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October 01, 2004

FOX News: We Distort, Embellish, Make things up, You Decide

By Byron LaMasters

I don't attack FOX News that much anymore, because it's just not really worth it. In all honesty, they did a phenomenal job by finding a gap (lack of a consistently conservative leaning network) in the cable news market, and filling it successfully (and profitably). But, today, FOX didn't just embellish, or distort the news. They just completely made up this story about John Kerry, and posted it on their website as a news story. They've now taken it down, but Josh Marshall caught it while it was there:

Rallying supporters in Tampa Friday, Kerry played up his performance in Thursday night's debate, in which many observers agreed the Massachusetts senator outperformed the president. "Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!" Kerry said Friday.

With the foreign-policy debate in the history books, Kerry hopes to keep the pressure on and the sense of traction going.

Aides say he will step up attacks on the president in the next few days, and pivot somewhat to the domestic agenda, with a focus on women and abortion rights.

"It's about the Supreme Court. Women should like me! I do manicures," Kerry said.

Kerry still trails in actual horse-race polls, but aides say his performance was strong enough to rally his base and further appeal to voters ready for a change.

"I'm metrosexual — he's a cowboy," the Democratic candidate said of himself and his opponent.

A "metrosexual" is defined as an urbane male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.


It's one thing if the report was intended as satire, but that seems quite unlikely in the context of a news column. A new low for FOX News.

Speaking of media bias, the CNN undecided voter was actually a college Republican. They ought to be doing a better vetting job, but I won't be too hard on them.

Posted by Byron LaMasters at October 1, 2004 03:44 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Hey Byron, FOX issued a retraction and an apology soon afterward, get real! i thought you guys liked FOX, they have your guy closest to our President in the polls.

Posted by: peter at October 1, 2004 07:07 PM

This is the same guy who was caught in OutFoxed.

I mean really, why does this guy still have a job?

Posted by: Jason Young at October 1, 2004 07:34 PM

hey pete -- doesn't it strike you as absurd that the joke who is supposed to be covering the Kerry campaign for the "fair and balanced" network has nothing but contempt for the candidate and in fact his wife worked for BC00? Carry on with "your" president.

Posted by: heet at October 2, 2004 10:19 AM

HEY heet, you don't live in America.

Bill Clinton was our President, didn't agree with him, but he was still our President. I guess he wasn't your President either. You must be a Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal fan.

You sure don't want to live in a post 9/11 world.

Posted by: peter at October 2, 2004 05:42 PM
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