I'm MetroSexual - He's A Cowboy

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October 2nd, 2004, 02:17 PM
JP

I'm MetroSexual - He's A Cowboy

Greetings All:

Fox news at its best. Talk about a lack of fact checking! When are people going to start officially labling Fox News the tabloid TV that it really is?

As reported by News.com

Quote:

It may not rank up there with CBS's Memogate, but Fox News stepped into some cow pie Friday when it posted a report on a John Kerry speech in which the presidential candidate apparently boasts that his cuticles looked great during Thursday's night debate with President Bush.

According to the story that was posted on the front page of Fox News' Web site, Kerry told supporters in Tampa, "Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!" The Massachusetts Senator then allegedly added: "It's about the Supreme Court. Women should like me! I do manicures," and "I'm metrosexual--he's a cowboy."

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Fox News later posted a mea culpa that explained the source of the story. "Earlier Friday, FOXNews.com posted an item purporting to contain quotations from Kerry. The item was based on a reporter's partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. We regret the error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice."
October 2nd, 2004, 02:55 PM
the_JinX

What can I say..

LMFAO

I'd like to see a screenshot of that one ;)
October 4th, 2004, 03:23 PM
RoadClosed

I don't see what is bad about it. A guy thinks his cuticals looked great, big woop. But since it was not factual the guy should be tossed over to ABC.
October 4th, 2004, 03:53 PM
AngelicKnight

Heh heh, totally! I typically am rather fond of Fox News, but there's no denying that that was one pretty embarassing screw up on their part.
October 4th, 2004, 06:02 PM
debwalin

Maybe they got it as a hot tip from Dan Rather over at CBS ;)
October 4th, 2004, 08:01 PM
RoadClosed

If that was the case they would have defended the statements for a week then apologized, not for what they did, but for who they got it from. :)
October 4th, 2004, 08:35 PM
debwalin

What I wanna know is how many people from both stations are now standing in the unemployment line. :D
October 4th, 2004, 08:38 PM
RoadClosed

Zero
October 4th, 2004, 08:46 PM
debwalin

I find that hard to believe...not that I don't believe you, just that I can't believe no one lost their job over either of those. I mean come on....the "real world" equivalent of that would be "accidentally" putting a mouse in someone's Whopper at Burger King.
October 10th, 2004, 11:13 PM
Winston

That wasn't an accident.
October 11th, 2004, 01:16 AM
moxnix

Quote:

Originally posted here by Winston
That wasn't an accident.

Your right Winston, It was a caculated emotional slam at Kerry. Most people in our country would now associate Bush with being a 'real' man and Kerry with being a lot less. And it doesn't matter that it was later retracted, the damage was already done.

Isn't the game of politics fun......not in the least truthful, but fun. (and that encludes all sides and the media)
October 11th, 2004, 10:18 AM
The Texan

new stations sure seem to "mess up" alot now... but sometimes its quite funny
October 12th, 2004, 03:16 PM
RoadClosed

Quote:

Your right Winston, It was a caculated emotional slam at Kerry.

The reason it's even written in satire is because Kerry has used the term "metrosexual" in the past.