Fox News legal analyst sides with Professor Gates.

[jackalope]

Fox News legal analyst sides with Professor Gates.

On Monday, Fox News Legal Analyst and former New Jersey state Judge Andrew Napolitano told to the conservative network’s audience that police broke the law when they arrested Professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct. Gates was charged with disorderly conduct during a conflict with police on his own property, but as Napolitano explained, the law only “allows an arrest for being disorderly if you are in public. … So if Professor Gates was arrested because of the words he used to police inside his house, on the front porch or on the front lawn, it was an improper arrest.” Napolitano added that police violated Gates’ Fourth Amendment rights the minute they entered his home without his permission:

The law says, unless [a police officer] witnesses a felony…or unless he has a piece of paper from a judge—a search warrant or an arrest warrant—saying “you can go in that house,” he can’t go in the house. So when Professor Gates said “no you can’t come in,” and the police went in anyway [the police] violated the federal Constitution.

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Napolitano Agrees With Gates​

Ever since President Obama criticized Gates’ arresting officer — who happens to be white — for mishandling this arrest, the right wing has ramped up its racially charged rhetoric against the President, with Fox’s Glenn Beck claiming that Obama’s statement somehow proves that the President “has a deep-seated hatred for white people.” If Beck actually bothered to watch his own network’s legal analysis, he’d know that this attack doesn’t hold water.

Think Progress Fox News legal analyst sides with Professor Gates.

What? The judge commits truth on Fox? Oh, okay, it's on Shep's show. Pretty much only Shep's Show, Brett's show, and Chris' shows on Fox allow truth to be spoken ....

 

[Don't Tase Me Bro]

What? The judge commits truth on Fox? Oh, okay, it's on Shep's show. Pretty much only Shep's Show, Brett's show, and Chris' shows on Fox allow truth to be spoken ....

So now Fox News suddenly has credibility? :rofl

 

[tumbleweed]

I think Napolitano has enough credibility to make his judgement on this issue convincing, at least to me.

 

[BmanMcfly]

So now Fox News suddenly has credibility? :rofl

Don't mistake one act of truth to amount to 'credibility'... Pretty much all mainstream media butned that bridge a long time ago. It's just that they are smooth enough that some people aren't convinced of the lying.

 

[Harshaw]

What? The judge commits truth on Fox? Oh, okay, it's on Shep's show. Pretty much only Shep's Show, Brett's show, and Chris' shows on Fox allow truth to be spoken ....

Apparently, you watch a lot of Fox.

In any case, those three shows are the primary straight-news shows on Fox. So you're saying Fox tells the truth in its non-commentary shows?

 

[jackalope]

Apparently, you watch a lot of Fox.

In any case, those three shows are the primary straight-news shows on Fox. So you're saying Fox tells the truth in its non-commentary shows?

Brett's show and Chris's show are well over half commentary, and yep, I've checked out almost all of Fox's shows. 3 hrs per weekday, and 1 hr on Sunday is pretty much the only times you can actually find news or truth on Fox. And half on 1 of those weekday hours is commentary, and the Sunday show is all commentary, half from the panel, the other half from the interview(s).

So, no, I'm not saying you can find truth on fox on non-commentary shows. I'm saying you can only find it with those three hosts, which do have commentary + news. And then, you still have to be careful.

 

[Harshaw]

Brett's show and Chris's show are well over half commentary, and yep, I've checked out almost all of Fox's shows. 3 hrs per weekday, and 1 hr on Sunday is pretty much the only times you can actually find news or truth on Fox. And half on 1 of those weekday hours is commentary, and the Sunday show is all commentary, half from the panel, the other half from the interview(s).

So, no, I'm not saying you can find truth on fox on non-commentary shows. I'm saying you can only find it with those three hosts, which do have commentary + news. And then, you still have to be careful.

So . . . you can find the truth on those host's shows, the non-commentary parts, but you can't find the truth on Fox's non-commentary shows, three of which are (at least in part, as you say) those host's shows?

 

[jackalope]

So . . . you can find the truth on those host's shows, the non-commentary parts, but you can't find the truth on Fox's non-commentary shows, three of which are (at least in part, as you say) those host's shows?

No, Fox's other 21 weekday hours are a wasteland of garbage.
And, you can ONLY find truth, sometimes, on those named shows. It's not a given.

 

[Harshaw]

Nice backpedal.

 

[j-mac]

And whom is "the truth" determined by?


j-mac

 

[sazerac]

Fox News critics never have any concrete examples of intentional deciept about anything of any importance.

Critics of the New York Times write books about all the deciept!

Fox is fairly moderate. But people on the far left think moderates are right wing wackos. That's how most Americans appear to them.

Even Senator Lieberman is a right wing extremist to them!

 

[BmanMcfly]

Fox News critics never have any concrete examples of intentional deciept about anything of any importance.

Critics of the New York Times write books about all the deciept!

Fox is fairly moderate. But people on the far left think moderates are right wing wackos. That's how most Americans appear to them.

Even Senator Lieberman is a right wing extremist to them!

How about the book 'Lies, Damn Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : A Fair and Balanced look at the right."??

 

[sazerac]

How about the book 'Lies, Damn Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : A Fair and Balanced look at the right."??

Might be hard to find now that he's a senator. You can download the book for free here: :3oops:

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