FOX Nutwork: Still pretending to be news.
by David Waldman
Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 08:01:51 AM PST
On Tuesday, I showed you how the FOX Nutwork continually makes the "mistake" of misidentifying criminal or inconveniently oppositional Republicans as Democrats, and even switching the party identifications in polls where Democrats are beating Republicans.
Well, they're still at it. "Accidents" will happen. Over and over and over and over and over, apparently. Nutwork "anchor" Brit Hume sets up reporter Jim Angle, thus:
BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Next on SPECIAL REPORT, Attorney General Gonzales tells his side of that late night hospital meeting. Remember that? And ends up being called untrustworthy and a liar by Senate Democrats.
Who's saying Gonzales is untrustworthy and a liar? Well, only Democrats would do that, right? Democrats like... Sen. Arlen Specter, of course.
(Click on image above for close-up view)
Ridiculous. This is a web transcript. It can be corrected in an instant. But it hasn't been. And even if it is, the damage is done. FOX Nutwork viewers, in addition to thinking that Saddam planned 9/11, now thinks every Senator who criticized Gonzales is just a partisan Democrat. We showed you the screen capture of the "accidental" misidentification on Tuesday. On Thursday, their web transcript still sits uncorrected.
Because they're not a news organization. They're America's Tokyo Rose.
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