I was reading rawstory.com, via reddit, and there's this story about FoxNews running an OpEd about Obama's speech on the 8th of September. They, rawstory.com, go on a brewhaha about FoxNews editing the video of the speech to take negative phrases out of context and blame Obama for saying things he essentially didn't.
Of course, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had caught this right away and put there comedic take on the situation. http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/352232/thu-september-09-2010-meghan-mccain 5:50-6:40 is the meat and potatoes of this shenanigan.
I mean, sure it's an opinion show and the content is not news report or journalism and it doesn't outwardly claim to be. But it's on Fox-FUCKING-News! Few people know that when they turn on FoxNews they're more likely to get an opinion show than a news report.
Stewart's show goes on a little later (7:50-8:13) with a hit on CNN confusing Tweets with news. Thanks TDSWJS.
And then there's this:

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