johnny dollar's archive: july-aug 2008

Updated! Sometimes it's just too easy; you'd think that they'd know better by now. We're speaking of the newshounds (another fine product of the Outfoxed cabal). It was bad enough when we would post videos that exposed their lies about Fox News. But now they're even relieving us of that responsibility. Their own videos prove them wrong!

Chrish starts out with a bold-type HeadLie:

Kilmeade on FOX: McCain "one of us now"

And it just gets better from there:

[Brian Kilmeade] thinks John McCain has come around, shedding his maverick persona in order to unify the Republican party around his candidacy.... Kilmeade interrupted, joking that McCain is "totally out of control," and needed to be "reigned in." "Just kidding, governor, he's one of us now!" Yes, he is; maverick no more. Another inadvertent truth brought to you by one of McCain's Friends at FOX.

There is just one slight problem with this hound exposé of Kilmeade's alleged comments about McCain: it ain't true. Kilmeade said nothing about McCain, and never mentioned his name. Shall we go to the transcript?

HOOVER: The Republican Party was more fractured when John McCain got the nomination. And here it is, way together, supporting their nominee in a way you just don't see in the Democrat Party.

KILMEADE: Although Huckabee's totally out of control. That guy's gotta be reigned in. Just kidding, Governor. He's one of us now.

What!? Kilmeade was talking about Mike Huckabee!? Apparently newsmutt Chrish missed a few clues here:

• Huckabee is a governor (McCain isn't).
  
• Huckabee works for Fox and to Kilmeade would therefore be "one of us" (McCain doesn't work for Fox).
  
• Oh and one more: Kilmeade said "Huckabee", not "McCain"!
  

So where did Chrish get the idea Kilmeade was talking about John McCain? She made it up! But don't take our word for it. Here's the hounds' very own video. Don't fret over the typically grainy video quality from the kennelcorder. The audio is good enough so that if you listen halfway carefully, you will hear Kilmeade talk about Huckabee, never mentioning the name of John McCain:


Another newspoodle article entirely based on a false premise. Despite several commenters pointing out how wrong the article is, so far no correction or retraction has been made. At this rate, all we need now to put the icing on the cake is for Keith Olbermann to pilfer this phony story for his nightly Fox News attack, without of course checking whether it's true. After all, he's done that before.

UPDATE: Just for the record, here's our comment exposing the newspooch falsehoods. You have to read it here because it has, of course, been deleted. The hounds are so interested in truth after all:


UPDATE UPDATE: Our pal Chrish has apparently thrown in the towel on this one:

Apparently Brian Kilmeade was NOT referring to McCain being "one of us" but rather to Governor Mike Huckabee, offstage, who is of course a former Republican candidate and current FOX News contributor. My mistake; sincere apologies. I do wish Kilmeade wasn't such a mush-mouth.

Note that the original HeadLie stands, as does everything else. The correction is tacked on the end as an "amendment". Be that as it may, we congratulate the hounds for doing the right thing, this time.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: Chrish has now clarified her headline as well. Props for that. We have modified our headline to reflect her action.