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

[Forester]

he looks like he spends some time on his knees.

[Fbart]

haha i like how his thought broke down right in the middle, it made sense in his convoluted brain but then when he actually heard himself saying it he knew it was ridiculous

[baba2nde]

A fact is a fact unless it is being asserted by a lawyer! Easy now, that was a joke!

Seriously, someone please remind me whether the following are facts, and if not, submit compelling evidence why not: 1). Water does not flow uphill of its own accord; 2). The Moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the Sun; 3) Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first humans on the Moon; 3). Keith Olbermann and Bill O'reilly are white men, Gwen Ifill and Oprah Winfrey are black women; 4). Clouds in the sky in their many colors are no more mysterious than water vapor; 5). Hydrogen contains one proton, uranium, 92; 6). Water is a necessary ingredient of life on earth; 7). e.t.c.

What am I missing? Did humanity unilaterally redefined the word "facts" while I was visiting planet U9yT-5Fh4?

[wagthedog1001]

"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make -- it would hope -- put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see."

--George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005

[wagthedog1001]

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

--George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

[wagthedog1001]

"The best place for the facts to be done is by somebody who's spending time investigating it."

--George W. Bush, on the probe into how CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity was leaked, Washington D.C., July 18, 2005

[navy62802]

Classic Bushism...love it!

[Durango]

Since when is science "irrefutable".

Clue to all the wing nuts out there. In Science you can never "prove" a theory.

You can only disprove it.

Like Einstein said: A thousand experiments will never prove me (relativity) right.

One experiment can prove it wrong.

[GeezerusMaximus]

Gobbledegoop! How did he get his job? Oh, it's Faux News nevermind.....

[Durango]

Can anyone say TRUTHINESS?

And like Colbert also said: Facts have a well known Liberal Bias.

[V4Vigilance]

You could save a ton of bandwidth by just reporting when Faux News is being accurate and making sense.

[Grandmama]

Come on Huffpo...you continually get rid of my comments. No foul language. What's up with the censorship huh?

[Grandmama]

I know for a FACT, La Jeunnese is an idiot!

[Big0725]

A true Foxtard!

[wagthedog1001]

"I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it."

--George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, Nov. 10, 2007

[dizmo4]

The sad part about all of this is there's roughly 30% of the US population that eats this BS up. you'll find a number of conservatives that rail against the mainstream media as bieng "in the tank " for Obama. They'll also claim that sites like factcheck.org are biased.

I really wonder how their world view gets so skewed....