Has somebody spiked the Alpo? The Outfoxed gals step in it again, and their credulous cohorts go off the deep end. With J$P Video!

Strange goings on in the Fox haters echo chamber. Oh there's the usual: misrepresentation, doctoring quotes, and the like. But there's also a curious incident of deja vu, some bizarre stalking-like activity, and a freakish obsession with your humble correspondent. And where else would one find the hub of all this peculiar activity but the newshounds (another fine product of the Outfoxed mob)?

We find Judy up to the usual hound tricks. On Dayside a man was interviewed who says he was not hired as a pilot by Jet Blue because of his Muslim religion and Pakistani nationality. Judy's assignment--make it look like Mike Jerrick was biased:

"Dayside" co-host Mike Jerrick tried to rationalize Jet Blue's rejection, saying the airline might be worried that passengers would be afraid of Baig as a pilot.

Jerrick expressed no such opinion. He asked Mr Baig if this was what the airlines were saying to rationalize their actions. It was a question, not a statement of belief.

"I just have a hard time believing that's really the reason they didn't hire him," Jerrick said, taking Jet Blue's side after admitting that he likes Jet Blue and probably wasn't being objective.

Another newspoodle classic of creative editing. To make it look like Jerrick was "taking Jet Blue's side", they left a little something out [QuickTime video]:



Now why do you suppose Judy didn't mention that comment (or Jerrick wishing both Mr Baim and his attorney good luck)? We wondered the same thing:



Oops. Can't have the gullible kennel-dwellers seeing that. Within minutes our comment was erased from the page. No correction was made. More newhounds honesty!

Meanwhile, other denizens of the dog house were engaged in a mad scramble to learn the real truth about...johnny dollar!

• Any known facts about him? Maybe we can find out who he is.
• He is a picayune maggot who loves to edit each thread...
• j$ is from Dearborn Michigan, first name actually William....
• 40 something...
• I heard he was "hatched"...
• In fact,he may be the troll "Markovitz" over at CallingAllWingnuts....Be funny to call him up....
• He cannot be a lawyer...
• It is not a stretch to conclude that Johnny Dollar is a public figure. Cyberfishing for public information on him is not "stalking", in my opinion...

The newshounds' ace investigators have solved yet another mystery! Not. The "facts" about johnny dollar delineated above? All but one are embarrassingly wrong. One of these amateur gumshoes actually posted the address of what they claimed (wrongly) was our place of employment. It was later removed, but we hope none of the innocent people who happen to earn a living at that location are imperiled by Fox hating lunatics stalking them on the job.

The obsession doesn't end there. We were alerted to the case of a poster ("Johnthebaptist") who challenged the accuracy of a newspup claim. Like vultures swarming to attack fresh meat, the kennel-dwellers descended, immediately insisting that he really was--guess who?--johnny dollar!

• Johnthebaptist - come on Dollar are you going to back up your claim?
• Hey Dollar, that's on their web-site.
• Yeah, go ahead and spin it Dollar...
• Prove that Dollar.
• A classic of Johnny Dollar...

As Johnthebaptist noted:

• Not sure why any statement pointing out a MISTAKE brings references that I am in fact someone else, Johnny Dollar in this case (btw thanks for posting the entire name since I had never heard of the guy or site before reading it here and tossing it in google).

And J$P gains another faithful reader. By the way, no plaudits go to newspooch Marie-Therese, who posted:

Pleasae [sic] don't engage Johnny Dollar/John the Baptist/Truthteller....Most of his comments - written as JTB - have been (and will be) deleted.

Now M-T is a newshound. She has webmaster access to the haloscan comments and internal tracking, so it is clear to almost a metaphysical certitude that she knows Johnthebaptist and johnny dollar are not the same person. Yet she posts something that is patently untrue, to justify wiping comments from the thread. And what a thread it is, too. The topic was the kidnapped Fox journalists, and some of the kennel-dwellers' reactions to the abduction demonstrate again why we say to be a Fox hater, you first have to be a hater:

• maybe just a way fo a new gruoip [sic] to get a brand name in prime ime [sic] usa news tv ? fox news and gurreila [sic] gruop [sic] will both benefits [sic] it
• Sadly, these guys may pay the ultimate price for the constant anti-Muslim propaganda that Fox 'News' airs.
• Maybe just maybe...FoxNews staged the kidnapping all by themselves to boost ratings. Wouldn't that be a hoot?
• You would think that Sean Hannity and Bill O'reily [sic] would be the first two to head over and find them. I mean, they do love war right? They are righteous individuals right? Why not save their fellow chickenhawk?
• So seeing that I live in Boulder I'll probably auction off the pleasure of paying me to go throw red paint on the Fox news anchor's [sic] and crew when they show up.
• Hey, maybe they'll want to trade one 'Centanni' for one 'Falafel Man' . . [I hope the foxnappers are reading read . . please God]!!
• maybe if those so called reporters, i did not care for centanni anyway he was a punk. who carried the bush adminastration's water in every report. i am not gonna now say oh god release him safe if he's killed - let foxnews spin it. those dirty punks at fox. foxnews is scum - i wonder why these punks are so quiet at fox right wing scum. if they behead centanni maybe foxnews will get a wake up call.
• I think that we can all agree in here that the world is a better place w/less fox news talkers.

Yes, the tolerance of the Fox haters, in their own words.

Oh, one other thing we almost forgot. Johnthebaptist thought he spotted an error in that particular doggie dissertation. What was it?

The report notes that there have been no ransom demands, which is unusual. FOX News has not covered the story since the initial reports on Monday.

Marie-Therese posted this on Wednesday at 4:50 pm. By an amazing coincidence the last time we met M-T in this space, she had posted about something else that Fox "did not cover". When that assertion was exposed as a falsehood, M-T came up with an all-time classic bowser excuse. She hadn't watched Fox, so she didn't realize that they covered it. In other words, she critiques programming she doesn't even watch!

It would be an astonishing case of deja vu if, after having made that astonshing admission, she were to pull the same disreputable trick again. And yet, what do we find on The Fox Report? This was broadcast Tuesday evening, and the last time we checked, Tuesday does come after Monday [QuickTime video]:



The newsliars should post all their articles for the upcoming week on Monday mornings. Why not? They don't think it's necessary to actually watch Fox News before writing about it. And they could use all that time they save to track down our home address, place of work, and cellphone number. What fun!