British prime minister: Fox News security analyst is clearly a complete idiot

Just in case there are two or three people left who still don't know just how dishonest and evil Fox "news" is...

The extent to which Fox lies and destorts facts is simply not understood by a lot of people.

For a few decades now, Fox "news" has had a dramatic effect on U.S. politics, helping elect a vast number of right wing politicians (while claiming to be balanced) and spreading a long list of lies. Here are some examples that I hope others will help to make people aware of. (Just copy and re-post anywhere that seems appropriate.)

Three distortions in one video: Fox lies about union pay vs. non-union pay; distorts speaker's words at NEA conference; Tells lie that WI Gov. Walker campaigned with an anti-union position

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkqHm8lqgKE

Direct quote from a Fox "news" insider: "We Were a Stalin-esque Mouthpiece for Bush"

http://www.alternet.org/story/149879/%22we_were_a_stalin-esque_mouthpiece_for_bush%22_--_fox_news_insider

Fox targets two New York Times reporters, altering their faces by blackening their eyes, yellowing their teeth, and making a nose larger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCQ4gAAVW2k&feature=player_embedded

Fox Repeatedly Misidentifies Republicans as Being Democrats, Often During Erupting Scandals:

http://intershame.com/on/Fox_News/?d=123

And, here are some specific examples:

Fox Misidentified Mark Foley (R-FL) As Being A Democrat Rather Than A Republican

http://mediamatters.org/research/200610130010

Fox Mislabels Mark Sanford (R-SC) As A Democrat After He Admits Adulterous Affair

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/fox-news-identifies-sanfo_n_220377.html

Fox "News" Wrongly Identifies Independent Joe Lieberman As A Democrat

http://mediamatters.org/research/200706120006

Fox "News" Mislabels Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) As A Democrat

http://crooksandliars.com/2006/10/09/fox-news-mis-labels-chafee-as-a-democrat

According to conservative Tucker Carlson, the reason Fox's slogan ("fair and balanced") was chosen is "to drive liberals crazy" [excerpt from book by Sen. Al Franken, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them..."]

http://books.google.com/books?id=igqMIP7OjrAC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=fox+slogan+%22fair+and+balanced%22+drive+liberals+crazy+ailes&source=bl&ots=AtjQHQL-Ts&sig=83NS04Mmaw0XkQ3AcLQ5_DrMl4Y&hl=en&ei=imubTZqeBKbJ0QHAmcy7Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

People in England rally to protest cuts in government support for education. Fox uses video of the protest to support the opposite viewpoint in a story claiming that people in England identify with anti-government "tea partiers" in U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxCDktOS6s

[Note that Fox also said settlers to America came here to flee high taxes

During ten months in 2010, about $40 million worth of free air time given by Fox "News" to potential Republican candidates who were hosts or "contributors" to Fox programs

http://mediamatters.org/research/201011180031

Fox parent company donates $1 million to Republican Governors Assn.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0810/Fox_parent_gives_1_million_to_RGA.html

Fox helped spread false rumors (originating from unnamed sources) that Obama was educated at a Muslim religious school madrasa, and tried to get Hillary Clinton's campaign blamed for the story. (Story first appeared in conservative magazine owned by "Moonies" a.k.a. the Unification Church.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Hm_W783Po

Additional analysis from FAIR: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1067

And this kind of sums things up:

http://i.imgur.com/C2w9n.jpg

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