{"id":4431,"date":"2011-05-12T03:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T10:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2011-05-12T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T20:58:46","slug":"jon-stewart-slams-fox-news-commotion-over-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4431","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Slams Fox News’ Commotion Over Common"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a few days since Fox News had some ridiculously irrelevant, phony scandal to trump up over President Obama. With the release of the birth certificate and Osama Bin Laden being lost at sea, Fox was running out of distractions to the wildly unpopular GOP proposal to end Medicare and Obama’s rising poll ratings. Lucky for them Michelle Obama provided an opening by inviting rapper Common to a White House event promoting poetry to children.<\/p>\n

The ensuing controversy was built on a thoroughly dishonest representation of the lyrics to a Common rhyme from 2007. In typical fashion, Fox Breitbarted Common by truncating his words. The allegedly violent verse that outraged everyone at Fox was really just a poetic description of reality in some communities that ended with this call for peace:<\/p>\n

“No time for that cause there’s things to be done. Stay true to what I do so the youth dream come.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That, however, didn’t stop Fox from riling up their gullible audience with a campaign to elicit fear of this African-American artist and to transfer that fear to the President. You know, the Halfrican Marxist from Kenya. Fox Nation posted eight separate stories on this subject. It is clearly more important to them than the economy, the war on terror, or even Newt Gingrich’s ill-fated presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

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Thank goodness for Jon Stewart who, once again, managed to put this nonsense in perspective by demonstrating the hypocrisy of Fox and the other hyperventilating martinets of virtue.<\/p>\n

Jon Stewart’s Tone Def Poetry Jam Part 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon Stewart’s Tone Def Poetry Jam Part 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe now we can get back to the truly important issues like Bristol Palin’s plastic surgery.<\/p>\n

[Update]<\/strong> The Fox Nationalists posted two more stories about Common this morning, for a total of ten to date. In the same time frame Fox Nation posted one (that’s 1) story about the disastrous flooding on the Mississippi. Says something about their priorities, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a few days since Fox News had some ridiculously irrelevant, phony scandal to trump up over President Obama. With the release of the birth certificate and Osama Bin Laden being lost at sea, Fox was running out of distractions to the wildly unpopular GOP proposal to end Medicare and Obama’s rising poll ratings. 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