Fox News Edits Another Clip of President Obama to Give False Impression on Tax Policy

A few weeks ago I was emailed a clip of fake journalist Jon Stewart nailing Fox News employee Sean Hannity for editing a clip of President Obama saying he wanted to raise taxes. The Hannity clip was very deceptive and made the president appear as if he was saying everyone's taxes would go up. Hannity is a Republican and that's what he does. He's dishonest and a coward. But millions of people watch his show and believe everything he says. Here's the clip of Stewart making Hannity look like a complete fool.

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Yesterday Fox News did it again.  This time it was on Fox's morning show where Steve Doocy played a selectively edited clip to make it look like President Obama was saying that he couldn't give a tax break to the top 2% of Americans.

After playing the edited clip over and over again, Doocy blasted the president and called him a thief.

Had Fox News not edited the clip of the president and let him finish his sentence, its audience would have heard the president saying that he can't give the top 2% of Americans a tax cut and still lower the deficit.

"When asked if he would modify his position on the Bush-era tax cuts to only increase taxes on those making at least $1 million, President Obama on Monday said the country simply could not afford it.

'I can't give tax cuts to the top two percent of Americans -- 86 percent of that going to Americans making $1 million or more -- and lower the deficit at the same time," he told CNBC. "I don't have the math.'"

After all, it's the deficit that Republicans are so concerned about, right?  Fox News constantly airs footage of Republicans being very concerned about an out of control deficit.  The most watched news program in America also loves to throw up nifty little graphs showing just how huge the deficit is.  Suffice to say, all good fiscal conservatives like the people who watch Fox News are extremely concerned about reining in that deficit.  So concerned about it, in fact, that they selectively edit a clip of the president precisely outlining the quickest way to rein in that deficit.  But Fox News doesn't want its audience to hear that.  They want people to hear that he's a thief and wants to raise everyone's taxes.  So they resort to editing and scripting that James Cameron in Hollywood would be proud of and blast the President of the United States for something he never said.

Fair and balanced just as long as it protects the Republican Fantasy World.