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Fox News applied some of their trademarked Fair and Balanced treatment to video footage of a recent Republican protest against health care. The November 5th protest was organized by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and took place in Washington D.C. on steps of the Capitol. Bachmann told her supporters that they should flock to Washington and “scare” her colleagues into voting against health care reform.
The Washington Post estimated the crowd to be around 10,000 strong. Sean Hannity claimed it was around 20,000. Bachmann claimed the number was somewhere between 20,000 to 45,000. Video of the protest seemed to confirm the Washington Post’s estimate, not Hannity’s or Bachmann’s.
So what did Fox News do?
They showed video from a protest that took place in September that had nothing to do with health care reform. It was from Glenn Beck’s September 12 movement that attempted to get people to remember how they felt the day after the 911 terrorist attacks.
Lee B.
/ November 11, 2009At first pass, this seems outrageous.
But then again, it’s no more ridiculous than the Obama administration’s war on the Fox Network as they try to reshape the media into a framework that worships the president.
Some weird stuff going on there.
Is any news network anything more than left or right-leaning entertainment anymore?
Rick Rottman
/ November 11, 2009@Lee B.: I haven’t seen any evidence that the Obama administration is trying to get people to “worship” him or his administration. Then again, I do not watch Fox News, so if they have created any fake controversies, I wont know about them until they are brought up on the Daily Show or mentioned on The Huffington Post.
The only cable news network I watch is MSNBC. I try to catch ABC Nightly News and NBC Nightly News when I can.
realist
/ November 11, 2009No, no all of the networks are so biased. Media is so unreliable u really cant trust the tube no matter how much u want 2. its a sad realization but a necessary 1.
Lee B.
/ November 11, 2009Actually, Rick- I have to agree that I haven’t seen the administration outwardly fostering the Cult of Personality. But it’s happening anyways and it’s wierd. Why?
This quote sums it up well:
“I’ll tell you why, you weak-minded, neo-fascist, tools. Because our nation is built upon ideals and principles, not on individual leaders. We do not worship our elected officials. The relationship of politician to populace; that they are the servants of the public, is a cornerstone of our democracy. It is one of the keys to our continued success.
I would love to ask that teacher how thrilled she would be if I passed out Ronald Reagan T-shirts and taught the kids a little diddy I worked up about how George W. Bush kept America safe from terrorist attacks for eight years? I think that video would prompt a melodramatic Keith Olbermann monologue and drive Maureen Dowd to lament the poisoning of our youth. But hey, a song about our exalted ruler is just a display of patriotism, and an SEIU sponsored Black History Month exercise.”
From http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/09/25/school-kid-video-creepy-obama-worship/
But back to the media… they all have an agenda- some are just more subtle than others.
Rick Rottman
/ November 11, 2009@realist: Tube? There ain’t no cathode ray tubes in my home.
Rick Rottman
/ November 11, 2009@Lee B.: I don’t know anything about that video or the people that made it. I will say that there are people on both sides of the political spectrum that look at Barack Obama and see a black man. Personally, I’ve never seen him that way. I’ve never thought of him in that regard.
I don’t really know what any of that has to do with a supposed war on Fox News by the Obama administration.
Lee B.
/ November 11, 2009I don’t see a black man either- got nothing to do with race for me. Where I was going was that the running snub/feud betwixt Fox and Obama has been covered everywhere from blogs to the Mallard Fillmore comic strip- it’s a fact of life. And non-Fox networks have cozied up to the administration far beyond the norm. Again well-documented. Fox splicing two clips together to distort news is wrong. So is an administration warping statistics on “saved jobs” and employing numerous crooks (Mr. Treasury Secretary is a great example) or nut jobs- like the FCC’s diversity czar- and then ferreting out the right media outlet to be the administrations mouthpiece.
But again- it’s DC. It’s a friggin’ circus in all directions and no one is without sin.
Rick Rottman
/ November 11, 2009@Lee B.: None of the news networks I watch have cozied up to the Obama administration. The problem I have with Fox News is that they just make stuff up. They say things as fact that are factually incorrect. This is after all the “news” network that said President Obama was a racist.
Ryan
/ November 11, 2009Actually, statistics show that 95% of all facts are made up.
Lee B.
/ November 12, 2009@Ryan: Ryan- “figures lie and liars figure”.
I’ve always hated that saying…