Only on Fox: Bush administration talking points repeated as unbalanced "DaySide Facts"
On the November 17 edition of Fox News' DaySide, in which Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) and Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) appeared during a panel discussion, a series of "DaySide Facts" appeared as on-screen text reflecting only Bush administration claims that the administration did not mislead the country about prewar Iraq intelligence. One of those included a "fact" that Bush said: "Democrats looked at the same intelligence I did." While it is accurate that Bush did in fact say this in response to criticism that the administration "manipulated intelligence," Media Matters for America has documented that this claim is false. The sequence of "DaySide Facts" during the Hayworth/Rangel discussion did not include a Democratic response.
The "DaySide Facts," in order:
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Who was affected by Fox's actions, though? Hmm? Anybody? This stuff is so trivial. It is only here to satisfy people who like to write "Faux News," because after all that's just so witty and original.
Who is affected by it? Everyone who watches it and believes it. It wasn't the point I was trying to make anyway.
In case you haven't heard, Fox News is the network that bills itself as 'Fair and Balanced' when there is mountains of evidence to the contrary. If they want to be the voice of the conservative right, fine by me, I just want them to be forthcoming about it instead of waving a phony flag of nonpartisanship.
I don't take credit for coining "Faux News," nor do I consider it especially witty, but until Fox changes its ways or at least stops lying and comes clean about its rampant bias, I think the name is fitting and worthy of repeating.
No, I don't consider CNN to be fair and balanced, or any other major network for that matter, but no one else is so blatantly hypocritical as Fox when giving praise to their own brand of journalism.
How witty and original was it for every anchor on every Fox show to pound home the term "flip-flopper" in every sentence that contained the name John Kerry?
Gee what a shock! Watching FOX Today is like reading Pravda right before the fall of the USSR. I am amazed at watching the other news shows and then FOX. They are just shameless in promoting Bush. Favorite FOX Promos.
Tonight at 5 Dick Morris talks to Bill about Hillary.(Morris has made a cottage industry of attacking the Clintons on this show.)
At 6 Newt Gingrich goes on Hannity and Colmes to discuss the Democrats. ( That will be fair and balanced.)
And how come on Special Report every "expert" that Brit has on is from the AEI or Heritage Foundation.
"Many Democrats voted to support the decision I made." -Bush
Very interesting quote. A reporter should ask Bush at a press conference whether he had already decided to go to war before the Congressional vote which happened months before tha actual war.
Bush seems to be confirming the gist of the Downing Street Memo.
In the month before the vote authorizing force, Powell told Senators it was "unlikely that the president would use force if [Iraq] complied with the weapons of mass destruction conditions...."
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To quote Brit Hume: "Fair and Balanced, as always". What a joke!
It must be true because Jesus doesn't tell them otherwise.
Whilst it goes against every fibre of my being to defend "faux", MM got this wrong. The on-screen facts look ok me. I mean, is it not a fact that Bush said the Dems saw the same intelligence as he did? That is a fact. So I hope MMFA does not join the fox pple in the gutter...they should be much better than that.
adisco_london - Sunday November 20, 2005 06:00:20 AM EST
No MMFA did NOT get it wrong, this is on the right hand side, its not outright disinformation since Bush DID say it even though it isnt true, its sneaky and underhanded since it isnt true and they ONLY quoted rightwingnuts