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[Incognito]

Something needs to be done with this fucking network.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a...y_over_on_air_remark_adviser_threatens_a_ban/

John Sasso, a senior adviser to John F. Kerry's presidential campaign, threatened to ban Fox News staff from the candidate's plane Friday night when Fox initially refused to apologize for a talk show host's comment that a new videotape showed Osama bin Laden with a Kerry button.

After the videotape of bin Laden was widely broadcast Friday afternoon, a Republican guest on Cavuto's show said the Al Qaeda leader's criticisms of President Bush amounted to ''an endorsement" of Kerry. A second guest objected, saying, ''I don't think he's going to have a Kerry-Edwards sticker in the cave."

Chimed in Cavuto: ''He's all but doing that. I thought I saw a button."

The exchange infuriated advisers to Kerry. Campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter told Fox News executives they had three hours to issue a retraction and an apology; she did not deliver an ultimatum, she told the Globe, but simply stated that an admission of fault was expected.

''It was an outrageous comment that should never been made, at a time when America's national security is at stake," Cutter said.

Cavuto's show is on right now; I wonder if he'll issue an apology for his ridiculous comment.

 

[Doth Togo]

Hmm.

 

[Nerevar]

Something needs to be done with this fucking network.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a...y_over_on_air_remark_adviser_threatens_a_ban/





Cavuto's show is on right now; I wonder if he'll issue an apology for his ridiculous comment.

you kidding? This is fox news we're talking about here.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Sounds like the Kerry/Edwards campaign team needs to relax.

 

[Ripclawe]

''Is that the one? Is that her?" Sasso said as he looked at the Fox producer, according to several people present. ''I want her off the plane tomorrow. I'm not kidding."

The producer spent the rest of the flight talking to Fox executives by phone. Cutter said afterward that Fox would not be removed from the plane, and that Sasso had erred in making his remark, given the Fox producer's reputation as a widely respected professional.

''He [Sasso] was wrong to say that. We jumped all over him for it," Cutter said.

pfft, Big Bad Sasso making noise like he would actually do something for once. No way they would kick off Fox news this close to the election, ratings!

 

[gofreak]

Sounds like the Kerry/Edwards campaign team needs to relax.

This is the eve of the election, tension/stress are gonna be running high. It was a really stupid comment, I could see how it'd rile the kerry camp.

 

[Doth Togo]

http://www.ownedforums.com/pics/albums/userpics/16939/KerryRally.jpg

 

[Dilbert]

I wish I had a double-barreled shotgun with "fair and balanced my sweet ass" painted on it, since I have a pretty good idea where it needs to be aimed.

 

[Alcibiades]

I didn't see it when he said it, but I thought it was funny when I read it...

It was obviously a joke, big deal...

Besides, considering Osama's video is practically trying to scare "US States" into not voting for Bush, I can see where a comment like that would be funny...