The Hyprocrisy That Is Fox News

Blogger jurassicpork has been on a tear recently collecting the most outrageous screen captions in Fox News short history (and it hasn't gone unnoticed).

But more than some of the comical (if not mythical) claims (Bush is the best president on Middle Eastern affairs, Democrats care more about helping terrorists than protecting America) is the blatant flip-flopping...by the same show.

Never mind the way they pose their talking points as questions ("we aren't saying that this is true; we're just asking"), how can anyone take a cable network seriously when they pose such conflicting messages?

I think it goes without saying that the caption on the right came about when people (read Democrats, anti-war supporters and some retired military officials) began saying that Iraq had descended into a civil war. The President preferred the term "sectarian violence" (when I first heard that, I thought he was talking about some kind of Roman officer, I-kid-you-not). Following the President's lead, FoxNews (a supposed media outlet) began attacking...the media.

Then as things got so bad in Iraq that Bush couldn't even avoid admitting it, I guess that's when FoxNews decided to run the story that lead to the caption on the left. I'm sure some program director was thinking, "Don't worry, our audience doesn't have that good a memory anyway." I say this because there's no other explanation as to why civil war in Iraq could go from being a media fantasy to the best thing since apple pie in about a year.

If that's not hypocrisy, then I don't know what is.