FoxNews Does It Again: Beltway Boys Min. 23: Corker (D-TN)!! Screenshot

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

FauxNews does it again...I thought Ford was our man???
And, just so you know, I'm not that good at photoshop...Watch the show on Sunday, if you don't believe me.

[Downtown Hound]

1. If there's anyone out there that still thinks this is an accident

Exactly what it is like to have your head so far up your own ass for so long? This is what, 5 times in a little over a week? Give me a break!

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

3. It's an outrage! Pisses me off. Someone should send this to Keith

[orleans]

9. send it to keith? good idea. i think he reported the first one about

foley with a D.

[radfringe]

26. putting together a collection of images/lins etc

add'em here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2397404

we have to track this - one occurance could be sloughed off as a "typo" - but the "typo" seem to be a consistent pattern

[The Backlash Cometh]

34. Time for Olberman to collect these gems.

[tblue]

41. Absolutely NOT an accident. But it could backfire. Ford has a lot of

crossover appeal, and I hope some Republicans believe Fox and vote for Ford, thinking they are voting Republican.

Shows what contempt Faux News has for their own Republican viewing audience, and how ASHAMED they are of their own Republican candidates.

I hope this blows up in Fox's face. They are positively criminal!

[krispos42]

2. Corker is really a Republican. Faux News at it again

And of course there won't be a correction.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

4. Ford has a slight lead, so I guess it's time to confuse the voters..

[brettdale]

5. This is too much

Why hasnt someomne major said something?

[Kurovski]

6. Oh, brother.

Geez. K&R.

They really do think their audience are idiots, in much the same way the Republican leadership think that the Christian right-wing are annoying and exploitable nutjobs.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

8. Thanks for the Reccomend..This needs wide coverage (GP)

Foxnews is MIS-information

[Kurovski]

10. Hey wait a second...your name is "DUplicitous DUpe"

You're SURE you didn't photoshop this? :-)

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

15. You going to believe me, or FoxNews?

I really couldn't make this stuff up. And I wish I was a pro with photoshop...I'd have to be really good.

[Skittles]

14. they don't THINK thier fans are idiots

they KNOW they are

[Kurovski]

16. Lol...

I wonder how long they'd stay tuned if they knew how FOX views them.

But for 17 percent of the country, that ain't bloody likely to make its way into the membrane, let alone past the thick, reality-resistant skull

[Syrinx]

7. but why would they want their viewers to vote for Ford?

I don't get that, unless there is some big scandal regarding Corker that I don't know about, and that this would help prevent blowback against the national Republic party.

[Kurovski]

11. Maybe

FOX is admitting that the best way to get elected is to be a Dem? :shrug:

[Syrinx]

13. duh... I feel dumb now

I wasn't seeing it that way. Sorry for my dumbness. :blush:

[Kurovski]

17. It's not a certainty, I mean maybe the FOX folks are dumb, confused,

lousy researchers, or sharing drugs with Rush Limbaugh.

Nah, it probably has more to do with a conscious evil of some sort. :hi:

[Syrinx]

19. that's a good bet

"Conscious evil" and Fox. I buy that. :)

[Richard Steele]

20. They have recognized that an (R) is now a major turnoff to voters.

[Syrinx]

22. yeah

I guess I was trying to make it more complicated than it is. It's shameful.

[FogerRox]

21. There is a Corker scandal brewing.

Corker is trying to avoid a court date before the Election.

[boobooday]

27. It has to be something like that

Sure sign a GOP congressperson is corrupt -- watch for Fox to identify them as a Democrat -- an obvious sign of their political end times.

[radfringe]

25. it's to confuse DEM voters?

If you are not up on who's in what political party, and are planning on voting DEM - labeling a DEM as a "R" could mislead you into actually voting for an "R" when you think so'n'so is a DEM

[Demit]

36. Except it's logical to assume there are many more R's in Fox's audience.

[Clark2008]

32. Actually, there is:

Corker's actions rankle environmentalists who say he ignored them as mayor. They allege in a Hamilton County Chancery Court suit that the Wal-Mart construction ignored a pre-existing conservation easement, helping ruin the protected 7.8-acre nature area.

"What they did was outrageous. They just ran roughshod over this public property for private gain,'' said Joe Prochaska, an attorney representing Kurtz and the Tennessee Environmental Council.

The site was dedicated for public use in 1996 by a company Corker later bought.

He owned the company in 2003 at the time of the Wal-Mart development.

As mayor, Corker should have disclosed his interest in the property and the adjacent land where the Wal-Mart was built, Prochaska says.

"Why did he allow his monetary interest to trump his commitment to the people of Tennessee?'' the lawyer said.

Mitchell noted that the Wal-Mart controversy was well publicized in the Chattanooga press at the time, and it was understood Corker had an interest in the property.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/politics/article/0,1426,MCA_1496_4930394,00.html

[samfishX]

12. It Seems Like Something Stinks...

...but I don't know what.
I mean, this doesn't really make any sense. What exactly is there to gain to blatantly mislabeling candidates so often? This is what? The 4th or 5th time in about 10 days, at least. It just seems like it's happening to much to be deliberate...but I fail to see any obvious gain here. Maybe to associate Democrats with the bad news people hear about Republicans, but it seems to me that such a gain would be minimal at best and has a great chance of creating a huge backfire.
At best, this just shows the sheer incomptence of Fox News...but, unless it IS the same person making all these mistakes, it adds up to be a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE "coincedence".


At any rate, can anyone name the amount of times this has happened recently?
I can think of Foley on O'Reilly...
Lincoln Chaffee a few days ago...
And now this.
Are there others?

[RoyGBiv]

18. K&R

:kick:

[AtomicKitten]

23. They are seriously demented over there at Faux News.

This is the most asinine tactic. And it just might work on some of the dumber of the flock.

[DFLforever]

24. Might be a good sign

- that the GOPers have given up on Tennessee.

[Botany]

28. Fox News, "We do the graphics, you decide if it is right."

n/t

[Hugin]

29. It's a wide spread tactic...

I've noticed in races local to where I am that the Republicans have removed most
indication of what party they represent.

I guess they're embarrassed and if I were running for some office I'd call my
opponent on it.

[TheBaldyMan]

30. What has Corker screwed up so badly Fox has disowned him?

just a dumb question because I'm not familiar with that particular Senate race.

[Clark2008]

31. Actually, that might be to Ford's benefit in my side of the state.

Most people in East Tennessee were big Bryant supporters, so they think Corker is a Democrat anyway.

:rofl:

Stupid Faux news and their even more stupid viewers.

[radfringe]

33. maybe repubs fear being identified as repubs?

the other weird thing is the flood of snail-mail flyers/spews letters I receive from candidates running in my area - all are from repubs and NONE OF THEM IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS BEING A REPUB

unless you run a google search, or are up on the news - you don't know if the person is a repub or not

[sce56]

38. They dont want to be recognized as Republican'ts

http://republicant.org

[in_cog_ni_to]

35. Hmmm...if the FAUX NEWS sheeple think Corker is a Dem, wouldn't that mean

MORE votes for Ford???? IMCPO, THIS is a REALLY ignorant move on Faux's part.

Although, people in TN. no doubt know the party affiliation of Ford and Corker. If this is a deliberate move on Faux news' part, it would only inform the non-political, living-in-a-cave repuke and THAT would only help the Dems because those people would vote for Ford thinking Corker is one of them thar Liberal Tree Huggers..no?

[johnaries]

43. Oh, yes - we in TN know which is which.

We aren't the dumb hillbillies Faux thinks we are. The RNCC and the DSCC have been doing media blitz campaigns. The DSCC commercials are quite good.

And, yes. Corker is under investigation for re-zoning environmentally Protected Property that he bought and sold to Wal-Mart after re-zoning it as Mayor.

[L0oniX]

37. Someone needs to take these ass carrots to court for this

[L0oniX]

39. They are cowing to the stupid moron repuke ass carrots

[Rex]

40. Foxnews - we lie so you vote Repuke no matter what.

Fair & balanced! Trust us!

[KingFlorez]

42. They're going crazy!

Psycho!

[tomp]

44. frankly, i think the democratic party should sue fox. nt

[samsingh]

45. even fox is embarrased to be repug now?

[Historic NY]

46. I sent the idiots an e-mail..........

Why do you continue to label Republicans as Democrats is it part of your White House GOP propaganda? If you can't get the candidates right, then how are we to expect your news is right. Then again it could be part of an organized conscious political effort.

Beltway Boys Min. 23: Corker (D-TN)!! Screenshot

[Divine Discontent]

47. I wrote em too, gj!

and it just goes to show, beyond the obv. attempt to smear the dems with Foley when he IS A REPUBLICAN, that Fox news is just a bunch of careless jerks pretending to be journalists and "fair & balanced". This was probably a screw up, because they are pathetically bad at their jobs.