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To: tejek who wrote (81622)	6/19/2010 5:26:41 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 89467

FOX accuses Obama of giving land back to Mexico by Dante Atkins Sat Jun 19, 2010 at 02:00:05 PM PDT I was about to say that you can't make this stuff up. But if you're Fox News, you can make up absolutely anything that you like. Check out this glaring headline from the Website The Fox Nation: [watch] If you care to read the story and watch the video associated with this headline, you can find it here. Now, every single headline and image from that site has full-tilt conservative slant. But there's a difference between "slant" and "accusation of violating the territorial integrity of the United States." The image associated with the headline is clearly designed to make you think that the entire section of Arizona in red has somehow been ceded to Mexico. That would be pretty alarming, wouldn't it! So what's the truth behind this? I'll let Media Matters take it from here. Ari Rabin-Havt, Vice-President for Research and Communications, sent a letter to Fox News demanding a correction of the record: Dear Mr. Clemente: I am writing to you to demand that you correct a glaring error made both on Fox News and on Fox's website The Fox Nation. The Fox Nation used the preposterous headline "Obama Gives Back Major Strip of AZ to Mexico" to trumpet a report about a closure of land in a national wildlife refuge in Arizona. During that America Live report, guest host Shannon Bream stated: "A massive stretch of Arizona now off limits to Americans. Critics say the administration is, in effect, giving a major strip of the Southwest back to Mexico." But according to Bonnie Swarbrick, who is the public information officer for the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona, the "massive stretch" of land is about five miles square, it's been closed since 2006, and it obviously hasn't been given back to Mexico. Swarbrick told Media Matters that the area in the refuge bordering Mexico was "closed in 2006 during the construction of a vehicle barrier." Work on the vehicle barrier progressed into the construction of a 12-foot fence along the part of the refuge that borders Mexico, which is about seven miles long. The area has been kept closed "to allow the Border Patrol to do their work," she said. Swarbrick added that the small strip of land that is closed makes up "less than 0.03 percent" of the refuge and said that the rest of the reserve is still open to the public. So let's recap. In 2006, the Bush Administration closed off a five-square-mile stretch of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge to the public to allow the Border Patrol to improve security. Owing to mission creep of sorts, this section stayed closed. And how does Fox interpret this? That President Obama is giving vast stretches of land back to Mexico. Biased journalism is one thing. Propaganda, even, is one thing. This transcends those categories into something else altogether: blatant, intentional, pants-on-fire falsehoods designed to deliberately mislead an audience that is already primed to believe them. It takes something extraordinary for me to characterize something this way, but this type of conduct is not just irresponsible. It is inimical to America. -Steven Andrew, Contributing Editor, Daily Kos dailykos.com

To: tejek who wrote (81622)	6/20/2010 12:25:41 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 89467

You say I am a Monday night quarterback. Are you incapable of taking in information. I did Tad Allens job, in a sense, in the Valdez oil spill, from day 5 for two solid years, for the Departmnt of Health and Social Services and the Governors office. I expect I know more about that disaster than Tad Allen! I saw a lot of people not take charge in Valdez. I took fucking charge in Valdez, and did so, for two solid years and NO ONE ever questioned a thing I did. I created an office out of a warehouse of disrorganized computers, printers and tables. I just took th estuff. I hired enough planes that I probabvly flew a million miles covering the area for the state. I knew exactly what was going on and took appropriate action. Every night, every night (7 days a week), I wrote a memorandum to the commissioner and governors office and outlined what I saw; and what was going on. A friend of mine in the governors office said they read my oil spill memo, first every day. Because I was one of the few who told them what the fuck was going on and was not afraid of Exxon. And Exxon and BP are pigs!