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Fox News passes off CPAC 2010 footage of boos for Ron Paul as from CPAC 2011

By admin
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Video has surfaced from Fox News’s coverage of last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference demonstrating that Fox misused footage following the announcement that Texas Rep. Ron Paul won the 2011 CPAC presidential straw poll.

Prior to an interview with Rep. Paul, Fox News aired a video purporting to be the announcement that, for the second year in a row, Paul had won the annual CPAC poll regarding potential Republican nominees for president. The video, in fact, came from last year’s conference, when the announcement that Paul had won was greeted with loud boos from supporters of potential nominee Mitt Romney.

The footage, uploaded by YouTube user SaveOurSovereignty3, a libertarian and ardent Ron Paul supporter, features faintly silly computerized voiceover and a healthy selection of less than moderate comments on its accompanying page. Yet it does demonstrate clearly that Fox used inaccurate footage that was unflattering to Rep. Paul. In the actual video from this year’s CPAC, which appears later in the YouTube clip, the announcement of Paul’s name is greeted largely with applause and cheers. Here’s the video:

Though the edited footage seems to indicate an internal push against Ron Paul at Fox News, a more official network response to the results of the CPAC poll comes in the form of an editorial from commentator Kevin McCullough, who writes that libertarians like Ron Paul are “libertines” and subscribe to “the worst form of political affiliation in the nation.” McCullough instead promotes Mike Huckabee, his fellow Fox News host, who did not attend this year’s CPAC.

Comments

17 Comments

celebs4truth
Comment posted February 17, 2011 @ 2:02 am

Ron Paul should sue their asses for disingenuous news propaganda, lying in his face about the crowd response! Even if he didn’t win the suit, it would still shed light on how corrupt the mainstream news really is!

celebs4truth
Comment posted February 17, 2011 @ 2:02 am

MichaelM
Comment posted February 17, 2011 @ 3:10 am

Here is a better video of the incident. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jXxSeH2oQ

Interesting that the faux footage reveals the rudeness Paul has been treated with, by Mitt’s supporters at CPAC, for years. And people try to act like Paul supporters are troublemakers, when the evidence is to the contrary

Anonymous
Comment posted February 17, 2011 @ 4:28 am

Considering Fox “news” isn’t really a news organization, it comes as no surprise.
They’re for making s**t up all the time. Sources are never revealed, especially with toilers like Beck and O’Reilly, and Fox and friends?

They can’t even tell a real news story from fake. Evidence those flying packs for the LAPD. Of course they retracted, but they wouldn’t have had to, if they did their homework first, but that’s not the style over at Fox.

Making s**t up is their style…..and acting as the Republican political action commitee.

Anonymous
Comment posted February 17, 2011 @ 4:28 am

Making s**t up is their style…..and acting as the Republican political action commitee.

Electronics Sky
Comment posted February 17, 2011 @ 7:02 am

One day she will come back.

World Spinner
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