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November 19, 2009 - 06:44 am

Fox "News" Does It Again

And what, pray tell, did they do again?

They faked some crowd video. First it was a Michele ("She got teh crazie") Bachman rally:

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Which Sean Hannity has already "apologized" for.

Now it's this from Thinkprogress:

From Thinkprogress:
This afternoon, Fox News host Gregg Jarrett proudly announced that Sarah Palin is “continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand new book. Take a look at — these are some of the pictures just coming into us.” But the pictures that the network chose to display on-air appeared to be old file footage of Palin rallies from the 2008 presidential campaign.

November 11, 2009 - 07:16 am

The World We Live In

From The St. Petersburg Times:
Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car Monday evening when a bearded man in a robe approached him.

That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.

What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.
And about that chase:
An exterior surveillance video of Tuesday's chase captured the two men in motion, said Tampa Police Department spokeswoman Laura McElroy:

"You see a very short, small man running, and an enormous, large muscular man chasing after him.

November 1, 2009 - 08:49 am

The Pittsburgh Tribune Review Editorial Board. Again.

I think they're just playing with my head this time. This is just too easy.

Take a look at today's "Sunday Pops." It ends with this:
Rocco Landesman, president of the taxpayer teat-suckling National Endowment for the Arts, says "Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar." Given that the president handpicked Mr. Landesman, can a revival of the term "bootlicker" be far behind?
First let's start off saying that they're spinning the quote into something it isn't. Here's a far more reliable source (Fox "News") with the fuller quotation:

Putting the president in the pantheon with such pencil-pushing powerhouses as the man who was, literally, the Czar of all Czars, Landesman said that since Obama "actually writes his own books," he's the most powerful man to be a true writer in the 2,000 years since Caesar strode the narrow earth.

October 30, 2009 - 05:54 am

Now This Is Surprising (Not).

From the Pew Center:
Nearly half of Americans (47%) say they think of Fox News as “mostly conservative,” 14% say it is “mostly liberal,” and 24% say it is “neither in particular.” Opinion about the ideological orientation of other TV news outlets is more mixed: while many view CNN and the three broadcast networks as mostly liberal, about the same percentages say they are neither in particular. However, somewhat more say MSNBC is mostly liberal than say it is neither in particular, by 36% to 27%.
And they have some art to show their work:

I find it interesting that they find that 14 percent of those questioned think Fox is "too liberal.

September 13, 2009 - 12:23 pm

Jack Kelly Sunday

It's Sunday. Jack Kelly's got a column in the P-G. Said column that shows, yet again, that NO ONE AT THE P-G FACT-CHECKS JACK KELLY.

Good lord, this is getting redundant.

This week's column is about the resignation of Van Jones, scary black man.

Jack's opening:

Around midnight on the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend, the White House announced Van Jones had resigned as President Obama's "green jobs czar."

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Mr. Jones said in his resignation letter. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.

July 20, 2009 - 07:34 pm

But He's Still An Idiot...

Remember this?

That's when Fox "News" host said, comparing Finland to the United States:Finland -- Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society. In America, we marry everybody.
Well he's apologized. And here's what he said (from HuffingtonPost):I made comments that were offensive to many people. That was not my intention, and looking back at those comments I realize they were inappropriate. For that I sincerely apologize. America [is a] huge melting pot, and that is what makes us such a great country...
Good for him but he's still an idiot.

July 9, 2009 - 05:49 am

Brian Kilmeade Is An Idiot

Here's why.

As every story I've read hat tips Gawker, I'll have to assume they have the original story. Here's what they say:
To stave off dementia! Yes, today the befuddled screech owls on Fox & Friends were discussing a study that states that those that stay married fend off Alzheimer's and dementia better than lonely divorcees. Brian Kilmeade took issue with this.

He didn't trust the study because it was done in Finland and Sweden and the Finns and the Swedes stay "pure" by only marrying each other. Whereas in America, everyone marries everyone (so long as they're white and their partner is white.

June 17, 2009 - 06:04 am

The Fairness Doctrine. Again

From Broadcasting and Cable:

Julius Genachowski, President Obama's nominee for chairman of the FCC, said Tuesday that he did not support reimposing the fairness doctrine.

He was asked at his nomination hearing by ranking Senate Commerce Committee Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) to publicly state the opinion he had expressed to her in a meeting--that he did not support the doctrine, even if it were arrived at by ancillary routes like localism mandates.

Genachowski said he strongly believes in the First Amendment and doesn't think the FCC should be involved in censorship based on political speech and opinion.

It doesn't get much more simple than that.

June 11, 2009 - 05:48 am

Teh Crazie Responds

Yesterday, the OPJ blogged on Shepard Smith of Fox "News."

Seems he's not so a big fan of teh Crazie out there.

In a piece with a headline that reads:
Shep Smith attacks right-wing 'crazies'
Rips people questioning eligibility as being 'out there in a scary place'
World Net Daily has responded.

First they try to undermine Smith's credibility with a nine-year old traffic altercation. And then they counter with Glenn Beck:
Two hours after Smith's TV remarks about "crazies," his network colleague Glenn Beck said of the shooting in Washington, "This is not the work of right-wing conservatives."

"This guy is a lone gunman nut job," Beck said.

June 10, 2009 - 07:59 pm

Shepard Smith: A tiny ray of light on Fox News

First up: Shep on the DHS report and the Holocaust Museum shooting: "It was a warning to us all, and it appears now they were right."

Next: He calls out "more and more frightening" Fox e-mailers.

Maybe, just maybe, Mr. Smith will someday realize that those scary, scary people who email him are Fox's base audience and that they are the base audience because Fox pushes tea-bag revolutions and unrelenting and over-the-top criticisms of President Obama and all things liberal/Democratic.
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