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#52 Jun 24 2009 at 8:57 PM Rating: Decent
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Nope, that's 100% real. And they do it every time a Republican gets caught with his pants down.


You know that for a fact? Or you're just assuming because it's funnier to do so?

I watched Fox News live when they first aired the story today. In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw that exact segment. They didn't include either a (D) or an (R) next to his name. That's not to say some later repeat didn't put that on a banner, but it wasn't there initially.


Um... Regardless. Am I the only person getting the Sanford and Son song stuck in his head every time I see the thread name? Sheesh!
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#53 Jun 24 2009 at 8:58 PM Rating: Decent
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Well, thats not surprising. We all know the far right has an anti-reality bias.
#54 Jun 24 2009 at 9:17 PM Rating: Good
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Well, thats not surprising. We all know the far right has an anti-reality bias.
You got that backwards! Reality has a liberal bias.
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#55 Jun 25 2009 at 4:13 AM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
catwho wrote:
Nope, that's 100% real. And they do it every time a Republican gets caught with his pants down.


You know that for a fact? Or you're just assuming because it's funnier to do so?

I watched Fox News live when they first aired the story today. In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw that exact segment. They didn't include either a (D) or an (R) next to his name. That's not to say some later repeat didn't put that on a banner, but it wasn't there initially.


Look back just a single post. Joph included 4 very interesting photos :-P

Also, it's Fox News; they probably ran the exact same segment several times.
#56 Jun 25 2009 at 4:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
Um... Regardless. Am I the only person getting the Sanford and Son song stuck in his head every time I see the thread name? Sheesh!


I saved the photo I snagged as sanfordandsons.jpg.

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#57 Jun 25 2009 at 7:14 AM Rating: Excellent
I think Hunkabee prayed to have his competition befell with sex scandals in order to take a turn as the nominee.

I think his plans may backfire, however, when he ***** a tranny prostitute for blow. And, after keeping the following company (WORK SAFE!), and given the current penchant for republican sex scandals, I think the odds are it's all ready happened.

Or is happening right now.

Ew...
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#58 Jun 25 2009 at 10:18 AM Rating: Decent
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Well there is being bias and sneaky, which in my mind is not including the (R), and then there is assuming your viewers are ultra conservatives, and basically sheep. I saw a clip the other day from fox and friends I believe on the daily show. It was something like this.

"Some areas in Iran showed over 100% voter turnout, similar to some cities in the 2008 presidential election, maybe someone should look into that."

I don't have a clip, but here is another good one.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=216561&title=fox-news-fear-imbalance

"He doesn't have his hand on the bible, is he really president"

and of course ORiley "I don't like the line that we don't have to compromise our values to protect ourselves, sometimes I think we do"

I know CNN isn't that much better, but jesus people are ******* idiots. I work at radioshack, and not a week goes by that some redneck doesn't blame Obama for having to buy a digital converter box.
#59 Jun 25 2009 at 11:33 AM Rating: Default
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LockeColeMA wrote:

Look back just a single post. Joph included 4 very interesting photos :-P

Also, it's Fox News; they probably ran the exact same segment several times.


There's this magical thing called "photoshop", which allows you to take images and modify them. I would not put it past a few thousand online liberals to think it very funny to take a frame from a Fox News banner and add a (D) after his name. Folks on Daily Kos were joking about how funny it would be if this happened *before* someone posted a picture. Gee. What a coincidence!

I've only seen a couple variations on the image, both appear to be from the same segment within seconds of each other. So it's possible that someone messed up during that segment, or it's possible someone captured a couple video frames and did a photoshop job. Baring someone with the actual video coming forward, there's no way to know for sure.

I've seen at least one video clip from the same show (so presumably within the same hour, but a different time in that hour) with the banner correctly placing a (R) after his name. So either a photoshop job, or a mistake that was quickly corrected. Given that the source showing the (R) is a video, and the only one's I've seen showing a (D) are stills, I'm leaning towards photoshop.
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#60 Jun 25 2009 at 11:43 AM Rating: Decent
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Ah. Finally found something. Looks like it was a brief thing during one part of a segment. Fox News issued a statement about it.

/shrug. The banners are written by interns. What do you expect? Most news sources don't bother to even try to identify party affiliation at all, so it's not surprising that Fox would get it wrong the most often.

What's funny is that the lead in to the news conference segment got it right. So one person put the right letter on one banner, and another person put the wrong one on during the follow up Q&A after the press conference.
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#61 Jun 25 2009 at 11:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Crooks & Liars has a different screen shot up (same interview, different moment in time) showing the same thing.

I suppose someone out there may be doctoring multiple screenshots just to make Fox look bad but...

No. I'm pretty sure their record speaks for itself.
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gbaji wrote:
Folks on Daily Kos were joking about how funny it would be if this happened *before* someone posted a picture. Gee. What a coincidence!
Of course it's not a coincidence. They would have been joking about it* because Fox does this on what feels like a regular basis.


*Assuming they were. Didn't read it.
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#63 Jun 25 2009 at 11:49 AM Rating: Decent
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gbaji wrote:
There's this magical thing called "photoshop", which allows you to take images and modify them.

At least a few different sources claim it occurred, and even give durations for the segments.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/fox_news_identifies_r_gov_as_a_d_119920.asp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/10/04/oreilly-factor-labels-_e_30927.html
http://mediamatters.org/research/200610130010

Oh, and that's some fancy video editing thar. And as flagrantly biased as he may be, I doubt Olbermann would outright lie about an easily verifiable occurrence.

Edited, Jun 25th 2009 4:17pm by Allegory
#64 Jun 25 2009 at 11:52 AM Rating: Decent
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Double.

Edited, Jun 25th 2009 4:17pm by Allegory
#65 Jun 25 2009 at 11:55 AM Rating: Decent
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It's a triple.

Edited, Jun 25th 2009 4:16pm by Allegory
#66REDACTED, Posted: Jun 25 2009 at 11:58 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I guess you people don't recall several times when W was giving a speech banners streaming at the bottom of screen bashing W.
#67 Jun 25 2009 at 12:11 PM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
I'm leaning towards photoshop.


Course you are. Smiley: laugh
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#68 Jun 25 2009 at 1:29 PM Rating: Decent
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Jophiel wrote:
Crooks & Liars has a different screen shot up (same interview, different moment in time) showing the same thing.


Yup. That's the second one I've seen. He's looking to his right instead of to his left, and the woman is looking ahead instead of down. If you look at the banner, you can see that it's advanced about a dozen characters since the other photo (the number in the middle was on the very far right before). That one's about a second or two after the other one.


As I already said. Fox News released a statement about this. It was one banner segment in one part of one show. The leadin had the correct information, and later segments did as well. So while I suppose we could assume some conspiracy, it seems more likely this was just some intern making a mistake. Or some intern deliberately doing it cause he thought it would be funny or something...
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#69 Jun 25 2009 at 1:32 PM Rating: Good
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Most news sources don't bother to even try to identify party affiliation at all, so it's not surprising that Fox would get it wrong the most often.


So they only get it wrong in one direction and they get it wrong for a person who up until this scandal was the leading Republican candidate for the Presidential primary?

As for the interns part, there is no editor? No producer? I know things are tight in the news these days but come on.
#70 Jun 25 2009 at 1:45 PM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
As I already said. Fox News released a statement about this. It was one banner segment in one part of one show.

The problem is that it has occurred three times previously when a Republican has been utterly embarrassed. They need to stop hiring the same intern every time a Republican decides to cheat on his wife.

Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Four times is a pattern.

Edited, Jun 25th 2009 4:46pm by Allegory
#71 Jun 25 2009 at 2:13 PM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
As I already said. Fox News released a statement about this. It was one banner segment in one part of one show. The leadin had the correct information, and later segments did as well. So while I suppose we could assume some conspiracy, it seems more likely this was just some intern making a mistake. Or some intern deliberately doing it cause he thought it would be funny or something...
I'm happy to state that Fox is just laughably incompetant to have the same mistake happen over and over and over. I mean, it wouldn't stretch my imagination or anything.

So, sure, no conspiracy. Fox is just staffed by fools and idiots.
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The Fox silliness aside, it's being reported now that at least one of Sanford's little Argentina visits in the past was a tax-payer funded trip under the pretense of of a "trade mission". And apparently Sanford did meet with government officials while there.

Unfortunately, the US Commerce Department froze high-level trade meetings with Argentina back in 2001 when Argentina defaulted on their international debt and US federal policy is to not to have such missions.

I can see why this guy was being considered a viable GOP candidate for president. Claims family values but has affairs, is willing to starve the SC school system out of stimulus money to oppose wasteful spending but blows through taxpayer dollars to go fuck his mistress in South America and trumpets that love for country while ignoring federal policy so he can get his **** wet. Of course, let's not forget the sound judgement of a man who lies to his staff and runs off to another continent to get some Argentina pussy without even bothering to assure that his state is taken care of in the event of an emergency.

This guy's a real conservative gem.

Edited, Jun 25th 2009 8:54pm by Jophiel
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#73 Jun 25 2009 at 6:29 PM Rating: Excellent
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A rising star, he is. Was.

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#74 Jun 25 2009 at 6:55 PM Rating: Good
The lesson here ladies, conservative and liberal, Dem and Repub alike: Never marry an alpha male.

(I'm perfectly content with my nerdy professor.)
#76 Jun 25 2009 at 10:01 PM Rating: Decent
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They clearly aren't referring to his political party.

The D stands for "Dastardly"
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