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Fox's Shawn: "[I]t took until this week for us to find out that there were no death panels"

August 15, 2009 4:09 pm ET

From the August 15 edition of Fox News Watch:

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Previously:

REPORT: The media have debunked the death panels -- more than 40 times over

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    • Author by toombsie (August 15, 2009 4:41 pm ET)
         
      Wait... there are no death panels?!? I can't believe it!
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    • Author by worrierking (August 15, 2009 4:42 pm ET)
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      And we're still trying to get to the bottom of that spherical earth question. Hopefully, we'll know soon whether the earth is a sphere or if it is indeed, flat.

      Until then, be careful out on the edge.
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    • Author by MickD (August 15, 2009 4:51 pm ET)
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      It took us until this week to realize our lie wouldn't fly.
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    • Author by mjh (August 15, 2009 4:58 pm ET)
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      [i]Fox's Shawn: "t took until this week for us to find out that there were no death panels"



      TRANSLATION: It took us teabagging rightwingnut noisemakers until this week to come up with a new talking point . . .


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    • Author by Vincenzo (August 15, 2009 5:23 pm ET)
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      We saved the damn free world and they still will not call on Major Garrett!
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      • Author by LynnTTT (August 16, 2009 10:29 am ET)
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        You can drop that- it's been debunked. Obama has called upon Garrett at every press conference in the past few weeks. Stop listening to Fox, and look at other news information sources. Better yet, watch the press conference.
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    • Author by magnolialover (August 15, 2009 5:53 pm ET)
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      No it didn't! If you had paid attention, or even thought for a second, this would have been self evident a long time ago.
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    • Author by smarshall1432997 (August 15, 2009 5:53 pm ET)
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      So, FoxNews Channel's Host and Guests "admit" that former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin was "WRONG" to have stated that 'death panel' language was contained in the HealthCare Reform Bill? Too funny indeed.

      Now if we can hear FoxNews Channel's Host and Guests "admit" that former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin "can NOT" see Russia from her porch LOL. Wink, wink.
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    • Author by jimvf (August 15, 2009 6:24 pm ET)
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      Maybe if FOX people watched a real news station ( and not just read FOX's daily talking points )they woulda known weeks ago....like most intelligent people
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    • Author by dmhack (August 15, 2009 7:08 pm ET)
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      I know exactly when they (Fox and the GOP) found out their were no death panels---when the Republicans found out they had lost yet another approval point (17% for those keeping count).

      Had they gained a point, Fox would still be pushing the lie on behalf of their masters.


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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (August 15, 2009 7:28 pm ET)
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      We already know FOX is slow !
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    • Author by WhatImlost (August 15, 2009 7:54 pm ET)
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      Wow an on air admission by FOX that theri reporting sucks.

      Every other news station found out 2 or 3 weeks ago that their were no death panels in the bill. FOX's reporters just got to it.

      Their motto should be
      FOX News: We report, every else decided last week.
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    • Author by John Paradox (August 15, 2009 10:18 pm ET)
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      So, Faux won't be pushing the Palin Panels anymore?
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    • Author by openeyes (August 16, 2009 1:21 am ET)
         
      The death panel is already in place. The ARRA, also known by many as the porkulus bill, established, under the aegis of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, which will "help coordinate research and guide investments in comparative effectiveness research funded by the Recovery Act." That is the first leg of the trek leading the U.S. to completely socialized medicine. So they are already working on how to gently tell us to, quoting President Obama, "pull the plug on grandma."
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    • Author by antihannity2009 (August 16, 2009 2:17 am ET)
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      Of course Fox would never admit that they were wrong about the story in the first place. Nor would they ever say that Sarah Palin was wrong. What they will probably do is blame it on the left.

      The right has no problem spreading fear and panic by lying to people about death camps, death panels, and everything. But somehow they have a problem when Obama says that the economy is in trouble. They say that he's fearmongering.
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (August 16, 2009 6:48 am ET)
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      Does this mean Shawn is going to be competing in, I'm smarter than a 5th grader?
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    • Author by AmericaInDenial (August 16, 2009 10:19 am ET)
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      So it took FOX news, one week to realize that their fear tactics kept alive by people like Palin, where not going to work????

      Wooa! that is sooner than I expected.

      BRAVO!
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    • Author by bintx (August 17, 2009 10:52 am ET)
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      Reading is a wonderful thing as is reading comprehension. Most of us got that there were no "death panels," the first day you guys were pushing that there were.
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