MediaMatters for America lists Fox News’ false reports, outright lies, and use of fake and edited videos here. Here’s Wikipedia‘s list. And even Funny Or Die sees them as a source of humor in their 12 Funniest Fox News Fails. Here’s The Young Turks skewering Fox editing of videos to make them say the opposite of the truth (AKA to lie).

Now some will say MSNBC and Current TV are the same. Such false equivalency is utter baloney. MSNBC fired Kieth Olberman because he gave donations to three political candidates, violating NBC corporate policy that news reporters stay out of partisan political activity. When they show a portion of a tape and it distorts the picture painted by the full tape, other news agencies apologize and run the full tape.

In contrast, Fox just sticks with the lie. Compared to MSNBC’s firing of Olberman, during the run-up to the 2012 Presidential election, Fox News had 28 commentators going on the air discussing politics while simultaneously working as paid campaign staffers and even in some cases as chiefs of staff for major Republican candidates up to and including the Romney campaign itself. Roger Ailes, the President of Fox “News” worked as a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush and for Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign before being hired by Rupert Murdoch to head Fox News. Republican talking points show up on Fox simultaneously with their first use by Republican politicians. Fox is clearly a propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. No other supposed “news” organization in the US is even remotely as much a propaganda operation as Fox. To find something similar, you would need to look at the Korean Central News Agency in North Korea. So why do so many American people keep on lapping up Fox’s lies?

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