The Ten Most Egregious Faux "News" Distortions
- October 21, 2009 11:50:10
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Fox News has defended itself against administration criticism by saying the White House has confused its pundit shows with its news programs. But the network constantly, misleadingly disparages Obama and his administration in its supposedly straight reporting. Here are the ten of the worst examples; there are many more.
1. Fox News' Hemmer latest to advance made-up charge that Jennings knew of "statutory rape" case and "never reported it"
2. In March, Fox News's Martha MacCallum presented a clip of Vice President Joe Biden saying "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" -- and presented it as from an interview that weekend. In fact, the clip came from a 2008 campaign event at which Biden was quoting Sen. John McCain.
3. In April, Fox News's Wendell Goler reported on an Obama question-and-answer session that was cut short to make it seem as if the president wanted a health care system "like the European countries." In fact, he was just restating a question -- he went on to say that he opposed such a system.
4. In April, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly described a "problematic" remark by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as "reverse racism" and said it sounded like she thought "that Latina judges are obviously better than white male judges."
5. In May, Fox News's Jon Scott said the network had decided to look back on how the stimulus "grew, and grew, and grew." In fact, the entire report came from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release, complete with typo.
6. In October, Fox News's Trace Gallagher and Bill Sammon claimed that Senate Democrats would like provisions of the PATRIOT Act that helped catch a suspected terrorist to "go bye-bye." It was a total distortion of both the proposed changes and the terror case.
7. Chris Wallace had a former Bush administration aide Jim Towey as a guest on "Fox News Sunday" in August and together they pushed numerous falsehoods about a Veterans Affairs administration pamphlet on end-of-life issues.
8. On the news show "America's Pulse," E.D. Hill described Barack and Michelle Obama's fist bump at a campaign event last summer as a "terrorist fist jab." She later apologized and claimed that was how it had been "characterized in the media."
9. In a segment on Obama's budget in April, the network claimed it was four times bigger than President Bush's costliest plan. That simply isn't true. [Note: video won't embed.]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/the-ten-most-egregio...
10. Fox News reporters constantly promoted the Tea Party movement and also lied about coverage of the September Tea Party march on Washington in an ad. The network completely ignored an equally large gay-rights march in October.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/the-ten-most-egregio...
For more:
http://mediamatters.org/research/200910130047
1. Fox News' Hemmer latest to advance made-up charge that Jennings knew of "statutory rape" case and "never reported it"
2. In March, Fox News's Martha MacCallum presented a clip of Vice President Joe Biden saying "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" -- and presented it as from an interview that weekend. In fact, the clip came from a 2008 campaign event at which Biden was quoting Sen. John McCain.
3. In April, Fox News's Wendell Goler reported on an Obama question-and-answer session that was cut short to make it seem as if the president wanted a health care system "like the European countries." In fact, he was just restating a question -- he went on to say that he opposed such a system.
4. In April, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly described a "problematic" remark by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as "reverse racism" and said it sounded like she thought "that Latina judges are obviously better than white male judges."
5. In May, Fox News's Jon Scott said the network had decided to look back on how the stimulus "grew, and grew, and grew." In fact, the entire report came from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release, complete with typo.
6. In October, Fox News's Trace Gallagher and Bill Sammon claimed that Senate Democrats would like provisions of the PATRIOT Act that helped catch a suspected terrorist to "go bye-bye." It was a total distortion of both the proposed changes and the terror case.
7. Chris Wallace had a former Bush administration aide Jim Towey as a guest on "Fox News Sunday" in August and together they pushed numerous falsehoods about a Veterans Affairs administration pamphlet on end-of-life issues.
8. On the news show "America's Pulse," E.D. Hill described Barack and Michelle Obama's fist bump at a campaign event last summer as a "terrorist fist jab." She later apologized and claimed that was how it had been "characterized in the media."
9. In a segment on Obama's budget in April, the network claimed it was four times bigger than President Bush's costliest plan. That simply isn't true. [Note: video won't embed.]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/the-ten-most-egregio...
10. Fox News reporters constantly promoted the Tea Party movement and also lied about coverage of the September Tea Party march on Washington in an ad. The network completely ignored an equally large gay-rights march in October.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/the-ten-most-egregio...
For more:
http://mediamatters.org/research/200910130047
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Fox News has only two kinds of viewers.
Look at the photos below. In each one, Fox News, while showing the Fox News logo, fabricates completely nonsense claims such as each of the scandalous Republicans are actually Dems, that Obama's spokesperson (Black fellow) was actually the "Brownie" in charge of FEMA under Bush at the time of Katrina, and more.
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To blame Barack Obama for the things we (real "regular folks") are ALL suffering TOGETHER is absolutely childish and dangerous. To hope that he fails is to hope we ALL fail! How STUPID! These things have been decades in the making, with the possible exception of running us out and over a cliff in Iraqistan. That cannot be ch...
To blame Barack Obama for the things we (real "regular folks") are ALL suffering TOGETHER is absolutely childish and dangerous. To hope that he fails is to hope we ALL fail! How STUPID! These things have been decades in the making, with the possible exception of running us out and over a cliff in Iraqistan. That cannot be changed now except through helping our own Democracy in action TOGETHER. I personally wish that someone had realized the mire we would be entrenched in now before we ever left to "get Bin Laden". Someone somewhere along the way to that FOOLISH end took a left turn and stretched out and strained our military might. WHY? We cannot "win" anything by destroying and then having to rebuild any other country. We should be rebuilding our own roads and cities in need of repair. All that money is well-spent and stays in OUR country. We ALL benefit from those Government projects. Only FOOLS would rather chase a nearly invisible enemy into quicksand for the sake of "winning". It is FOOLISH to think that we will EVER "win".
We need to start thinking of our children and the REAL future.
STOP BICKERING AND BACKBITING AND START THINKING ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN AND THE FUTURE FOR ALL OF AMERICA.
BECOME REAL PATRIOTS AND FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION OF THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
ALL of the people... not just your personal favorites who say what you want to hear and make money off of your anger by constantly handing the ball to the next talking point DJ.
Don't let those few divide you and claim to be your friends.
They are not "regular folks" at MSNBC OR FOX!!!
They ALL are duping you to play on your anger and make themselves money. That is their job and they are overpaid...are YOU!?!?
BE REAL PATRIOTS!
It says what it says!!