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Intershame On: Steve Doocy |
Making Shit Up
10/20/2009
After what Steve Doocy said, I have doubt about his ability to read.
Today we tap one of our favorite sources for idiocy, Fox News' morning zoo "Fox and Friends".The Fox News family is all up in arms over the Obama White House categorizing their network, not as news, but as exactly what they are - a right-wing talking point regurgitation machine with an agenda. Naturally, Fox News is responding exactly how you'd expect an entity to respond after they've had the unattractive truth of their reality thrown into their face - by pleading ignorance and feigning shock.
It's not easy to combat a truth as obvious as Fox News' bias, but the network is certainly giving it the old college try. As part Fox News' self-defense, Fox and Friends anchors Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy interviewed former Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino so she could juxtapose the Bush White House's willingness to deal with unfriendly media next to the the Obama "unjust" stance towards Fox News.
While this notion is laughable, what Steve Doocy says during the interview is not. Referring to the White House's criticism of Fox News, Doocy states (video follows):
And you know it's funny Dana, I didn't do a thorough search, but I did do a little Google thing. The New York Times came out against it, The Nation refers to, says there's a word for what the President and his aids are doing and that's "whining" and refers to the President as the "Whiner-in-Chief", the Baltimore Sun thinks it's stupid, and the Newsweek column said that it is essentually un-American.
Newsweek called Obama un-American? Not only is that complete bullshit, it's backwards. The Newsweek article Doocy cites says that Rupert Murdoch is un-American for bringing the Australian-British-continental model of politicized media to the United States via Fox News. That's right, Newsweek is calling the very existence of Fox News un-American, not the White House for criticizing it.
The article is even called "The O’Garbage Factor. Fox News isn't just bad. It's un-American." How can you possibly fuck up the meaning of that article? I guess when Doocy told Perino "I didn't do a thorough search", he wasn't kidding.
The Newsweek article in question can be found here, and below is the relevant excerpt:
What's most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its century-old tradition of independence—that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. Media independence is a 20th-century innovation that has never fully taken root in many other countries that do have a free press. The Australian-British-continental model of politicized media that Murdoch has applied at Fox is un-American, so much so that he has little choice but go on denying what he's doing as he does it. For Murdoch, Ailes, and company, "fair and balanced" is a necessary lie. To admit that their coverage is slanted by design would violate the American understanding of the media's role in democracy and our idea of what constitutes fair play. But it's a demonstrable deceit that no longer deserves equal time.I have some advice for Fox News - if you want your television station to be a credible news organization, maybe you should tell your anchors to stop making shit up.
Comments
- 317 days agoThe problem is that nobody who watches fox news actually wants to hear the truth, they just want to hear things which reinforce their pathetically ignorant world view.
- 316 days agoUnfortunately, Sadface writes the truth. Fox Opinion viewers just what the hear someone speaking what they believe so they don't feel bad about being in the minority now.
- 316 days agoHah! I was going to find that Newseek article online and post the link to it on the Fox & Friends website...but the sorry bitches don't have a comments section! I wonder what they are afraid people would post in the comments...LOL!
- 316 days agoi hate doocy and kilmeade but moreso the guy who sits in for kilmeade. Gretchen is a witch. they are older than me, so if all goes well ill atleast get to see them die one day
- 315 days agoI could abide with their folksy, aw-shucks kind of attitude towards the news if they would admit the mistake about this one. I don't think they will though. What if they do stuff like this on purpose? Would I be crazy to think so? Let me see, what would the on-air apology look like? "Oh, about that comment I made the other day that Newsweek called the Obama Administration un-American, what Newsweek was REALLY saying was that FOX NEEEEWWWSS was un-American. My bad."
- 315 days agoLet me say this, I remember Steve Doofy when he was on our local Washington DC NBC affiliate, WRC-TV during the 1980s when he was the "entertainment" reporter. Back then, I just thought he was a vacuous twit without an ounce of brain, but now I realize it was an audition for Cluster Fox News
- 306 days agoI thought Rupert Murdoch was quoted as saying he was ramping up the partison BS, because it was ratings gold. I didn't realize he has been trying to actually say Fox News is "Fair & Balanced." Of course, I can't locate the quote, doing my Little Google Thing. And Doocy is one brain cell away from being a vegetable.
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