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unreal. this, ladies and gentlemen, is where the whole spoiled thing is going to swing wildly out of control. the problem with regularly manipulating the facts is that the manipulators get so accustomed to doing it they become more and more bold until it reaches such absurd levels that they could actually do something like that.

watch, they'll use the same excuse bush used re: WMD: "but we really THOUGHT he was a democrat. you can't blame us for acting on what we THOUGHT was correct."

Paging Bill Orlly, Page for Mr. Bill.

Posted by charles | October 4, 2006 9:54 AM
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Fair and balanced. There's no reason to be all partisan about this just because Foley's a Republican. We need to make sure that the blame is spread among ALL parties, even if one of them is innocent.

Now, how many befuddled seniors in Florida will be going, "uh, which one was that pervert again? Must have been the Democrat, they're all sodomites. I'll just mark this Foley guy here, he sounds familiar. I think he's my son."

Posted by Fnarf | October 4, 2006 9:56 AM
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I am waiting for the democrats to say simply that this entire scandal is about *knowing right from wrong*

There is no need to speculate why (it doesn't really matter all that much whether it is greed, venality, desire for power, corruption, ideology, stipidity, or whatever), but the Republican Congress has lost sight of the simple difference bewteen *right* and *wrong*

Posted by Jonathan | October 4, 2006 10:01 AM
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Nice to see that the lying has degenerated to the "Rabbit Season! Duck Season!" level of sophistication.

Posted by flamingbanjo | October 4, 2006 10:04 AM
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Jonathan: I think the biggest club the dems could weild would be to play up the repubs inability to perform any kind of oversight. That way their poor judgement on foley could be linked to their poor judgement on iraq, terrorism, etc.

Posted by charles | October 4, 2006 10:06 AM
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People, PLEASE. This was purely accidental. I mean HELLO, the D and the R keys are, like, right next to each other!!! Conservatives are bloated and ugly and deformed. Is it so hard to imagine that the guy typing the captions simply and literally fat-fingered the keyboard???

J/k.

WE ARE PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN, FOLKS. IT IS OVER.

Posted by Nick | October 4, 2006 10:07 AM
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I heard this mentioned by a caller on a radio show last night. She said she called FOX to tell them. Still not fixed..hmm..

Posted by Ex-foleyate | October 4, 2006 10:13 AM
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How is Fox News going to explain how the actions of this "Democrat" is putting Hastert on the defensive? Or are they just not covering the Hastert part?

Posted by Nandor | October 4, 2006 10:15 AM
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It doesn't matter, Nandor. Putting a D next to his name confuses people, and that's the point. Give lies an equal footing with the truth and people get confused. This isn't intended for the thinking people out there, it's just to muddy the whole issue. It works.

Posted by Tone | October 4, 2006 10:29 AM
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Nandor wrote:

"How is Fox News going to explain how the actions of this "Democrat" is putting Hastert on the defensive? Or are they just not covering the Hastert part?"

It's the damn liberal media's fault for not holding Pelosi's feet to the fire on the greatest scandal to hit the party since Bill Clinton's blowjob!

Posted by Napoleon XIV | October 4, 2006 10:49 AM
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Fox News lying (once again) won't really matter in this case. With all those seniors in Florida getting outwitted by the butterfly ballots, they never know who they're voting for!

Posted by him | October 4, 2006 10:51 AM
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I re-read 1984 this summer, and literally everything you need to know about the Republican Party, Faux News and the American public is contained in those shockingly prophetic pages. I guess the R's read it and thought it was an instruction manual. The only edits are changing ingsoc to reppar and Big Brother to Big Bush. Ta dah!

This reminds me of the scene in the book at the war rally during "Hate Week" when the speaker is vociferously condemning Eurasia and mid-speech changes the enemy to Eastasia since the alliances changed again. The crowd barely misses a beat before they begin calling for the deaths of their recent allies.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." — Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

Posted by Andrew | October 4, 2006 11:48 AM
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In any newsroom... be it the graphics person, technical director, master control, etc (the duty is done by various people)... whomever comes up with the graphics must be very careful because there are NO MISTAKES ALLOWED. Even so much as a spelling error can cost a person a job... anything, and I mean ANYTHING which can be viewed as EDITORIALIZING the news is grounds to be fired. and Rule #1, never, ever, never use an R or a D incorrectly. Management will not listen to the excuses... imagine the UPROAR if Mike! was identfied as the Democrat canidate of choice on tonights news... heads would ROLL.

Posted by Phenics | October 4, 2006 12:58 PM
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The AP must get their info from the same place fox does because they printed Foley as a Dem too: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/4/12752/0998

Posted by Mistakes Happen a Lot | October 4, 2006 1:17 PM
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Yeah, Phenics, but you're talking about newsrooms. Those don't exist anymore. Certainly not within a million miles of Bill O'Really?

Posted by Fnarf | October 4, 2006 2:17 PM
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Hey, it's a natudal mistake - lots of people get confuser between R's and D's. I know I myself get them mixer up all the time. Ron't you?

So, in honod of Faux OOZE, and the AP's iriotic depetition of the "eddod", I am hedeby changing all my R's with D's fodevedmode.

Madk Foley and Rennis Hastedt ade still slimy, risgusting weaseds.

Posted by Geni | October 4, 2006 2:29 PM
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Make that "weasels." As usual, the Libedtadians ade confusing the issue.

Posted by Geni | October 4, 2006 2:31 PM
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I think it's clear that the GOP strategy on this is now akin to the 2004 campaign, when Rove said "by the end of the campaign, voters won't even remember which side Kerry fought on in Vietnam." Make Foley a Democrat, and point out that Democrats support gays. And it's unpatriotic to criticise Hastert.

Posted by Gabriel | October 4, 2006 3:43 PM
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Foley's actions show why we can't trust the Democrats with children

Posted by Proud American | October 4, 2006 7:55 PM

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