Call it “Dewey Defeats Truman” for the age of twenty-four-hour cable. Amid all the hubbub about who, oh who, the Democrats’ Grand Poobah might endorse as the party’s nominee, the Fox News Channel jumped the gun just a bit yesterday afternoon:
Only…as the New York Daily News reported (hat tip, HuffPost), and as has been widely noted elsewhere, “Democratic icon Al Gore said he won’t step in as broker or peacemaker in the venomous nomination battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.”
So…scoop or blooper? Seems to be the latter. Somewhere, Dewey must be smiling.
funny, i keep thinking you mean CHYRON
Posted by citygal
on Fri 4 Apr 2008 at 11:22 PM
You're not nearly cynical enough. Fox News despises Al Gore and they don't like Obama either. They've consistently made Gore out to be some kind of hypocritical liberal trying to scam the public about global climate change. Fox's target audience are the uneducated, people incapable of truly rational thought. People who hear only sound bites and accept them as gospel. Fox news will always lie before telling the truth if it will move their political game forward. I'd say this was no slip but a further attempt on their part to "tar" Obama with the same brush they've already tarred Gore with. No, not a slip at all.
Posted by Doug Alder
on Sat 5 Apr 2008 at 02:05 AM
The spelling of "chyron" is fixed.
Posted by Megan Garber
on Sun 6 Apr 2008 at 10:18 PM