on the DS last night.....

[pepperbear]

did anyone else catch the local news (?) report on foley that accidentally "mis-identified" him as "D-FL"? I mean, did they really stoop that low?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. It was not local news it was O'liely on Faux

no kidding - they ran it like 3 times!

[pepperbear]

2. OMG! I didn't know it was Oreilly...

nice try booboo.

in the words of chas palimentari

"nobody cares"

[xultar]

3. An AP story picked up on Google had him as D-FL as well. The fucks.

[SheilaT]

4. Keith Olbermann

also pointed it out. And he pointed out that the O'Reilly show is taped several hours ahead of time. Later on, Fox apparently didn't bother to identify Foley's party at all.

[borlis]

5. It was the AP too. Not just Foley but Hastert too.

The AP listed them both as Dems yesterday. I think the AP has retracted, but what is wrong with these editiors?

[marions ghost]

6. yep

they're desperate

[Kagemusha]

7. I'd like to know how often this mistake is made when there's no scandals

I have no idea whether to honestly gauge if this is normal sloppiness or special, deliberate effort. Certainly, it smells like the latter, but at least I have the presence of mind to realize that my ignorance makes me unable to really know if it might reasonably be something else.

Not like there's any excuse for it.

[hootinholler]

8. Ya know you're right...

That may be why the freeps and Faux snooze viewers think the Democrats could stop it if they wanted too.

How many Republics are avoiding tagging themselves as a Republic? I know Steele (R-Md. Senate Candidate) does.

-Hoot