This is sick on so many levels: Firstly, Fox - your crazed administration's mouthpiece - will get away with it unscathed, though no one in their right mind believes it was a mistake. Then there's the implied insult that their right wing viewers are stupid enough to accept it. And finally, the clincher: many of them actually will believe it, because it was on Fox.
You just couldn't make this stuff up.

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And everything he does is creepy and sleazy. This is so galling. I think the Dems should sue Faux for libel.

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...how many IDIOTS out there are going to believe this obvious "mistake". I hope Fox News gets its ass in seriously big trouble for airing such a blatant "Typo" on prime time TV. It's just another "fair and balanced fact" from the extreme right folks at Fox News.

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The worst part of that is: his viewers will BELIEVE that! Of course, his viewers will believe anything...

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George Bush is a Green.
Donald Rumsfeld is a...Peace and Freedom Party supporter.
Karl Rove is a... Pro...Progressive.
Dick Cheney is a...a...a...Rotten Bastard! Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

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Y'know, my instinct in these situations is to entertain a reasonable amount of doubt. I can imagine it would be hard to keep things such as headline tickers & screen titles 100% accurate in the environment of a 24-7 newsroom. Having said this (Fair & Balanced - that's me!), I have to wonder why Fox even bothers to get any of the details of their stories correct. Why fuss around with the demanding, complicated art of spin at all, if your target audience is so deficient in critical thinking to begin with? Why not "Rep. Foley, the Democrat from San Francisco, CA"?

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The mystery to me is, WHY DOES ANYONE WATCH TV NEWS AND ESPECIALLY FOX WHICH WORKS TO CREATE A PHONY HISTORY FOR THE U.S.?
Guess I am equally stupid for bothering to answer anyone that is STUPID ENOUGH TO WATCH FOX NEWS. GOTTA GO!

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...honesty is not part of FOX or this administration...so what else is new.

Secondly, who watches FOX or O'Reilly that has a rational thinking brain anymore? They are preaching to the choir of dogma loving living dead.

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Not only Bill O'Reilly but Fox News itself is calling Foley a Democrat. It seems to be a calculated GOP talking point that if they publicize it long enough and hard enough, people will be convinced Foley is a Democrat not a Republican! They have succeeded in promoting lies into "conventional wisdom" before and are obviously hoping this ploy will work!

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Billo, you've just about RETIRED that "WORST PERSON OF THE DAY" award!

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I'm glad at least *one* alternative news site has their priorities straight:

CommonDreams.org has no articles about "page-gate" and the big headliner is about the thing all of us should be looking at this week - gun control.

Three school shootings in one week. Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of our nation's children and fight the *real* threat: guns.

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Not mentioned in the above AP clip is the "D" indicated for Hastert as well... since i am from his state, i'm hoping, praying, this ripples far enough out to get him AND Reynolds... %#^$* AP

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Yes! Hastert is GOP too! Outrageous! This was NO MISTAKE!

Don't let anyone try to ever again convince you about a 'drive by media' as being liberal leaning... between this crap and the Disney/ABC 'docudrama' crap a couple of weeks ago, it's all the evidence we need that the GOP not only owns but also controls the media.

And just for the record... I did not INTEND to watch the o'reilly factor, as I LOATHE that sorry excuse for a show (and man). It was playing on a TV in a restaurant where I was happily eating and minding my own business. I just happened to catch the offending screen while gnawing on a chicken leg!

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It is obvious now and should be brought to Ethics committees attention that Fox news is a Propaganda Machine


Propaganda or another version of the National Enquirer

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I wish this was a surprise but after 6 years of neocon media control, it sadly isn't.
My friend just made a great short film about media and election control:
See The Suppressed Movie!

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This error was calculated to appeal to viewer's fixed bias and prejudice, I'm convinced at that. There are too many editors and proofreader's eyeballs scanning the language for this to have been unintentional.
Their viewers can enjoy the pitiable lie for a day or two, and some will never find out because they don't give a damn. To them, it just further imbeds the words "Democrat" with "Scandal" and "Sex". Those who do follow the b.s. FoxNews can too easily forgive the mistake, laugh at the inside secret (like all the other distortions) and be overjoyed at the ire it provokes in so-called "liberals".

All of this about Foley is anger that should be directed at Bush and his innumerable, horrid errors in this murderous, illegal, corrupt administration and their policy. Please don't forget that.

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I had been thinking for some time that in an effort to attract more braindamaged types, The Bushevics were going to try and switch identities. I reside in St Louis, Missouri and have noticed that the party affilliation of the politician yard signs cannot be seen. There's the name of the person running for office... BIG letters. Party affilliation can be identified with diligent use of microscope.... OR it's not there at all. Since I live in a Bushevic-dominated area, I have not seen many Democratic signs, if any, but the Republican ones are ALL the way I described.
I've been around for quite a few elections now. Don't recall ever seeing this hesitancy to clarify by party before.

Was it always this way? Am I remembering wrong?
This whole thing with Faux News makes me wonder....
Is this happenning anywhere else too?

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NOTHING that bunch does is honest, they are using the Hitler-Goebbell's trick, repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it. If you watch Faux you will believe any thing any time and the saying if their mouths move they are lying was surley coined by someone who watched Faux by mistake one day

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Don't let them get away with this. deluge their station with hate mail. Get after these jerks. Maybe O'Reilly will commit suicide from a guilty conscience. They must be paying him big money for him to go against all that is right and decent.

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What the Republicans are doing is spinning this issue masterfully so it rebounds on the Democrats. Talk radio out here is already chiming in that Foely was a de facto democrat.

The problem is that the left can not compete with the right when it comes to smearing, so it should stop wasting its time on the Foley issue and instead concenrate on real issues.

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Our local newspaper, (Sun-Sentinel) mis-identified/relocated Foley's district to read Ft. Pierce, a town about 60 miles north of West Palm Beach. (Probably didn't want to upset too many of the fabulously well-to-do that live in WPB.)

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Sitting in the UK, although the American Right is clearly terrifying, it's hard to believe that Fox (Faux, I like that!) is quite as bad as Franken, etc profess. I do find it hard to believe that the Graphics department deliberately mislabled Foley, knowing implicitly or explicitly that their bosses would support them. Having said that, I can imagine a culture where the mislabeling happens by accident and when spotted is not corrected, as it is considered unimportant (while the mislabeling of a Democratic paedophile as a Republican would be stomped on immediately). I guess I'm saying that I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I do believe that the Right is lazy and casually mendacious. Regarding Republican candidates hiding their party affiliations, this is starting to happen in the UK. Labour candidates (formerly the party of the Left, now the party of the extreme Right) are starting to forget to mention Labour in their election literature. Over here, we have the supremely non-partisan Private Eye magazine which reports stuff like this. Politicians from all sides are subject to ridicule when they do these things. Unfortunately, Private Eye has a circulation of hundreds of thousands, wheras the multi-million selling daily newspapers are almost exclusively right-wing.

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