Fox Snubs Obama for “Lie to Me”

That FOX won’t air the comments of our commander in chief at a time of war is an insult to the president and all of America. Where is an apology?

http://www.political-buzz.com/

I’m sorry, but does anyone actually watch “Lie To Me”. I don’t know anyone who does.

Considering how often Bush abused prime-time news conferences as simply another opportunity to rehash talking points, its not surprising that a network might choose to look another way this time out.
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I don’t attach too much importance over it being Fox and Obama. If they can draw better ratings by ignoring the President, more power to them.

At what point does Fox News lose credibility for clearly political acts such as this?

So they’re just shifting Lie to Me from its 24-hour-a-day run on FockSnooze over to the affiliate “entertainment” channel for this one hour or so?

I like the anti-FOX TV-guide optics, though:

Channel 1 (NBC): Obama Presser
Channel 2 (CBS): Obama Presser
Channel 3 (ABC): Obama Presser
Channel 4 (PBS): Obama Presser
Channel 5 (FOX): Lie to Me

Maybe the news division of Fox is finally bleeding over onto the entertainment division. Or Fox is trying to grab ahold of that 26% who can’t stand Obama.

They just pretty much ensured that Lie To Me will have its worst ratings ever. If I worked on that show Id be PISSED!

Never even heard of Lie to Me. But, it is an outrageous insult to the Simpsons/Family Guy channel to link them to Faux Neus. I don’t know if they will air it, but I am hoping to watch on C-span without the puffy hair talking suits telling me what I heard. On C-span, every nutcase in American will wait on the line on their own dime (nutcases are not known for financial frugality) to tell me what I heard.

Actually, I had never heard of “Lie to Me” either. As a TV series, I mean.

Yeah, KT, I mean on the teevee. Only too familiar in general, sadly.

Lie To me: how appropriately FOX. They lie to us and they are asking “Lie to me”. Dittohead Central must be in a tizzy. I have never heard of this show but lying to me is Fox News’ aim.

bitterpill, again, please don’t confuse Fox channel with Faux Neus. Same guy owns both. He just knows how to make money big time. Burn both ends of the candle at once.

come on you’ll I happen to like the show and I’m surely not going to penalize the cast and crew, that is sometime a local one when they film in Washington DC where the show is set. But I will DVR it because its what I do anyway because its on the same time as Olbermann.
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This was obviously somebody’s bright idea of a way to get exposure for a show with weaker ratings and if it works good and if not, I don’t think it’s going to make or break Obama, and I’m pretty sure they also did the same thing to Bush doe abother show I liked but was eventually cancelled anyway.

Formerlyjames: point taken. But Fox has a say in who channels through one of its corporate manifestations. You make a distinction. I note that. But the guys giving the finger are one and the same. For them its dollars in and dollars out, and a bit of politics thrown in. And if they can give the finger, so be it.

KT. I’m surprised, you don’t usually engage in the pretend adversary stories. If you want you can accuse fox entertainment of being shamelessly opportunistic but giving the president the finger — really?
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I suggest that some one go on line and watch an excerpt I would link but don’t know how, you might find out that in this era of csi all the time that this show has a very creative premise and Tim Roth who is the lead is a pretty good actor. also this show has one of the few strong positive Latina roles. I’m not saying that there aren’t any other but none come immediate to mind.

I’m with Dee, it’s business not personal.

OT
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Glenn Beck says the swine flu is all a conspiracy to get Sebelius confirmed. Seriously.
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http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904270012?show=1

It’s not surprising. There’s a limit to the number of prime time news conferences the network will tolerate, especially during sweeps. After a certain point, I’m sure they’ll all become tired of giving up millions of dollars in revenue for presidential press conferences. It’s not like they’re denying anybody the opportunity to watch Obama — just turn the channel to CBS.

SG I liked this part from your link
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“Our government is moving wildly fast. Unlike anything we — I mean, we did the research last night, and we went back to the AIDS epidemic –all the way back, looking at all the different things”
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Moving even faster than Reagan during AIIDS? Imagine that!

sgw: Thanks for the link. Beck does like the conspiracy theories. Sometimes it’s just kind of amazing reading the stuff their twisted little minds come up with. When you argue with people like that you have to keep one thing in mind at all times. ALWAYS make sure they’re not between you and the door.

PNNTO
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I couldn’t even get over how stupid that statement was. AIDS was like nothing we had ever seen. Swine flu is essentially something we have been living with forever but just a different strain. I just wonder does half of the sh*t he says even make sense to him?
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sacredh
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And you also want want to keep moving too on the off chance that they might get tired of following you around and will just give up on trying to argue with you.

Fox doesn’t want to show the press conference live, so they can edit it to their liking on Fox News later on:
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/27/724929/-Fox-manipulates-video-to-attack-Obama
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If Fox viewers saw the president’s words for themselves, they wouldn’t be able to buy the steaming pile of B.S. that Fox News will try selling them for the next couple of days. For them, this isn’t just one hour of programming they’d sacrifice, but two or three days.
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And face it, once you take away their schtick of distorting the president’s words and clutching their pearls and peeing their pants in reaction, what really does Fox News have?

“They’ve never moved this quickly.”
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Well, duh!
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I mean, FEMA, or even the Feds, under GOP direction, was not exactly moving at the speed of light when it came to potential disasters on American soil.

kevin:
“And face it, once you take away their schtick of distorting the president’s words and clutching their pearls and peeing their pants in reaction, what really does Fox News have?”
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Um, teabagging?

Another classic from Shep Smith
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“You can call cheerios cornflakes but they are still cheerios”
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http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904270033?show=1

“I just wonder does half of the sh*t he says even make sense to him?”
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Dunno SG but I’m old enough to think of Morton Downey Jr every time I see or hear a clip of Beck.
The restraint, and I use that word advisedly, that CNN had on him is out the door. He will be a memory in 36 months.

One of the reasons they have to get on top of this as quickly as possible is because of the already fragile state of the world economy. Retail sales are already in the dumpster. Having people afraid to go to the stores because of health concerns and having an outbreak that sends massive numbers of people to the hospitals (hello medical bills, goodbye shopping) could be an economic disaster all by itself. Add travel restrictions, closed borders, manufacturing losses, workers reporting off sick etc. and you’re looking at economy already teetering falling off the cliff. They have no choice but to throw everything we have at this outbreak.

The swine flu brouhaha makes Reid’s statement that reconciliation will be the way to go on health care a reasonable course of action:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/27/1910922.aspx
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I’ve never liked Reid particularly much, but I think that after months of naysaying, a sham alternative budget, and relentless attacks on virtually every aspect of Obama’s life and philosphies, it’s time to run them the f*ck over.
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We can bury their bodies next to those that have died from the swine flu, but I wouldn’t want to insult those who will have suffered by such proximity…

I don’t think they can get on top of it. There’s a 1 to 4 day incubation period, http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/category/swine-flu/ and that, together with infections in countries that are not well equippped to handle it, it’s a serious threat to get out of control.
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That Google map and others seem to show that Europe has had it for a while before cases were detected.

you people need to watch tv 24/7 like me. Lie to me is a great show. WTB.

What will I do? I don’t Bea. I don’t know what I will do with out you.
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Then again, these are the same programming geniuses who cancelled “Arrested Development.”
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Point to KT. Arrested Development was a great show.

For the 5th week in a row I am declaring that if “24″ sucks again tonight I am never watching it again!
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I just can’t quit 24

Here’s an interesting article on the swine flu: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/27/swine-flu-search-outbreak-source
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My current theory is that the young age of the patients in America may be responsible for the milder nature of the cases. Mexico is saying that all of the deaths have been among people aged 20 to 50 (although the Guardian link suggests otherwise, it does seem to hit the young and healthy like the 1918 pandemic), and the average age of patients in the US is 16. Perhaps teenagers are less likely to react to the virus with a fatal cytokine storm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm

I’ve always felt guilty watching FOX, even the Simpsons. The thought of putting a nickel into the pockets of those sleazy MFs is sickening. But today I received one of those little boxes from a ratings company. No more FOX for me, not even the Simpsons’ TOH.

Eh. I’m not sure why the networks don’t take turns showing presidential events. (They could draw straws or something). It’s not like in the old days before cable, when, if the nets preempted their regular programming, all that was left was the High Chaparral rerun on the UHF channel. These days, if someone doesn’t want to watch the president’s speech, it’s pretty easy to avoid–even if you don’t have cable, but especially if you do.

nbc, msnbc, abc, cbs, cnn..Time in the tank for Obama like the media has never seen before,,no wonder why Fox is #1 by leaps and bounds..The lovefest for the Obamessiah is at a disgusting dangerous level.Thank god for Fox..

the vitriol from Tumulty and the left is at a hilarious level..It’s entertaining to watch..Bush Cheney evil..retard Libs should be thanking him for keeping them safe…”oh..please Obama..blame the USA for everything and release torture photos nd apologize for our actions….

lol Cliff, I was thinking the same thing.

Then again, these are the same programming geniuses who cancelled “Arrested Development.”
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Steve Holt!

lacking gunny’s response, I’ll bet he just captured the embed code and pasted it. Like this:
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cool!

As for Fox, the behavior on the right is leaving me with a deep empty feeling. Ex winger John Cole finds it Kind of Amazing:
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they are mobilizing and going balls to the wall in defense of sadism. It is really quite amazing, and a testament to just how sick and detestable and rotten to the core the Republican party has become.

Why in this country do all networks need to cover a presidential speech or news conference? It would be completely adequate for the networks to rotate coverage of these events, allowing some of us to watch our favorite programs.

For those that haven’t seen “Lie to Me” it’s a story about a professional lie detector that tries to solve/prevent crimes. A recurring theme in the show, is they point some body language or mannerism that usually proceeds lies, or attempts to obscure the truth, than show three or four clips of famous people (usually politicians) enacting those mannerisms (usually for things that it’s known when they’re lying).
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While they’ve had clips of Obama* on this before. It will be interesting to see if they single him out in any clips tomorrow night.
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-MBirchmeier
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*The Obama clip that comes to mind, was during the campaign season. Someone asked him if he though McCain was running an honorable campaign. Obama essentially replied of course he is. However during his reply he kept scratching his nose with his middle finger, a behavior that supposedly indicates deception/hostility.

mbirchmeier — For the record, that particular micro movement used by Obama that the show highlighted had nothing to do with deception. It was signaling disdain, which is neither deceptive nor hostile, just an appropriate emotion for any one of Obama’s character having to deal with the sophomoric deceptive practices that was the McCain campaign.
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I would also mention, just so no one is left with the impression that the show has a political agenda, they have focused on Cheney on more than one occasion to actually highlight disgust and deception, as well as Bill Clinton. So anyone is fair game if you have the right picture to use for a particular story line. But the science behind the show is quite interesting.

@Dee: I stand corrected on the Obama clip.
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I also didn’t mean to indicate the show had a political agenda. Just the three political clips that stood out in my mind were the Obama clip, the Clinton, (I have not had sexual relations) clip, and one of Nixon.
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I’m usually playing computer games while my fiancee is watching Lit to me so I only look over when I hear a voice that stands out.
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-MBirchmeier

ilikechips:
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Seems to me that Obama is far more sprightly when it comes to disasters on American soil than your peers are.
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I know! Why don’t you protest how well Obama is doing in true Sara Palin style!
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How about, when they distribute the national stock of Tamiflu in your area, tell them you’re not a socialist like Obama and refuse the dose!

I think the clip of Obama means only one thing. The meaning is clear. It means “FY. That was a stupid question.”