Seat belts fastened. Flux capacitor fluxing. The Outfoxed gals have a new weapon to smear Fox with: Time Travel. With J$P Video!

Only Wednesday, and already the Fox haters have accumulated some impressive stats. It's not every week where, by hump day, the haters have already managed to make ignorant mistakes, twist time, distort facts, doctor quotes, and spin outright lies in such a bountiful quantity. This week must be something truly special for the newshounds (another fine product from the Outfoxed mob).

Sometimes one gets the impression that the curs just don't know any better. Surely that's a charitable explanation for the newspooches' ignorance. After being in the "we hate Fox" business for over a year, you'd think they'd at least know the names of the people they pretend to report on. Yet there is Melanie, writing about Fox News Watch, claiming:

Jane Wells said, "I have a feeling the United States media are not going to give this that much coverage."

Who exactly is Jane Wells? Orson's little girl? No, wrong spelling. Maybe it's this person. Wow, this kind of "reporting" by the newsmutts really fills people with confidence in their accuracy, doesn't it?

But here is something that it's a little more difficult to explain away as simple ignorance. Mel writes about the murder of attorney Daniel Horowitz's wife:

Claudia Cowan: "Just about an hour and a half ago we had heard reports from San Francisco Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein that an arrest had been made. In fact, those reports have turned out to be premature."... Claudia Cowan stated that Bronstein said an arrest had been made, when the Fox newsroom knew that wasn't true either.

The truth is precisely 180 degrees opposite. Bronstein did say an arrest had been made. Cowan was precisely accurate, and Melanie is the liar [QuickTime video clip]:



And while we're discussing Melanie, let's not overlook another of her doctored quotes. Mel claims to quote Neil Cavuto on Bill Frist's stock sale:

"Frist ordered to sell his HCA stock last June just prior to the company's profit warning."...Cavuto said Frist was "ordered" to sell his stock? Since when, when, and when?

Mel cites several links that show Frist sold his stock, proving Cavuto a liar for saying Frist was ordered to. Only the transcript shows Cavuto never said that:

CAVUTO: Frist ordered the sale of his HCA stock last June...

Melanie doctors a few words, lies about something Cavuto didn't say, then attacks him for her own phony quote! Such elegant deception. Such accomplished lying.

Somehow we didn't get around to awarding anyone the Croix de Johnny Dollar last week, but we know now that it belongs to the probie herself, janie. We wrote about her distorted hack analysis of a Dayside report, but didn't realize she had created a whole new methodology of dishonesty. Janie's neat trick was to wait 24 hours before writing up her smear piece, check the next day's papers for new developments, and then attack Fox for not reporting all that stuff that hadn't happened yet.

Since that pioneering adventure in calumny, janie used the Time Travel technique yet again, in precisely the same way, in another smear of Dayside regarding an Iraq vote story:

They also neglect to mention that the vote is currently being looked into for fraud, due to such high percentages of "yes" votes

Once again, this janie "report" was delayed 24 hours before she put it up. And once again, she uses an article in the following day's paper (regarding charges of "fraud") as proof it was something Dayside "forgot to mention". Maybe that's because it hadn't been reported yet! How stoopid do they think people are?

Still, any theme can generate variations. And it's entirely possibly to take janie's Time Travel trick and run it backwards and upside down. Donna figured out how, as she reflects on some coverage today of Harriet Miers and Arlen Specter:

What Fox didn't include and I didn't find out until later when I was watching CNN was that Senator Specter had said that Harriet Miers had told him in private that she supported the Griswold case and the right to privacy.... I found it interesting that Fox chose to show their audience the pictures of Harriet Miers and Senator Arlen Specter but didn't choose to put words to that story.

Oh, and the reason why Fox is hiding this vital information? Donna Explains It All:

Did Studio B just show the video of Miers with Arlen but not the content of the 1 1/2 hour meeting so that their audience didn't see that she may have revealed to Specter that she believed that there is a right to privacy in the Constitution, though later recanted? Or do they just want their audience to believe the old questionaire [sic] that contains written proof that she is anti choice?

There's another explanation that Donna doesn't want you to know about, because it's the truth. Today is Wednesday. The Specter statement about Miers came out on Monday. It's already two days old. And as far as Fox not wanting their audience to know about it--just more lies from the newsliars. It was extensively reported on Monday [QuickTime video clips]:



And on Tuesday [QuickTime video clip]:



Reported on Monday and Tuesday. When it was still news. (So much for evil Fox trying to hide the story from the viewers.) Thus, while janie is attacking Fox for not reporting News of the Future, Donna is slamming them for not reporting News of Two Days Ago. It's the Time Travel trick, turned upside down and backwards.

Come to think of it, all the howlings of the Fox haters would make more sense if read that way. Upside down and backwards.