I hate to start articles out like this, but here I am sitting at work, watching Fox News (I’m waiting for the repeat of Keith Olberman’s Count Down) pretty much because no “news” network like Fox, manages to give so much material to write about.
I’m looking at Oliver North who I guess finally joined the club of those fox members that are publishing a book. I had a cousin that worked at Fox News for a few years and she told me that the overall climate at Fox is that of fear - keeping people in fear of losing their job and other issues. Perhaps that’s why so many people on Fox are pushing their own merchandising campaigns, because they know that they don’t have much time to live at the network or with for that matter.
Here are some of the people I can think of that are selling books on Fox News:
sean hannity
allen colmbes
bill o’reilly
oliver north
john gibson
neil cavuto
North was at the center of national attention during the Iran-Contra Affair, during which he was a key Reagan administration official involved in the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran. The sale of these weapons served both to encourage the release of US hostages and to generate proceeds to support the Contra rebel group. Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter and his deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North secretly diverted to the Nicaraguan Contras millions of dollars in funds received from a secret deal - the sales of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Iran - in spite of Reagan’s public pledge not to deal with the nation.
source: Wikipedia: Oliver North
Now I know Oliver North is an accomplished decorated war veteran and for that anyone deserves the utmost respect. However just because you were in a war zone for many years doesn’t give you the right to act against rules of law or morale. I’m finding so many sources as I do some research for this post that shows what a crook he is and how he’s been involved in shady business tactis, that I think he shouldn’t be seen on TV selling a book, getting a paycheck or anything else for that matter.
Back to my initial point though and that’s the fact that everyone on fox news gets to sell a book. I think it doesn’t help the credibility of a news agency when their employees are pushing their personal products. Bill O’Reilly is of course the biggest whore of them all and please don’t respond and tell me it’s all for charity - we all know that’s not the case. None of these socalled conservatives do anything for the common good, their main objective is to reap most of the benefits of the system without giving back to it. Republicans, as we know from the past twenty years or exploitation, aren’t a group of people with political interests in mind - they only have one thing in mind and that’s profit.
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