I don't know anybody that really follows Fox Noise, so normally I ignore this kind of crap. But this is too easy-- Fox News' Trace Gallagher recently claimed that the Dow dropped 56 points during a speech by President Obama. According to Gallagher, when the President began, the Dow was up 28 points; by the time the President finished, Gallagher said the Dow was down 28 points. Of course, this is nonsense. In fact, when President Obama started, the Dow was down 34; it was down 28 when he finished. So it actually gained 6 (meaningless) points.
And while we're at it, another instance of tabloid journalism has been lighting up the blogosphere. Fox News’ Martha MacCallum claimed recently that “after weeks of economic doom and gloom, the Obama administration is now singing a slightly different tune. Take a look at what was said in recent interviews this weekend.”
Fox News then aired clips of administration officials giving optimistic views of the economy, which included video of Joe Biden stating: “The fundamentals of the economy are strong.” The problem is, Biden didn't make those remarks during an “interview” over the past weekend or even in the few months he has been Vice President. The clip aired by Fox was edited from footage taken at a September 2008 campaign event-- one in which he was criticizing statements made by John McCain. Check it out below:
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