Fox News and right wing blogs have been running with the lie that because the Department of Justice's Amber Alert program website was down, the program is no longer in operation. That is patently wrong because the alerts never stopped. And despite Fox News' cavalier attitude that the "Slimdown" is no big whoop, Steve Doocy was in near hysterics, this morning, with his claim that the Justice Department's "Amber Alert" had been shut down and ain't it awful because Obama...Fox Nation has a lede headlined with the the inflammatory and partisan "Govt's Amber Alert Site Shuttered, WH First Targets Veterans, Now Targeting Children in Shutdown." But the website is back online. So will Fox & Friends issue a correction tomorrow? And will Fox Nation take down their story now that their source has issued a correction? What will the Fox say?
Is there any question as to why Fox consumers are uninformed and so hateful?
If I know FoxNoise the way I think I know FoxNoise, someone there won’t issue a “correction.” They’ll come back and say something like, “Remember when we told you that Obama shut down the Amber Alert site, well guess what? WE got them to put it back online. That’s right. WE got Obama to back down. WE showed House conservatives how to stay the course.”
And, of course, their sheep will believe every single word of it.
