ROD WHEELER, WHO IS A CORRESPONDENT FOR FOX NEWS, SAID
THAT ANOTHER FOX NEWS REPORTER HAD FABRICATED CODE FROM HIM, IN
ORDER TO MAKE IT APPEAR THAT SETH RICH WAS NOT KILLED IN A
ROBBERY ñ HE WAS A STAFFER FOR THE DNC ñ BUT THAT HE WAS
PERHAPS KILLED BY THE DNC, OR HILLARY CLINTON'S PEOPLE,
WHICH IS MADNESS.
IT'S JUST INSANITY.
AND NOW WHEELER IS SAYING, YES, A RICH REPUBLICAN DONOR
CONCOCTED THIS PLAN, AND THE PRESIDENT, IF YOU BELIEVE
WHEELER'S DOCUMENT, WAS INVOLVED IN THIS PLAN AS WELL.
SO, EMPLOYEES AT FOX NEWS HAVE SEEN THIS, AND
FOX NEWS DID RETRACT THE STORY.
REMEMBER WHEN CNBC DID THAT STORY ABOUT AT LEAST ENERGY, AND
THEY IMMEDIATELY FIRED 3 PEOPLE.
HAS FOX NEWS FIRE ANYONE FOR FABRICATING QUOTES?
I'M WAITING FOR IT, NOPE.
AND NOW CNN HAS A STORY.
PEOPLE NEED TO START GETTING CANNED OVER THE SETH RICH
STORY, WHAT A MESS.
I'M NOT SURE IF YOU KNOW WHERE YOU WORK.
THAT'S ASSUMING THAT FIRE FOR AT FOX NEWS, YOU GET PROMOTED
FOR IT.
BUT THERE IS KIND OF AN INNOCENT NAœVET…, AND MAYBE MOST
ESPECIALLY INCLUDING PEOPLE INSIDE THE FOX NEWS
BUILDING, BECAUSE THEY GOT TO, YOU KNOW, LIVE WITH THEMSELVES.
AND THERE ARE GOOD FOLKS THERE, AND I WILL GIVE YOU MORE
DETAILS ON THAT.
BUT FIRST, OLIVER DARCY ON CNN MONEY SAYS, "THEY DON'T WANT TO
DOLLARS THAT THEY F*CKED UP, A SENIOR FOX NEWS EMPLOYEE
SAID, IT'S FUNNY THAT EITHER A TOP EDITOR DIDN'T SEE THE
STORY BEFORE PUBLICATION, AS WOULD BE TYPICAL PROCEDURE,
OR DID SEE IT AND APPROVED IT.
BOTH SITUATIONS WOULD BE REALLY BAD.
IT IS NOT AN OVERSIGHT.
ACCORDING TO ROD WHEELER, AN EDITOR DID SEE IT, AND
APPROVED IT.
I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY TREAT THIS AS NEW NEWS, THAT FOX NEWS
DOES THIS GENERALLY.
THERE'S A MOVIE ABOUT IT CALLED OUTFOXED, AND THAT SOME OVER A
DECADE AGO, AND THERE ARE DOZENS OF EXAMPLES OF METALS THAT
PEOPLE FIND, FROM FOX NEWS, AND EDITORS, TELLING THEIR
REPORTERS HOW TO SKEW STORIES.
THERE WAS A FAMOUS ONE WHERE THEY SAID, PRETEND THAT HAMAS
WAS CELEBRATING DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES, AFTER THE DEMOCRATS
WON THE HOUSE ONE YEAR.
AND THEN YOU SEE MARTHA MACCALLUM GO ON AIR AND PRETEND THAT HAMAS
WAS CELEBRATING THE VICTORIES, WHEN THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT
WAS GOING ON, THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR ELECTIONS.
THEY TOTALLY FABRICATED IT, AND THE BOSSES MADE THEM DO IT
AT FOX NEWS.
THIS IS NOT A NEW EVENT AT FOX NEWS, SO IF YOU ARE UNDER
SOME ILLUSION THAT THEY ARE NOT A PROPAGANDA NETWORK FOR
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, YOU SHOULD SNAP OUT OF IT NOW.
THIS IS WHO SPOKE WITH CNN SAID THEY FELT THE SIGNIFICANT
MIST UP ON THE RICH STORY PUT A CLOUD OVER THE NETWORK.
THAT CLOUD WAS ALREADY THERE.
JUST LOOK UP.
HE GOES ON TO SAY, THIS MAKES PEOPLE DOUBT FOX.
I GOT BAD NEWS FOR YOU, THEY WERE ALREADY DOUBTING FOX.
REALLY?
THAT'S NEWS FOR YOU?
YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE AT A CREDIBLE NEWS ORGANIZATION?
RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE, WE CALL IT LIKE WE SEE IT.
ANOTHER EMPLOYEE NOTED THAT IT FORCES PEOPLE TO QUESTION THE
NETWORK'S - THIS IS HILARIOUS ñ JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY.
YEAH, YEAH, I THINK IT DOES THAT.
SO, LOOK, IT'S NOT THAT EVERYBODY WHO WORKS AT FOX NEWS
IS A BAD GUY, OR THAT THEY ARE PART OF THIS MACHINE.
SOME ARE MORE OBVIOUSLY CULPABLE.
IF YOU MAKE UP QUOTES TO THIS REPUBLICAN HIT PIECE, YOU ARE
PRETTY GULLIBLE.
IF YOU JUST REPEAT STUFF THAT ISN'T TRUE BECAUSE YOUR
BOSS TOLD YOU, YOU ARE 30 CULPABLE, BUT THERE ARE A
LOT OF FOLKS THERE WHO ARE REPORTERS, AND THEY'RE
LIKE, IT'S A PAYCHECK, AND OFTEN TIMES A VERY LARGE PAYCHECK,
THEY SEND ME SOMEWHERE, I REPORT ON IT, AND I'VE DONE WITH IT.
SO, IT IS SUPER HARD IN THE MEDIA TO FIND AN OUTLET
THAT ISN'T COMPROMISED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
LOOK, THE CNN'S AND THE MSNBC'S ARE PART OF GIANT,
MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR CORPORATIONS, BUT ALSO HAVE
INTERESTS IN FRONT OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, WHETHER IT'S MERGERS
OR NET NEUTRALITY.
FOX NEWS WAS GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE GUY WHO STARTED IT,
ROGER AILES, AND THE GUY WHO OWNS IT, RUPERT MURDOCH.
DEEPLY CONSERVATIVE, DEEPLY REPUBLICAN, AND THEY WANT
TO PUSH IN THAT DIRECTION.
WE HAVE THE INTERNAL MEMOS TO PROVE IT, AND THE EXTERNAL
STORIES TO PROVE IT.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT EVERYBODY AT THOSE NETWORKS ARE BAD
JOURNALISTS, BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW THE CONTEXT OF THESE, AND ALMOST
EVERYONE APPARENTLY OUTSIDE THE PEOPLE ñ
SOME PEOPLE WORKING OUTSIDE OF FOX NEWS ñ
KNOW THAT FOX NEWS IS A CONSERVATIVE PLACE.
THEY ARE NOT PLAYING IT RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE, WHICH IS FINE.
BY THE WAY, THEY GOT RID OF THEIR FAIR AND BALANCED
LOGO, OR SLOGAN, SO NOW AT LEAST THEY RAISE THEIR HAND AND
SAID, WE DO CONSERVATIVE PERSPECTIVE, AND THAT'S
OKAY MAMA BUT OTHERWISE, TO TALK ABOUT YOUR JOURNALISTIC
INTEGRITY, IT'S A LITTLE AMUSING.
NOW, WHEN ASKED WAS BY WHY THEY HAVE NOT RESPONDED AT ALL
TO THE SETH RICH STORY, WHY THEY HAVEN'T FIRED ANYONE, THEY
WERE ASKED TO EXPLAIN THIS, AND HERE'S WHAT FOX NEWS SAID.
TODD GOES IN, TIE GOES OUT, NEVER RISK MITIGATION.
YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT.
APPARENTLY THERE IS NO EXPLANATION.