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mitchell_blatt Guess we can't say stuff like this cuz we're a "nation of cowards," and we can't afford to let the cowards get offended. -
mitchell_blatt Not to mention that this story is actually a lie. It would be great if liberals could debate with the facts, but the facts never support their point, I guess...
I bet Gibson wins Olby's Worst Person in the World, even though the Huffington Post already apologized for lying.
Fox News racism scandal
Daimnation! —
John Gibson compares Attorney-General Eric Holder, an African-American, to a chimpanzee.
Sure, the video is technically, quote-unquote, "fake," but it still illustrates how racist the Fox News Channel really is. (HuffPo commenter "SouthernYankeeBelle": "I dunno if it is true or not. However, we know the mentality of the republican party. I could be true. Talk about doctored videos, the Bush administration were good at doctoring videos to get us into this war with Iraq...")
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HuffPo Writer Alex Leo Uses Doctored Video to Attack FNC Anchor John Gibson
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Here is an example of how liberal lies are spread. In the midst of leftists attacking the New York Post over a cartoon by Sean Delonas, The Huffington Post decided to throw its hat in the ring and wrote up a scathing attack of Fox News Anchor John Gibson. The Huffington post's Alex Leo accused Gibson of comparing “Attorney General Eric Holder to a Monkey” during Gibson’s broadcast ( ...
The Violent Rhetoric On The Right
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... As many of us feared, it's getting worse in defeat. As a reader noted, the real trouble with the New York Post cartoon - part from its lazy, dumb conflation of two completely unrelated stories - is that it presented gun violence as a legitimate response to an economic policy disagreement. The racism is so unconscious (check out John Gibson's latest free association) it's sometimes more salient to observe the slide into legitimizing violence. Note here Limbaugh's latest populist excrescence, his ...
The Huffington Post Gleefully Falls for a Hoax.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... he broke the story, after all. Come, I will hide nothing from you; when I used the first video yesterday for that piece on monkeys I winced on what the Left was going to say, but I also noted the abrupt cut at the end of it… which made me narrow my eyes a little. Not quite right, in other words. Turns out that my reflexes were sound on that, huh? Because if I had gone all righteous on the topic, I’d be printing a retraction right now.
Unlike HuffPo, which has yet to do so. Betcha they’ll just try to memoryhole the whole thing, too. ...
"John Gibson Did Not Compare Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum."
Althouse —
... (my favorite source of bloggables) considers the top bloggable story of today: "John Gibson Did Not Compare Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum." You figure that out, or say whatever you like about my late start, monkeys, scrota, etc. ...
NutRoot Outrage at Fake Video Bashing John Gibson of Fox News
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston [image] This is a tale that should serve as a cautionary one to all that inhabit the Internet. It’s all about the instant outrage, the ginned up hatred, the immediate immolation, that one sees so often infesting the left in our fair country. It shows how unhinged many there are. It started on the Huffington Post on February 19, when poster Alex Leo found what he thought was a video of John Gibson of Fox News saying that new Attorney General Eric Holder was like a monkey with a “bright blue scrotum.” In reality, though, what Huffposter Leo found was a ...
HuffPo Posts Doctored Video, Smears John Gibson as RAAAAAACIST, Then Retracts
The Jawa Report —
... . The HuffPo, much to the chagrin of the howler monkeys that infest its comment community, was forced to retract and post an apology . BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Isn't this the blog that was just honored as one of the most "important" blogs of 2008 by TIME? The best is the comments - we're always reminding everyone of the fact that die-hard, true-blue leftists are never capable of telling the truth or letting facts get in the way of a good circle jerk of outrage: I personally don't care if the video is a fake or not. Fox itself is devoid of any criteria recommending it as a credible ...
Laugh of the day (which isn’t really funny)
Sister Toldjah —
... Well, you know what they say: When you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything, case in point … ...
HuffPo Posts Fake Fox Video
Wizbang —
... were fairly predictable. The Huffington Post later ran a correction . UPDATE: The Huffington Post has learned that the below video has been doctored. We regret the error and apologize to Mr. Gibson. John Gibson never compared Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum. Rather, as seen in the unedited video below, Gibson played audio of Holder saying "nation of cowards" -- so his full, unedited remarks were: "We were talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his comment that this is a nation of cowards." The video was doctored to include Trace Gallagher's voice ...
Outrages Of The Week
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... that Rush Limbaugh seemed to liken Democrats to murderers, rapists, and "this Muslim guy" that "offed his wife's head"...
CNBC Rick Santelli is OUTRAGED that his taxpayer money is subsidizing his neighbors' mortgages.
New York Post reporters are OUTRAGED that their cartoonist compared Barack Obama to a chimp. John Gibson is OUTRAGED that Huffington Post thought he compared Eric Holder to a monkey's bright blue scrotum. And the New York Post is OUTRAGED that liberals interpreted the ...
Video Clip Doctored To Smear Talker John Gibson
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney —
SMEAR PATROL RETURNS HuffPo Hits Fox's Gibson With Edited Clip In what may be the sleaziest attempt to smear a conservative since "phony solidiers", the liberal Huffington Post website is in hot water today after posting a clip of Fox's John Gibson later found to have been doctored. Though it has since retracted the story, our HuffPo friends have tried to blame another site, TVNewser, for the mess rather ...
AT THE HUFFINGTON POST, A COLORFUL CORRECTION: John Gibson Did Not Compare Eric Holder To Monkey Wi…
Instapundit —
... AT THE HUFFINGTON POST, A COLORFUL CORRECTION: John Gibson Did Not Compare Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum. “The Huffington Post has learned that the below video has been doctored. We regret the error and apologize to Mr. Gibson. John Gibson never compared Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum.” Good for them for correcting so swiftly. ...
johnny dollar: Smarter Than Two of the World’s Best Blogs
Patterico's Pontifications —
johnny dollar catches the Huffington Post with its pants down. Here’s the Huffington Post’s amusing correction:
The Huffington Post has learned that the below video has been doctored. We regret the error and apologize to Mr. Gibson. John Gibson never compared Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum.
Do tell! And yet, the claim seemed so plausible when we first heard it!!
That’s one of TIME Magazine’s Best Blogs, folks. Golf clap.
Speaking of which, guess ...
Best.Correction.Ever.
Talking Points Memo —
Huffington Post: "John Gibson Did Not Compare Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum."
Fox's Gibson slams HuffPost
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... On Thursday evening the Huffington Post put up a Fox News clip under an incendiary headline: "John Gibson Compares Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum (VIDEO)." ...
Sorry
Jules Crittenden —
... regret its story insinuating that John McCain and Viki Iseman had an affair, and the New York Post may be only sorry that some dimbulbs actually though a Post cartoonist was comparing President Obama, as opposed to Congress, to a bloated, rampaging chimp that needs to be shot. And the Post totally unapologizes to those who were professionally offended. But the Huffington Post is abjectly and unequivocally apologetic for saying that John Gibson called Attorney General Eric Holder a monkey with a bright blue scrotum . Topics: ...
Correction of The Day
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
"John Gibson never compared Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum," - Huffington Post, February 19, 2009.
(Hat tip: Upturned Earth) ...
Friday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... because he's getting his talking points from John Boehner). * Malkin doesn't seem to believe comparing Obama to Hitler is " out of bounds ." Wow. * Why the White House welcomes the chance to push back against that ranting guy on CNBC. * Great item from John Judis on the "fiscal equivalent of war." * The ongoing problem of military readiness . * And here I thought Leon Panetta was supposed to be unpopular at Langley. * John Gibson was misquoted , but given his track record , it's easy to see how a mistake like this can happen. * ...
Huffington Post Issues Retraction Afer Publishing Doctored Video
PoliGazette —
... The retraction, by the way, is clearly written in such a way that readers can’t be angry about it all; “Correction: John Gibson Did Not Refer to Eric Holder With Bright Blue Scrotum.” The title makes you laugh out loud and makes you forget the site ran a piece that should never have seen the light of day. Smart move then. ...
Scrotum-Gate From HuffPo
Rhymes With Right —
... or less than nothing. Weve seen that tried this week over the Chimp Cartoon and now a writer at HuffPo has used a faked recording of Fox News host John Gibson to gin up a scandal . At the end of a long and pointless conversation between two Fox News reporters covering a zoo escape, John Gibson compared Attorney General Eric Holder to a monkey. A monkey escaped from the Woodland park Zoo in Seattle and despite the fact that authorities are "taking this very seriously," Julie Banderas and Harris Faulkner were not, cracking jokes about the monkeys' bright blue scrotum. ...
Politics Rup: What would Jesus spend, Obama's revenge, Chicago Tea Party
Top of the Ticket —
... -- It seems that everyone in politics is (or at least allegedly is) being compared to monkeys these days. Huffington Post has issued a correction to a video allegedy showing Fox News reporter John Gibson referring to Attorney General Eric Holder, the first black Attorney General, as a monkey with "a bright blue scrotum." The correction states that the video was indeed fake. ...
John Gibson and low expectations
Political Animal —
JOHN GIBSON AND LOW EXPECTATIONS.... There was an unfortunate incident this week involving a doctored Fox News clip and John Gibson. The original piece reported : At the end of a long and pointless conversation between two Fox News reporters covering a zoo escape, John Gibson compared Attorney General Eric Holder to a monkey. A monkey escaped from the Woodland park Zoo in Seattle and despite the fact that authorities are "taking this very seriously," Julie Banderas and Harris Faulkner were not, cracking jokes about the monkeys' bright blue scrotum. At 2:48, they toss to John ...
Weekend Opinionator: A Nation of Cowards, Stimulus-Wielding Chimps and Hip-Hop Republicans
Opinionator —
... ) And on Thursday the Huffington Post amusingly claimed that Fox News host John Gibson had referred to Holder as a “monkey with a bright blue scrotum,” only to admit a few hours later that it had been punked by parties unknown. (Arianna Huffington, outspoken critic of newspapers’ ...
The obligatory “Helen Thomas makes nasty crack about Jindal?” post
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... at a major paper who seems to have witnessed it herself. Even so, especially after TV Newser and HuffPo uncritically posted the John Gibson “bright blue scrotum” smear , I’m erring on the side of out-of-context until there’s a full write-up. Bobby Jindal was ‘pitiful,’ Helen Thomas tells film crew, right before making a ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ crack Could be that the two comments were wholly unrelated, e.g., “What’d you think of Jindal?” and “What’d you think of the Oscars?” As, ahem, “opinionated” as St. Helen is, she’s not so stupid as to barf something like this up in ...
