Hannity video switch-up is only the tip of Fox News' video-doctoring iceberg »
Posted By Progressive 1 week, 5 days ago in Political NewsAs Stewart noted, Hannity aired video of the 9-12 rally while he was interviewing Bachmann on his November 5 show about an "Emergency House Call" rally that she and other GOP members held that day to protest Democrats' health care reform bill. Hannity said, "Twenty-thousand plus people showed up. Were you as surprised as I was?" Bachmann replied that "estimates are anywhere between 20 and 45,000 people had assembled." While she was speaking, Hannity interspersed actual footage from Bachmann's rally, with footage from the 9-12 rally, which reportedly drew 70,000 people. According to MSNBC, "Three Capitol Hill police officers all guessed that the crowd numbered at about 4,000" in attendance for Bachmann's protest.
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Progressive1 week, 5 days ago
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Beck claimed G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh carried a hammer-and-sickle symbol, but image actually came from a California school's "Class of 2007" mosaic. On the September 29 edition of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck claimed that "[t]he very next day after the premiere" of Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, "people were on the streets" of Pittsburgh protesting the G-20 summit "with this." Beck then aired an image of a hammer and sickle and read from the photo, "Oh, look at that -- 'Capitalism Will Fail' down there at the bottom." But the image Beck aired was not from the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh. Rather, as FoxNews.com reported on June 25, the image was of a "Class of 2007" mosaic painted by eighth-graders on tiles outside a Berkeley, California, school.-
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dunkirk1 week, 5 days ago
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The right wing is getting truly desperate. Their agenda is being cast aside by the population as a whole and the key "issues" they seem to be hollering about consist of where Obama was born and the installation of socialism, fascism and communism all at the same time. The public as a whole is tired of the lies they seem to try to pass off as truth.
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Charlson1 week, 5 days ago
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Had an interesting conversation with a Propeller member on another post. He's a Fox enthusiast and insisted that what they do is covered under the free speech doctrine. But I pointed out that it works both ways. We have the right to point out their lies and try to mitigate their false indoctrination. You can google "Fox Lies" and find numerous examples of their lack of veracity and their willingness to subvert their journalistic integrity. Oh, wait, sorry, Fox has never had journalistic integrity.
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OncejesterwasI1 week, 5 days ago
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Nope, Not gonna try to defend this. I would look like some idiot trying to say the Bush document that Dan "us profesional journalsts are allways right" Rather tried to use really was authentic. Or I'd look like some moron trying to use a Micheal Moor "documentory" to argue a point as fact.
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It doesn't matter where you look for news any more. Somebody's gonna have an agenda and they're gonna fudge the truth to get a following.
The intelligent person's gonna dig through as many sources as he/she can to get the facts.
But, yes, I'm still a Fox fan.-
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OncejesterwasI1 week, 5 days ago
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BAM!!! Knew it! I put up a comment basicly agreeingwith the lefties that Fox's doctoring news clips isn't right. (two wrongs don't make a right, mentality.) But I didn't word it EXACTLY like SOME on the left would like and not 20 minutes I get NEGGED!!! Lil' ol' me, who allmost never negs, gets negged.
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ConquerorWyrm1 week, 5 days ago
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Actually, concerning that Dan Rather document, those who were familiar with the case stated that the information the document contained was correct..just that it had been copied and that what Rather had was a copy not the original. Thus the INFORMATION Rather had WAS correct. pc25, one of the most ardent apologists for Right Wing Fascism here on Propeller has used this Rather document over and over and over again here on Propeller claiming that the whole thing is a lie (as was the right-wing mantra) WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE LITTLE BIT THAT CLAIMS BUSH VOLUNTEERED FOR DUTY IN VIETNAM. In other words, one of your Comrades uses this very document, one which he claims is a lie, to prove that GW Bush is not the coward that his is.
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Beau78901 week, 5 days ago
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I'll agree that Dan Rather should have done a bit more due diligence on the document he received (but that his staff didn't create). But that's a far cry from video editors who work for Fox News actually cutting old footage behind a new story to deliberately mislead viewers--likely at the suggestion of Hannity or his producers.
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NoWayMan1 week, 5 days ago
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fox is simply for the fringe conservatives who can't handle reality and need their opinions of the world echoed back to them.
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these people aren't concerned with the truth (or else they'd be really mad that fox doctors video - but they don't seem to care), they aren't concerned with the fact that they are bowing down to a foriegn-owned entity, and they aren't concerned that they are actually this fringe group that comprises a measley 1% of america.
so to hell with the truth.
dam your facts.
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OncejesterwasI1 week, 5 days ago
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"Fox News aired altered photos of NY Times reporters.
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...the journalists' teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe's hair moved further back on his head."
Ha haaa... That's just a good old fashioned, dirty rotton, low down prank!
Sounds like something I'd do.
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ConquerorWyrm1 week, 5 days ago
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"Ha haaa... That's just a good old fashioned, dirty rotton, low down prank!
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Sounds like something I'd do.
Way to go Fox!"
Sad really...you're saying that unethical journalistic practices are okay and that you yourself condone them and would participate in them. 'nuff said...the integrity of your character has been writ large in your own hand...-
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ConquerorWyrm1 week, 5 days ago
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Are you here saying that "dirty rotton, low down prank(s)" are acceptable from journalistic institutions or institutions that pretend to adhere to journalistic ethics? Are you here saying that such is what you would do? You applaud this? And you have no problem with a "news organization" distorting the truth as well as blatantly lying (which is what such techniques are)?
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Consider your comment of "a testament to my character"...for here, well, you kind of plop right down into it... -
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bubba21 week, 5 days ago
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That rally was a joke and a travesty, from start to finish.
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A few days before the 'event', Bachmann was on FOX News calling all 'patriotic' Americans to converge on D.C. on that Thursday. Then after the rally she was on FOX News claiming that she did not 'organize' or plan anything or put out any 'call' for people to attend her rally.
At the event, after stating to the crowd that the Pledge of Allegiance "drives liberals crazy", a Republican Congressman led the pledge and messed it up.
Then Boehner proceeded to hold up a copy of the Constitution and tell everyone that it says "we hold these truths to be self-evident ..." - problem is, that is NOT in the Constitution (how about the Declaration of Independence, maybe?).
(Gotta love the irony there ...)
People are holding a sign that says "Obama and his Marxist buddies are after your freedom", and another sign compares a "Democratic" version of health care reform to the Jewish Holocaust of WW II.
NO one should defend those signs. No one.
The decidedly conservative 'groups' Americans For Prosperity and FreedomWorks helped coordinate the "grassroots" rally. They mobilized about 40 buses to bring 'activists' to DC, with their staffers standing at their designated bus drop off points handing out signs, directions, talking points, petitions, and donuts to protesters.-
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Tangent0011 week, 4 days ago
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"A few days before the 'event', Bachmann was on FOX News calling all 'patriotic' Americans to converge on D.C. on that Thursday. Then after the rally she was on FOX News claiming that she did not 'organize' or plan anything or put out any 'call' for people to attend her rally."
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Bachmann may be in trouble for this. Apparently she used her taxpayer-sponsored congressional web site to issue the call only to those who oppose health care reform, and that's a big no-no. But then, she and her staff seem to have an arms-length relationship with such regulations.
http://mnpublius.com/2009/07/michele-bachmann-viol...
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StevieGee1 week, 4 days ago
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The news media in general and Fox news in particular have allowed their journalistic integrity to slip badly. This has always been a self regulating industry but, sadly, maybe some regulation is needed. Maybe in order to call something "news" there needs to be a reasonable amount of evidence to support it or FCC licensing could be pulled. The Fox follies followers will scream big government but it's so important that people can get reliable news reporting and free markets (ratings) don't seem to be working. I think they should regulate themselves or be regulated.
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mrkonnectionz1 week, 4 days ago
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I agree with you about "truth in reporting". I am actually a Fox fan. But Fox is more of an entertainment source for me. I know they stand on the right and their views reek of the republican agenda. But I am never for more control by the government in any way. Where do we draw the line between freedom of opinion and truth in reporting? I know they say that they are a NEWS network and I believe news should be delivered "fair and balanced" as all networks claim to do. But it seems Fox claims they are "fair and balanced" more than any other network yet they are accused of the opposite by all political parties. Who do you personally choose for your fair and balanced news?
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Progressive1 week, 4 days ago
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If you mean the 9/12ers, the MSM reported that 60,000 - 70,000 showed up, although FreedomWorks leader Matt Kibbe proclaimed that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance. However, ABC News quickly called Kibbe out for his lies:
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mrkonnectionz1 week, 4 days ago
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I notice that people on the right and people on the left and even the ones in the middle all (including me) seem to want to blame the opposition for all of the problems and not take ownership or personal accountability for anything. I read comments that support the left in this health care reform bill and the global warming debate and even socialism and I can't understand this. How can an American support an agenda that will do much more harm than good and ultimately lead us into total socialism eventually? Once you allow one program or bill to pass that even slightly resembles socialism you set precedents that will allow more and more programs just like it leaving our capitalist society more divided than ever. Help me understand how the health care bill, carbon tax and socialism is going to benefit the middle and lower class and I will consider switching sides. For now I stand strong as an open minded republican.
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Beau78901 week, 4 days ago
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"Total socialism"? What do you call corporate welfare? Or aren't you familiar with the government's bailouts of banks?
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Look--total capitalism is as evil as "total socialism," or, as I suspect you mean, totalitarianism (which is an entirely separate thing. When the government has complete power to control markets, or to dictate to both individuals and businesses everything they can do, it's a problem. When corporations have complete power to control markets and to exploit both workers and consumers, that's a problem too.
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jjbuff1 week, 4 days ago
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It is a sad state of affairs when you can get more factual information from a show that sells itself as commedy ,than one that sells itself as news.I used to just think FOX was biased.Now I think they are just pathetic.They represent a viewpoint that is losing its appeal and are just getting desperate.
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