When Obama meant with Republicans a few weeks back, he cleaned their clocks during that televised meeting. A Republican congressman even told a reporter present "This was a mistake". Fox News said they were going to cover the meeting, but they suddenly and inexplicably stopped coverage after several minutes of Obama obviously making the Republicans look like the duplicitous whining obstructionists they were. When Arianna Huffington confronted Fox chair Roger Ailes about that on "This Week", he just joked "We're fair and balanced" and laughed. What really upset me is that the rest of the guests--including host Barbara Walters--also chuckled. He just made light of completely abandoning anything approaching journalistic integrity, and everyone laughed?!
Nothing Fox does surprises me. This is the station, after all, where the morning hosts were once taking to task by one of their own--Chris Wallace--live on air for beating a biased story to death. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 8:22:41 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] O/T Obama Gets Applause at West Point, Fox Erases It? Fox is on that slippery slope and quickly sliding toward the abyss. They won't stop until they do something so outrageous that even tea party people would have to say it was wrong. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > wrote: Innocent glitch... riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. And I just had a letter from the Curia in Rome, saying that I'm in the running for a seat in the COllege of Cardinals, despite having been lapsed in my faith for 27 years now. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Mr. Worf < hellomahog...@gmail.com > wrote: Obama Gets Applause at West Point, Fox Erases It? President Obama addressed the graduates at West Point Academy on Saturday, saying, "Adversaries want to divide us, but we are united by our support for you - soldiers who send a clear message that this country is both the land of the free and the home of the brave." His comments about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the threats of terrorism received applause from the graduates, but Fox News apparently didn't like it! Filmmaker Michael Moore posted the Fox video on Twitter , which features what seems to be an edited pause, making it look like Obama was met with silence when he said the country is poised to end the war in Iraq this summer. However, Michael Moore isn't exactly the most unbiased reporter. Watch the Fox version for yourself: The original is on the White House's website . So, is the above version edited, or was it just an innocent TV glitch, like that one time Sean Hannity used crowd shots of Glenn Beck's 9/12 protest to make a different GOP health care rally appear more heavily attended? Video is located here: http://gothamist.com/2010/05/24/obama_gets_applause_at_west_point_f.php -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
