You bet your ass they are!


It's hard to imagine a greater irony than Glenn Beck whining about his
critics supposedly quoting him all out of context, since they only run
small sound bites and leave out the context, blah blah blah. Because,
you know, Beck has quite a track record when it comes to that practice
himself. Indeed, Jon Stewart recently had some fun at Beck's expense
over his fondness for truncated video quotes.

Still, that was what Beck was doing yesterday. And it was all because
Howard Dean said something mean about Fox News:

I would bring back the Fairness Doctrine so you couldn't have a
spectacle of a Fox Flooze, which just makes stuff up and is a propaganda
outlet. You would actually have to have some sanctioned human beings
talking to the other side. And MSNBC would have to do the same. They
would have to have some conservatives on there too. I think that's much
better for the country. ...Americans don't know what's going on and
therefore the media can have their way with them intellectually.


To which Beck responded:

BECK: I would ask Mr. Dean to help me out. What is it that we make up?

I would ask you to just take a moment here. Do you really believe that I
could or anybody here at Fox News could just make things up and remain
on the air?


Ummmm .... YEAH!!!!! How about on a 24/7/365 basis?

And it isn't just Beck, who of course has a nearly unbeatable track
record when it comes to making crap up. Just this morning we got another
fine example of Fox News making crap up:

Fox & Friends reported that a school in central Florida had banned the
"traditional Christmas colors" red and green from classrooms. In a
statement to Media Matters, the school's district spokesperson, Regina
Klares, has denied this, stating, "There is not a ban on the colors red
and green at Heathrow Elementary."


This is not the exception, it is the rule at Fox News. There are simply
no standards for truthfulness there; otherwise Beck would be right -- he
wouldn't have been able to go on air and lie day after day, week after
week, unless it was his job to lie. Which tells you everything you need
to know about Fox News.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-beck-do-you-really-
believe-i-c

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