“We Distort, You Decide”
Are you hungry? hungry for the endless propaganda bukkake FOX News unloads on viewers every day? If so, read no further. Why spoil your appetite? In the video above above, FOX News claims former GOP Rep. Mark Foley is a Democrat.
True, FOX News is not the only network that regularly ejaculates an infected load of propaganda on to the faces of unwary viewers, nay, it is not by far. In fact, CNN hired psy-op specialists to work in their newsroom to perfect the literal brainwashing we call the cable news today. ABC, CBS, NBC have all done it and still do. However, the internet has made them vulnerable to accountability whenever they try it now….
But with FOX News, here we have a true exception, a true state media organ with a claim to journalism so flaccid and impotent even high school papers eclipse their professionalism and integrity.
Witness the video above.
On at least three different occasions, Bill O’Reilly’s “No Spin Zone” spun a twisted web of lies so transparent my immediate indignation and pity soon turned into laughter. O’Reilly, you see, identified Republican Mark Foley as a Democrat, knowing full well Foley is a Republican, as his last few shows correctly identified him as a Republican and defended him on those grounds… that is, until more pages came forward and more emails and IM messages surfaced. O’Reilly sees the text and graphics on studio monitors the second they come up, he cannot say it was an oversight an blame it on an underling, but he assuredly will. The deception was intentional, and it becomes obvious by the number of times the “error” was repeated and their length of time. Most telling, however, was the clip where a former page is interviewed, clearly the most damning piece on Mark Foley (R-FL). And as he gets into the revolting details, guess what graphics pop up? An image of the disgraced congressman and the following title: MARK FOLEY (D-FL).
“No Spin Zone” indeed. This was a clear attempt to mislead viewers into thinking that a Democrat solicited sex with an underage male page, and that a Democrat is at the heart of the scandal, yet protected by no less than Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, whom is now facing calls to resign!
However stupid and gullible O’Reilly thinks his audience may be, it slipped his mind that his show is not the only one on FOX, or the only cable news channel covering the scandal. Nor can he expect this ploy to work unless his viewers can’t read or don’t.
What is certain is that FOX News takes pride in its bias, and excuses “right-wing” propaganda as an alternative to “liberal” propaganda, never seeing the idiocy and shame of this admission, ignoring the glaring fact that propaganda is not news, it is the exact opposite: it is fiction and disinformation parading as news to achieve political or military objectives.
Worst of all, it ignores the simple fact these actions are not only counter to the interests of the viewers, they can and do lead them to act against them.
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