Fox News attempted to cover the post-election-fraud protests in Moscow, but decided that the truth wasn’t exciting enough, so they spiced it up with some footage of the riots in Athens, thinking that no one would notice the fucking palm trees.
Yes, Russians feeling duped by Sunday’s documented, obnoxious election fraud are tense and angry out at Triumfalnaya Square, but without the specific fires-in-the-streets and scary revolution-y unrest imagery Fox News would have preferred… so they went ahead and repeatedly transplanted it from Greece. Also, cute headline typos. (“Puttin,” etc.)
In actual news: This election sucked. Protests continue. Lots of the actual fighting is being done by creepy pro-Kremlin young’un Nashi Party, who even had a drum line in their opposition to opposition protests. Also, the authorities have shot themselves in the foot by demonstratively arresting major/celebrity opposition leader Alexey Navalny, martyring him a bit. Also, the other night “soccer hooligan” thugs suddenly put themselves in charge of enforcing crowd “order” (which is always a bad sign) and bullied journalists. Also, Voina’s Leonid Nikolayev was arrested and then excitingly escaped from custody.
But yeah, no palm trees.
Related: Everything on Fox News is Fake, again, again and again.
(Tip: Katia Azarova, Screen-grab: ANIMALNewYork)
UPDATE: Ha. Via the Atlantic Wire’s excellent follow-up: Fox called to say that John Stack, vice-president of newsgathering, “confirmed that an error was made and that the video has since been removed and measures will be taken to prevent this from happening again.”
To be fair, there are also two typos in the visible text, so accuracy is clearly not their forte.
Write about the court trial of Navalny, it was hilarious.
This is the one who shouted to his supporters: "You cocks.cking rams"?
I wonder why they didn't show the actual Moscow riots. They are enjoyable just as Athens was. Well there was no fire but u will definitely see many clashes between police and protesting people. The thing is that many or ever most of Russian people just don't care about politics and they didn't vote at all. For many different reasons. Otherwise there would be much more people protesting "official" results of the elections all over Russia.
Those FOX NEWS are bastards, bunch of liars
You know, it could have been an honest mistake? Ah well, I'm sure you're just inclined to assume the worst about Fox News intentions.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is not the first time, nor it will be the last. Remember funcking Georgia? God damn these fox f#$kers. And you know what? It's the whole system, not just Fox. It;s a brain wash – business as usual, they can brainwash you into doing whatever they want with your money. It's so plain simple.