Newsbusters praises FOX segment that doctored Gore's comments
May 04, 2009 2:00 pm ET by Jamison Foser
Just in case there is anyone out there who still doesn't realize that the Media Research Center is a bunch of lying hacks, a post on the organization's "Newsbusters" blog should remove any doubt ...
Remember that FOX segment Friday night in which O'Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham used doctored video to smear Al Gore? Media Matters exposed Igraham's dishonest attack later Friday night.
Yesterday afternoon, Newsbusters associate editor Noel Sheppard praised the segment for "Expos[ing] Gore's Global Warming Profit Motive." Sheppard ignored the fact that Igraham did so by doctoring video of Gore's congressional testimony.
Some days, I think MRC picked the perfect name for its blog. "Newsbusters" doesn't sound like a name for people who want journalism to be better, it sounds like a name people who want journalism to go away would choose.
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Gore donates ALL of the profit to a global warming research NON PROFIT org!!
This one is ALMOST as disengenuous as my personal favorite Fox News bogus clip from last week where they claimed that Obama said he was in favor of a European-style healthcare system when he actually was just reading a question from the audience and then said he was NOT in favor of it!!
But Fox News did air the clip earlier in the program of Gore claiming that "every penny" he earns goes to his non-profit.
See this video clip of The O'Reilly Factor's May 1, 2009 show introduction featuring Gore making the "every penny" statement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTSgUW6qXys
(Gore clip begins at 30 sec. mark)
In addition, as one report on Gore's finances noted: “So what if [Gore's] giving all his money to the [non-profit] Alliance for Climate Protection. He's the chair! He gets a tax write-off for donating that money, and then directs where the money goes.”
Randy
"We Make It UP, You Believe IT!"
(why isn't Murdoch deported yet?)
First, the quote from Gore that he has given every penny he's
made in the past toward awareness is mentioned in the intro
to The O'Reilly Factor. If Fox was trying to hide this, they did a bad job.
Gore's financial investments make him very biased on this issue and he clearly had no business testifying. Blackburn was correct to call him out on it.
Finally, it was shameful to see Al Gore run away from Lord Christopher Monckton, The Third Visount of Brenchely. Poor Lord Monckton flew all the way from the UK to find out moments after his plane landed that Gore had chickened out. Monckton claims Gore said if Monckton showed up, he wouldn't. Gore hardly acts like a man confident that the science is on his side.
Sincerely,
Dash RIPROCK III
Hooterville Gazette
The problem with Christopher Monckton is that he has knowingly and admittedly altered critical data in his “work” to support his conclusions. He claims he has altered the climate data because some other unnamed “climate alarmist” scientist had previously altered it to support the conclusion that the planet is warming. He says he is switching it back and suggests an investigation should be done to determine why and how the data was altered in the first place.
In short, Lord Monckton is so full of crap his eyes are brown. I would suggest that Al Gore knows you can’t have an actual debate with a known liar, as you would necessarily lend credence to his lies and you certainly wouldn’t do so before Congress.
Flying Dutchman