A rightwing extremist “news” outlet, Newsmax.com, was apparently also unable to help labelling disgraced Republican<\/i> sexual predator Rep. Mark Foley as a Democrat<\/i> in a report released on their website this morning.<\/p>\n
Our buddy Bob Kincaid of Head-On Radio<\/a> alerted us to this report<\/a> today from NewsMax’s “chief Washington correspondent,” Ronald Kessler…<\/p>\n Ronald Kessler The scandal involving inappropriate e-mail messages by former Rep. Mark Foley, D-Fla.<\/b>, to congressional pages understandably has led to calls for abolishing the page program.<\/div>\n Kincaid asks us via email: “At what point do we stop saying that this is accidental?” <\/p>\n The original appearance of such an “accident” occurred, as we reported it last week<\/a>, 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<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n The next day, Associated Press did the same thing<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n
\nWednesday, Oct. 11, 2006<\/p>\n