Fox News reduces itself to insulting Obama over – the Boy Scout Jamboree?!
Posted by JNOW Staff on 7/29/10 • Categorized as Blog News, Entertainment, World, jnow Featured News
Fox News, a brilliant think-tank of some of the best & brightest right-wing anchors and “journalists” working in television today, (falsely showcasing themselves as “Fair and Balanced” – thus having the un-intended side effect of immediately making their viewers question their objectivity without so much as watching a clip of news), further showcased how even a network of their questionable journalistic stature, couldn’t sink any lower in a humorous attempt to smear a sitting President, thus coming up with a brilliant poll out of questioning Obama’s appearance on The View with the following poll generated out of clear desperation:
Is It Right For Obama to Skip the Boy Scouts’ Jamboree?
They couldn’t stop there, they even came up with a huge article portraying Obama as irresponsible for missing this jamboree as well ending with the following quote from Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Democrat:
“I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren’t pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency,” Rendell told MSNBC, at one point comparing “The View” to “The Jerry Springer Show.”
There’s many reasons to “report” on the President the last time we checked. Actual NEWS for example? World affairs? White House Press briefings? In the meantime, we had a better recommendation for a Fox News poll and follow-up article:
Was Fox News coverage of Shirley Sherrod, decidedly racist and based on tampered video clips?
As the article and edited clip here suggests, Fox should expect a resounding “yes” in their poll results, regardless of what Bret Baier tries to further spin against Howard Dean’s claim of racism.
If you’re a Fox News Viewer, feel free to call their news hotline at: 1-888-369-4762 or feel free to email any of them and demand “actual news”, not sad attempts at political theater that are purely fabricated for entertainment ratings.
See Fox News’ amusing “defense” here against Howard Dean:





This was not any old Boy Scout jamboree….it was the 100th anniversary jamboree. Fox News was not alone in the disbelief that Obama would skip such a historic event. 100,000 people in attendance at the closing ceremony booed the videotape that was sent in the President’s behalf.
You’re right, they were in the company of a handful of conservative blogs “expressing outrage”. George W. Bush spoke via Video in 2001, as did Obama this time around, so I guess it wasn’t that big a deal after all.