People are vanishing. Could it be The Rapture? No, it's just the Outfoxed gals. Which one told The Lie of the Week? With J$P Video!

It's been a busy week for the Fox haters. You had mental giants like Keith Olbermann insisting that nobody at Fox has criticized the execution of the Iraq war, while our friends the newshounds complain that FNC covered Anna Nicole Smith's death. This last is particularly ironic, considering their own site:



But there's more than hypocrisy afoot; there's also dishonesty. Read what the anti-Fox terriers have to say about The Live Desk; pay particular attention to their incisive analysis of that program's roundtable, and the purpose of the "wild card":

"Wild cards" have included an actor and a comediene [sic], but one of the most frequent types of wild card has been simply Fox News employees: Neil Cavuto, Geraldo Rivera, and Paige [sic] Hopkins, for example. And they are there to give Fox News a double shot at promoting Fox News' [sic] beliefs, to stack the deck against whatever progresssives might be on the panel.

Here is a recent example of this devious technique with "wild card" Lis Wiehl [QuickTime video]:



Don't bother looking for a "report" about this on the newspoodles' site. You won't find it. When people appear on Fox and say something that doesn't fit the spin of the biased bassets, that appearance somehow vanishes and doesn't get mentioned. Poor Ms Wiehl isn't the only person who was lost in cyberspace this week. Take this writeup by Marie Therese on the new latenight hour, Red Eye:

They then aired some earilier [sic] Man on the Street interviews on effects of global warming on polar bears. However the rest of the segment essentially trashed the whole idea of global warming.

Here is some of the trashing [QuickTime video]:



Next we find Donna slamming a Major Garrett report on the Iraq debate:

Republican Senator Video On Fox: "Not The President's War, It Is Freedom's War" ...Major Garrett said that the Republicans said that the war on terror was centralized in Iraq. During the segment they had a video of Senator Demint (R-SC)... How many times do we have to go over the fact that there was no reason to go to war in Iraq except that Bush wanted to? It is his war no matter how Fox tries to use video to prove that it isn't.

Why is it a big deal that they had a soundbite from a Republican Senator? Because, according to the anti-Fox terriers, they use these video clips to secretly support Bush. But is there something Donna's not telling us? We record, you decide [QuickTime video]:



Yes, that very report also had a soundbite from Harry Reid! Why did Donna leave that out? After all, this was another example of how Fox uses these video clips to further its eeevil agenda. And then she got on her high horse about a Brian Wilson report regarding Oregon's climatologist, who doesn't agree with global warming theories. We'll take her points one by one:

Unfortunately this report is almost completely false. 1. Oregon has no "state climatologist."

Her authoritative source for this is a blue blog ("a place for progressive Oregonians") that asserts that unless a climatologist works for the government, there is no state climatologist. This errant nonsense is neatly dispelled by the American Association of State Climatologists:

State Climatologists currently exist in 47 states and Puerto Rico. They are typically either employees of state agencies or are staff members of state-supported universities.

Where the state's laws do not provide for the position (and Oregon's do not, since 1989), the state climatologist is chosen by the leading state University in the field, and that choice is recognized by the AASC and its affiliates, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Department of Agriculture, and the National Climatic Data Center. Back to Donna:

2. Taylor is not a climatologist. He is a meteorologist.

This is embarrassing. Donna's "proof" is Dr Taylor's resume, which plainly states not only that his occupation is "climatologist", but also that he was chosen to be President of the American Association of State Climatologists.

3. Taylor will not lose his job, or any income.

A classic straw man. Fox never said that he would. We brought each and every one of these falsehoods to Donna's attention. And yet the article still stands as written, a monument to hound dishonesty. Its last line is a classic of arrogant chutzpah:

Will Fox, "Special Report" and Wilson clarify these errors?

Fox gets it entirely correct so Donna, who got it completely wrong, calls on Fox to clarify "errors" while leaving her own fabrications intact? Hahahaa! Such pomposity surely wins her The Lie of the Week.