Fair and balanced?

[Danzig in the Dark]

With Mitt Romney now officially President Obama's opponent, it truly appears to be game on at the Fox News channel -- at least, if this morning's "Fox & Friends" is any indication.

Today's version of the morning show featured an anti-Obama video that resembled propaganda films from 1930's Europe more than it did responsible TV politics of today.

And the remarkable thing was the witless crew on the couch that serves as hosts for this show had the audacity to present it as journalism and congratulate the producer who put it together.

You can see it for yourself, and I hope you will let me know what you think.

But as the guy who challenged the Obama administration two years when it tried to deny Fox News access to interviews and other opportunities offered to the media on the grounds that Fox was not a legitimate news operation, I have to tell you even I am shocked by how blatantly Fox is throwing off any pretense of being a journalistic entity with videos like this. Don't be fooled by Bret Baier's Boy Scout smile or all the talk about how some shows are news and some are opinion on the channel. Any news organization that puts up this kind of video is rotten to the core.

I wonder if it is part of a larger movement on the right, with conservative media trying to raise its partisan game on behalf of Romney. I wonder.

In terms of transparency, I need to say that the video was brought to my attention by Media Matters for America, a Web-based liberal organization that has all but declared war on Fox. But check out the video yourself. You be the judge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MoWJnvYFDg

This would be a great Romney For President ad if it wasn't a Fox News segment.

[DEATH ROW JOE]

All the facts are either incorrect or distorted.

Unemployment was 7.8% and rising, up from 5% a year earlier. Now it's 8.2% and falling, down from 10.2% in Feb 2010. No jobs added to the private sector over a decade results in high unemployment. No way to avoid it.

Gas is 11% cheaper than it was 4 years ago. Prices crashed after Wall Street crashed so using Jan 2009 distorts price history.

Their food inflation numbers are simply wrong. The highest rate of inflation was 4%/year for hamburger. Inflation never got below 4% under Reagan. Also, why is it a big deal that bread increased 4% over 3.5 years? That's a annual rate of inflation of 1.1%. Current headline inflation rate is 2.3%/year which is low.

The deficit was not reduced because taxes were cut. Spending has not grown rapidly under Obama. The big spending increase took place in 2008.

The food stamp number is incorrect. More were on food stamps in Jan 2009. Big increase is due to Bush's recession. Fewer are on food stamps now than in Jan 2012.

[Danzig in the Dark]

All the facts are either incorrect or distorted.

FNC's motto is "Fair and Balanced", not "We Ain't Full of Shit".

[RATTdrools]

Great post Death Row Joe!

Romney, Fox News, and the Repukes are all repulsive!