Well that was pretty easy! I stand by my previous statement: "*FOX News has made no such allegations, period*."
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:48 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/04/29/sen-ted-cruz-calls-for-john-kerry-resignation-over-israel-apartheid-comments/ > > do you really need more examples? > > > On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:16:16 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > >> FOX News has made no such allegations, period. >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:06 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Could you please point out and cite the accusations that you accuse FOX >>> News of directing toward Secretary Kerry? >>> --- >>> I'm not going to spend the time to find the exact quotes ... but they >>> have accused him of being anti-semitic, anti-israel, a coward, and overall >>> pos. >>> They accuse Obama of the same things. >>> >>> FoxNews is a zionist propaganda network to ignore. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 11:09:13 AM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: >>> >>>> Could you please point out and cite the accusations that you accuse FOX >>>> News of directing toward Secretary Kerry? >>>> >>>> I would be interested to see them, and I cannot find anything by >>>> looking at FOX News that I find accusatory, and especially misleading or >>>> untruthful. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:55 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected] >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> he Obama administration is frustrated by journalists who point out >>>>> their hostile treatment of Fox News >>>>> --- >>>>> considering their accusations toward him, he should completely ignore >>>>> them. >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:32:02 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/21/top-kerry-aide-tries-to-sq >>>>>> uash-claim-of-anti-fox-news-bias-by-lying-to-the-daily-calle >>>>>> r/?advD=1248,98057 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Top Kerry Aide Tries To Squash Claim Of Anti-Fox News Bias By Lying >>>>>> To The Daily Caller >>>>>> >>>>>> 10:03 PM 07/21/2014 >>>>>> >>>>>> It’s well-known in Washington that the Obama administration is >>>>>> frustrated by journalists who point out their hostile treatment of Fox >>>>>> News >>>>>> and other uncooperative members of the press corps. But what happens when >>>>>> an important official resorts to lies and distortions to intimidate a >>>>>> reporter into retracting a bias claim his boss would rather not be >>>>>> published? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sunday, July 20, The Daily Caller reported on the tense exchange >>>>>> between John Kerry and “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace >>>>>> <http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/20/kerry-angrily-spars-with-foxs-chris-wallace-you-like-to-ask-questions-but-you-dont-like-to-get-answers/>. >>>>>> “After months of shutting Fox News out of his Sunday show appearances,” >>>>>> the >>>>>> report began, “a downed airliner in Ukraine and an ongoing Israeli >>>>>> invasion >>>>>> of Gaza compelled Secretary of State John Kerry to finally appear on ‘Fox >>>>>> News Sunday.’” >>>>>> >>>>>> That was the last time that story mentioned Kerry’s consistent >>>>>> absence from Fox’s flagship Sunday program. >>>>>> >>>>>> So we were surprised when an angry email appeared in this reporter’s >>>>>> inbox the next morning from the private Gmail account of Glen Johnson >>>>>> <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/205813.htm>, the State >>>>>> Department’s deputy assistant secretary of public affairs and a top >>>>>> adviser >>>>>> to John Kerry. >>>>>> >>>>>> “Off the record, please . . .” he began, before upbraiding this >>>>>> reporter for his “factually inaccurate” claim that Kerry was ducking “Fox >>>>>> News Sunday.” >>>>>> >>>>>> “EVERY TIME the Secretary has done round-robin interviews with >>>>>> the Sunday shows, he has appeared on Fox,” Johnson exclaimed. “He did so >>>>>> this weekend, on March 2, on Nov. 24, and Sept. 1, when, after six months >>>>>> on the job, he started to doing [sic] public interviews.” >>>>>> >>>>>> “We’d appreciate it if you’d share this with your editor and correct >>>>>> the record,” he wrote, after concluding with a screed on how Kerry has >>>>>> “strived to be fair and balanced” with Fox News. “Failing that, we hope >>>>>> the >>>>>> facts — not fiction — will lead to more accurate reporting/ conjecture >>>>>> going forward.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Here’s that email in full: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> <http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Glen-Johnson-Email1.png>[image: >>>>>> Glen Johnson Email] >>>>>> <http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Glen-Johnson-Email1.png><img >>>>>> class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4262764" alt="Glen Johnson Email" >>>>>> src=" >>>>>> http://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07 >>>>>> /Glen-Johnson-Email1-620x374.png" width="620" height="374" /> >>>>>> >>>>>> TheDC would have honored Johnson’s off-the-record request — as we >>>>>> honor all valid requests to remain off-the-record — were it not for two >>>>>> crucial points: We never agreed to the request, and Johnson’s facts are >>>>>> just plain wrong. >>>>>> >>>>>> First, this reporter never agreed to Johnson’s off-the-record request >>>>>> before he sent the email. That agreement is a key part of journalistic >>>>>> ethics well known to anyone who deals with media or has a prior history >>>>>> in >>>>>> reporting — as Johnson does. >>>>>> >>>>>> Second and more importantly, an off-the-record request gives no one — >>>>>> particularly not a powerful member of government — carte blanche to lie >>>>>> and >>>>>> distort in an attempt to coerce a reporter into withdrawing a factual >>>>>> assertion his department is uncomfortable with. >>>>>> >>>>>> And that’s what seems to have happened here, because Johnson’s key >>>>>> point against TheDC’s claim — that Kerry appeared on Fox News “EVERY >>>>>> TIME” >>>>>> he conducted interviews with the other major Sunday shows — is wholly >>>>>> inaccurate. >>>>>> >>>>>> Kerry did not sit down with Chris Wallace on March 2, 2014, as >>>>>> Johnson claimed. TheDC knows this because we wrote up Wallace’s >>>>>> complaint >>>>>> <http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/03/is-the-obama-admin-freezing-fox-news-out-of-foreign-policy/> >>>>>> the very next day. >>>>>> >>>>>> “For the record, we invited Secretary of State Kerry to join us >>>>>> today,” the television reporter noted, angry that the secretary had >>>>>> ignored >>>>>> his viewers just two days after Russia invaded Crimea. “But although the >>>>>> White House put him out on all the other broadcast Sunday shows, they >>>>>> declined to make him available to us — or you.” >>>>>> >>>>>> And Kerry also did not appear on “Fox News Sunday” on Nov. 24, 2013, >>>>>> as Johnson claimed. A transcript from that date >>>>>> <http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace/2013/11/24/sens-corker-cardin-react-nuclear-deal-iran-sarah-palin-talks-dc-dysfunction-bashir#p//v/2863789397001> >>>>>> reveals >>>>>> that Wallace led the program with reactions of two Republican senators on >>>>>> the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran. Kerry went on CNN, ABC >>>>>> and CBS — but not Fox. >>>>>> >>>>>> That means that until last Sunday, Kerry had not been on Chris >>>>>> Wallace’s program since Sept. 1, 2013. That’s over 10 months that he >>>>>> appeared on each of the other four major Sunday shows — most of them more >>>>>> than once — but not Fox. What better phrase to describe it than a shut >>>>>> out? >>>>>> >>>>>> Johnson admitted his “mistake” once confronted. “Apologies for >>>>>> foisting inaccurate figures on you,” he wrote in an email response sent >>>>>> from his Gmail account — this time without even linking to his official >>>>>> government address. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> <http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Glen-Johnson-Response-Email-.png>[image: >>>>>> Glen Johnson Response Email] >>>>>> <http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Glen-Johnson-Response-Email-.png><img >>>>>> class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4262746" alt="Glen Johnson Response >>>>>> Email" src="http://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07 >>>>>> /Glen-Johnson-Response-Email--620x419.png" width="620" height="419" >>>>>> /> >>>>>> >>>>>> He insisted “there has been no effort to shut out or dodge Fox” — but >>>>>> offered no explanation as to how a top strategic communications adviser >>>>>> to >>>>>> the secretary of state could have made an assertion so clearly and >>>>>> provably >>>>>> wrong. >>>>>> >>>>>> It’s a question worth asking, because a media outlet without the >>>>>> resources TheDC possesses could have been confused and browbeaten into >>>>>> changing their lede once confronted with such an intimidating response. >>>>>> It >>>>>> can be scary for a reporter to be told he’s gotten the facts wrong, and >>>>>> doubly so when the accusation emanates from a powerful and authoritative >>>>>> federal agency. >>>>>> >>>>>> TheDC asked Johnson if this was a deliberately dishonest attempt to >>>>>> bully a reporter into withdrawing a factual claim, but did not receive a >>>>>> response. It’s difficult to believe, however, that a communications >>>>>> professional with decades of experience would so carelessly impugn a >>>>>> media >>>>>> outlet’s credibility without even a cursory glance at the facts. >>>>>> >>>>>> Last fall, the Committee to Protect Journalists released a report >>>>>> <http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php> >>>>>> noting >>>>>> that the “control freak” Obama White House routinely calls up journalists >>>>>> to quibble over headlines, ledes and story premises. “Sometimes their >>>>>> levels of sensitivity amaze me,” said Washington Post Managing Editor >>>>>> Kevin >>>>>> Merida. >>>>>> >>>>>> Trying to deceive a reporter in order to scuttle a narrative your >>>>>> boss finds troublesome? 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