Faux [Fox]: Fair and Balanced; Fox excludes McCain comment (Congress, interview, democratic)
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FOX excluded McCain's "didn't love" USA remark from transcript
Update: If you haven't yet seen John McCain saying "I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company", here's video from Dan Abrams' show (broken link) including McCain's comments:
McCain's most recent formulation of "I really didn't love America" came in March during a one-hour interview on Sean Hannity's show on FOX News Channel. Here's a transcript:
HANNITY: You spent two years of this five-and-a-half-year period in solitary confinement. What does that do to a person, to spend that much time in solitary confinement?
MCCAIN: I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company.
Obviously, there's absolutely nothing wrong with what McCain said to Sean Hannity. (Edit: I put this in bold to make sure people get the point that the issue here is the hypocrisy of attacking Michelle, and FOX News' exclusion of the comment from their transcript.)
But it does create a bit of a problem for Hannity and the rest of the GOP freakshow, because McCain's comment was essentially identical to Michelle Obama's comment about being "really proud" of America.
Combined with McCain's concession that "it's tough" to be proud of America, his comments on Hannity's program pretty much eviscerate the right-wing attack machine's ability to go smear Michelle Obama.
I probably should not have been surprised when I discovered that the FOX News' transcript (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337834,00.html - broken link) of the interview does not contain any reference to the exchange whatsoever. Nada.
Fortunately, even though FOX excluded the remarks from its transcript, the transcript on RealClearPolitics.com does contain a full transcript of the exhange -- otherwise McCain's remarks might never have come to light.
I suppose there might be some innocent explanation for how FOXNews.com somehow managed to erase that politically damaging exchange from their website, but I'll bet the odds of that explanation being true are less than 1%. Probably far less.
Everybody already knows that FOX is conservative, but doesn't doctoring the transcript -- as they seem to have done -- violate every journalistic standard an MSM organization should have?
FOX excluded McCain's "didn't love" USA remark from transcript
Update: If you haven't yet seen John McCain saying "I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company", here's video from Dan Abrams' show (broken link) including McCain's comments:
McCain's most recent formulation of "I really didn't love America" came in March during a one-hour interview on Sean Hannity's show on FOX News Channel. Here's a transcript:
HANNITY: You spent two years of this five-and-a-half-year period in solitary confinement. What does that do to a person, to spend that much time in solitary confinement?
MCCAIN: I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company.
Obviously, there's absolutely nothing wrong with what McCain said to Sean Hannity. (Edit: I put this in bold to make sure people get the point that the issue here is the hypocrisy of attacking Michelle, and FOX News' exclusion of the comment from their transcript.)
But it does create a bit of a problem for Hannity and the rest of the GOP freakshow, because McCain's comment was essentially identical to Michelle Obama's comment about being "really proud" of America.
Combined with McCain's concession that "it's tough" to be proud of America, his comments on Hannity's program pretty much eviscerate the right-wing attack machine's ability to go smear Michelle Obama.
I probably should not have been surprised when I discovered that the FOX News' transcript (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337834,00.html - broken link) of the interview does not contain any reference to the exchange whatsoever. Nada.
Fortunately, even though FOX excluded the remarks from its transcript, the transcript on RealClearPolitics.com does contain a full transcript of the exhange -- otherwise McCain's remarks might never have come to light.
I suppose there might be some innocent explanation for how FOXNews.com somehow managed to erase that politically damaging exchange from their website, but I'll bet the odds of that explanation being true are less than 1%. Probably far less.
Everybody already knows that FOX is conservative, but doesn't doctoring the transcript -- as they seem to have done -- violate every journalistic standard an MSM organization should have?
Like other Rupert Murdoch outlets, Fox doesn't have any journalistic standards. Their only goal is to further the prospects of the Republican party, they certainly are not above omitting part of a transcript or outright lying. That's why they have become the joke of the cable news industry.
Like other Rupert Murdoch outlets, Fox doesn't have any journalistic standards. Their only goal is to further the prospects of the Republican party, they certainly are not above omitting part of a transcript or outright lying. That's why they have become the joke of the cable news industry.
I really look forward to watching how Fox chooses to morph or is forced to morph if/when a less vicious mood sweeps the country. I'd love it if the last I see of, for example, John Gibson, is a whatever happened to? news piece saying that he finally got a new job at a radio station in North Dakota.
You must be running out of new material Sanrene if ya gotta resort to digging through news archives to find dirt!
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