Jun 242009
In a move that should surprise nobody, Fox News has again mis-identified a disgraced Republican politician as a Democrat. This time? Philandering Republican senator Sanford was graced with an inaccurate “(D)”.You might ask, why should anyone care about a mistake? You would be right to wonder whether this isn’t simply an overreaction on my part. After all, everybody makes mistakes from time to time.
Fox “News”, however, makes this exact mistake on an frequent basis. There have been no cases of them claiming a Democrat senator as Republican, nor have there been cases of them accidentally ascribing honorable Republican actions to the Democratic party. Fox “News” is, to be blunt, a propaganda operation, and not any kind of real news media.
A joke I saw somewhere on a blog reads:
I think that this is becoming a measure in how bad Repubs screw up:
“Jenkins! What’s the fallout for me from Political Scandal X?”
“Sir, Fox is calling you a Democrat.”
“That bad?”
Here are a selection of screencaps to illustrate exactly how bad the problem really is. Every one of the following images is a disgraced Republican politician, “mistakenly” labeled by Fox “News” as a Democrat. The single exception is from a Rhode Island election poll, where they also mislabeled the Democratic frontrunner candidate as a Republican.
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