The Fox News Ethos Summarized In Thirty Seconds

[Via Gawker/Sullivan] Back in 2004, filmmaker Robert Greenwald released a documentary called Outfoxed, which spent seventy-five minutes diving deeply into the arcane workings of the Fox News Channel, painstakingly building the case that the cable news outlet's presentations of "fair and balanced" news was underpinned by a demonstrable and pervasive conservative bias. What a difference four years makes! Watch this clip, in which everything a nation of Fox skeptics have claimed becomes readily apparent in under thirty seconds.

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Comments

[kate99]

I saw this when it was on fox and was just like the people in the diner when he said its spilt I just lol do they think there viewers are blind we know they think they have to be told what is real and what is not even if its lies but now this they think they are blind

[OddManOut]

Did you notice when Brian Wilson asks "Who's going to vote for McCain", he is the only person who raises his hand. Then when he asks who is voing for Obama, he puts his hand down!

At least he declares his bias...at least sort of.

[gez]

Today -09/02/08-Fox news news went to another diner in PA. This time they made sure they got the right result. This was a Republican stronghold with a 35% vote advantage to Bush in 2004

[wedapeepo]

HILARIOUS!!!! LOL ROFLMAO HE HE HE

[Roshi98]

Did anyone notice the elderly couple sitting a a few booths back? The husband initially raises his hand for McCain and his wife swats his arm down! Hilarious!

[jamarib2mom]

Yea I saw it that was to funny!!

Obama 08

[VicksieDo]

ROFL!!!

[MConde]

Hey guys I've been looking for this video. I watched it on Keith last night it was hilarious. I was embarrassed for him. All i could say was damn Fix new, please don't show the world how stupid your viewers are.

[HerbTee]

Fixed Noise, what a joke...LOL­! And they call this news? Notice the older lady in the background pushing down her (likely) husband's arm when he tried to raise it when the reporter asked who's voting for McCain. When the reporter asked who's voting for Obama, both her arms quickly thrusted into the air as if announcing a touchdown. Her husband slowly raised his arm. We know who wears the pants in that man's home..LOL!

All in all, it's so good that Obama is strongly leading in the polls in PA, OH and a few other swing states against McCain. So much for the people who said Obama didn't stand a chance in the swing states without Hillary Clinton on his ticket.

[grantlingel]

haha, that is insane.. foxnews is so amateur.

http://grantlingel.blogspot.com

[grantlingel]

hahaha!!! foxnews... what a joke... that is hilarious.

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[CBone]

This is spectacular! That's why the polls are so close! Hahahaha! Fox sux.

[meron1986]

wow... this is hilarious!!! The reporter was the only one raising his hand for McCain in the clip.... the rest for Obama! Hmmmmm.... I can't seem to figure out how to conclude the results as "Split" decision. Geeez I'm getting dumber when it comes to Math ppl.

[JiminNC]

Explains the polls being so close.

[Marcus-UK]

What a fantastic clip.

I fell off my chair laughing so hard,

I think FOX NEWS must assume that the majority of their viewers are partially or totally blind.

Spinners!!

[Kerris]

LOL

I mean, do they all sit down in conference rooms at Fox and come up with ways to ditch every journalistic ethic they ever learned?

Stupidity like that takes practice.