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

[yellowdogminnesotan]

You have to ask yourself this, how creditable are you when a room full of sixty year olds laugh at you, because they think your lying.

Best part of the clip, when that sole old man tried to raise his hand for McCain and his wife pushed it down for him, then when asked about Obama he knew he had to raise his hand if he wanted to eat tonight. Don't tell me Democrat Women aren't the soul of our party.

[LondonTownNY]

OMG. This is so insanely and deeply corrupt. This is what happens when you make uneducated knuckleheads without any background in Journalism, journalists. Don't we have any damn pride in this country anymore for legitimate press. This is like watching a Neocon Disinformation Campaign.

[Thorn2008]

look into what it takes to be a journalist then you won't be so shocked they are all hacks want to be writers who lacked the skills and creativity to actually write anything.

[cheesypoofs]

Flipping around the tube, I just saw an Olbermann promo for Worst Persons. It seems Wilson is going to get either the gold, silver or bronze for this example of hilarious partisanship, oops, I mean reporting.

[jlarue]

Thats hilarious!­!....did you see the woman grab her husbands arm and pull it down when they said Mccain, then raised both arms for Obama? And the crowd laughing when he says it is split...cl­assic Fox news.

[cheesypoofs]

"And the crowd laughing when he says it is split...cl­assic Fox news."

With his "split" declaration, Brian Wilson has become the laughing stock of FOX News with (which is hard to do because so much of FOX News is laughable).

[EvoMan]

I saw her the second time I watched it. I'm still laughing.

[Sweetie4Obama]

If you look really well at the reporter, you'll see he raised his had for McCain, as if to "lead" the patrons to raise their hands along with his. Hilarious

[jeniferdaniels]

he was the only guy in camera shot with his hand up...shoul­d he have even raised it all?

[luvangelHussein330]

I love the comment in the background as the reporter gives his essement
"Split?!"
and then everyone laughs...h­ahahaha!! gotta love that faux news

[Sweetie4Obama]

Ummmmmm...­..was it just me, or did I not see ANYONE raise their hand for McCain? I'm just sayin'....­.

[cheesypoofs]

Well, it did look like the dumb reporter raised HIS hand for McCain.

[Sweetie4Obama]

Yeah, I saw that after I watched it again. It's almost as if he was trying to summon everyone else to follow his lead. They never cease to amaze me at Faux News.

[TooDarkMark]

Instead of news organizations constantly showing angry Hillary For McCain older white angry women constantly, I wish they would show two hands up for Obama lady. I love how she pushed down her husbands arm. haha.

[TigerShoes]

Reality again annoying Fox by being in the tank for Obama.

[CostaDelBarto]

Hahhahahah­hahahhahah­ah... gold.

[HC4BO]

This is officially the comment of the month ...

Had me ROFLMAO ....

[sociocanuck]

Does this make McCain unreal or just surreal?

[LucieLee]

Fox just loves to skew things don't they? We will never know the truth watching that network will we? Looks like the majorty, if not all we saw in that restaurant picture were for Obama!!

[lovable]

that was funny nobody raised for mccain and brian said the room was splitt. everyone should see that cilp in the usa and he should lose his job. that was embarassing for a seasoned reporter.a­nd sad that he lied like that.

[CostaDelBarto]

Surely seasoned, in the same way you season a steak by beating it and adding spices... but reporter?

That guy didn't report, he blatantly distorted.

[AliMac02]

As Olberman puts it .... "FIX News." Love it.

[chris48]

Funny stuff.....­love it!

[BluesDogLefty]

lol--dumb

[plooger]

Two things... (1) it sounds like the crowd at the restaurant laughs out loud at the guy, and (2) you just have to LOVE the gal in the background, in the pink jumper, who grabs her husbands(?) arm when he's about to raise it up in response to "who's voting for McCain" -- and then raises BOTH her arms up high when asked "who's voting for Obama?"

Bless her heart.