The Outfoxed gals squelch dissent, forge comments, and even make their own articles go away!

We have a couple of pickings from the Fox haters' grapevine, starring the premier purveyors of poppycock, the newshounds (another fine product of the Outfoxed syndicate).

The newspoodles are well-known as the go-to source for misinformation and nonsense. From their claim that Karl Rove has been indicted, to their insistence that Fox News doesn't have any overseas bureaus, no drivel has been too preposterous for the curs to claim as truth. Their recent expose on the secret love affair between Condi Rice and the President says it all. Now they have uncovered another stunning bit of news that has eluded everyone else on the planet:

We all know Keith Olbermann is currently beating Bill O'Reilly in the "key" demographic.

Little Janie provides no source for this scoop. No numbers are provided. That might be because the truth is slightly different:

June cable ratings [25-54 demo]:

O'Reilly: 402,000
Olbermann: 106,000

July cable ratings [25-54 demo]:

O'Reilly: 488,000
Olbermann: 117,000

So where did Janie get the idea that Olbermann is beating O'Reilly? She made it up! But just minutes after a commenter called her out on this fiction, a funny thing happened. It turns out the newsmutts write in disappearing ink, because the entire article vanished from the site! It's not on the front page, not in the category listings, and is gone from the archives page. Fear not; it can still be found at this secret URL. [Update: Janie writes in our comments it was removed for technical reasons.]

When it comes to hypocrisy, it's hard to top the bowsers. Here's one of their favorite talking points, playing the "race card". A few examples:

• Playing the Race Card
• Hannity's Race Card
• Fox Plays the Social Security Race Card
• Fox News Uses Louis Farrakhan to Play the Race Card

And those are just from hound headlines! Keep that in mind as we journey into the twisted mind of newspup Ellen. She writes about a Hannity & Colmes broadcast where the former was at the site of a benefit for children of war veterans. There were a couple dozen people behind Hannity, and Ellen couldn't stand it:

He's surrounded by a crowd waving flags and wearing flag-decorated tee-shirts. Not a black face in the crowd.

This is outrageous...two dozen people attending a country music concert, and none of them black! Who's playing the race card now, Ellen? Commenter "truthteller" wanted to know:

• Since you are so eager to play the race game, I was wondering how many black faces write for News Hounds?

Ouch! That hit too close to home, so Ellen, rather than answering the question, rewrote truthteller's post, so it now reads:

• I love the News Hounds!

She added a comment of her own:

My point is that the white-only crowd underscores how much of America Hannity does not include in his "patriotism."

Not to be deterred, truthteller soldiered on:

• I'm sorry ellen, but was that an answer to my question? Did Sean Hannity personally select the "white-only" crowd? Did he prevent San Diego blacks from coming to his concert? Do you claim he excludes black Americans from his concept of "patriotism", based on who comes to a country music concert?

Within seconds, Ellen erased this post completely, adding:

Other people are always free to disagree with me but if you're going to insult me and come back after you've been banned a zillion times, like Truthteller - well, you'll just have to accept that you'll either be banned or edited into a more appealling format.

• Ellen, don't delete my messages and then falsify what they said. All I did is ask a question: how many black faces write for the News Hounds? Why are you so afraid of that question?

Ellen forged new content on the above, so it now reads:

• News Hounds is my favorite blog!

Truthteller made one last try:

• Ellen, please don't delete my messages and then falsify what they said. All I did is ask a simple question: how many black faces write for the News Hounds? Why are you so afraid of that question?

That last posting was expunged in its entirety. Ellen never answered the question, because the question was made to go away. That apparently wasn't a good enough attempt at revisionist history, however, and before long the entire page evaporated! But we have screencaps:



Again the newsliars think they can hide their embarrassments, but once more they prove to be as incompetent as they are ignorant. The page is still there, sitting on their server, at this secret URL. Their disappearing ink leaves traces, and they lead right back to the mastiffs of mendacity, the newshounds.