Fox News, apparently angered that so many people are of the opinion that Sen. Barack Obama narrowly won the first presidential debate last week in Mississippi, is trying mightily to stir up something out of nothing. This latest weak attempt by Fox News to try and rehabilitate Sen. John McCain's struggling campaign in the eyes of the mainstream media has to do with a minor stumble as he began to tell the story of a bracelet he received from the mother of a soldier. he started to say "Sgt." (for Sergeant Ryan David Jopek) but then probably remembered that the bracelet was from the mother of the soldier and quickly corrected himself. You can see if for yourself on the linked video from News Hounds. Fox News, however, unbelievably tried to spin it as if to make it seem he could not remember the soldier's name. Anyone who looks at that video and sees it the way Fox News spun it is obviously a card-carrying Republican (and a hardcore one at that). Fox News takes this minor slip that everyone else saw for what it was worth, and tried to spin it into this horrible gaffe in an effort so bizarre and weak it would be laughable except for the fact that the network has such a large audience (and apparently a significant influence on a rather good-sized number of people in this country). This "gotcha" move is a pitifully weak one ... even by the standards of Fox News. This apparently breathtaking mistake (you'll get the meaning behind that if you visit the link) is especially weak in light of so-called foreign policy expert Sen. John McCain stumbling over the names of foreign leaders, especially Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
News Hounds:
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/09/29/barack_obama_takes_gretchen_carlsons_breath_away.php#more
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