You may recall that several weeks ago, I wrote a couple of diaries regarding Fox News' habit of reversing party affiliations, particularly with Mark Foley and then with
Sheldon Whitehouse (Diary here on dKos is inaccessible at the moment).
Feeling particularly full of schadenfreude this morning (and, yes, truth be told, perhaps a little flushed still from my comeback win [link may be incomplete] on Jeopardy! last night - please watch for me again on November 22!), I stopped by the Faux News website to see what was going on in the enemy camp. I don't suppose you'll be surprised to learn that they have, um, a different version of things.
Check out their congressional "Balance of Power" and then join me below the fold (click for larger version):
Now, what do you notice about the image? Let's list the problems:
First, the Senate doesn't add up. Well, it does if you include the two races that are toss-ups at the moment (MT and VA), but they don't tell you that, do they? Trust me, it's not on the website either. Their mouth-breathing clientele will look at this and say (for whatever reason - not sure how it helps them), "Well, lookee here, we didn't do that bad!"
Next, naturally, the House doesn't add up, either. Again, they conveniently omit seats still up for grabs, but a casual observer might say, "Some landslide - the Dems only ended up with a five-seat majority."
And the governors? You guessed it. Faux says there are 18 Republican governors and 28 "Democrat" governors (again, naturally using a noun as an adjective) ... so, in their world, we have 46 states.
I don't care what the rationale is. Media Matters should be on this, and the misrepresentations have to have consequences. "Technically factual" or "Oops, we botched a graphic" won't going to cut it anymore.
It's no secret that Faux News lies. The problem is that too many people believe them. And with a Democratic Congress, it's only going to get worse.