I call shenanigans. If you take the truth but twist it together in a misleading way, it serves the same purpose as a lie, and that is just as bad as lying. Looky here:
Fox Nation’s Big Lie
Yeah, here’s what he really did:
Obama called Libyan President Mohamed Magariaf, according to a statement released by the White House late tonight, to thank him for his condolences for the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith and two other State Department officers in Benghazi.
Oh, and then there was also this:
The two “agreed to work closely over the course of the investigation” and Obama “made it clear that we must work together to do whatever is necessary to identify the perpetrators of this attack and bring them to justice.”
Following Fox News protocol, they saw no reason to waste time with facts when distortion would serve them just fine. And true to form, right wing blogs are jumping on that graphic with vigor, to reinforce the theme that the President of the United States isn’t really American.”
I see what you did there, Faux News. You deliberately edited the headline to imply that Obama was thanking the Libyan president for murdering the US ambassador. The truth is the POTUS was talking with the president of Libya about how to punish the asshats responsible for murdering four Americans. The headline was intended to deceive; it was a deception.
If you have to practice trickery to make your “enemy” seem bad, then your biggest problem is that you are on the wrong team.
Oh God, how I long for the days before the Fairness Doctrine was destroyed in 1987, when “news” had to be honest or the FCC would bust them. Remember when the news told the truth? It was great. Nowadays if I want the truth I go find it on the BBC.
And that makes me have a sad.
Personally I think the media started out on the wrong foot from the get go. In journalism class we were taught to be unbiased. That’s not reasonable and not how things started out. The first papers advocated an end to slavery. They weren’t even trying to be unbiased. I think we’d be better off if journalists would all just admit to their biases at the beginning of a story and work from there.
But, of course, that would never fly. Pandering is the name of the game.
Faux news is evil but it wouldn’t be there if it weren’t telling a fair number of asshats what they want to hear.
I see your sad and raise you a longing for truth.
Faux News is right. In some circles I’m considered conservative but I hate extremism and bias of any kind. That’s why I go to a number of sources because finding the “truth” is relative. All in the name of “Free Speech” reporters can tell lies and call it “news.” I blame the lawyers.
Conservative I can handle. Lying I cannot. I blame the lying on the destruction of Fairness Doctrine, myself.
I ditto the Fokker here. Conservative is fine. Liberal is fine. Lying = bad no matter who does it.