A rightwing extremist “news” outlet, Newsmax.com, was apparently also unable to help labelling disgraced Republican sexual predator Rep. Mark Foley as a Democrat in a report released on their website this morning.
Our buddy Bob Kincaid of Head-On Radio alerted us to this report today from NewsMax’s “chief Washington correspondent,” Ronald Kessler…
Ronald Kessler
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006
The scandal involving inappropriate e-mail messages by former Rep. Mark Foley, D-Fla., to congressional pages understandably has led to calls for abolishing the page program.
Kincaid asks us via email: “At what point do we stop saying that this is accidental?”
The original appearance of such an “accident” occurred, as we reported it last week, when Fox “News” labelled the Republican Foley as a Democrat in a chyron over a video cutaway. Three of them, in fact. Across two different O’Reilly Factor segments. After our report brought attention to the issue, Fox blanked out that part of the screen during their two subsequent of the program later that night.
The next day, Associated Press did the same thing, but at least had the decency to both correct the problem by changing the “D” to “R” and noting the original “error” at the bottom of the report in a journalistically appropriate way when they did so.
Like phony news organization Fox, who told Editor & Publisher a few days later that they felt no “correction per se” was necessary, phony news organization Newsmax apparently doesn’t believe they need to tell anybody of the “error.” They changed the “D” in their story to “R” later in the day — after who knows how many had read the article — but didn’t bother to note the change in the updated article.
So much for Republican journalistic ethics. So much for Republicans taking personal responsibility. For anything.
UPDATE 3:33pm PT: Editor & Publisher picks up this story…
Oh, these guys are dirty. They know exactly what they’re doing. Now what do we do? It’s just like the WMDs syndrome you are going to get people who will believe this. I hope everyone is complaining to the FCC. I hope I’m not the only one complaining.
Next they will label Richard Nixon as a Democrat.
Assimilated Press
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I’ve been telling you, these guys are sadists. The only thing they care about is watching liberals fume. That’s why this whole Foley thing is only going to end up hurting gays and the internet.
And, of course, cloaking the destruction of our country and it’s “Bill Of Rights”. Of as Keith Olberman now calls it, “The Bill Of Right”, because that law they just passed gives Bush the right to deny you of all but one of them.
This is the kind of ugliness that originates from RNC headquarters. It stinks of dirty trickster Rove and his minions. I see no integrity left in the GoP. These are shameful times for America, and the only way to effect change is through the ballot. Without trumpeting the risks to voting in our nation, we would never have a chance to unseat these usurpers. This is why The BradBlog and Blackboxvoting are the most important news sites on the internet today.
God Bless you and keep you safe Brad!
If you read the book “The Republican Noise Machine” by mediamatters.org ‘s David Brock, all of this media misleading is no accident. It’s to confuse and offset the truth.
Your buddy Bilbray is being investigated by a grand jury…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2...0/11/225811/09
Good one Dan, I was going to bring that up, but I figure it will be Brads next post when he wakes up
Faux Gnus had mistakenly labeled the plane a Democrat… before they found the passport 😀
Republicans: smearing Democrats with Republican wrongdoing. Shameless sociopathic behavior.
If any Republicans out there have any kind of sense of right and wrong, of ethical behavior, they ought not vote for a Republican this year. Can you imagine the outcry of Republicans if Democrats engaged in this despicable behavior? Republicans don’t apologize for their wrongdoing. It’s slanderous activity on their part.
Doesn’t truth, justice and the American way matter to Republicans anymore?
Their behavior demonstrates mental illness:
The mental health of our country is at stake in this election. Please vote Democratic to bring some sanity, accountability, and balance back to our government.
– Tom
Soooo….where’s all the original trolls who said the “D-FL” was a one-time accident…could happen to anybody??? Now, we have, a week later and several more rightwing media sources later……it’s still happening.
Why don’t you cut/paste all the posts from the original FOX story, where trolls said, “It’s a mistake, you’re conspiracy theorist, blah-bliddy-blah-blah”…
I think the people who read blogs like this know bullshit trolls when they see them…….
Can the DNC bring a civil lawsuit against these “conservative” news organizations? You know, the only ones accidentally labelling Foley a Democrat? All a big coincidence, once again, that they are all conservative??? Just another coincidence, as well as the mis-labelling. It’s ANOTHER coincidence they are all ‘conservative’ media. How stupid do they think we are?
Another coincidence we should all believe? It’s a coincidence that ALL ELECTRONIC VOTE ERRORS FAVOR ONE PARTY, THE GOP! That coincidence? Only 250,000,000-to-1 odds, according to statisticians!!
“Republican journalistic ethics”
Is there such a thing as a DOUBLE oxymoron?
OK, it’s time to take these screen shots and make a YouTube clip about how (as another commenter noted) they are so embarrassed to be themselves. Probably lot’s more could be said in the clip…
“Is there such a thing as a DOUBLE oxymoron?”
… Miss P said on 10/12/2006 @ 10:22 am PT…
George Bush…Dick Cheney
Say n’ more.
Okay. I was originally willing to give fox the benefit of doubt, that lower thirds operator must have screwed up, and then tweaked the titles. I got immediatly hit for that by a few here. Let me be clear, I wasn’t a troll then, and I am not a troll now. Please don’t hate me for stating my opinion on that specific matter.
An accident is clearly not what is happening here, it’s neo-con / republican / gop (whatever these freaks are called) agenda purposly changing corporate owned media (Not just with that little D by the lower thirds title), to place subliminally into the minds of of americans, certain ideas and symbols in an attempt to screw the democrats.
I could give list of other subliminal things I see out here in Sacramento. But instead I think it is MORE IMPORTANT to
a.) point it out to anyone present when the subliminal lie occurs. (turn off the tv, don’t fight yelling over it, or the volume.)
b.) make a quick paper note of the occurance, time, channel, and person.
c.) write to the station, the network.
d.) file a complaint to the fcc.
e.) go to that station’s public file, and file a complaint.
f.) hit the streets and stock the news media. (just like the chickens did for Phil Angeledies at NBC against Arnold being on Jay Leno for 15 minutes)
Hit em everyday. Hit em at the Good Morning (insert name), Today(insert name) Show, And any and ALL Live satellite feeds. Especially LIVE shots, they get very little time to scrap the feed. (I would rather see NO NEWS from the NETWORKS than SUBLIMINAL LIES from the NETWORKS)
Stock their ass. They may have gated parking lots and security, but you CAN STOCK them if you are persistant..Don’t break the law obviously. But hell it’s a free country, follow them to wherever they go an become their focus, again, bold letters, black ink on white non glare poster board seems to show up best on their live broadcast. I am sure they will read this and try to green screen tweek it out now, I ain’t saying other colors don’t work, but you don’t want to be walking around with a mirror. Or a piece of paper that looks like it has no words on it.
g.) gather in your mind questions to ask the media, if you get the chance. Put together a statement of fact to say if you get the chance. e.g. reporter asks you, “Did you see the fire?” Your response, “Yeah I saw it, It all started when you didn’t cover the electronic election fraud story in xxxxx. Why does ABC/CBS/NBS/FOX have a media blackout?”
e.) Freeway blog
f.) Put up some home made campaign signs
alright, again, just my opinio n.
First Fox presents it’s democratic label on a photo of Foley, now News Max?!!!! Dirty pool indeed. Lies are all they have, and they seem to be unable to deal this oposition on a fair and level field. Much like their corporate masters who use cheap overseas labor to bust our wages. Spread the truth as fast as you can or Camelot as we knew it is dead. I’m trying to do it with my cartoons, everybody should do something grass roots and stop these liars in their tracks.
http://www.whatnowtoons.com
Big corporations and government by their nature don’t deserve “the benefit of the doubt”, just the opposite.
Anyway, it has been clearly proven Fox news has intentionally lied to its viewers for the past several years. If someone you knew lied to you over and over, would you really give them the “benefit of the doubt”?
Is this the KKKarl Rove/bu$$hco October surprise,.. the Mark Foley perverting teenage boys problem. They own the problem but they so want to share it with the Democrats,.. like the Abramoff bribery dishonesty. The sad thing is their Jesus-freak,.. Christo-Fascist base will buy this fallacy hookline and sinker.
“The List”,.. the purge all the homa-sec-uls from the “Republican Party List” is about to be activated by the Conservative Christian Fundamentalists Christo-Fascists.
Snip:
The founder and chairman of one of those groups, the Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, told me he has received that memo, which he referred to simply as “The List.” Based on The List’s contents, Wildmon is convinced that a secretive gay “clique” boring within the Republican-controlled Congress is responsible for covering up Foley’s sexual predation toward teenage male House pages. Moreover, Wildmon calls on the Republican Party leadership to promptly purge the “subversive” gay staffers.
:Snip
Link to The Nation article
Yet Mark Foley wanted to retire from congress in 2006 and become a lobbyist,.. but KKKarl Rove was adamant that this was not an opportune time to retire because it would jeopardize the Republican Party control of the House.
Rove twists Foley’s arm to remain in congress