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

[ATruthBeKnown]

That's why he's a talking head.....b­ut that's FOX4ya....­..

Release the Hounds !!!!!!!

[lockewasright]

Fixed News is so pointless.

[revko]

Go ask Alice

[Whinger]

Sounds like a guy who just stood in fox crap and didn't want anyone to notice!

[TKDMike]

faux IDIOTS

[gevan]

La Jeunesse? Sounds French to me.

[freedomfighter1]

Yeah. Its french for 'Am I to read my White House talking points now?'

[luckyoldson]

Here's my favorite line: "And their facts...un­like science...­the facts are not irrefutabl­e."

"Unlike science?"

WHAT science? Evolution perhaps? Global warming?

[Cynde]

uhhhhhhh wink wink

[LatteLovingSeattleLite]

(Wolf Blitzer, CNN, The Situation Room) Thank you for joining us.... tonight we will be discussing the new debate on whether 2 + 2 = 5. Tucker Bounds, a surrogate for the McCain campaign is here to comment on what presidential candidate, John McCain said during a speech earlier today in Wilmington, Delaware..­. We will also be joined by Ariana Huffington on what a BOOB Tucker Bounds is and how Republicans believe in their own reality.

Tucker, let's start with John McCain's 2 + 2 = 5 comment earlier today in Wilmi.....­......

[Also, perhaps FOX can have a new show called 'Alternate Reality' hosted by Sean Hannity]

[L0ve PEace]

Tucker: I guess it's how you define 2. The Democratic canidate says 1+1=2, however Sen. McCain thinks that 1+.5=2. So to reach way across party lines and be bipartisian We take Sen. Obama's 2 + our 2, then that equals 5.

[LatteLovingSeattleLite]

(Wolf Blitzer, CNN, The Situation Room)

But Tucker when John McCain said last week at a speech to the Rotary Phone Operators Union that the sky was purple, you leveled charges against the Obama campaign that the the sky being any other color than purple was tantamount to 'pal'in with the terrorists'. Arianna, I see your face getting purple, don't worry, we'll give you 3 seconds to respond before we brake for commercial­...

[DeeDeeDaGumby]

oh oh oh , my daily post on TB, here we go

Tucker B is a T0oL......­.........

[Big0725]

I thought that was "Hannity's America"!

[DeeDeeDaGumby]

Is that a Fact?

[Egalitare]

Das de fact, jack!!

[Loompa2000]

They should have Kool Aid as their Mascot

[redsongia]

1984 flavored Kool-Aid.

[reggieb]

Even a blind nut finds a squirrel every now and then.

[drkazmd65]

Wow,... La Jeunesse managed to be both incoherent and incorrect while bloviating in a single pair of garbled sentences.

If there was an Olympic medal for blathering this guy would be the Phelps of the competiton.

[Egalitare]

He's got a long way to go to catch up with Gov. Palin.

[BEHM777]

I don't believe what Ijust heard. Wow.

And this from an allegedly "fair and balanced" news outfit.

BEHusseinM777

[kellygrrrl]

these people have travelled so deeply into their Parallel Universe, I sincerely doubt they can ever be rehabilitated

[ErnestineBass]

SO FAR into their own "reality" I worry that they're prepared to do anything to stay in power.