johnny dollar's archive: july-aug 2008

It seems the newshounds (another fine product of the Outfoxed cabal) have stepped into some of their own excrement. We've documented how their deliberate lies come back to bite them. Take, for example, their attempt to stir up a nonexistent controversy over an interview with Dennis Ross.

To make it look like some sort of slight, they go out of their way to refer to Ross as a "former Fox News contributor". Really, how gullible do they think we are? Do they believe no one will check his FNC bio? Even more hilarious, he's clearly identified as a "Fox News contributor" in the very video they are hawking! Warning: don't point that out or your comment, like ours, will be immediately deleted. In service to the "greater truth" no doubt.

But the case at hand appears to be more one of ignorance and arrogance than purposeful fabrication. The biased bassets finally decided to report last week's news about Brian Kilmeade's email. But that presented a problem. How to trumpet this story without crediting this site for breaking it? The solution: find a site that reported on what we reported, and credit it to them:

TVNewser reported last week that FOX and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade mistakenly hit "reply all" on an internal email, letting half of FOX News know he was dissatisfied with the amount of segments he was assigned. Also exposed was an outline of the program's structure (easily ascertained after watching for a while, I should add) that confirms the use of daily "talking points" and puts to rest Gretchen Carlson's lie that they don't get talking points.

Yes, the newspoodles consider it "breaking news" that Fox & Friends has a "talking points" segment, and therefore, using Hound Logic, that proves Fox "gets talking points" from the White House. No it doesn't make a minute of sense, but that doesn't bother the kennel-dwellers:

• What a bloody shock, a Fox whore caught out in a lie, what ever next, Bush is an intellect.
  
• What is equally weird is that they often don't even bother to mix up the order or paraphrase which makes it all the more obvious.
  
• Of course Fox gets talking points.
  
• They exist to disseminate pro-republican talking points.
  
• Gretchen has not had a real thought in years. Talking points is her substitute for a brain.
  

Unfortunately, the program outline "exposed" nothing that any F&F viewer hasn't known for years. The "talking points" segment, where the morning's most interesting news stories are discussed, is anything but a secret. They even use that title on the air, as they did recently with comedian Jay Thomas:

DOOCY: Now Jay, we've included you in the 'talking points' because we know you do a radio show and you talk about things and politics.

Funny, you would think someone who watches Fox constantly, or even "for a while", would be aware of such things. Be that as it may, the whippets' foolishness was so dazzling, so profoundly wrong-headed, that the editor of TVNewser himself took the unusual step of correcting their drivel:


So there was no Gretchen Carlson lie. There were no secret "talking points" exposed. And the newspoodles' citation of TV Newser came back to bite them. All that makes their screaming, bold-type headline that much more ironic:

Talking Points on FOX and Friends confirmed beyond reasonable doubt

Yeah, right. You could fill an encyclopedia with what the newsmutts don't know about Fox News. Their slogan needs an update: "We don't watch Fox so we can make up anything we damn well please about it!"

APPENDIX: Jay Thomas Fox & Friends video: