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President Obama is not worried about the “procedural” debate over whether House Democratic leaders should go ahead with a plan to approve health care reform without a traditional vote, he told Fox News on Wednesday.

President Obama is not worried about the “procedural” debate over whether House Democratic leaders should go ahead with a plan to approve health care reform without a traditional vote, he told Fox News on Wednesday.

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The president, in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, was responding for the first time to the controversy over a plan to use a parliamentary trick to allow the House to pass the Senate’s health care bill without forcing members to vote for it directly. The esoteric procedure has drawn fierce protest from Republicans who say Democrats are trying to avoid accountability, but the president said there will be no doubt about where lawmakers stand on health care reform.

Watch the Obama interview in its entirety on Special Report Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel.

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And you thought Roland was pissed at Rush Limbaugh before?! He’s got a whole new reason to rant after Limbaugh and 700 Club’s Pat Robertson made some crazy statements regarding the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. See what Roland had to say.

TELL US: Do you agree with Roland? Were Limbaugh and Robertson off base or telling the truth?

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Have something you want to share with Smokey or Roland? Submit your video questions and comments HERE!

And you thought Roland was pissed at Rush Limbaugh before?! He’s got a whole new reason to rant after Limbaugh and 700 Club’s Pat Robertson made some crazy statements regarding the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. See what Roland had to say.

TELL US: Do you agree with Roland? Were Limbaugh and Robertson off base or telling the truth?

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Catch this week’s FULL episode tomorrow at 5pm & 11pm on TV One!

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Have something you want to share with Smokey or Roland? Submit your video questions and comments HERE!

From HuffingtonPost.com:

This past Saturday night, comedienne Wanda Sykes ripped into the lack of racial diversity atFox News on The Wanda Sykes Show, which airs on Fox. “So I’ve been digging around here and I found some old footage of black reporters on Fox News – you know, back when they were allowed to be on that network,” Sykes said. “Fascinating stuff – take a look at this one.”

Sykes then played a spoof newsreel showing a black Fox News correspondent reporting on “the negro perspective” of the Hindenburg crash in 1937. “To put that in a Negro perspective, those flames are higher than the bonfires that the Klan lit after the Emancipation Proclamation.”

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Remember the supposed war between the Obama administration and FOX News?

Seems like that’s over.

Yesterday, President Obama sat down with Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett to talk about all sorts of things from bail-outs to Korea. Watch the clips below.

TELL US: Do you think FOX can still complain that the Obama administration is treating them unfairly now that the president has gone on their air?

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Rupert Murdoch, the Australian billionaire and owner of Fox and Fox news had an interview in Australia and stood by Glenn Beck’s comments that Obama was a racist.

“On the racist thing, that caused a [unintelligible],” Murdoch said in an interview with his Sky News Australia over the weekend. “But [Obama] did make a very racist comment about blacks and whites and so on, which he said in his campaign he would be completely above. And that was something which perhaps shouldn’t have been said about the President, but if you actually assess what he was talking about, [Beck] was right.”

Murdoch did not elaborate and say which Obama quote he believed to be racist.

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Fox News Fires Liberal Black Analyst, [Updated 10.16.09 at 5:14 p.m.]

Well Fox News has fired Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, the only Black analyst who offered a balance to Fox’s overwhelmingly conservative staff.

From The Huffington Post

Liberal Fox News analyst Dr. Marc Lamont Hill has been fired, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch revealed at a shareholder’s meeting Friday.

Murdoch made the announcement after being asked about Hill’s “reputation of defending cop killers and racists.”

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Well now all they have is Uncle Ruckus like lackies who subscribe to their racist, Republican views.

Top 5 Fox News Uncle Toms

From JackandJillPolitics.com:

Transcript:

BECK: When they’re done with Fox, and you decide to speak out on something. The old, “first they came for the Jews, and I wasn’t Jewish.” When you have a question, and you believe that something should be asked, they’re a — totally fine with you right now; they have no problem with you.

When they’re done with Fox and talk radio, do you really think they’re going to leave you alone if you want to ask a tough question? Do you really think that a man who has never had to stand against tough questions and has as much power as he does — do you really believe after he takes out the number one news network, do you really think that this man is then not going to turn on you? That you and your little organization is going to cause him any hesitation at all not to take you out?

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The right wing is launching an attack on ACORN. Not because ACORN is a corrupt or a negative organization, but because ACORN stands for things that they oppose. ACORN involves itself in issues such as making housing affordable for working class people, living wages for poor and working class people, education, voter’s rights and gun control.
ACORN is an organization that represents the interests of poor and minority communities. These are interests that the Republicans have traditionally voted against.

The right wing made an enemy of ACORN during the election, because it registered minority voters in urban areas (voters who typically vote democrat) and has continued its smear campaign against the organization.

The filmmakers who made the YouTube videos “exposing” ACORN are James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. Giles’ father is conservative Christian commentator Doug Giles and she interned at the National Journalism Center, a training center for conservative journalists.

The L.A. Times reported that O’Keefe said he targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives that turn out poor African Americans and Latinos to cast ballots against Republicans.

What O’Keefe and Giles did was clearly an attempt to slander ACORN. Their videos are heavily edited and only reflect the character of a few low level employees. Despite the fact that they said that every ACORN office they visited played along with them, the Philadelphia ACORN office filed a police report against them.

Another ACORN worker in California said she quickly saw through O’Keefe and Giles act and decided to play along with them, even making up a fake story about how she killed her husband.

Prosecutors in Maryland are even considering prosecuting O’Keefe and Giles for illegally taping ACORN employees.

In what world does a politically motivated, possibly illegal investigation that was edited to make an organization look bad force congress to stop funding an organization that helps the poorest people in the nation?

If the GOP wants to let a few low level employees’ statements taken out of context decide on public funding for organizations, they need to answer for their support of Halliburton and Blackwater.

Blackwater employees have killed numerous innocent civilians in Iraq. They have also been charged with child prostitution in Iraq for bringing in child prostitutes to the green zone. A former United States Marine reportedly filed allegations in a federal court in Virginia that Blackwater CEO, Erik Prince, murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals cooperating in a federal investigation of Blackwater. He also said that Prince “‘views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Blackwater encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.’”

Overall, Blackwater has received over $1 billion in government contracts, which accounts for 90% of their revenue.

Another favorite right wing company, Halliburton, has their own scandals from both low and high level employees. Jamie Leigh Jones, a contractor for Halliburton claimed she was gang-raped by Halliburton employees and then imprisoned in a shipping container after she reported the incident. After years of Halliburton trying to seep the incident under the rug, the case is finally going to trial.

Halliburton’s former chairman has been convicted of bribing Nigerian officials. Halliburton has also been accused of defrauding the U.S. government. Still, Halliburton has been given upwards of 9.6 billion dollars for work in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While ACORN and Blackwater are multi billion dollar companies, who have received billions from the government, ACORN has a budget of 25 million dollars a year, of which, only 2.5 million comes from the government. While a few low level ACORN employees have made bad judgments in giving advice to a right wingers posing as a pimp and a prostitute (some in jest, some to keep a white pimp out of jail), Blackwater and Halliburton employees have killed innocent civilians and have been accused of child prostitution and defrauding their own government.

ACORN is a good organization that does good work for America’s poorest. It is guilty of having low level employees with bad judgment. None of its workers have been convicted, or even accused of a crime. They are victims of a right wing media onslaught being led by Fox News. If the government decides to cut funding of organizations due to the actions of low level employees, they must apply the same rules to the GOP’s favorite government funded organizations. Blackwater owes the government 55 million dollars, which is enough to fund ACORN for 25 years.

The right wing’s attack on ACORN has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with votes. If the right was concerned with funding “immoral” organizations, they would’ve have abandoned Blackwater and Halliburton years ago. Blackwater is still getting money from the government under the name Xe and Halliburton still is receiving money from government contracts. The government funding and the crimes of Halliburton and Blackwater by far eclipse those of ACORN. I propose we use the funding from Blackwater and Halliburton to fund ACORN and other agencies with similar agendas.

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Undercover videographer James O’Keefe’s hidden camera “interview” with San Bernardino ACORN organizer Tresa Kaelke – airing on the Fox News Channel, including the Glenn Beck show, and on BigGovernment.com – has been caught in an obvious set of lies and manipulations.

Kaelke, who was approached by O’Keefe, posing as a law student with a prostitute girlfriend, at the entrance to the small, one-person ACORN says she immediately felt uneasy and at a loss.

With their provocative costuming and outlandish scenario, she could not take them seriously. So she met their outrageousness with her own personal style of outrageousness. She matched their false scenario with her own false scenarios.

“They were not believable,” said Kaelke of the two actors. “Somewhat entertaining, but they weren’t even good actors. I didn’t know what to make of them. They were clearly playing with me. I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me. Like Stephen Colbert does – saying the most outrageous things with a straight face.”

While her sense of humor might not be funny to many people, the fact is that she spun false scenario after false scenario – and the videographer ate them up.

For example, in response to the set-up by the filmmakers in which they say they are trying get the young woman away from her abusive pimp, she responds that she was abused by her former husband as well (true) and that she shot and killed him (false). He is very much alive and living near Barstow, California.

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