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Fox's Latest Faux Controversy: Google Honors Cesar Chavez On Easter

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on April 01, 2013 · Flag

I had to double check to make sure it wasn't an April Fool's joke as I heard host Bill Hemmer say there's a "growing controversy" about Google "choos(ing) to celebrate" Cesar Chavez on Easter Sunday. "Did you catch it?" Hemmer asked his guest, Roll Call's David Drucker. Obviously, this is part of the War on Easter the religious police Fox News has been warning about. And leave it to Fox to suggest that President Obama has something to do with it.

Drucker had not caught the Google honoration but he thought it was just a stupid move, not an anti-Christian plot from an evil secular progressive. But as he spoke, a large graphic of "Fox Facts" appeared on the screen. The first one said, "2011: President Obama designated each March 31 to be Cesar Chavez Day." And then, "Chavez was trained by Saul Alinsky, who was known as 'the father of community organizing.'" Any regular Fox watcher worth their salt knows there's very little daylight between Barack Obama and Saul Alinsky.

And in case you still didn't connect this outrage to President Obama, Hemmer made a point of saying that the head of Google, Eric Schmidt, "was an informal advisor for President Obama." And if that still wasn't enough, another Fox Fact appeared, saying, "President Obama's 'Yes, we can' slogan was derived from the United Farmworkers' slogan, 'Si, se puede.'"

"Now, the theorists would say there's a definite connection here. You buying it?" Hemmer "asked."

No, Drucker wasn't. But it didn't matter. Because Fox made sure the suggestion was made - repeatedly - regardless of anything the guest said or did not say.

And here's a perfect example of how Fox manipulates its segments to get a desired outcome. Even though the show, America's Newsroom airs during what Fox insists is it's "objective news" time slot.

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Amy Fisher commented 2013-04-02 12:02:09 -0400 · Flag
One of the funniest things about this fake controversy is that some of the indignant righties who posted on Huffpost apparently confused Cesar with Hugo, wondering why Google would honor a dead Venezuelan “dictator”, and on Easter Sunday. I imagine these might be the same people who send mail to Newshounds and think they’re actually sending it to FNC.
Antoinette commented 2013-04-02 03:33:13 -0400 · Flag
MJ – Thanks to Don Young, and the Fox “News” frauds’ diss against Cesar Chavez, the GOP’s outreach to Latinos is finished.
Joseph West commented 2013-04-02 02:08:59 -0400 · Flag
mj the same one commented
““Twitchy”?
Is that what Malkin calls her blog? It suits her.

{Though it would be even more apt if she either replaced the “Tw” with a “B”, or the “chy” with an “s”.}"

You could think of it this way—It’s T witchy (T for “teabagging”). I think it’s suitable.
Joseph West commented 2013-04-02 02:06:21 -0400 · Flag
@ Visitor: I don’t know that everyone in the world knew that Sunday was Easter. After all, there are a sizable number of Eastern Orthodox Christians for whom Easter doesn’t take place until May 5 this year. And, then too, Jews spent the past week observing Passover and the billion or so Muslims (as well as the hundreds of millions of Hindus and Buddhists) probably didn’t care about Easter Sunday.

But, your point was understood.
truman commented 2013-04-01 21:41:02 -0400 · Flag
Cesar Chavez, Saul Alinsky and President Obama. If teabagging Bill had another minute for this segment, he could have worked in Bill Ayres and Louis Farrakhan.
mj - the same one commented 2013-04-01 21:07:54 -0400 · Flag
@ AAP: “As for the Giggles boycott… if the wingnutz REAAAALLY want to stick it to Giggles, forget Bing.

They should go with Baidu."

ROFL — I believe it was back in February that China passed us as being the world’s #1 trader; after a while, the wingnuts may not have a choice . . .

Ms. Maglalang’s Tweet/Twit feed got a mention at Buzzfeed (http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/people-who-think-google-is-honoring-hugo-chavez)
As someone in the comments section there said, I dunno which is sadder: 1) that these wingnuts can’t get their facts straight at the homepage of a search engine, or 2) they’re apparently unaware that — as is the case with all Google doodles — all one has to do is mouse over it, and a pop-up will appear explaining who it is . . .

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mj - the same one commented 2013-04-01 20:08:17 -0400 · Flag
AAP,

“Twitchy”?
Is that what Malkin calls her blog? It suits her.

{Though it would be even more apt if she either replaced the “Tw” with a “B”, or the “chy” with an “s”.}

And, I love how the idiots in the comments section say they’ve been “inspired” to try Bing — apparently unaware Bing uses the same content, and comes up with the same search results, as Google . . .

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mj - the same one commented 2013-04-01 18:50:47 -0400 · Flag
Meh — Fox may be upset primarily because they think Google was honoring this guy:

http://www.leftfootforward.org/images/2013/03/chavez3.jpg

@ Antoinette: “Your Latino outreach is going nowhere as long as the GOP associates itself with this channel.”

Hell — it wasn’t going anywhere, anyway . . . not since Rep. Don Young {R-AK} publicly referred to immigrants as “wetbacks”:

http://www.politicususa.com/rep-don-youngs-mea-culpa-wetbacks-day.html

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Antoinette commented 2013-04-01 16:35:20 -0400 · Flag
Simple solution. Tweet that article to Reince Priebus @reince, John McCain @senjohnmccain, and John Boehner @speakerboehner.

Add this:

“Your Latino outreach is going nowhere as long as the GOP associates itself with this channel.”
NewsHounds posted about Fox's Latest Faux Controversy: Google Honors Cesar Chavez On Easter on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2013-04-01 16:28:02 -0400
And leave it to Fox to suggest President Obama had something to do with it.








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