Fox Graphics Department's Failure Hat Trick (Obamney Edition)
December 14, 2011 1:42 pm ET by Terry Krepel
The Fox News graphics department is having a very bad week.
On Monday, it displayed a chart showing unemployment during the Obama administration that portrayed the 8.6 percent rate in November higher than the 8.8 percent rate in March.
On Tuesday, in a pair of graphics, Fox News misidentified Utah as Nevada and Vermont as New Hampshire.
Now, on today's edition of America Live, a graphic showing poll results for Republican presidential candidates included a picture of President Obama over Mitt Romney's name:
Here's the video clip:
There's a couple seconds of dead air and blank screen, but it's unclear whether Fox News recognized the error and quickly pulled down the graphic or if it was a transmission problem due to Megyn Kelly hosting the show from Sioux City, Iowa, where she will take part in tomorrow night's Fox News Republican presidential debate.
UPDATE: Later in the show, Kelly apologized for the error and displayed a graphic correctly displaying a picture of Romney.
On the flip side I once got something like 28 thumbs up and one thumb down. Now I don't usually pay all that much attention to the thumbs, but I did find that a tad vexing ;-)
But whenever I have a ton of up thumbs & one lonely downer, I always figure it's my arch-enemy....the Pasta Lady aka DellDollySue ;-)
I think it is strange that I can be pretty rude to a troll and never get a thumbs down, but if I disagree with or question a certain group of regular non troll posters on here, I will get 1-3 thumbs down on every post, on every thread, regardless what I post for a month or so. Pretty petty if you ask me. And there are those that get thumbs up and praise even when they are dead wrong, because they are liked.
Nice to see you posting, Jeter.
She thinks everyone has a sockpuppet....maybe she's projecting?
I don't know why you get thumbs down for what seems like odd reasons but I think the thumbs are a tad silly. I rarely use them, up or down. Now if they gave us the option of flipping someone the bird....hehehe ;-)
Maybe you can make sense of her statement.
If you missed this, it's DD odd explanation for changing her name. Doesn't explain setting up a whole new account. Sorry you have to scan the whole threads. Now I'm off to dinner and nice evening, in the rain. You have a great day.
I'm gonna try to keep this fairly short, cause Joni/DellDolly's accusation was so stupid & made nada sense & we don't need to re-open another long discussion about it... Don't know how she got Susie from JuliaJayne. Very weird. And MA probably does mean Massachusetts, but seriously am I the only poster here from that state? ::eye roll:: And what the fvck do the Red Sox have to do with any of it? Jeter plays for the Yankees....I guess Joni doesn't know too much about baseball, eh? Ha!
And that post by SusieMA hardly sounded exclusively like me or Miz Julia...anyone could have written it. Probably the real SusieMa did. Actually it sounded more like something JoniDellDolly might write. Mmmmmm.....maybe Susie is her sockpuppet? Hehehe.
You know Joni/DD is a tad demented but she sounded positively nutso here. And the fact that she didn't return & post anything to back up her accusation [though I'm sure she came back read everything you all wrote] is proof she was just talking out of her asss.
Anyway, thanks for the link :-)
What is an intelligent person working for a Company that pries into her personal life like that? A company that made her reveal the moniker she uses on blogs? Why didn't Dolly simply change her name instead of setting up a whole new account? All that is such BS too. It was her pathetic attempt at letting Eddie know why DD wouldn't be posting on MMFA anymore. He even assumed that she would keep the Dolly part.
My whole point is if she doesn't want to be accused of being a sockpuppet, she shouldn't be so quick to accuse so many others of being one. Jeter, You and I know how very wrong someone can be about that. It can be hurtful and frustrating to the person being accused when they have no way of proving they aren't someone. Joni, is the only poster I have accused of being a sockpuppet and not until there was over whelming evidence. Some of that evidence is the very same she uses in "confirming" certain posters are one and the same.
I did check out the other link you left & that thread was even crazier to follow than the one about SusieMa. Ha!
Jonimacaroni has been around this site since it began. She started as "Sue". And at least a dozen reincarnations have followed. She never changes her writing style or her lecturing about trolls, so it's always easy to spot her ;-)
And yeah I recall when someone once questioned whether you & I were the same person. That was frustrating, but I knew where that was coming from & why, so even though I was a tad irked at first, I understood. I'm just sorry you got dragged into it. But it can be frustrating when anyone accuses you of being or having a sockpuppet.
Joni is probably correct about James B. being RightOn/Tommy. But like you & Cat have said here, who really cares? I always liked Tommy, he was a bud. So if James B is him, then I'm more than ok with that.
Well it's bedtime for me. Goodnight Robyn :-)
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I think she has a crush on me. Or would like to crush me ;-)
I think the thumbs down are REALLY funny. They're supposed to make the recipient feel rejected . . . I don't really care what they think.
That's why my avatar has the Dr. Seuss saying:
"Be who you are and mean what you say because those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter."
Jeez, I can't believe you need this explained, Jeter. We "libbies" wear the thumbs down as a badge of honor because we get them from wingnuts for being right.
You wingnuts get them for being wrong.
This isn't rocket science.
OR
I sometimes get thumbs down from the Liberals cause I'm right & they can't deal with it. Ha! Ok, sometimes I deserve a down thumb. No biggie, I admit I'm wrong & move on.
If I could give your post the finger, I would. Hehehe!
But I'd still give your post the finger if MMFA offered the option. Har!
As for this one:
It's just too convenient not to suspect a bit of mischief. Of all people, it's the top contender, the guy that Fox news seems to like the least...the guy who just had an attack video released where he claims he is a progressive. That is the guy who gets the Obama picture over his face. Not a picture of Ronald Reagan, not a picture of Tim Tebow or Michael Strahan, not a picture of Angelina Jolie. No, it is specifically Mitt Romney's picture being replaced specifically by Barack Obama.
What are the odds?
It's not as though Obama is a Republican and would be part of the set of images pulled for the graphic. Nor could they claim the graphic artist didn't know who he was. Nor was there any production comparison between Obama and the other contenders.
I could guess there's some guy in the graphics dept who produced it for his own pleasure, saved a version to print and stick on the wall for his own jollies, and by some strange coincidence while he was out of the room at the printer the boss grabbed the file and put it on the production server for air.
Yeah, that's what happened.
That's the most reasonable excuse. Or similarly, the graphic artist created that version to get a laugh from the hosts and producers, but because of the fast paced nature of television news, he forgot to swap it back with the correct graphic.
But we all know they aren't actually mistakes, because, as has been pointed out numerous times, these "mistakes" always paint Republicans in a positive light, or paint Democrats in a negative light. Always.
My question is this: in their guise to deliberately misinform their viewers, why are they also intent on making their viewers look like idiots when they are publicly embarrassed for parroting an erroneous Fox "fact", such as Egypt being located between Jordan and Iran, or Mark Sanford being a Democrat?
Do they ever worry that this tactic will eventually backfire on them?
If I were a unicorn, I'd poop rainbows.
But, what advantage could Fox expect to obtain by mis-labeling a state or putting Obama's picture where Romney's belongs? How did those mistakes put Democrats in a negative light?
I think those maps and pictures are just pure carelessness.
How about mislabeling Utah?
Just more of their sloppiness, and not caring about their audiences knowledge of the facts. They are out to preach to the choir they know their audience will forgive them as long as they feed them what they want to hear,facts be darned.
"...or putting Obama's picture where Romney's belongs? How did those mistakes put Democrats in a negative light?"...------D
The question isn't one of putting Democrats in a negative light as much as it is putting Romney in one. Drawing no distinction between the hated socialist apologizing for America who must at all costs be driven from office with Romney. Not even too subliminal.Faux is trying to pick a winner and while things may change I submit to you the interview Mitt Romney received from Mr.Biar and the gloating hour long love fest interview Gingrich received from Hannity. By the way which news station makes these many mistakes and seemingly makes no efforts to correct or stop them from taking place? You would think journalistic integrity at some point would come into play. they should be embarassed.
Fox is on in many restaurants and bars across the nation, someone just glancing at that graphic would surmise that Newt is leading Obama in the Race now.
I mean how do you possibly 'accidently' pull an Obama picture when trying to make a graphic, the person that made it was either incredibly inept at basic computer usage - or this graphic done on purpose.
It's just like with Hannity mixing up the Tea Party crowd footage. The way video is time coded and stored it is absolutely impossible that was just a simple mix up. It was a planned thing.
It's not a black and white, republican positive automatically means democratic negative in this case.
Instead, you could argue this is more of that Fox news election engineering. Their loyal viewers have been trained to revile and shrink back from President Obama like a vampire from sunlight. They use this opportunity to equate the slightly less overtly radical conservative Romney with the President in the minds of their viewers who may be voting for a candidate in the near future.
On the up side for the organisation they have no compunction when it comes to devising dishonest graphics/headlines but on the down side for them these employees also have been known to amuse themselves with certain glitches or "unfortunate" choices of word.
I have seen newspapers go through periods when there seems to be a contest devising excruciating puns in their headlines. I have also seen choices of pictures that belie the editorial stance of the publication..
One thing I learnt as a performer is to never annoy the lighting and sound people and always keep them interested in what's going on. I've seen some "great" pranks perpetrated by disengaged tech crew - the ones behind the scenes who make everything happen. How many of the production staff at FNC are fed up by the arrogance and narcissism of certain on camera "personalities".
We should be so lucky there are people in FNC production department who can sabotage the disinformation network.
Do they ever worry that this tactic will eventually backfire on them? "
No, because they know their viewers are idiots. Yesterday, a guy swore up and down to me that there was absolutely nothing wrong with that unemployment graph. Tried to school me on "increments".
Fox has nothing to worry about.
Fox News gets paid for having "oopsie" moments allowing TDS to fire their writing staff as the jokes now write themselves.
We're onto you Stewart...
Im just too nice of a person to watch people get humiliated by their own failure. I can read about it fine but watching it..? Nope. Just can not do it.
Which is a shame it sounds really funny.
If you are a 12-17 year old male, you will probably enjoy most of his films.
If you are an adult of either gender, avoid all of his comedies, or any film he had any creative input on. Pretty much stick to "Spanglish" and skip the rest.
I liked some of his skits from the old Saturday Night Live days, but his movies...ugh!
I'd compare FauxNoise and Onion News.
I have long-time friends who are established comedians. Every 4 years they traditionally did a presidential campaign theme show with one of the group portraying a candidate.
I warned them that there was literally no way they could use their traditional absurdist humor and top the bizarro world of FauxNoise and the GOP debates. They would be better off mere reading the FauxNoise transcripts and it would be absurd and funny in a different context.
Equating the rank and file members of a political movement as terrorists is an invitation to more of these violent incidents like the one targeting the Tides foundation that ended in a police shootout, or the assassination attempt of Gabby Giffords that left several dead.
Words have meaning. Terrorism is a powerful term that evokes images and memories of heinous and desperate acts of violence. This is truly disturbing to see such irresponsible behavior in the "mainstream" media.
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I believe substituting Obama's picture for Romney is FOXNEWS' version of "subliminumable" messages. Tear down Romney, and Gingrich gains. Also, if I remember correctly, Karl Rove was making fun of O'Donnell on this sorry excuse for a news network, causing Palin to come rushing to her defense. Somehow I imagine Rove supporting Gingrich isn't a big stretch.
Nope...the Three Stooges.
You'd think with all that moolah they could afford competent people. Unless they're doing exactly what they intended.
Wrong again.
The mislabeling of the states was probably a mistake. The other two are clear examples of propaganda.
So they made one obvious mistake, and besides that they did their jobs.
When will MMFA get a clue and realize that Fox News is not incompetent, and that they do exactly what they mean to do?
Fox news lies - period.