"More proof that Fox News is the enemy of fairness and the defiler of balance."

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Fox News Fires Up Vacation-Gate
Posted by: Mark @ 5:04 pm


Here’s the headline from Fox News:



Another vacation? For anyone keeping track, Obama has taken about 65 vacation days since assuming office. By this point in his first term George W. Bush had taken twice as much time off (120 days). And that was in the midst of our nation still responding to 9/11.

The story Fox News ran was attributed to their own Wendell Goler and the Associated Press. Goler lifted most of the details from the AP, including the Obamas’ bike rides and stops for ice cream. However, he neglected to include the information on Bush’s vacations, which was in the AP’s article. That’s a pretty egregious failure to provide relevant context for a column whose title was so deliberately biased.

This omission cannot be explained away as an editorial decision to focus on Obama and leave former presidents out of it, because Goler did include Bush in the article by way of interviewing his former deputy press secretary, Scott Stanzel. Stanzel’s contribution to the story was to criticize Obama for taking his vacation in Maine rather than in Gulf Coast (where Obama has already been at least four times). Stanzel further defended Bush’s many excursions to Crawford, Texas, as being appropriate because he still got work done there. Although there was no similar defense of Obama who, like all presidents, is working 24/7.

Goler also went out of his way to lie about one occasion when Bush was vacationing in Crawford and a hurricane happened to nearly destroy New Orleans. Goler said that Bush cut his vacation short, but the truth is that he extended it to play guitar with a country singer and to visit John McCain in Phoenix to celebrate his birthday.

You don’t get many better examples of deliberate bias than this. Goler based his reporting on an article from the AP that was actually pretty fair and balanced. But for Fox News it had to be altered to eliminate any context that might reflect favorably on Obama, while adding fiction that whitewashed Bush’s failures.

More proof that Fox News is the enemy of fairness and the defiler of balance.

same bone.

Remember how we used to hear "LI?BUL MEDIA." Those
days are gone.

Start identifying them as they are. RW Media. Only
a RW Media would be willing to rehabilitate Bush
in an effort to help the RW win the elections.

I am serious---when speaking of Media refer to them
as RW Media. Do not call them names.

if you are against the republicans. If the posts are negative to the republicans they cut them off around 15 - 20 pretty quick. BUT if you get a lot of post against the Dems they sometimes let them run up to 300

Oh, so he's only allowed to have a break when the opposition permit him to? :eyes: