Monday, January 14, 2008

How Fox News created Clinton-Obama race row

Fox News engineered the Clinton-Obama race row by deliberately mischaracterizing comments made by Hillary to their reporter Major Garrett. Here’s what Fox reported:
Clinton also said Obama and Edwards have acted like hypocrites during the race and appeared to diminish the role Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played in the civil rights movements, saying it wasn’t hope that King inspired that made the difference but President Lyndon Johnson’s decision to fight for and sign the Civil Rights Act into law.

However, if you watch the actual video of Clinton’s discussion with Garrett, it is quite clear that she did not refer to Obama as a hypocite, nor did she downplay the significance of King’s work. Fox created the whole sorry story by deliberately misrepresenting Hillary’s statements in an insidious attempt to divide the Democrats along racial lines.

2 comments:

gregory said...

we live in a one-party state with controlled media...

please stop being surprised at this, and then you will discover a different way to think and blog and communicate...

because the being surprised thing is just old, pointless, and of no value at all in creating transformation

move ahead

Mad Kane said...

The press will do anything to create conflict ... or the illusion of conflict. That way the journalists have lots of juicy things to write about without doing any actual thinking.