{"id":5863,"date":"2011-09-16T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T07:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2011-09-16T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T07:24:57","slug":"fox-lied-on-palestinian-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/fox-lied-on-palestinian-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox lied on Palestinian vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019ve come to believe that to work for Fox, the Republican Ministry of propaganda, one needs a PhD in Bullshitology.&#160; (PhD = piled higher and deeper.)&#160; I do watch it from time to time, because it gives me a better appreciation of how the right wing rank and file have become so divorced from reality.&#160; When the facts don\u2019t fit what they want, Fox makes up their own facts and intentionally lies.&#160; Here\u2019s an example of what I mean.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"FoxSheep\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FoxSheep\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/FoxSheep.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"261\" \/>Fox News\u2019s website blatantly misquoted State Department spokesman Mark Toner in a press briefing yesterday in Foggy Bottom. The Fox News report, which lists the Associated Press as a contributor, says Toner called a vote for the Palestinian statehood recognition bid at the U.N. an \u201canti-Israel vote.\u201d The Fox story says [Faux Noise delinked]:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Wednesday the U.S. continues to see any kind of effort by the Palestinians at the U.N. gathering in New York as \u201ccounterproductive.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>He said a vote for Palestinian statehood is an \u201canti-Israel vote.\u201d<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">But at the press briefing, Toner was asked repeatedly whether or not the U.S. considered voting for the Palestinian statehood recognition resolution to be \u201canti-Israel.\u201d He failed to respond several times, but then said it was \u201cnot a zero-sum game.\u201d Pressed on it, Toner seemed to say that the administration did not, in fact, consider voting for the resolution to be \u201canti-Israel.\u201d&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8230;Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9bBYr9o1oEE\" target=\"_blank\">video of the whole exchange here<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bBYr9o1oEE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">While it\u2019s not precisely clear that Toner\u2019s remark that \u201cIt is not \u2013 no\u201d was a response to the reporter\u2019s question, it\u2019s absolutely clear that at no point does Toner say that a vote for the Palestinian initiative is \u201canti-Israel.\u201d\u2026 [<span style=\"text-align: left\"><em>emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/09\/15\/320221\/fox-misquote-state-anti-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m on no way supporting Toner\u2019s position.&#160; I think that Palestinian statehood is the best thing that can happen for Israel, because putting Palestinians on an equal footing makes it more difficult for Israel\u2019s current&#160; government to prevent a just peace, the best thing for both.&#160; Toner\u2019s position is bad enough without Fox lying to make it worse.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">People often ask in comments how Republicans are so totally misinformed.&#160; They are fed a steady diet of lies, not only from their own politicians, but also from <em>Faux Noise<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve come to believe that to work for Fox, the Republican Ministry of propaganda, one needs a PhD in Bullshitology.&#160; (PhD = piled higher and deeper.)&#160; I do watch it from time to time, because it gives me a better appreciation of how the right wing rank and file have become so divorced from reality.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/fox-lied-on-palestinian-vote\/' 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-5863","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\/5863","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=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}