The Ten Most Egregious Fox News Distortions
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Friday, November 14, 2025 20:28
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Quote:That goes beyond simple bias.
Originally posted by Storymark:
verifiable falsehoods.
The laughing Chrisisall
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I'm guessing you say "I figure" because you don't watch one or the other. That's too bad, because if you did, you'd see the difference.
I figure they're both partisan operations and will say what their audience wants to hear. If that includes bending, spinning, or sometimes completely ignoring the truth, they'll do it.
Olbermann, for example, quite freely admits his bias, but also said "There are more actual facts in one hour of this show than in about a week of Fox Noise". It's true. Whatever stories they choose to do, the pundits on MSNBC don't out-and-out lie. Faux News does. I can say that about MSNBC because I DO use them as a baseline, then search out other sources to get confirmation, check their facts, and get further information. I wouldn't even bother with Fox.
The mere fact that they so cheerfully inflated (and repeated, long after disproven) the numbers of the Washington tea party shows it clearly. Many, many other examples can be given, but that one on its own says it all.
Of COURSE they're partisan. Of COURSE they're preaching to the choir. That says nothing about their veracity. I've got nothing against bias that opposes my beliefs, there SHOULD be both sides of any story represented. But I abhor the obviousness with which the Faux Noise people blatantly and openly lie--KNOWING they're lying, planning it--and of course their audience never knows otherwise because they don't listen to any other source.
Also, I have nothing whatsoever against someone saying MSNBC or Huffington are full of hooey. Like I said, I use them as baselines; I also watch them as much for entertainment as news and sometimes giggle at how biased they ARE. Find me someone saying the same of Fox, or even willing to admit Fox is something less than perfect...
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This time, Fox is jumping on the bandwagon.
Not leading it.
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Like I said, google "(Choose your media outlet) lies". Huffington says Fox lies. Other folks say Huffington lies. I figure they're both partisan operations and will say what their audience wants to hear. If that includes bending, spinning, or sometimes completely ignoring the truth, they'll do it.
Thing is, Geezer, you've been given ten solid, verified examples of Fox doing it, and have yet to offer evidence of even ONE instance of Huffpost or Mediamatters doing what you claim they do. So I have to ask: Are you biased, or are you lying?
Dan Rather was forced out of CBS for his part in a distorted piece on the President, which the "conservatives" got so up in arms about that they raised so much hell that the man was removed from his post and fired from his job. For what was perceived to be ONE "biased" story. So here's Fox, with a list just of their ten WORST examples of blatantly lying, and the conservatives, those bastions of honest journalistic integrity, have nothing to say about it at all, except to offer, "But Huffington..."
Mike
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I can, and have, googled "Olberman lies", and generally come up with a lot of sites that disagree with what he says - but have little to no proof of actual falsehood - just difference of opinion.
In the interest of objectivity, I *DID* catch Olbermann in an outright lie a while back, when he falsely claimed that one of the town hall protesters showed up with "a machinegun", which was untrue. The man showed up with a semi-automatic AR-15, which is NOT a machinegun in any sense of the word, unless you mean it's a gun that was made on a machine.
So that's one lie.
Mike
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And I'm guessing, in the minds of some, that one will far outweigh any lies fronted by Fox. Just.... because.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Well, media has responsibility to be accurate. But I can't compare the two--if I looked at an AR-15, I'd probably think it was a machine gun, too. You're positive it was a "lie", not a "mistake"?
Which doesn't excuse it, I hold the media to strict standards as far as researching their stuff and presenting the facts, but it still doesn't compare with having a set of facts in front of you in black and white, then deciding you'll actually SAY something different than what they are.
And yes, I'd love to see some verifiable instances of Huffington or MSNBC actually lying. Would be interesting.
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Before I had actually handled one, I might easily have mistaken an AR-15 for a machine gun.
Also, since several guys I know who own AR's have converted them to full-auto - one would not be incorrect if they saw those particular guns and assumed they were machine guns.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by Niki2:
use them as a baseline, then search out other sources to get confirmation, check their facts, and get further information.
All hail the mighty power of the internet by which we can all inform (or even misinform!) ourselves without dependence on some media mouthpiece!
These talking heads are obsolete, and only too late will they realize it.
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Heh heh, fluid is the truth. HEH HEH!!!
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