Media Matters: 4 minute anti-Obama video on Fox News was $100k of free advertising for Republicans

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"Fox & Friends" aired a nearly-four-minute video about President Barack Obama on Wednesday, drawing the ire of critics who say it looked, felt and sounded like a political attack ad.

"We decided to take a look back at the president's first term to see if it lived up to hope and change," co-host Gretchen Carlson said while introducing the video.

The video "resembled propaganda films from 1930?s Europe," Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik wrote after the segment first aired. "And the remarkable thing was the the witless crew on the couch that serves as hosts for this show had the audacity to present it as journalism and congratulate the producer who put it together."

According to the progressive watchdog group Media Matters, the segment is the equivalent of $96,000 of free advertising for the Republican party and Mitt Romney, who clinched the 2012 GOP nomination on Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/fox-friends-obama-attack-ad-video-204537376.html

[lolly]

1. All of Fox News is an attack ad

I haven't watched this, but really, could it be any worse than their normal programming?

[spanone]

2. in a democracy, it's only a matter of time till a 'foxnews' raises it's ugly head

a propaganda wing of a political party posing as a 'news' service

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. So let MSNBC do a 4-minute pro-Obama ad n/t

[Erose999]

4. Ominous music and bad editing. The whole thing struck me as amatuerish and just the kind of shit you

would expect to see on youtube.

I really feel sad for the people who watch Faux. They're probably good people at heart, but they're just borderline illiterate and uneducated.