Shepard Smith, a popular host on the Fox News roster of TV Personalities, who are in-fact employed actors posing as “news anchors”, decided to cut to his “Assignment Manager” Tim Gaughan to “report” the arrest of James O’Keefe.

Instead of actual news-reporting on the case however, Tim Gaughan starts off by saying “This is a weird one…”, and Shepard Smith confirms “Yeah it’s a weird press release.” hereby suggesting “not all is right with this case.”

The first 10 seconds of this clip alone are a pure, blatant example of suggestive in-accurate reporting at it’s worst, then sadly, it continues down the same “suggestive” path. We’re treated to lines such as:

“The FBI is “alledging” that James O’Keefe – you’ve heard of him, our readers have heard of him”, again – Gaughan – what are the facts? The viewer still wishes to know. Instead, Gaughan launches into O’Keefe’s background “he’s a Conservative uncover film-maker, who exposed ACORN”, again, here we are well into the clip. Little or no actual facts on the case are reported, then ends the piece with the following blatant in-accuracies:

“VAUGHN: [It's a] very weird story that probably needs a lot of context and a lot of looking into, which is what we’re going to do here. I just wanted to get it on the record with it right now.

SHEP SMITH: So, they’re saying basically, they’re in there — It sounds as if what they’re saying is, they’re looking for some ACORN hanky panky and they try to tap into..Mary Landrieu’s telephone to get it.

VAUGHN: That could be [pause...] one way of looking at it, yes.”

Not only is this entertainment-maneuvering that’s irresponsibly disguised as “news reporting”, it’s a flagrant dis-regard of the facts of this actual case. On the visual front, Fox News notably (and not surprisingly), didn’t air a single photo of the arrest suspects in the case, instead they chose to air a photo of Democratic Governnor Mary Landrieu while discussing “arrests”. Fox News also failed to report that O’Keefe was spotted by witnesses to be taking pictures with his cellphone of his two accomplices.

Since Fox News is an Entertainment Cable Network, and not an actual purportedly-to-be-objective “News Network”, we thought we would print the actual facts of the case here, courtesy of The Washington Post:

“Federal investigators charged that James O’Keefe was among four men who created a ruse to enter the lawmaker’s downtown office, saying they needed to repair her telephones. O’Keefe used his cellphone to take pictures of two men involved in the Jan. 25 plot, according to court records unsealed Tuesday. Those men, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, are accused in an FBI agent’s sworn affidavit of impersonating telephone company workers, while O’Keefe and another man, Stan Dai, are accused of aiding the plot.”

The evidence of blatant, false and slanted reporting by the popular Fox News Entertainment Network are available right here in the clip:

Since this is a website that’s devoted to Journalism and not Entertainment Television, it’s the last time we’ll probably address Fox News here. If we do address this channel in the future, we hope it’s to report that the network was forced out of business by the United States Government for conducting an illegal business model under false pretenses to the US public.

UPDATE 2/18:

Even better, it turned out Fox News mis-construed the footage so much that, Mr. O’Keefe wasn’t entering ACORN offices in “pimp attire” at all. In fact, he was dressed “conservatively”.