Letterman Suspects There's Trouble At Fox News (VIDEO)

Last night on "The Late Show," David Letterman mocked Fox News for picking up a story originally reported by notorious tabloid "Weekly World News." The story stated that Los Angeles had invested $1 billion in jet packs for its police force.

"We report, you decide," Letterman said, referring to Fox News' slogan. "We decide not to listen."

The story was obviously a hoax, but the fact that Fox fell for it had Letterman a little worried. Suspecting that something must be wrong, Letterman offered his "Top Ten Signs There's Trouble At Fox News."

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Comments

[Rippeer]

12:47 PM on 10/11/2010

Fox News Primetime has about 3 million viewers, but there are over 100 million adults in the US. We give the media more attention that it deserves. There are twitter feeds that easily surpass their viewership, e.g. President Obama has 5 million followers. Adults in the US are more influenced by their digital relationships than Fox News, yet we fill the pages of news with their every remark.

[Rapier]

12:34 PM on 10/10/2010

Great! Also hilarious http://ofthisandthat.org/SpeciealNews.html

[womanwithstixs]

07:16 PM on 10/09/2010

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[Fuel68]

02:54 AM on 10/09/2010

Way to go Dave! Anytime you can zing Faux News (Fail) AND Leno (Fail) in the same Top-Ten = Win! Two Fails equals a Win; who woulda thunk it?! ;)

[Christopher Millsap]

06:29 PM on 10/08/2010

Classic!

[ripbobgnarly]

06:05 PM on 10/08/2010

I disagree with the agenda of Fox News, but my problem isn't so much with their right wing agenda but with them calling themselves "fair and balanced". Call yourself what you are, a right wing propaganda network. Same can be said of MSNBC. The only real news network in the U.S. now is CNN.

[Chip W]

03:24 PM on 10/09/2010

PBS

[Rippeer]

12:38 PM on 10/11/2010

BBC

[GregCoyote]

05:48 PM on 10/08/2010

Fox News is a oxymoron. They are a political action committee with donations, fund raising and a loud sounding board for the lies that predominate the discussion. I love their entertainment programming, but their News is a joke. Beck is nothing but a evangelist selling his twisted nonsense, the rest are speculators looking for every opportunity to undermine this administration. Look at your history, this has all happened before. It was done using consolidated newspaper ownership (Hurst) and it was done to wield political and social power, just as it is being used today. We have a very short memory as a society and it gets us into the same trouble over and over again. There is a three way struggle going on, between big religion, corporate America (the very wealthy) and average people. I for one don't want Glenn Beck or any religious leader, nor the CEO of Haliburton telling me anything I have to do. Fox News has gone off the rails when it comes to serving the public. They are just serving a very angry and reactive audiance with the garbage they all want to hear.

[monstersfromtheid]

03:57 PM on 10/08/2010

what's the difference between Fox News and The Weekly World News?

...The Weekly World News does not quote Fox as a reliable source.

[storeyy]

03:41 PM on 10/08/2010

You know trolls get paid according to how many responses they get from us...just ignore them and they go away.

Remember, "you can't win an argument with someone who doesn't deal in facts." as u were.

[Kryss Segle]

04:57 PM on 10/08/2010

Ahh, good to know!!

[MidwestAnna]

03:07 PM on 10/08/2010

There was also an instance of Fox picking up a pardoy story from Associated Content. The story parodied an actual event in which students attempted to provoke Muslim students by placing ham on/near their lunches knowing that their religion prohibits them from eating pork. AC did a parody on the real story, citing the creation of a "Ham Response Unit."

"On Tuesday, Fox & Friends reported parody quotes and details as actual news. Poking fun at the students, hosts asked whether ham was “a hate crime…or lunch?” and showed screen shots of ham sandwiches, starving Somalians, belching, animal noises, and mock “reenactments” of the incident. Ironically, the hosts assured viewers several times, “We’re not making this up!”

"News" Fox style.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x769870

[Kelly8]

02:37 PM on 10/08/2010

Funny - how fair and balanced Fox reports this jetpack story to their sheep.
They gave the Shirley Sherrod half-video endless airtime.
They reported the faux ACORN murder.
They're never held accountable - but go on and on about the so-called liberal media - which just happens to be owned by corporations - and thus - is actually their beloved capitalist media (very Republican).

But FOX never got around to covering the death of Mike Connell - the presidential email and vote switch guy for Karl Rove. Funny how he died just as he testified before a grand jury against Karl Rove for wide spread vote rigging in both Bush 'elections'. Funny how this happened just days before Obama's election. Amazing, that FOX News has never reported on Diebold/Premier/Sequoia voting machines and their illicit ACTUAL vote flipping - in which they were fined but never prosecuted. Funny how many top executives at Diebold have also died in plane crashes.

So funny.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/23/cbsnews_investigates/main4684431.shtml

[cbzd]

09:03 PM on 10/08/2010

How many execs have died in plane crashes? Probably not enough

[Kelly8]

09:55 PM on 10/08/2010

LOL - not nearly - however:

Dan Rocco -- April 1, 2002 -- ChoicePoint VP -- plane crash
His firm gained infamy with their faulty "felons" list supplied to Katherine Harris during the 2000 election in Florida. As a result of this list, over 90,000 voters (mostly African-American voters) were wrongly identified as felons and purged from the rolls.

Wesley Vance -- April 26, 2003 -- Diebold VP -- plane crash

Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr. -- July 4, 2003 -- Diebold consultant

Paul Wellstone - Senator who voted against illegal invasion in Iraq - was given a "serious consequences" talk by Dick Cheney - later died in a plane crash

Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, died in a single-engine plane crash in southwest Alaska that killed four other people. (This would be Ted's SECOND crash)

Ted Kennedy survived a 1964 plane crash on the way to the Dem National Convention - his nephew John Kennedy would not survive his plane crash over Martha's Vineyard.

http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/us-congress-legislative-branch/14580-history-political-plane-crashes.html

[rootboy]

02:18 PM on 10/08/2010

If you think Fox News is funny then you should watch this http://vimeo.com/13770061

[Mikeystyle]

01:13 PM on 10/08/2010

So Fox is now relying on the Weekly World News for its “information,” and of course not bothering to verify it first (that would be actual journalism).

I wonder where Fox will get its next big story from: Sesame Street? A comic book?

Perhaps Saturday morning cartoons?

Fox News: terrorist Snidely Whiplash on the loose

A reputed terrorist mastermind managed to escape capture from Canadian Mounted Police and could be on his way to the U.S., according to a Friday report by Fox News.

The terrorist, known as Snidely Whiplash, apparently enjoys tying women to railroad tracks, robbing banks and attacking CMP forts in the wilderness. The information was first reported by Fox Newsmodel Gretchen Carlson on the “Fox & Friends” morning show. (continued….)

http://www.thechicagodope.com/2010/10/08/fox-news-terrorist-snidely-whiplash-on-the-loose/

[WHTrout]

03:46 PM on 10/08/2010

I think you're on to something... After all, these people already watched "The Flintstones" and thought it was a documentary, so....

[womanwithstixs]

12:59 PM on 10/08/2010

Please sign the petition.
Let Glenn Beck's sponsors know you will not sponsor them if they sponsor Beck.

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[sunnyskiesinyuma]

02:32 PM on 10/08/2010

I signed the petition, thanks. Now, where can I get a list of products to boycott?

If consumers joined a very large targeted boycott of just one of these hate-mongers, perhaps we can turn our political discussions to substance, truth, and civil discourse. First Beck. Then.....next?

Consumers have power if they join forces.

[womanwithstixs]

07:14 PM on 10/09/2010

Here is the link where you can look at the remaining sponsors and lost sponsors.
He has lost all his sponsors in the UK.
Thank you for signing.
http://stopbeck.com/remaining-sponsors/

[Obamalicious]

04:28 PM on 10/08/2010

Apparently you don't believe in the first amendment?

[DBtv]

04:36 PM on 10/08/2010

Apparently you don't understand the First Amendment.

[Robert Crowley]

08:51 AM on 10/09/2010

Apparently you don't believe in free markets. Consumers are free to boycott a product that advertises with Beck.

[DaveMB]

12:41 PM on 10/08/2010

I wonder how many people still think that Fox is actually News.

[dave6686]

12:58 PM on 10/08/2010

ALL republicans... whack jobs a the brain de@d I assume...

[Eric Shun]

02:07 PM on 10/08/2010

hey liberal.... BOO

[PaOhIlCa]

01:12 PM on 10/08/2010

Someone should sue Fox News for using the inaccurate word News in their title. They should have to spell it like "Fox Nooz" or something. Similar to how Froot Loops has to spell it with two "Os" because it's not actually fruit.

[zelduh]

01:23 PM on 10/08/2010

It should be renamed, "Fox PAC" because it is basically the fund raising arm of the GOP, which provides free TV coverage of GOP candidates and helps them raise money for their campaigns.