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Nearly unanimous vote for Obama = "split" on FOX (video)
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Nearly unanimous vote for Obama = "split" on FOX (video)
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Show of hands in PA diner yields one vote for McCain, FOX Brian Wilson calls it "split." More and comments at www.newshounds.us

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News Hounds:  Show of hands dooms McCain; FOX reporter sees "split" vote

Rising Hegemon:  FoxNews Math

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Show of hands dooms McCain; FOX reporter sees "split" vote
News Hounds — On FOX and Friends this morning 9/30/08 Brian Wilson interviewed people at a diner in PA about the bailout failure yesterday and the financial crisis in general. He then asked for a show of hands in an impromptu presidential vote. See how the loyal FOXista spun the results; video afte the jump. Too funny.

FoxNews Math
Rising Hegemon — via this Kos diarist

"It's split"
Daily Kos — Via jenontheshore's diary: I love the room laughing at the Fox News "reporter". Freakin' brilliant.

"Fair And Balanced"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Sometimes, Fox needs no commentary.

Yur Librul Media
WTF Is It Now?!? — Faux Spews Math

The Fox News Ethos Summarized In Thirty Seconds
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — [Via Gawker/Sullivan] Back in 2004, filmmaker Robert Greenwald released a documentary called Outfoxed, which spent seventy-five minutes diving deeply into the arcane workings of the Fox News Channel, painstakingly building the case that the cable news outlet's presentations of "fair and balanced" news was underpinned by a demonstrable and pervasive conservative bias. What a difference four years makes! Watch this clip, in which everything a nation of Fox skeptics have claimed becomes readily apparent in under thirty seconds. [WATCH.] More on Fox ...

The Fox News Ethos Summarized In Thirty Seconds
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — [Via Gawker/Sullivan] Back in 2004, filmmaker Robert Greenwald released a documentary called Outfoxed, which spent seventy-five minutes diving deeply into the arcane workings of the Fox News Channel, painstakingly building the case that the cable news outlet's presentations of "fair and balanced" news was underpinned by a demonstrable and pervasive conservative bias. What a difference four years makes! Watch this clip, in which everything a nation of Fox skeptics have claimed becomes readily apparent in under thirty seconds. [WATCH.] ...

“It’s split”: FOX News correspondent needs math classes
Crooks and Liars — Look at the number who raise their hand for McCain, and compare that to the number for Obama.  Looks pretty even to me.

Audience Participation Weekend
Clareified — Was this reporter joking?

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