It was only a matter of time before this story got Foxified, and here we see first occurring with Steve Doocy on Fox and Fools.
Rather than directly admitting that News Corp - which owns Fox News - is now involved in a massive scandal that includes not only hacking but also attempts to bribe and black mail police and public officials including former British PM Gordon Brown, Doocy and his "interviewee/accomplice" attempt to Re-Spin the facts into something that happens all the time, was Years ago and all those people have been fired already (except for Rebekah Brooks who just quit today) and besides we have bigger issues to deal with like how the Republicans are going to crash the economy again and blame it all on Obama.
Again.
Via Thinkprogrses:
Fox News finally addressed their parent company’s hacking scandal head on this morning, with Fox and Friends launching a comically sycophantic and pathetically inaccurate defense of News Corp. Host Steve Doocy and guest Robert Dilenschneider, a media consultant, agreed News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch has done “all the right things” and argued that the scandal is way overblown. “For some reason, the public, the media, keep going over this, again, and again, and again” the guest said. “It’s too much,” he added, “We should move on.” Doocy agreed, scolding the media for not devoting its time to covering more important issues. (His show later featured a segment on actress Mila Kunis and a performance by second-tier boy band Lifehouse, popular in 2001.)
But their defense of News Corp. really got embarrassing when Dilenschneider and Doocy engaged in some stunning subject/object slight of hand, comparing News Corp. to companies that have been hacked, while failing to note it was News Corp. that did the hacking in this case. “We know it’s a hacking scandal, shouldn’t we get beyond it and deal with the issue of hacking? We have a serious hacking problem in this country,” Dilenschneider reminded us. Listing several companies like CitiGroup that “have been hacked into,” Dilenschneider asked, “Are they getting the same kind of attention for hacking that took place less than a year ago that News Corp is getting today?” “Right,” Doocy said, before noting the Pentagon was also recently hacked.
Nothing to see here... move along. Move Along.
And how about the Mila Kunis are her new movie about Pre-marital sex by people who aren't even having a relationship with each other? Hilarious.
This is Fox News at it's Lying Finest. Like the Lawyer of the worst detestable murdering scumbag - they twist and contort the facts using false equivalency, minimization of the facts and bringing up irrelevancy to construct an marketing plan for the idea that News Corp, and by extension Fox News, has done nothing at all wrong and people need to stop paying attention to the scandal.
Besides Murdoch has apologized, so that's that right?
What they fail to realize is not just that they hacked, it's who they hacked (Murder and Terrorism Victims) - how they did it (by bribing police) and what they did with the information (black mailed the Prime Minister and others). And it didn't just happen once, it's happened over and over again at not just News of the World but several of Murdoch's stable of papers in England.
Here's Keith's latest report as the FBI has begun to get into the mix and Parliament has threatened to put Murdoch in jail for failure to appear when summoned.
Soon they'll be saying that the continued clamor over this subject is a Liberal Plot by the Mainstream Media to attack Fox because everyone is afraid of them and wants to shout down the voice of true Conservatives.
In fact, I'm surprised that their opening gambit wasn't the "We're the TRUE VICTIM" of all this hacking and bribery and blackmail. Yeah. Right. That's the ticket. Poor little Fox, they just wanted to join the sandbox but all the other kids won't let them play along with their News-people Games.
Obviously, they're slipping.
But I have one other thing I'm wondering, could false slanting reports like this be considered tampering with potential witnesses since an official investigation of this has been announced? Supposedly telling "lies" to his secretary Betty Currie since she was likely to become a witness in his civil suit (although she wasn't yet on the witness list) was the basis for one of the counts of Impeachment Against Bill Clinton.
Hmmm...
Vyan