Unfortunately I do see Fox "news" as my client likes to watch it. Most of the time I try to ignore it but I just can't sometimes. Anyone who says Fox News isn't bias is just being disingenuous. When a dissenting view is expressed the news anchor rolls their eyes or shakes their head or some other negative body language. Can you imagine Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley or Ted Koppel rolling their eyes at a comment from a guest. I doubt it.

Now I have to admit I've never seen Rachel Maddow though I do know she is liberal. I have no idea if she uses reason or facts to make a point. But if you can point to her and say "Need I say more" then I can say: Star Parker, Christine O'Donnell, Ann Coulter, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sarah Palin, Michelle Backmann, Need I say more?

"When does an embattled Republican suddenly become an embattled Democrat? When Fox News is covering him, of course.

The network known for its conservative leaning ran footage of Mark Sanford admitting to an extramarital affair on Wednesday with a Chyron identifying the South Carolina Republican -- near tears -- as a D, for Democrat.

Media Matters has the screen grab on its site and notes that Fox News later changed Sanford's party affiliation to Republican.

But it's also worth adding that this is not the first time the network has misidentified a GOPer in the midst of acknowledging misconduct. When former congressman Mark Foley admitted to having problems with alcoholism -- after reports that he had behaved inappropriately with congressional pages -- Fox News also identified him as a Democrat.

There is, of course, a small danger to these quick journalistic missteps. They get repeated. Look, for instance at this Google News finding for "Mark Foley, D-Florida." "




I think it's just automatic now. When a high-profile Republican gets into trouble, Fox News steps in to mislead their sheep viewers by labeling them as Democrats.

Here's a short list of Fox's chyron hackery:

John McCain - Democrat

Joe Lieberman - Democrat

Arlen Spector - Democrat (when he was still a Republican!)

Mark Foley - Democrat

Media Matters also caught Fox listing a Democratic strategist as Bush's head of FEMA -- because his name happened to be Michael Brown. Oh, and we can't forget the time they announced Rep. William Jefferson's indictment using footage of Congressman John Conyers. They apologized to their audience, but never to Conyers personally.

Here you go DA, here is Fox News reporting on the scandal the same week that it broke.... Now, even thought that Media Matters blows up the fact that a producer made a mistake on a graphic, the nature that Fox actually reported on the story left no question in viewers minds that 1. the governor is a republican, and 2. That they did not sugar coat the story. Watch the video and then please defend your claims.... Media Matters is almost as laughable as is MSNBC!

Should you not defend your statement then my earlier comment remains standing...

Oh heck!! My earlier statement stands no matter what you have to say as I am sure that there is nothing that you could say that would would allow a reasonable person to think differently of you.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3934106/love-affair/#sp=show-clips

Penny:

I missed the deadline for editing the post to confirm to your wishes.

I googled "Fox Names Republicans As Democrats"

Fourth hit was "Fox News Identifies Mark Sanford As A Democrat."

Item dated June 24, 2009.

On the same date, crooksandliar.com published "Shocking: Fox News Labels Disgraced..."

While preparing this reply, I also came across this Daily Kos article:

June 24, 2009, "Fox has misled Republican Scandals before."

This article has seven screen shots as examples.

I never got beyond the second page of the Google hits, and my iPad doesn't have room for many hits per page.

I'm sure you could find more.

I know you don't approve of the sources, but they do identify the examples at hand.