Fox Botches Report On Decision To Uphold Early Voting In Ohio

Don't you mean "deliberately distorted"?

They've been pushing that bullshit for as long as the Dems have been fighting the whole thing. It's not "botched". It's "Same shit, different day."

Would it be a giant waste of my time to try and file a complaint with the FCC? Yeah, I already know the answer.

This wasn't an error, this was an outright lie to deceive their viewers. Why aren't they held to at least some journalistic standards?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/07/31/364678/-Fox-News-wins-in-court

I think they should have been forced to replace "News" in their name with "BS" but the judges in Florida didn't see it that way.

Don't you mean "deliberate propaganda lies"?

Is that a synonym for lied their asses off?

Trying to deal with all Fox's lies one at a time is a little like trying to protect a wheatfield from a hailstorm by catching the falling hailstones in a teacup.

LIES

Do those assholes ever apologize?

You made me laugh. I needed that. Thanks!

That is exactly what he needs

That's how they wanted it reported.

They are paid to feed their sheeple with kool-aide!

What they air is anything BUT the news.

this is what we are up against...

peace, kp

They've done this with the birther thing.
They've done this with GM making cars in China (It's an international company producing cars for the Chinese market).
They've done this with the Bangazi story.

There has to be some accountability here. It's no wonder so many Americans are up in arms... They're being force fed lies directly from a TV station so they take them as fact.

They flat-out LIED. Not that this is any different than what they usually do.

multiple corrections. They'll keep repeating it until Nov. 5, even though the result is everyone in Ohio gets to vote early. Which is exactly what the RW did not want.

Notice no mention that this is Roberts, 'conservative' court that made the final decision.

It's the same old fascist trick. Keep repeating the lie until it sticks.

What bothers me the most is that our supposed "liberal" media overcompensates to the Right now based on them constantly saying that they're so hard done by and that none of their voices are being heard while they're full allowed to operate as a full on Propaganda and lies network for the Republicans. For every Democratic voice there now has to be the Republican counterpoint on all of the big networks and CNN. Meanwhile, on FOX do they ever... honestly... have the liberal counterpoint? I honestly don't know because I can't even watch their roundtable discussions for more than 20 seconds before I feel like throwing my remote through my TV screen.

So, our politicians and positions have to stand up to "balanced' criticism on all of the big networks and CNN while being ripped apart on Fox while they get "balanced" criticism from the big networks on CNN while being completely supported 100% by Fox. It gives them a huge unfair advantage.

And what's worse is that a lot of the stuff coming from the Right is pure hypocritical, hateful, selfish, flies in the face of science and reason nonsense and yet the networks still have to give them a chance to share it and spread it while our message gets completely shredded on their networks. It's a serious issue, IMO, and one that's given the rise to the Tea Party and conservatism in general.

And now with Yahoo searches veering further and further to the right (Seriously, their results seem more conservative than Google's) I fear that search engines will soon start looking to be more and more niche to serve political interests.

Un-American Activities?

That's how they spin this whole Ohio thing. They've been lying about it since the start. Fox doesn't see this as botching the story. This is party of their daily GOP propaganda that pretends to be news.

It should be boycotted. And reasons made clear. This is a great example.
The concept that we need to have the other side hear our side is ridiculous. They are there because they DON'T want to hear us. They are a lost and fading minority demographic that we don't need.

We dont want to provide FOX with legitimacy. Quite the opposite.

extra-early makes it sound like, excessively-early, or weirdly-early, or some such nonsense.

What a bunch of idiots.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

My wife got to listen to a right wing nut in a local store a few days ago who when on and on about how Obama was trying to stop the military from voting( Lucky for the nut I wasn't there or she would have gotten told off) I don't play nice with nuts what can I say. . So Fox lied in order to help perpetuate this BS!

How do they get away with making crap up?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/16/high-court-allows-early-voting-on-weekend-before-election-in-ohio/

They're schizophrenic over there.

Their fans used to be quite a read....

funny running scared shitless?

which was made to the court both by the Husted administration and by the amici briefs to the court by the military.

Uniform voting (legal argument that underpins the Obama case) can be achieved two ways:
1. By expanding voting the last three days to everyone
2. By denying the military the special option of voting those three days.

Obama was, of course, really seeking the former - but achieving uniformity could just as easily have been accomplished by the latter (taking away the military's early voting right).

It was a strange argument, but it is not botched reporting of the outcome.

There are two ways to do that - one is to enforce the bar against voting those three days against everyone (i.e. taking the three days away from the militart). I know that solution isn't what he asked for to resolve the lack of parity, but it is one of two ways to address the parity he was seeking - and the Republicans have been consistent in presenting that argument to the court.

It was not botched reporting; it was the essence of their argument.