O'Reilly Show, AP Fix Mislabeling of Disgraced GOP Pol in Different Ways

RamboLiberal

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Fri Oct-06-06 11:19 AM
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O'Reilly Show, AP Fix Mislabeling of Disgraced GOP Pol in Different Ways

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003221594

Did the "The O'Reilly Factor" air a correction after mislabeling Republican Mark Foley a Democrat under a photo of the disgraced ex-Congressman?

"Once it came to our attention, we removed the incorrect chyron immediately," said David Tabacoff, executive producer of the Fox News Channel show hosted by Bill O'Reilly, who also does a newspaper column distributed by Creators Syndicate. "We didn't run a correction per se."

Foley was mislabeled on O'Reilly's Tuesday show. When the program was rebroadcast, the Democrat label was scrubbed but not replaced with a Republican one.

Soon after the Tuesday show aired, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting asked: "ssuming it was an honest mistake ... how come when the show was re-aired, the lower third was removed entirely -- rather than replaced by one with the correct information? If it was important to identify Foley by party when he was thought to be a Democrat, why isn't it just as important to correctly identify him as a Republican?"

Tabacoff told E&P late Thursday that "everyone knows" Foley -- who resigned his House seat after revelations that he sent sexually charged messages to teen Congressional pages -- is a Republican. So "The O'Reilly Factor," he said, didn't feel it was necessary to run a specific on-air correction on its Wednesday show. But Tabacoff emphasized that when Foley was pictured on "The O'Reilly Factor" after Tuesday, he was correctly identified as a Republican.

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Judi Lynn

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Fri Oct-06-06 11:26 AM
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1. Fox viewers prove they are uneducated, and unlikely to know what party

Foley represents, simply by watching a network so twisted, and flawed no one BUT idiots could watch it.

OF COURSE it's easy to lead them to believe Foley's actually a Democrat. They simply would never know the difference.

As anyone could predict, they have no credible excuse for pretending Foley is a Democrat. They are probably blazing mad they were caught at it. (They probably didn't think anyone with a complete brain was watching!)

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dubyaD40web

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Fri Oct-06-06 11:27 AM
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2. And just remember

O'Reilly's show is TAPED before it airs. This was no mistake.

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Demit

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Fri Oct-06-06 11:31 AM
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3. Not sure that would have anything to do with the chyron banner.

Which is something that is just electronically superimposed over a background. Still, it was no mistake.

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Supersedeas

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Fri Oct-06-06 11:56 AM
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4. something everybody knows but still shows up multiple times incorrectly???

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Secular Agent Man

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Fri Oct-06-06 12:07 PM
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5. Henceforth, I shall refer to the bigmouth as: Bill o'D'eilly.

And "Factor" as "Factod"

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sakabatou

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Fri Oct-06-06 03:15 PM
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6. How about Fac-turd

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Secular Agent Man

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Fri Oct-06-06 03:39 PM
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7. LOL, yeah that'll do! /eom

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Up2Late

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Fri Oct-06-06 09:29 PM
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8. It's really getting DEEP over there at Fox "news"...

...get out the Hip waders.:nuke:

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daleo

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Sat Oct-07-06 01:41 AM
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9. If "everyone knows" Foley is a Republican, how did Fox get it wrong?

They can't have it both ways.

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