Fox News vs. Fox News Commentators

Many people excuse the falsehoods and misinformation found on Fox News Channel as mere opinion from commentators, or political pundits. Many a comment has been left and many an email received that tries to convince us that the “news” anchors on Fox News are somehow different; that they tell the truth; that they are the only source for truth. You get the gist. Even Fox News claims that their programming from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on weekdays is objective.

Media Matters for America has put together a great list that puts that “fair and balanced” theory to the test. Hint: Fox News is full of Fail.

• Hemmer advances smear that Jennings knew of “statutory rape” and “never reported it.”
• Kelly on Sotomayor comment: “sounds to a lot of people like reverse racism.”
• America’s Newsroom falsehood: “House Dems vote to protect pedophiles, but not veterans.”
• Henneberg repeats right-wing myth that hate crimes bill could gag ministers.
• Fox News’ Hemmer “keeping track of the stimulus money” — by lifting research from GOP website.
• America’s Newsroom promotes tea party organizing info on-air and online.
• America’s Newsroom directs viewers to “virtual tea party.”
• America’s Newsroom pushes discredited GOP calculation of Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal.
• America’s Newsroom falsely claimed Obama budget “4x bigger than Bush’s costliest plan.”
• America’s Newsroom promotes McCaughey falsehood that stimulus would “hav[e] the government essentially dictate treatments.”
• Happening Now passes off GOP press release as its own research — typo and all.
• Happening Now posts “FOXfact[s]” about GOP budget nearly identical to GOP Rep. Ryan’s op-ed.
• Happening Now crops clips of Obama to promote “another apology tour.”
• Fox News presents deceptively cropped six-month-old Biden clip as new.
• Fox’s Camerota pushes bogus stat that cap-and-trade would cost “every American family $1,761 annually.”
• Jarrett suggests DOJ “thinks it’s OK to intimidate white people, not OK to intimidate black people at the polls.”
• Live Desk: “Dems and Unions Push to Kill Workers’ Right to Secret Ballot.”
• MacCallum agrees with Bachmann’s claim that Obama’s proposals are a “lurch toward socialism.”
• “Democrat” Mark Sanford.
• Baier smears Jennings as failing to report “sexual abuse.”
• Wilson: Jennings “admitted” that “he failed to alert authorities when a 15-year-old boy told him he was involved in a sexual relationship with an older man.”
• Video doctoring: Goler reverses meaning of Obama quote to falsely suggest he supports European-style health care.
• Fox’s Garrett deceptively cropped Obama remark on judicial role.
• Rosen: “Rats could attack us in the sewers and court systems if all of Cass Sunstein’s writings became law.”
• Special Report packs in health care falsehoods.
• Baier falsely suggests Obama has cited Canada as possible health reform model.
• Special Report falsely suggests activism question deleted from questionnaire for Sotomayor.
• “Death book” distortions abound on Fox News Sunday.
• Wallace revives rationing bogeyman.
• Wallace claimed Holder, confirmed 75-21, “got into office by the skin of his teeth.”
• Wallace on Obama: “pettiness,” “childishness”; Obama admin. “biggest bunch of crybabies.”

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