NewsHounds
We watch Fox so you don't have to!
  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Forum
  • Blogroll
  • Donate
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
Home →

Fox Nation Overrules The Supreme Court On Health Care Ruling

Posted by Ellen -7841.60pc on June 30, 2012 · Flag

Although Fox Nation likes to boast about how much it loves America "and its ideals," the site is nonetheless trumpeting that the United States' Supreme Court ruling that upheld President Obama's health care reform is "a fraud." 

The Fox Nation didn't come right out and say that the ruling is a fraud. But no reader who's been conscious this week could miss the message from the headline and photo of a smiling Justice Roberts, who cast the crucial vote in upholding the law, currently the top story on the home page:

supreme_court_fraud.jpg

Notice how Fox Nation cagily put quotation marks around the headline, thereby outsourcing and feigning distance from the person who actually said a fraud has perpretated on Americans?

So who actually said that? Not an independent legal scholar but the lawyer who argued the other side to the Supreme Court:

Critics of the majority's decision will say for the foreseeable future that Chief Justice Roberts rewrote Obamacare to save it. Michael Carvin, who argued against Obamacare before the Supreme Court, noted dryly, "I'm glad he rewrote the statute instead of the Constitution."

Carvin's summary of the Supreme Court's ruling was on target: "What the Obama Administration… thought they were doing was completely unconstitutional; what they lied to the American people about was constitutional.… Unfortunately they got away with that bait-and-switch. A fraud has been perpetrated on the American citizenry."…

The Fox Nation post is a reprint from the conservative publication, The American Spectator whose own title of the piece is the far less inflammatory Roberts Too Clever By Half.

It's Fox News spin 101. Find someone else to say something incendiary to demonize whatever issue or person they're against, promote it as big news and then pretend to just be reporting.

Follow @NewsHounds

Follow @NewsHoundEllen


Do you like this post?
Tweet

Showing 3 reactions



    Review the site rules
mj - the same one commented 2012-06-30 16:45:15 -0400 · Flag
Fox Nation Overrules The Supreme Court On Health Care Ruling

Really? That’s funny — Justice Rush Limpballs declared it unconstitutional two days ago:

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201206280011#comments

I’d suppose I should be concerned — but, since the denizens of FoKKKsNation have about as much legal expertise/authority as Limpy . . .

.
Aria Prescott commented 2012-06-30 16:06:01 -0400 · Flag
The right falls into two camps on this:

A) Roberts handed Romney the election, while ensuring his (almost identical) plan can be enstated unchallenged.

B) He’s a traitor! Impeach him or we’ll kill him!

You knew Fox News and it’s viewers were gonna pick the one that allows them to advocate violence. Not that Camp A thought their idea out much either, but still…
truman commented 2012-06-30 15:16:09 -0400 · Flag
The real frauds in this case are Scalia, Thomas and Alito. Despite their oath to follow the Constitution, they routinely legislate their right-wing agenda from the bench. Thomas is the worst of the three as he has the legal IQ of a kumquat.








or sign in with Facebook, Twitter or email.
Follow @NewsHounds on Twitter
Subscribe with RSS


We’ve updated our Privacy Policy
Sign in with Facebook, Twitter or email.
Created with NationBuilder