The leftwing blogosphere is atwitter about the fact that those bastards at Fox News lied by trying to pass off a violent protest in California as a violent protest in Madison, Wisconsin. IHateTheMedia.com even picked up a new troll who made repeated references to “the Fox News palm tree lie.”
Here’s the video clip that started the whole brouhaha:
And here’s the description that accompanied that clip at YouTube:
Fox News is at it again! Here’s a clip form tonights O’Rielly show with reporter Mike Tobin. They are still lying and deceiving people! You’ve gotta see this. They spliced in a clip from some place else to make it seem as though there was a rowdy crowd in Madison Wisconsin. Look closely for the palm trees in the background (I have yet to see a palm tree in Madison). UNBELIEVABLE!! FOX NEWS LIES AGAIN!
So did Fox lie? Based on that clip, it sure look like it. Ahhh, but not so fast. Mediaite took a look at the whole story and reached a different conclusion.
While, in the 43-second clip that’s being linked to on YouTube, it does look like Fox News lied, but watching the entire segment for context makes it clear that they did not.
The segment in question occurred during The O’Reilly Factor as Bill O’Reilly was discussing the anger in the union protests. At the top of the piece, he rolled footage of a number of the “union thug” videos that have become so popular on Right Wing news sites in the past few weeks. O’Reilly clearly identified the videos as collectively coming from “all over the country.” … this B-roll footage was replayed again during the rest of the segment, including during an interview with Mike Tobin, Fox News’ reporter who’s been on the ground in Wisconsin.
Here’s the unedited video:
Obviously, someone’s lying here. But it doesn’t appear to be Fox News.
Source: Mediaite.com
