Fox News ignores major earthquake to bash Obama
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Now we’ve heard a lot about climate change and global warming deniers, not to mention evolution naysayers, but Fox News and conservative bloggers may now have become earthquake deniers in an attempt to prove that President Obama is just “making up stuff” to argue for health care reform.
In an interview Wednesday on Fox News, Obama insisted that a provision in the health care reform bill which would provide additional Medicaid funding to states suffering from the aftermath of a major disaster was not designed merely to win over the support of Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana but “also affects Hawaii, which went through an earthquake. … So that’s not just a Louisiana provision. That is a provision that affects every state that is going through a natural catastrophe.”
Conservative blogger Gateway Pundit immediately leaped on this remark, declaring, “Either Obama’s completely making up stuff now or we all missed some horrible devastating earthquake in Hawaii …”
“In 1868 there was a major earthquake in Hawaii that killed 77 people,” he added. “In 1975 an earthquake in Hawaii killed 2 people.”
The assumption that Obama had invented an earthquake out of thin air was quickly picked up by other conservative blogs and also by Fox News, where Steve Doocy gleefully ran a clip of Obama’s remarks and then exclaimed, “Hold it! What Hawaiian earthquake?”
The liberal bloggers at Media Matters, however, were quick to point out that there had been a magnitude 6.7 earthquake in Hawaii in October 2006, in response to which then-President George Bush declared the state a major disaster area.
This video is from Fox News’ Fox & Friends, broadcast March 18, 2010.
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Fox and their anti-rational viewers and constituents want nothing less than the complete annihilation of every Democratic president this country will ever elect.
Mike, I just wish that they had handled these situations (i.e., disaster relief, etc.) separately. This, in that it would have at least seemed less unseemly/corrupt/like a bribe/business as usual/a public relations disaster. The President clearly is a good man. But he really needs some better advisors.
Oh, I’m so completely surprised!!!
I did it to see if they would cover it or they would do the chicken thing, like the last time and cut away for more important stuff like, missing white girl coverage or something stupid like that. I was not surprised they did not. I’m like you, I get my stuff from MSNBC or the toobs anymore. CNN I cannot watch at all. It gets way to busy for me with all the graphics and stuff on the side. I have OCD tendencies and I like things to be very uncluttered and organized, goes for my news on tee vee too. Way too unfocused for my liking, with all the banners and scrolling along the side and bottom on some of the shows.
I just refuse to watch Fox News Jessica. I only see it when MSNBC or CNN play clips. I did see the last few seconds of Boner’s speech. Typical Right wing rat-a-tat….
Hey Jack!! I love your new FOX NEWS BRAND: ALL OF THE OPINION AND NONE OF THE NEWS..I might just steal that will all attribution to you of course 🙂
Did the same thing this morning. I was watching his talk in VA and switched to the Foxness monster just to see what they were yakking about. Boehner is up front and in your face, changed channel right away. First thing in the morning it is not good to have that sight. You would think they were not a real news place or something like that.
yes yes… typical! Am I right? TyPICAL!
Fox News is so deliberately myopic and blindly partisan that they wouldn’t know a real news story, or how to report or analyze it, if it hit them smack in the nose. It’s a miracle the entire Fox staff isn’t constantly walking into walls, or bumping into desks—or each other. My new slogan for Fox: “All the opinion and none of the news!”