Whoah. Anyone else in Chicago watch the 9PM news on the Fox local channel tonight? Did you catch it? I wasn't paying enough attention until it was deep into it.
I know, I know Fox News, but it slipped on after Family Guy ended. Usually the local affiliates don't pull such things. In fact I've caught a fair amount of their local coverage and I have to say I've never seen anything so blatant since I locked out FNC.
It was a total propaganda piece passed as local news.
I'm recreating this from memory below the fold. If you saw it or know where to find clips, please join me.
First they run a minor anti-Obama piece, trying to make Obama look like he's backpedaling on his stance. Apparently the spin is Obama wants to roll back Bush's tax cuts, 'but now says he might not remove them right away...' It was a senseless, pointless piece that ran maybe 30 seconds
Then suddenly they run this pro-McCain piece about how the old SOB is going to be here in Chicago tomorrow attending a fundraiser. It interviews the local campaign director. Shows the lavish room where it will take place, talks about the $25,000.00 a plate, and how lesser donators will be treated to some kind of ritualistic liberal bashing session. Then mixes in Interviews with three white pro-McCain guys and then they find one black guy who's wearing an Obama baseball cap, who because he's obviously not interested in being interviewed, mumbles something to the camera.
Then it went bizarro. Somehow this fact about McCain was coming to Chicago is now about Palin, who isn't coming to this thing. But apparently she's some kind of fundraising juggernaught. Seriously it was dripping praise...and then they dropped a big one.
"Since she's been in the campaign, Sara Palin's brought in 10 million dollars."
Bam. WTF? That can't friggin' be.
It's been a long day and my memory isn't perfect so I googled that. Didn't that sound so damn familiar?
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Oh, well turns out she did bring in 10 million.
FOR BARACK OBAMA!!!!(sorry for shouting)
They left out the fact she's raising gobs of cash for the Obama and Biden! They make it sound like she's been a huge success to McCain's campaign. It's not even a misrepresentation. It's a pure friggin lie.
Then it cuts back to the studio and a clean, white boy (missed his name, sorry) stands in a dimmed area and with a squint tells you that 'McCain plans to raise [something around a hundred million] dollars for his campaign, while Obama...'
and here he slows and speaks every word carefully, his squint deepens. Everything about him is saying 'Heed my warning my GOP sheeple! This is serious!'
'[Barack Obama] is planning to raise almost twice as much at [then says something like 220 million dollars].'
THEN, just to cap the whole BS sequence, as the whole GOP suckup session ended, it goes back to the Obama hit-piece with a poll about it. Giving the whole thing this perfect sting.
I tuned out right then, but you knew what was next...the show would 'check in' on the poll and show how much anti-Obama sentiment there is (and way out in the Chicago burbs' there is a lot of it) at least two times before the very ending.
I was just looking on their site to see if they run it there too but didn't find how they phrased the whole thing.
The purest Propaganda I've seen in a long time. I'm disgusted.
Please excuse the rambling and poor writing, but I wanted to get what I had remembered down before I forget. And also find out if anyone else saw it. I'll be revising and updating and seeing what I can find.
Please tell me someone got it on Tivo and how soon you can get it up on youtube? Thanks