At long last, video has surfaced that shows Fox News manipulating the backdrop. Footage showing a Fox producer rallying an audience to show support during a reporter’s story that is supposed to be about the unbelievable outrage of the crowd. In other words, they took a crowd of folks, told them they’d be on TV and even gave them the big’ol applause sign.
You know what’s cool? Try to align the video so you can see the event happen real-time. It is hilarious as hell. Huffington Post has a page that pulls this off. You can see that nerdy chick do the “producer” role, than cower at the camera that she notices managed to capture her likeness.
No big deal you say? Reporters have coaxed audiences before, surely. Yeah, on crappy local morning shows who struck a deal with a movie or event. Those are mainly fluff stories that show a bunch of nerds at a Star Trek convention getting all revved up. This is clearly different.
This was supposed to be a grass roots movement of angry supporters, who, conveniently organized by Fox anchor Glenn Beck, Freedom Works head and former Republican Whip Dick Armey (a privileged man who has grown fat on the taxpayers dollar), Fox News promotion and a hell of a lot of money given by Conservative financing, were so outraged by Obama’s radical Leftist, crazy socialist and somehow Nazi policies that they marched on Washington to be, well, pissed off. NO ALTERNATIVE PLANS WERE PRESENTED! AstroTurf anyone?
Glenn Beck himself declared his baby, the 9-12 march on Washington, had 1.7 Million attendees. His source for this was the “University of, I don’t remember which university it is†but he claims, that they can do body space counts and, well, quite frankly, just look at the pictures. Journalist? More like a demagogue.
To be perfectly clear, the numbers of the, so-called 9-12 Project are estimated in the tens of thousands, between 30-70 thousand at most, and that is being, lol, liberal. ABC News even caught a misrepresentation of their own counting: speaker quoted ABC saying millions, ABC said, not really, more like well under a 30 thousand. Kind of a smack down if you ask me.
Still, despite the overwhelming evidence of a crowd well under a hundred thousand, the Radical Conservatives still claim a million. They have even circulated a fake picture that has been proven false. Buildings are missing that were built 5 years ago and it has not yet been disproven that the photo was even a photograph of the anti-war movement that reached well over a million BEFORE THE WAR BEGAN!!!
Still these idiots still get a platform. They borderline on inciting violence, which is a clear violation of the Constitution and if it gets that far, Obama should try these fools for treason. Gee, I wonder if the man best known for compromise will do that.
What does Bill Maher say? Obama needs to grow a pair of balls or something rather. No arguments here.
OK, back to Fixed News. This is only one more instance of proof that Fox News is literally creating news. People who have see the movie “Out Foxed†already have witnessed former Fox News employees strong armed into creating “news†events. Such as the time that no one but a class of early graders showed up to the Reagan Library for Reagan’s birthday, you know, as part of a field trip and a complete coincidence. The Fox producers organized the kids into formation with a birthday cake, balloons and a singing celebration. This did not please Fox heads including Roger Ailes who expected more drumming up of the “grass roots†support for a modestly popular President, canonized by a major news organization (and I shutter to say “majorâ€) and deified by a political party with nothing to offer but snake skins of a slithery path.