Fux Noise Doctored Clips of Obama's Visit to the White House to Make It Seem Like Biden Was Lost

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Barack Obama visited the White House for the first time since he left office on Tuesday. He was there to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, as well as to watch President Biden sign an executive order aimed at improving the law. Obama’s return created plenty of commotion, and for Fox News and the rest of the right-wing ecosphere, a fresh opportunity to cast Biden as a weaker, watered-down version of the former president.

The Republican National Committee shared two clips of the visit that quickly went viral. The first shows an ostensibly confused Biden ambling around the stage as Obama holds court behind him. The second is similar, with Biden standing on the periphery as Obama greets well wishers.

The clips even made it onto the Fox News primetime slate. “Biden doesn’t know what on earth he’s doing or, at times, where he even is,” Lauran Ingraham said as she played the first clip. Tucker Carlson played the second, along with a “King Obama” graphic depicting the former president wearing a crown and a menacing scowl. “Make it stop,” Carlson said. “It’s awful.”

The only problem is that both clips were taken out of context. Biden does look a little confused in the first clip, but it’s only because he’s looking for someone, perhaps Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whom he brings up onstage to applause shortly after the conservative media cut ends. The second clip ends right before Biden gets Obama’s attention and introduces him to someone. Twitter user @acyn helpfully attached the full clips to the end of the Fox News segments lambasting the edited versions.

Link to tweet

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox-news-doctored-clips-obama-164352197.html

[Demovictory9]

1. And some youtubers ran with it

[GoCubsGo]

2. This is nothing new.

They do this ALL THE TIME, just like they regularly doctor videos to make Trump look like he's not batshit crazy and insufferably stupid. Watch any interview they do with Trump. The edits are frequent and blatant. It's not just Fox, either. All the rightwing media does this.

[Hortensis]

7. This. All act as litmus tests to tell those who enjoy

receiving entertaining/malicious lies from those who value truth more.

However much difference there is between people who knowingly share lies they find enjoyable and those activated by pure hostile malice, its real world effect is less than their similarities.

[madashelltoo]

3. Jimmy Kimmel used it too

I saw this clip on Kimmel.

[SoonerPride]

4. After suffering through 4 years of hearing trump's insane rambling nonsense blather

the right has ZERO leg to stand on with regards to calling Biden or anyone else "out of touch or not all there mentally."

trump is a goddamned moron with a syphilitic brain.

seriously, fuck those fucking fucks.

[WarGamer]

5. Loved seeing him there... I'm a big Obama fanboy.

The first POTUS that I could see as a colleague or friend... someone I could talk to when taking out the trash cans or trimming the hedges.

[gratuitous]

6. You don't have to doctor clips of the former guy

Here he is skedaddling out of the Oval Office before signing some routinely stupid executive order:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-39461869

Nobody left in the room (and I can see Mike Pence, Wilbur Ross and Steve Bannon for sure) quite knows what to do. Pence gathers up the unsigned orders in his best co-dependent mode to cover for his good pal's cluelessness.

[uponit7771]

8. Just like Russia's Pravda or TASS

[Hortensis]

9. How lovely of President Biden to wait for the flustered and delayed

woman to finally make her way onto the stage. He didn't turn his back on her. Wonderful man.

[keithbvadu2]

10. 1+

[PufPuf23]

11. Long past time for serious blow back to media that deliberately

misleads the public.

One cannot be a good citizen nor function well in the current World without accurate information.

I do not have an answer on what to do.

Maybe something like ownership and editorial firewalls could be a start.

[Hekate]

12. But but but I am told by reliable sources that FOX is protected by the 1st Amendment in all their...

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…lies and all their propaganda. That no matter what’s going on — like, for instance, an ongoing coup attempt against the US government — they can continue to twist their viewers’ minds with outright lies. Forever.

I have never read a sensible response to my queries about how we make them stop. The responses all seem to come down to the marketplace: boycott sponsors, buy the station and shut it down, just don’t watch. Two of those are ineffective and the other is a pipe dream. The other notion involves suing them, individually or collectively — sure, an operation that has more money than God to devote to its legal defense,

Even in a robust democracy — which we are not — it would be stupid to ignore the impact of a multibillion dollar enterprise like FOX operating 24/7 in the country.

But we did ignore FOX and Murdoch and their ilk in that regard, and you may have noticed we are no longer a robust democracy.

ETA: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216569684
Obama: "I underestimated" disinformation's threat to democracies

[bif]

13. Faux News is absolutely pathetic.

[a kennedy]

14. I'm embarrassed to say I saw that on lava's show last night....I swore at the tv, as usual, when faux

was showing that clip. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬