Fox Shows video of John Conyers behind story on Wiliam Jefferson

Another one of their "they all look alike" accidents? You never know with the Freudian Slip News Network if there's some Republican method to their racist madness.

http://alternet.org/blogs/video/53124/




No one on the planet would have expected Fox News' coverage of Democratic congressman William Jefferson's indictment on corruption charges to be anything less than gleeful but it also turned out to be more than a little insidious. The video to your right, produced by The Talking Points Memo, shows how while the on air personalities drone on about Jefferson's indictment, footage of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers is played. Now, probably Fox News would plead that was an honest techinical mistake on their part if they were ever challenged about it. But I think it is fair to assume the network wanted to not-so-subtly make Conyers and Jefferson seem linked and maybe for less than discerning viewers--appear to be the same person. For all the attention Fox News receives for being partisan politically, I don't think remotely enough attention has been paid to their consistent and shameless racist content.

Like when they showed video of an Obama rally while covering the verdict of a pedophile case. Or when they ran "The Hunt for Obama" across the bottom of the screen while running a piece on Osama bin Laden. Or how Congressional kiddie fiddler Mark Foley suddenly became a Democrat.

All purely accidental, of course.

but since they're CABLE, they can get away with this kind of crap. I don't buy that it's just *incompetence* -- it's willful maligning of public figures (like when they misidentified Mark Foley as being a "D" instead of an "R").