Fox News Owes Barack Obama An Apology
Robert Paul Reyes
February 01, 2007
Media critics, pundits, outraged Democrats and concerned citizens have long argued that Fox News is the semi-official propaganda arm of the Bush Administration. Conservatives respond that liberals are just jealous, because Fox News is the most popular cable news outlet.
But now Fox News has done something so egregious that they should change their motto to: We distort, you decide.
Insight, an insignificant publication, reported that as a youngster, Barack Obama, attended a madrassah. Fox News ran with the story; the media giant was more than eager to derail the presidential ambitions of Obama.
The evocative word “madrassah” conjures up images of a young Obama mindlessly reciting verses from the Koran and pledging jihad against the United States.
Obama is an avowed Christian and the story about him attending a madrassah is patently false. The school in question, was not a madrassah, but a learning institution that accepts students of all faiths.
The apologists for Fox News should be ashamed for propping up such a biased media organization. If you want “fair and balanced” news, turn on CNN or MSNBC.
From WashingtonPost.Com:
Sources tell The Sleuth that the Obama camp has 'frozen out' Fox News reporters and producers in the wake of the network’s major screw-up in running with the erroneous Obama-the-jihadist story reported by Insight magazine.”
Good for Obama; we all need to join him in boycotting Fox News.
But now Fox News has done something so egregious that they should change their motto to: We distort, you decide.
Insight, an insignificant publication, reported that as a youngster, Barack Obama, attended a madrassah. Fox News ran with the story; the media giant was more than eager to derail the presidential ambitions of Obama.
The evocative word “madrassah” conjures up images of a young Obama mindlessly reciting verses from the Koran and pledging jihad against the United States.
Obama is an avowed Christian and the story about him attending a madrassah is patently false. The school in question, was not a madrassah, but a learning institution that accepts students of all faiths.
The apologists for Fox News should be ashamed for propping up such a biased media organization. If you want “fair and balanced” news, turn on CNN or MSNBC.
From WashingtonPost.Com:
Sources tell The Sleuth that the Obama camp has 'frozen out' Fox News reporters and producers in the wake of the network’s major screw-up in running with the erroneous Obama-the-jihadist story reported by Insight magazine.”
Good for Obama; we all need to join him in boycotting Fox News.
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