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UPDATED: O'Reilly labels Foley a Democrat (AP too)

Whoopsie, honest mistake... twice.
October 4, 2006  |  
 
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From tipster Nelsonic, who was "eating at a small restaurant in eastern Iowa while the O'Reilly Factor was playing on a cable TV," comes this Fox faux pas: labeling Mark Foley, the now former congressman embroiled in the page scandal, a Democrat. The screengrab to the right comes courtesy of John Amato, who writes: "The O'Reilly Factor ran it in not one, but two segments and posted it three times."

Now it appears that AP -- which sends wires to thousands of publications across the land -- also mysteriously had Mark Foley's party affiliation as Democratic. The screen grab below is from the Long Island Press... It's since been fixed but no correction appears:

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Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.

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