“If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else?” - RuPaul - - - - - - - - - - - “if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.” - John F. Kennedy - - - - - - - - - - - - “Imagine finding someone you love more than anything in the world, who you would risk your life for but couldn’t marry. And you couldn’t have that special day the way your friends do – you know, wear the ring on your finger and have it mean the same thing as everybody else. Just put yourself in that person’s shoes. It makes me feel sick to my stomach …. When I shared a picture of my tattoo on my Twitter page and said, ‘ALL LOVE is equal,’ a lot of people mocked me – they said, ‘What happened to you? You used to be a Christian girl!’ And I said, ‘Well, if you were a true Christian, you would have your facts straight. Christianity is about love.’ The debate resulted in a lot of threats and hate mail to people who agreed and disagreed with me. At one point I had to say, ‘Dude, everyone lay off.’ Can’t people have friendly debates about sensitive topics without it turning into unnecessary threats?” - Pop star Miley Cyrus on her marriage equality tattoo - - - - - - - - - - -
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Fox News: The Lying Dynasty

This is simply genius.  I'm not sure if you've ever visited the site PolitiFact.com; If you haven't, you should.  It's a really cool website that reports on the truth and false statements given from Politicians.  There is a "Truth-O-Meter," that will inform you if a statement is True, Mostly True, Barely True, Half True, a Flip Flop or just plain False.  You even have a GOP meter, and an Obama Meter that shows what promises are being kept, and what's not.  But this post isn't about PolitiFact.com, it's about Jon Stewart from "The Daily Show" getting back at Fox News for editing his interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday."  Being critical of Fox News is nothing new for Stewart, but due to their apparent falsifying of information, Stewart felt he needed to clarify a few things, with a little humor along the way.

First, Stewart apologized for bringing up a false statement of his own during his interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday, which was, "Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers?" Stewart asked Wallace. "Fox viewers, consistently, every poll" Stewart answered.

After thorough investigative reporting, PoliticFact.com came to the conclusion that Stewart's statement was False:
The way Stewart phrased the comment, it’s not enough to show a sliver of evidence that Fox News’ audience is ill-informed. The evidence needs to support the view that the data shows they are "consistently" misinformed -- a term he used not once but three times. It’s simply not true that "every poll" shows that result. So we rate his claim False.
So, without further adieu, the video below starts off with an apology from Stewart, and he does it by saying,
"I apologize for my mistake, to not do so would be responsible, and if I were to continue to make such mistakes, and misstatements, and not correct them. Especially if each and everyone of those misstatements happen to go in one very particular direction (gesturing w/hands to the right) on the political spectrum, well that would undermine the very integrity and credibility that I work so hard to pretend to care about. Hey, I wonder. You know what? I know PolitiFact checks mostly political statements from politicians and such, but has PolitiFact ever checked FOX for false statements? "
He gestures towards his ear, and says, "I'm hearing they have."

The video is not only funny, but Stewart proves how much Fox News' statements are false. I really, really loved it.


Furthermore, the next day PolitiFact.com released the following post: 
As many of our readers already know, a certain late-night comic aired a five-minute-plus segment last night featuring our work. We thought our readers might appreciate a one-stop-shopping source for all the Fox News-related fact checks that Jon Stewart cited on his June 21, 2011, show. So we created one.
If you don't believe what the list proves, then all you have to do is read about it here, or do your own investigative reporting.
This Post Written By Blade7184 aka Unknown on 6/23/2011
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1 comment:

Ryan said...

"They got a lot of f&*king correcting to do." Priceless and oh so true. Wonderful clip. lol

June 28, 2011 at 11:41 PM

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