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By phact0rri
| Los Angeles
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Top 10 Fox News Fails of 2009
Most of us know that Fox news is to news as MTV is to music. Since the 2003 court ruling giving the channel the right to lie on TV, they realized they didn’t have to be a credible news source as long as they are entertaining. And they do not disappoint (in being entertaining). The problem is what most of us find entertaining is the train wreck they call "reporters" and "news".
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Chrysler has gotten a Stay by the supreme court… we think?One of the most entertaining qualities of live TV is when you make a mistake and cannot POSSIBLY cover it up. This footage of Fox Business takes that to a whole new level. First of all, the correspondent at the beginning was like a deer in front of headlights...you'd think that was the funniest part of this video. Oh, I assure you it's not. Reporting on Chrysler getting a stay by the Supreme Court, the anchor seemed to have the information a little before everyone else on the team. At least the male correspondent was honest about it. Notice how SHE had absolutely NO qualms in reporting a headline with no facts to back it up. Easily one of the most awkward and yet funny clips of Live TV screw ups I’ve seen in such a long time. Thank you Fox! http://www.break.com/index/fox-news-fail.html -
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Ridiculing the Canadian Military After Four Soldiers Died in AfghanistanWe all have our awkward joke moments. God knows I've had a few of my own (please read this article for more). Hell, even the last President had his fair share of awkward moments with the press (any joke he told was met with nervous laughter, kind of like if your torturer/executioner tried a joke about the weather in between pain sessions). But even Dubya himself did not insult an entire country on the day that four more of their soldiers died in Afghanistan. Yes Fox News decided to joke about Canada’s military showing it off as weak and ineffectual while they were mourning for their soldiers. Of course, Canadian comedian Rick Mercer felt the tasteless joke, and lashed back at Fox delivering this gem, “If you’re going to do satire, three of the most important rules are you have to tell the truth, you can’t be a bully and don’t be an a--hole,” Mercer proved that even if Fox News' jokes aren’t funny, seeing them get PWNED sure is. I don’t think this went over the epic threshold of fail, but wow that must have hurt. Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/12/01/2009-s-best-and-worst-communicators-gaffes-blunders-and-quick-wit.aspx#ixzz0YavoW3fh -
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Fake Footage Call outIt’s hard not to love Jon Stewart, as he comes off as extremely well informed for a satirist. And more to the point, he actually seems to take news and politics more serious than one would be led to believe. Well, the well informed host of the Daily Show opened a few months ago by calling out Fox news for airing footage that was supposed to be showing a Tea Baggers rally hosted by Bachman, when in fact it was footage taken from a 9/12 rally which had been aired months before. Stewart said “If I didn’t know any better I’d think they just put two days together and acted like they didn’t...” It should be noted that Fox news has since apologized for the obvious error, and actually thanked John Stewart and Comedy Central for discovering the error. It was just funny, until they made the apology, then it easily fell into the uncomfortable fail territory. -
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Call of Duty Modern Warefare 2:Fox news ran a panel accusing Modern Warfare 2 as breeding ground for Terrorists. Completely ignoring facts like, oh, I don't know, the player is undercover, and trying to stop the terrorists. This truly became a fail when the guest defended his own points and everyone else completely ignored everything he said. They weren't arguing… they were just acting like they didn’t hear what he was saying. Way to run a fair and balanced discussion. -
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Sarah Palin’s book Tour:Like the above Teabagging, Fox’s Gregg Jarrett aired footage “just now coming to us” regarding Palin’s book tour. However the footage was later proven to have come from a Palin rally in 2008, from a Miami Fox Affiliate’s newscast. Yet again, Fox comes to apologize like they didn’t learn from it the first time it was done. -
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Beck tells the Elderly to get the $$#@ out!During the US health care reform, conservatives and Fox News made up this theory that doctors and the government were going to create panels to decide whether the elderly were to continue to get treatment or if they were to be put to death. I'm not kidding. So Beck said “I am never to say Fire, but RUN FOR YOUR LIVES”, telling the elderly to leave the country. (Glen Beck, not the popular/talented Scientologist/singer). And people wonder why he’s lost 62 sponsors this year. See more: http://www.borowitzreport.com/article.aspx?ID=7069 -
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Fox geography FailThis is a pretty popular low moment in the year of Fox news, where they placed a graphic map of the Middle East, where Iraq is labeled “Egypt”. However, the sad bit is that it was not only used once (in an effort to educate America on Middle East matters), but it was actually aired multiple times that week. This particular entertainment flub was made viral when posted on Failblog.org. Sadly, I think that the average Fox watcher probably believed that Iraq was now called Egypt...or like most people, sadly, just didn't know or care about the difference. Proof: (http://twitpic.com/bum2w) and (http://reporter.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83451d69069e20120a54d2da3970c-800wi) -
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Advertising fail.Fox news put out an ad claiming that no other news channel covered the Anti-Obama rallies on 9/12. Problem was…. ALL OF THEM DID. http://www.thedailybackground.com/2009/09/18/epic-fox-news-fail/ -
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Fox Covered the Million Man March?Fox New’s Neil Cuvato had been claiming that the Teabagger coverage they have been doing is not in excess to other important rallies they have covered, “We were there for the Million Man March, even though, as I pointed out, it turned out to be well shy of a million men.” Unfortunately for Fox, the last Million Man March was in October of 1995, and Fox News didn’t start airing until October of 1996. The Million Man March: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_man_march Fox News on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News -
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Glenn Beck: Spelling Bee ChampionAnd to wrap up this illustrious list of the greatest Fox News Moments, how can we forget the time Glenn Beck was trying to be witty with Obama’s Administration and tried to spell out Oligarchy. Supposedly he knew it was misspelled, according to fox and he was just playing stupid. Who knew Glenn Beck had to PLAY stupid?
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