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THE FUNDEMENTALS OF THE ECONOMY ARE DONG

Fox News Makes Up NEW LYING TUNE For Dumb Obama And Biden

Fox News is a mentally retarded cable channel, you know that, but this weekend one of its anonymous blonde death monsters did a “story” about how after weeks of “doom and gloom,” the Obama administration “is now singing a slightly different tune” re: the economy. Then we view this a montage of “clips from this weekend” of administration officials being HYPOCRITES, including one where Joe Biden is shouting “THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ECONOMY ARE STRONG.” It was on Drudge this weekend, that wacky Joe Biden said that, and the administration is all a bunch of frauds etc. So, let’s discover how this was made up!

Here’s the 6-month-old clip from which the Biden line was taken:

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that’s why John McCain could say with a straight face as recently as this morning and this is a quote, “the fundamentals of the economy are strong.” That’s what John said. He says that “We’ve made great progress economically in the Bush years.”

That about covers it.

Fox News Edits Clip To Suggest That Biden Recently Declared ‘Fundamentals Of The Economy Are Strong’ [Think Progress]


3:44 PM on Mon March 16 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. ManchuCandidate says at 3:48 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I’m shocked and outraged* that Faux has such low journalistic standards.

    *not really

  2. V572625694 says at 3:49 pm, March 16th, 2009

    To think that Fox would use a clip from six months ago and represent it as something that just happened — shocking!

    Was Biden speaking from a Teleprompter? Cuz that’s all that matters anyway.

  3. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 3:50 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I’ve got a solution to fix the economy: how about a tax on stupid.

    4 minutes of faux news and 30 seconds of Flush would wipe out the deficit and put stimulus checks in everyone’s hands.

  4. Woodwards Friend says at 3:52 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I can’t form an opinion on this matter unless and until Joe the Plumber weighs in.

  5. freakishlystrong says at 3:56 pm, March 16th, 2009

    This is the latest wingnut meme, Blow Scarborough was all over it this am, yelling about how Obama said “we are focusing on the stronger fundamentals in this economy, of course, Blow heard; “the fundamentals of the economy are strong”. I heard; “HHHEEENNGGGHHHH”…

  6. shortsshortsshorts says at 3:58 pm, March 16th, 2009

    V572625694: TELEPROMPTER!!!!!11!!!!

    And why does the administration LIE so much before it was an administration? It is as if Barack Obama and Joe Biden LIED all the time when they were in charge when Bush was president. I don’t understand it, WHICH IS WHY I WILL POUND MY FISTS AND SHAKE THEM IN THE AIR LIKE A GORILLA.

    TELEPROMPTER!!!!!!!11!!11!11

  7. Giant Robot says at 4:02 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Advocatus_Diaboli: And a huge estate tax on inherited stupid, because it’s the worst kind.

  8. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 4:04 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I really only depend on Fox News for one thing: Telling me the lastest news from inside the Octomom’s vagina.

  9. joezoo says at 4:04 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Oh man, that clip is going to come back and haunt him in the coming SarahPAC armageddon.

  10. Gorillionaire says at 4:06 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Fox should have just gone all out FTW and never even announced that Obama won the election. They could have just used the hundreds of hours of Bush footage they’ve got and re-edited it to create an infinite Bush administration for their audience.

  11. BillyClubb says at 4:06 pm, March 16th, 2009

    And who is running the teleprompter!? The Illuminati? The Masons? The “real” Catholic church? Wake up sheeple — our nation is being run by the people who control the teleprompter!!

  12. problemwithcaring says at 4:06 pm, March 16th, 2009

    …there’s better clip editing in the Obama Rickrolled video…

  13. you cannot be serious says at 4:06 pm, March 16th, 2009

    So, can Fox please use this time traveling magic machine to fix everything Michael Steele will ever say?

  14. Cicada says at 4:07 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Okay, so a couple weeks ago the right wing punditry was all pissed ‘cuz Barry was making sad noises about the economy, THUS DESTROYING THE ECONOMY 4EVAR. Now they’re annoyed ‘cuz the administrations is talking positively about the economy.

    Got it.

  15. Hooray For Anything says at 4:11 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Fox News should just start off every new segment with the disclaimer “these stories are based on true events”

  16. AnnieGetYourFun says at 4:12 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I’ve made up a little placard that I can hold up whenever Fox News does pretty much anything: http://www.classicopostcards.co.uk/scans/postcard%20scans/246%20gif/246-205.jpg

  17. StephanieInCA says at 4:13 pm, March 16th, 2009

    EXCUSE ME am i the only one to notice that there is some VOLCANO MONITORING going on on the screen there? WTF Bobby Jinal also.

  18. Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! says at 4:14 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I refuse to criticize any network that at least has the courage to put on Steve Doocey as its answer to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

  19. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 4:17 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I can’t wait until O’Reilly spends half of his show debunking this sloppy journalism and and the bias that feeds it…., What? O’Reilly is having Dick Morris, Ann Coulter and Karl Rove on to discuss how Obama has failed? Well, I’m sure he will get to this before the end of the week.

  20. lawrenceofthedesert says at 4:18 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Out of context, out of mind.

  21. skyinator says at 4:18 pm, March 16th, 2009

    How dumb do they think we are? Oh, that dumb. My sister, who is a rabid flux news stoner, exclaimed after viewing your videos, “Is that legal? They can really do that and get away with it”?

  22. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 4:28 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: It’s that liberal bias in the media at it again. And Think Progress had the nerve to show the entire piece, in context; and then point out that Biden’s statement was not made last weekend. Leftist pantaloon moonbats.

    Oh and Hooray For Anything: Win! Also.

  23. Texan Bulldoggette says at 4:29 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Meh…seems like I remember Fox using 2004 footage of Walnuts during the campaign last fall to make it seem like he wasn’t as old as the crypt keeper. So 6-month old footage is nothing.

  24. Suds McKenzie says at 4:33 pm, March 16th, 2009

    And when Pam looked in the shower and saw Bobbie Ewing standing there, she knew it had all been a dream.

  25. Hooray For Anything says at 4:33 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Lionel Hutz Esq.:I think O’Reilly will get to that around the same time that he tells his viewers that the Nancy Pelsoi/military plane story for which he spent about twenty minutes bashing Pelosi for was complete and total bullshit.

  26. Udargo says at 4:33 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Don’t you people get it?

    It’s bait. It is so clearly bait laid out for Jon Stewart. Will Stewart take the bait? Probably, how could he not? And then they can do a whole segment on how Jon Stewart likes to take overly-optimistic quotes on the economy out of context to make people look bad, but when FOX does it he can’t wait to point out how wrong it is. It’s bait, I tell you.

    Here, I’ll let my friend Admiral Akbar explain it…

  27. OReillysVibrator says at 4:35 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Don’t lie to me about Fox News, liberal traitors; this must be a clip of Joe Biden running for McCain’s Senate seat WHILE ALSO BEING VP! This is PRECISELY what happens in socialist states, with ACORN.

  28. S.Luggo says at 4:35 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Had Fox been able to hire that “news anchor, whose copy is crisp, delivery is sharp and FOX-like”, this mix-up would have been avoided. So no blamin’ Mr. Murdoch. Stuff, it just sometimes happens. (I believe that the Imperial Japanese Navy said the same thing after Pearl Harbor.)
    http://wonkette.com/407013/407013#comment-266207

  29. JSDC007 says at 4:50 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Tomorrow Fox News will photoshop socialist Obama and his marxist gal pal Michelle onto old footage of the Caecescus dancing on the graves of gypsies, Romanian gymnasts and the like.

    The wingnuts will say “see, we told you he wasn’t really black.”

  30. SemiCharmedQuark says at 4:58 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Botswana Meat Commission FC: I disagree. They are also the go to channel for attractive young ladies who go missing.

  31. SayItWithWookies says at 5:05 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Now that the DOW has been up five days in a row, they can’t use the “Is Obama bringing the stock market down?” meme. But they’re setting up for the next downturn when they can use the headline “Did the Obama administration’s irrational exuberance overinflate the market?”

  32. sati demise says at 5:20 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Tomorrow Fox and Friends will have on the esteemed:

    SJDoc

    He will explain “Liberal angst”

  33. krlars says at 5:22 pm, March 16th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies…don’t you know they can’t us the “Is Obama bringing the stock market down?” meme, because Perino is using the “Bush deserves a little credit for the latest rally bullshit:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/15/perino-bush-deserves-cred_n_175062.html

  34. hobospacejungle says at 5:55 pm, March 16th, 2009

    krlars: Perino

    I would totally hit that.

  35. Well it must be true that he said it…I just watched both clips and he said exactly the same thing BOTH times!!!Right? I mean, that proves it, Right??

    Come on, somebody back me up…

  36. SayItWithWookies says at 6:04 pm, March 16th, 2009

    krlars: The Bush tax cuts will get us out of this Obama recession!

  37. psilage says at 6:48 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Soon it’ll all be like Daniel Schorr’s cameo in “The Game”. On FoxNews, Obama’s mouth will be seen to stretch out and say, with eyes rolling back in his head, “I for one, welcome our new socialist overlords.”

  38. I understand that FuxNews has just hired Bagdad Bob as their latest blond reporter/anchor/paperweight.

  39. assistant/atlas says at 8:31 pm, March 16th, 2009

    BillyClubb: LIBERAL MEDIA, ALSO!

  40. assistant/atlas says at 8:33 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Hooray For Anything: Hehehehe. While Fox is undoubtedly the worst, I think a lot of news programs could benefit from that disclaimer.

  41. Palin Comparison says at 10:32 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I love how the first Fox video edited out the bottom scroll from the original Fox video:

    “Biden: McCain is profoundly out of touch”

    Ouch.

  42. davesnothere says at 12:50 am, March 17th, 2009

    Jeebus, it really is more of a flagrant smoking gun than usual. Hasn’t the FCC recently been risen from the dead? Opinion is one thing, but surely there is a law against use of the public airwaves to just demonstrably lie your ass off about public policy issues…

  43. missionmom says at 3:54 pm, March 23rd, 2009

    Enough with throwing around the mentally retarded diagnosis. No matter how you feel about something or someone, try calling them a name that doesn’t demean and hurt people with special needs. It’s not such a difficult request.

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