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FOX News Creates Fraudulent Video to Discredit Ron Paul
As Paul Joseph Watson of PrisonPlanet writes:
In a shocking act of mass public deception, Fox News attempted to skew Ron Paul’s 2011 CPAC straw poll win by representing it with footage from the previous year’s CPAC event, at which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed the result, another example of the continuing dirty tricks campaign being waged against Paul by the establishment media.
Congressman Paul replicated his 2010 victory over Mitt Romney by defeating the former Governor of Massachusetts for a second consecutive year at the annual CPAC conference.
However, before anchor Bill Hemmer introduced a segment concerning the story, Fox News played a clip of the 2010 announcement of the poll results, during which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed Ron Paul’s victory, passing off last year’s footage as representative of this year’s event.
Hemmer then proceeded to state, “In the end he was the winner, probably not the reaction he was hoping for,” describing the reaction as “mixed applause and boos,” before directly asking Ron Paul if he knew who was booing him.
Now, watch the video:
Robert Wenzel comments:
This is the most incredible act of news media deception ever caught in smoking gun style. This video is a must view, and notice how the FOX anchors set up the lie and Bill Hemmer, the anchor interviewing Congressman Paul, brings the LIE right into the interview, in a further attempt to dilute Paul's victory.
These boys are scared, really scared. Get this video clip out to everyone and let people know what is going on.
Did FOX News [sic] and Bill Hemmer just have their very own CBS/Dan Rather moment?
Update per Mediaite (ht Cleve Meater):
...Fox News claims it was completely accidental. Mediaite received the following statementfrom Senior Vice President of News Michael Clemente:
“We made a mistake with some of the video we aired, and plan on issuing a correction onAmerica’s Newsroom tomorrow morning explaining exactly what happened.”
Update2: Paul Joseph Watson compiles FOX's track record with respect to Paul, providing no fewer than ten eggregious examples. A sampling:
Was it another “mistake” on behalf of Fox News to exclude Paul from a January 6 2008 presidential forum event because they saw the prospect of anti-war opinions being voiced by the most conservative member of the House as a “threat”? Was it a “mistake” for Fox News to claim that their own May 2007 presidential poll, which Ron Paul won, was unreliable, because online Paul supporters had skewed the result, despite the fact that the survey was conducted via cell phone text messaging and no online votes were taken? Was it a mere “mistake” for Fox News host Sean Hannity to deride the Texas Congressman’s runaway success in the text messaging poll as nothing more than “Paulites” flood voting, when in reality only one vote per cell phone number was allowed? Hannity’s contention that Ron Paul supporters were “were simply dialing in over and over again” was nothing more than a brazen lie intended to dismiss the Congressman’s widespread popularity. No one at Fox News bothered to correct Hannity and no retraction was issued. Was it another “mistake” when Fox News started editing Ron Paul’s name out of Associated Press stories they syndicated before the 2008 presidential campaign? (ht ShankyS)
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Except for Judge Napolitano, Faux "News" is slanted, slimebag garbage for propagandized morons.
If the controlled media has to do stuff like this to Ron Paul, he must be doing something right. He has my vote, and his son Rand wants to cut all funds to Israel!
How can one discredit a 30 year moonbat congressman with no major bill to his name and who's been the biggest porker in Congress/biggest hypocrite in Congress?
Impossible.
F@CK FOX!
as a fiscal conservative, i cringe that the main stream republicans fawn over Palin yet dismiss a genius like Ron Paul. Eff Fox.
Does anyone have a link to the aired retraction/correction?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1alAbMrMM&feature=watch_response_rev
Weirdly 1984 Orwellian so many of the posts on this article like the two minutes of hate or hate week right out of the novel. Hate Fox News, Hate Fox News, Hate Fox News!
Fox News had a retraction and it wasn't hidden or buried.
Did Fox News's Bill Hemmer plot to discredit Ron Paul by showing 2010's CPAC video? - who knows.
Are libertarians rightfully suspicious? Yes, there seems to be a lot of efforts to keep Paul's voice controlled or dismissed.
But please get some perspective people. There is no "one true news source" either on TV/Radio/Newspaper or the web. If you state zerohedge or your favorite websites is the one true news source then your clueless.
Read as much news as possible and keep your mind open and critical.
It speaks 'volumes' when one has to visit http://english.aljazeera.net/
for news on what is going on in the middle east.
Nicely put.
I like sharing this as a reminder that the anti-Fed Ron Paul has had an ongoing battle with the kleptocratic propagandists for a long time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiAL76OoXp0
only 800 views? wow. that was a fantastic post, Temporalist. thank you for sharing. unreal!!!
THROW AWAY YOUR TELEVISION AND JOIN THE REVOLT: CFR Media Moguls have their lapdog politicians, and We The People have our Patriot Statesmen.
Wow, did they really think no one would figure this out?
Paul is a threat to the One Party system, both sides (Republican and Democrat).
Ok, Say Ron Paul won the Republican nomination. What would it really mean? Anything? Listen folks, we too must admit to ourselves, that we are worse off than Egypt and that any window dressing type moves mean nothing. You know and I know what needs to be done.
These mistakes by MSM are great tools to use to open the minds of the masses: show this to all your friends and family during commercials of DWTS and Idol!
In our desire to bash Fox News (which is admittedly imperfect), have we also forgotten the calls of racism and anxiety expressed by MSNBC anchors as they talk about "white people with guns" upset over having a black man in the White House, while they show a video clip of a man with a rifle and handgun at a Tea Party protest?
Only, they cropped out his head and hands so you couldn't tell that he was BLACK? Why? Because it didn't fit their worldview of white racists with guns = tea party.
There is plenty of bias to go around, no matter what your news source.
Nice deflection--however this article is about Faux News.
That's just it - some people love bashing Fox News because the organization is biased, or because they disagree with the politics of some of the "entertainers" and anchors on the channel - but these same people conveniently ignore similar (or worse) examples of bias from CNN, MSNBC, etc... largely because these channels serve their worldviews.
My post is not that Fox is exempt from the same criticism of bias and distortions - not at all. My post is that the same people jumping on the "Faux News" bandwagon in this thread so rarely apply those same critical thinking skills to other media outlets that they personally may be fond of. I have a hunch you're one of those people. !)
agree, and the rest of the lame stream media isn't biased? They've been freely brainwashing for decades.
What separates Ron Paul from the rest of the field? He isn't owned by? corporate lobbies. He isn't owned by AIPAC.
Whether? you agree with Ron Paul on issues or not (and I don't), you can have an honest conversation with him. The rest of the people on CPAC's list would sell their children to the highest bidder, and everyone, even the most koolaid-intoxicated conservative, knows it.
And that's why Fox hates him.
Fox News. We distort, you buy it.
The only way to get the anchor fired is to hit FOX in the pocketbook. Call the advertisers and say you won't buy their products till they pull their ads from FOX and the team involved in this lie is fired.
The powers at be will see to it Ron Paul is not the Republican nominee. His common sense approach to the monetary system is a direct threat to the banking cartel. For his own safety he should not run for President then attempt to end the Fed should he win. Obama is doing everything that is being demanded of him, like a good little boy, so I believe he will easily win re-election. Even Fox News' own poll shows Obama leading every GOP hopeful. Even though the elites are relatively satisfied with Obama, there's still many seats to buy in the Senate. This is where the real fighting and campaign spending will be. A GOP supermajority 100% in the pockets of their campaign donors is exactly what they're working towards.
You're assuming that the Great Implosion will happen AFTER Nov, 2012 -- how optimistic of you!
But you can’t have a poll with one guy against a bunch of guys—with a president running against a list of alleged candidates half the kids on the street haven’t even heard of yet. Such a poll isn’t worth even the paper it’s printed on.
First Borat, now FOX. Poor Ron.
As a policy I'm skeptical of almost everything I see and hear on American TV. It's quite ridiculous to expcect to become informed by watching American news.
JFK tried to get rid of the federal reserve. They will take out anyone who messes with their money machine
Every state to provide a state bank and gold and silver as alternative currencies. Paraphrasing Mao- let the 50 Wars of 1812 rebegin!
I just reduced my TV time by 2 hours a day thanks to this post. See ya Fox News, it was nice to have a conservative alternative. BTW: I couldn't care less what soup Chris Wallace has on Sunday....like watching Martha Stewart or something. I'll use those two hours to listen to http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/ in the background while getting other things done.
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Oh, the neoconservative/neoliberal scum are going to shit bricks when they see just how many progressives switch sides to vote for Ron Paul.
LOL, fell out of my seat with a great laugh. The Federal Resreve is a result of the progressive movement, the new deal, the income tax, the dept of education, the dept of energy, on and on and on, all big government programs were championed by the progressives. You have got to be flipping kidding me that progressives are ever going to switch to Ron Paul, he is the antithesis of their Orwellian vision for America. Thanks for the laugh though.
Exactly! We can't wait to get back to the 16th century where us Galtian overlords could screw over the plebes without any backsass.
Supporting Ron Paul gets you back to 16th century.......time to change your meds.
Yeah, this is exactly like when MSNBC lied about
the guy carrying a rifle at a tea party event. They
edited the clip to make the guy look white as to
make the tea party look racist against Obama. The
guy with the rifle was african american! This has
got to stop.
Screw all Goebbels media. I think everyone should worry more about Google and its cozy relationship with NSA and an increasingly fascist government with DHS growth on steroids.
Or their astronauts playing "zero gravity" in a swimming pool.
(it just means NASA has better CGI)
ron will save us all!
riiiiight.
https://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/ron-paul-and-freemasonry/
and what about the millions in presidential campaign donations?
did y'all get a refund?
I remind all of Rule #14 re Tamboo.
The leftover donations from Ron's 2008 campaign were used to create the Campaign For Liberty and continue to build support for the liberty movement.
+1776.
i just donated last week.
You post some ridiculous shit but this takes the cake...so far.
"and what about the millions in presidential campaign donations?
did y'all get a refund?"
I'm sure everyone who donated was expecting a refund...
Just as crude as the Chinese patching a kill scene from Top Gun into their stealth fighter "news" story.
Yawn, the rest of the MSM does this or worse on a daily basis, except it's against regular GOP types. Mudoch appears to have it in for RP, they wouldn't invite him to GOP debates they sponsored the last go round.
1) downgrade your television service until fox news no longer appears. For me, this presented a $600/year hit to Dish Network. I advised Dish that they may want to call Murdoch demand an apology and a retraction and air it for a week.
2) this was a great PR opportunity for the Ron Paul campaign. Awesome.
3) Is Paul electable? Maybe not. But he keeps delivering body blows and each round he gets up out of his corner and starts swinging again. His cause will outlast the opponent. Just have to keep swinging.
I stopped watching Fox news after Iraq One. Started getting my news from print and online media, especially other counties that are not US satellites. It will be interesting to see were this all goes, will RP speak out about Fox news and make waves like Obama did early in the presidency???
here is a bit a news i did know and would not have learned form MSM. the war department sponsors NASCAR. unflipping real.
http://nakedempire.wordpress.com/
Note that Bain Capital (Romney's Investment Firm) owns significant interest in Clear Channel, the broadcaster which airs Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh and a variety of other neocon puppets.
That, coupled with Paul's attempt to end the fraudulent federal reserve system, end the IRS system of bilking the public in support of the federal reserve system, bringing the military industrial complex to heal, limiting corporate welfare and limiting foreign aid (especially including to Israel), and reducing all of the idiotic government agencies that don't do much but frustrate the creation of an organic economic recovery, makes him a target of a lot of rabid special interest groups.
Should Paul run (he would at least be paving the way for his son Rand), expect this sort of thing to occur with increasing frequency. Right after the CPAC win by Paul, the Washington Post came out with an article that spouted the supposition that Paul was the biggest loser at CPAC because he had won.
Yeah, credibility is increasingly collapsing with the MSM. It will get worse with a campaign by Mr. Paul.