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Doocy misrepresented FactCheck.org's verdict on McCain's claim about Obama's record on taxes

Summary: On Fox News' Fox & Friends Saturday, Steve Doocy stated that FactCheck.org said it was "true" that Sen. Barack Obama voted for a "bill that ... would increase taxes on people earning as little as $42,000 a year." Doocy added: "[Sen.] John McCain said, 'That was true, you did.' " In fact, FactCheck.org stated that "McCain was correct -- with qualification," adding that the votes McCain has previously cited for the claim were on a measure that "actually would not have altered taxes without additional legislation. ... McCain is referring to the provision that would have allowed the 25 percent tax bracket to return to 28 percent. The tax plan Obama now proposes, however, would not raise the rate on that tax bracket."
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Posted by captfoster2

I get the feeling that Doocy... being the great journalist he thinks he is... quite possibly believes he did not misrepresent the Obama position that FactCheck.org did a wonderful job spelling out. Of course.... FoxNoise listeners are probably to slow to notice?

Posted by snoopy in reply to captfoster2

If this is an example of fox news listeners, we've got big problems...

The LA Times reports:

Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.


After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.

Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.

The idea of a "young Earth" -- that God created the Earth about 6,000 years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on -- is a popular strain of creationism.

Though in her race for governor she called for faith-based "intelligent design" to be taught along with evolution in Alaska's schools, Gov. Palin has not sought to require it, state educators say.

Posted by worrierking in reply to snoopy

Something tells me you're a doubting Snoopy.

Palin may have said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," but here is an actual picture of a dinosaur attacking a man.

Pictures don't lie.

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Posted by worrierking in reply to worrierking

Posted by snoopy in reply to worrierking

That's 0 for 2. If you get any worse at posting pictures I'm gonna start calling you Carlson Palmer! ;)

Posted by worrierking in reply to snoopy

Don't know what happened. Both times it looked great in the window. I'm using a Mac. I was going to try it on my PC but figured the joke was already blown, so I decided to "cut and run".

I miss the preview feature.

Posted by snoopy in reply to worrierking

I have noticed not all web based pictures work anymore. I wonder why we can't cut and paste any picture?

Posted by princeofwheels in reply to worrierking

Square   Circle    Triangle.....is this some sort of test. Can I get on the bus now and not be left behind? I am assuming I identified everything correctly. And Snoopy, the answer to your display is Square  Circle  Triangle and the square root of $700,000,000,000.00towall-street.

Posted by Dem02020

This Fox hack named doochy misrepresented something?

Hardly shocking... I'm sure that back when this doochy guy was selling used cars, he rolled back all the odometers...

Or when he sold vacuum cleaners door to door, he sucked up all the loose jewelry that Granny had laying around...

Or when he sold bundles of "mortage-backed securities" under the premise they would be high-yeilding once the third-year adjusted higher rates took effect, that when he sold those securities just waiting to go DOA in that third year, he properly kicked back a four or five or even six figure illegal sales commision, under the table, to the crooked WALL STREET financial services fund manager who bought those securities and put them on their company's books, and made off with the illegal under-the-table sales bribe, resulting in us the suckered American taxpayer ending up with that bad paper BUT MAYBE NOT...

MAYBE NOT!

Who gives a crap about what doochy at Fox misrepresented... there's a lot bigger fish to fry this weekend and this morning and today and tomorrow too, and in the week to come.

There's just got to be some misinformation out there in the media on this truly all-important even earth-shaking U.S. Treasury theft scheme by the Bush Paulson WALL STREET administration of our Federal Government... there's got to be.

Posted by donaldmaddog5642

Hey, SNOOPY, I've seen them pitures of di-no-sars n' human beens in a MOVIE, once.  Hell, Ringo Starr wuz thar, fightin' that beast wid his bahr hans.  Now, I ax you, how cud they git them pitcures if it didn't happen?  I seen another one where this actress Rakel Welch was runnin' from a di-no-sar, but I wuddin payin' two much attension to the di-no-sar.  M'wife turned off the tee-vee before I cud see the endin'.  Guess that's war them footprints came from, ya reckin'?

Posted by eweston8542983 in reply to donaldmaddog5642

This can all be traced back to a 1946 Batman Comic called "Dinosaur Island."

Batman and Rubin get attacked by robot dinosaurs and cavemen on an island theme park. Gotta say though they made some fierce robots in 1946. 

Posted by snoopy in reply to eweston8542983

Rubin? Batman had a jewish side kick before dick grayson? Was it Lieberman?

Posted by eweston8542983 in reply to snoopy

It was a crossover using the Mad Magazine's Batboy and Rubin. Neat trick, it predating MM by a few years. Rubin was played by Lieberman though.

Posted by steeve

Notice how the efforts of Fox's enormous staff consisted of a quick glance at someone else's web site, rather than actually doing their own reporting.

It is, however, possible that Fox is capable of doing its own reporting, but doesn't bother because they know nobody would believe it anyway.

Posted by m_mccain2016 in reply to steeve

they could do a intense survey of Fox viewers.

"We have asked 200 Fox viewers what they know about the taxes. Two of these are high school graduates and one is a College Republican."

It would be the same type of fine reporting I expect from our friends at Fox News.