Really?! Fox News Airs Anti-Obama Ad (VIDEO)

Fox and Friends aired a calumnious four-minute video on its Wednesday show

 

                

Fox and Friends aired a calumnious four-minute video on its Wednesday show.

Staying in line with Fox News’ policy on objectivity, the video, which the hosts of the show advertised as taking a "look back" at President Barack Obama's four years in office, was obviously a Republican attack ad. It was aired multiple times throughout the show.
Fox News later issued a statement disavowing the ad and attributing it to an associate producer.
"We decided to take a look back at the president's first term to see if it lived up to hope and change," host Gretchen Carlson said.
In the video, which is labeled as a "Fox and Friends Presents" production, images are shown of Obama talking about jobs contrasted with footage of homeless people. There is dark, foreboding music, and statistics about the unemployment rate, the rise in the number of food stamps, and the national debt, among other things.
The hosts heaped lavish praise on the producer of the video, saying that it had taken a "tremendous amount of research" to put together.
Some media critics were outraged by the video. The Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik denounced, calling it reminiscent of "1930s propaganda":

“As the guy who challenged the Obama administration two years when it tried to deny Fox News access to interviews and other opportunities offered to the media on the grounds that Fox was not a legitimate news operation, I have to tell you even I am shocked by how blatantly Fox is throwing off any pretense of being a journalistic entity with videos like this. Don't be fooled by Bret Baier's Boy Scout smile or all the talk about how some shows are news and some are opinion on the channel. Any news organization that puts up this kind of video is rotten to the core."

Conservative commentators also expressed discomfort with the video. Hot Air's Ed Morrisey said, "it didn't seem like something a news organization should be producing":

"I know the initial response will be that other news organizations offer biased perspectives and hagiographies of Obama that go well beyond a single video … and that response is entirely valid. However, we usually criticize that kind of behavior with other news organizations, too. If anyone wanted to look for evidence that the overall Fox News organization intends to campaign against Obama rather than cover the campaign, this video would be difficult to refute as evidence for that claim.”

Really Fox, that is utterly deplorable. You should be ashamed to even call yourself a news organization. Hopefully with a video such as this your true colors are revealed to those blinded by your deception.

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