Hobbes is a weak voice. He's like the fly in the spiderweb squeaming help me, help me. It doesn't matter in the least that everything he's said here is true.
Probably because we all know that it is the norm for both sides of the political debate to pull stuff like that. We would be more surprised and shocked if any of them played it straight. Plus while I dislike talking heads with a passion, there is no proof either of the two knew about the Bloomberg piece or knew the audio had been tampered with at the time they aired.
Maybe they still don't know they played phoney doctored audio tape on the air, even to this day.
Who knows?
It's not like they have a production staff assigned to check their copy before it airs or anything like that.
They probably do know by now but 4 to 5 hours afterwards is pushing things a bit. I would not hold my breath waiting for a correction though, none of the "news outlets" are good at that unless there is a big stink about it.
Wow. Fail. Requires much better example. All of them are dirty, so it should not be difficult.
The thing that vexes me most about Fox News is that they refuse to report that NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News, is an ongoing criminal enterprise under indictment on one continent and investigation on another.
OMG at this rate I soon won't be able to believe anything I see on tv, hear in a political ad, or read in an op ed piece.
I have seen those reports on Foxnews. That was during the actual news portions and not the talking heads but they have reported it.
HUH?
Verelli stumbled all over himself for the 1st 5 minutes. Every third word was uhhhhh. Many untimely pauses.
He finally got his act mostly together after about 5 minutes into the audio but even after that untimely pauses coupled with halts and thought shifts in the middle of a statement are strong indicators that the questions tossed out by the justices caught him by surprise and that he was not at all prepared to answer them. By minute 10 or thereabouts Verelli had, IMO, totally recovered his aplomb and handled the justices questions well.
Whether or not what the RNC did was ethical is of course the question - and to be honest I have yet to decide the answer for myself - but the Ad did in a very short time express effectively the point that Obama care is a hard sell. It's an ad not journalism and not subject to the same ethical standards (though one often wonders why not).
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