Fox Nation Pushes ‘Satire’ Site’s Article About Ridge Attacking Limbaugh As Fact-Based Truth
Fox Nation Pushes ‘Satire’ Site’s Article About Ridge Attacking Limbaugh As Fact-Based Truth
Last Thursday, while appearing on C-Span’s Washington Journal, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R) was asked about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s statement that “Rush Limbaugh is Republican and Colin Powell is not.” “Colin Powell was a Republican as far as I’m concerned,” said Ridge, adding that “it’s that mindset” displayed by Cheney that is hurting the GOP’s “unity.” Watch it:
On his radio show, Limbaugh responded to Ridge, saying, “I must have missed something, because I remember that Colin Powell endorsed the Democrat, Barack Obama, at a strategic point in the campaign in 2008.” The blog, Elective Decisions, which features “the satire of Chris Davis,” then wrote up a post saying that Ridge responded to Rush by challenging him to a fight:
So this morning, Ridge went back on Washington Journal, responding to Limbaugh’s rhetoric. “I’m so sick of Rush Limbaugh. He’s the reason we lose elections. He needs to get the hell out of the Republican Party. As far as I’m concerned, he isn’t a Republican anymore. The man’s running. The man’s hiding. He’s too scared to face me!”
Ridge continued his rant, threatening Limbaugh. “Meanwhile, he sits there in his ‘Southern Command Post,’ and destroys the Republican Party! I’d like to just have three rounds in a boxing ring with that guy so I could shut him up! I’m caling (sic) you out, Limbaugh. Let’s see if you have a big enough set of marbles to back up your crap!”
Though the “Elective Decisions” blog is clearly marked as “satire,” the Fox Nation linked to the post and promoted it as if it were based on reported facts:
This isn’t the first time Fox News has promoted a parody as truth. In 2007, the network aired at least eight segments on a purported “news” story that was actually a parody article.
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June 29th, 2009 at 12:23 pm…
ridge vs. limbaugh
THE BATTLE OF THE REPUBLICAN JELLO MOLDS!
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June 29th, 2009 at 12:27 pmThis isnt the first time I’ve seen this blog. They don’t understand that satire is supposed to be funny.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:30 pmThis isn’t the first time Fox News has promoted a parody as truth.
That’s an understatement if I’ve ever heard one!
Promoting parody as truth is the cornerstone of the FoxSnooze business plan.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:31 pmSo what? FOX doesn’t need to use facts.
They have paperwork with a judge’s signature saying so.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:31 pmCan we officially label FOX as “yellow journalism” now?
June 29th, 2009 at 12:33 pmThis is what happens when a ‘news’ network gets licensed to do fiction.
Next thing you know they will have TV’s in the grocery store checkout lines, nailed to Faux. Just so they can feel right at home with the other quality news magazines.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:35 pmWake up, people. FOX NEWS is SATIRE.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:35 pmWait a minute…
I thought Fox Nation was a satire site???
June 29th, 2009 at 12:39 pmCan we officially label FOX as “yellow journalism” now?
Of course! After all, Little Seanie Vanity’s show, Billy O’Reilly, Charlie (”the talking corpse”) Krauthammer, Britty Hume, et. al., are the stars of their 24/7 pissing contests.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:39 pmAnd, Fox being Fox, no one had the brains to pick up a phone & ask Ridge if it were true.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:40 pm…
chris davis:
I was born a poor, white child* in the back of a Ford Pinto-or maybe just conceived-behind Wal-Mart in Corpus Christi, Texas. There I languished in the public school system, being forced to eat nothing but Spam and Deviled Eggs while awaiting LBJ’s “War On Poverty” to pull me out of the Corpus Christi ghetto. Painfully, I suffered under President Ronald Reagan’s jackboots. I agonized year after year that government would raise me from the ashes of poverty. Luckily, a sympathetic liberal teacher helped me get into the local community college. After only taking six years to get my Associates Degree, I finally realized that Bush was indeed the devil, and that he was responsible for my plight in life. And then a savior arose from Chicago land. He walked across the water and filled my soul with peace. For he was Barack Obama!
Now I work hand in hand with the Obama campaign to bring down Big Oil, Big Pharmaceutical, Wal-Mart, and all Republicans in the name of real change. I work hard to insure millions of poverty-stricken Americans, such as myself, will not have to endure Spam and the Reagan Revolution ever again. Instead, they will enjoy the spoils of caviar with the help of yet another minimum wage increase. I will not rest until minimum wage is $50.00 per hour. I will also not rest until Bush administration officials are prosecuted for torture in Guantanamo, and all Americans can actually get healthcare without going bankrupt. This is the life that I’ve chosen, and this is the motto I’ve taken.
Actually, below is all you need to know about me:
I am a six-year U.S. Army veteran, serving during Panama, Desert Storm, and many other deployments. I am a staunch conservative. I live in the United States of America with my wife, for I am an American fighting in the forces which guard my country and protect our way of life. I am prepared to give all that I have in their defense of liberty!
:)
it’s guys like chris that made
“the half hour news hour”
such a success.
:)
*stealing from steve martin?
:|
June 29th, 2009 at 12:40 pmI was born to and raised by conservative Republicans, so I know a few things about them.
Many if not most of them are “literalists” and completely incapable of comprehending irony, sarcasm, satire, etc. This explains why so many of them are “evangelical” and/or “fundamentalist” Christians who believe that “The Bible” is literally true and must be interpreted accordingly.
They have also been force-fed a diet of FEAR for so long that are generally over-the-top alarmists who will almost always take ANY report at face value before making ANY attempt to verify.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:48 pmGet it? It’s funny because he actually thinks that Americans SHOULD have to choose between adequate health care and going bankrupt! Ha ha ha!
And yet somehow Republicans keep losing elections. Go figure.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:51 pmI am prepared to give all that I have in their defense of liberty!
Except for the case of Spam I got on sale at Sam’s Club.
Or the 137 guns I’ve collected for self defense.
Or my genuine, autographed copy of the NT.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:53 pmOh, fer the luvva Jebus!! What a bunch of meatheads.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:55 pmIt would not be hard to scare the crap out of Flush Limpdick, just wave a draft notice in front of him, he will run like hell for the hills.
snark
June 29th, 2009 at 12:55 pmI’d like to just have three rounds in a boxing ring with that guy
Now that would be some entertainment !
June 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pmKick his butt Tom !!!!! :)
June 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pmI don’t think anyone is ever surprised with comments made on Fix news!
One thing about Limpall though…as much as I despise this blowhard, he is in fact the best thing working for the Democratic Party.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:07 pmFox is just one big freakin joke. So are their talking heads and the people who watch it and believe it.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:08 pmI wouldnt mind seeing Ridge kick that fata$$ limpdick. If the story were true I doubt that limpdick would take the challenge. Hes a wussy just like hannity.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:12 pmI wish someone would dub a laugh-track onto a FAUX news segment. Giggles and guffaws would work perfectly.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:12 pmThat’s funny all around.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:20 pmThe Repubs should continue their “kick ‘em out” if not pure conservative approach. Next they will want to kick out the 8 GOP reps who voted for the climate bill in the House. They are not that far from only having the Limbaugh folks left.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:22 pmThe radical right is be pushed to be even more right and more radical by Fox. The hypocrisy of the religious right is becoming more obvious to even the most casual observer, thanks to Ensign and Sanford. Dare we hope that we really are witnessing the death of the GOP?
this is exactly the spark needed to retake my beloved republican majority in 2010 & 2012! tell the troof again! i want my baby back!
June 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pmsanford’s the kind guy who meets up with his family at walmart and talks about the hold up with the commoners exited at his presence. he knows to talk it straight, even if sometimes he has to give it rough.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:28 pmYou should have run off to the woods to be raised by wolves.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:30 pmThough the “Elective Decisions” blog is clearly marked as “satire,” the Fox Nation linked to the post and promoted it as if it were based on reported facts:
It doen’t matter that Ridge didn’t really say it. He has to apologize to Limbaugh anyway.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:32 pmthe great GOPsby Says:
this is exactly the spark needed to retake my beloved republican majority in 2010 & 2012! tell the troof again! i want my baby back!
June 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
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you sir are no chris davis.
:|
:) :)
June 29th, 2009 at 1:32 pmthe great GOPsby Says:
sanford’s the kind guy who meets up with his family at walmart and talks about the hold up with the commoners exited at his presence. he knows to talk it straight, even if sometimes he has to give it rough.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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the voice of experience.
:\
:|
:)
June 29th, 2009 at 1:34 pmJune 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
yeah! sanford 2012 – the voice of experience! hed be the first president since ghw bush to have foreign relations experience prior to the presidency!
June 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pmJune 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
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you sir are no chris davis.
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i, sir, am a long-distance, untraceable 3rd cousin of republican conservative stephen colbert! but you probably already knew that!
June 29th, 2009 at 1:45 pmthe great GOPsby Says:
yeah! sanford 2012 – the voice of experience! hed be the first president since ghw bush to have foreign relations experience prior to the presidency!
June 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
…
open mike night at the
gop laff factory.
…
don’t forget to tip your waitresses!
:0
:) :)
June 29th, 2009 at 1:46 pmNo Bush Jr. also had foreign relations prior to stealing the White House. Remember, he went AWOL to take a little time off to drink tequilla and snort coke with Mexican prostitutes.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:50 pmshoeless writes:
There is no difference.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:53 pmhe went AWOL to take a little time off to drink tequilla and snort coke with Mexican prostitutes.
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you’re confusing me – which of the two white males has a better richness of experience?
June 29th, 2009 at 1:53 pmFox News=fair and balanced and STUPID.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pmWhat pussies. If these two slobs actually “fought” they would try to slap each other until one or both started crying for mommy. Republican is Latin for dullard.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:59 pmOK, make it PPV, but the fight has to be on a trampoline.
That way, ‘Mr. Bouncy Bouncy’ can get the edge on Ridge.
I imagine Mount Rushblow jumping so high he doesn’t land back on the trampoline…OOPS!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:17 pm“The requested page could not be found.”
Whoops!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:18 pmFOX is all about lies; 24/7/365 lies lies lies. They are a Humungous Satire themselves.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pmI’ll take ten rounds with Limbaugh. After I knock his ass out in the first, I can come out and stomp on him for 9 more 3 minute bursts.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:23 pmFAUX is not a legitimate news outlet…ever!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:27 pmI’m down for the 24/7 progressive cable channel. I’d get cable for that and watch television.
Newspapers all over the world published articles on the anti-oxidant properties of martinis as if it were science. The “study” came from the yearly issue of satire in a medical journal. I think it was the London based journal. The journalist who started it apparently failed to notice that the martinis were beneficial if “shaken, not stirred” and all the other James Bond references the article was riddled with. Nor did s/he notice the article about girls named Betty being more likely to have venereal disease.
I would wager that Fox new full well that they were dealing with satire. They’re evil that way.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:35 pmLimpdick is just plain crazy. I know im not the only one here who visits MMFA, They allways show how he lies and makes up sht all the time. This fat pig misses the old days when the internet didnt play such an integral part in our society. These wingnuts hannity,orielly,limpdick, and that fckin fruitcake beck are being called out on their lies everyday.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:46 pmThats why their so angry all the time,well the fact that theres a black man in the whitehouse doesnt sit well with them either. I love watching these treasonist bastards sqirm.
Fossil Fight?
June 29th, 2009 at 2:50 pmNow that’s entertainment.
You have that tattooed on your forehead. Either that, or just GOP.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:03 pmJune 29th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I’d say Tom Ridge over Pudge Limpdiddler by a KO in the first, unless Mr. Ridge makes the mistake (shudder) of getting in front of one of Limpdiddler’s Orifices of Doom, in which case the ultrasonic bleating and great gust of putrid wind will turn Ridge into a gellid puddle.
What’s a “Fox News Channel”? Is that one of those moron things; ya know, like an oxymoron?
June 29th, 2009 at 4:48 pmDon’t you know that the Reich-wingers were born without the irony-satire gene? Remember Faux’s attempt to counter “The Daily Show” with that stupid “Half-hour Comedy Show”? I think it lasted less than a month and quietly disappeared. Faux Noise has no concept of satire. Buy they’re good at stupidity and lying.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pmExcuse me, that should be “But they’re good at stupidity and lying.” Broken wrist…left-handed one-fingered typing,
June 29th, 2009 at 5:17 pmWhat Fox should have done with their “comedy” show would have been to report actual news without all the lies and alternate reality. Their viewers would have thought it was satire.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:44 pmThe viewers of FOX news do not know the difference between parody and the real news, at FOX it is one and the same.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:44 pmCan you imagine the shock if FOX did delivery the news fair and balanced?
Now that would be a parody, wouldn’t it.
Ridge said some negative things about the Bush-Cheney cabal, so Fox will try to destroy him.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:00 pmJ. Fred Smug Says:
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I was born to and raised by conservative Republicans, so I know a few things about them.
Many if not most of them are “literalists” and completely incapable of comprehending irony, sarcasm, satire, etc. This explains why so many of them are “evangelical” and/or “fundamentalist” Christians who believe that “The Bible” is literally true and must be interpreted accordingly.
They have also been force-fed a diet of FEAR for so long that are generally over-the-top alarmists who will almost always take ANY report at face value before making ANY attempt to verify.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
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I was raised by a Democratic father and a Republican mother, and every four years there was alot of fun at my home. I remembered when it was Nixon/Kennedy, my mom laughed that Nixon would be a better President because he was a Vice President, and Kennedy was a Senator, well everyone knows who one that election..
Now back to Tom Ridge, I still would like to know what he had done in the State of Pennsylvania, and if he does not back down to Mr. Bouncy bounce Limbaugh, well hats off to him, since every Republican is deathy afraid of offending him.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:34 pm