For upbeat piece, Fox News converts uber-liberal Jim McDermott into a Republican
This morning, Fox News' Jon Scott led off a "Happening Now!" with a report on some very worthy legislation now making its way through the halls of Congress:
Scott: Despite talk that the recession is easing, the House is taking up emergency legislation this week that would help Americans out of work. A bill offered by Republican Congressman Jim McDermott of Washington would provide 13 weeks of extended unemployment benefits. The checks would go to more than 300,000 people living in states with unemployment rates at 8.5 percent or higher. ...
I imagine it's news to Jim McDermott that he is now a Republican. He's not only an ardent Democrat, he's considered one of the most liberal members of Congress. (Here's more on his legislation to help out the long-term unemployed.)
Of course, he's only recently become a Republican on the Fox News rolls because he was the proponent of a piece of legislation they wanted to do a warm and fuzzy report about. In previous incarnations -- such as when an appeals court ruled against McDermott in his court fight with Cryin' John Boehner over those released incriminating audiotapes -- they readily identified him as a Democrat.
Back in 2002, Bill O'Reilly devoted the better part of a whole "Talking Points Memo" segment to castigating McDermott for "giving aid and comfort to the enemy". He was definitely a Democrat then too.
It's sort of the usual Fox principle -- if a Republican is caught in a sex scandal, ID him as a Democrat -- in reverse.
But it's what we've come to expect of Faux News.
Depends largely on a dart board
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It's like they're not even trying any more. They can't even blame this on an inexperienced chyron operator.
As a former chyron op, I can say since they've automated chyron and given control of it solely to the news department, chyron has lost its buffer of correcting the always famously wrong news people. But this is a script error here. All that aside, this is why I HATE fox. At the very least they are all just incompetent boobs that in a just world would never be allowed to work in reputable journalism. But those days are sadly gone forever.
How is it possible that any sensible person still watches fox news?
Oh, I guess I just answered that question. They don't.
NOW no bras!
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Didn't NOW burn all their bras?
I was hoping someone would catch that.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
It was all a publicity stunt. Know your herstory.
Yes, it's par for the course. But in a broader context, it is insane.
The contempt for honesty and reality is just jaw-dropping. What is supposed to happen here? The audience receives every story in a vacuum? As far as they are concerned, every good thing is labeled Republican, and every bad thing, Democrat. There is no room, zero, in that context to have mature engagement in how the country, and by extension the world, is working. It is pure tribalism, and pure denial of an independent reality apart from the tribal doctrine.
How can we talk about population, or energy policy, or military posture, or anything? Every issue will immediately polarize, and one side will be absolutely right while the other doesn't deserve to exist.
what will happen is the rest of us don't work that way. Whatever they do next it will be their doing and their doing alone. America doesn't do things that way FOX does.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
fake noise has done this numerous times. this isnt an accident. amazing at how good at projection the rightwing noise machine is....
fake noise
greedy noise
unscrupulous noise
Even CNN considers FOX to be noise.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
...How often it's error and how often it's political. They do this stuff quite often in addition to their other BS. From an operational standpoint I'm puzzled on this one.
Their viewers would 1)Get mad at republicans for giving a hand-out or 2)Remember the name Jim McDermott in the voting booth?
We got Rick Sanchez giving them press on CNN, as well as many others for their dishonesty. We know the ideology of fux doesn't care about facts or being called names like racist, liars etc. Who says any press is good press and who or what would that be applicable towards?
I know I've heard... "Any press is good press", when would that claim be accurate? It may diminish a jury pool? I'm just wondering if it's business operational strategy, political or both? Like I said, in this instance I believe their viewers will hate republicans for giving a handout or possibly vote for the name Jim McDermott in the voting booth. I don't know... I just got up from a nap. :)
I say we keep exposing them... their strategy will be what (ails) them. :-)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Mark Foley magically switched from an R to a D.
NOBODY 2012
Do you think their viewers would see (13 weeks of extended unemployment benefits) as good or bad? Thanks
Study the symptoms not the virus...
better ask the viewers on that one, on account of they're nuts and all...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Do you think their producers would ever put a Republican in a bad light?
i'd start by assuming not.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
"Do you think their producers would ever put a Republican in a bad light?"... "i'd start by assuming not."
I agree with you... so what they did was put "Jim McDermott" in a good light?
Study the symptoms not the virus...
I'm sure for some people they did. But in who's mind? Let's assume the producers consider extended insurance as a rip-off of their hard earned taxes. What was the sentiment of the spokesperson? I'm thinking the R designation was a mistake unless they made an obvious endorsement of extending employment insurance. it's not like they're a real news network or something. They basically make it up as they go now.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
....sue for slander?
unemployment checks?
employment.
employment might be better, but not if it's a union job. We're supposed to all be grateful for having a job, even if it pays nothing and the working conditions are awful.
And the zombies that are Faux News watchers will beleive it as they are way to brain dead and lazy to check anything. Why bother, if Faux News says it, it must be true, and it would only be those commie liberals who try to smear Faux News that will state otherwise.
Zombieland.
We love Jim in our very liberal part of Western Washington. He is not only a DEM, but a liberal DEM as well. I guess FOX forgets that they labeled him a traitor and turncoat over a trip to Iraq a few ago. He was most definately an evil DEM on that occasion.
It's really sad that the FCC can't cancel their ability to broadcast unless and until such time as they attempt at a little accuracy.
it's probably known as enough rope to hang oneself with.
How about if we all call Fox News and VERY POLITELY point out their error? We could say we're just calling because we KNOW those durn lib'ruls are gonna jump down their throats for the mistake, so we thought we'd save them the headaches.
I wonder how long it would take the stooges answering the phones to start frothing at the mouth?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Why the hell aren't these guys fined everytime they tell a blatant lie to the public? For chrissake! You say a dirty word on the air, they fine you like a million bucks and threaten to shut everything down but you lie time and time and time again to the viewing public who believes they are watching a news program.... "SHUT THEIR ASSES DOWN OR FINE THE LYING SACKS OF....!!!"
In Portland I see an add by the GOP that claims the republican single handly voted for Sotomayer to be the supreme court, while failing to say only a single hand of the republican party voted for her. It was "Thanks Republican" ads
although usually it's the other way 'round when a Republican does something embarrassing like troll for gay sex, they put a "D" next to his name.
But seriously, for out and out lying, I wish McDermott would sue these fuckers, somebody needs to, since the courts decided it wasn't against the law for a "news" channel to lie.
he was a state rep, worked with my dad and he's a doctor as well.
me-oww!
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Of course, it's not journalism when FOXPRAVDA does it, NO?
Well, whaddya expect? Journalism from FOXPRAVDA?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
...between Fox and the E! tabloid channel? Don't people get sick and tired of being lied to and misinformed literally every day by these clowns?
JP
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They get away with these lies because the only idiots who watch Faux Noise are uneducated, ignorant, racist sheep, that can't tell who's who.
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