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Old 11-29-2010, 08:34 AM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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I tell ya, this is nothing compared to when CNN had a breaking news blaring headlines and story about a simulated terrorist attack.
Go back to sleep. Nobody is paying a bit of attention to you , and nobody wants to change the subject.
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Old 11-29-2010, 09:00 AM
 
Location: OCEAN BREEZES AND VIEWS SAN CLEMENTE
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This comment especially struck me. With the depth and breadth of problems as they are, would you rather have someone THINK about those problems instead of elect someone like Palin who doesn't have enough gray matter for material facts to trip past?

How much actor/ pageant training is she going to need to coach a concerned look in her eye, perhaps muse over complex problems? The vogue foreign policy face-- growl like a pit bull for me honey. Now your moose hunter face...
Sorry i feel this way about Omama. Feel he has extensive good acting, pageant training. Definitely can look you straight in the face, tell ya something that ain't gona happen. He is so soft on the immigration problem, makes me sick. Dream Act can be shoved.

Fox would not be the first News Station, to scr-- up a news-story, or not check facts, nothing upsetting about this, except too many need something about nothing to write about. Wouldn't be the first nor will it be the last time a News Story, gets so screw-- up, or facts will not be checked. What's the big deal here, except, oh i know, you people need to bit-- about Fox, your daily vitamin i guess.
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Old 11-29-2010, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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I guess this is what is meant by, "We report, you decide."

They give erroneous news stories and we decide whether they are true or not.
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Old 11-29-2010, 11:37 AM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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It wasn't Fox News but Fox Nation and the title of the article clearly says "The Onion".

The Onion: Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail - Barack Obama - Fox Nation (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2010/11/26/frustrated-obama-sends-nation-rambling-75000-word-e-mail - broken link)

Won't be the first time I've seen people duped into thinking an Onion article was real.
Any news reporter should know the Onion is not a credible source! Surely it's still par for the course to check sources before you go with something?
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Old 11-29-2010, 12:28 PM
 
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Hello!?!?! People! The title of the article SAYS that it came from the Onion. What more do you need? Are you people that are ragging on Fox news about this as intelligent as you like to think you are? This didn't come from FOX news and it was satire and they LABELED it as such by stating it came from the Onion. Is this all you Progs got?
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Old 11-29-2010, 12:39 PM
 
Location: On Top
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Hello!?!?! People! The title of the article SAYS that it came from the Onion. What more do you need? Are you people that are ragging on Fox news about this as intelligent as you like to think you are? This didn't come from FOX news and it was satire and they LABELED it as such by stating it came from the Onion. Is this all you Progs got?
How would FOX viewers know what the Onion is when they are stuck on FOX 24/7?!!
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Old 11-29-2010, 12:47 PM
 
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How would FOX viewers know what the Onion is when they are stuck on FOX 24/7?!!
Give it a rest. You guys thought you had something, but were all too lost to realize that you had nothing.
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Old 11-29-2010, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Indianapolis, IN
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Hello!?!?! People! The title of the article SAYS that it came from the Onion. What more do you need? Are you people that are ragging on Fox news about this as intelligent as you like to think you are? This didn't come from FOX news and it was satire and they LABELED it as such by stating it came from the Onion. Is this all you Progs got?
Actually, you're wrong. Fox changed the title partway though the day. It was not there originally:

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The original Obama headline didn't mention The Onion, and the only clue for readers was a link to the satirical site after the first two paragraphs of the story.
Fox News Posts Onion Obama Story Amid Real News (update) | TheWrap.com
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Old 11-29-2010, 12:59 PM
 
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Give it a rest. You guys thought you had something, but were all too lost to realize that you had nothing.
You're right the OP wasn't necessary to prove that FOX News is faux news, it's been long established....
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Old 11-29-2010, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Hades
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Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news | Raw Story

Why report real news, when you can just find anything and throw it out there?

"For a news outlet to retain credibility, standard industry procedure dictates that reporters and editors not only correct mistakes, but acknowledge them as well. Fox Nation had done neither at time of this writing."

Not just delete the story and hope no one noticed. Even after Fox has been repeatedly mocked for presenting satire as news.

One must wonder if the comments portray an even more bizarre picture of their readers. The commenter's posting about the article never even bothered to read the reference link that pointed to The Onion for a considerable amount of time. Instead many complained they were not part of his email list and commented randomly about mental health in relation to Hitler.
Ridiculous and ironic. I actually like the Onion, but seeing its posts uploaded to an actual news source- I would not expect. Fox news again exhibits its substandard reporting-why would they link a satircal Onion article???? There are tons of satirical Onion articles existing (and in the make) regarding the retardedness of anyone choosing to actually source these detrimental reviews.
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