DomKen
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ORIGINAL: DomKen Well then how about the FNC vice president and Washington managing editor, definitely a news guy not an opinion guy, spreading a claim he didn't believe to be true? ...How many instances of the right wing media blatantly making stuff up does it take? From the link you posted: "Last year, candidate Barack Obama stood on a sidewalk in Toledo, Ohio, and first let it slip to Joe the Plumber that he wanted to quote, 'spread the wealth around,'" he said. "At that time, I have to admit, that I went on TV on Fox News and publicly engaged in what I guess was some rather mischievous speculation about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism, a premise that privately I found rather far-fetched." Horrors! Lies! On October 21, as the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz notes, Sammon said this: "I have read Barack Obama's books pretty carefully, and he in his own words talks about being drawn to Marxists... Now all this stuff's coming out about whether he's a socialist. I don't know why anyone is surprised by it, because if you read his own words and his sort of, you know, orientation coming up as a liberal through college and a young man, it's not a huge shock." More lies! But hey, count on Media Matters to set the record straight: "A top Fox News executive has admitted on tape to repeatedly and deliberately misleading viewers," Ari Rabin-Havt, Executive Vice President at Media Matters, sand [sic] in a statement. Talk about people making shit up. K. Do you not get how utterly inappropriate it is for someone who claims to be providing news to engage in "mischievious speculation?" What about a supposed journalist attacking someone, on air, with charges the journalist privately doesn't believe?
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