Fox News: We Edit, You Decide

Upchurch said:
The laugh track was from the Colbert Report.
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Precisely. So? You're afraid some dolt who can't operate a ballot anyway will misread the interview as genuine, yet think it makes a difference whether the laugh track is native to the video or not?
 
Jocko said:
Precisely. So? You're afraid some dolt who can't operate a ballot anyway will misread the interview as genuine, yet think it makes a difference whether the laugh track is native to the video or not?
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Sorry, I was refering to my assertion that the edited piece portrays the congressman as the "genuine idiot" type rather than the "playing along" type. The laugh track would have been there either way.
 
Today's featured skit was OBL and Zawahiri on Late Night with David Letterman going on record that they were not lovers.

I hope no-one mistook it for real news!
 
I also don't believe Fox did anything wrong. They simply edited the segment down to the 'good' parts. In any case, this only makes the Republicans look worse. If this guy is so bad, why can't the Republicans can't find anybody to run against him? I think this is the point Stephen Colbert was trying to make.
 
bjb said:
I think this is the point Stephen Colbert was trying to make.
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I think the point was "hey, we're running a comedy show and our goal is to make people laugh so if we can make any politician look dumb and get a laugh out of it let's do it and if we have to edit in some of my funny facial expressions to get more laughs that'll work too"
 
I saw the original, and it was just a little long and tedious. Of course Fox was going to edit it down the the juicy bits.

My problem is with the Fox Conservabot introducing the clip. It's entirely set up with note of standard-issue faux shock (oh my!) and a studious exclusion of any reference to the fact that it's a humor/satire piece.

The commentator who produced the entire Youtube video really hits the point home when he says that Colbert intentionally set it up to be taken out of context, and Fox lapped it up like cream from a saucer.
 
As much as I hate Fox I don't see the big deal. They did show the part where Colbert says this is just for fun. It's not like they just edited out everything other than "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do" then there would be a problem.
 
Whoracle said:
As much as I hate Fox I don't see the big deal. They did show the part where Colbert says this is just for fun. It's not like they just edited out everything other than "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do" then there would be a problem.
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I pretty much agree, but I would have liked them to at least include the part where he first laughed when trying to repeat the cocaine line. To show some context that Wexler was in on the joke and just playing along.
 
I didn't have the sound on at the beginning of the video, but what was the part about "spontaneous and uncoached"? Did the Fox guys actually say that?
 
So Colbert covered this last night, and it was hilarious. First, he showed his own clip of Wexler just doing the "I like cocaine..." part, and he edited it the exact same way Fox did. But his real target was NBC and ABC. He showed clips from The Today Show and Good Morning America, where they were poking fun at the oh-so-whacky Colbert report and about how crazy Congress critters were to submit themselves. Either NBC or ABC then shows the clip of the guy from Georgia who had supported the bill to put the 10 commandments up on the walls of the House and Senate, but then couldn't name them when prompted by Colbert to do so, and cackling like that was funny. So Colbert contrasts that actually relevant question he had asked with clips from Today and GMA of all the non-news BS they fill their time with. As usual, Comedy Central is way ahead of the curve in news coverage.
 
I think it's time I pulled up my underwear, trousers, throw away the tissue and start complaing about this travesty!!!!
 
Pauliesonne said:
I think it's time I pulled up my underwear, trousers, throw away the tissue and start complaing about this travesty!!!!
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A practice unknown in the U.S. That accounts for a our differences in politics.

(we keep ours. Sometimes we frame and hang them if they are particularly interesting)
 
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