SHOCKING: Fox News Labels Disgraced Republican Mark Sanford -- A Democrat
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.
I'm sure it was just an oversight, just like all the rest...riiiight. Have I missed any?
Dave N:
It's almost a clockwork thing.
Whenever Fox News wants you to forget that someone is actually a Republican, they, ah, accidentally label them a Democrat on their chryon and let it go. So they did that today, as you can see, while Mark Sanford was explaining that he had been in Argentina to screw around on his wife. (They corrected it in later chryons.)
Hardly the first time this has happened.
There was the time they ID'ed Mark Foley, in the midst of another sex scandal, as a Democrat too.
At other times with sex scandals, as with Sen. Larry Craig, they simply have forgotten to identify them as Republicans.
They've also done it when someone's Republican status is inconvenient:
When Arlen Specter was attacking conservative shibboleths, he got labeled a D too.
And then there was the time John McCain was labeled a Democrat too. At the time that just seemed weird, but now, with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and a host of other conservatives promoting the notion that McCain was just a fake Republican anyway, it makes a certain kind of sense.
Fox sense, that is.
How dumb do you have to be to watch Fox News?
Remember the kid at the Letterman "protest"? When asked he said "I only watch FOX News". that's how dumb.
is intended to be a factual statement
i think i just swallowed my tongue laughing too hard. was that meant to be rhetorical?
Unbelievable, though.
a Christian Republican governor of a Southern state who has a mistress in Argentina????...and disappears with no explanation for 5 days...and was tryin' real hard to pretend to be a candidate for President...and tried real hard to keep the people in his state from getting any of the Federal stimulus money???
I think you have to be that DUMB? or arrogant, or sociopathic...
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Plus, Finance the trip with government money!
Robert Zimmerman cut to the point today on Dobbs regarding the Sanford story - hypocrisy of the Repubs that want to control our personal behavior.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Mr. Fancy Pants couldn't have an affair with a South Carolina woman, nooooo that wouldn't be good enought for a conservative elite! He had to have him one of dem dar Argentine women!
Elitist!!!!!!!!
. . . have you ever been to Argentina?
The confluence of the various cultures (Spanish, Indian, African, Asian) has produced a gene pool which includes the most beautiful people I have ever seen.
How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm
Once they have seen Argetinians
Answer:Very Very (Very) exceedingly, unbelievably and shockingly dumb
I have NEVER turned to Fox for anything in my life. Not one single nanosecond.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Good for you. You don't pay for FOX though do you?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
If your IQ is over 99.9, you can't stay on the FoxNews channel.
It's just typical. How many times do they can they say this was a "mistake?"
Faux News, We distort ... you decide.
Cheating on your wife is adultery!
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
...I prefer the way it's done at C&L. "Fox News: We distort, you deride."
Someone posting on Fox Nation wants to know if the GOP is being targeted? I cannot stop laughing.
Targeted by whom? By the hypocrisy fairy?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
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but not okay to reveal it when someone discovers it? I'm going to go taunt them.
that Gov. Sanford simply thinks that throwing out a few apologies and quitting his leadership position in the Republican Party is going to make everything hunky-dory.
Ummm, shouldn't he be resigning as Governor about right now??
I mean, Spitzer has a little tumble with a hooker and is forced to resign...but this guy has as much as admitted he's practically a BIGAMIST! Maybe the next thing we'll find out is that he has a love child with his lover as well!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
A deliberate move to neutralize a troublesome Governor who was busy investigating Wall Street.
I have actually REMOVED Fox from my television channel list. That station has proved itself to be misleading too many times to hold the honor of having a channel spot on my television. I am surprised that the FCC allows such a 4th rate amateurish syndicate like Fox any air time at all.
good for you. Thank you.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Only TV service we can get way out where I'm at is DirecTV (I know...). One of the first things I did was create custom channel listings to remove Faux News.
I don't miss it one bit! But the stench in the ether coming off Faux Newz fouls the airwaves and makes me physically ill. It would be funny were it not so damn sad and dangerous!
I have to purposely select that channel to see it, which I will do every once in a blue moon just to make myself crazy. It is otherwise dead to me!
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Only when the 49'rs are playin. That's it. I have to admit, I try to watch smammity and the rest of the lunatics just to see what they're up too. But I can only take 15 or 20 seconds.
I'd rather watch paint dry.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Which is why they rightly earned the name Fake or Faux "news". I wonder if the FCC can do something about this deliberate misleading of their naive viewers.
True liberals/progressives don't simply critique the elite, we actually fight them and win.
I don't think the FCC can go after cable, but I just might be wrong.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Two reporters sued Fox News for a wrongful firing. They said that Fox ordered them to report a biased version of a story and they were suspended without pay for refusing. Although they won the suit originally, it was overturned on appeal.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/rbgh/030703_r...
The court said the FCC’s prohibition against news distortion is merely a policy.
So it's up to The People vs. FOX then?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Eric Idle's naughty worded song about the FCC (and Bushco).
might be to call the FCC and find out if they have cognizance over transmissions that are strictly hard line.
They repeatedly, falsely, knowingly, and with malice continue to libel the Democratic party.
One lawsuit covering all the repeated instances would show a clear pattern.
Sue them for libel or stop complaining about it. Really!!!
... that is, vigorously contact every Democratic official you can to get the lawsuit moving. These guys have been out of control for years, and it's about time we send them off on the next ice flow.
you also need a Department of Justice to prosecute
But the problem with the theory proposed is that it really isn't a good legal theory.
Sue someone for libel because you were labeled as a Democrat? Umm....might be good idea from a Republican point of view, not so much from the Democratic point of view.
And a Democrat can't sue for libel after a Republican is misidentified unless that Democrat could show that he/she has been personally harmed by that misidentification.
It was funny today after he made his confession, I asked in jest was fox making him a democrat yet. And sure enough, they were. One thing you will probably never see is them putting an "R" after Barack Obama's name.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I'm sure FOX sooner or later will "mistakenly" put an "S" after his name.
is intended to be a factual statement
S?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
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is intended to be a factual statement
Faux will put CP
fox is a shit station
no news just LIES AND LIES AND LIES
i only watch it when i am out of toilet paper
...do you, like, rub yourself against the screen?
(eeeewwwwww)
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
When they don't call Repuke's involved in yet another Repuke scandal a (D), they just don't refer to them as anything at all, as you noted in the linked article:
http://crooksandliars.com/2007/08/29/foxnews-...
Erroneously identifying politicians is a full time position at Faux. In these troubled times, every job counts!
This just in. Initial reports that Sanford was "hiking the Appalachian trail" made by his staff were the result of a miscommunication. What he actually told his staff was: "I'm hitting Argentinian tail". They misheard.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Nice one. Could even be a Daily Show throw away.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Why should this be a surprise anymore?
The execs are banking that their audience (such as it is) are so stoooopid they won't even bother to check anything other than them.
they did it on purpose. there's fox fools that will see the idiot box on and believe it. there's plenty of t.v.s with fox on with no sound. the gang at fox think it's funny. it's part of being a full-time hypocrite(s).
The ones at the rest homes, and all the other places with TVs behind armored screens.
how many people here believe that sanford never even boarded a plane and actually spent the entire 4 days toe tapping in an airport men's room stall instead?
these unprofessional lying sack of crap a-holes do, if say MSNBC labeled John Edwards during his scandal with an "R"?
All hell would have broken loose about a "liberal media".
Fox and the GOP have absolutely NO credibility anymore...ever. They CANNOT get it back after this.
As a former chyron op, this enrages me as my job was taken over and given to NEWS people to enter the info, with no OP as a buffer to correct what they claim was a "mistake". BULLSHIT!
How dumb do the morons that watch Faux have to be to believe their candidate for president John Mccain was a Democrat. Pretty freaking dumb. I pity those fools.
True liberals/progressives don't simply critique the elite, we actually fight them and win.
On Fox, "D" means "Don't like this guy".
"R" means "Really like this guy".
Does that explain it?
Fake Noise is one big turd.
I guess this is a local affiliate, but it's still Fox:
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there's really no use in getting upset or angry when revelations regarding Fox News are posted. AS long as they can appeal to and have their target audience in the palm of their hand, and that would be one digit IQ middle America, believing in them and doting on their every utterance, they really don't care what thinking or liberal america perceives them as being. So you have a choice, either attack from a different modality or continue getting upset and give yourself a heart attack. The choice is yours. Fox gets me sick so i would rather find a different modality.
...the (D) meant douchebag.
The BEST you can say about Faux News is that they are incompetent. So incompetent that they don't the chair of the REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR'S ASSN is a Republican; so incompetent that they don't know one of the leading contenders for the REPUBLICAN NOMINATION in 2012 is a Republican. I mean, any competent news organization would have that information on hand; if not, it takes a few keystrokes to get to Wikipedia. No, nobody is THAT incompetent.
Which leaves malevolence. It has happened too many times. Mark Foley, Lamar Alexander, John McCain (the Rep. predsidential candidate), Chaffee, Ted Stevens (the longest serving member of the Senate) and now Sanford. No, somebody is telling the production staff to distance them from these disgraced Republicans. It's Orwellian, this re-writing of history.
someone at fox news really, got off on 1984?
Some cheesy two bit network doesn't have the power to rewrite history.
True liberals/progressives don't simply critique the elite, we actually fight them and win.
4-6 times.....no, it was on purpose.
Remember, it's a NEWS person entering info into the chyron, not an op, who is supposed to be a buffer.
Fox News 2000....???? Soviet News 19.....????
Fucking adult women makes you a Dem? Hmm. Okay, I guess.
All the repugs really know is that sex with adult women disqualifies you from their party soooo . . .
The only good thing to come out of this is that any of the trolls that show up from now on can be dismissed if they admit to being a False News viewer and/or a Republican. Until you renounce both publicly, you have NO credibility at all, and nothing said troll says will be of any relevance whatsoever anymore. And we can throw this in their face.
Values Voter Summit 2009
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/sanford-f...
post those pics, now I know which actors/actresses' career will be flushed down the toilet with the rest of those turds.
Cut the guy a little slack. I hate Repukes big time but this guy just threw away any chance at PROTUS away for love. I really hate Sanford or at least I did until this moment. It had to be love; just sex couldn't have been the motive. You do not throw away a possible run at PROTUS for sex. Perhaps it has to do with my background, I can certainly relate. Damn, I wouldn't have expected it from this mofo.
Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. This is a bigoted lying sack of shit repub. There is no love here....it'd be nice for it to be a little "Sleepless in Seattle" romantic love story...but it's not. He lied, left the country without a word to anyone when he was the freaking governor. NO EXCUSES!
...are you forgetting about his WIFE and four SONS? Does he NOT love THEM? No, sorry, just won't buy the "love" thing. Read some of his e-mail excerpts at The State site and its all about the curve of her thighs and her breasts, etc.
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
Basically hes lost it and needs to resign and go do something less stressful.
It's POTUS. How come the "R"? (hhmmmmm...)
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
since it seems that one of these sexually repressed, family values promoting, bible thumpers, falls to temptation every time we turn around, has there ever been an authoritative statistical analysis of how long we're going to have to wait until the supply of them is exhausted and they've all been disgraced?
so as long as there are Republicans and/or conservatives, the supply of stupidity will be continually replenished
If stupidity were convertible into energy, we'd own the Saudis, instead of vice-versa
I smell a 'worst person' award in fox's near future.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
I have not read through all of the posts yet, but apparently, Politico is about to report that Sanford used public money to travel to see his mistress.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=1926
Oh yeah, screw Fox!!!
Some Politico talking head on "Ed" tonight starting throwing around David Patterson's name in place of Eliot Spitzer's. They sure are partially accurate.
Woman in affair declines interview
By JOHN O’CONNOR - joconnor@thestate.com
Snip - Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford's personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
→ → →[ http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.... ]
Study the symptoms not the virus...
I only watched 4 episodes of "Lie to Me" on Fox and .... This guy is so full of it. He doesn't seem to mean a single word of what he's telling. What a CROCK and What a Crook.
An old retired fart.
No, just fair and balanced!
Don't forget truthful and honest.
Next they'll be labeling Lucifer and Democrat when everybody knows he's a Republican.
and it takes awhile to digest but...
Sanford has stated that he met her 8 years ago by e-mail.
Question: Why would a woman in Buenos Aires be interested in any way with an obscure Southern politician? (Interested enough to e-mail him.)
And just how did they "meet" exactly? In a chat room? For adults? Looking for whatever?
The mind reels.
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
Or was it a nanny? I forget.
Met 8 years ago.
She was housekeeper/nanny for 7 years.
He admits to the affair starting a year ago.
My, my, my. Fill in the gaps and isn't this a pretty story.
Makes $$$ available to move main squeeze back to Argentina where love can fully blossom away from that pesky press in the U.S.
I think I've got it now.
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
she travels to NY.
So maybe shes related to one of the meat packing glitterati families.
Although I abhor FOX News, there is a chance that this photo was photoshopped. You'll see an (R) in the following clip…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXFaElFI_s0
Although the clip only shows the last few seconds of an obliviously much longer press conference, it is the only clip I have been able to find after searching for several minutes.
I'm confident the corroborating clips will be uploaded by someone. If not, then I think Media Matters has some serious explaining to do.
welcome. ;)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
We've all seen the "D." Too little, too late.
I would really like to see some actual footage so I could share it with my more skeptical readers. Do you have a link to a clip?
Like everyone else does. BTW, your link doesn't even begin to work. Want to try again?
Savannah, you have obviously jumped to some wild conclusions about me otherwise you would not be so confrontational.
Copy and paste the following URL into your browser and you will see the clip I have referenced: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXFaElFI_s0
Also, I have Googled it a number of times with a number of different search phrases and I have yet to find an actual video clip corroborating this pic.
All I'm asking for is a news clip corroborating the pic posted in this blog so I can share it with those who question its authenticity.
I've posted a link to this blog on MySpace, twitter and facebook and have conservative and libertarian friends on these social networking sites so when they raise valid objections to my posts I feel it's my duty to provide answers.
If you are busting my balls because you think I'm a republican troll or something of that nature then please review a few blogs I have posted in the past:
Yo Ho! Yo Ho! Go Ahead And Die!
Glenn Becks Take On Atheists, Atheism & Church & State
Republican Congressman Urges Obama To Declare 2010 "The Year Of The Bible"
Jon Stewart Nails Republican & Fox News Hypocrisy!!!
However, see my earlier post below. I could not find one, either. I think some people here saw it on TV as it happened. If it exists, it will show up.
it was taking too long with just stills showing up. With the "D" apparent. If you go to Fox itself, you may see a clip.
"obliviously" it must just be some mistake. Fox News is alway "fair and balanced." But then, again, I think the guy on the street corner hustling 3 Card Monte is "obliviously fair and balanced", too.
Fox really needs to add a laugh track to all their news broadcasts.
Fux News needs also maybe add some groaning and orgasming type sounds, some flesh and ass slapping noises and some nice sloppy suction sounds and then some grunting noises and more muffled screaming noises to go along with the visuals of Fux News Fucking America.
Makris vs O'Reilly
if a republican/neoCON has shxt on their shirt they try to wipe it on the opposition. NOW everyone has shit on their shirt. some people all they see is that (D) or (R). this is not in judgment but there are people that have no idea who this guy is or where s.carolina is. they don't care. just don't take their gun or bible away.
That's what Fox "News" is. They should be ashamed to have the name "Fox" along with "News." I had thought the guns pointed at Obama Jesse J. on the Fox website were maybe, just maybe a fluke, but definitely not now. This is the type of semi-subliminal kind of crap they are getting known for. Keep finding it, and calling them out about it. People need to know.
Really?
If a manufacturer claimed that their cream could be rubbed on the skin and mounds of ugly fat would just "melt" away in weeks, the FTC and the FDA would be all over them to prove it.
Now I know that there are basic standards of journalism in the daily print newspapers. They print retractions and corrections daily. Why can't the same standards be applied to broadcast journalism across the board?
I know the first reaction is First Amendment rights. But this isn't about restricting speech as much as it is about, how shall I say this, truthing it up? The purpose would be to make "fact-based" journalism truly fact based and not masquerading opinions.
The FCC could step in to insist that any claims made on the "news" be provable or supportable based on facts. Basically: You said it, now prove it. (Same thing the FTC does with specious claims from manufacturers.) If it can't be proven or supported by facts then it MUST be labeled as "Opinion" until the facts move it out of the "this is what I think" column, if they ever do.
Just a thought.
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
is why I drink :)
someone needs to post the FULL video. A friend of mine is challenging me on this, and sorry, a screen grab just doesn't cut it. I've googled and only found the partial where it says (R).
Sanford had his affair with a female above the age of consent. Fox naturally assumed he must be a democrat.
A non-hypocritical conservative who sticks to his principles and even goes as far to ask Sanford to resign as governor?
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/06/2...
Wow. And unlike the Foxaganda Network he managed not to even try to label Sanford a Democrat. All I can say again is wow.
"Marriage is to be held in honor among all and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge."
Hebrews 13:4
"The man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul."
Proverbs 6:32
"Do not be deceived...adulterers will not inherit the kingdom of God."
1 Corinthians 6:9
http://www.cadz.net/mdr.html
http://www.marriagedivorce.com/mdreform2.htm
Fox routinely does this because they know their regular audience is made up of fools, morons, imbeciles, idiots and the mentally ill.
Any resembleance between Republicans and the above description is not only deliberate, it should be self-evident to the world.
My local paper lists Fox News in its TV grid, but excludes MSNBC. Maybe yours does this too.
indicates that this is deliberate, which meams that they are guilty of wire fraud.
This was the same news channel that was whining about ABC and it's all-access coverage, right?
What a bunch of tools.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
f****n funny.
It's just one more example of twisted minds at work.
They would have done well in the Soviet Union
There should be a law against such destructive propaganda disguised as a news channel.
Woody McBreairty
The FCC controls the licensing of FOX broadcasting. This is enough to call Fox to the carpet and threaten their license. There was a time, say the first 70 years of broadcasting, that Americans considered broadcasting so important that laws insisted on broadcasters air corrections and to give equal time to both sides of any political commentary or advertisement. Obama can use the bull pulpit to once and for all send Murdoch and Fox back to Australia's outback.
43 year old dark-haired divorcée (several years) 2 sons, originally from Buenos Aires, works for an agricultural company, in excellent physical shape through exercise. (From Yahoo Argentina< LA NACION report)
...because Marriage should only be between a woman and a man and all of his mistresses.
That's the best!
Unlike the run of the mill politician affair this one has real movie potential. The song for the opening titles or closing credits can be Jay & the Americans' Come a Little Bit Closer. There is so much scenery between the Appalachian Trail, Agentina (Tango dancing!), and DC that the sets will be sensational! Can you imagine the inner thought scenes where he dreams of hips and thighs instead of the North Shore look?
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