# Oh Fox News, You Silly, Silly, Silly Network **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 17, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762 "2009-03-17T15:49:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/21 "2009-03-17T22:30:00Z")
Is this another example of that famous left-wing media slant that I hear so much about? Not as such… ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/22 "2009-03-18T03:11:19Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The plan in 2010 is to put the word “Democrat” under every Republican candidate, and vice versa. > > Every once in a while one of their drones will pop in and say, “Oops, we goofed. We just don’t know what to do with our graphics people.” Oddly enough, no one will suggest firing them. That’s because the people in charge of sacking the graphics people have been sacked. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/23 "2009-03-18T03:14:59Z")
Ah, shit, no, man, those people were _great!_ Remember their Iraq War graphic, with the eagle plunging from the sky with talons glistening with vengeance and frickin’ \*laser \*beams on the wings, damn, now that was some _graphics!_ So many lies contained in a single unforgettable image! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/24 "2009-03-18T04:35:42Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Is this another example of that famous left-wing media slant that I hear so much about? > > Not as such… Well, it’s okay, because _every single other newspaper and major TV network in the country_ is liberally biased, so there needs to be SOME balance, right? ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/25 "2009-03-18T05:27:38Z")
How’s about the last quote in that montage as well? [QUOTE=Some dude on Fox News] The core strength of the economy is middle class workers. [/QUOTE] I don’t know who that was and what context he said that in, obviously, but couldn’t it go either way depending on what the preceding or next sentence was? If the speaker followed that up with, “The fact that the middle class are getting laid off is greater numbers really puts the screws to the economy.” I don’t see how they can present that one sentence out-of-context as representative of positive spin on the economy. It doesn’t say that at all. It doesn’t really say anything. Of course, it’s not as glaringly disingenuous as actual lying, but it is really indicative of the fact that Fox News obviously thinks its audience are a bunch of fuckwits. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/26 "2009-03-18T07:29:13Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > They inadvertently got caught. Bingo. It won’t matter though, the damage has been done and the Fox News viewers already have it in their “brain.” ---
**Author:** ![JoeFriday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/94ad74/32.png) [@JoeFriday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeFriday)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/27 "2009-03-18T10:18:01Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Ok, so at least they apologized for it, but I don’t see how it could have been inadvertent. Somebody had to intentionally crop that clip and then intentionally insert into the package. That’s it exactly. _Somebody_ there had to know, even if it wasn’t the “journalist” who presented it. There’s no credible way for them to just say, “Oopsie!” because Biden’s words on both sides of the sound bite were clearly referencing McCain. Whoever did the cutting knew it. If Media Matters and ThinkProgress hadn’t exposed it, we would never have heard that rather lame apology. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/28 "2009-03-18T15:49:46Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > [snip] Fox News viewers already have it **in their “brain.”** Such as it is. Bolding mine. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/29 "2009-03-18T17:00:31Z")
The funny thing here (to me) is that my dad is using this as an example of why Fox is such a great network…because they are willing to retract something and fess up when they are wrong. He loves them (it’s on pretty much continuously at his house whenever we come over for a visit). Love my dad but that makes it difficult to go over for a visit… -XT ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762/30 "2009-03-18T17:38:30Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Even for yellow journalism, that’s a little too _Pravda_-esque. Have they simply decided “Well screw this wussy plausible-deniability stunt, we’ll just flat-out make shit up and not care if we’re caught. Hey, it works for Limbaugh”? Eh? Oh, that happened a long time ago. Y’ever notice how when Fox has no choice but to cover a Pub caught in a scandal, the crawl or caption often ID’s that pol as a Dem? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fox-news-you-silly-silly-silly-network/489762.md?page=1)