{"id":2458,"date":"2008-11-13T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T19:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2008-12-01T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:30:14","slug":"things-i-wish-fox-news-had-told-me-before-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/things-i-wish-fox-news-had-told-me-before-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I wish Fox News had told me BEFORE the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?videoId=209420&amp;title=sarah-palin-is-so-dumb\"> Watch this<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the source material The Daily Show used from Fox News is real. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CtxDs3Rk_vE&amp;feature=related\">original Fox News broadcast on Youtube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>(local archive) <p id=\"player1\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\">Get the latest Flash Player<\/a> to see this player.<\/p>\r\n<noscript><p>[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]<\/p><\/noscript>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\tdocument.getElementById(\"player1\").style.display = \"\";\r\n\t\r\n\tvar s1 = new SWFObject(\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/flv-embed\/flvplayer.swf\",\"player1\",\"240\",\"180\",\"7\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"wmode\",\"transparent\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowscriptaccess\",\"always\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"height\",\"180\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"width\",\"240\"); \n\ts1.addVariable(\"file\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/oreilly-palin-africa.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"image\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/oreilly-palin-africa.jpg\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"link\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/oreilly-palin-africa.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"overstretch\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showstop\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showdownload\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"autostart\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"bufferlength\",\"8\");\r\n\ts1.write(\"player1\");\r\n<\/script>\n<p>It is a discussion with Fox News Chief Carl Cameron and Bill O&#8217;Reilly (Daily Show quotes begin at about 40 seconds)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit insane that Bill O&#8217;Reilly would try to defend a Vice Presidential candidate that, to his knowledge, could not name all of the countries in North America. O&#8217;Reilly said (starting at 1:53 in the video) &#8220;You can tutor people and you can get people up to speed on the basics&#8230; here&#8217;s the government, here&#8217;s the exceptionalism that we&#8217;re talking about, here&#8217;s the world map&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Umm, he&#8217;s trying to defend a VP candidate that, to his knowledge, doesn&#8217;t know how many countries are in North America. I&#8217;m sorry, that&#8217;s just not defensible. It&#8217;s fine to challenge the veracity of the claim but, I&#8217;m sorry, if it&#8217;s true that she can&#8217;t name the countries are in North America (that would be, the US, Canada and Mexico), then she shouldn&#8217;t be defended. So why is he defending her in this situation? That&#8217;s the question.<\/p>\n<p>Note that I&#8217;m critisizing a couple things here: First, that Palin isn&#8217;t qualified (which might not be the case, the claims of her lack of knowledge isn&#8217;t entirely proven). Second, that O&#8217;Reilly would use the defense that he did, saying that it&#8217;s OK if she didn&#8217;t have the knowledge. And then of course there&#8217;s the whole media cover-up which was humorously hightlighted by the Daily Show.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart, &#8220;Why are we just hearing about this now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Chief Carl Cameron, \u00a0&#8220;Well, I wish I could have told you back at the time \u00a0but all of it was put off the record until after the election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yipe. That&#8217;s not very Fair or Balanced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 11-14-08<\/strong>: Some\/most\/all? of the digging of Palin are unfounded. The leaks about Palin not knowing about Africa and possibly other items were faked by a person going by the name of \u00a0Martin Eisenstadt. Google for him and his issues. 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