Obama Campaign: Response to Fox News "story"

[ellisonz]

Response to Fox News "story"
by Sam Graham-FelsenWednesday, March 19, 2008 at 03:30 PM
Apparently, today was a slow news day.

So Fox News evidently decided to pour through our millions of user-created pages on My.BarackObama.com and put a screenshot of inflammatory content on the front page of FoxNews.com.

You see, more than 700,000 people have created accounts on the system. You can create one right now if you choose, in about a minute -- anyone can.

Now, from time to time people get up to no good -- creating fake profiles (like one for Sean Hannity created today), or posting profane or inappropriate content. When they do, the community reports the offending content and if it violates our terms of service it is removed (as the Sean Hannity profile was).

My.BarackObama.com has been at the core of our bottom-up organizing strategy. The tools available have been put to work by a community of supporters that is bigger and more powerful than anything presidential politics has ever seen.

Evidently, Fox News didn't think it was a big deal that hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans are participating in the democratic process creating groups and local events in communities all across the country.

But they did think it was a big deal that one random person on the Internet, without the knowledge of the Obama campaign, posted a profile in the system with the image of the New Black Panther Party on it.

When we were alerted of the existence of this page, we pulled it down. Yet even after we pulled the page, Fox News continues to disingenuously and prominently feature this "story" on their homepage.

If you have feedback for Fox News, you can email [e-mail].

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog

[NYCGirl]

1. Okay, which of you Hillites posted the Sean Hannity profile?

'Fess up. We know it was one of you.


:rofl:

[ellisonz]

3. Coulda been Colmes!

:rofl:

[NJSecularist]

2. Pretty sad, but this is nothing new.

Bill O'reilly does it all the time. They go to these blogs, scour through millions of entries, find one blog that may be a little inapproriate and they actively look to be offended. They then paint a broad brush of the entire community based on one cherry picked entry. Voila. Brought to you by the brilliant minds from the right wing.

[anonymous171]

16. Doesn't he define Daily Kos as a "hate site"?

[UALRBSofL]

4. OP, thanks for clearing that up. You did a good job

Now, can you clear up that other thing Herman posted about? I don't want to think this is true. :)

[ellisonz]

6. Umm...I just copy pasted from the Obama campaign.

I didn't do any job. I didn't see a thread debunking this shit so voila.

[UALRBSofL]

8. Well, thanks for looking that up

:)

[JimGinPA]

5. I Can't Wait Until President Obama Appoints A New Head Of The FCC

K&R

[MonkeyFunk]

13. What would a new head of the FCC do?

Regulate the content of cable networks?

[JimGinPA]

14. While It May Be Your Favorite Network...

Masquerading itself as a "News" Channel when it's actually the propaganda wing of the reich wing should require further regulation. IMO

[MonkeyFunk]

17. I've watched about 5 minutes of Fox news in my life

couldn't stand it.

The fact is, the government has no right to regulate cable news, no matter how much you dislike it.

Believing in the first amendment doesn't make me a Republican. But the accusation makes you a jerk.

[Bullet1987]

7. FOX is grasping at straws...

[Kber]

9. Fox is fucking terrified

and I'm loving it!

[Cha]

10. faux is straw and watch a hilary start quoting

hannity now or o'lielly to prop up their deflated girl.

[splat]

11. Welcome to politics, kids; it always breaks your heart

McCarthy, McGovern...yeah.

[ellisonz]

15. Dean!

[Forkboy]

12. And it was peddled here, naturally.

Thanks for clearing this up.