This one is for those few low capacity conservatives who still suffer from the delusion that Fox is anything remotely resembling a news source and that "fair and balanced" is supposed to be taken seriously. Every news outlet has its biases, but when it comes to deliberate premeditated lying and a complete rewrite of reality, no information outlet comes close to Fox. This is a disgrace, of course, but it's just business as usual for the Right Wing Propaganda Network.
Article excerpt follows:
Fox News Distorts Politico Headline
By Nathaniel Downes
August 22, 2012
Most news websites do deal with a significant number of cross-posted news articles. In order to keep their staff headcount lower, they take and link to news from other websites which fits in with the narrative they want to keep going. Common sources for these news pieces include the Associated Press, Reuters, Interfax, and so on. One of the sources Fox News uses is ABC, an affiliate of Allbritton Communications, who run the political journalism company Politico. In sharing a Politico piece today, however, Fox News took it upon themselves to selectively edit a small piece, in order to completely change the meaning of the article. Here, look for yourself.
Here is the original Politico piece:
And then, the same piece, now on display at Fox News:
The Politico title “Obama doesn’t take SEAL group attacks ‘seriously’” on Fox News becomes “Obama Takes On Navy SEALS: ‘I Don’t Take These Folks Too Seriously’,” completely changing the setup to the piece. As statistically, most people read the headline to then jump to conclusions, this of course creates a false narrative; that Obama does not care about the men and women who defend our nation, the elites of our armed forces, the best of the best, those who found and killed Obama Bin Laden himself. Then they have to do nothing as those who read the headline and jumped do the damage, and attack the president over something he never said. By doing this, of course, the hope is to discredit his efforts to blunt the attack by the Republican-tied Special Operations Opsec Education Fund, Inc group which is attempting to instigate a fake swift boat attack, falsely claiming to be run by the Navy SEALs which Obama just ‘insulted.’
This is not a new tactic, it appears as part of a plan of operation, coördinated between Newscorp, owners of Fox News, and the Republican Party. They do this with alarming regularity with their own news pieces, but that is now expected. By tying these edits to an article from another agency, the idea is to shift the blame for it from Fox, but into another agency with a far better reputation. This demonstrates how desperate the media arm of the Republican Party has become.
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“I don’t take these folks too seriously. One of their members is a birther who denies I was born here, despite evidence to the contrary," Obama told The Virginian-Pilot.
Can anyone explain this?
Come on man.
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, 1820
Like what?
But I agree with your point of an informed electorate.
Funny, these Fox News allegations from the whiny left never seem to be based on fact.
The story itself makes clear that the President's reference to "these folks" was a reference to the nutjob swiftboaters who are now trying to spread nonsense about the mission to take out Osama bin Laden. Fox turned it into an attack on the members of the Navy SEALS.
It's remarkable that even when there is no relation between Fox's story and reality your attempt to ignore it is even further from reality than Fox is.
LOL. You're all twisted up in you own spin this time! Better go back to the mother ship to see how to get out of this one.......
Gee...he should be respectful to and take as credible two groups of swift boaters? Sorry, Obama has done more to secure this country then Shrub ever did. And certainly more then Mittens will. And then there is the fact that Fox News still outed a Navy Seal and put his life in danger.
But feel free to continue lying and spinning as much as Faux News. But tell me...if your side has to engage in nothing more then lie after lie then why does your party deserve power?
If you like Obama's foreign policy, then you must have loved Bush's. All Obama's done is follow Bush's lead. The Iraq withdrawal strategy was the Status of Forces Agreement negotiated between the the Bush Administration and the Iraqis in 2007, signed in Nov. 2008. Obama followed it to the letter.
And I didn't realize you liberals were so fond of escalating wars, starting new wars without congressional approval, killing more U.S. troops, extending and expanding the Patriot Act, indefinitely detaining prisoners at Gitmo. All have been done under Obama.
Now suppose the headline on Fox the next morning read:
"jimih67: "Hitler was the Second Coming of Christ""
Would you consider THAT fair and balanced? After all, it's a direct quote.
It's actually the Politico headline that waters down what Obama actually said. Here's the direct quote from the Politico article itself.
http://www.politico.com/polit...
Fox News Headline: Obama Takes On Navy SEALS: ‘I Don’t Take These Folks Too Seriously’
You lose again, PP. Fox News headline gets it right......
Double-standard.
And they both use SEAL in their headline, in fact, the Fox News headline quotes the entire Obama quote, not just a single word like Politico. And headlines are written to get reader's attention, in order to get more people to read the article, Fox News did a better job IMHO, both in accuracy and attention grabber.
Here is a google cached copy of what the page looked like on August 22:
This is what it looks like today:
While I wasn't able to see what the comments were like at Fox Nation, here is a sampling of what commenters from around the web had to say about the headline:
"seals don't take him seriously either. Obama couldn't hold their jock straps "
"Every time that waste of skin opens his mouth, a whole (expletive) ton of WTF comes out"
"He's just trying to lose the election now. What a douchebag. "
"Yeah, I mean you killed Osama right? Not these bozo's. What are these fools thinking?"
"I think Osama bin Laden also didn't take Navy SEALS very seriously. Until, suddenly, at the last moment, he saw the error of his ways. And by then it was just a little too late..."
"Of all the people in these United States, those men ARE THE people he should pay attention to. (expletive) piece of (expletive) disgracing men who risked their lives to do his bidding..............just wow. that's all I can muster: wow.
This vet will never follow him. Not now, not ever. (expletive) him."
"These folks? Too seriously?
These are the finest Americans this nation could ever give b...
Here is a google cached copy of what the page looked like on August 22:
This is what it looks like today:
While I wasn't able to see what the comments were like at Fox Nation, here is a sampling of what commenters from around the web had to say about the headline:
"seals don't take him seriously either. Obama couldn't hold their jock straps "
"Every time that waste of skin opens his mouth, a whole (expletive) ton of WTF comes out"
"He's just trying to lose the election now. What a douchebag. "
"Yeah, I mean you killed Osama right? Not these bozo's. What are these fools thinking?"
"I think Osama bin Laden also didn't take Navy SEALS very seriously. Until, suddenly, at the last moment, he saw the error of his ways. And by then it was just a little too late..."
"Of all the people in these United States, those men ARE THE people he should pay attention to. (expletive) piece of (expletive) disgracing men who risked their lives to do his bidding..............just wow. that's all I can muster: wow.
This vet will never follow him. Not now, not ever. (expletive) him."
"These folks? Too seriously?
These are the finest Americans this nation could ever give birth to. These folks? Yeah we got you now. Theyre not from acorn or a labor union, so these folks mean nothing to you. Lets see mr pansy pants hang for one day in these folks shoes. Effin coward.
Thank you Seals and all Special Ops members. You are not just “these folks”, you are the pride of America and deserve to be treated as such. We revere you and your selfless sacrifice. Regardless of what the commie in chief says.
There you have it military service members. I guess the choice is clear."
"He told the truth , he doesn’t care about our military or the seals .. He must not care about these votes either ..Obama eventually offends everyone,but he is costing himself votes, and that’s a good thing.."
This is just a sample. Shall I keep going?
It seems that many people stopped at the headline and never bothered to read the article.
Now if obama took credit for 'killing' Osama bin Laden, why should he not take responsibility for the Seals? Obama is the Commander in Chief of our armed forces; the TOP man. You don't see a connection here?
http://news.americanspecialop...
About three months later, SEAL Team 6 was involved in another helicopter crash while on a mission, and tragically, 22 SEAL team members lost their lives. However, none of those soldiers were present for the bin Laden mission.
http://foxnewsinsider.com/201...
How is that possible? Despite what you may have read on infowars, a SEAL team is comprised of 6 platoons each containing about 16-20 men. The entire SEAL Team 6 has anywhere from 96-120 soldiers. I'm not great at math, but I'm pretty sure that 22 is less than 96.
"When bin Laden was killed the Seal Team was about to leave in their helicopter it crashed, killing all of them. That particular helicopter was modified and was a few hundred pounds heavier than it should have been."
Question: If all of SEAL Team 6 was killed during the bin Laden raid, how is it that one of them lived to write a book about it?
One word for you to study up on before tomorrow's class: C O N T E X T
Both headlines correctly use the word SEAL, as referenced above.......but you only have a problem with the Fox News headline.
But let's use your example of the old men at the VFW. Not sure what prejudice you have against old vets, but that's a different discussion. But if a bunch of ex Army vets got together and formed an organization and the President said the same thing about them, then it would be factual if the headline read "Obama Takes On Army Vets: ‘I Don’t Take These Folks Too Seriously.’"
And for your information, a headline is the beginning of an article, not the entirety of it. It's written in such a way that's supposed to grab your attention so you read the article. There are people who are paid a lot of money who specialize in creating attention grabbing headlines. In case you're still confused by this, newspapers make money by selling more newspapers, newspapers that people want to read. If you have crappy headlines, you'll have less readership = less money!
And how do you figure this is all Bush's fault? We've had way more casualties in Afghanistan under Obama than under Bush.......remember, Mr. Nobel Peace Prize escalated the Afghan war effort, and we STILL can't even define what victory means, nor do we have a plan for victory. But this is what you Obama voters wanted, more war in Afghanistan. Obama said he would do it in 2008, he campaigned on it, and you cheered him on.
And here's what you got.....2,107 dead under Obama in Afghanistan.
http://icasualties.org/OEF/By...
And BTW, Obama simply followed the Bush withdrawal strategy in Iraq, he didn't end the war, Bush did. That Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) was negotiated by the Bush Administration in 2007, signed in Nov. 2008 and put in place by Bush. Obama followed it to the letter.......I guess ending the war in Iraq is yet another thing Obama can blame Bush for.