Kevin says:
For FOX News to complain about bias or doctoring evidence is pretty damn heelarious:
He then takes us to the following website:
Even if Kevin were remotely informed of the bias or lack thereof at Fox News (the only major news outlet in the United States that is not a ideological/social monoculture), using the notorious political spin/attack site Mediamatters for America as a source for the criticism of media shenanigans is just as comic has he claims Fox to be.
Kevin just doesn't seem able to get away from Soros. No matter what the subject, he expects us to take the wash/rinse/spin of Democratic party propaganda tanks seriously while jeering at Fox or any other remotely serious source of information.
Fox Hypes RNC's Doctored Audio Of Supreme Court Arguments
March 30, 2012 12:14 am ET by Todd Gregory
Bloomberg News is reporting that a Republican National Committee Web ad uses "altered audio from U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments to attack President Barack Obama's health-care law." The Bloomberg article details the problems with the ad:
In a spot circulated yesterday [March 28], the Republican National Committee excerpts the opening seconds of the March 27 presentation of Obama's top Supreme Court lawyer, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, in which he is heard struggling for words and twice stopping to drink water.
"Obamacare," the ad concludes, in words shown against a photograph of the high court. "It's a tough sell."
A review of a transcript and recordings of those moments shows that Verrilli took a sip of water just once, paused for a much briefer period, and completed his thought, rather than stuttering and trailing off as heard in the doctored version.
On his March 28 Fox News show, Sean Hannity aired an audio clip of Justice Antonin Scalia speaking during the arguments, and another of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Hannity then aired the RNC ad:
This left the impression that the RNC ad simply uses a clip of Verrilli to show that he had fared poorly during the arguments. In reality, as Bloomberg noted, Verrilli's speech was doctored to exaggerate the effect.
Whatever, but the fact remains that Verrilli fell flat on his face tying to argue for and support what he probably knows full well is not supportable constitutionally. Obamacare is no more constitutional - or compatible with a free, individual liberty based society - than food stamps and public sector unionism.
Hannity's show airs at 9 p.m. Eastern, and graphics throughout his March 29 show indicated it was airing live. But Hannity didn't apologize for airing the misleading ad. He didn't even mention it.
Doctored though it may of been, by you own admission, it simply exaggerated the effect. The "effect" was real. Virilli was poorly prepared and struggling against logical and constitutional boulders far too heavy for him to lift.
There are tons of examples of FOX News flat out lying or doctoring. My personal favorite was the doctored photograph of the Beck rally in Washington, making it look like there were 2 million people in attendance when in reality they were using a doctored photo that was taken during an Obama rally! Hannity was forced to admit it and apologize on the air, but only after he was busted.
CFR. I just Googled "doctored Glen Beck photos" and "did Fox News Doctor photos of Glen Beck rally" and got no hits whatsoever.
This is standard fare for FOX News, which isn't news at all. It is a well crafted and well funded propaganda machine.
Actually this is a blatant falsehood. Fox News is a part of the overall Fox entertainment empire, and its originators/developers are as liberal/left-wing as anyone anywhere else in that corporate media world. However, at one point, they saw a market open up in the wake of the wild success of Rush Limbaugh and other AM talk radio hosts speaking to conservative concerns that would actually permit and showcase real, authentic balance and fairness in reporting different sides of an issue, feature open conservatives as anchors, co-anchors, and roundtable discussion leaders, and which would allow both sides of a debate to speak on fundamental equal terms (
not George Will sitting around a table with 6, 7, or 8 leftists).
That market was a market for News reporting outside the monocultural northeastern liberal
Ruling Class establishment and its previously impregnable grip on public opinion thorough its monopoly on the production and dissemination of news and information. The happy demise of the "Fairness" Doctrine opened up radio to a truly free and competing market of free speech. The success of conservative AM talk radio is a pure market driven phenomena, and its success, and the growing understanding among ever more Americans that the "mainstream media" had become, in essence, the journalistic wing of the Democratic party and had become so politicized as to be nearly useless as a source of knowledge about the world and events within it of any salience, provoked the rise of Fox News to fill a gap in the consumption of news outside the monoideological vortex of the regnant leftist news media, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN etc.
Fox isn't perfect by any means, but its been an important step away from the Borg of liberal eastern-establishment-fashionable-opinion-as-jounalism that has past for "news" for some 40 years now.