Fox News via Fox News Sunday is trying to create their own Obama scandals by editing video of the president’s remarks on the NSA/Verizon controversy.
Fox News video of Obama:
The clip that Fox News Sunday played showed the president saying, “in the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential…program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then I think we’ve struck the right balance.”
Fox News left everything the president said before those two sentences.
Video of what the president really said:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Obama said, “And by the way, with respect to my concerns about privacy issues, I will leave this office at some point, sometime in the last — next 3 1/2 years, and after that, I will be a private citizen. And I suspect that, you know, on — on a list of people who might be targeted, you know, so that somebody could read their emails or — or listen to their phone calls, I’d probably be pretty high on that list. So it’s not as if I don’t have a personal interest in making sure my privacy is protected. But I know that the people who are involved in these programs — they operate like professionals. And these things are very narrowly circumscribed. They’re very focused. And in the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential, you know — you know, program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then I think we’ve struck the right balance.”
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace used the edited Obama clip to push Fox’s narrative that Verizongate is part of a bigger pattern of corrupt presidential behavior. Later, Wallace threw it to Sen. Rand Paul so he could do his defender of liberty schtick, and the circle of paranoid right wing propaganda for political and personal gain was complete.
Fox has been busy creating their own reality when it comes to these Obama “scandals.” Yesterday, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto cut the mic of a liberal who dared to use facts while talking about these supposed scandals. In Fox News’ version of reality, Barack Obama is a more corrupt Richard Nixon. The right wing media is reinforcing the bubble of delusion that is keeping Republicans detached from reality. This is the sort of behavior that continues to cost Republican candidates elections.
Republicans use their edited Fox News videos to reinforce conspiracies that the rest of the country doesn’t believe. When Fox News fueled Republican candidates campaign on these conspiracies during a competitive general election, they lose because they look crazy.
Fox News is doing what it does best. They are selling paranoia to their paranoid audience. In the process of selling this fear of the black president, they are editing video and distorting Obama’s remarks. Fox News is not engaging in journalism. This is partisan political activity.
At Fox News, fair and balanced treatment of Barack Obama gets left on the editing room floor.
PoliticusUSA
G+
Facebook
Linda1961
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 12:16 pm
I wonder if gopers will ever wake up to the fact that FAUX News isn’t acting in the gop’s best interest, but in FAUX News’ best interest.
Nah, it would take brains to realize that, and the stupid runs deep in the gop.
loading...
mjh
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 7:03 pm
I wonder if gopers will ever wake up to the fact that FAUX News isn’t acting in the gop’s best interest, but in FAUX News’ best interest.
I sure hope not . . .
.
loading...
Charlie F
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 12:28 pm
Truth and facts don’t exist on FOX News. They play to a base that will accept their word as gospel. Where is the national media, exposing the misinformation that FOX News puts out?
But I fear, all the media cares about today, is ratings and the truth has little meaning these days.
loading...
Thomas Johnson
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 11:44 pm
Why are you okay with our government spying on us?!?!? Please wake up and see that Obama is part of the plan.
loading...
djchefron
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 11:51 pm
Are you over 30? I say 30 because when we are in our 20′s we have other prioties but if you over 30 and this is the first you heard of this then if Imay ask.Where were you at?You think this is something new? The only difference and I repeat now its under court oversight that is all nothing has change
loading...
Cyndi
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 5:34 pm
The second business became computerized and digitized they’ve been spying on you. Credit reporting agencies check on your, employers check on you, banks check on you, doctors check on you…get used to it. All the details of your life are digitized and available to be looked at. Unless you have something to hide …what are you concerned with? I would rather know that the government is able to figure out that a terrorist lives down the street from me and do something about it.
loading...
shannon sinclair
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 5:46 pm
Are you ok with corporations mining & delving into every move you make and button you click? They do it and have been doing it for a long time…and to a much wider extent than our government…. I, personally, am more worried about corporatist vampires like them than anything else people are whining about today or yesterday or any time before all this….
loading...
Shiva
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
I agree. Financial corporations know everything about you. I had to get a new debit card because someone used my number in michigan, and while the guy was putting it in he wanted to see my drivers license because his records showed it as overdue for renewal. Why is my bank tracking my drivers license?
loading...
The Glenn Beck Review
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
“At Fox News, fair and balanced treatment of Barack Obama gets left on the editing room floor.”
Beck did the same thing when he was on Fox, and then, last fall, had the gall to claim that he never edited Obama video.
http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2012/10/glenn-beck-is-lying-about-msnbc-and-his.html
I’m convinced that the right lies because they know that they can get away with it because their viewers WANT TO believe the very worst about Obama.
loading...
Reynardine
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
The truth is, indeed, that the President will leave office in three and a half years, and we don’t know who will succeed him. What I do know, from my research in the discovery files of HRC v. Civiletti and its related cases, is that many administrative agencies contain cadres of racists/fascists who are just licking their chops over the inauguration of an administration that will “unleash” them, as such cadres were doing over the election of Ronald Reagan. I do not doubt the good faith of this President; I do not doubt what will happen if these tools fall into the hands of an Executive Branch acting in *bad* faith, especially one being abetted by Congress and the bench. If the years of the Bush administration were terrifying, you think what would have happened with a Romney sweep, or one by Christian Reconstructionists. The time to put controls on this apparatus is now.
loading...
Sugapea
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 1:08 pm
When FOX released the story of Florida Gay Republican Senator Mark Foley being disgraced…remember what FOX did?
As they flashed Foley’s photo…they placed the word “DEMOCRAT” on the bottom of the screen!
We started to know then how dirty FOX News plays. Why don’t good Republican’s get it?
loading...
MrsGunka
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 1:14 pm
Randi, do you truly think that ALL America wants what you want? Wake up stupid! Nobody cares what you spend on your Visa card, they are looking to see who talks to who in a country that doesn’t like us! Duh! You have several calls to and from, say Pakistan or Libya, they will check you out dummy. You buy a ton of fertilizer on your Visa bill, expect a knock on your cave door stupid! Kentucky, wake up when you walk into that voting booth. Time to start checking the IQ’s and mental status of all politicians. Wars and Congressional Hearings cost money. There are some things we really don’t need to know. Just because you have a “Dr” in front of your name doesn’t make you an Einstein! Go home and check some eyes. Stay out of politics! It’s obvious you are not a brain surgeon, rocket scientist or a scholar!
loading...
Mary James
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
What Else is new? They spread their lies and slime to keep their IGNORANT faux cult members pumped up.
loading...
Shiva
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 2:47 pm
Fox News breitbarts the airwaves. Could one expect them not to?
loading...
Keef
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 6:09 pm
How is this a red/blue issue at all?? The horrific policies of trampling privacy were started by a Republican and continued/expanded by a Democrat.
This discussion is off topic, as to be expected from FOX. This issue crosses the aisle and covers the whole puppet show. Both colors.
loading...
Shiva
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 6:27 pm
I am not sure Keef, but I bet they were started after WW2 and continued by the FBI/CIA every year since. That just my opinion
loading...
djchefron
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 6:39 pm
Google Project Shamrock and you will know what the saying means when they say the more the change the more they stay the same
loading...
Cyndi
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 7:35 pm
He’s afraid because he’s a part of the leaks that they are trying to find with this investigation.
He says we have billions of phone calls and we can’t even look at all the data. Does he not know about something called a computer? Does he not realize that software can review billions of pieces of data in minutes? And that computers can pinpoint specific pieces of that data that meets a certain criteria – for example if one person has called Afghanistan repeatedly.
“I don’t want my phone records given to an administration I can’t trust”. Or maybe I don’t want them in their hands because they will find out that I was a source of the leaks of classified info to the press??
loading...
Dbird
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 10:08 pm
They all do that. This Is why people NEEDS to make the Time to do the research n find the fulll transcript n video of full statements if they commenting on people’s statement. Don’t worry the stock holders n newscasters of Fox News will face our mighty God , but they will learn of their fate n wonder why God will not bless this country if it has a nation of liars. Remember, when you hear any news that doesn’t make sense. RESEARCH RESEARCH. RESEARCH n double check. The devil knows how to disguise itself n fool anyone.
loading...
clennis05
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 11:31 pm
Reynard, guess what? I went to Rand’s website, logged in. I asked, he always talked down towards Prez Obama. I asked what his ideas were to make the USA better than this. can’t post because the wierd looking letters will not let me post anything. Just pitiful.
loading...
Shiva
Jun. 9th, 2013 at 11:35 pm
We are going to have to ask you to take a shower after being on Rands site
loading...
Barry Roope
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
I remember Fox got busted using pictures of a protest, they showed trees in the background with green leafs and they were claiming the pictures were current, except it was December, I think the people protesting were in t-shirts and shorts, Fox wants to keep this Obama’s government is full of scams crap as long as possible, so people can look back on the Obama years and say They were the most corrupt in history, even though not a single scandal has even been exposed, much less linked to the President, Fox is trying to taint the President’s legacy, when the facts actually reflect the President has been very successful on national security, improving the economy, cut unemployment, record stock market gains, reduced the deficet, created no wars of choice or profit. Fox people are living in misery because they just can’t beat this President.
loading...
Jim Andersen
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 5:34 pm
Fox News didn’t have to report what Obama said earlier, because such talk about himself is like an expert bank robber training others to rob banks, but denying the fact of that, saying, “I’m going to open a bank of my own one day, so why would I train others to rob banks?”
Well, Mr. Bank Robber, it’s because you’re the expert at it and there is no one as good at executing such dastardly deeds than you are. That’s why you’re the trainer. You are the best at what you do, and your bank will be protected like no other. You’ll make sure of that.
Likewise, Mr. Obama, there has never been a president able to get away with all that you have, against the American people, and just as you knew best how to do it, you would know best how to protect your personal interests and privacy if you are ever again out of office. Who do you think you are, saying your concerns are no different than any of ours?
(continued in reply comments)
loading...
Jim Andersen
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 5:36 pm
(continued from above)
You have proven they are quite different. Just look at the current dissent of the American people, and even your oft clearly demonstrated objections to the United States Constitution.
Those who don’t see that, incidentally, are either just as delusional as you are or wrongly influenced by the media you control.
Media control issues, by the way, are on your Scandal Platter.
In addition, because your attacks on the American people are designed to gain you full and complete authority over them, your saying you will one day be out of office and subject to the same governmental action we’ve been subject to is ludicrous. You have no more intention of becoming a regular US citizen than I have of becoming president.
loading...
djchefron
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 6:08 pm
The current dissent of the American people,Current Numbers by people who always get this type of stuff wrong
Bloomberg National Poll
Approve 49% Disapprove 46% Unsure 5
It seems to me that the numbers are about the same has his landslide election. You have nothing but hate .You cannot even offer a coherent dissent.SMDH BTW nevermind…….
loading...
Jim Andersen
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Yes, djchefron, “the current dissent of the American people.” The figures you cite do not tell the whole story.
You see, there are natural degrees of both approval and disapproval. I, for one, “totally” disapprove of Obama, while you, perhaps, totally “approve” of Obama. My sister, however; a self-professed “ObamaMama,” might fall somewhere in the middle. She may have once adored him, but she might now be questioning his abilities and performance and could be “on the fence,” so to speak. I do not know. Regardless, she certainly has the right to approach that fence, regardless of what side she is on. Millions of other voting Americans have that same right, too.
That takes us to the polling of Rasmussen Reports, said to have an “unchallenged record for both integrity and accuracy” and to be “among the most accurate” of presidential election polls. Rasmussen, also, “produces some of the most accurate and reliable polls in the country today.”
(continued below)
loading...
Shiva
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 2:57 pm
Rasmussen Reports being the most accurate is certainly your and possibly others opinion
loading...
Jim Andersen
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 2:43 pm
(continued from above)
As for the “landslide election” you tout, please know that Rasmussen Reports “closely mirrored the election’s outcome.” Clearly, Rasmussen knows how to poll. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports)
So, djchefron, you should have no reason to question this Rasmussen Reports polling data, available in detail at http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history:
Just after Obama took office in 2009, America’s “Strong Approval” rating of Obama was 44%, but is now just 26%.
For the same period, the “Total Approval” rating dropped from 65% to 47%.
Conversely, the “Strong Disapproval” rating rose from 16% to 39%, and the “Total Disapproval” rating rose from 30% to 50%.
(continued below)
loading...
Shiva
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 2:54 pm
It’s very strange that when Karl Rove and others were predicting that Romney would win in a landslide, quoting the same numbers that Obama won by, it is now not a landslide
Funny how these things can change depending on who wins
loading...
Jim Andersen
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
(continued from above)
One should understand then why, in aggregate, Obama’s “Presidential Approval Index” dropped dropped from 28 to a “negative” 13 for that same period. Clearly, this is a markedly more accurate picture than what you offer.
Your numbers, djchefron, might best reflect your own personal opinion, and, more importantly, your accusation of hatred is completely baseless. Please do not make issues where none exist.
loading...
mozzie
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 6:12 pm
I saw the video on Fox and at the time I saw it, they showed the entire content with no editing…
loading...
djchefron
Jun. 10th, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Defend the lying liars to the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hnwvWhbJw
loading...
Jim Andersen
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 2:57 pm
I’d be curious to know who gave this post a thumbs down.
If the argument is that “Fox News [Created] Their Own Scandal By Editing Obama Video,” why would someone put their thumb down when the “entire content with no editing” was shown?
Looks to me like someone is arguing unreasonably.
loading...
Shiva
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 3:05 pm
So there are two tapes, pardon me to clips. One is a an abridged clip and the other is the full clip.
Are you saying that both of them were shown on Fox news?
loading...
Shiva
Jun. 11th, 2013 at 3:05 pm
So there are two tapes, pardon me two clips. One is a an abridged clip and the other is the full clip.
Are you saying that both of them were shown on Fox news?
loading...