Huckabee Raised $60,935,788,000,000 according to Fox!!!!!!

[MooCowzRock]

(discovered from the facebook group)

No, you didnt count those zeros wrong, thats how much that Fox News's online campaign coverage claim Huck's raised so far! I respect a lot of Fox News and MSM in general, and generally try and avoid constantly bashing them when they make sense, and dont buy into some pro-Huck anti-Ron conspiracy, but this is either a huge mistake, or someone within Fox is seriously trying to make it out to be as if Huckabee has raised more money than possible the US's GDP!

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/mike-huckabee/ (http://http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/mike-huckabee/)

Go there, and then click on the "money" tab.

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/935/60bajillion2hd6.jpg

[HOLLYWOOD]

Yeah, it's APPARENT...

Not ONLY are the 3 branches of government corrupt... all the corporate owned media are right in bed with them!

Of Course, FOX will say, oh, we made a mistake...

just like the elections that accept $100's of thousands if not MILLIONS in campaign contributions at were totally illegal... the newly elected official says, oh, okay, we'll return the MONEY. But the damage is DONE, and they RUN the OFFICE!

Another route of how to BUY FOUR WAY INTO POLITICAL OFFICE ILLEGALLY and GET AWAY WITH IT!

[user]

I respect a lot of Fox News

:eek:

[Birdlady]

Did anyone notice that on RP's page it shows a little green bar for money raised of 8million and HUGE green bar for Spent of 2 million? lol That is some sneaky stuff.

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[Fig]

Wut.

Huckabee has like 700k. He has NO money.

Its absolutely impossible that he has that much money. There were articles recently about how he had barely enough money to pay for GAS! WTF.

and yeah noticed the same thing about ron paul's graph and numbers. Its all wrong!

[angrydragon]

Even though the number is wrong, you're reading the "in millions" wrong.

[unklejman]

Did anyone notice that on RP's page it shows a little green bar for money raised of 8million and HUGE green bar for Spent of 2 million? lol That is some sneaky stuff.

h ttp://youdecide08.foxnews.com/ron-paul/

Also, what?:

Energy/Environment:
Paul says U.S. foreign policy contributes to global warming because it fighting a war in Iraq to protect access to oil. He has introduced the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, which would require the federal government to respect state laws allowing the growing of industrial hemp. He believes hemp can be used as an alternative fuel.


Irrelevant? And I've never heard him say anything about hemp being used as fule.

[TheNewYorker]

Even though the number is wrong, you're reading the "in millions" wrong.

what?

[MooCowzRock]

Even though the number is wrong, you're reading the "in millions" wrong.

when you have a graph or number, when you write something in terms of "in millions" it means that you multiply whatever stated number by a million to get the actual amount. That is done so that the representation doesnt have to add in numerous zeros. So, if stated "in millions", if someone's bar on a graph was at 7, it would mean 7 million. So, if someone's graph was at 60,000,000, it would mean 60,000,000,000,000.

Now, this I think we can safely credit to a mistake, because it is consisten for every candidate, and its an easy mistake to make. However, still putting him at 60,000,000 is a really big mistake considering that its more than even an extra zero/digit to what he made...

[mwkaufman]

All the numbers are bogus. For most of them, they take the total raised through three quarters, subtract money spent in quarter three and come up with cash on hand that way. Thus, John McCain has 26 million cash on hand. lol

[Birdlady]

Also, what?:

Energy/Environment:
Paul says U.S. foreign policy contributes to global warming because it fighting a war in Iraq to protect access to oil. He has introduced the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, which would require the federal government to respect state laws allowing the growing of industrial hemp. He believes hemp can be used as an alternative fuel.


Irrelevant? And I've never heard him say anything about hemp being used as fule.

You can use hemp for a lot of stuff such as clothing, plastics, cosmetics etc, but I am not specifically sure if RP has said anything about it. However, it is a good idea.

[jmdrake]

I respect a lot of Fox News and MSM in general

That's your first problem mate. ;)

Anyway, let's assume that the "millions of dollars" part is just a typo. After all they use the same thing on everybody's web page.

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/ron-paul/
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/rudy-giuliani/

Based on Faux News Mike Huckabee has raised more money than Rudy Giuliani and has raised almost as much as Mitt Romney. Now of course that's complete nonsense. Also Faux News claims that this information is based on FEC records. But the Q4 numbers aren't out yet. According to Q3 numbers Mitt Romney had raised a total of 62 million, Rudy Giuliani raised a total of 47 million, Ron Paul raised a total of 8.2 million and Mike Huckabee raised a paltry 2.3 million. The big story about Huckabee has been that his fundraising has totally sucked. Forget "conspiracy theories". Fox News is either totally incompetent in reporting fundraising numbers or SOMEBODY their is trying to make the Huckster look "top tier" by overstating his numbers.

Regards,

John M. Drake

[MooCowzRock]

:eek:

Forgive me if I think most "news" sources simply state the news, while they have very obviously stated biases in their opinionated sections. So while Fox, along with most every other MSM source will simply state the news that they find newsworthy, or is provided to them by news sources such as AP or Reuters, they all have opinionated sections where they dont hide their bias, because they are biased by definition. Bill O'Reailly is a traditional, Christian conservative, and he has said so, and never claimed he was "unbiased" or "moderate" in any way.

So yes, I simply and respectfully dissent to whatever guys such as Hannity or O'Reilly might say, but I am not one of the too many people that think there is some evil conspiracy where guys in the media meet up in some dark room and plot to get people elected. People with opinions support different candidates,and if half of them supported Ron Paul, you wouldnt be saying anything bad about them, and wouldnt recognize this as an equally biased stance, because it supports YOUR view.

So yes, its possible to respect people who hold a different view.

[MooCowzRock]

That's your first problem mate. ;)

Anyway, let's assume that the "millions of dollars" part is just a typo. After all they use the same thing on everybody's web page.

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/ron-paul/
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/rudy-giuliani/

Based on Faux News Mike Huckabee has raised more money than Rudy Giuliani and has raised almost as much as Mitt Romney. Now of course that's complete nonsense. Also Faux News claims that this information is based on FEC records. But the Q4 numbers aren't out yet. According to Q3 numbers Mitt Romney had raised a total of 62 million, Rudy Giuliani raised a total of 47 million, Ron Paul raised a total of 8.2 million and Mike Huckabee raised a paltry 2.3 million. The big story about Huckabee has been that his fundraising has totally sucked. Forget "conspiracy theories". Fox News is either totally incompetent in reporting fundraising numbers or SOMEBODY their is trying to make the Huckster look "top tier" by overstating his numbers.

Regards,

John M. Drake

Thats pretty much what I credit it to...I dont think this is some Fox News conspiracy, I just think some individual working on the site has a personal bias, and is immorally changing the numbers to make their candidate look better than they are.

Oh, and I was partly "sensationalizing" the issue just to get some reaction to the mistake...;P Plus more reaction would result in more e-mails to Fox to fix the mistake faster.

[user]

Forgive me if I think most "news" sources simply state the news, while they have very obviously stated biases in their opinionated sections. So while Fox, along with most every other MSM source will simply state the news that they find newsworthy, or is provided to them by news sources such as AP or Reuters, they all have opinionated sections where they dont hide their bias, because they are biased by definition. Bill O'Reailly is a traditional, Christian conservative, and he has said so, and never claimed he was "unbiased" or "moderate" in any way.

So yes, I simply and respectfully dissent to whatever guys such as Hannity or O'Reilly might say, but I am not one of the too many people that think there is some evil conspiracy where guys in the media meet up in some dark room and plot to get people elected. People with opinions support different candidates,and if half of them supported Ron Paul, you wouldnt be saying anything bad about them, and wouldnt recognize this as an equally biased stance, because it supports YOUR view.

So yes, its possible to respect people who hold a different view.
That's not true. You don't think Roger Ailes has had some influence, even on the regular news programs?

[MooCowzRock]

That's not true. You don't think Roger Ailes has had some influence, even on the regular news programs?

Try watching most of the regular news programs, instead of the opinionated shows, and its really no different from reading the news stories in the New York Times, or the BBC,or CNN, etc, etc...because they all mostly come from sources such as the AP and Reuters, and arent even written by Fox journalists and reporters.

[MooCowzRock]

hahahaha, they finally fixed it!

[jmdrake]

Forgive me if I think most "news" sources simply state the news, while they have very obviously stated biases in their opinionated sections. So while Fox, along with most every other MSM source will simply state the news that they find newsworthy, or is provided to them by news sources such as AP or Reuters, they all have opinionated sections where they dont hide their bias, because they are biased by definition. Bill O'Reailly is a traditional, Christian conservative, and he has said so, and never claimed he was "unbiased" or "moderate" in any way.

So yes, I simply and respectfully dissent to whatever guys such as Hannity or O'Reilly might say, but I am not one of the too many people that think there is some evil conspiracy where guys in the media meet up in some dark room and plot to get people elected. People with opinions support different candidates,and if half of them supported Ron Paul, you wouldnt be saying anything bad about them, and wouldnt recognize this as an equally biased stance, because it supports YOUR view.

So yes, its possible to respect people who hold a different view.

Bill "I'm fascinated with pornography and integrate it into my show every change I get (http://digg.com/comedy/Fox_News_Porn_Video_)" O'Reilly is a traditional Christian conservative? Ummm... NO!

Anyway, good job for pointing out their nonsense about Hucks money and I'm glad they fixed it.

Regards,

John M. Drake