{"id":3577,"date":"2006-10-05T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2006-10-06T15:55:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T22:55:59","slug":"videos-daily-show-olbermann-cover-fox-news-failure-to-correct-or-apologize-for-labelling-foley-as-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3577","title":{"rendered":"VIDEOS &#8211; Daily Show, Olbermann Cover Fox &#8216;News&#8217; Failure to Correct or Apologize for Labelling Foley as a Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Fox &#8220;News&#8221; labelled an apparent sexual predator as a &#8220;Democrat&#8221;, despite the indisputable fact that the man, disgraced Congressman Mark Foley, is a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3570\">THE BRAD BLOG originally reported<\/a> the day before last, Fox did so three different times during Tuesday&#8217;s <i>O&#8217;Reilly Factor<\/i> and have never admitted this outrageous misreporting. They simply disappeared the issue on the subsequent rebroadcasts of the program after they were caught having done it.<\/p>\n<p>The next day the Associated Press &#8212; who appear to be a <i>real<\/i> news organization &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3572\"> did something similar<\/a>. However, they did the right thing within hours, and admitted the error in subsequent corrected versions of their original article, which had labelled the REPUBLICAN Mark Foley as a <i>Democrat<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone in the world, it seems, has now picked up on the story of Fox&#8217;s outrageous &#8220;error.&#8221; (<i>Including Comedy Central&#8217;s <\/i>The Daily Show<i> and MSNBC&#8217;s <\/i>Countdown with Keith Olbermann<i> &#8212; both videos now linked below.<\/i>) Everyone, it seems, except for Fox. To our knowledge, Fox has not taken responsibility or accountability in any way.<\/p>\n<p>For now, we&#8217;ll presume that&#8217;s the end of this particular story, which sheds additional light (as if any further was needed) on the absurd claims that the Fox &#8220;News&#8221; Channel is actually a &#8220;news&#8221; organization. It is not. It is a Propoganda Ministry beyond the reach of the accountability and responsibility under which any self-respecting and <i>true<\/i> news organization would normally operate.<\/p>\n<p>We can only imagine the uproar from the &#8220;conservative&#8221; community, and the heads which would have been forced to roll had the situation been reversed and CNN, or anybody else in the media, labelled a Democratic sexual predator as a <i>Republican<\/i>. Three times. Without apology or correction.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, both Stewart and Olbermann ran with the story yesterday. Here are links to each clip, both courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/CrooksAndLiars.com\">Crooks &#038; Liars<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/10\/05\/olbermann-gets-the-word-out-on-foxs-labeling-of-foley-as-a-democrat\/\"><i>Countdown with Keith Olbermann video clip&#8230;<\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/10\/05\/olbermann-gets-the-word-out-on-foxs-labeling-of-foley-as-a-democrat\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FoxOReilly_MarkFoleyDEM_Olbermann_100406.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/10\/05\/daily-show-gop-quickly-abandoning-the-sinking-ss-hastert\/\"><i>Daily Show with John Stewart video clip&#8230;<\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/10\/05\/daily-show-gop-quickly-abandoning-the-sinking-ss-hastert\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FoxOReilly_MarkFoleyDEM_DailyShow_100406.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 10\/6\/06 3:49pm PT<\/b>: <i>O&#8217;Reilly<\/i> Executive Producer now says &#8216;no on-air correction necessary.&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3583\">Full details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Fox &#8220;News&#8221; labelled an apparent sexual predator as a &#8220;Democrat&#8221;, despite the indisputable fact that the man, disgraced Congressman Mark Foley, is a Republican. As THE BRAD BLOG originally reported the day before last, Fox did so three different times during Tuesday&#8217;s O&#8217;Reilly Factor and have never admitted this outrageous misreporting. They simply disappeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,14,152,33],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-oreilly","category-fox-news","category-mark-foley","category-msnbc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}