{"id":3870,"date":"2011-02-13T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2011-02-13T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T18:23:06","slug":"fox-news-producer-wont-deny-that-fox-makes-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3870","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Producer Won’t Deny That Fox Makes Things Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is classic:<\/p>\n

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Last week Media Matters published an interview<\/a> with a former Fox News “insider”<\/em> who revealed, among other things, that Fox News is a “propaganda outfit”<\/em> that “makes things up.”<\/em> So ThinkProgress sent Ben Armbruster to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) where he ran into O’Reilly Factor producer and “ambush”<\/em> interviewer, Stuttering Jesse Watters. The result is this video that shows Watters completely unresponsive in his smarmy effort to evade a simple question: Do you think that Fox News just makes stuff up?<\/p>\n

Watters weaved and dodged without even approaching a coherent response. Rather, he attempts to school Armbruster on the finer points of ambushing. But what’s truly hilarious is that Watters can’t even muster a denial that Fox News makes things up. That’s about as close to an admission as we’re likely to get.<\/p>\n

Equally funny is the spin that Fox Nation puts on this event:<\/p>\n

Yesterday at CPAC in Washington DC, a liberal blogger from a Soros-funded smear site attempted to “ambush” Fox News’ Jesse Watters, who was covering the conservative conference for FoxNation.com and whose “ambush” interviews are frequently featured on The O’Reilly Factor. It was an embarrassing disaster for the little left-wing blogger. We’re surprised he posted the video because it was such a failure, but thrilled he did. Watters, who’s been “ambushing” judges, politicians and journalists for years, playfully mocked the “ambush attempt” while it went down, critiqued it “you can’t ambush with a camera phone”) and breezed away smiling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Fox Nationalists are actually proud of Watters performance, calling it “an embarrassing disaster for the little left-wing blogger.”<\/em> That approaches a new level of oblivious for the Murdoch-funded smear site. How can they view this as a victory when their hero is seen in full retreat, ultimately ducking into an elevator to escape? And he couldn’t even defend the accusation that Fox manufactures lies and presents them as news? All he had to say was “No.”<\/em> Perhaps he has a little integrity after all and couldn’t bring himself to deny the truth?<\/p>\n

Nah, he’s just a douchebag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is classic: Last week Media Matters published an interview with a former Fox News “insider” who revealed, among other things, that Fox News is a “propaganda outfit” that “makes things up.” So ThinkProgress sent Ben Armbruster to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) where he ran into O’Reilly Factor producer and “ambush” interviewer, Stuttering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[867,527,33,227,509,866],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","tag-ben-armbruster","tag-fox-nation","tag-fox-news","tag-jesse-watters","tag-media-matters","tag-thinkprogress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-10q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13507,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=13507","url_meta":{"origin":3870,"position":0},"title":"Stephen Colbert Nails Fox Nation’s Resident Imbecile Jesse Watters (Video)","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/2\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally. 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