FOX News wrong about Carville and Begala joining Hillary
By John Amato Tuesday Jan 08, 2008 2:15pm
(I wrote most of this story yesterday after watching FOX, but didn't get a chance to post it.)
FOX News gets another one wrong. Wow, who would have thunk it? It looks to me like Major Garrett is still pushing it though all because he found out that James and Paul were on a conference call...Geez...How about trying to contact the two of them and find out what the truth was? Begala actually emailed "The Major" to try and straighten it out. I'm actually working on a news story and waiting for comment as we speak. It's not really hard.
Paul Begala responded today:
I've been dealing with the media and politics for 25 years, but I've never had a more surrealistic day than January 8. Several times that day Fox News reported that I was joining Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign. It was a big story - at least until the stunning election returns.
The only problem was, it wasn't true.
Fox News never even tried to contact me to verify their story, and when I contacted Fox, I felt like a character in a Kafka novel -- or at least Curb Your Enthusiasm...read on
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They were spouting about this on the local radio station and all I could do was groan.
I'm sometimes surprised they even bother pretending to be a legit news outlet.
Fox Sux and Roger Ailes is a putz.
-GSD
Begala may not be joining but what about Carville? I don't like that Carville guy.
Earlier today you reported I was dead. As you can see I am standing in front of you completely alive." "I will take it under advisement."
IgnoranceIsNotBliss @ 4:
..wait & see...Carville's never been far away...
"After I told Fox it wasn't true -- and this is the surreal part -- they kept reporting it anyway. In fact, Fox's Garrett told me he'd "take it under advisement." Take it under advisement? I realize I'm generally seen as just another liberal with an opinion, but this was not a matter of opinion, it was a matter of fact. Fox now knew their story was flatly, factually wrong, and they took it "under advisement."
"Surreal" hardly says it.In the long sad decline of the American media,Fox News is exhibit "A".
Sadly, there are those who think Fox News is news. It's as much a news outlet as the wolf was a grandmother...it's dressed that way.
When is Faux News ever right. The are the joke of media. Like Ned Flanders once quipped, "This is hotter than a Fox News weather skank."
P.D. @ 9:
Ned said that?I'm shocked...shock diddly dang shocked.
It's barely news anymore whenever Fox makes something up. That's just another day in the life of their talking points. Moving along...
To quote Stephanie Miller, "It's called journalism, Fox News might want to check into it sometime."
Take it under advisement? Kiss my ass Major, it's not true.
I'm glad he's not joining her campaign. I've never thought very much of his political skills.
The Right Wing wing media is going to spew a tidal wave of outright lies right over the national spectrum and into peoples eyes and ears they are desperate and they don't even care anymore if it's a lie or not it's about neocon survival now baby.
emerald @ 5:
If "the sourcing is strong, very strong" that you're dead why should I believe you anything you say or do?
In other Fox Noise headlines, the cow ran off with the spoon, Col. Mustard in the library, and Roger Ailes is a great human being.
I was listening to C-span this morning when an elderly woman called and told Peter that people shouldn't vote for Abama because he's Muslim. And guess where she picked up that little tid-bit? On a program she had seen on the news. She wouldn't say what program it was, but I think I can guess.
Noontime Fox Editorial Meeting.
Sir, I can't find any dirt on them. Absolutely nothing.
Well then do what you do best. Invent something you idiot!
Must've been a simple misunderstanding. Ya see, the problem here was that Begala kept telling the faux news switchboard operator that he needed to talk to the reporter in charge of the erroneous story and she didn't know how to route the call 'cause they don't have any of those working there.
Their viewers don't require facts so they don't furnish them any.
J² @ 17:
And Rudy is leading in all polls - including among the Dems and the parliamentary elections in Pakistan.
New faux motto: "Truth? We don't need no stinking truth!"
The man himself called and TOLD them the story was completely false and the response is to ignore him and continue lying.
Why isn't there some kind of investigation into faux? Really? IRS, CIA, FBI, Standards and Practices whatever it takes!
P.D. @ 18:
repeat a lie often enough...
Well, Well, Well....Fake News making shyt up. Who'd a thunk it? ;-)
The email exchange between the two guys is up at Huff Post & it's pretty funny in an absurd kind of way.
One would have to question that reporters intelligence
Why just look at his supraorbital torus.
J² @ 17:
And Montgomery Burns is a wonderful man.
P.D. @ 18:
I overheard 2 people in my office discussing the NH primary yesterday and one of them said that he doesn't understand how it's legal for Obama to run seeing as how he was "born and raised Iraq or some place like that". It was truly a slam-forehead-on-desk moment.
faux news desk: 'So you say the story is untrue?, you'll have to come into fox and show I.D., DNA, fingerprints,urine sample and hair sample....then in 5-6 weeks we'll consider if your telling the truth.'
ysbaddaden @ 27:
Dude, I knew you were an oldster but phrenology went out of fashion around the same time as leather football helmets :)
galmud @ 24:
My husband's grandfather is the same way. He is absolutely convinced Obama is a muslim. He was extremely displeased with me when I showed him facts to the contrary. Now he thinks I'm in on the conspiracy to get a muslim elected.
OT ..ACLU: wear orange on Friday to protest Gitmo
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/closeguantanamo.html
My mother and stepfather watch Faux News ALL the time! I stayed with her for 2 days and I was ready to run out of her house screaming. But then again. she is a born againer, and they all think alike. Rigid views: good. Progressive:bad.
P.D. @ 18:
We had those people all over C&L yesterday
They even confused Obama with Keith Ellison. I wrote asking if the "normal" vs the "abnormal" name was what threw them. One claims that the United Church of Christ is a cult - another claimed that it was just a cover ... we posted alot of stuff there, maybe those who have relatives, neighbors, co-workers who can't find Hawaii on a map would be helped by what we posted
Will Barack Obama go on FOX News?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/page/2/?rand=%7B20080109130550%7D
wisedup @ 30:
Nonsense! I'm sure that Faux News will be happy to run a brief correction in February of 2009!
My elderly mother, who is a democrat in MI, said she couldnt vote for obama as he attended a jihadi school.... I set her straight (for the second time, a little batty) but I wonder how this story reached her? hmmmm..
She has some republice friends who are lets just say on the low-end of the IQ scale and maybe on the high end of the senile scale who sell her this crap. No doubt Fux News whispered it in their ears.
Fox Noise: Sex, Lies and Video and the Whores that Continually provide it, Repeatedly tell them and Unabashedly present them over and over and...
Rudy is down here in Fla. today. There was some sort of security problem at the place where he was supposed to speak so they moved the crowd to a different location. They haven't disclosed what the problem was exactly. I'm surprised Rudy didn't handle the problem all by himself since he is claiming he can protect America.
It's difficult to flash by fox news channel without seeing a Rudy commercial. He must have spent a fortune on ads with them. Of course since he's invading Florida now, we are also seeing them on our local channels.
Is it that Faux News viewers are dumb or just don't want to believe in reality? I mean, Jesus, can't these people accept plain facts! It is so depressing. And to think Faux News has the highest rating. Sad.
carville is part of the problem. his work in bolivia will not be forgotten. it makes complete sense as to why he married mary 'mirror, mirror' matalin
screw carville. i did not support hillary before this rumor, and if this is true i REAL don't support hillary.
GCS (greenberg, carville and shrum): evil
Samson- @ 41:
fuck, i am an idiot. (a present for all you carville groupies out there *cricket chirps*)
my apologies... i'll learn to read and the such before i go all dumb again
No! Very strong sources have it that the cow jumped over the moon, the dog ran off with the spoon, Capt. Kangaroo is in the library conspiring with Col. Mustard and Bill Krystal is wonderful little man.
Kangaroo and Mustard will have the full report for the Major at 6, stay tuned.
P.D. @ 40:
They're dumb.
MargeAggedon @ 23:
Fox Noise sued and won the right to lie based on the 1st Ammendent. In Florida I think it was (yeah, I know, I live here).
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 31:
I'm into leather.
pissed off patricia @ 39:
He's not anywhere near Sarasota County is he?
FOX News wrong about Carville and Begala joining Hillary
Don't look now, but The Nation was also running with the same prediction, despite being aware of the denials.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=267872
And virtually all of MSM was wrong in speculating that Obama would "win by double digits" over Hillary in NH! It's amazing that pundits (and weathermen) can be so often wrong and still remain employed. I want one of those jobs. :)
On a somewhat related note, in staying married through these divisively partisan times, at least Carville and Matalin have demonstrated well how people with close ties can keep "politics" in its proper perspective.
Geez, every day, 'Fox News wrong about......', Fox News wrong on......', Fox News wrong....'. That ain't 'news'! Can't you wait?
Sometime this year, Fox News will get something right.
Then you can headline 'Fox News right about.....'!
THAT'LL be 'NEWS'!!
Preacher Boob @ 48:
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Faux news, NOT.
If you haven't yet, you should take some time to read the entire email chain between Begala and Garrett. It's hilarious (and scary.)
not news
I sent this email to the Private:
Private,
Ummm, where's James Carville and Paul Begala?
Did you report that Carville and Begala will join the team?
And that Mrs. Clinton, for whom I will not vote, was going to get beaten - and beaten badly - in New Hampshire?
Private, if you're going to do hard-hitting journalism, would it be too much to ask for you to do it correctly?
Or does Roger Ailes still not care much about accuracy?
Well, this is weird, but it IS Fox News.
I found it weirder to be watching MSNBC where the righties were declaring this is all "good for Rudy". ????
Surreal, it's the new black.
Did Fox ever correct the story?
Yeah, I laughed, too.
Prime directive of the noise machine: never let facts interfere with a smear job.
J² @ 17:
...you mean it WASN'T Col. Mustard ??????
Why would they "join" Queen hillary?
They can do more for her by pimping her on CNN like they have been doing for the last year.
if begala and carville join hillary, she's sunk, so if you're a fan of hillary it's bad news. when was the last time those guys worked on a winning campaign, b. clinton '92
Major Garrett is the king of the Scaifetards
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 29:
Proof that FOX News works for more than the little brains. My boss who is seriously an intelligent man, I have a lot of respect for him, yet a Republican (oxymoron) said he doesn't want to see a Muslim become president. I said "when one runs let me know". He said Obama and it's all over the news. I asked where he heard it and of course he said FOX News. FOX News viewers truly are less informed than the rest of us.
Looks like Olbermann lied!! http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/01/10/olbermann-vs-fnc-uh-oh/
Faux's new promotional:
"Faux News, the Alchemy Station. Come up with a Repub talking point turd, and we'll polish it until it turns into a diamond."
Begala:
Come on, Dems, don't be obsequious to the Faux feces flingers.
I wrotean at like that I was an Answer this morning but you either did not like that I was an Australian or the only reply you place are ones that agree with your rubbish.
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