This time, the footage substitution was from the news portion of the Fox News coverage. I guess they’re so used to doctoring the news that they just do it routinely. In this one, the “throngs” are from old campaign shots [see Media Matters]. Note that it says, “Happening Now” on the bottom of the screen.
I suppose the loyal Fox News watchers don’t much care about how factual the reporting is. I doubt the even know about the one from last week unless they happened to watch Hannity’s apology. Frankly, I’ve gotten tired of even following Fox and Beck and Rush and them. They’ve done their damage and rallied their loyal forces. But it’s all too boring to keep up with as a steady diet. I just ran across this on TPM and thought it was an interesting testimonial to their bias. Even after last week’s shaming by John Stewart, they’re still at it.
The collective right wing assault has more or less nipped Obama’s message of HOPE in the bud. The thing that brings up is a psychologic truth that is not intuitive – the opposite of HOPE is ENVY.
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