Fox News Invents Vacation Story to Smear President

Repeatedly throughout the day yesterday Fox News told its millions of viewers that President Obama was vacationing while he ordered our military to attack Libya.

“He’s going on vacation; he’s going to Rio!” an incredulous Steve Doocy commented. “He’s on vacation in Rio,” Fox contributor Ralph Peters said, echoing the network’s attack. Referencing Rio, Washington Times columnist Charles Hurt opined, “President Obama has absolutely abdicated his role as leader of the free world.”

Not surprising in the least, Fox News and its America-hating hosts are lying. President Obama is not on vacation. He is on an official trip as head of state of the United States to South America to meet with other heads of state. The only relaxing event planned for the week-long trip was "to the city’s iconic Christ the Redeemer hilltop statue, and even that had to be postponed from morning until evening to give him time for early briefings on the Libyan situation.”

If Bush was still president, Fox would call its own reporting anti-American, especially during a time of war.

It's worth mentioning President Bush was the most vacationing president in the history of the presidency.  He would take month-long furloughs to a fake ranch in Texas while he ordered invasions of two countries, one just for the smell of it.  And never one time did Fox ever tell its viewers that George Bush had abdicated his duties as president.  It did the opposite actually.  Fox portrayed Bush as a great, fighting leader up to the last day in office.

How Fox News portrayed the most vacationing president in history

Here's the exit story they ran on President Bush during his last days. At the time of printing his approval was about 24%, but you would never know it by watching Fox News.

In all Bush vacationed spent 879 days in Crawford.  And 499 officially on vacation.  He thumped the previous record holder and two-term Republican president, Ronald Reagan, by almost a hundred days.

*Update:

In what has already been a pathetic display of any sort of journalistic standards, CNN's Nic Robertson blasts Fox News for what can only be called outright deceit and lies in its reporting of the crisis in Libya.

I've been saying for years that the only way to effectively stop Fox News is for other networks to start reporting just how untrustworthy and unethical Fox really is.  Jon Stewart does a heck of a job at it but he's laughed at.  It won't be until a real media network does half of what a comedy show does will Fox finally be stopped.