Fair & Balanced? In What Universe?

In an earlier comment, someone asked how Fox News was handling the Mark Foley sex scandal.

Well, quite ingeniously, as it turns out. They simply turned the Republican Congressman into a Democrat!!

Yes, it's true: The news network, in an on-air graphic, labeled Foley as being a Democrat. And not once, but as many as three times! The slip occurred during a broadcast of the "O'Reilly Factor."

Fox News says the mistake was "corrected" in a later broadcast of the show, but that claim is open to interpretation. What they did is simply remove the party label entirely, NOT use a new graphic saying he was Republican.

Lest you think that was an isolated incident by the normally "fair and balanced" O'Reilly, he also invented some statistics during a recent interview with Canadian Journalist Heather Mallick. O'Reilly threatened her with an economic boycott against Canada. And to back up his threat, O'Reilly cited something called "The Paris Business Review" as saying that an American boycott of France has cost that country billions of dollars in trade.

The problem is that French-American trade has grown by billions of dollars in recent years, and there doesn't appear to be any such thing as "The Paris Business Review."

I recently had liposuction on one butt cheek, and my ass is still more balanced than Fox News.



(Thanks to "Arby" for the tip.)