Fox News: "The Facts Are Not Irrefutable"

Here's an enjoyable piece of video of Fox News' William La Jeunesse attempting to speak extemporaneously about facts and fact checking and who fact checks the factcheckers for their factcheckiness. This was probably a big mistake, as what ensued was a festival of malapropism and double-negative misorienteering, culminating in a statement that many people might find to be a fitting corporate motto for Fox News.

[WATCH.]

LA JEUNESSE: Tonight as those candidates debate, an army of internet fact checkers will be trying to separate fact from fiction, acting as judge and jury as to which candidate is telling the truth or a tall tale. While most of these sites are non-partisan, timely and useful, like Factcheck.org and Politifact, remember, they are uh...well, their facts are -- no one is checking the fact checkers. And their facts...unlike science...the facts are not irrefutable. And now to Washington.

Comments

[Subversive]

FOX NEWS!!!!

FAIR AND BALANCED!!!!!

WHERE FACTS ARE NOT IRREFUTABLE!!!!!!!

AND LIES ARE NOT ALWAYS NEVER NOT IRREFUTABLE!!!!!!!!!

"...and speaking of lies what's coming up on 'O'Reilly' and 'Hannity and Colmes' tonight, Martha?"

[RobinM]

so by their logic, anything said by the reporters and anchors on Fox should be taken with a grain of salt as they haven't been fact checked?

[kathy001]

LOL! And if they do get fact checked we should still not be convinced because the fact checkers haven't been fact checked.

[Susej]

I always wondered if Fox News talking @$$es...I mean heads are so right wing nuts or lapdogs to their extremist Australian-born boss who would do anything to mislead this nation to fight other countries' wars?

[Susej]

You've just witnessed someone talking from his a-hole.
It stunk even through the computer monitor.

[ebanks84]

FOX will always have NOISE, RHETORIC, DELUSIONAL mouthpiecs with tainted, warped, refutable information.

[Pacojam]

Fox should not be allowed to call themselves a "News" channel because it is not factual.

[chelosagar]

FACT - a thing known to be true.....

Seriously, Fox News?

Maybe for them, it's only true if they say it's true....what a bunch of hypocrites

[Kerris]

So... lemme get this straight: "Only believe the facts we tell you are facts," says Fox News.

Oh, okie dokie then. Thanks to ya. Yup yup.

[Stravinsky]

The whole point of dirty politics is to make the truth subjective.

White is not white.

Black is not black.

Facts do not equal truth.

You need a judge and jury to decide if black is black.

Doubt planted. Mission Accomplished.

[Tommygun264]

The true philosophy of FOX Noise laid bare for all to see.

[TchoupitoulasCanal]

Come on.....are they all taking Cindy's medications again?

[kgdr24]

Is there a line in a Fox New Want Ad that says "Only total morons need apply." Give me a break.

[timmmahhhh]

Yes, it's called "you too can work for Rupert Murdoch and promote the Karl Rove agenda, the Bush Doctrines..."

[RobinM]

...and you must be devoid of any morals

[dolphy]

In Faux news world, yes, facts are not facts. I can't believe these liars.

[Birdman]

Fox news eally makes me laugh at times, unfortunatly 51 percent thinks they are an oustanding sounrce of factual information.

[gretchenart]

Huh? The truth can always be refuted with a lie or??