The links I posted did not work, as Andy pointed out. I’m reposting with different links:
The Huff Post story, which includes the actual Fox video clips, on 10 worst examples of Fox distortion is at:
http://tinyurl.com/FoxTopTenDistortions
The two examples I cited above are the second and third clips.
– Fox News in March 09 ran story with head “Top White House Economic Advisors Give ‘Optimistic’ View on Economy.” Fox anchor Martha MacCallum leads into video clips by saying: “Take a look at what was said in recent interviews this weekend.”
http://tinyurl.com/BidenDistortion
The segments clips include V.P. Biden saying “the fundamentals of the economy are strong.” The clip was deceptively edited from a 2008 campaign event where Biden was quoting John McCain’s remarks. The actual Biden clip that Fox edited proves Biden was quoting McCain. You can even match the exact backgrounds between the 2008 clip and the March 09 Fox story claiming to be from “this weekend.” The original clip is on the HuffPo site but you can also find it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7CRDSZ3Pl4&feature=player_embedded
– In April 09, Fox News reporter Wendell Goler reported a story with an edited clip of Pres. Obama at a town hall meeting saying: “If you’re going to fix it, why not do a universal healthcare system like the European countries.”
http://tinyurl.com/TownHallDistortion
But Obama was actually paraphrasing a question from an audience member before explaining that he wanted to build on the system we now have without scrapping what people are accustomed to and already have. Fox edited the clip to make it appear Obama was advocating a European system.
I found the Fox News clip on Fox’s own site:
http://tinyurl.com/FoxGolerStory
and the transcript of the Town Hall meeting it was taken from is at:
http://tinyurl.com/TownHallTranscript
The Huff Post piece includes 10 items, I’ve only written about the two that literally stunned me when i saw them.
I’ll just repeat that these two Fox News stories are remarkably unprofessional. To take a piece of video, and deliberately edit it to create the opposite meaning of the full remark, is proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that Fox’s intent was to deceive and distort.
For those of you who say you won’t look at any proof provided by Huffington Post, I’ve found original sources for the 3 of the 4 links.
To claim it isn’t real unless it’s covered by ABC, NBC or CBS is really, frankly, dumb. ABC, NBC and CBS aren’t monitoring Fox. And when I’ve provided verifiable links from CNN demonstrating Fox’s false reporting and claims that no other broadcast media covered the tea party demonstration in D.C, you Fox supporters discounted that too.
So here it is. Proof that it isn’t just Fox commentators that distort, it’s part and parcel of their News programs. I apologize that the original links didn’t work. I’m going to post this and try each link.
The links I posted did not work, as Andy pointed out. I’m reposting with different links:
The Huff Post story, which includes the actual Fox video clips, on 10 worst examples of Fox distortion is at:
http://tinyurl.com/FoxTopTenDistortions
The two examples I cited above are the second and third clips.
– Fox News in March 09 ran story with head “Top White House Economic Advisors Give ‘Optimistic’ View on Economy.” Fox anchor Martha MacCallum leads into video clips by saying: “Take a look at what was said in recent interviews this weekend.”
http://tinyurl.com/BidenDistortion
The segments clips include V.P. Biden saying “the fundamentals of the economy are strong.” The clip was deceptively edited from a 2008 campaign event where Biden was quoting John McCain’s remarks. The actual Biden clip that Fox edited proves Biden was quoting McCain. You can even match the exact backgrounds between the 2008 clip and the March 09 Fox story claiming to be from “this weekend.” The original clip is on the HuffPo site but you can also find it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7CRDSZ3Pl4&feature=player_embedded
– In April 09, Fox News reporter Wendell Goler reported a story with an edited clip of Pres. Obama at a town hall meeting saying: “If you’re going to fix it, why not do a universal healthcare system like the European countries.”
http://tinyurl.com/TownHallDistortion
But Obama was actually paraphrasing a question from an audience member before explaining that he wanted to build on the system we now have without scrapping what people are accustomed to and already have. Fox edited the clip to make it appear Obama was advocating a European system.
I found the Fox News clip on Fox’s own site: http://tinyurl.com/FoxGolerStory
and the transcript of the Town Hall meeting it was taken from is at: http://tinyurl.com/TownHallTranscript
The Huff Post piece includes 10 items, I’ve only written about the two that literally stunned me when i saw them.
I’ll just repeat that these two Fox News stories are remarkably unprofessional. To take a piece of video, and deliberately edit it to create the opposite meaning of the full remark, is proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that Fox’s intent was to deceive and distort.
For those of you who say you won’t look at any proof provided by Huffington Post, I’ve found original sources for the 3 of the 4 links.
To claim it isn’t real unless it’s covered by ABC, NBC or CBS is really, frankly, dumb. ABC, NBC and CBS aren’t monitoring Fox. And when I’ve provided verifiable links from CNN demonstrating Fox’s false reporting and claims that no other broadcast media covered the tea party demonstration in D.C, you Fox supporters discounted that too.
So here it is. Proof that it isn’t just Fox commentators that distort, it’s part and parcel of their News programs. I apologize that the original links didn’t work. I’m going to post this and try each link.