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Fox hypocrisy continues: Doocy slams ABC's "ObamaCare" special, claims "here at Fox we still do journalism"

June 19, 2009 8:14 am ET

From the June 19 edition of Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends:

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Previously:

After exclusive access, softball interviews during Bush admin, Fox News blasts ABC for White House exclusive

ABC Obama health care special brings out Fox News' hypocrisy

Media revive Clinton-era smear, dub White House health care plan "ObamaCare"

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    • Author by magnolialover (June 19, 2009 8:20 am ET)
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      This Doocy guy is quite the Hoot!

      Journalism? At Fox?
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      • Author by pags2 (June 19, 2009 12:19 pm ET)
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        Doocy must be a stand up comedian because he certainly is not a journalist. Journalism requires a brain.
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    • Author by SteveRiverson162410 (June 19, 2009 8:24 am ET)
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      FOX journalism = an Oxymoron
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 19, 2009 8:28 am ET)
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      The sad thing is that the relative success of Fox "news" is an indicator of how many utterly ignorant, bastsh!t stupid people there are in this country who actually BELIEVE completely absurd lies like this.
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      • Author by dimes (June 19, 2009 9:42 am ET)
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        I'm not convinced that many people who watch Fox actually believe them. I think some of its ratings are due to the car crash factor, akin to slowing down to gawk at a wreck on the highway.

        As far as Doocy goes, epic FAIL.
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        • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 19, 2009 9:58 am ET)
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          Epic FAIL indeed! (One of my favorite sites!)

          You are more optimistic about the intellectual state of America than I am, but I hope you're right! (I'd never be happier to be wrong!) LOL.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (June 19, 2009 8:34 am ET)
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      FOX News is branching out into journalism, too? Wow...that is a scoop!
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      • Author by teabaggers ♥ NUTS (June 19, 2009 8:53 am ET)
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        yea thats some big news... it should come up on the tabloid section of the new york rag rupert murdoch owns very soon.
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    • Author by worrierking (June 19, 2009 8:37 am ET)
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      Fox news wouldn't know a journalist if he came up and bit them on the doocy.
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    • Author by raine315 (June 19, 2009 8:50 am ET)
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      Come to think of it, the ONLY person on Fox News who can be considered a REAL journalist is GERALDO RIVERA... LOL YES Geraldo. I'm talking about BEFORE he stints on cable news(before his obessesion with the OJ trial), before his tacky talk show, before his crazy Al Capone vault stunt Geraldo actually did great investigating reporting. Those from NYC may remember Geraldo's reporting on the horrible conditions inside mental health hospitals and his expose on heroine use- when he went inside NYC "shooting galleries"- where people shot up heroine in their necks and groin areas. He is the only one on Fox News who has had expirence as a "real" journalist.
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 19, 2009 11:11 am ET)
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        Alas, that was so long ago, he has forgotten it now.
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    • Author by teabaggers ♥ NUTS (June 19, 2009 8:51 am ET)
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      "here at Fox we still do journalism"

      yeah, yellow journalism.

      "that is effectively a 2-hour infomercial"

      hmmm... interesting. didnt you guys at fox give bush an 8 year infomercial? seems quite a bit longer than 2 hours, wouldnt you say?
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      • Author by Reinhard (June 19, 2009 9:04 am ET)
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        Notice Fox didn't counter their " ABC employees overwhelmingly voted for Obama" with statistics that would show Fox news employees overwhelmingly voted for Traitor McCain*. Wonder why?

        John McCain, during his years captive in a POW camp , signed documents claiming American pilots were " black pilots" and routinely targeted civilian targets. He also spoke on N. Vietnamese propaganda radio about "the great care he was receiving from his captors. Both of these acts are considered treason by the UMC, yet McCain has somehow remade himself as a war hero. He's a disgrace to every Nam Vet, as is any Nam Vet who voted for him.
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      • Author by TheDayV (June 19, 2009 2:55 pm ET)
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        On the point about the infomercial, it assumes that ABC will be pro-healthcare. If ABC peppered its reporting with legitimate views from critics and in the end left the viewer with 'These are the bonuses of the plan and these are the liabilities.' then it would be rightly considered professional journalism.

        What Doocy's saying is that opinion is necessary to good reporting. That's the premise on which the entire FNC stands. By saying it here, he's attempting to force it into the expectations of Fox viewers so that the definition of good reporting can be altered through popular conception.
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        • Author by teabaggers ♥ NUTS (June 19, 2009 5:57 pm ET)
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          who knows, maybe ABC will talk about the bonuses and liabilities of the healthcare plan. the problem is that fox news chooses to blindly accuse ABC of bias when they arent doing anything unethical and they just want to criticize anything that any network wants to do to advertise for the obama administration when fox news itself did advertising for the bush administration for 8 years.
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    • Author by pklute63 (June 19, 2009 8:58 am ET)
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      Does anyone else but me want to slap that stupid smirk off his face?
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      • Author by TheThief672 (June 19, 2009 9:03 am ET)
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        I have a baseball bat...I'm in for one smack.
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        • Author by pklute63 (June 19, 2009 9:17 am ET)
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          This could be a very long line.
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        • Author by worrierking (June 19, 2009 9:18 am ET)
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          I'm not one to condone violence, but can I take a swing after you?
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        • Author by worrierking (June 19, 2009 9:18 am ET)
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          I'm not one to condone violence, but can I take a swing after you?
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          • Author by nerzog (June 19, 2009 9:30 am ET)
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            I think a baseball bat might be a bit extreme.... maybe a slap in the face with a dead mackerel or something.
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            • Author by worrierking (June 19, 2009 9:37 am ET)
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              I agree.

              I've always loved "the Fish Slapping Dance".
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              • Author by princeofwheels (June 19, 2009 9:52 am ET)
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                I just wish they'd remind people of the day and time.
                ABC couldn't ask for better publicity. The backassward promotion by Fuax may increase viewership.

                Doocy, cut the crap....what day and time? Tell us more.

                He may actually believe that ABC didn't expect this type of nonsense from Faux.
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              • Author by neon desert (June 19, 2009 9:53 am ET)
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                You know, Doozy never really wanted to be a morning babble show anchor anyway. His heart remains in the forest, where - with his best girlie by his side, he'll someday return to skip and jump, have buttered scones and tea, press wildflowers, sing, sing, sing, and become...

                a lumberjackass.
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            • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 19, 2009 11:13 am ET)
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              maybe a slap in the face with a dead mackerel or something.
              OK, let's leave Ann Coulter out of this.
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      • Author by jbrantow (June 19, 2009 9:30 am ET)
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        I figured he suffered oxygen deprivation at birth.......,leading to the destruction of neurons. Thus......doofsy the clown.
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    • Author by budrykzp9226 (June 19, 2009 9:23 am ET)
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      Shorter Everything Steve Doocy Ever Said: This. Is. HEE-YUGE!
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    • Author by jbrantow (June 19, 2009 9:24 am ET)
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      I thought this was a skit on madTV....with a bad comic. I bet Doofusy still eats white paste....he's "special".
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    • Author by aocasio463507 (June 19, 2009 9:28 am ET)
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      Fox News is a sad example of what the American educational system has produced over the last two hundred years. People that have no knowledge of history or how government works. On the right a white ethnocentric group of brainwashed zombies, with moronic leaders and on the left spineless over educated leaders with a base afraid to remove them and revolt.
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    • Author by nerzog (June 19, 2009 9:32 am ET)
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      So, this is what the Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment to protect? They would be horrified.
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    • Author by big2xrube6146 (June 19, 2009 9:48 am ET)
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      Fox and journalism. Are you kidding me?
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    • Author by roxsteady11180 (June 19, 2009 10:15 am ET)
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      Don't be too impressed with fox's numbers. ABC, CBS and NBC still reach far more viewers than all the cable channels. Many people still don't have even basic cable. It's something that those of us who do tend to forget sometimes. The sad thing is that ABC, NBC and CBS have credibility problems of their own. Like when that idiot George Stephanopolous took a question from Sean Hannity about William Ayers when he appeard on his radio show the Friday before the debate and then asked Obama the Ayers question. I only watch MSNBC and even then I can only do so in the evenings with Ed Shultz, Keith Olbermann and Rachael Maddow.
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    • Author by blueline99 (June 19, 2009 10:42 am ET)
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      I love source for their stats... "A magazine" What magazine? Good source.

      How about the numbers on Fox's coverage...
      Fair and balanced?

      I'd like Fox to show a single positive story of President Obama... just one.
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    • Author by snoopy (June 19, 2009 11:17 am ET)
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      [http://allhatnocattle.net/horsey090617.jpg]
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    • Author by shaggles (June 19, 2009 11:27 am ET)
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      Sill do journalism? I wasn't aware they'd ever done journalism.
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    • Author by SMTDL (June 19, 2009 11:42 am ET)
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      Hahahahahaha..Fox must now be doing Comedy....comparing themselves with real Journalists...hilarious!!!!
      If they were smart or real journalists at all they would wait and attack after the show aired and the content/slant(if any) ,lack of objectivity ,etc was obvious on air!!! They must be assuming ABC reports News the way THEY do it..UNFAIR and UNBALANCED!!!!!
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    • Author by kfraz43 (June 19, 2009 12:07 pm ET)
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      I guess Dookie is correct, if by "do journalism" he means "knowing journalism biblically"...
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    • Author by easterner (June 19, 2009 12:36 pm ET)
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      Fox news has often said on their programs during the Presidential Campaign they didn't know enough about Obama.Well fox news TUNE IN to ABC and pay attention and you and also myself will LEARN something.
      ABC (according to a report mentioned in the video) reported 55 positive stories and 18 negative stories on Obama..... 3 to 1.
      Fox news has reported how many positive news stories ? Fox news talking heads gives themselves to much credit when they call themselves Journalists when they are nothing more than over paid disc jockeys on a propaganda AM Radio station with moving pictures.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (June 19, 2009 12:57 pm ET)
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      Hey you Goofy, when you have to explain what you do, chances are it isn't obvious by what you actually do.
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    • Author by NdlovukaziThor (June 19, 2009 1:43 pm ET)
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      Well, considering there are a whole bunch of loonies who are skewing information about it, and the public have a lot of questions about what the President wants to do with health care reform, why shouldn't we have a program where he tell us IN HIS OWN WORDS? This isn't a debate, so we don't need someone from the "other point of view" telling us why it's so evil. That's what you're for, Fox. You have 24/7 airtime to air your problems and "negative stories". You know, like you're doing right now.
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    • Author by temphandle pappas35document (June 19, 2009 2:52 pm ET)
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      Faux News would probably get about half as much criticism if they simply called themselves the voice for conservatives, rather than going through the pretense of calling themselves "fair and balanced."
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    • Author by mescal (June 22, 2009 5:03 am ET)
         
      The Faux News Channel does journalism much like Rush Limpballs does an underage Dominican hooker.
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