# Fox News is trying really hard... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054 "2012-09-27T19:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/21 "2012-09-28T17:01:08Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I was too busy reading about [the world’s grumpiest cat.](http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/28/internet-finds-world-grumpiest-cat-named-tardar-sauce/?intcmp=features) _spit take_ The cat’s name is Tard. _2nd spit take_ And you failed to mention that fact first??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/22 "2012-09-28T17:30:52Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Which will feed the preposterous “Obama will turn US sovereignty over to the U.N.” crap that some people are stupid enough to believe. But of course. Obama just addressed the UN; that’s why the story was run today. Had he not, it wouldn’t have. It’s a deliberate attempt to smear Obama by association. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/23 "2012-09-28T18:12:04Z")
today wasn’t as bad over there. But I am confused at Fox’s continued hounding of what the White House knew vs what they said on the Lybia attack. is the idea that the WH knew it was a terrorist attack but refused to say so because…? not sure I see the end game of this investigative journalism. And thanks JoeBuck for the Colbert clip, funny as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/24 "2012-09-30T00:40:15Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Also: [How to see Uranus in a telescope](http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/28/how-to-see-uranus-in-telescopes-this-weekend/?intcmp=features)😃 Sentences like this: > [@](#): > > If you know exactly where to look, it is just possible to see Uranus with the naked eye, Are why I could never make it as a professional in the field of astronomy. That just would never stop being funny to me. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/25 "2012-09-30T02:40:47Z")
You can tell they are desperate to show anything but Romney when, in the closing weeks of a presidential campaign, they drop everything to show a car chase live. Well, the chase was live, though the driver wasn’t in the end. ☹ > **[HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News](https://www.huffpost.com/?err_code=404&err_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2012%2F09%2F29%2Fman-suicide-live-fox-car-chase-tv_n_1925107.html)** > > Read the latest headlines, news stories, and opinion from Politics, Entertainment, Life, Perspectives, and more. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/26 "2012-09-30T03:33:37Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Today’s Fox News Website: A huge, Jesus-is-back blasting headline that the UN plans on worldwide taxes, something the article never once mentions the UN cannot, in fact, do. That’s so ridiculous that I had to look for it. The headline, “Report: United Nations considering ‘global’ tax” and the story is [here](http://video.foxnews.com/v/1866842435001/report-united-nations-considering-global-tax). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/27 "2012-09-30T03:44:13Z")
What is it, a tax on globes? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/28 "2012-09-30T05:05:09Z")
No, I think it’s when a country dies, it has to pay like 35% of the estate to the U.N. There was a small family nation in the Balkans where the heirs couldn’t afford the tax and instead had to sell out to developers. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/29 "2012-09-30T07:18:02Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > No, I think it’s when a country dies, it has to pay like 35% of the estate to the U.N. There was a small family nation in the Balkans where the heirs couldn’t afford the tax and instead had to sell out to developers. Isn’t that part of Doctor Doom’s origin story? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/30 "2012-09-30T08:29:57Z")
Well, its always some damn fool thing in the Balkans, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/31 "2012-09-30T13:52:42Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Holy shit that’s awesome. I want to screengrab that home page for the next time somebody tries to tell me “sure, they’re opinion guys are biased, but their news side plays it straight”. > > Seriously the top headline is “THEY KNEW - SO WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?” that repeats a GOP allegation as if it were fact. > > Under that is “There She Goes Again: Sibelius Hits Obama Trail”. That one nicely repeats a Reagan quote mixed with GOP claims that Sibelius broke the law. > > But, like you said, the cherry on the whole sundae is the “BIAS ALRET: What About The Obama Tape?” headline and article. Wondering why the networks are playing a newly released and maybe 9-month-old campaign video of Romney (the 47% remarks) more often than a 14-year-old already released audio tape of Obama talking about redistribution. > > Epic day for the folks at Fox News. Seeing as it’s different now, could you post that screenshot? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/32 "2012-09-30T14:27:56Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > That’s so ridiculous that I had to look for it. The headline, “Report: United Nations considering ‘global’ tax” and the story is [here](http://video.foxnews.com/v/1866842435001/report-united-nations-considering-global-tax). That was like a video clip from the weekly world news. I expect Fox “News” to start running stories about bat boy soon. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/33 "2012-09-30T15:59:06Z")
At least the grumpy cat isn’t _trying_ to lie to people. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054/34 "2012-10-03T14:59:08Z")
Okay…I was wrong. Fox wasn’t trying hard a couple weeks ago… they are trying HARD now. Bringing up a 5 year old video that was a public event and widely covered at the time and branding it as “new” is just…wow. I dont even know what to say or do here… Is noboy over there actually a journalist? 4 top stories about the evils of obama hitting all the talking points… Domestic, foriegn policy, and a story on the evils of Obama-Care… And they Syria bombing is buried around the 15th link below it all… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054.md?page=1)