{"id":4074,"date":"2011-02-13T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T16:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2011-02-13T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T16:56:44","slug":"does-fox-make-stuff-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/13\/does-fox-make-stuff-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Fox make Stuff Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A Think Progress reporter tried to interview Jesse Watters, an ambush specialist for Fox, and asked him this question.&#160; Not wanting to be caught lying on camera, and therefore unwilling to tell the truth that they do, he ducked the question.&#160; In the process he demonstrated that he one of the most arrogant SOBs you\u2019ll ever see.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Fox-sheep\" alt=\"Fox-sheep\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Fox-sheep.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"238\" \/>This week, Media Matters reported that <strong>an unnamed former \u201cFox News insider\u201d confirmed once again the network\u2019s aversion to the truth in the name of promoting the Republican Party<\/strong>. \u201cI don\u2019t think people would believe it\u2019s as concocted as it is; <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201102100007\" target=\"_blank\">that stuff is just made up<\/a>,\u201d the former insider said. Fox News\u2019 \u201cM.O. [is] to undermine the administration and to undermine Democrats,\u201d said the source. \u201cThey\u2019re a propaganda outfit but they call themselves news.\u201d ThinkProgress ran into Fox News ambusher-in-chief Jesse Watters at CPAC this week and wanted to know what he thought about Media Matters\u2019 report. However, <strong>Watters wouldn\u2019t comment<\/strong>. Instead, he tried to divert the issue by attempting to belittle ThinkProgress\u2019 \u201cambush\u201d skills (yes, admittedly, we didn\u2019t stalk Watters to a vacation spot with his significant other) and trying to give us some advice. \u201cYou\u2019re just kind of, a little JV,\u201d Watters said on the defensive. While ThinkProgress repeatedly tried to get comment from Watters, he still refused to answer. However, at one point, he seemed to take offense at a slight brush on his sport jacket, saying, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EE6OPDQQokU\" target=\"_blank\">Watch my blazer, bro<\/a>.\u201d\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/12\/watters-watch-my-blazer-bro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CyziR617Vjc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As for the question itself, all it takes is for a well informed person to watch one broadcast, and it\u2019s crystal clear.&#160; Fox does make stuff up, because they are the Republican Ministry of Propaganda.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Think Progress reporter tried to interview Jesse Watters, an ambush specialist for Fox, and asked him this question.&#160; Not wanting to be caught lying on camera, and therefore unwilling to tell the truth that they do, he ducked the question.&#160; In the process he demonstrated that he one of the most arrogant SOBs you\u2019ll <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/13\/does-fox-make-stuff-up\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}