Bill Maher wants to lynch stockbrokers “with their balls in their mouths.” Fox News’ John Gibson should consider himself lucky, because the Huffington Post only wants to put words in his mouth.
Yesterday, the unabashedly lefty website ran a doctored video that combined two completely different stories and made it appear that Gibson had cast racial slurs at new Attorney General Eric Holder.
To their credit, HuffPo later pulled the doctored video, admitted they had been duped, and issued a mea culpa.
Gibson had been covering the story of a monkey that escaped from the Seattle Zoo. The monkey’s most identifiable trait was his bright blue scrotum.
“At 2:48,” the Huffington Post said, “they toss to John Gibson who complains that he can’t get away with saying “bright blue scrotum” on the radio then follows that up by saying, ‘We were talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his bright blue scrotum.’”
Fortunately for Fox News host, but unfortunately for the Huffington Post, Gibson had said no such thing. But someone had spliced together two unrelated stories to make it appear that he had.
In reality, what Gibson said was, “We’re talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his comment that this is a…nation of cowards.”
We just have one question. Are there really so many monkeys roaming the streets of Seattle that they have to announce the physical traits of the newly escaped ones? Will they have to do a line-up with a bunch of other Seattle’s monkeys to identify the escaped one?
“I’m positive it’s number three,” the zookeeper said. “The one with the bright blue scrotum. I’d recognize those testicles anywhere.”
