Sean Hannity at Fox News...BUSTED!!!

[Joshua_me]

We can think this is funny but it's very serious. When a "news" agency is intentionally misleading viewers to sway their political opinions, democracy is being attacked. This isn't something to laugh about. This is undermining the political discourse in this country.

^ Exactly.

But, so few people seem to realize that. This is a "news" organization that blatantly lied to the public... It's right there on the screen. And yet, many people say, "Well, it's Jon Stewart so it's not real" or "The left just sees what they want to..."

*sigh*

Perhaps we are getting what we deserve.

 

[Lefty]

so nick, you are saying that news services and layer and politicians are of the same genre?

i have often suspected that and included syndicated talk show hosts (esp radio) and religious demigogues in that group as well.

also, baby bear the han is far to foul a morsel for your tender asian system to ingest with impunity and casual disregard for health...in other words, thats an aids virus looking for a place to happen...the others are mere severe examples of h1 virus

 

[irish1]

All the networks are guilty of interspersing other footage into their coverage of events like this. Including Jon Stewart and Comedy Central. So, what's new about it? They all occasionally intersperse footage from one event to the other.

What is the real difference between a Democrat and a Republican? The Republican doesn't care about you and will let you know that up front while a Democrat will lie to you and pretend to care while he asks you for money.

Get over it. Politics is inhabited by nothing but liars and power hungry assholes.

^^^Yup. You said a mouthful.

 

[NickCole]

so nick, you are saying that news services and layer and politicians are of the same genre?

I'm saying that Fox News is not alone in presenting propaganda segments, and it's not something only the right is guilty of. Fox does it from the right while MSNBC and CNN do it from the left.

And none of those three news outlets invented monkeying around with video or film to try to make a crowd seem larger or regular concerned people seem nutty or a non-racial situation seem dangerously racist. It's been done for decades.

also, baby bear the han is far to foul a morsel for your tender asian system to ingest with impunity and casual disregard for health...in other words, thats an aids virus looking for a place to happen...the others are mere severe examples of h1 virus

I'm not certain I know what this means so I won't hazard a reply, but it sounds intreguing.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

. Fox does it from the right while MSNBC and CNN do it from the left.

If that was true, Fox News would be reporting every error.

They'd be reporting every mistake they could find.

We've seen about 10-20 instances of Republicans being arrested or caught having sex with minors and Fox News reporting them as Democrats. WAY too often to be a mistake. We've found footage of Fox News employees thinking they're not on camera trying to whip up the crowds at Tea Bag rallies.

We've had Fox News staging "Grass Roots" Tea Parties and then when the crowd wasn't as big as they hoped, making up "news reports" of the crowd size and citing "some university, I can't remember" as the source.

Remember this one where they actually altered photographs of two rival news hosts?



how about just yestrerday when Bill O'Reilly threw a fit saying the public option had "no support from the people" and Britt fucking Hume had to correct him and say that it has a 70% support?

And finally... here's a lovely video of "Fox News' 10 most Egregious Disortions."

You saying "they all do it" is bullshit. In fact.. you saying that is the kind of thing I'd expect from Fox News.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

Here's a List..

Bill Hemmer reported that Department of Education official Kevin Jennings knew of a "statutory rape" case involving a 15-year-old student but "never reported it." In fact, the student was above the age of consent.

In March, Fox News's Martha MacCallum presented a clip of Vice President Joe Biden saying "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" -- and presented it as from an interview that weekend. In fact, the clip came from a 2008 campaign event at which Biden was quoting Sen. John McCain.

In April, Fox News's Wendell Goler reported on an Obama question-and-answer session that was cut short to make it seem as if the president wanted a health care system "like the European countries." In fact, he was just restating a question -- he went on to say that he opposed such a system.

In May, Fox News's Jon Scott said the network had decided to look back on how the stimulus "grew, and grew, and grew." In fact, the entire report came from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release, complete with typo.

In October, Fox News's Trace Gallagher and Bill Sammon claimed that Senate Democrats would like provisions of the PATRIOT Act that helped catch a suspected terrorist to "go bye-bye." It was a total distortion of both the proposed changes and the terror case.

Chris Wallace had a former Bush administration aide Jim Towey as a guest on "Fox News Sunday" in August and together they pushed numerous falsehoods about a Veterans Affairs administration pamphlet on end-of-life issues.

On the news show "America's Pulse," E.D. Hill described Barack and Michelle Obama's fist bump at a campaign event last summer as a "terrorist fist jab." She later apologized and claimed that was how it had been "characterized in the media." (The Media being... her)

In a segment on Obama's budget in April, the network claimed it was four times bigger than President Bush's costliest plan. That simply isn't true.

Fox News reporters constantly promoted the Tea Party movement and also lied about coverage of the September Tea Party march on Washington in an ad. The network completely ignored an equally large gay-rights march in October.

 

[Lefty]

nick, first re the bear...that was for hungry brown bear who indicated an interest in eating hannity.

second, not just the news media it seems the whole political system as well.

and as far as jasun above, he is a recent transplant (you knew that of course) from our sister country to the north where nothing of this nature EVER occurs so he is appalled and expressing that. i am afraid it is easier to let him vent than ask him to review things in a fair and impartial manner. later guy.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

If anyone wants to print a comprehensive list of intentional distortions by MSNBC, I'm all ears.

There's mistakes (and the crowd on it's own could be one if it wasn't the second time in 29 days they'd done it) and then there's accrediting John McCain's comments to Joe Biden or editing video of Obama speaking to make it sound like he said the complete opposite of what he'd said.

But if MSNBC has done the same.. please let me know. I don't want to seem impartial.

 

[NickCole]

You saying "they all do it" is bullshit. In fact.. you saying that is the kind of thing I'd expect from Fox News.

I never said they all do it, Jasun.

 

[hungrybrownbear]

you totally would post something like that!



this 2nd page is looking very very sparse.

 

[NickCole]

Here's a List..

Bill Hemmer reported that Department of Education official Kevin Jennings knew of a "statutory rape" case involving a 15-year-old student but "never reported it." In fact, the student was above the age of consent.

In March, Fox News's Martha MacCallum presented a clip of Vice President Joe Biden saying "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" -- and presented it as from an interview that weekend. In fact, the clip came from a 2008 campaign event at which Biden was quoting Sen. John McCain.

In April, Fox News's Wendell Goler reported on an Obama question-and-answer session that was cut short to make it seem as if the president wanted a health care system "like the European countries." In fact, he was just restating a question -- he went on to say that he opposed such a system.

In May, Fox News's Jon Scott said the network had decided to look back on how the stimulus "grew, and grew, and grew." In fact, the entire report came from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release, complete with typo.

In October, Fox News's Trace Gallagher and Bill Sammon claimed that Senate Democrats would like provisions of the PATRIOT Act that helped catch a suspected terrorist to "go bye-bye." It was a total distortion of both the proposed changes and the terror case.

Chris Wallace had a former Bush administration aide Jim Towey as a guest on "Fox News Sunday" in August and together they pushed numerous falsehoods about a Veterans Affairs administration pamphlet on end-of-life issues.

On the news show "America's Pulse," E.D. Hill described Barack and Michelle Obama's fist bump at a campaign event last summer as a "terrorist fist jab." She later apologized and claimed that was how it had been "characterized in the media." (The Media being... her)

In a segment on Obama's budget in April, the network claimed it was four times bigger than President Bush's costliest plan. That simply isn't true.

Fox News reporters constantly promoted the Tea Party movement and also lied about coverage of the September Tea Party march on Washington in an ad. The network completely ignored an equally large gay-rights march in October.

Yeah I've seen variations of the 10 Most Egregious Fox News Distortions from other dittoheads.

Thanks for showing you're not thinking for yourself.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

I never said they all do it, Jasun.

Well you did allude to Fox News' intentional distortions to be not a big deal because left-wing agencies do it too.

If they're both doing it, it's just as serious. We should at least be able to trust News Stations.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

Yeah I've seen variations of the 10 Most Egregious Fox News Distortions from other dittoheads.

Thanks for showing you're not thinking for yourself.

OK, so... um... because you've read them before it's not a big deal? Do you not worry when people are going into voting booths after being shown "news" stories like this?

If he left is doing it, it's just as serious... I just haven't see such a comprehensive list like this about any other station.. even the other right-leaning ones. Have you?

 

[rareboy]

You know that every time Hannity lies...a bunny dies???

 

[hungrybrownbear]

^LIES

 

[frankfrank]

But he left out "We were yet again trying to inflate numbers of the crowds and used erroneous footage to mislead viewers." He didn't admit they used footage of a larger crowd.

This reminds me, in reverse, of something that I experienced personally. I am pretty good at estimating sizes of crowds, and fairly large numbers of things, even into the thousands.

I won't even try to estimate the size of the crowd at Fox News' favorite recent pet rally, but...

In 1989 I went to an annual event in Ann Arbor, called THE HASH BASH. It's an annual rally, now held on the first Saturday of April (formerly every April 1st, or April Fool's Day), on the central campus of The University of Michigan. Yeah I was correct on the year, it was the 1989 rally that happened to fall on a Saturday as well as being 01 April...

Anyway, I tried to estimate how many people were in attendance. I think that I made a very good estimate that there were 3,000 to 3,500 people on the central campus at any one time. I also noticed a considerable amount of "churn" in the audience, with people constantly leaving and arriving. I estimated that probably 2 or 3 times as many people attended (at least for a while), compared to the number of people attending at any given moment.

In other words, my estimate ranged from 5,000 to 10,000 people in attendance of the rally at one point or another, and I think my estimate is valid.

I was in town for a few days, and because I had never been at one of these rallies before, I was extremely curious how it would be covered in the newspaper. When the Ann Arbor News ran the full story about the rally (in the Monday paper, I think, rather than the Sunday paper, if I remember right), the story said that the rally was attended by about 1,000 people!

In other words, publishing propaganda to make it look like the rally was much more marginal than it really was - and anybody who wasn't there wouldn't know the wiser!!!!! As I said, this is the same thing as Faux News far overstating the size of the anti-health-care rally, except this is "in reverse." In other words, Fox News didn't invent this tactic, nor am I even sure it was invented in the United States.

AN ASIDE: Another really fond memory of that weekend was hanging around in the hotel room Saturday night after the rally, and listening to student radio station WCBN. [ADVICE for those who enjoy all types of music - such as G-Lexington's preferences - look up their streaming on the internet...they run a LOT of freeform music programming, and they're wonderful!!] I had a friend from Wisconsin there with me because we did "the Ann Arbor trip" together (and he went back to Wisconsin on the bus a couple days later). The host of the show had DINOSAUR, JR. **live in the studio** doing some music and interviewing. The show's host was so fucked up (on weed?) that he couldn't interview them for shit, and instead it more ended up that the host got interviewed by Dinosaur Jr.!! That was so damn hilarious!!

 

[frankfrank]

and as far as jasun above, i am afraid it is easier to let him vent than ask him to review things in a fair and impartial manner. later guy.

I don't know about that...Jasun is only restating things which HAVE BEEN PROVEN to be true.

I won't say that "the Left" doesn't distort things, because they're guilty of it as well. Any group WITH AN AGENDA will often manipulate facts to suit their agenda, or to reinforce it.

But arguably the most egregious maniuplation of facts in our entire lifetime - the "justification" for a war against the people in the non-threat nation of Iraq (who supplied precisely ZERO hijackers on the terrorist missions of 2001, while Saudi Arabia supplied 70% of them) - was indeed propagated by the hawks and the "right wingers" under the wing of the George W. Bush administration.

To this day I fully believe the C. I. A. [Contraband Importing Agency, LOL] was instructed to produce documents showing such a conspiracy by Saddam Hussein, even entirely absent any such thing.

 

[frankfrank]

Yeah I've seen variations of the 10 Most Egregious Fox News Distortions from other dittoheads.

Thanks for showing you're not thinking for yourself.

DITTOHEADS????

No, wrong. BZZZZZZZZZZT!!!!!!!

The DITTOHEADS (the lock, stock and barrel followers of Rush Limbaugh, whatever he says) think that Fox News NEVER distorts anything!!!

 

[frankfrank]

^LIES

YUM!! Me wanna eatum! Die, bunny, die!!

 

[Lefty]

oh my god, frankly franko has contracted the pandemic scourge swinius teteius

and the anectdote hasn't been approved by our new health program and 7-11 stores can't stock it yet

oh dear oh dear oh dear