Stupid Hound Tricks


The distortions from the Outfoxed crowd are becoming more shameless as the Convention begins. We cover their coverage of the coverage.

It's a "Hate-Fest". That's what the newshounds say in their synopsis of today's Fox & Friends. Well, actually, it's a synopsis of half of F&F (more on that in moment). But lest you think they are exaggerating, they have an example that proves just how hateful the coverage was:
Standing on a pier in the Boston harbor, Doocy dipped a tea-bag at the end of a long string into the water. On cue, Brian Kilmeade and E.D. Hill brought up “no taxation without representation” as the motivation for the original Boston Tea Party. All so that Doocy could say that “Tax-achusetts” was the right place to re-enact the event.

Can you just see the smoldering detestation in the eyes of evil Steve Doocy has he dipped that tea-bag into the water? What more stunning example of "hate" could there be?
And just to show what kind of people attend the Democratic convention, Doocy noted that “a pro-abortion demonstrator had to be saved by a white supremist.”.

Um no, it had nothing to do with "what kind of people attend" the convention; these were not attendees, they were protesters. Perhaps the plain-as-day super at the bottom of the screen might have given the hounds a hint.
On to a little demonizing. Brian Kilmeade brought up a news conference at which John Kerry’s wife, Teresa, told a reporter to “shove it” after pestering her to explain why she thought some forms of political discussion today are un-American.

"Demonizing": reporting a story that was all over the morning shows; some of them even ran video of the event. But only Fox was "demonizing". Of course the newspups get the facts about what happened wrong. It wasn't a news conference. The reporter didn't "pester" Mrs Kerry--in fact she had left, and then pushed her way through the crowd to get back to him and make her comment. Mrs Kerry was loudly denying she ever used the word "un-American", even though she was "caught on tape" just minutes before.
Innuendo? For that, Fox and Friends turned to Hatchman Mike Isikoff from Newsweek...

Yes, I'm sure the Outfoxed shills at newshounds have more impressive credentials than Mr Isikoff, whose multiple journalism awards mean little to the anti-fox terriers. After all, he is nothing but a "Hatchman". (Huh? He voted for Orrin? He's a fan of Richard?)
A special Fox trick – questioning a Republican guest without a Democrat – followed...

Did you know questioning a Republican without a Democrat is a "special Fox trick"? Nobody else ever does that. A good time to revisit the question of why the hounds' summary starts when the show was half over. Let's go to the videotape: what you'll find in the first hour, just minutes before the newshounds report begins, is another "special Fox trick": questioning a Democrat guest (Terry McAuliff) without a Republican--a frequent occurrence, as we already proved. But if the airedales were to mention that, their whole argument goes out the window.

So after all the distortions and misleading verbiage, the bulldogs of balance rest their case on a slippery deception: ignoring half of the program! There couldn't be a more stupid hound trick.

posted: Mon - July 26, 2004 at 01:44 PM       j$p  send 
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