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Fox News Lies About Obama/No on 8 Rally in Monterey

On Sunday, I attended a rally at Monterey’s Window on the Bay that was organized by the local Democratic Club and No on 8. About 250 supporters of Obama and opponents of Prop. 8 showed up to hold a joint rally.

During the rally, between 25 to 30 McCain supporters arrived to give a counter demonstration, heckling us with slogans such as “B.O. stinks” and “Go back to Russia!” And, those McCain supporters began to leave shortly after the No on 8 folks showed up in force. A few I spoke to as they were leaving said they didn’t want to protest a No on 8 rally.

The rally lasted from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with huge crowds holding Obama and No on 8 signs.

So, I was somewhat shocked when the local Fox affiliate ran the following story:

The story should have focused on the number of people who showed up to oppose Prop. 8. Instead, the reporter said that both supporters and opponents of Prop. 8 were there. That’s not true. There was one — and only one — Prop. 8 supporter very early on. He left after about 30 minutes. There was only one other person holding a Yes on 8 sign and he picked it up from the ground (I have photos showing that to be the case). You will notice in the video not a single Yes on 8 sign is shown. That’s because there weren’t any!

Down down do your dance

The story should have been “Hundreds of Obama supporters and opponents of Prop. 8 joined forces today in Monterey…”

Instead, Fox News was deliberately deceptive. They focused on the few McCain supporters and marginalized the No on 8 and Obama supporters who were there in much larger numbers.

If you want to see what was really going on at Window on the Bay, check out my Flickr set for the event.

http://flickr.com/photos/fritzliess/sets/72157608604588504/detail/

You will clearly see that only a handful of McCain supporters showed up to make their presence known. This was obviously an Obama/No on 8 rally — NOT a shared event between Democrats and Republicans.

I don’t know how Fox gets away with simply inventing stories like this. They went out and took video of what was obviously a huge turnout for both Obama and No on 8 and made it seem as if there was equal representaion by the opposition. That’s a lie — a total fabrication.

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