More lies from Fox News
Didn’t Fox News say they would institute a zero tolerance policy for lying to viewers by staff in any capacity, intentional or otherwise, after lots of mainstream media finally began calling them on their games last year? Yes, they did. Their memo said:
That means we will start by going to air with only the most essential, basic, and manageable elements. To share a key quote from today’s meeting: “It is more important to get it right, than it is to get it on.” We may then build up again slowly as deadlines and workloads allow so that we can be sure we can quality check everything before it makes air, and we never having to explain, retract, qualify or apologize again.
They were already called out in very public fashion once for falsifying graphics. They played it off as it if wasn’t falsified, playing semantic games. I wonder how they’ll play it off now that someone was caught on-air literally making up stuff as blatant as Rudy Giuliani trying to spin politics by saying there were no domestic terror attacks while George W. Bush was President (it’s more important to slam a black President than be truthful).
What’s the new shameless lie aimed at America? Someone inflating the amount of money that Barack Obama has spent on economic recovery by deliberately padding it with the more unpopular TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) bailout money. More here.
BOLLING: The federal government certainly likes to spend your and my taxpayer dollars. Recently — check it out — they spent $700 billion on TARP, $787 billion on stimulus. Hey, by the way, that stimulus package, those are $400,000 per job — jobs they’re creating. $180 billion is either spent or lent to AIG. Don’t forget the $115 billion — these are all B’s — billion to Fannie and Freddie. $83 billion to cars. We’re not going to see a dime of this. Don’t forget the $1 trillion on health care, cap and trade, et cetera, et cetera. And this one, this one. Can you get a close-up — take a look at this one. $60 billion as of last night going to the unions to buy health care votes.
The problem is that BUSH signed the TARP money away from us–the portion of the economic stimulus that went to parasitic corporate entities like AIG–not Obama. I’m guessing by the time the 2012 elections roll around we’ll be saying that Obama was responsible for invading Iraq and the 9/11 attacks on New York City, at this rate.
Odds that Bolling gets anything more than a some laughs with everyone over at the Fox News coffee room over this rather than disciplined, reprimanded, or terminated as the previous internal memo implied he would?
