Blogged by Brad Friedman on 3/16/2009 9:23PM
Fox Uses Wildly Out-of-Context Biden Clip to Suggest Admin 'Singing Different Tune' on Economy
Wow, does the dishonesty never end at Fox "News"? Well, we all know the answer to that one, but as Ben Dimiero at Media Matters noted in email, "this is ridiculous, even by Fox News standards".
In a package with Martha MacCallum on Fox's Live Desk today, suggesting that Administration officials who once criticized John McCain's assertion that "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" have now changed their tune, they played some clips purported to be from "recent interviews this weekend." Included in those clips, is Joe Biden declaring "the fundamentals of the economy are strong." (Video at bottom of this article.)
Trouble is a) Biden's statement was six months ago, when he was on the campaign trail and b) it was taken completely out of context, as Biden was quoting McCain's statement which he was in the process of criticizing!
Biden's actual in-context statement to a campaign rally in September 2008 was...
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that's why John McCain could say with a straight face, as recently as this morning --- and this is a quote: "The fundamentals of the economy are strong." That's what John says. He says that "we've made great progress economically" in the Bush years.
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, I could walk from here to Lansing, and I wouldn't run into a single person who thought our economy was doing well, unless I ran into John McCain.
Folks, John just doesn't get it.
vids here:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6990I'm posting this out there.....
assholes.