Fox News reporter appears to have lied about being ‘punched’ by protester

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Raw Story

By Stephen C. Webster

Fox News has been making a lot of hay about one of their reporters allegedly being "punched" by a protester in Madison, Wisconsin.

Turns out, that didn't happen.

Mike Tobin, reporting from amid the massive demonstration on Friday, claimed that one of the protesters "punched" him in the arm. In another broadcast, he claimed a man threatened to break his neck.

In both cases, supporting evidence for these claims was not broadcast -- yet still, Tobin's reports have been widely cited across conservative blogs that seem eager to depict union workers as hateful and violent.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/01/fox-news-reporter-appears-to-have-lied-about-being-punched-by-protester/

[madmax]

1. Yes, it was posted and digested and

regurgitated in Freakerville.

They just luuuuuuv to make shit up.

[Quantess]

2. Really? Too bad...

:rofl:

Just kidding.

[PatrynXX]

3. main problem with running DU thru a proxy is

1. I can't share the link right and 2. the video's on outside links don't load right.

[Kingofalldems]

4. K and R for Fox little pallies

[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[Blacksheep214]

6. I am Shocked! Shocked I say!

The same people who think Fox is real also like wrestling and religion.

Of course they couldn't be made up!

[pacalo]

7. I found a YouTube video for those who are unable to see the Raw Story's version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnx9p6i9L_Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The protesters are right on the money: FOX NEWS LIES!

[Grassy Knoll]

16. + 1000

[Drale]

8. MY WHOLE LIFE VIEW IS BROKEN!!!!!!

:rofl:

[Kennah]

9. I misread it and thought one of their reporters got punked

That led me to ask, "They've hired Scott Walker?"

[Mac Adams]

10. A Fox reporter lied.......

Who would have thunk it.

[L. Coyote]

11. Too late now. The lie will live on forever in the small minds that believed it.

[Jmaxfie1]

20. thumbs up! n/t

[panzerfaust]

27. Just like the known fact that Clinton had all the "W"s pulled off the keyboards ...

[beac]

12. Best comment on the Raw Story article:

"Fox News lies. Did this reporter understand that that was a complaint, not a request?" :rofl:

[James48]

13. FOX LIES

FOX LIES
FOX LIES
FOX LIES
FOX LIES
FOX LIES
FOX LIES
FOX LIES
FOX LIES
FOX LIES and MAKES SHIT UP.
FOX LIES.

[nolabear]

14. I'd love to see a side by side post of the TeaParty head stomper and the shoulder tapper

and Fox's responses to the two. Their reality testing could use some major tweakage.

[socialist_n_TN]

15. And this headline is news? Definitely not man bites dog......

shit. More like same old shit.

[mistertrickster]

17. If he'd really been punched, he would have collapsed like his ass was the Red Sea

and the union guy was Moses.

The fact that he could still talk and wasn't crying like a little girl without a nap meant that he hadn't been punched.

[lastone]

18. ha!

"why do they express such vitriol to the media" - what, the media, you fools ain't the media, get it straight fuckjob your a propaganda tool of your masters, the top 2%! The media! Too funny!

[pa28]

19. I saw an elderly guy with a santa hat tapping Mike on the shoulder.

Looked like he wanted his attention for some reason.

Fox must have taped the feed even though it was not broadcast live. No wonder they don't show the actual "assault" Megyn Kelly has been so outraged about. The "assault" never happened.

[Dappleganger]

21. Fox News Lies!

Of course he lied, and Megyn Kelly helped him do it.

[sadbear]

22. Were his lips moving?

[ixion]

23. FAUX 'News' Lies. n/t

[fishwax]

24. shocking!

:rofl:

[lonestarnot]

25. Somebody should kick his fucking ass so he knows the diff next time.

[alp227]

26. those protesters were damn right. FOX NEWS LIES! FOX NEWS LIES!

This "reporter" reminds me of police officers who cover up brutality by making up "the suspect was resisting/the suspect hit us first" stories.

[classysassy]

28. Those liars

are so damn brazen because they realize their brain dead watchers will believe anything they spew out.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. I could have told you that 10^-487 seconds after I saw the report. -nt

[The Nexus]

30. It's not just a lie

that's incitement.

[Mnemosyne]

31. Agree, great point. Welcome to DU, Nexus. n/t

[CJCRANE]

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