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Video: WH Communications Director Dunn Rips Fox News

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captdiggs10/13/2009 8:50:41 am PDT

Anita Dunn, fact checked. ( Something she complains about FOX doing in the video)
It turns out that many of her talking points were not exactly accurate.

An excerpt:

” If you were a FOX News viewer in the fall election, what you would have seen would have been that the biggest stories and biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and something called ACORN.”

This is a tremendously unqualified statement, and easily refuted. Let’s do it this way: as Dunn would later claim Fox was not a real news network like CNN, why don’t we compare how often both networks referred to Ayers and ACORN last fall?

According to LexisNexis, from September 14 just before the financial crisis started to Election Day, CNN mentioned Ayers name in 171 segments; Fox mentioned him in 155.

As for ACORN, CNN mentioned the currently embattled liberal organization during that same time period in 157 segments; Fox mentioned ACORN in 149.

newsbusters.org