Fox exec says criticized Obama video unauthorized | The Associated Press -
Fox News Channel’s morning show on Wednesday twice aired a nearly 4-minute video that contrasted President Barack Obama’s words with negative statistics about his administration in a format that looked similar to a campaign advertisement.
The liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America called the video “essentially a four-minute anti-Obama attack ad.” The segment also received criticism from a conservative blogger…
The video ends with Obama’s own words, as he says, “that’s the power of hope. That’s the change we seek. That’s the change we can stand for.”
When it ended, “Fox & Friends” anchor Steve Doocy praised the producer for a “job well done.”
Media Matters spokeswoman Jessica Levin said, “It looked like a very slickly produced Republican ad.”
Ed Morrissey, of the conservative media blog Hot Air, questioned the video even though he wrote, “I don’t disagree with much, if anything” that it says.
“If anyone wanted to look for evidence that the overall Fox News organization intends to campaign against Obama rather than cover the campaign, this video would be difficult to refute as evidence for that claim,” Morrissey wrote.
Fox programming executive vice president Bill Shine said the video was created by an associate producer and was not authorized at the network’s senior level. He said senior executives would not have approved it and the matter was addressed with the show’s producers.
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“A fanatically micro-managed fiefdom where my own far-right agenda and personal sense of victimhood drive every aspect of the operation. And balanced.” — Jon Stewart, on what Fox News’ tagline should be in the eyes of Roger Ailes, in response to Ailes’ comments that Stewart is a socialist who wouldn’t do well without Fox.
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“True believers.” — Mitt Romney, describing Fox News viewers at a private campaign fundraiser on April 15.
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“If you’re talking about programming, we noticed that all the talk shows on the other networks basically had progressive or liberal talk show hosts. We have one conservative on FOX News, Sean Hannity.” —
Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman, in a speech at the University of North Carolina
We have one conservative on Fox News.
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“So for all you liberals out there hating Fox, we know you make things ups, but you’re not going to do it at my expense, or the expense of a network that was willing to hire an openly gay women before anyone else in television. Will this appear on Media Matters? Since it doesn’t fit their “We Hate Fox Meme of the Day,” likely not. And they certainly don’t want the truth about Fox to somehow sneak out amongst the hippies.” — Fox News’ Tammy Bruce, remarking that her tweet claiming she can’t be a guest on The O’Reilly Factor because she is gay was, in fact, a joke.
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