VIDEO: Fox News Caught Repeatedly Cropping, Manipulating Video

By GottaLaff



Fair, balanced, and accurate, huh? Um, no:

In a more lengthy report, however, Media Matters has other candidates that are fitting examples of these games with videotape, well worth reviewing. Key examples include Sean Hannity's intentional omission of Obama's admonishment of Europeans' "casual...insidious" anti-Americanism to make it look like Obama was apologizing for the United States, and Wendell Goler's splice-happy report that made it look like Obama was in favor of "European-style health care," when he was actually specifically opposing it. Also close to my heart is Fox's misleading insertion of an out-of-context Joe Biden clip into a report, for which the network eventually had to apologize. At the time, I opined:

It's very sad, and weird, because Fox News would have made their point just fine if they hadn't included the misleading part of this clip. All they've really done is demonstrate that they do not have enough faith in their own editorial premises to avoid bolstering them with falsehoods. But more to the point, whoever is responsible for putting this video together needs to accept a new prevailing reality, that stupid little lies like this will be debunked and exposed very quickly, so they may as well just cut out this nonsense entirely.

Their attempts to destory President Obama are failing and they know it. Yet they continue to use dirty tricks, smears, and deception. Business as usual. They're digging themselves into such a deep hole... it'll take the strength, common sense, and wisdom of someone like, well, Obama to pull them out.

H/t: Itsanity