^ Because as easy as it is to fact check, it's even easier NOT to fact check, which is the route that 99% of viewers will take.

Also, when someone does fact check and posts a video, it takes him 10 minutes to sort it out, which is probably longer than the actual clip he's discussing was.

This video has just shy of 12,000 views. How many of those viewers watched Fox and then went on YT looking for fact checking? Probably almost all of them are like me, having never opted to turn on Fox News.

That's why they do it; because they still accomplished what they set out to.

Fox editing *debunked

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"Why does FOX dishonestly edit so blatantly when it's so easy to fact check?"

Because, as you well know, Fox is not a news station, it is a propaganda wing.

>> ^handmethekeysyou:

^ Because as easy as it is to fact check, it's even easier NOT to fact check, which is the route that 99% of viewers will take.
Also, when someone does fact check and posts a video, it takes him 10 minutes to sort it out, which is probably longer than the actual clip he's discussing was.
This video has just shy of 12,000 views. How many of those viewers watched Fox and then went on YT looking for fact checking? Probably almost all of them are like me, having never opted to turn on Fox News.
That's why they do it; because they still accomplished what they set out to.


I agree with nearly everything you said, except one bit. It doesn't really need to take 10 minutes to refute O'Riley's edit. LiberalViewer just goes into a lot of detail (which I like), but making the essential point could take less then a minute.

Essentially the full quote has Godwin Liu saying "It will take something to make this right, will it be (long list of possibilities, among them reparations). He's asking the listener to consider the question, not suggesting a course of action. The only assertion he's making is that it's going to require us to give up "something".

Your both correct... really... they can do this because the people viewing this garbage on Fox WANT to hear it.

They WANT a black president to be appointing asian judges who are commin' for your hard earned money to give to black folk so they can form the one world gov'ment....

Sorry from Texas but still can't do a good bumkin... the reality is Fox news can do this because they are providing exactly what the fox 'news' audience wants.

Someone should squeeze a "liberalviewer" tag in there.

I totally agree, it doesn't need to take 10 minutes. I removed a couple sentences while writing that made that comment unclear. My original point was that the type of people who are fact checking Fox and making YT videos are NOT the type who understand persuasion & delivery. This video should have been a minute-forty. Two-ten tops. You can't give me a 10 minute video to watch. I just don't care enough. And if I don't, I assure you that the YT poster's “target audience” definitely doesn't.

If he's going to post a 10 minute video, he needs to get to the point, the meat of the video, the crux of the argument, within the first minute. Then from there he can elaborate and explain and extoll to his heart's content. Give 'em the old inverted pyramid. Essentially my point is this is what Fox is doing right and he is doing wrong, which is why 99& of Fox viewers now believe Liu is in favor of reparations.>> ^entr0py:

>> ^handmethekeysyou:
^ Because as easy as it is to fact check, it's even easier NOT to fact check, which is the route that 99% of viewers will take.
Also, when someone does fact check and posts a video, it takes him 10 minutes to sort it out, which is probably longer than the actual clip he's discussing was.
This video has just shy of 12,000 views. How many of those viewers watched Fox and then went on YT looking for fact checking? Probably almost all of them are like me, having never opted to turn on Fox News.
That's why they do it; because they still accomplished what they set out to.

I agree with nearly everything you said, except one bit. It doesn't really need to take 10 minutes to refute O'Riley's edit. LiberalViewer just goes into a lot of detail (which I like), but making the essential point could take less then a minute.
Essentially the full quote has Godwin Liu saying "It will take something to make this right, will it be (long list of possibilities, among them reparations). He's asking the listener to consider the question, not suggesting a course of action. The only assertion he's making is that it's going to require us to give up "something".

So, do we still fool ourselves into thinking the US political system exists to represent the people and that you 'really' elect officials who are working solely in your interest as your representative? I don't think so.

All you can do for the 1-minute attention span is the bare assertion, or, if you have Jon Stewart's skill, give a semblance of evidence that is just some tiny clip taken out of context. When news organizations play to the lowest common denominator, they become a shouting match of bare assertions vs. bare assertions with no capacity for logic or looking at evidence.

Fox = Unjust Character Assassination

I reckon even an amateur video editor, could take a couple of short segments from that video and make Bill O'Reilly say "I believe in reparations for slavery."