immediately to POLITICO's requests for comment. Two months before Sammon and Clemente laid out his preferred terminology for the health care debate, Republican pollster Frank Luntz in an on-air interview urged Fox News host Sean Hannity to steer clear of discussing the "public option."
"If you call it a 'public option,' the American people are split," Luntz said in the conversation, which Media Matters cited in releasing the e-mails. "If you call it the 'government option,' the public is overwhelmingly against it."


Read more: Fox News: Avoid 'public option' in health care debate - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46186.html#ixzz17dGtvlmJ)




Once … yet again; FoxNews; FEAR and Balanced :lolsmile:

[Exotix]

Faux ... 'nuff said .... :seeya:

[ChasC5]

If CNN did the same thing I wouldn't be able to care anyless.

It's not any type of conspiracy the kool-aid liberals want to believe it is.

Then again, the MSM is vastly left leaning and they can't stand one network doesn't follow the brainless MSM sheep.

Clasic ... you need to read this thread; Conservatives fear and hate change viscerally;

:lolsmile:

[Exotix]

Clasic ... you need to read this thread; Conservatives fear and hate change viscerally;

:lolsmile:

You're asking the wrong guy to *get it* ...

:lolsmile:

[ChasC5]

Incorrect.

Just because ignorant people like you and Exotix say so doesn't make it so.

But you keep parroting the left :bs like good little lemmings.

Just shows you both to be the ignorant fools you look like. :yesnod:

Dude; what's with the name calling? :confused5:

[Z06PDQ]

"fair & balanced" :rofl:

[ChasC5]

Hmmm....I think I'll use a Chas excuse....

Ok; Dont get me started. :D

[Exotix]

Dude; what's with the name calling? :confused5:

You haven't figured it by now ?

It's the *new family values* tea bag / conservativism ... it's what a real he-man conservative does now ... heck, even he-man conservative women who have been setting the example like Psycho-sisters Palin, Bachmann, O'Donnell & Angle and who quite frankly, are wearig the pants now ...


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[ChasC5]

You haven't figured it by now ?

It's the *new family values* tea bag / conservativism ... it's what a real he-man conservative does now ... heck, even he-man women who have been setting the example like Psycho-sisters Palin, Bachmann, O'Donnell & Angle and who quite frankly, are wearig the pants now ...


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Yea I know, they blow really hard and wish for a paper cut. :D

[ChasC5]

Says the mental midget who throws insults around like a $3 whore throws around her body.

When you can actually have an intelligent conversation w/out using juvenile names like "tea bag" then maybe someone will take your points seriously.

Until then your just a whiney toddler not getting his way and crying about it to adults who are calling you out on your temper tantrums.

Put on your big boy pants, get out of diapers and grow up.

TxAg; if you need to pay, can't a big bucks guy like you pay more than $3.00? :D

[Exotix]

This thread Roxx !

:above:




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[ChasC5]

Never been with a whore, never will.

But you feel free to tell us about your escapades with high dollar whores Chas.

You did sample all the colors of the rainbow right? Wouldn't want to non-multicultural.

I can tell you about Fee. :D

Yes, yes and hell Yes. :D

[Peter Pan]

The new HC law is terrible and the first step in Obama's goal of the public option as the new law will force out insurance companies in the future, our Govt runs all programs without cost over runs, deficts or a profit, just look at AMTRACK and the U.S. Post Office, I sure want our Govt taking over my healthcare:skep:

Yes I am Taxed Enough Alreadyhttp://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c293/elsloan22/Holiday%20Gifs/jesusrea.gif

[Peter Pan]

Hush up Comrade and drink your juice. All hail the anointed one and his chosen who know better than us underlines.

:ack:

As a taxpayer my entire adult life I have not seen one Federal Govt program work for a profit or come in at or under budget, what makes me think the new HC law with or without a public option will, not going to happen, but Obama is the exception, he has figured it out, HC will work as written in law to be the first Govt program to work:o_o:

[ChasC5]

As a taxpayer my entire adult life I have not seen one Federal Govt program work for a profit or come in at or under budget, what makes me think the new HC law with or without a public option will, not going to happen, but Obama is the exception, he has figured it out, HC will work as written in law to be the first Govt program to work:o_o:

Because YOU haven't seen it, dosent mean it never happened. I've SEEN and been involved a dozens of Federally funded programs that have worked. That's why they were funded again and again.

Example; many youth programs I have been part of and after school study and community cleanup programs.

They worked, that's why it's been done numerous times.

Naturally your milage will vary. :D

[Peter Pan]

Did you watch the Lions beat Green Bay looked like global warming

[ChasC5]

Did you watch the Lions beat Green Bay looked like global warming

Looks like the NE and Chicago game ended in the first 30 minutes also. :yesnod:

[Peter Pan]

Looks like the NE and Chicago game ended in the first 30 minutes also. :yesnod:

Lakers won and so did my grandson:dance:

[ChasC5]

Lakers won and so did my grandson:dance:

Careful ... we're going off topic ... Tinker and Ax's will get pissed. :D

[Kneel 8250]

Careful ... we're going off topic ... Tinker and Ax's will get pissed. :D

This is NOT Tinkerbells thread. Do what you want here.

Yair I know you never noticed you were so caught up in the emotion of it all.

[Peter Pan]

Careful ... we're going off topic ... Tinker and Ax's will get pissed. :D

Not a problem not there thread and was out in the Vette today:D