When it comes to deceptive smears against FNC, it's hard to top the Outfoxed gals. But not impossible. With J$P Video!

If there is anything that this site hopes to do with its debunking of lies and slanders about Fox News, it is to instill in the thoughtful reader a reservoir of healthy skepticism. Nothing the Fox haters say should be taken at face value. For one thing, the people out to smear Fox frequently have no idea what they're talking about. Misinformation is rampant (see Wikipedia), even among those who claim expertise: e.g., the newshounds (another fine product of the Outfoxed syndicate):

• A one-hour Mancow special broadcast was described as "a new 3 hour Mancow Show premiering on Saturday".
• Mancow has appeared on Fox & Friends "regularly on FOX & Friends for the past several months"; actually, he's in his sixth year.
• The Brookings Institute is a "conservative think tank".
• Hilariously, they claim the Thomas More Law Center appears on Fox to drum up "more business...Ka-Ching!". The Center is, of course, a "not-for-profit public interest law firm...providing legal representation without charge".

If being clueless about your subject matter is bad business for a writer, deliberately misinforming them is worse. They use imputation:

Fred Barnes - apparent old-school racist said, "They [the GOP] were willing to nominate a black, (my emphasis) but always in a race that was not winnable."

Fred's words have been doctored: he was quoting an oft-heard criticism of the GOP, and then proceeded to debunk it. In other words, the opposite meaning of what was claimed. The newspooches have also resurrected the time travel trick:

During the FOX & Friends program this morning, the interchangeable hosts made a big deal about the last minute Republican "surge" in the polls... However, a FOX News/Opinion Dynamics poll of likely voters, covering Saturday and Sunday, November 4th and 5th, shows the Democrats leading nationally by 13%! FOX News apparently can't even bring itself to quote its own polling numbers if those numbers predict a dismal election day for the GOP.

The Fox poll did not come out until after 11:00 am, more than two hours after Fox & Friends went off the air. The curs are slamming FNC for not reporting news that hadn't happened yet! The first reporting of this poll was at 11:20 am [QuickTime video]:



The "Fox doesn't cover" meme is always good for a smear...or an embarrassment:

Fox Does, but Doesn't, "Cover" the War Crimes Complaint Filed Against Donald Rumsfeld in Germany
I haven't seen any coverage on Fox about the war crimes complaint filed in Germany against Donald Rumsfeld, have you? After a quick review of Fox's website I come up empty there too. But no one can accuse them of blacking that news out; they covered their tracks today... Cavuto headed to a break with this promo over a chyron that read, "Unknown Crimes?" You probably heard about that lawsuit filed in Germany against Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes but I'll bet you have not heard about the crimes committed in North Korea against its very own citizens.... No, we can't say Fox hasn't covered the Donald Rumsfeld complaint but come on; The audience knows essentially nothing after "coverage" like this. Once again Fox is more interested in providing coverage to the Bush administration than providing news coverage to its viewers.

If you actually accept what the mongrels claim, you might believe that it wasn't covered on the Fox website. And if you lack that healthy skepticism, you might swallow the notion that none of this happened:



Finally, if you think we're picking on the bowsers too much, we'll throw a little light on mediabistro's tvnewser. He has a disconcerting habit of posting tidbits and screengrabs sent to him by rivals of FNC. Here's something from just today:



This damning comparison is, once again, not what it seems. The MSNBC frame is from the top of the hour: a report on the fighting in Iraq. The FNC frame is from the end of the hour: a cut-in from Shep previewing the Iraq/US summit in Jordan. It was not two versions of "the war in Iraq" because these were two different stories! Whoever created this choice bit of propaganda could have used something from earlier in FNC's hour, when they were covering the fighting in Iraq. Perhaps this is why they didn't [QuickTime video]:



Hmm. Someone was too eager to besmirch Fox to make an honest comparison. And was someone else too ready to disseminate fraudulent spin to check out its validity before posting it?