Fox acknowledges ‘production error’ and promises ‘disciplinary action’ for misleading Palin footage.
Fox acknowledges ‘production error’ and promises ‘disciplinary action’ for misleading Palin footage.
Yesterday, ThinkProgress first reported that Fox News aired old file footage of Sarah Palin rallies to claim that she’s “continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand new book.” Host Gregg Jarrett presented the video with commentary that suggested the footage was “just coming in.” (Watch it.) Media Matters noted that one of the scenes was from a Nov. 1, 2008 Palin rally in Florida. Crooks and Liars’ John Amato filed an FCC complaint for passing on “false information” to the public. By day’s end yesterday, Fox released this statement responding to the controversy:
“This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn’t alert the control room to update the video,” Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news at FOX, sad this evening. “There will be an on-air explanation during Happening Now on Thursday.”
Citing unnamed sources, The Swamp reports Fox is planning to take “serious disciplinary action” against those “responsible behind the scenes in the control room.”
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At what point do all of these stop being “errors” and become “on purpose”?
November 19th, 2009 at 9:33 amGreat, the janitor is getting fired.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:34 amBullshit.
No one, including the FCC is going to buy that this was a mistake, especially since they have been caught making the same “mistake” multiple times over the years, including at least once just a week or two ago.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:34 amSo some low level production assistant will get the blame?
November 19th, 2009 at 9:35 amUh oh! Someone’s going to bed without supper.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:36 amYou have to wonder how many other times they’ve done this and haven’t gotten caught. It’s only because they needed specific video content (Caribou Barbie) that they got caught this time.
I’d bet pretty much anything that they do this on a regular basis, it’s not like they don’t make a practice of telling lies so why would they not lie though images as well?
November 19th, 2009 at 9:38 amBut not against the higher-ups that ordered the “error.”
November 19th, 2009 at 9:39 amgive me a fcuking break.
it’s hard to try to be funny about this.. it’s so predictable -
November 19th, 2009 at 9:40 amI wonder if it’ll be the same sort of disciplinary action Sean Hannity suffered, i.e. a bear hug from Peter Chernin?
November 19th, 2009 at 9:40 amDuring Watergate, the Republican mantra from my peers was “it’s only wrong if you get caught.”
That ideology is still going strong today.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:40 amFoxNews has serious “size” issues.
They keep pulling this stuff, and they keep issuing crap apologies each time they are caught.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:40 amIt isn’t this one particular instance of misleading content. The whole network is based on twisting the truth. This low level producer was only doing what the bigwigs do, they set the tone and the approach that Fox takes everyday and every hour. The only mistake this guy committed was getting caught.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:40 amThe goddamn “news” arm of Fox is a “production error”.
I say, time to shit-can the entire charade.
The concept of Free Speech was never intended to allow propaganda to masquerade as “news”.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:41 amproduction error my ass!
November 19th, 2009 at 9:41 amLet’s see, how many times has Faux News been busted? Sean Hannity ‘apologized’ when Jon Stewart called them out. Their ‘Tea-bag’ Party was a joke. My own father said he knew Faux inflated the numbers. Other Countries must think we are nuts. With the attention Sarah Palin is receiving, we all look stupid. The woman is dumber than a bag of hammers AND she is supposed to be a leader. It makes me cringe.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:42 ammuzz – your ass is a production error?
;)
November 19th, 2009 at 9:42 amEvery week, we hear of another “error” on Fox. Does the correction have as much air time as the error?
I doubt that Fox cares about errors – they are too numerous – they run the fabrication for a day, where most of their viewers have many opportunities to see it. Only after that, do they offer a correction.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:42 amAn FCC complaint needs to be filed EVERY SINGLE TIME Fox News tries to get away with this crap. That’s every time they use misleading footage to overstate the popularity of an event. Every time they put a (D) after the name of a misbehaving Republican. Every time they photoshop people’s faces — or anything else.
When the FCC is getting legitimate complaints concerning the Fox News partisan shenanigans at least once a week, and Fox News is forced to offer a lame “it was a production error” excuse every time, something will eventually have to give. At the very least, the FNC will be portrayed as completely incompetent.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:43 amFox is planning to take “serious disciplinary action”
Yup.
Only 4 bottles of champagne will be popped instead of the prerequisite dozen.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:43 amI recall that production errors in Monty Python and the Holy Grail had to do with a guy talking about moose. He was sacked.
Wait…moose? Sarah Palin? Fox News? Production snafus and firings?
Can’t you see? It’s ALL CONNECTED!
November 19th, 2009 at 9:44 amProduction error my ass.
This is the Faux Lize modality that they get away with daily.
And as for the discipline, I’m sure the person responsible is going to enjoy their spanking. Gotta wonder if they have the number of Vitter’s dominatrix.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:44 amThey don’t think … they know.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:44 amThe problem is, the sheeple who watch Pox Snooze simply don’t care, and/or aren’t intelligent enough to see through it. And because of this, “errors” like this will continue to be “made”
November 19th, 2009 at 9:44 amThat’s a big old bag of crap. The made the same ‘mistake’ on Hannity just last week using footage of the 9/12 rally mixed with Michelle Bachmann’s protest against health care.
Fox is ethically and journalistically dishonest, resorting to lies to try and support their weak point of views.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:44 amYou have to wonder why their ratings are so high.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:45 amFox is planning to take “serious disciplinary action”
I suggest that they start by waterboarding Seanie Vanity live on his TV rant-fest.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:47 amYou have to wonder why their ratings are so high.
No Child Left Behind.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:47 am“serious disciplinary action”
Translation: A bonus in the pay envelope for helping to “catapult the propaganda.”
November 19th, 2009 at 9:47 amCiting unnamed sources, The Swamp reports Fox is planning to take “serious disciplinary action” against those “responsible behind the scenes in the control room.”
Yeah. That slap on the wrist is sure gonna sting for a few minutes.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:47 amWell I would watch and check video from F&F as they are a channel that the FCC could do some thing about.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:48 amHowever if one notices that its always the cable side with the production errors. Which would make me want to start look closer to the TV channel Fox.
FoxNews disciplinary action:
“Hey, you! Don’t do that again!”
No news network is above these kinds of cheap, partisan “errors”. Case in point, MSNBC airing the photoshopped Palin pic.
At least when MSNBC makes an error, they cop to it. Not wait until they get a freakin’ FCC complaint. Or to be mocked heavily by the Daily Show (though the apology itself may be mocked, it’s after the fact)
November 19th, 2009 at 9:48 amThe highest rated comedy on television? Fox News
Two and Half Men are already worried
November 19th, 2009 at 9:48 amThe problem is that this is a cable network, the FCC doesn’t have jurisdiction.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:49 amIn 10 days, Sarah Palin will be out of the news…
November 19th, 2009 at 9:50 amunless she has another book in her ghost writer.
LibertyLover says:
Yeah. That slap on the wrist is sure gonna sting for a few minutes
oh is that what Fox is calling there high fives now. LOL
November 19th, 2009 at 9:51 amThat’s the point I’ve been making all year. During the healthcare debate over the summer, the entire industrialized world must have been pointing and laughing. Even the most hardened conservatives in the UK wouldn’t dare give up the NHS. Hell, it’s the conservatives in the EU that are pushing for stricter climate change proposals than the Dems are here. Our political envrionment and lack of journalistic integrity becomes fodder for comedy worldwide, even in those countries where fistfights break out in open legislature.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:51 amCome on, haven’t we all mistakenly taken old archive footage and used that instead of the stuff we shot today?
Doesn’t the photo scrapbook from your College Graduation accidentaly have pictures from your 5th birthday parry in it?
What? No? Oh.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:52 amLOL! Tell me, WHO have they fired? Really? What ‘Disiplinary Action’ are they taking? Remember the Producer who was rallying the ‘Tea-Baggers’? Wasn’t SHE supposed to be ‘Disiplined’? It will never happen and you know why? Because Faux news viewers are the most uninfomed, ignorant Neanderthals in the Country.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:53 amArt says:
In 10 days, Sarah Palin will be out of the news…
unless she has another book in her ghost writer.
I wonder if her ghost writer will get the next book from the same place she pulled this one from?!!
November 19th, 2009 at 9:53 amfrances says: @#25
You have to wonder why their ratings are so high.
Because they pander to an audience of low-IQ, low information trailer trash and retirement home day rooms.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:54 amWhich show is comedy and which is real news?
The Daily Show or Fox News?
November 19th, 2009 at 9:58 amRUC@40, I couldn’t have said it better myself. When you think about it, it doesn’t bode well for the reputation of our educational system does it?
November 19th, 2009 at 9:58 amCommence with the wet noodle whippings!
November 19th, 2009 at 10:01 am“There will be an on-air explanation during Happening Now on Thursday.”
Happening Now airs at 11AM EST. How many viewers will see that “explanation”?
Nice way to bury it Faux.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:02 am“This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn’t alert the control room to update the video,”
So they were planning to use the campaign footage from the start? Why? To illustrate Palin’s popularity as she goes hawking her book?
AS Kent Jones would say, “WEAK!”
When the ‘talent’ gets a script that doesn’t match the video they invariably remark upon it immediately—you-tube has hundreds of examples—or once the segment is over, before commercial or right after when returning from commercial.
Garret, the producer and the director, ALL had the opportunity to correct the ‘mistake’ at any time, but NONE of them did.
Obviously FOX personnel are so used to lying, distorting and fabricating on a daily basis (and being given a pass by the FCC and the industry in general) that even the most obvious falsehood now represents ‘truth’ to them.
If they are going to take “serious disciplinary action” ( hah!) they should do the same against Bill O’Reilly for his “Paris Business Review” fiction too.
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P.D. Nothing against retirement home day rooms, BTW…
November 19th, 2009 at 10:04 amWhen my dad was at the VA school for the blind last year, he and his class mates ‘watched’ the Palin interviews and all the other geezers were gushing over her, they asked my dad what he thought, and he said
“She’s a looker”.
and grabbed his white cane and walked out to a silent, stunned day room audience.
P.D. at 9:58 am
“…it doesn’t bode well for the reputation of our educational system does it?
Low IQ is low IQ, the best education system in the world, can only maximize weak potential at best. The results will always be limited. It’s their gene pool that is holding them down.
Now I’m definitely NOT suggesting we start breeding with them to raise their IQs.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:06 amOH, and remember, the Supreme Court says that Faux has the right to do this..
Jeebus Kriminal Kreist.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:06 amCommence with the wet noodle whippings!
Your place, or mine?
;)
(exits – ducking)
November 19th, 2009 at 10:06 amRUC@47, That’s what makes me so mad. It’s all about Sarah’s looks. And she FEEDS off it. I NEVER vote for someone because of their appearance, I vote for their positions. She is setting back the struggles women have been facing for years. Hillary was accused of using the ‘Sexism’ card by the Repugs. And yet they use it to defend palin. WTF?
November 19th, 2009 at 10:08 amFaux should just admit it is the propaganda wing of the conservative american taliban network and be done with it.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:09 amBnF,
I’ll bring the noodles, you bring the sauce and band-aids. :D
November 19th, 2009 at 10:09 amFox News: Another day, another inadvertent error.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:10 amHouse@48, True. But Faux News viewers don’t even read newspapers, let alone a books. Oh, unless a brainless Right-wing twit writes it. And I bet it is a VERY easy read.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:11 amLet’s hope.
Looking at that bimbo makes my eyes bleed, and listening to her makes my eard hemorrhage.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:11 amfrances says: @#25
You have to wonder why their ratings are so high.
Hulk Hogan and Triple H get even higher ratings than Fox News, but I don’t look to them as honest and reliable sources of information. They’re entertainers.
Ratings has nothing to do with news, it’s about entertainment.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:11 amFox is planning to take “serious disciplinary action” against Lynndie England and Charles Graner Jr.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:12 amFaux = News Malfunction.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:12 amRUCerious says:
…they asked my dad what he thought, and he said
“She’s a looker”. and grabbed his white cane and walked out to a silent, stunned day room audience.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:04 am
RUC, I think I’m falling for your dad.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:13 am“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”- P.T. Barnum
November 19th, 2009 at 10:15 amBet the disciplinary action will be no more than a tap on the fingers and a “Don’t do it again” statement from Roger Ailes.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:15 amEnnuiDivine says:
FoxNews disciplinary action:
“Hey, you! Don’t do that again!”
You forgot the “wink, wink, nudge, nudge,” Ennui….
November 19th, 2009 at 10:17 amP.D. says: Other Countries must think we are nuts.
EnnuiDivine says:That’s the point I’ve been making all year. Even the most hardened conservatives in the UK wouldn’t dare give up the NHS.
Because of the US healthcare hoo-hah, and the GOPs lying about the UK’s NHS to support their lying about the proposed US health care legislation, the British media (which reports regularly on the NHS because it is government run and has to disclose its policies and practices) has been busy asking NHS users about their health care experiences rather than relying on the opinions of pundits as the US media invariably chooses to do.
Individual experiences have varied of course but the overwhelming majority of those interviewed are very satisfied with the system.
Just the other day on the BBC one woman said she could afford private health insurance but without any exceptional health issues she couldn’t see how a private plan would offer her any better care than the NHS.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:17 amThe termination of anyone other than Roger Ailes would be window dressing.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:17 amA double lie from Fox. The footage was a lie, and the “oops, another accident” excuse as well. They even change the appearance of Dems’ images to make them look bad– yet another “oops” we’eve seen. How can anyone believe these are mistakes?
November 19th, 2009 at 10:18 amZooey and BnF — Do you need a private chat room? ;-)
November 19th, 2009 at 10:19 amI see what you’re saying, but I have to disagree.
I mean, you’re right in that it was never intended for that purpose, but I think it’s always been recognized as an unavoidable consequence of a truly liberal concept. From the very beginning of “news” in this country — in the early 18th century, newspapers were used not only as vessels to deliver useful information to their subscribers, but also as conduits to trumpet the political views of the publishers. As tools to “catapult the propaganda”, as it were.
I think that the government control of the public airwaves and its insistence on “public service” as a condition for licensing when radio and later television came into the picture had an impact on that, as broadcasters viewed objective news reporting as part of their public service requirement.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:20 amDoes anyone know the ACTUAL number of the crowd? MSM says thousands, and yet some reports are in the hundreds. Which is it?
November 19th, 2009 at 10:20 amThat’s not true. They care very deeply, and they demand to be lied to.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:22 amThis is getting ridiculous now. Two major production errors in one week? And both making the right look good? Yeah. OK.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:22 amFox News makes its own news in addition to fabricating the so-called news they report as “fair and balanced. The msm covers it and gives it validity because they are impotent. Journalism is dying if not already dead.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:23 amThe inmates are in charge of the asylum.
Exactly right. Their ratings are high because they deliver what their audience wants to hear — “Obama is a communist”.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:24 amP.D., if Fox could get away with it they would say “hundreds of thousands”.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:25 amYeah… how come none of their “production errors” ever make the Left look better? If they truly ARE “production errors” wouldn’t they be more random than this?
November 19th, 2009 at 10:26 amLibertyLover says:
Zooey and BnF — Do you need a private chat room? ;-)
November 19th, 2009 at 10:19 am
More fun here. ;)
November 19th, 2009 at 10:26 amO/T but oddly fitting with the conservative mentality:
Doug Hoffman unconcedes and accuses “ACORN, labor unions, and the Democrats” of rigging the election.
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20091118/BLOGS09/911189972
November 19th, 2009 at 10:27 amI find it hard to believe that they didn’t always plan on passing campaign footage off as current. The guys in the control room are in hot water because they used footage that was way too obvious. They should have picked footage which didn’t have such obvious campaign signs visible.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:27 amCK Philly says:
This is getting ridiculous now. Two major production errors in one week? And both making the right look good? Yeah. OK.
To be fair, this was a 20-second snip for the news, and the news anchor was likely not informed that the footage was not the same as the stuff on his script.
Still…that’s funny. Scripting the news? Do any of these anchors at Fox have improvisational skills? Do they not have access to the monitor to see what footage is running?
If this was a real new program, they would have said “Whoops!” and apologized right there. But instead the misinformation train cannot miss its station and goes as scheduled.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:28 amEnnuiDivine says:
Doug Hoffman unconcedes and accuses “ACORN, labor unions, and the Democrats” of rigging the election.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:27 am
The bug-eyed look must be teh stoopit trying to escape that imbecile’s body.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:29 amHell@74, And Faux News believes we are a ‘Center Right’ Nation. Yeah, sure.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:29 amShoeless and Ralph,
What I meant was, the Pox sheeple don’t care that there are erroneous, misleading clips being shown. To them it’s just “purdy pixt-chers”.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:29 amThe actual number was only two.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:30 amZooey@80, LOL! Hoffman is an ass. ACORN isn’t even in the area. NY23 is about as white bread you are going to get.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:30 amWhat about all the footage they have of themselves as a news organization—when does that get exposed as fraud?
As for disciplinary action, they can hire Keith Olbermann to cohost the O’Reilly Factor.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:32 amFOX SHOULD HIRE A “PRODUCTION ERROR CZAR” ;);)
November 19th, 2009 at 10:33 amWhat a crock of crap, how do you take a film taken hours before and mix it with film 10 months ago. FOX is a big phoney republican news and a bunch of liars, Fine them better yet pull the plug on there news side.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:34 amfrances says: @#25
“You have to wonder why their ratings are so high.”
RUCerious says:
“Because they pander to an audience of low-IQ, low information trailer trash and retirement home day rooms.”
Yeah, the same type lining-up for the Sarah Palin book signing events.
The dumbing down of america.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:36 amHas anyone noticed that the trolls are avoiding this thread like the plague? I wonder why.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:37 am……instead of “promising disciplinary action” how about PAYING ATTENTION? Or better yet, how about NOT lying???
November 19th, 2009 at 10:38 amWhat’s really funny is it’s the fox “news” hosts and fans who always whine that government cannot get anything right. Fox news misinforms and “makes mistakes” on an almost daily basis. Do not let fox fans or favorites ever get in power again and this country will improve.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:44 amStewart had a great piece last night showing the enthusiastic crowds at a new York city book store. (not so much!) the store employee said they ordered 8 copies with expectations of not selling any of those copies! And I read that she was avoiding all areas of the country with dense population numbers. Ya know, like big cities… Just keep preachin’ to the choir “Sarah Plain and Simple”!
November 19th, 2009 at 10:46 amP.D. says:
Does anyone know the ACTUAL number of the crowd? MSM says thousands, and yet some reports are in the hundreds. Which is it?
Nora O’Donnell said “thousands” yesterday and then said the count was 1500.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:49 amMaybe someone did a head count…
I believe that the police department or fire
department usually makes a crowd estimate.
Since their failure to report the news
correctly is now news, I wonder if they will
report this with the same fervor that they
attach to other miscarriages of justice that
they are so passionate about.
In addition, don’t they have a responsibility
November 19th, 2009 at 11:02 amto report this since they are “Fair and
Balanced”?
They should also discipline the chyron-writers who type a D after the name instead of an R when a Republican screws up.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:02 amBut they won’t.
I won’t hold my breath.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:04 amAnd yet the terrorist teabaggers are still stupid and pathetic enough to breathlessly defend this propaganda network.
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November 19th, 2009 at 11:05 amFLAGGED, spamming, off-topic
oooohhhh….I wonder if the serious disciplinary action they are considering will be influenced by O’Reilly’s kind of predilictions…
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As Wiz at #33 points out Fox News is a cable entity and NOT subject to FCC oversight.
You might get better leverage by filing a complaint with the FEC reporting Fox News as an illegal, unregistered 527 group. You can send the complaint to:
Office of General Counsel
November 19th, 2009 at 11:15 amFederal Election Commission
999 E. St NW
Washington, DC 20463
Speaking of fair and unbalanced…
FVNY, your opinion on the mistake at Fox, if you could please stay on topic.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:16 amFox News is a production error.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:17 amshoeless,
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” – H. L. Mencken
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” – P. T. Barnum
Fox News viewers are stupid suckers.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:18 amFVNY, your opinion on the mistake at Fox, if you could please stay on topic.
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Stupid mistake by Fox. Not sure why they, along with the GOP, is trying to boost Palin. I don’t think she is the future of the party and hope that isn’t the plan. The GOP doesn’t learn from their mistakes. They just keep trying to put a new face to the same old message.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:19 amBut it obviously is the plan. Too bad for gop.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:25 amBut it obviously is the plan. Too bad for gop.
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Its starting to look like that. If that’s the case, then the GOP deserves to remain out of power until they clean up their act. I refuse to cast another vote for them until they do.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:26 amThank you for the comment, FVNY.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:28 amThe only Fox viewers that will see the Fox correction are the trolls that come here to defend them.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:29 amThank you for the comment, FVNY.
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No problem. Thanks for allowing me to speak without voting down my comments!
November 19th, 2009 at 11:30 amFrances: “You have to wonder why their ratings are so high.”
Compared to what? Two things – on any given night, all cable ratings pale next to the original broadcast networks. About a million people are watching FOX news at best on any given night, maybe a little more, maybe less.
Plus, News Corporation makes it very easy for rural channels to carry FOX, sometimes even paying them to do it at the same time conservatives cable operators are increasingly putting MSNBC on special rate plans and not basic cable.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:34 amYou are a stupid mistake by your parents.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:36 amFox is a production error. Funny that all of Fox’s “production errors” seem to fall in favor of the right wing.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:36 amFirst, we definitely have a pattern of “errors”.
So even if the Faux hierarchy doesn’t like this (and frankly, I think this is just a coverup – throw the subordinates under the bus to save the business):
1) What signals are the Faux elite giving that make the subordinates think that they have something to gain by falsifying ?
2) What steps is management going to do to see what responsibility they have in the matter ?
November 19th, 2009 at 11:39 amSkeptic: “Funny that all of Fox’s “production errors” seem to fall in favor of the right wing.”
Right. You never see them overestimate an anti-war demonstration’s participants. You never see them put an R next to a Dem who is in an uncomfortable position. You never see them pump up the crowd size of a progressive book signing. Etc. Etc. Etc. That’s how you know they’re a propaganda operation. If they were simply incompetent, you’d see the other kinds of mistakes as well, but you don’t.
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aaronk, it must suck to be so gullible that people can lie to you 24/7/365 and you think they are just making “stupid mistakes”.
The liars aren’t the ones who are stupid.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:45 amAnyone knowing anything about video editing and production in television knows it’s next to impossible to make these “errors” repeatedly. Time code runs under the video with the date and time the video was made, used to spice together images from different angles. NO EDITOR would continually misread the date and time of videos – NONE. These “errors” are done on purpose, not accidentally.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:46 amaaronk, it must suck to be so gullible that people can lie to you 24/7/365 and you think they are just making “stupid mistakes”.
The liars aren’t the ones who are stupid.
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I didn’t mean “stupid mistake” as if it was just an oversight. I meant it as a Fox made stupid mistake trying to change the footage. It further erodes their credibility. Plus, I don’t agree with the idea of trying to sell Palin as the next presidential candidate of the GOP, if thats indeed what they are doing. I dont think that is the direction in which the GOP should be heading.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:53 amI meant it as a Fox made stupid mistake trying to change the footage.
Love the way you move the goalposts.
I think you mean they made a huge blunder, not a stupid mistake. Mistake implies unknowledgeble acts, when these are anything but.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:57 amLove the way you move the goalposts.
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I’m not moving the goal posts. You’re splitting hairs. I just said it was a stupid move on Fox’s part. Call it what you want.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:00 pmWell, FOX doest care if its a stupid move, they do it intentionally and think its smart to let the horse out of the barn and then cry ‘accident’
November 19th, 2009 at 12:03 pmaaronk, shut up and go back to watching Fox and Friends.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:04 pmNext they will pull a DARVO and say they are being attacked for a stupid mistake.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:04 pmSo, first a ‘mistaken’ use of old footage on Hannity, re: the Bachmann anti-healthcare bacchanalia, and now for one of Palin’s events.
Fox is really tipping their hand that they manufacture news whenever and wherever they want.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:08 pmshoeless, i hope that if health care reform passes, that the death panels do the world a favor and exterminate you first. just make sure to tell them you’re a progressive first so they don’t save your brain!
November 19th, 2009 at 12:08 pmYou know those reports about “death panels” that you keep seeing on Fox News? They are “stupid mistakes”.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:11 pmYou know those reports about “death panels” that you keep seeing on Fox News? They are “stupid mistakes”.
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Wanna know what a stupid mistake? Believing that this health insurance bill will pass!
November 19th, 2009 at 12:12 pmpromises ‘disciplinary action’ for misleading Palin footage.
…like maybe a slap on the back and hardy har har.
Fox does this crap all the time and they know they do it.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:13 pmCome on dumbass. Tell us about the reports of “death panels” that you saw on Fox News.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:14 pmCome on dumbass. Tell us about the reports of “death panels” that you saw on Fox News
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Call it what you will, but once healthcare reaches the public option, which it will once private industry is squeezed out of the picture, the rationing will begin and bureaucrats will begin to determine who is treated and the level of treatment they receive. You don’t have to call that bureaucratic committee a “death panel” if you do not want to but I like the way it sounds. It conveys the danger in health-care being in the hands of government. I hope you have some friends in Washington shoeless. I wouldn’t want you to have to go to another country for a life saving operation or an MRI like the Canadians do.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:18 pmCall it what you will, but once healthcare reaches the public option, which it will once private industry is squeezed out of the picture, the rationing will begin and bureaucrats will begin to determine who is treated and the level of treatment they receive.
Yeah, so much worse to have government agencies making calls like that rather than corporate pencil-pushers whose primary goal is profits.
Try thinking this through instead of going for the knee-jerk “government sucks!” response.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:21 pmGood boy. I knew you could regurgitate the predigested bullsh!t about death panels that you saw on Fox News. You are a poster child for the propaganda addled knuckleheads who swallow Fox’s steaming piles of sh!t.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:23 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
You don’t have to call that bureaucratic committee a “death panel” if you do not want to but I like the way it sounds. It conveys the danger in health-care being in the hands of government.
Didn’t see this conservative fear of government during the Reagan years, nor during the Bush jr. years. It’s because it’s now a non-conservative government, that he’s upset with spending. Wasting money on star wars, faith-based handouts, and other conservative ideas and causes, is just fine, however.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:24 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
No thanks, I stick with private industry!
Like the financial and auto industries?
November 19th, 2009 at 12:25 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Call me what you want lefty. But the pussies in Congress won’t pass this bill because they fear the backlash from dumbass hicks just like me.
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Whatever makes you happy. I would go out and get a good job if I were you. Stop waiting for the government to take care of you, you lazy bastard!
November 19th, 2009 at 12:30 pmAs demonstrated through all the successful government programs throughout history?
No thanks, I stick with private industry!
Like I said, “knee jerk.”
There are too many successful government programs to list, but you could start with all the branches of the military, CDC, FTA, EPA, FDA, TVA, WPA…
Medicare is vastly more efficient than private insurance, with minuscule administrative costs. You really have no clue, do you?
November 19th, 2009 at 12:43 pm——————————————————————————–
DNFP says:
The concept of Free Speech was never intended to allow propaganda to masquerade as “news”.
Well Said!
Fascist propaganda shows that use lies to push you to vote Rethug should outlawed.
Out and out lying should also be outlawed for all TV shows.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:00 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
LOL. None of those provide life/death services to the entire American population numbskull.
The FDA provides “life services.” Remember the Tylenol scare? Idiot.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:22 pmHow sad is it that poor aaronk still believes the Fox News propaganda about death panels, even though that lie has been thoroughly debunked over and over again? This shows the power which Fox holds over the weak minded wingnuts. Once a pitiful hick like aaronk sees a lie on Fox News, no amount of truth will penetrate the fog of deceit which surrounds his atrophied mind.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:28 pmYeah, production errors. No class, no class at all. No courage either.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:35 pmLooks as though MMFA has a new video:
November 19th, 2009 at 1:38 pmhttp://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911190020
Professionals don’t make such blatant mistakes.
I guess we can add “unprofessional” to the “not a news outlet” accolades for Fox.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:40 pmIf this number of “production errors” occurred on a “real” news channel, they would be off the air in a week. This proves that Faux Noise is just that.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:16 pmpromises ‘disciplinary action’ for misleading Palin footage.
Yeah, a week off and a steak dinner.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:18 pmThese things happen. I was just talking with a friend on my cell phone and instead of hearing me he heard the lost 18 minutes of the Nixon tapes.
November 19th, 2009 at 4:35 pmAhh, this is so hilarious – not the article, the commenters.
You know why people hate you leftists so much? Because you never try and show any real argument, you just make fun of the other side. Look up to any comment above me, they will either make fun of the “tea-bag” parties, insult Hannity or call it “Faux News”, but won’t ever – ever – try and bring up a serious claim.
This is why you fail. Have a nice day.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:27 pmLionhearte
you are hardly even a distraction . . next
ps. you don’t think tea-bagging is funny?
November 20th, 2009 at 12:48 amEvery network makes those screw-ups ( if you truly pay attention)
Or maybe fox wanted you to believe that there was 80,000 people at the book store.
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November 20th, 2009 at 12:54 am