Comments on: Video: Fox’s “Four years of hope and change”; Update: “Not authorized at the senior executive level of the network”

By: Othniel

Othniel — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:32:22 +0000

While the video does have the feel of being put together to attack Obama, there is nothing objectively wrong with the facts presented. In light of the things that the Left has put up on all of the other networks, all is fair in love and war. And this is war.

By: New York Times: Jay Carney Made an ‘Angry Phone Call’ to Fox Exec. Following Fox and Friends Anti-Obama Video | Video | TheBlaze.com

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:01:05 +0000

[...] Media Matters said it “crossed a new ethical line” while Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey questioned whether “a news organization [should] produce and publish attack ads like [...]

By: NYT: Jay Carney Made an ‘Angry Phone Call’ to Fox Exec. Following Anti-Obama Video « We Win They Lose

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:22:23 +0000

[...] spectrum: Media Matters said it “crossed a new ethical line” while Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey questioned whether “a news organization [should] produce and publish attack ads like [...]

By: FOX News produces Obama "then and now" video | Western Free Press

FOX News produces Obama "then and now" video | Western Free Press — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:16:07 +0000

[...] on the right were critical as well: At the conservative site Hot Air, Ed Morrissey pointed out that the “Fox & Friends Presents“ title in the video made it [...]

By: Fair and Balanced - Fox Debunked | Fox Debunked

Fair and Balanced - Fox Debunked | Fox Debunked — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:51:26 +0000

[...] at the conservative website Hot Air, Ed Morrissey weighs in: Note that F&F isn’t just playing a campaign ad or a YouTube spot from an outside political [...]

By: Logarchism » Open Mic June 1

Logarchism » Open Mic June 1 — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:00:57 +0000

[...] attacking President Obama — twice — on Fox & Friends. And then, after a conservative blogger slammed them for it, decided to blame it on employees going rogue. John Edwards dodged a bullet. Five [...]

By: Fox and Friends’ airs 4-minute anti-Obama video that looks like a political attack ad | City Work

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:16:24 +0000

[...] anything, in this video presented earlier today on ‘Fox Friends,’” Ed Morrissey wrote on HotAir.com. “But does this make anyone uncomfortable at all in regard to its [...]

By: echosyst

echosyst — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:21:15 +0000

The MSM pimps for the Democrats 24×7 and we have people wringing their hands over a factual report like this? Obama’s own words damn him. We are in a war for our future folks, I will take any help we can get. It isn’t as if the libs will stop calling Fox Faux News for *not* showing this. Quit allowing them to define the terms.

By: MN Publius 05/31/2012 » Our IBEW 292

MN Publius 05/31/2012 » Our IBEW 292 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:40:50 +0000

[...] Fox News, the propaganda wing of the Republican party, has always protested loudly whenever someone calls it the propaganda wing of the Republican party. Fox’s supporters insist that there’s a difference between its prime time opinion shows and its news programs. But in fact, its news programs such as Fox and Friends are running four-minute long campaign ads like the one below: [...]

By: Smoking Hot Politics | Fox’ New Sideline Business: Producing Campaign Ads For the GOP

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:11:15 +0000

[...] just can’t bear to write “News”) right-wing propaganda machine; over at Hot Air, conservative blogger Ed Morrissey wrote that “. . . If anyone wanted to look for evidence that the overall Fox News [...]

By: Fox News produces a campaign ad against Obama, runs it as news » Our IBEW 292

Thu, 31 May 2012 21:48:04 +0000

By: stukinIL4now

stukinIL4now — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:56:41 +0000

So what’s wrong with showing the facts?

CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc., put together favorable “facts” about Obama or unfavorable “facts” about Romney like this and call it the “evening news” so I don’t see much of a difference.

And I don’t know about anyone else here but I’m getting kinda sick of Fox due to all the insufferable lefist pigs I have to suffer through if I want to watch it–Juan Williams, Alan Colmes, Bill Beckel, Tamara Holder, etc, etc–because Fox goes overboard touting its “fair and balanced” meme. If I want to see that much of these libturds I can just switch to MSNBC or CNN, though I don’t. And I won’t even mention the rotation FOX shows have of the same old tired “righties” they cycle through over and over and over again who I don’t care to listen to either, so I find myself staying away from FOX more and more these days rather than watching it.

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:51:00 +0000

It is a perfectly legitimate news commentary. They start out listing the substance of Hope and Change as far as Obama ever articulated it: reduce the deficit, create jobs, bashing Bush for high oil prices

(Really: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/02/video-flashback-obama-and-dems-blast-bush-for-gas-prices-in-2008/ ),

then they show what Obama really did on these things, all documented with actual documentary video. How is that not legitimate news commentary? At the end they compose the litany of bad news to create a symphonic effect, but that seems legitimate as well. It’s not as if there is some great news on the other side that they are dishonestly leaving out.

Most importantly, all of this is factually honest. Contrast with the relentlessly dishonest Obama boosterism on all the other networks. Honest reporting of the facts is the key to actual news reporting, making this a far more legitimate news report than anything from any of the other networks.

By: tomshup

tomshup — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:29:22 +0000

Lots of good posts that recognize the changes in content of Hot Air, since Ed has become chief, and not for the better.
Someone referred to Ed as, “squishy.” Good call! References to number of trolls who populate the comments is also true. And finally, the accumulated liberal BS has driven many longtime readers to look elsewhere more often.

By: Fox and Friends’ Anti-Obama Video is a Campaign Ad for Mitt Romney | Daily National

Thu, 31 May 2012 16:19:56 +0000

[...] as conservative Hot Air‘s Ed Morrissey remarks, “I don’t disagree with much, if anything, in this video presented earlier today on Fox [...]

By: Fox News under scrutiny for news report that plays like attack ad | May 31, 2012 | The New York Times | HT Politics

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:51:57 +0000

[...] rather than a candidate or a political action committee.A blogger on the conservative Web site Hot Air wrote of the video on Wednesday afternoon, “It makes a pretty powerful argument against another four [...]

By: democratsarefools

democratsarefools — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:21:36 +0000

Sorry; but it seems Fair & Balanced went off the reservation with one video and so they are no longer F & B ? Wait til Geraldo, Williams or Burping Beckel show up and then answer the question. Or is Professionalism your issue ? If they did more of this and with it spoke facts about what is going at the WH, they would see their ratings [you know what makes a profit for them] sky rocket.

By: Dante

Dante — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:16:20 +0000

No matter what others say or do, it didn’t seem appropriate to me for F&F to produce and run this piece. I expected better, even though I agreed with all of it. It really did seem like a campaign commercial. One slightly mitigating factor, FNS is strictly on cable; no over-the-air broadcast. Thus, it does not use the public airwaves and is not subject to the same limitations as broadcast networks.

If a producer got fired, she/he might be able to hook on with the Romney campaign.

JayDick on May 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM

The airwaves are not public, no matter the power grab and lie the government tells you.

By: Obama Video on Fox News Criticized as Attack Ad | Another Video.com

Obama Video on Fox News Criticized as Attack Ad | Another Video.com — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:09:12 +0000

[...] blogger on the conservative Web site Hot Air wrote of the video on Wednesday afternoon, “It makes a pretty powerful argument against another four [...]

By: JayDick

JayDick — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:00:17 +0000

No matter what others say or do, it didn’t seem appropriate to me for F&F to produce and run this piece. I expected better, even though I agreed with all of it. It really did seem like a campaign commercial. One slightly mitigating factor, FNS is strictly on cable; no over-the-air broadcast. Thus, it does not use the public airwaves and is not subject to the same limitations as broadcast networks.

If a producer got fired, she/he might be able to hook on with the Romney campaign.

By: Fox and Friends' Four-Minute Anti-Obama Attack Video | Entertainment | TIME.com

Thu, 31 May 2012 14:58:19 +0000

[...] scene. Since the video aired on Fox, flabbergasting even some conservative observers with its raw id-exposure, the network has distanced itself from the production, saying the video [...]

By: Morning Bunker Report: Thursday 5.31.2012 | Under the Mountain Bunker

Morning Bunker Report: Thursday 5.31.2012 | Under the Mountain Bunker — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:46:26 +0000

[...] they quickly pulled it from the Fox News website with no explanation. Even conservative sites balked at the idea of Fox News producing its own political attack ads. – Think [...]

By: Dante

Dante — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:39:15 +0000

I am very disappointed at Ed Morrissey for allowing himself to become the left’s justification for anger at Fox and Friends. Every single “news” article whining about the video seems to have a nice quote from Mr. Morrissey backing them up.

Hot Air should never be put in a position to used like that by unscrupulous liberals. It degrades this website.

alecj on May 31, 2012 at 9:19 AM

Consider that Ed’s stances are closer to the big government of liberalism than he is to Ron Paul’s limited government, free market stances.

By: Fox Airs 4-minute Video Attack on Obama | usatoday news

Fox Airs 4-minute Video Attack on Obama | usatoday news — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:23:26 +0000

[...] At regressive website Hot Air, Ed Morrissey writes: [...]

By: alecj

alecj — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:19:44 +0000

I am very disappointed at Ed Morrissey for allowing himself to become the left’s justification for anger at Fox and Friends. Every single “news” article whining about the video seems to have a nice quote from Mr. Morrissey backing them up.

Hot Air should never be put in a position to used like that by unscrupulous liberals. It degrades this website.