{"id":10774,"date":"2013-10-23T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T22:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10774"},"modified":"2013-10-23T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T22:05:30","slug":"fox-news-publishes-phony-obamacare-attacks-from-koch-brothers-funded-news-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10774","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Publishes Phony ObamaCare Attacks From Koch Brothers Funded &#8220;News&#8221; Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their three year effort to prevent Americans from getting affordable health care, Fox News has partnered with numerous conservative propagandists in the media, partisans in politics, and professional lobbyists and think tanks. However, recently they have begun incorporating the most extreme right-wing opinions disguised as journalism and originating from a blatantly self-serving source.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/watchdog-obamacare.jpg\" alt=\"Watchdog.org\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/News-Corpse\/117899091558228?v=wall\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Like me on Facebook\">Be Sure To \u201cLIKE\u201d News Corpse On Facebook<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Watchdog.org is a right-wing, propaganda-spewing project that is funded by the Koch brothers through their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php\/Franklin_Center_for_Government_and_Public_Integrity\" target=\"_blank\">Franklin Center<\/a> for Government and Public Integrity. It is an unabashedly partisan source of slanted opinions and attack pieces. And Fox is now utilizing it as an affiliated reporting service. In effect, the Koch brothers have co-opted Fox to get their Tea Party agenda disseminated to Fox\u2019s national audience.<\/p>\n<p>In just the past month, Watchdog.org has blasted out a flurry of fiercely critical articles about ObamaCare. In every case they contained significant distortions of the truth and omissions of fact. But in no case did they disclose that they are flunkies of Koch Industries.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 27 articles published by Fox just this month with Watchdog.org bylines. Many of them were hit pieces on unions and environmental science, two issues that deeply interest the Koch brothers whose businesses have fought workers rights and have contributed to dirtying the air and water of every place they have a presence. But at least ten of them were dedicated to ObamaCare, which they have been vocal in opposing. For instance&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s wrong? It\u2019s been a week, and ObamaCare website still not working<\/li>\n<li>Plenty of Oregonians interested in ObamaCare, but none can enroll online<\/li>\n<li>Hype over ObamaCare small business tax credit is misleading<\/li>\n<li>Blue Cross hires temp workers to deal with ObamaCare glitches<\/li>\n<li>ObamaCare effect? 9 companies exit Nebraska\u2019s health insurance market<\/li>\n<li>You know that one guy who successfully signed up for ObamaCare? He didn\u2019t<\/li>\n<li>Healthy young, key to Obamacare, aren\u2019t buying it<\/li>\n<li>Reports of ObamaCare fraud emerge in Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>Some Nebraskans\u2019 premiums to triple under ObamaCare<\/li>\n<li>New ObamaCare advertisement features a keg stand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/koch-news.jpg\" alt=\"Koch\/Fox News\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Fox News has always been a megaphone for rightist doctrine. But now they have upped the ante with their embrace of the brazen biases of an activist corporation with vested interests in the stories they pretend to cover. The network that celebrated the repugnant Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United that transformed corporations into persons, now also regards corporations as journalists. And if, like the Koch brothers, you can afford to create your own fake wire service, you can get fake news networks like Fox to distribute your PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their three year effort to prevent Americans from getting affordable health care, Fox News has partnered with numerous conservative propagandists in the media, partisans in politics, and professional lobbyists and think tanks. However, recently they have begun incorporating the most extreme right-wing opinions disguised as journalism and originating from a blatantly self-serving source. Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fox News Publishes Phony ObamaCare Attacks From Koch Brothers Funded \"News\" Service","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[33,834,1066],"class_list":["post-10774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-fox-news","tag-koch-brothers","tag-obamacare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2NM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10632,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10632","url_meta":{"origin":10774,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Carries Articles From Koch Bros-Funded &#8220;News&#8221; Service","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/30\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"An odd item appeared this morning on the Fox News web site attacking the progressive organization MoveOn.org. It was the sort of substanceless filler that generally appears on rabid anti-Obama fringe sites. Beneath a headline reading \"MoveOn.org tries to sideline Tea Party over shutdown fears,\" the article revealed the shocking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Koch\/Fox News","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/koch-news1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12840,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=12840","url_meta":{"origin":10774,"position":1},"title":"Koch Brothers Front Group Feeds Fox News Phony Figures On Voter Fraud","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/23\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A report by Fox News alleges that \"Over 40,000 voters are registered in both Virginia and Maryland.\" It's a shocking statistic that stirs fears of massive election fraud that could sway the results of pivotal campaigns and upset the balance of power in Congress. Shameless self-promotion... Get Fox Nation vs.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Koch\/Fox News","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/koch-news1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10706,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10706","url_meta":{"origin":10774,"position":2},"title":"OBAMA SCARE: Fox News Mortified That ObamaCare Web Site Links To Voter Registration Form","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/14\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox News has been engaged in a massive disinformation campaign against ObamaCare for going on three years now. After all that time, and having exhausted the considerable creative resources that came up with twelve \"Pants on Fire\" lies about the program, Fox's desperation is showing. Just last week they went\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11526,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11526","url_meta":{"origin":10774,"position":3},"title":"Fox Business Network Debunks Fox News\/Koch Brothers ObamaScare Story","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/17\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"From the very first days of the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) Fox News and other right-wing media have work their butts off trying to frighten people away from it. Their ultimate goal is to sabotage the program by suppressing participation. But with more than three million enrollments, and millions\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox News","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/fbn-debunks-foxnews.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9379,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9379","url_meta":{"origin":10774,"position":4},"title":"Fox News Hypes &#8216;Free State&#8217; Study By Koch Brothers Think Tank","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/29\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"When you see a headline on Fox News that says \"Americans Are Migrating to More Free Republican States,\" it's a safe bet that it emanates from an untrustworthy, right-wing source. That is precisely the case with the study that Fox is heavily promoting that ranks the \"liberty\" of the various\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30968,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30968","url_meta":{"origin":10774,"position":5},"title":"Is Tea Party Godfather Charles Koch Feeling The Bern?","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/19\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Washington Post (you know, that bastion of the so-called \"liberal\" media) just published an op-ed by Charles Koch of the infamous Koch brothers. The headline declared that \"This is the one issue where Bernie Sanders is right.\" While that's a fairly generous admission, it is hardly representative of Koch's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"Koch Brothers Bernie Sanders","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/koch-brothers-sanders.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/koch-brothers-sanders.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/koch-brothers-sanders.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10775,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions\/10775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}