{"id":7057,"date":"2012-05-09T09:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2012-05-09T09:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:57:27","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-west-virginia-is-for-lovers-of-felons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7057","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: West Virginia Is For Lovers Of Felons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was another election day in this seemingly never-ending primary season. And, true to its nature, Fox Nation has managed to mangle reporting of what took place. Here is the headline they went with this morning: “Democrats Pick Jailed Felon Over Obama.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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There are only two reasons that Fox would run with this story: 1) It makes Obama look bad. 2) They had funny pictures of Obama and a pony-tailed felon. The decision to publish this obviously had nothing to do with truthful reporting because, contrary to the sensationalistic headline, the Democrats did not pick a jailed felon over Obama. The felon lost. Nevertheless, Fox posted this story at the top of their web page indicating that they considered it more important than any other election news, such as the defeat of veteran senator Dick Lugar in Indiana and the victory for homophobes in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

More to the point, however, the Fox Nationalists failed to provide any context for this item. They never mentioned that in West Virginia Independents are permitted to vote in any primary. What’s more, all voters are permitted to declare and\/or change their party affiliation in the voting booth. Consequently, there is a pretty good chance that the votes for the felon were actually made by Republicans seeking to cause mischief. Since Obama was not being challenged by any serious candidate, the turnout for Democrats was probably quite low. And since Romney’s opponents had all quit, GOP voters could safely cast their votes for a joker on the Democratic ballot.<\/p>\n

In any case, the tendency for some portion of West Virginians to align themselves with a white criminal over the President says more about them than it does about Obama. And a closer look at the felon reveals a decidedly Republican mindset. His FEC filings<\/a> resemble the mission statements of Tea Partiers that rant about gun rights and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. That affirms the likelihood that his voters are predominantly right-wingers.<\/p>\n

Another bit of context that was left out is that 30% of Republicans voted against Romney<\/a> in the GOP primary. That means that 30% of West Virginian GOP voters preferred people who were not even in the race to their presumptive nominee. And more West Virginians overall cast ballots for Obama (70k) than for Romney (54k). But don’t expect to hear any of this from Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was another election day in this seemingly never-ending primary season. And, true to its nature, Fox Nation has managed to mangle reporting of what took place. Here is the headline they went with this morning: “Democrats Pick Jailed Felon Over Obama.” There are only two reasons that Fox would run with this story: 1) […]<\/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],"tags":[183,527,301],"class_list":["post-7057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-nation","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1PP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7834,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7834","url_meta":{"origin":7057,"position":0},"title":"The Top Eight Fox News Election Lies In Just The Last Eight Weeks","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/30\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"With the election season fully in bloom, the aroma of deceit and desperation is growing more pungent by the hour. 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