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Fox News: We're All Democrats When Scandal Breaks

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Christopher Weber
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In 2006 Fox News misidentified Mark Foley as a Democrat when the GOP congressman resigned after sending sexually explicit emails to teenage males. Clearly, network producers couldn't imagine a Republican doing anything scandalous and assumed Foley must be a Democrat. An honest mistake, right? (Hey, I'm trying not to be cynical.)

Well it's a "mistake" Fox News has made again: Wednesday, while broadcasting the news conference of Mark Sanford admitting to cheating on his wife, Fox ran a Chyron identifying the weepy South Carolina governor as... you guessed it, a Democrat. Oops!

Filed Under: Scandal, Media
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