Fox News "scrubs" Shrub's grammar...fair and balanced my...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

...ass.

The "real" Tenet speech from the White House Web Site:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040603-2.html

"President Bush Commends Tenet
Remarks by the President on the Resignation of CIA Director George Tenet
The South Lawn

10:26 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Today, George Tenet, the director of the CIA, submitted a letter of resignation. I met with George last night in the White House. I had a good visit with him. He told me was resigning for personal reasons. I told him I'm sorry he's leaving. He's done a superb job on behalf of the American people. I accepted his letter. He will serve at the CIA as the director until mid July, at which time the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John McLaughlin, will serve as the acting director.

George Tenet is the -- is the kind of public service you like -- servant you like to work with. He's strong. He's resolute. He served his nation as the director for seven years. He has been a strong and able leader at the agency. He's been a -- he's been a strong leader in the war on terror. And I will miss him. I send my blessings to George and his family. I look forward to working with him until the time he leaves the agency. And I wish him all the very best.

Thank you.

END 10:28 A.M. EDT"

...and the "laundered" portion, removing the hesitation, stuttering and poor grammar, as "reported" on Fox. Notice any differences? And it is presented as a "transcript"...which it most certainly is NOT. You don't alter a damn transcript and call it a transcript!!!!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,121672,00.html

"George Tenet is the kind of public servant you like to work with. He's strong, he's resolute. He's served his nation as the director for seven years. He has been a strong and able leader at the agency. He's been a strong leader in the war on terror. And I will miss him."

[Killarney]

1. Transcript my ass

They left out his double words, cleaned it up, etc.

God they are such shills.

[Skittles]

3. FOX fans expect this sort of stuff

that's why FOX is so popular - it tells its idiot fans what they WANT to hear, not the TRUTH.

[jdsmith]

2. Not that I'm taking W's side, but

NO ONE speaks (emphasis: SPEAKS) in perfect sentences. (Well, Yeats did say that Oscar Wilde did, but that's neither here nor there.) A little ineptitude, and in transcription of speech, authenticates the spoken word. So Fox actually hurt the cause of verisimilitude.

(On the other hand, some of us HAVE read Mark Crispin Miller.)

[bryant69]

4. Well the question is

Does Fox treat Republicans and Democrats the same way? I don't know, but of course, I have my suspicions.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[jdsmith]

6. Does Fox treat Republicans and Democrats the same way?

Oh, no. Good Lord, no. My goodness, no, no, NO.

[lpbk2713]

5. The "balanced" part is

what we should know and what they want us to know.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. ...and don't forget this famous quote...

http://www.worldnewsstand.net/news/fox.htm

"and, as we also quoted the Fox General Manager in our lawsuit, "We paid $3 billion for these television stations, we'll decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is."

The context of the quote (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1674.htm):

Lies, Damn Lies. And Milk.
by Paul Schmelzer

A Florida judge decided recently that it's technically legal for the media to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast.

The decison reversed a $425,000 jury verdict in favor of TV journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, who sued WTVT-TV, a Fox affiliate in Tampa, for firing them because they refused to air false reports about the presence of synthetic bovine growth hormone (or BGH) in the area milk supply. The husband-and-wife reporting team asserts that Monsanto, maker of BGH, pressured WTVT to edit the story to be less damning to the company (some of the changes would've undermined the credibility of scientists and studies that link BGH in milk to cancer). Akre and Wilson refused, despite repeated attempts by the station to have the story altered and an offer to terminate them with full pay if they never spoke of their BGH findings. Finally, says Akre, when they threatened to report the station to the FCC for falsifying news, they were canned.

[Az]

8. The job of a reporter is to tell the objective truth. Balance is just spin

If you are standing in the middle of a teetertotter and reporting what is happening around you then Fox's balance is someone jumping on the right end of it claiming to be balancing their report. Balance = Spinning the right's lies.

[John_H]

9. Interesting slip ups. Very interesting.

Chimp butchered the part where he had to lavish complements on Tenet. At the risk of sounding like a Kermlin watcher, I wonder if that means that he fired Tenet because tenet has or is about to screw him on some major issue. Plame, maybe?