"Busted?" Fox News still running with Obama G8 photo story day after Van Susteren debunked it

Golly, this is just as big a story as the iPod the United States gave the Queen of England!

Sheer "Hot Air" inSannity, The Little Guy, and the others decried all the publicity about Michael Jackson. Why didn't the MSM spend time on important issues like firefighters and the US Military?

And then Faux Noise and The Sludge Retort goes and wastes time with this sort of crap?

"Wow!," as Sen. Franken would say...

Fox News and Fox Nation cretins have spent the last few hours staring at the backside of a 17-year-old and they're accusing President Obama of somehow getting "busted"? Their tank is empty. Have they nothing of merit to focus on?!

From Drudge to Faux to the idiot teabaggers of America.

I'm embarrassed that Fox has again sunk beneath bottomfeeders.

I know President Obama would never demean a young woman, as he wouldn't want his wife or his own young daughters to be gawked at by a smirking older man . .

Shame on Fox, but is anyone surprised?

Gods... it's obvious that Obama is simply looking downwards to ensure that the girl next to him steps down without obstruction. Anyone who reads anything sexual in that moment is the one with the problem.

Obama must be doing pretty well in his job is this is the best scandal they can come up with: they are grasping at straws.

wonder if there will be a libel suit coming down the pipe.

Geez.....even GMA ran with this today.

Our media...

Jesus can these people be any more petty and desperate for anything to smear Obama on. If it's not condiments it's this stupidity.

This is where my outrage comes from. This young woman walks a few feet past a world figure, steps up on to a step, and turns to take a photo that she would undeniably cherish for a lifetime, and for what is captured in the briefest fraction of a second she becomes political cannon fodder for this dispicable "news" organization.

This is the evil of it. Their version of "fair and balanced" reporting is perched atop an increasing mountain of bodies belonging to the innocent.

I think Obama should demand an apology and try make some fodder out of this. It's over the line.

I know this will be painful and will cost you brain cells and 30 seconds out of your life you'll never get back, but go to the Faux Nation website and read what some of these morons are saying about this....they are sick twisted human beings. To them, if it isn't on Faux, it isn't the truth!

Well...

If ever there was a non-story created directly from the minds of sexually repressed right-wing corporate sycophants and spewed out as news that proves once and for all that Fox-Noise is not, has never been, nor ever could be considered anything but a sleazy tabloid cable station as immature and childish as TMZ... then this one ices it!

To say this is reprehensible is to put it mildly!

I knew when I saw this yesterday that he wasn't looking at the girl. For one, it's obvious that he is looking DOWN, not to the side, and two, this picture is similar to the close cropped pictures and videos of the fall of the Saddam statue. Wide shots of both showed that there were just a handful of Iraqis in attendance and that it was a staged "celebration."

Such a load of nonsense.

Interesting to hear what Greta has to say about it tonight. My guess is that she got a good talking-to and the story will either be dropped or she will backpedal.

Remember when McCain was caught checking out Palin's ass? The cons were quick to rush in to dispel that one. Where are they now?

Although the video proves that the snapshot is not an accurate portrayal of what happened, the picture in and of itself still is pretty funny. What's simply and utterly dishonest is the fact that Fox totally ignores the video . . .

Moreover, there's hot women in just about every picture from this G8 conference. The prez is lucky to have the opportunity to do some window shopping.

what I find unfortunate about Ms Van Susteren's reporting on this matter is that if you go to her blog, all you will see is the picture under the heading "the lying picture" (or something similiar). while she maybe "debunking" the photo, she is still showing it. also, the nature of many of the comments posted by the folks on the blog would seem to indicate that her efforts to clear the matter up are in vain...

Compare the video with the picture. Granted the camera may be at a slightly different angle than the still-photo camera, but you can tell the 'incident' was re-enacted! For one, the photo was taken on the 9th, the video didn't surface until later. Convenient. Two, the woman's position relative to Pres. Obama's is slightly different. You may notice other discrepancies, the media is just trying to take the attention off the photo by right off the bat saying it's ridiculous, so that we would have that mindset and not think otherwise while viewing the video. Such con artists, the media. I know, I know, a little insignifant but what if the photo was taken of Bush or Reagan? They would be canned by the media in a milli-second!

Let's not forget, McCain had his moment of doubt as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s

First of all. It took forever to get here! But now that I'm here, well, you're in for a treat. hahahaha

As for the video, I hadn't watched it, figuring it would be in poor taste. But then I realized I was denying myself access to a unique experience. How could I possibly comment on it, without seeing it first?

So this what I think.

This video deserves an award. Maybe the Academy will introduce a category, especially for it.

I who come up with great titles, which are seldom read by others besides my facebook crew, which mostly ignores me. Then again, I have to say my best friends on facebook are between the ages of 3 and 30, the average being 15 yrs old.

I have found in my experience that those whom I trust most fall within this age range. They are the brightest of all, and can easily detect things like bad vibes and instinctively react to them. I trust their responses.

Sorry for the digression...

Anyway, I came up with a great title for this brief masterpiece of illusion... but I don't know if anybody is listening, so you'll have tell me if you are.

I call this video...

Michelle's Magic Disappearing Act

By the deft hand of a video editor (who knows? it could have been a video vixen...)this person sliced Michelle from the picture before our very eyes!

Now that deserves an award!

And besides, it is hilarious to watch!

As if this story can't get anymore pathetic, I'm amazed that no one has picked up on the "news" channel using the wrong word to describe this. Check out "Yes Nice Can", and below, it refers to the Presidents "wondering" eyes. Ahhmm, eyes don't "wonder", they "wander". Bad enough that common folk mix these up, but journalists are supposed to know grammar. Oh, wait, these are "common" folk, and not journalists. Strike my remarks!