Fox News Makes Stuff Up!

H/T Talking Points Memo:

In a recent campaign-trail speech, President Obama delivered a line that was widely construed as a jab at Mitt Romney. But whether it was a direct jab at Romney was at least arguable until a Fox News host pumped it up with three additional words that Obama never said.

“Somebody gave me an education,” the President said last Wednesday in a Elyria, Ohio speech, discussing equality of opportunity. “I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle wasn’t. But somebody gave us a chance — just like these folks up here are looking for a chance.”

The “silver spoon” comment in the context of the speech seemed to be a swipe against Romney, whose father George Romney was the top executive of a major car company and a former governor of Michigan. But the President was able to maintain plausible deniability until Steve Doocy of Fox News came along. While interviewing Romney on live TV Thursday, Doocy quoted Obama as saying, “Unlike some people, I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”

But Obama never prefaced his statement with the words “unlike some people,” as evident in the video of the speech (9:22 minute mark). The words do not appear in the official transcript either.

Regardless, the unspoken words were imputed to Obama in a Washington Post article, a New York Post editorial and conservative blogs after Doocy’s segment.

So Steve Douchey & Fox News makes stuff up, then other lazy media outlets run to print with his made up story?

Here is the video:

which leaves us some questions:

Is there a bigger tool than Steve Doocy?

How funny is it that Mitt still hids behind his daddy?

The biggest question of all is

Are Steve Doocy & James Wigderson related?

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4 thoughts on “Fox News Makes Stuff Up!

  1. Stuff like this is why people like me love late night TV so much. The camera never lies.

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