I understand that most of you love Fox News, and probably agree with them 99% of the time (if not more), but aren’t you concerned that Fox News is trying to control you like little children? Here is a case of poll, perhaps we could even consider it a mock election, and they are trying to obscure something that the majority voted for. Don’t try to tell me it was an obvious mistake, what professional news team makes a mistake like that? They would have had to dig up last years footage when this years footage was handy, just brought in by their correspondents. They have been caught doing this kind of thing on several occasions, it isn’t an isolated incident.

I suppose there will be some who say “the liberal media lies all the time!” Fine, but you guys don’t listen to the “liberal media” anyway, so why should that matter? Here is a case of the team you are supposed to trust deliberately lying to you, apparently because they don’t like the will of the CPAC majority.

Maybe you can forgive them this time, but there will come a day when Roger Ailes directs all his on air cheerleaders to throw their full support behind something you are opposed to. In a democracy the will of the majority counts, not the will of a rich man with the biggest bullhorn.

It could make the exact same point much tighter and more effectively if it were culled down to 30 seconds.

Lose the stupid robot voice, don’t play “the deception” again and again and again superimposed on each other. Get to the real footage sooner.

Show the Fox clip once. Show the audio (was there really no video?) from 2010. Yes, we’ll instantly get that they’re the same, you don’t need to repeat it multiple times. And then get to the real footage within 30 seconds.

Then it would be a clip people would actually watch until the end and want to share.

I think we should be very, very concerned.

I don’t know what pisses me off more, FOX’s flagrant propagandizing, or public apathy to the face. FOX NEWS is single-handedly responsible for pushing this country way farther to the right than it should reasonably be, and for taking public discourse from relevant and timely issues for the sake of distraction and spectacle.

Upset that Wall Street ran off with your pension fund? Nope. Upset that Obama is a sekrit muslin mustard-gate terrist.

Fox news:’Some troll tried to troll our troll. But guess what? We trolled him! LOL!’

Boingboing:’We’re trolling because this obvious troll got trolled, and THEN they trolled the troll. LOL!’

–i’m just wondering why ron paul didn’t call fox on it when he was interviewed.

As Paul states in the interview he wasn’t present at the event. Even if he had been, it might have been easier to believe that the boos just hadn’t been audible from where he was standing than the network interviewing him had completely doctored the footage.

Besides, yelling “that footage was DOCTORED!” would have made Paul look like a loopy conspiracy theorist (well, more so) if he didn’t have proof handy. It will be interesting to see how he reacts now that he does have such proof.

Then again, MSNBC and CNN are barely any better now.

Can we call Fox News out for being a propaganda machine now? This seems to confirm what everyone knows, yet no conservative will admit.

Every conservative I know admits it. I admit it. Ron Paul has said it. Why do you think we conservatives don’t know this?

Who is supposed to stop them from doing this?

Hint: Not conservatives.

Another hint: Not republicans.

One more hint: you know that guy you see every morning when you are shaving? That liberal guy? It’s him.

Or to put it another way: What are you going to do about it, Whitey? Nothing, that’s what – unless you count whining. So don’t expect anything to change.

Conservatives are hardly going to attack your enemies for you if you are too weak and timid to do it yourselves – we’d rather go after the Huffington Post.

Here is a CNN staged report on the first Gulf War in Iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LvNIUHgnGk

They all do it and should pay heavy fines for it.

My Dad likes to watch Fox News to get his blood boiling. I don’t think that’s very healthy, but I do like watching the odd You Tube clip for the hilarity.

So I sat down to watch some delicious Fox “news” bashing.

The first example was a classic Fox manufacturing news moment.

The bonus Fox misbehaviour on the other hand? I watched the majority of both clips to see how they had heavily edited the footage, and to be honest there didn’t seem to be that much of a difference! I’d hardly call it heavily edited. Indeed for such boring footage they showed a hell of a lot of it. I didn’t watch the mutual wankfest that followed between ORLY and the other muppet, so maybe there was something there.

There is simply no need to grasp at straws like that when criticising Fox, they give so much ammunition.

Look, I’ve looked at a lot of his policy stances and, while he certainly isn’t anywhere near my first choice? He’s a HELL of a lot better than McCain, Palin, or Romney.

Maybe chill out a bit before you start looking daggers my way ehh? I thought Mods were meant to quell outbursts, not start them.

I’m just happy I don’t have to deal with the shit-fight that Fux creates in the US. My favourite method would involve the old technique of: infuriate-until-a-punch-is-thrown-then-absolutely-destroy-opponent. Violence is the answer when idiots are making up their own reality and expecting us to join in.

Can the next idiot who decides to lose their shit please target Fox? Burning dowm some of their premises is the least you could do for the greater good of the world.

Ron Paul’s mainstream American religious views predispose him to homophobic bigotry – there’s no doubt about that. However, he has struggled with the conflict between his religious views and his ideas about personal liberty, and more recently (like, for example, during his speech to CPAC, partially sponsored by a gay organization) he has called for tolerance, even acceptance of individual behavior that he personally disapproves.

Pretty small beer, I know. As a gay man you don’t have any reason to support a politician who thinks you are cursed and depraved, even though he has come to believe the mechanisms of government have no business in your bedroom. I only bring this up because it’s a major difference between Paul pere and Paul fils – Rand Paul has not yet evolved to the point of being willing to “stand united” with his countrymen who are gay or subscribe to non-Christian religions. You would do well to separate the two, and use your bully pulpit to bring the separation forward, because Ron Paul’s message of individual liberty and responsibility, (combined with his demonstrated personal integrity) are increasingly popular in this country. It would be a shame if the son were to ride to power on the coat-tails of the more distinguished father, but that seems likely to happen.

Ron Paul is like the Taliban’s leading lights; fundamentally wrong in some of his ideas, but noticeably consistent and honorable in his application of his principles. He is not a liar or a thief, which makes him one of about three Americans in Congress who can make that claim. That integrity gives him a certain power which I would hope his less principled, less thoughtful son will not inherit.

“With sufficient eyeballs, all propaganda is laughable”?

I’m not even sure Fox knows what it stands for at this point.

Mike Royko spelled out exactly what Fox stands for, decades ago, when he quite the Chicago Sun-Times after Rupert Murdoch bought it:

“No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in a Murdoch paper”, and “[H]is goal is not quality journalism. His goal is vast power for Rupert Murdoch, political power”

(Texas congressman responds to mixed reaction following second victory in a row)

According to http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-airing-of-old-cpac-footage-showing-crowd-booing-ron-paul-was-a-mistake/

Fox News Said:
“We made a mistake with some of the video we aired, and plan on issuing a correction on America’s Newsroom tomorrow morning explaining exactly what happened.”

See here for many wise thoughts on propaganda and how it works:
http://fora.tv/search_video?q=propaganda&x=0&y=0