{"id":993,"date":"2010-05-18T10:53:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T08:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2010-05-18T10:53:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T08:53:53","slug":"yet-more-garbage-out-of-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Yet more garbage out of Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Russ Limbaugh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rush_limbaugh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-650\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 4px;\" title=\"rush_limbaugh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rush_limbaugh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>As if to prove the point of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=988\">previous post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\">Fox News<\/a> had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/05\/17\/immigration-costs-rising-rapidlty-new-study-says\/St\">this lovely story<\/a> that Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\">aggregator<\/a> caught about supposed increased costs due to immigration.\u00a0 But once again, we have to consider the source, and in this case, the source of their story is an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>advocacy group<\/em><\/span> called FAIR (The Federation for American Immigration Reform).\u00a0 Their \u201cresearchers\u201d are advocates.\u00a0 A hint that something is wrong with this story is already present in the article, when you read that the \u201cresearch\u201d was released <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exclusively<\/em><\/span> to Fox.\u00a0 Oops!\u00a0 That&#8217;s not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fair<\/em><\/span> research.\u00a0 Real research is open to all to inspect and challenge.<\/p>\n<p>People often say, \u201cOh the left is just as bad.\u201d\u00a0 I find no such equivalence.\u00a0 A good right wing lightning rod, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\">The New York Times<\/a>, features today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/18\/nyregion\/18blumenthal.html?hp\">an expose<\/a> on a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Democrat<\/span><\/em> Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, where he claims to have served in Vietnam, but didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 The Right does that same sort of investigation of the Right, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>And so I wonder, oh Conservative friends of mine, what value is Fox News when they lie to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if to prove the point of my previous post, Fox News had this lovely story that Google&#8217;s aggregator caught about supposed increased costs due to immigration.\u00a0 But once again, we have to consider the source, and in this case, the source of their story is an advocacy group called FAIR (The Federation for American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=993\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yet more garbage out of Fox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[283,324],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fox","tag-liars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}