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Posted By scott4261 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsMedia Matters Senior Fellow Karl Frisch debunks conservative smears of President Obama based on a misrepresentation of a photograph from the G8 summit.
Following the lead of Free Republic and the Drudge Report, media outlets highlighted a photo of President Obama from the G-8, in some cases with provocative, needling, or scolding commentary that is not supported by video of the event.
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scott42614 months, 2 weeks ago
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The link to Media Matters' research page on this here:
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http://mediamatters.org/research/200907100014
Now if an innocent photo moment can be blown out of context on our mainstream media, how much of our news reporting is distortion as well? I'd say quite a lot!-
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BigBadJohn6664 months, 2 weeks ago
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Yes, another American Pravda leftist media outlet makes excuses for the Illegal Alien occupying the White House. Leftists are totally controlled now. Krushev would be proud of them . They are exactly the type that he said they would use to bring down America from within without firing a shot.
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Goppy4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Look, can we all agree that FOX is not an American Media Outlet?
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Why WOULDN'T FOX be coming up with these deliberate smears?
IT'S OWNED BY AN AUSTRALIAN!
And ... as an Australian ... he didn't even have enough patriotism for HIS OWN country ... to keep his own citizenship!
He changed his citizenship to American ... so he could by pass laws against foreign ownership of media.
THAT ... is the kid of 'Ethical Standard' that has been imprinted upon FOX.
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And Sean Hannity ... well ... he would just as quickly renounce HIS citizenship ... if HE could make more money in Australia.
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TimALoftis4 months, 2 weeks ago
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As the gentleman from Media matters points out - the snapshot from the video had the racial overtones that conservatives in general love to perpetuate. A black man looking at a white woman's ass. Many right wing blogs went crazy with the story and comments included extreme racial profanity to express their disgust with the picture.
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Georgia504 months, 2 weeks ago
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Conservatives did not all jump on this. And once the young lady turned around (see video), it did not appear to me she was white (not certain about this but she appeared hispanic or black/hispanic to me).
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Krauthammer, for one, no fan of Obama, stated that he is nothing if not telegenically composed when the camera is running and no one is going to prove he goes around staring at the behinds of young women.
Furthermore, anyone who saw the video saw clearly that Obama's downward gaze was to accommodate the hand he offered to another young lady stepping down to his level.
Yes, some conservatives jumped on the still shot. And a lot of liberals on this forum said Obama staring at the ass of a young lady improved their image of him.
I rest my case.
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Charlson4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Time and time again Fox News shows it's one sided and unbalanced reporting of Obama. Many of the commentators and shills take parts of Obama's speech without showing the rest to perpetuate a misleading and incorrect accusation. They take photos from videos out of context to knowingly promote a false snapshot. And they lie and distort news to suit their political agenda which has become perfectly clear (quoting one of Nixon's pearls of wisdom): a far right political extremism.
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