Fox News is BP oil spill misinformation clearinghouse

[babylonsister]

LOTS of info at this link; MM has compiled tons of info for all the freepers out there who believe faux w/o bothering to actually do any research.

Fox News is BP oil spill misinformation clearinghouse
Myths and falsehoods on the Gulf oil spill
1 hour and 4 minutes ago — 2 Comments


Media Matters for America has compiled a list of myths and falsehoods about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, all of which have been pushed by Fox News.

Fox News' staunch defense of BP

Myth: Obama waited weeks before responding to the oil spill

Myth: Moratorium is not needed because oil companies are equipped to handle spill

Myth: BP was only drilling "out there" because environmentalists and the federal government "made them" do it

Myth: Obama, unlike Bush, "was off on vacation" during crisis

Myth: "Ridiculous" and "offensive" to blame Bush for spills

Myth: Obama is the "single largest recipient of BP's cash"

Myth: Obama admin turning away foreign aid by refusing to waive union-supported Jones Act

Myth: Obama admin defied Constitution when they "told" BP to create escrow account

Myth: Obama admin unreasonably delayed purchase of Maine company's oil boom

Myth: Obama unnecessarily delayed berm plan

Myth: Coast Guard docked oil-collecting barges for no good reason

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Myth: Obama waited weeks before responding to the oil spill

CLAIM: Obama "waited 50 days, 55 days to really begin" responding to Gulf oil spill. On the June 17 edition of Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani said of the federal government's response to the oil spill: "The government has played a big role in letting us down here as well. And who the heck is -- you know, criticizing President Obama, President Obama's response? I mean, the president waited 50 days, 55 days to really begin a resp- -- he told us in his speech that the federal government was in charge from the very beginning."

REALITY: Timeline of events indicates Obama administration responded almost immediately to the spill. The Coast Guard began responding to the spill hours after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded at 10 p.m. on April 20. Obama was briefed on the incident and dispatched officials to the region the next day.

Gov. Barbour: "The federal government's done more right than wrong" on BP cleanup. On the June 20 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, asked for his "assessment of how well coordinated the federal, state, and local officials are," former RNC chairman and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said that while "nothing's satisfactory until the well's shut" he thinks "the federal government's done more right than wrong," and "appointing Ken Feinberg, who's got a great reputation that's well deserved, is good for BP and good for the government."

lots more...

http://mediamatters.org/research/201006240025

[redqueen]

1. K&R

[Cleita]

2. I wonder if Ruppert Murdoch goes yachting with Tony Hayward et al? n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Can we replace 'Myth" with 'Lie'?

I think it is a more appropriate term.

[Zoeisright]

4. Well, those aren't myths.

They're plain out flat LIES.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. So how do we counter Fox News for those who only see Fox News?

[babylonsister]

6. Good question, but it seems some folks must be catching on...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8619491
Will BP be Fox News' tipping point?

You cannot watch TV nowadays and then listen to faux and think they're telling the truth. At least I don't see how you can.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Of course YOU can't see how..but then again..You use the sense that you were born with.

You analyse, look into, examine, question..and do all those things that Dittoheads and Beckbutts and Hannityhumps and O'LIElyists never ever even knew how to do.

they are like zombies..or lemmings..they just hear and repeat, hear and repeat, hear and repeat...

[BrklynLiberal]

7. FAUX NOISE has been spewing lies and at best, half-truths, since its very first day of broadcasting.

Anyone who might have expected anything better from FAUX NOISE must be living in an alternative reality.

The best one can hope for is the consistent, persistent, tenacious, constant, indefatiguable, unending, irrefutable
answering back to, and debunking of, all that crap that is vomited from the mouths of the FAUX NOISE lying heads.

[babylonsister]

8. ...and that's why I love media matters! nt

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Must agree. They are the best and the most persistent source for outing the lies....

of FAUX NOISE..AND all the other pukers of noise from the right

[HughMoran]

11. Facts? "News" doing their best Soviet era Pravda impression

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