Scooter Libby found NOT GUILTY of lying to FBI investigators! (Fox)

[HamdenRice]

Well, of course we're talking about in the Bizarro World of Fox News. Thank Cannonfire blogger for bringing this to our attention:



Cannonfire writes:

http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/

Behold: A screen grab that will live in infamy.

In case you woke up late, the jury declared Scooter Libby guilty on four out of five charges. Since he was acquitted of one charge, Fox could, I suppose, argue that this crawling text is technically accurate.

As you know, the Murdochian hordes have tried this sort of thing before. Was it twice or three times that Fox identified the disgraced Mark Foley as a Democrat? Obviously, this kind of thing does not happen by accident. Such puerile tactics must work.

Soon, you may expect to see the following words crawl their way beneath Brit Hume's mug: BUSH TRIES TO END WAR STARTED BY CLINTON.

[whistle]

1. Yellow puke journalism is really nothing but extreme RW propaganda...

:puke:

[HamdenRice]

4. I expect to hear exactly this line...

from the local freeper around these parts. It's crude, but effectively, and the terminally stupid will parot this line exactly for the rest of the news cycle.

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Can they be anymore obvious?

tsk tsk!

[myrna minx]

3. Faux Nooz: The Ministry of Truthiness. n/t

[0rganism]

5. fairly unbalanced

If scooter got sentenced to 20 years in jail out of the maximum 25, they'd report on the 5 unsentenced years.

[David Zephyr]

6. We saw this too. They keep running the lie.

Working at Fox really requires imagination these days.

Let's see: Scooter's convicted in a federal court of "lying to the FBI investigators" regarding his conversations with Tim Russert and Fox runs a banner all day long that proclaims to its idiotic cult audience that "Scooter Libby found NOT GUILTY of lying to FBI investigators".

Fair and Balanced. Absolutely.

[HamdenRice]

9. The question is, whether this is spin or ...

a convenient "mistake" like identifying Mark Foley as a Democrat?

[gollygee]

7. HAHA

I find that incredibly funny. Sad, sad, sad, but still funny. They are so obvious.

[gratuitous]

8. When you say one thing to the FBI and something else to the grand jury

It means that you're lying at least once. Going in, the prosecutor couldn't tell for sure which time Libby was lying, so he charged Libby with lying both times. Libby was found not guilty of lying twice. Whoop de do.

[SlowDownFast]

10. They're trying to look on the bright side...

:rofl:

[Jacobin]

11. You know what freaks me out the most about this?

I forking posted exactly that headline an hour before Faux did and said that would be their headline.

:wow:

I think I'm going to be sick. I could write for Faux Snooze!!

aargggghhh

[SeattleVet]

30. A 5-year-old could write for Faux 'news', and still be more

accurate than the existing spin machine.

[The Straight Story]

12. even more telling - see what is says in blue at bottom?

The borg(e)s got him a mate!

[HamdenRice]

21. Any idea what this means? nt

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Still a lie since he was found guilty of one charge of lying to the FBI and not guilty on the second

[dkofos]

14. and if they see the truth somewhere else will they believe it??

[Common Sense Party]

15. 1 out of 5 counts, not guilty? Okay, we'll JUST report that one!

Easy.

[gordianot]

16. This is "imprinting" much like a bird hatching from an egg.

For the rest of their lives those with mentality of a Fox news follower will believe "Libby is not guilty". It does not matter who "Libby" is, they are "not guilty".

[SoCalDem]

17. Another screenshot

[HamdenRice]

19. Under lying bloviator Fred Barnes

double happiness -- NOT.

[Kingofalldems]

18. They know their hardcore freeper viewers are idiots

[Rosemary2205]

20. Busting out laughing -- gawd how pathetic they are.

The poor soul given the task of watching Faux all day should really get a medal.

[Qutzupalotl]

22. They always were a 20%-not-guilty kind of an organization.

[XOKCowboy]

23. I've gotta laugh also!

Only on Uhhmurika's "Fair and Balanced" network could you see that and there are still millions of people who'll tell you that Faux is the ONLY news network to tell "both" sides.

:shrug:

[glitch]

24. That is a hoot. They know their viewers won't know the difference.

Sure it's a hoot, but it's also a little of sad..

[merh]

25. kick

:kick:

[Rex]

26. They should be held accountable for their lies.

What is this? Obvious lie number three? How many times to they get!? :eyes:

[candidate]

27. Epic

LOL

[Penndems]

28. Jeez, they forgot to mention the other FOUR counts he was found guilty on

1. GUILTY on two counts of perjury.

2. GUILTY on one count of obstruction of justice.

3. GUILTY on one count of making false statements.


An oversight on Fox's part? :sarcasm: :shrug:

[Trillo]

29. I guess it's the first amendment that allows individuals to lie with impunity

unless they're under oath. I have no idea why any corporation is allowed to ever lie, certainly not one so critical to informing the citizens. Why aren't corporations put under an oath at all times they legally exist?

Maybe Fox meant that since Libby was convicted of "perjury", he never "lied". :crazy: