Fox News Airs Blistering ‘Then and Now’ Anti-Obama Video Review (Updated)
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Editor’s note: See updates below.
Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday aired a scathing review of the first three years of President Barack Obama’s term in office, countering his “hope” and “change” motto with a series of “then and now” facts about the national debt, jobless rate, gas prices and more.
“What sort of change have we really seen over the past four years from the Obama administration?” co-host Steve Doocy asked by way of introduction.
The four-minute clip is a mash-up of the president’s speeches over the last three-and-a-half years, matching his promises and statements with the reality of rising costs. Starting with the frenzied “O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!” crowd chants of four years ago, it’s quickly replaced by ominous tones.
“I pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term in office…All of us need to act more responsibly on behalf of a better economic future…Hope is the guiding force behind the most improbable changes this country has ever made,” Obama says, before his statements are countered with the national debt: “$10 trillion then“ and ”$15 trillion now.”
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“We cannot wait for good jobs and living wages and pensions…Jobs must be our number one focus…We know it’s time to create the good-paying jobs, jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced,” he says, before the “then and now” jobless rate is highlighted: 7.8 percent then, 8.3 percent now.
Image source: Fox News
Image source: Fox News
Watch the clip below, via Fox News:
Update: The Fox News video appears to be having technical difficulties; it may have been removed from their website. Any attempt to play it results in the following notice: “Sorry, we were unable to play the media you selected. Please try again, or select alternate media. Error encountered: Stream not found.”
Watch a YouTube version below:
Update II: Reaction to the video was swift on Wednesday: The leftist Media Matters for America said the program “crossed a new ethical line today by producing and airing what is essentially a four-minute anti-Obama attack ad” and later put out a “debunking” post.
Mediaite columnist Noah Rothman wrote that the “sharply edited and highly produced piece may cross a line…from journalism to advocacy“ and said it ”bore striking resemblance to a Republican party web ad.”
Washington Post media opinion blogger Erik Wemple wrote simply: “In a recent interview, Fox News chief Roger Ailes contended that he had 24 liberal contributors on his network. One guess: Those contributors played no role whatsoever in the creation of the video.”
At the conservative site Hot Air, Ed Morrissey pointed out that the “Fox & Friends Presents“ title in the video made it ”an explicit argument from the news channel itself.”
“Should a news organization produce and publish attack ads like this?” Morrissey wrote. “We usually criticize that kind of behavior with other news organizations….If anyone wanted to look for evidence that the overall Fox News organization intends to campaign against Obama rather than cover the campaign, this video would be difficult to refute as evidence for that claim.”
Update III: The video is again available through the Fox News website, albeit without the co-hosts’ introductions:
Update IV:Bill Shine, Fox News executive vice president of programming, issued a statement to TVNewser: “The package that aired on FOX & Friends was created by an associate producer and was not authorized at the senior executive level of the network. This has been addressed with the show’s producers.”
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Comments (260)
tricia
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:51amThe Hope and Change Lie revealed, Spread the wealth Lie revealed,
Report Post »A Vote for the >Nanny State is a Lie that has consequences. Vote these bleeding heart liberal liars out.
Charity is a gift of Love. Love of fellow man, Love of family, Love of community, Love of God’s Laws.
Government and politician’s are only about EGO, POWER, MONEY and CONTROL, with other peoples labor and BLESSINGS.
lukerw
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:19pmThey call it… Progress & Evolution!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:39pmThe only lie revealed was the lie that Fox News is a real news source and not the propoganda wing of the GOP.
Jive Mickey
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:44pmNothing has been revealed. The video has already been scrubbed.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:53pmHope and Change two words that invoke a strong emotional response but have no Context. The American people where Sold Barack H Obama like he was a box of Breakfast Cereal.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:04pmThe video is back.
@ENCINOM,
It is fair and balanced. It shows “then” and it shows “now”.
His own words, and factual numbers.
How much more balanced could it be?
Truth hurt your delicate sensibilities?
Report Post »CalMarine
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:11pmI am certain you will not answer Encinom, but I would love to know what liberal site pays you to troll Fox News daily. I have no doubt you are a paid hack. You are always one of the first to respond so I know you just sit back waiting for a new story. You are so laughable.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:15pmHi Billy,
I saw your “Hi Monk” that you posted at about 1 AM. I’m doing OK. Just had a call back for a job interview about an hour ago. Did you have a good Holiday?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:16pmENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO….rather than your paltry attempts to distract from the facts. Please explain where the video is not factual.
Report Post »Come on champ….
The-Monk
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:20pmHi Billy,
Actually, the photo of the gas prices is wrong. In Jan 2009, gas was between $1.65 and $1.99 per gal.
Here’s a link;
http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2009/01/gas-prices-1.html
Too bad Fox got that wrong. : )
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:00pmCALMARINE…’ENCINOM” has a number of screennames at the Blaze. “MONICNE” is another of his/her screennames. It’s a rather obvious one, it’s merely the reverse spelling of “ENCINOM”. And another name I can confirm for you that ENCINOM uses is “SLEAZY HIPPO”. ENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO is a media matters troll who has created different “lives” for each of his/her online personas. I refer to both sexes for ENCINOM because he/she has created different lives for each of his/her different screennames. Yeah…it gets that creepy with ENCINOM.
Your observations about ENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO are quite astute.
When ENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO gets really unhinged, he/she posts as both MONICNE and ENCINOM on the same thread as it it’s meant to be two different people.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:26pmActually, the photo of the gas prices is wrong. In Jan 2009, gas was between $1.65 and $1.99 per gal.
Here’s a link;
http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2009/01/gas-prices-1.html
I sent Fox News the link; I hope they change the video to reflect the real price. : )
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:57pmHi Monk,
Thanks for the correction.
I guess it was not fair and balanced.
It actually favored the left.
That will make encinom’s head explode. He was actually right,….. in a wrong sort of way……at least for him.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:57pmCalifornia – Thanks for your service.
Some consider my right honorable Australian friend to be a rakish but detestable alien who has embellished and fabricated whole swaths of his life for uninformed readers to swoon over. He lives for random compliments that sometimes occur when readers misunderstand his true objective, which is not to converse but to bleat out combative bile. He often seeks colloquy to spout his repetitive lies.
He has many obsessive theories about who people are, and a childlike stubbornness that makes folks eventually stop addressing him in first person. He is a lonely, parasitic fat Aussie obsessed with Batman comics and gays. He wears long hair, but attacks union women who are highly paid by media matters. (In his dreams.) But I am not attacking him, just telling you what he has bleated as he stalks.
I do not and do not want to know Encinom, and if he works for pay, then it’s a life! If he is just on line relentlessly like some of his critics, but without pay? What‘s AvengerK’s motivation and support? Riddle me that, Dark Knight! A mystery unfolds! The answer has already been revealed.
Did someone say, “TEA?”
By the way, Cal, maybe this entire Blaze is all a justice department sting site to set up trusting subversives?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:15pm@AvengerK Hmm let’s see what Fox and of course the lemmings here regard as fair and balanced. Identification of the federal debt as starting at $10 trillion. No details on where the $10 trillion came from (Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. and no mention of the $ 1.4 trillion deficit that Bush Jr. left for 2009. I would assert that the last $ of debt is no worse than the first dollar. And federal debt not used for investments in infrastructure, education or technology is wasted. So he handed the PRESIDENT a $1.4 trillion deficit, 2 wars that were not paid for and the worst economy since the great depression. Interesting to see the staunch free market supporters here identify the President as having some influence or responsibility for the price of gas. The drilling response might have some traction if the industry wasn’t sitting on 200+ approved permits. The price of oil has more to do with the value of the dollar / Euro and refining capacity than domestic drilling and you know it. And I would imagine the rise in food stamps is a surrogate measure of how bad Bush’s recession and the impact of the Wall Street criminals really was. and of course how strong the food and retail food industry lobbyists are. The Fox and Friends goons are so obvious in their use of setup questions as to be laughable. Fraud and Unbalance…. that they can do. Just another example of starting with a desired answer, selecting the questions and facts to obtain the desired narrative.
Report Post »KC1
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:21pmTop three reasons Paulinistas should put aside their principals and patriotism and vote Romney.
1.Consistency – Mitt Romney has been unwavering in his public devotion to the principles and issues that would help to advance the political career of Mitt Romney.
2.Flexibility – Unlike Ron Paul who has been ridiculously rigid in his defense of the U.S. constitution, personal liberty, a balanced budget and the sanctity of life (so much so that he earned the nickname “Dr. No” in congress); Romney has shown that he is capable of rolling with the punches, going with the tide, changing with the times, and bending with the breeze.
3.National debt – Romney is against it. How do we know? Because he said so a whole lot of times in a very convincing tone of voice. And just as soon as he is elected president he will show us how we can eliminate the budget deficit without raising any taxes, eliminating any cabinet departments, reducing military spending, or cutting Social Security, Medicare, or any other popular program. How will he do this? Well he hasn’t explained his whole program but it has something to do with getting rid of all of those federal regulations that are smothering small businesses like Goldman Sachs.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:15pmCALMARINE…Notice how MONICNE responded to the questions about ENCINOM? Like I said..just reverse the spelling of the names…he/she logs in and out as both names and as you just saw demonstrated, even on the same thread.
Report Post »It doesn’t get creepier than MONICNE/ENCINOM/SLEAZY HIPPO.
AvengerK
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:16pmLOL…that’s it JROOK..give me conjecture over facts…good lefty idiot.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:18pmOh and CALMARINE..when MONICNE/ENCINOM/SLEAZY HIPPO says “some consider”…that’s him/her speaking for the different personalities he/she has at the blaze.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:18pmHey JROOK,
So it looks like it took about five hours for media matters to get the exact response lines to use for this story.
I expect to see just about the same comments from JZS around 11:00 PM tonight.
But he will of course add his own unique brand of Alinsky ridicule,…. lightly sprinkled throughout, with just a pinch of pompousness.
A recipe for failure.
Report Post »Laken
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:25pmFrom The White House Insider….Obama In Trouble-And That Makes Him Dangerous.
You Should Read The Comments Also…
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/05/30/white-house-insider-obama-in-serious-trouble-and-that-makes-him-very-dangerous/
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:28pmNo really JROOK….you’re giving me your lefty conjecture over the facts? Idiot…
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:33pmHi Billy,
“That will make encinom’s head explode.”
That’s what I was hoping for. I also e-mail Fox with the links.
Report Post »You might find this funny also… here If it doesn‘t work I’ll send it again.
The-Monk
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:35pmHi Billy,
Hyperlink did not work. I saw this about an hour ago. Very funny. 1st page post…
Report Post »http://www.theblaze.com/stories/farrakhan-laments-sad-that-mexico-lost-california-arizona-colorado-new-mexico-through-american-trickery-soon-whites-will-be-the-minority-in-the-country-they-took/
Basharr
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:54pm@ENCINOM; One of the few valid news sources. Probably a threat to you and your prince because they ask the questions MSM won’t, They say the things that need saying. But that‘s OK they don’t need your endorsement. They are stomping all other news programs into the dirt in ratings…Do you know why? Because they provide facts and not drivel. They are not willing to hide the truth to cover Obama’s a$$. Go watch MSNBC and get your fix of dishonesty and anti American nonsense.
Report Post »LemmingKiller
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:12pmSo true………….so sad.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:24pmRIGHTSOFBILLY…I actually saw JZS return about 11:30 last night to have the last word on the “Obama Kill List” board.
Report Post »He had an issue with me suggesting that Obama’s national security decisions seem to be put through a political filter. So after JZS came in for his late-night drive-by I thought I‘d shake the idiot up and reminded the pair of clownshoes that Obama’s campaign strategist David Axelrod was attending those Tuesday “kill list” meetings. Now why would a campaign stategist be sitting in on these high-level meetings?
Antisocial_ist
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:55pmYou cannot receive charity without giving up some Liberty.
Report Post »Pass it on ! ! !
The-Monk
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:29pm@AvengerK
“RIGHTSOFBILLY…I actually saw…”
Did you go to the link I sent Billy 3 posts above the one you sent him? Very funny. Page 1.
Report Post »lmao@dems
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:14pmStill, ROFLMBO at the Trolls, all they can do is attack and blame someone else because they have been TAUGHT what to think instead of HOW to think and this video makes no sense to them because it shows the facts instead of what they have been taught, And they still, with facts at hand, type there bull. What Jokes, but good entertainment, it really is funny reading the trolls post as they are truly clueless.
Report Post »Sad because they will never realize the fools they make of themselves.
MONICNE
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:38pmIt’s sad, but actually working! The paid mm trolls are predicting the obsessed idiots (and foreigner parasites) here will continue to post late at night to preserve “having the last word,” this is the funniest thing EVER, LOL!
What a bunch of losers!
POW-MIA
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:40pmThe Obama truth team is going to their hands full ..Mr Obama honest men don’t need a truth team,the truth is self evident
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:08pmJRook, your forgot to mention the unpaid prescription benefit plan that Bush passed.
I‘m amazed at the clueless on the website who say we don’t have a “revenue problem” we have a “spending problem.“ We do have a ”spending problem” and it’s not the paltry money spent educating young people or providing minimum health services we provide for the poor which Republicans used to support. The spending problem is that Bush started two trillion dollar discretionary wars on the opposite side of the globe on a credit card (not to mention the prescription benefit plan he also put on a credit card). And, for the first time in American history, and probably the history of the world, he dramatically CUT taxes during a war. You don‘t have to be a genius to realize that when you’re in the process of doubling the national debt, it’s not such a great idea to lower taxes, but that’s what the Republican do, because their donors make money (you gotta pay ‘em back right?)
Okay, so Bush cut taxes, did government revenue increase as is still the Republican opinion? No, of course not. Every dollar in reduced revenue resulted in exactly one additional dollar to the deficit. Were jobs created? No, not a one. Bush’s job creation record is the worst of the 20th century.
I’ve carried on. But my main point is something everyone knows. FOX isn’t a legitimate news organization, they’re the right arm of the Republican party, as videos like this show.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:39pm@JZS
Can you name a legit news organization??
Report Post »veruca salt
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:58pmRegarding gas prices, anyone who falls blindly for the old correlation equals causation argument is either lacking in basic critical thinking skills or being willfully ignorant. BTW, I’ve also heard that 98% of U.S. citizens who have died in the last 20 years also ate carrots at some point in their lives. Carrots are bad!
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causation-12012011-gfx.html
Fox news apparently had a different take on gas prices back in 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEnKdBAb_o
And, you have to love the double-speak of “our ratings blow all of our competition out of the water” coupled with “we’re not mainstream!”
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:54pmIt’s not an attack “ad”, as it wasn’t endorsing or asking for money. It might have been an attack piece, but it simply took Obama to task.
Report Post »cbrown
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:32amFOX news is honest. They are an RNC organization and want nothing but Romney for the country. Stupid LSM does not produce a similar one Obama.
Report Post »Shackleford
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 2:25amI do agree that media outlets should not be producing commercials like this, but considering the amount of socialist propaganda this country has suffered through and the embarrassing about slobbering love the media has given Obama my give-a-d### on my side playing by the rules is broken. I only hope conservatives stop playing nice and stop this “turn the other cheek” attitude and realize that we are living in what is essentially the American Cold Civil War.
Report Post »zorro
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:27am“Fox and Friends” is fluff news no different than the Today Show or other morning shows. Although I agree this was most definately not “fair and balanced”, it’s no different than what other morning shows do accross the country. Fox News, like all other channels, has news segments and fluff segments. When this type of thing happens on a news segment, that’s where you have a problem. Soledad O’Brien, for example, is a “journalist” and an “anchor” who is supposed to be impartial. She’s not. And she does this all_the_time. That’s news. Not this.
Report Post »cmi
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:49amThank GOD for Fox News!!! It amazes me how, when Fox news tells the truth on these lying bunch of liberal progressive democrats, it makes them squirm like a bunch of worms in hot ashes! In my opinion, this has been the worst president this country has EVER had!!! Makes Jimmy Carter look like a hero!! Fox news, nor anyone else has to lie about this president!!! All they have to do is play the tapes!!!
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:16pmMONICNE
Very witty post indeed.
The libs on here are what make the blogs interesting, and keep the debate lively and educational./
While in Thailand, did you ever get a chance to take a hop to Australia? I worked with a bunch of Australian military, when in RC South (Afghanistan). They were a good bunch to work with.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:30pmNews is an interesting topic. For decades, Americans watched their TV, and just assumed the news was just news, and did not realize the left leaning slant of Walter Cronkite and crew.
then came Rush and others on the AM talk radio, and their numbers started to grow, and folks started tuning in to something radical and new. The blinders came off, and the left got a bit scared.
Cable news was a new thing, and CNN had the market by the short hairs. Wolf Blitzer and his buddy stuck the iraq war in our face like never before seen. We did not realize how far left they leaned, because it was all so suttle
Then came Fox, and the whole world changed. We ended up having talks in the break room, or the water cooler, and these regular Americans had stories and facts that the rest were in the dark over. Little by little, it grew. That Bill guy got his own show, and folks liked his style, and his way of playing the middle, and making the left answer questions, they never had to answer before.
When fox turned on the lights, the other news did the only thing they knew to do. They stopped pretending, and just became out of the closet libs, fully behind socialism, democrats, marxist, Obama, Hillary…..
News will never be the same again. Now matter how much folks hate Fox, they will not get rid of it. IF it goes away, it leaves a huge void., and someone wanting to make billions will fill that void. The only way to stop it, is a full communist/socialist take over.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:55amPeter- Up late again!
I was in a joint group that included allies and all the uniformed services and some other agencies. Based on the classification, I worked alongside Royal Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and U.K. analysts for many months, participated in dozens of cross-domain efforts and ran some training. We of course worked with the host country and South Vietnamese as well.
Enough about this old timer, what about your contemporary experience with the smallest but undeniably one of the toughest Armies in the world?
Were you on extended patrol (in harm’s way) with those Aussie pals of yours? I hear they have great food and the best ILS. I bet your soldiers were spoiled! How many gay Aussies did you meet? Their military is 25% gay & lesbian, but I hear they fight to the end like Oxycodone soaked dervishes! LOL
By the way I am disappointed in your dismissal of the POW issue, as a veteran black gun infantry man in ISAF, with your commission as Major.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:41amMONICNE
The extended field stuff I did in Afghanistan was with the Afghani ANCOP. We ate rice and beans, cooked on the spot, with some occasional goat or chicken.
the Ausies were not allowed to patrol outside the wire, and just did staff stuff. They were good staff folks, but I never saw them do any of the fighting.
I worked with one of their Artillery Colonels, and we discussed much, to include politics. On several occasions, he stated that he feared the US was following in the same foolish steps as Britain and Australia, in letting gays serve. He claimed that it was like a cancer in his military (think of our Bradley Manning). He also spoke much on the gun control in Australia, and how gun violence went out of control when the government took hand guns.
I try not to be biased, but I did not see any of the other services in Afghanistan have the ability to go outside the wire, and take the fight to the enemy like the US. they may have better chow halls and comfort stuff, but most did not fight. The Spanish and Italians lived very high on the hog. They also paid off the Taliban. they did not patrol, and the Taliban left them alone.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:46amMoncine
Currently, the US has lost 1,827 (KIA) in Afghanistan.
Australia has lost 32 (KIA) in Afghanistan.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:51amMONCINE
and your numbers are a little off, only 1.2 percent of their population is gay, and the military numbers are about the same.
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 4:08pmThe demographics of sexual orientation are difficult to establish. Not all gay people admit to their orientation (not hard to imagine why). There is wide variance in homosexual estimates depending upon which study one wishes to lend credence.
Report Post »MadBuckeye
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:44amAnd they call themselves “Fair and Balanced!” This was nothing less than a Romney campaign ad. Anyone who tunes into Fox News is looking for affirmation, not information.
Report Post »Nekkid
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:56amWas there some part of the video you felt was untrue?
Report Post »Greatnesslostislegend
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:57amTroll. Facts were used. The ad missed something: Hate. Obama is full of it.
Report Post »Misskc1
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:57amAnd just what part isn‘t ’Fair and Balanced,‘ his Obama’s own words or the facts? Truth hurts!
Report Post »rickinpa
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:00pmTruth hurts show where this is wrong? Unlike the CBS hack job on Bush with the fake memo
Report Post »encinom
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:02pmStrip context and reality from raw number and your can craft any lie you want. This video is proof that Fox News is nothing more than the propoganda wing for the Republican Party.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:02pmI’m hoping for a change….l
Report Post »WithOutGodWePerishAsARepublic
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:03pmIt has nothing to do with Fair and Balanced …Just “the Truth”…bet, it hurts !!!! You must be a commie, socialist or marxiist … now, there is a fair and balanced government …LOL ???!!!
Report Post »Ed_Kel
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:05pmYou think Fox is the only network that practices affirmation? Even if that were true, one could use facts to prove that they are still more fair and balanced than the other media outlets. That aside, what part of that video was untrue? Instead of poking jabs at a news organization just because they disagree with your hippie, tree-hugging emPATHETIC President, why don’t you try to refute the evidence?
Useful idiot.
Report Post »brotherjohn
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:08pmWhere does MSNBC, CNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, etc. fit into your argument?
Report Post »Bobb
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:16pmJust what is it about FACTS you don’t understand?? It’s about time somebody shines the light of truth on this phoney bologna. What part of this can you HONESTLY refute??
Report Post »spfoam1
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:20pmCry you little media matters troll, cry. Romney was not mentioned once.
Report Post »FiveSolas
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:08pmYou say that it shows how Fox is not “Fair and Balanced”. OK. Would you please point out the factual inaccuracies in the video? I noticed that rather than address the actual substance of the video, you attack the messenger. What is the purpose of a “news outlet”? Isn’t it to tell people what is going on? Well, in this case, everything they pointed out in the video happens to be true. They use President Obama’s own words, and contrast what he said with what he has done. Now, an Obama supporter may not like that because frankly it shows what a failure he has been on economic issues, but the fact that they don‘t like it doesn’t make it any less true. If you want to have a real impact at on the discussion, then please advance the ball by showing where they lied, misled, or otherwise distorted the truth. Otherwise, you are just whining. BTW, You should read the book “Left Turn” by Tim Groseclose. Groseclose is a UCLA prof who did the definitive study on media bias. As it turns out, when the news reporting of all the major outlets are compared objectively, FOX has the most balanced coverage overall (not counting it’s editorial shows). Again, you may not like that, but the numbers are solid. We are all entitled to our own opinions, but we are not all entitled to our own facts.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:18pmPlease ENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO…put that 15.7 trillion debt into context for me after Obama said he’d halve the deficit by the end of his first term.
Report Post »Please….I can’t wait to see this…
BoyScout_Mom
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:15pmHopey Changey – Hopey Changey
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:30pmCan’t handle cold hard facts, can you?
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:42pmTruth hurt?
Report Post »Bubbakittysmom
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:24pmSo what part of the video is not factual?
Report Post »Goodforall
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:26pmI guess facts and the truth are not in your vocabulary. Please refute any of this-I bet you can’t! You libs live in a fantasy world-go back to it. Obama is a one term mistake-period!
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:39pmPeople should click on the media matters link to check out how the leftist loons are rationalizing Obama’s record spending,high unemployment,rising prices etc…. Unbelievable! This media matters outfit has an active imagination.
Report Post »Coralchristie
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:23pmUnfortunately this short video does seem to slide into the advocacy realm that all the other news stations have fallen into. All it does though is make them no different in that respect. It does however make them different in that they’re not specifically Obama advocates as are the other news channels.
Report Post »encinom…If this makes FOX the propaganda arm of the Republican party then by the same reasoning one will assume that you should say that MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc are all propaganda arms of the Democrat party.
rangerp
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:19pmencinom
we call it, lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Ranger dan, or Ranger Pete, either will do.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:40amLike i have said before, the same idiots that voted him into that position are still out there. He will get elected again…
Report Post »Tom K
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:11pm@ TICKDOG : Enough of the previous Obama voters have “ seen the light of truth and logic ” and they will lead the landslide and utter defeat of the “ Ineligible One ” ! The die hard liberal-socialist-communists would vote for Obama – or – Hitler – or – Stalin, again and again and again. Lib-Soc-Comms are mentally ill, you know.
Report Post »happ77
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:35pmTickdog, the same idiots are still out there, but in 2008
Report Post »65 million people who claim to be very religious stayed
home and didn’t vote. I hope they’re more motivated
in 2012.
countryfirst
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:31pmThere Hope and Change dream, came to be our Dope in Charge reality.
Report Post »KeithOlberdink
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:40amThe ad takes too long to get going. I could only take so much of the obama zombies salvating over obama in the beginning and turned it off. It looks like an ad for obama, not against.
Report Post »Tom K
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:14pm@ KEITHOLBERDINK : I’ll make this short for your equally short attention span: Anyone BUT Obama in November !
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:33amObama is SICKENING.
Report Post »gs425
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:31amWho did the “gas price” section? They’re wrong. National average for gasoline was about $1.85 a gallon when Zero took office.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:49amAnd how about the real unemployment rate 17% not the accounting gimmick gubment numbers.
Report Post »American Mensch
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:29amA wonderfully crafted video, but it should have been produced by an opinion based show like Hannity or Bill O’Reilly. If the Today show had made a similar video about Romney, all the people who are preening over this one would be howling about media bias. Fox News made a mistake in allowing Fox & Friends to produce this. It’s a shame that the Romney campaign did not make this very truthful and compelling video. Maybe the guy who put it together on Fox News should change his employers and get a position on the Romney campaign. It was brilliantly done.
Report Post »Wakeup Maggie
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:42amGood thoughts
Report Post »justanamerican
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:51amThe Oreilly factor, is not an opinion show,……. like Hannity is……….
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:20pmMy favorite part of this video is at about the 00:51 mark.
That beautiful eagle ***** his head with a tilt and gives the camera a classic WTF ??? look.
Priceless.
Report Post »redrivergrl
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:08pmMedia Matters , Daily Kos, and Think Progress all do this for Obama. The time has come to fight fire with fire. All of this video is true, what they do is fabrication and lies. Hell he’s having Hollywood make a movie about how HE killed OBL. Wake up people, they are NOT playing non partisan and haven’t been for a long time.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:41pmSo when has the reporting of actual facts and statistics become “a political hit piece”? Facts are facts. The news is supposed to be facts. The gas price is what it is and was what it was. That’s not opinion, that’s a fact. The deficit is what it is and was what it was. That’s a fact. Not an opinion. We’ve grown so accustomed to the news being a one-sided left-wing emotion-laden opinion, we’ve lost the whole concept of what news should be; facts. Thanks a lot, National Socialist Media.
Report Post »75andkickin
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:24pmIt was well put together and factual. The fact that the troll with the frontward/backward, multiple names is whining that FOX is a Republican propaganda station forgets that, even if it were so, every other media source in this country is a propaganda source for his leader, Obama. So why the whine? I really love it when Obama’s lies and fairy tales are exposed.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:27amLater on today I really can’t wait to read what the usual trolls will say in defense of this record. Or they will try to call all of this lies. Should make for entertaining reading.
Report Post »FourMoreTrillionFourMoreTrillion
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:42amIt is, no doubt, be Bush’s fault.
Report Post »FourMoreTrillionFourMoreTrillion
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:45amIt is, no doubt, Bush’s fault.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:52amYou folks don’t know the whole story! The faming industry has change also – for the worst. A new Case 95 Hp I bought in 2007 for $24,000.00 is now worth $40,000.00. A new Ford F-250 back in 2008 got 20 MPG unloaded and this truck met Tier 1 EPA regulations. A new 2012 Ford F-350 gets 14 MPG on Tier II and diesel now is as expensive as priemum gas. Cord back then was afordable and now you have to float a loan to buy. We are 1 of a few countries that burn our food for fuel. I read wheren 2 million Africans are going to starve this year for the lack of food. We should drill and sent thesae grains to starving people.Obama said it easn’t enough oil to go after in Anwar or the USA. I read in an industry magazine a copuple of years ago that if we opened up drilling a million folks could be getting a pay check and I don’t mean for 6 months or a year like Solendra.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:01pmThose who think their welfare payments, food stamps and all freebees will continue…………think again!
Report Post »You will probably suffer more than the rest of us who’ve played by the rules and worked for a living.
CatB
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:36pmChange has happened .. it is all we have left .. a little in our pockets and a HUGE debt for our children, grandchildren .. etc.
Report Post »Kulcuda70
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:25amAs mentioned earlier I would hope that Romney‘s campaign and him hit hard and often on the lies and facts of the Bammster’s years in office. A complete failure to be sure, now have the ba*#s to tell the American people the truth of his complete incompetance.
Report Post »By the way in your areas were you by chance inundated with Obama’s Memorial day commercials during the parades, movies, shows etc. of how great he is in supporting and helping our Vets?
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:31amOh yeah, just about every time I turned on the TV.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:35amYeah, the gas prices really caught my eye too, believe the national average price of regular was $1.85 per gallon the day he was inaugurated. Will be making the monthly major staples grocery shopping tomorrow and do not look forward the the prices. Those have gone up every month since shortly after 0bama’s immaculation.
Report Post »Tom K
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:28pm@ KULCUDA70 : I “ hope ” that Obama runs on his rotten record; then a “ change ” in the White House is guranteed !
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:21amSaw the piece on Fox this morning. They were to gentle on him, particularly on gas prices and food prices. Not sure which planet their figures were from…on my planet gas has doubled and meat and bread are up 50% at least.
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:29pmditto. My soy milk went from 1.59 to $3.00. $100 does not buy very much any more.
Report Post »leasecommander
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:20amIt was a well done piece, everyone should get a chance to see it, howeveer I doubt the liberal media will even comment on it, because if they do, people will look at Fox to see it.
Report Post »I’d like to see it everyday, maybe Fox can just sell the piece to Romney and he can continue to show it.
Master_and_Commander
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:18amkudos to FOX for this video, what more do you need to see to know that this president has to go?
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:12amCollectivism doesn’t just fail. It DESTROYS!
Report Post »LukeAppling
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:08amObama has become one of the 1% while in office and will never go back to being anything but wealthy. He has never known poverty he has been raised and nurtured by white guilt and never accomplished anything despite what his resume says, he is a fraud and wants to destroy America just as Greece is being destroyed by big government waste.
Report Post »Read Mark Steyn’s Book “After America” for the facts on Obama and Michelle.
petey
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:13amI always think I‘m the only one that see’s through the fraud ,known as Obama.
Report Post »I‘m glad you’re out there.
loriann12
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:34amObamas are the Clampets go to Washington.
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:04amWe need a pro-America president! And, that is not obama!
Report Post »allonline
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:21pmYes! pro American! He belongs in jail! not our White House!
Report Post »LukeAppling
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:00amThat is what Romney should concentrate on Obama’s record not the distractions Obama/Axelrod will throw up.His record is abysmal and must be reported daily.
Report Post »Steve28
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:00amGood piece. Very well done. Maybe it will wake up a few people?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:58amRuh-roh, Shaggy. Does the Truth Team know about this? :)
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:55amWhat wasn’t true?
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:55amWell now, I did not see the segment on ‘Fox and Friends’ since I fired them, following the Hank Williams Jr expose’. People who read TheBlaze, watch FoxBusiness, and Foxnews, are not the ones who need to read, and watch Foxbusiness, and Foxnews. Now, I do not know how to get the messages to those who watch ABC, CBS, NBC (all of their offspring), and PBS.
Report Post »leasecommander
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:30amSimple, you sell the piece to the Romney campaign and they buy the time and air it wherever the want.
Report Post »LestWeForget
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:52am“Ask yourself, ‘are you better off now than you were four years ago?’” – The Gipper
Report Post »drbage
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:50amWonder who the Spinmeisters-in-Chief (Plouffe and Axelrod) will get to turn this segment into something racist? Will it be Pinocchio Carney, Washerwoman Shoes, the Rev team…?
Report Post »Or will they and the media simply ignore it because if they say anything about it, they would have to acknowledge that it exists–another inconvenient truth.
angelcat
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:03amThey would have to say that Obama’s own words are racist – which I wouldn’t put past them. Then they would have to prove every statistic shown to be incorrect, which they will do by lying instead of proving.
Report Post »Gamaliel
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:49amUseless idiots failed to ask themselves, “change to what?”
Report Post »MeMadMax
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:05amNo kidding.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:14amJust as now we must ask “Forward to what?”
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:03pm@RJJinGadsden…My guess – “Forward to Communism” – he’s already accomplished making us a socialist nation.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:49amAbout time some real facts and figures devoid of LIBERAL MATH!
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:15amLiberal math,,,
They only know how to subtract and divide…
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:26amand Lib unicorns
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:29pmSomeone let them know
Report Post »THE TRUTH HAS NO AGENDA.
Conservative_T-Rex
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:43amglorious!!!
fun game for fox news watchers: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Bohnfather/fox-news-personalities
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