Oh yes, yet another “FOX is full of shit” thread, but in the interest of effcieincy, much like "The Stupid Republican Idea of the Day’ thread, I think maybe just one omnibus thread about how corrupt and decietful FOX “News” is may be in order.
Which would make sense; the courts would be gridlocked with endless lawsuits arguing what the “truth” is. I don’t see the system wanting to take on questions that not even philosophers have resolved.
Coins were approved (when the Republicans were in the majority in Congress), moving “In God We Trust” to the edge of the coin. Sarah Palin deemd it a big bad gawdless librul conspiracy.
I shudder to think that this woman once had a decent chance of being only a heartbeat away from the presidency. She would have made Bush look like Thomas Jefferson.
That case is about WTVT, a local Fox broadcasting station in Tampa owned by Fox Broadcasting which is owned by News Corp. It’s a pretty tenuous connection to Fox News. It’s one thing to hate anything related to News Corp and Rupert Murdoch but this thread seems to be about Fox News, not Fox Broadcasting’s local stations.
And the courts ruled that an FCC rule against lying doesn’t meet the requirements for protection under whistle blower statutes. It’s a real stretch to turn that into “Fox News sues for right to lie to people”.
Fox News is such a fucking awful “news” organization, you really don’t need to twist flimsy transgressions into things they’re not. This is like getting outraged about the time Andy Hitler, Adolph’s cousin, shot a cat with a sling shot.
Can someone tell me how exactly an “inadvertent mistake” like that might happen? Did someone just happen to have tea party footage laying around while they were editing?
It wasn’t inadvertant, nor is it the first or (second or third) time that Hannity has used tampered video clips on his show, but he knows that Stewart can’t PROVE it was intentional, so the best defnsive strategy was to appear to acknowledge a “mistake” while not really taking responsibility or admitting dishonesty.
Even going as far as he did is unsual for Hannity, but he might be wary of getting into a pissing contest with TDS after seeing what happened to that Cramer guy from CNBC.
It doesn’t matter, Hannity knows his viewers fall into two basic categories, the true believers and those who watch simply to scorn. His “apology” affects nothing substantial, the true believers will point with pride to how honest and forthcoming Hannity is.
This is not to denigrate the comedic value of seeing them step on their dick.
See, I don’t find this funny. Jon Stewart’s funny, but that Sean Hannity exists and does the show he does is not. I metaphorically took the bear’s way out long ago. For instance, I haven’t been able to listen to Bush speak more than about ten words since 2006 or so because it hurts my brain so.
This was brilliant on so many levels. Took it off the studio floor, and had Stewart at home waiting for the apology, begging Hannity’s “Glad you watch us” neener, showing that watching was torture, down to teddy bears hanging themselves and dead flowers on the table. To then take it to a the “once young” staffer, forced to watch, and aged, yep, brilliant, they really covered all the bases here.
Surprised that the Big Giant Head even did as much as he did, in terms of acknowledging a pooch-screwing. I remember way back, when I didn’t hate him half as much. Watched one night when he claimed that the WMD had been found, and demanded apologies from every leading critic of Bush, by name, crowing to the skies about how they were all wrong, wrong wrong!
Well, you know the rest, next morning it came out that this big find was just a bunch of outdated artillery shells, total crap. So I watched that night, to see how he would handle it, what wine goes good with crow…
Nothing. Not so much as a word. Its like it didn’t even happen. Poof! Gone.
