Saturday, August 21, 2010

Fox Distortions

Palin Claims Obama Has Not Sought Help WIth Oil Spill From Foreign Nations
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/06/16/palin-lies-about-obama-refusing-foreign-assistance-in-gulf/

Fox Cuts Applause From Obama Speech
http://www.good.is/post/classy-fox-erases-applause-from-obama-s-west-point-speech

Fox Lies About Nuclear Treaty With Russia:
http://www.indecisionforever.com/2010/04/09/jon-stewart-looks-at-fox-news-looking-at-the-new-nuclear-treaty-with-russia/

Fox Caught Severely Editing ACORN Tapes
http://www.politicususa.com/en/maddow-fox-news

Hannity Falsely Claims Bush Didn't Play Golf While America Was At War.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201002040002

Fox misreports TARP savings by $198billion
http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002393/

Fox Distorts Rasmussen Poll About Global Warming Fraud
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/12/fox-news-120-have-opinion-on-climate-research-pic.html

Fox distorts CBO report on health care premiums
http://mediamatters.org/research/200912010006

Fox caught using Palin election footage as book signing crowd footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luNheD4DGr8&feature=player_embedded

Hannity caught using old 9/12 footage to make a smaller Bachman rally look larger
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911100063

Moore Catches Hannity Splicing In Actual Hospital Footage With Phony "Hospital" Footage.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/michael-moore-makes-mincemeat-out-ha

Fox Deceptively Crops Biden When He Was Quoting McCain
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/the-ten-most-egregious-fo_n_327140.html

Fox Incorrectly Claims Obama's Budget = 4x Larger Than Bush's Costliest Budget.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/the-ten-most-egregious-fo_n_327140.html?slidenumber=8#slide_image

Glen Beck suggests progressives, instead of conservatives, supported slave ownership
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/glenn-beck-smears-progres_n_327860.html

Fox blames Obama election on falling stock indexes:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/15/793314/-Obama-Derangement-Syndrome-meets-Dow-10,000
Then once the dow surpasses 10k, tries to correlate the recovery to Bush.... 9 MONTHS AFTER HE LEFT!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/14/down-10000-market/

Fox reports a whopping 149 million Americans unemployed:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200910020002

"Hannity claims loophole in Cash for Clunkers program would allow people to buy and then trade in a junker"
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jun/22/sean-hannity/hannity-claims-loophole-cash-clunkers-program-woul/

Fox caught with its pants down on ABC attacks
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001852/

Beck claims earth has been cooling since 1998
http://mediamatters.org/clips/200905040036
Global Temps as measured by NASA show temperatures rising since then
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif

Bill O'Reilly falsely denies calling Tiller a "baby killer"
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jun/05/bill-oreilly/bill-oreilly-called-george-tiller-baby-killer/

Fox falsely claims Dow fell 56 points during Obama speech
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001041/

Right-wing bets against U.S. in pirate standoff
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001151/

Hannity falsely claims Obama was required to approve use of force against pirates
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/04/14/hannity_misinterpreted_politico_report_to_claim_obama_was_required_to_authorize_pirate_rescue.php

Goler reverses meaning of Obama quote to falsely suggest he supports European-style health care
http://mediamatters.org/research/200904250003

Hannity falsely denies Texas secession threat he once touted
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001254/

Ingraham uses doctored video to smear Gore
http://mediamatters.org/research/200905010049

Fox Nation falsely claims "Obama Spending $400K to Studying Drinking and Sex Habits of Gays in Argentina"
http://mediamatters.org/research/200905040029

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Misrepresented Party Affiliation:

Mark Sanford
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200906240026

Mark Foley
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3570

Sen. Ted Stevens
http://img183.imageshack.us/i/36b7f3386fb7cf7fe5a4248sk4.jpg/

Arlen Specter while he lambasts Alberto Gonzalez (Bush's Attorney General) on his concept of Habeas Corpus
http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2007/07/specter-democrat-hume.jpg

Fox incorrectly labels Lieberman a dem while he talks pro war.
http://crooksandliars.com/2007/06/10/lieberman-is-bombs-away-on-iran/

Fox incorrectly switches party affiliation to show poll supporting a republican
http://www3.allaroundphilly.com/blogs/reporter/wesleym/Whitehouse%20as%20a%20Rep.jpg

Name Calling / Face Photoshopping:
Fox Labels Joe Sestak as a Joke
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908170003

Fox photoshops the faces of NYTimes reporters.
http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/7/fox-news-we-photoshop-you-decide