Dennis Hastert is a Democrat. (according to Fox/Yahoo/AP)

[progressoid]

10 Things to Know for Friday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:

1. EX-HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT ACCUSED OF PAYING HUSH MONEY

A federal indictment alleges that the 73-year-old Illinois Democrat paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars, seeking to conceal unspecified misconduct.

...http://news.yahoo.com/10-things-know-today-095924373.html

Also here:

http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/29176394/10-things-to-know-for-friday

[Vinca]

1. Well how would you expect them to know the facts?

They're still covering Johnny Depp's dogs.

[leftieNanner]

124. Fox tried this with Mark Foley

when he was drummed out of congress after his "activities" came to light. Pisses me off.

[EV_Ares]

133. Yes, I remember when fox did that, saw the little banner running at the bottom of the screen showing

Foley as a Democrat. By the way, it is way more clear now why Hastert was so easy on Republican Mark Foley.

[Dont call me Shirley]

135. And many news outlets frequently referred to Mark Foley as Tom Foley (D-WA)

with no retractions.

[cbayer]

2. Wow, that's a minor league error right there.

[hootinholler]

6. New sails?

Nice look like Kevlar too, those are expensive.

[cbayer]

7. Nah, just had some seams redone.

[Scuba]

13. This is not an error.

[cbayer]

15. Are you saying the AP did this on purpose?

Not that they will respond, but I sent them an email this morning about it.

[Scuba]

17. I've seen many examples of Republicans with problems being labelled "Democrats". Never ...

... seen it happen the other way around.

[cbayer]

19. If it were Fox, I would find it easier to believe. But the AP?

I think it's just a rookie mistake, but I tend to me overly trusting when it comes to stuff like this.

[Gormy Cuss]

97. Or a Nedra Pickler. n/t

[cbayer]

105. Yes, I just learned about her in this thread.

[FairWinds]

127. AP is not trustworthy at all . .

For example, they can cover the "controversy" over paid
sick leave without ever mentioning that 22 nations already have it.
That is not an accident.

[Jackpine Radical]

190. The same "mistake" was on Fox.

Somebody got a screen cap of it.

[cbayer]

192. Fox picked up the original AP piece and published it without any change.

[madokie]

22. I've seen the same thing

and I won't believe it is not on purpose either. They know what they're doing thats for sure.

[SCantiGOP]

86. next step:

Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was a Democrat who resigned from office in the wake of a scandal to avoid impeachment.

[Fearless]

184. By today's definition of Democrat supported by corporate America, he was.

[RiverNoord]

114. It was deliberate.

Seriously, if you can string together a coherent series of sentences describing a criminal proceeding against a former politician, then you can EASILY correctly identify the person's political party affiliation.

Did the author get his name wrong, the charges, the name of the Attorney General who is the head of the Justice Department, the date of indictment, the fact that Hastert was a former Speaker of the House? Nope. Just the political party he was a member of while he was a member of the House of Representatives. For over 30 years. It's almost an impossible mistake to make, assuming the author doesn't have some sort of 'political-party-identification-confusion' mental health disorder...

[Jackpine Radical]

191. " 'political-party-identification-confusion' mental health disorder..."

You may not realize it, but that's a pretty common disorder. Endemic at Fox, for example.

[RiverNoord]

193. :-)

[pocoloco]

33. LOL

Going to follow it up with a strongly worded letter also??

[cbayer]

37. No. I was assuming that is was probably an error, possibly made by an intern.

They have an email address for corrections.

[pinboy3niner]

46. A later version from AP omits reference to party

1. HASTERT INDICTMENT OFFERS FEW CLUES

Allegations that the former U.S. house speaker agreed to pay a person millions in hush money does not reveal what he did wrong.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/1/10_THINGS_TO_KNOW_TODAY?SITE=AP

[cbayer]

49. That's a different story but they did omit the party reference.

It remains in the original.

FWIW, there is only one comment and it is about the incorrect party reference.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8e83c857de894081b2a6a61a0e82e5ef/10-things-know-today

[awoke_in_2003]

157. "but they did omit the party reference"

and again by design. They got the lie out there, didn't bother with a retraction, and if called upon it they can say "look, we took the word 'democrat' out".

[cbayer]

159. Perhaps I am naive, but I do have a journalist in the family

and I know that she is scrupulously honest in her reporting.

They did post a retraction, FWIW. I posted a link to it today.

[awoke_in_2003]

161. They may have honest people working for them here and there...

but that doesn't mean the organization itself isn't smellier than 3 year old Limberger. I know good cops, too.

on edit: I may be a bit cynical, but every time I think I am being too cynical something happens to prove it is warranted.

[cbayer]

162. My naiveté is balanced by your cynicism, lol.

I know that many sources are highly biased and I am very, very skeptical of outlets like fox and breitbart and others.

But I never saw the AP in that light. I could be wrong, of course, but they take such a risk with their credibility when they do something like this, whether it was on purpose or mistake.

[awoke_in_2003]

164. A fine pair we make, huh?

[cbayer]

167. I've always thought so, my dear awoke.

[nadinbrzezinski]

170. One of the things we have found with younger kids

I am getting up there in years, so yes, kids... is that some of the skills they need are not being passed on.

Also, at times they do not do any even basic research on a story.

We have been covering the 43 missing students in Mexico, ok, I have a masters in Mexican History... I still find myself doing a lot of research and fact checking. In fact, I just walked in from in front of the Mexican Consulate in San Diego. I love my sources, they are good sources. but some of what they told me, will require me to spend a few quality hours researching to find the background.

One of the adages from the Reagan WH should also apply to Journalism... "trust but verify."

Edit, they are there for a hunger strike that started last night. The main event will likely be on Monday.

[cbayer]

171. The story about the "missing" students in Mexico

is even more difficult because of the amount of corruption, deception and coverup around the story. I'm not sure it's possible for anyone to get an accurate accounting of what happened here. However, in mexico there is a version that is believed by most people.

(BTW, I put missing in quotes, because they are most certainly very dead and not just missing).

My daughter is one of the few that has actually obtained a masters in journalism. I believe she has the skill set and integrity needed to be a top notch journalist.

[nadinbrzezinski]

172. I agree that they are likely dead

and the degree helps, but a lot of this is research, research, research and being honest to the story. Which is one thing we have at times found lacking with younger kids. On edit, I think a good discussion of what ails us is needed.

Back to Mexico: The movement still refers to them as missing, and the government tried to close the case, but has not done such.

A story we did locally on poverty took over 4 weeks to research. We went though census data, county data, talked to people, and most organizations do not want to spend that time any more.

My view of the story in Mexico... it moved beyond Ayotzinapa a while ago. A common saying in the streets is "They buried us, but they did not know we were seeds." This mess has led to a not so low grade fever anymore, but more of a high temp. I am missing metaphors, I know.

We might get a good ol' fashioned civil war out of this. And quite a bit is due to our own policies vis a vis Mexico. It is not just NAFTA (though that is a large part of it), but the reforms that they have done in the energy sector, education, communications infrastructure, labor. The war on drugs does not help, and then there is The Merida Plan \initiative. You will see it referred by both terms in US Press and in the Mexican press.

The strikes in San Quintin, which are part of the whole symptoms, are part of it as well... and that is moving to the rest of the rural areas. Then you have the war on drugs, which is a civil war of sorts, and the Federal Government does not control quite a bit of the country side, at times large population centers.

[cbayer]

173. Unfortunately the seeds that were planted have not really born fruit.

It looked hopeful for a while, but the day to day issues that face most mexicans keep them from organizing and acting in a way that would really change things.

Currently the issues with the cartels are front and center and the people are reluctant to not support the government.

But mexico has a splendid history of fighting back against oppression of all kinds and I remain hopeful that they will do it again.

The complicit role of the US is another subject and one that I find most people here would prefer to dismiss.

[nadinbrzezinski]

174. Yup

Now I know NOW who Nestora Salgado is... one of the reasons for the hunger strike... but I need to do a lot more research into her case.

The autodefensas are a hot subject in Mexico. This is where fighting back is already starting IMHO, why the feds are going from friendly, or at least tolerant of them, to openly hostile.

They also mentioned Mireles, who I have heard off, but as you can tell, will not write a story until I wrap my head around who is who in this.

[cbayer]

177. I'm so glad you are on this.

For a time I was posting stories about Mexico, but they received very, very little attention.

[nadinbrzezinski]

178. Unfortunately folks do not care

and they will not, if worst case, there is a revolution, they nationalize all energy (again) and SDG&E will have to suddenly build a lot of green energy facilities here, for example.

In San Diego we have a small, but committed, activist group that is demonstrating at the Consulate regularly. It is a local story, but the local press mostly ignores it. Never mind that when they get large crowds, they disrupt traffic in a touristy area of downtown.

Go figure

This hunger strike might get PBS and Al Jazeera on Monday, and I will be there on Monday too.

[tabasco]

185. Yes, you are naive

if you believe all media is honest because your family member is.

That is incredibly naive.

[cbayer]

186. I don't believe all media is honest because my family member is.

I never said that.

[jmowreader]

107. That intern makes that same error very frequently

Think back to the Bush maladministration...every time a Republican fucked up, Fox "News" labeled him or her a Democrat. Every single time.

[think]

35. Apparently the Associated Press doesn't fact check their news articles and shouldn't be considered

a reliable source....

[cbayer]

39. Agree. I have considered them reliable in the past, and I'm not convinced

that they did this on purpose.

If this is just a fact checking error, that is really lame.

[nadinbrzezinski]

75. I got to wonder if the junior reporter

is a Fox News viewer. But the editor should have caught it.

[cbayer]

78. Exactly. If not intentional, it sure is sloppy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

79. AP has been making those "mistakes" often though

US journalism is extremely compromised. Independent media, and a lot of it is really bad...stories I could tell about one particular outlet people here quote often and trust...but some of it is really, really good. Let's just say this outlet posts a story I check it with other places, like I do with all of 'em. If I trust a source, more than if I do not actually...ergo, MSNBC will get checked three to four times, fox half as much. I know MSNBC is telling me what I want to hear.



If I make a mistake, and we all do, I correct it. Many a times it is the simple wording of things. I always go through a piece right after I post it. Some things do not jump out until then. It is how my mind works. Factual errors are always identified. Corrections should. This is a major oopsie.

I do not expect the AP to identify it. They set the standard that you should.

Your tell this was a purposeful error is...they removed party affiliation after they were caught. AP standard, I could quote it chapter and verse, got the book in the IPAD, says you identify the party, when available, in political stories. Acceptable ways: Joe Blow, democrat from....Joe blow, Republican from. If in office. Joe Blow (D-CA) gets tricky when you are talking state, since most people expect Joe Blow, with that, to be a Senator from California. House Joe Blow (D-51-CA). AD-85- R would be assembly district. Ward -5 for a city, or Council District 2 and of course state senate.


Even when writing a story about a state senator, I still spell that out because many people default to the U.S. Senate. It's not like I have to...but a few of my readers asked for clarity...yup, I am on a first name basis with more than a few. As they said, if I write about Joel Anderson, (quite the slime ball) they know he is not a U.S. Senator, but their mind wants to go there, and a few get sick just thinking about it.

And I think time to start work...and not with this story.

But this is not a mistake.

[cbayer]

80. I'm taking an online course on news and journalism right now.

I'm a pretty good fact checker and think credibility is essential. The course is teaching me even more ways of getting to the bottom of a story.

I know this is your strong suit and I am happy to be learning more about it.

This story has been up for over 12 hours and they have not corrected it. That's a bad sign.

[nadinbrzezinski]

81. Why I left a note, a comment

about this not being a mistake.

A call out if you will.

[dreamnightwind]

106. Agreed, we've seen this ploy many times over the years

Usually it's Fox but not always.

[mr blur]

110. You think that "credibility is essential"? Wow. Just...

When you get back to the course, look up "irony". Get to the bottom of that one.

[JHB]

116. It's been some 23 hours since it was posted...

...still no correction.

However, a more recent article (~ a half hour ago, and a full article with identified reporters, not just a AP-generic blurb in a "top 10" list) correctly identifies him as a Republican.

AP source: Hastert paid to conceal claims of sexual abuse
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL TARM
May. 29, 2015 8:33 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert paid hush money to conceal claims that the Illinois Republican sexually molested someone decades ago, a person familiar with the allegations said Friday.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a6bf349f621949edb2ddb1a5723d79c9/hastert-indictment-offers-few-clues-about-alleged

[cbayer]

129. Hah! They have corrected it!

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8e83c857de894081b2a6a61a0e82e5ef/10-things-know-today
In a story May 28 about former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert being indicted, The Associated Press misidentified his party affiliation. He is a Republican, not a Democrat.

A corrected version of the story is below:

[nadinbrzezinski]

166. Backlash sometimes works

[cbayer]

169. Yep. I am sure I'm not the only one that contacted them about it.

However this happened, it damages their credibility, imo.

[Goblinmonger]

155. I'm taking an online course on being a dentist.

I've watched several videos already. Should be ready to do a root canal any time now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

165. Why the need for a nasty personal attack

not that I would report or alert on this, since it really does not work to alert on this site. But seriously dude.

And by the way, there ARE ONLINE degrees in some medical fields already... Which include on hands work at some of the same teaching hospitals that physical facilities use.

Here you go

http://www.kaplanuniversity.edu/nursing.aspx

Even rankings

http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/nursing/rankings

And for dentistry

http://dentistry.usc.edu/programs/online-programs/

http://dentaldegree.org/

[Kali]

136. !

[nadinbrzezinski]

139. So you are surprised at the statement

Or that U.S. Journalism is extremely compromised? Here is more, freedom of the press keeps degrading in the United States, which is part of the damn problem.

[pintobean]

138. "the junior reporter"

[nadinbrzezinski]

141. You are adorable.

[pintobean]

146. I bet junior is actually a trained journalist

with a degree in journalism. I would think that would be a requirement at the AP.

[nadinbrzezinski]

148. Nope. You would be wrong

Many working journalist did not go to journalism school, but have English, history, political science degrees. Some come from law, a few from law enforcement. The skills to find crap are the same whether you are a trained historian, a lawyer, or a reporter.

Yes, some folks go and get a degree in journalism, but you would be shocked to learn how much of this is actually on the job training with later education in seminars etcetera.

And yes job requirements tend to read journalism or equivalent experience.

And things like this very procedural story are indeed written by the junior staff at most news rooms, including the AP, and checked by the assignment editor. At times by the area editor, in this case politics beat, editor.

Why at times breaking news has a paragraph and developing. Reporters might know more, but there are the fact checkers and editors who have to go through it. Which is why, when people tried to burn the central door of the national palace in Mexico City we were able to scoop the big boys. I got sources in Mexico City and we saw it on the stream. So a few tweets we had the same facts the AP and CNN ran with 12 or so hours later, never mind they had... Photogs and camera people at the zocalo.

Though they did get better photos.

We don't have those many layers, which is both good and bad. We can break faster, but damn it we have to be damn sure of the facts.

Of course we do a lot of policy, which is far from breaking news. This beat, as it were, is not done by junior reporters either.

[Eleanors38]

151. Keep thinking they're a defunct grocery store.nt

[librechik]

52. Yes! Yes! Yes!

and thanks for sending the email. I'm a former journalist, and my blood pressure just shot up into the furious range. Yes, all three of them are NOTHING BUT PAID PROPAGANDA! And they do it because they hate Democrats.

[cbayer]

54. Do you include the AP in that group?

They use a lot of independent journalists. My daughter does work for them. I haven't gotten the message that they hate democrats.

I tend to think this is just lazy fact checking and am also incensed by this kind of journalism. It really hurts their credibility.

[librechik]

57. Sadly yes. And I'm going to name names. Nedra Pickler and Ron Fournier

are paid Republican stooges and they alone are responsible for misleading the public on many issues that needed good reporters instead of credulous yes-men. Yes, people died because of them. The owners these people work for are ruthless partisans who spend millions to protect their good reputation, and acquired decades ago, now used to convince people that eternal war is honorable and torture should be overlooked.

I'm sorry if this is news to your daughter, congrats on her getting a great job, seriously! I hope she can make change from the inside. I too worked many years for a highly trustworthy organization, cbayer, a "PBS News Show". Gradually, as an insider and fact-checker, I discovered they too are in utter thrall to the Republican Military Industrial Complex. So is the AP. It is not lazy fact checking. It happens far too often, and only in a certain context, i.e., to protect their own.

[cbayer]

63. Great information.

I see that Pickler has some really questionable events in her history, including sloppy journalism.

Fournier hasn't been at the AP for five years, but it appears that he really was instrumental in moving the AP to the right while he was there.

My daughter is a freelancer and takes what she can get. I brought her up because I haven't gotten any sense from her that the AP is partisan.

Well, this hurts their credibility whether this was intentional or not.

Interesting insights on the PBS show. I've heard others with negative reports, although I'm not convinced that the problems you encountered are pervasive at PBS.

Thanks for your work. We have gotten way to lax about our journalistic standards, as can be seen everyday on this site. If it's on the internet, it must be true. We have got to teach our children to be fanatical fact checkers.

[Fred Sanders]

55. The news "aggregators" are owned by the wealthy...of course they are biased, and better at it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

77. Technically speaking AP is not a news aggregator

like CNS, city News Service, they have field reporters everywhere.

But the political beat can be ahem, interesting. The local guy who works at the Court, for CNS, he's a nice enough guy, but do not ask any depth into his reporting. This is my major gripe. I can spend hours, days getting background and all that...many are so busy they are done in 10 minutes.

[Whiskeytide]

59. I don't think they hate...

... democrats. I just think they like and need their jobs, and keeping them requires them to play ball with the suits and wealthy benefactors.

[librechik]

61. not all of them are haters, you're right

But their bosses do and put their money where their hate is.

[nadinbrzezinski]

76. I am a working journalist

and I just left a comment about this "innocent" mistake.

[awoke_in_2003]

156. yes, I guarantee they did it on purpose...

it happens to frequently to not be done by design. We don't have media in this country- we have a propaganda apparatus.

[jtuck004]

24. Not an error at all. n/t

[mopinko]

27. someone here asked how long it would take.

no, it is not a "error". they do it every.damned.time.

[lark]

89. iT'S SOP for Faux

Just about every time a Repug is caught doing something illegal, they show him/her to be a Dem. It's not an error, it's done on purpose to confuse the sheeple and because it works.

[Warren DeMontague]

163. That's what I was going to say. This happens quite a bit.

Once, sure, honest mistake. But they pull this crap regularly.

[cui bono]

111. Definitely not.

[erlewyne]

117. Wasn't Hastert a democrat eons ago?

Like back in the sixties?

I have no resources, but I thought he was
a wrestling coach and belonged to the democratic
party.

[cascadiance]

152. We'll know when Michele Bachmann is found to do something illegal...

... they'll try to call her a Democrat too, since she used to be one as well and campaigned for Jimmy Carter. Perhaps Faux News will try to find a way to link Jimmy Carter to her wrongdoing too!

[awoke_in_2003]

158. Was he a democrat...

when he was speaker of the house? No, so it doesn't matter what he was in the 60's. They referred to him as SOH and democrat in the same sentence.

[DawgHouse]

121. No it's definitely intentional!

[Volaris]

31. Not if you're business is propoganda.

If you're Fox, that's intentional, and therefore, top of the line.
and nobody does it better.

[cbayer]

32. This story comes form the AP. Fox picked it up, but they are not the source.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

50. They are known for doing this. This isn't one or two mistakes.

It's a concerted pattern.

[cbayer]

53. Again, this is an AP article.

Were it FOX, i would see it differently.

[Boomerproud]

181. AP is also biased towards Repubs and against Democrats.

I don"t care who the source is-it's a lie and they thought they could get away with it. In a lot of quarters they will.

[cbayer]

183. Meh. I'm not convinced at this point.

I've also read over and over how NPR is a republican tool.

I'm just not buying it.

Not everyone is our enemy.

[RiverNoord]

71. No error - it's done deliberately very frequently.

Happens frequently. Democrats become Republicans when the reporting is favorable and Republicans become Democrats when the reporting is unfavorable.

Very effective propaganda. To call it despicable is to state the obvious - unfortunately, publications can just say 'oops' and maybe publish a correction a few days later in the small print 'nobody reads this' corrections section.

[cbayer]

73. In this case, I think the AP loses credibility.

I expect this kind of thing from some news organizations, but I think the AP tries to present itself as neutral.

[George II]

120. Don't think it's an error

[DCBob]

3. This has happened too frequently to be a mistake.

They should be fined for this. It can have a big impact on viewers who are uninformed.

[merrily]

4. Same shit, different day. FOX always tries this.

[jberryhill]

11. It was an AP wire piece

[merrily]

18. And your point is?

[jberryhill]

20. Fox didn't make the change

It came from AP that way.

[merrily]

21. Exactly. FOX should have made the change. Nothing obligates FOX to run an error from AP.

[heaven05]

58. +1000 thank you

[merrily]

93. You're most welcome!

[tblue37]

5. FOX has a habit of identifying Republicans as Democrats if they get into

enough trouble.

[HereSince1628]

8. That didn't take long...

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Typical Fox. They have no clue.

Neither do their followers.

[sakabatou]

10. They're always doing this, putting a D next to a Republican politician

[durablend]

12. So this means Josh Duggar is also a Democrat? n/t

[Octafish]

14. FOX S.O.P. - They seem to do it EVERY time.

Disinformation Science 101: Be first to lie, it will stick in the minds of a surprisingly large percentage who hear it. Who can forget Saddam Hussein and Iraq attacking the USA on September 11?

[bulloney]

25. I seem to remember Faux Snooze identifying former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig as a "D"

during his airport restroom "wide stance" sex scandal. I think they did the same on John McCain when he was having one of his maverick moments and didn't fall in line with Republican talking points a few years ago.

If integrity and credibility were cotton, you couldn't get enough from Faux Snooze to make a T-shirt for a piss ant!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

51. ^ lolol. well said!!

I feel the same way about Yahoo, too.


If AP made the error first, agencies picking up should be checking anyway. Should be protocol---for a responsible agency, anyway.

[louis-t]

84. Also Lamar Alexander, Ted Stevens, Mark Sanford,

Mark Foley and Arlen Specter when he was a Republican, have all been identified by fox as Dems when it suited them.

[ToxMarz]

26. That would be Sadam Hussien (D-IQ)

[deutsey]

47. Bush's cousin, working at FOX, called the 2000 election for Bush

in the early morning hours, which went on to create the false impression that the election dispute had been resolved.

A mere coincidence, I'm sure.

[MisterP]

91. they're experts at creating smoke to make everyone see fire: remember the first question

they ever-so-innocently asked about the GermanWings pilot? the first thing the police looked for? whether he was Muslimming in secret; so if after every big disaster the first thing they say was "terrorism is not involved" that just associates every rot-brained mass murderer and every creepy white supremacist bomber and every explosion caused by gross negligence and greed with Those Islamoids Over There

[Scuba]

16. Anyone have a compilation of these "mistakes"? Old DU had a graphic with several.

[annabanana]

65. see post #45 downthread...n/t

[MattSh]

74. Try this...

not a compilation but a Google images link...

https://www.google.com/search?q=republicans+that+fox+news+labeled+as+democrats&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=znBoVbG-BKb4yQO2w4GgDg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoBA&biw=1920&bih=958

[hughee99]

23. It looks like the fox story is from the same AP

Story as the first link.

[gollygee]

28. That might come as a surprise to him

But I imagine they're hoping their viewership doesn't know any better.

[spanone]

29. deliberate skewing of facts. fox is an evil entity.

[annabanana]

30. I think someone here at DU actually SAID this would happen yesterday

when the news first broke...

[-none]

34. I saw that also.

They were not guessing at all. It is a forgone conclusion, that has happened many times already.

[Frank Cannon]

48. Yes, they did!

I wish I could find the link to the thread. I, too, was waiting for it to happen, and sure enough, the "liberal" media didn't disappoint.

[arcane1]

101. Here's one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1104460

[lpbk2713]

36. This might actually work for them.

There are a certain number of FauxBots who take anything they say as gospel.

[LiberalLovinLug]

96. Of course it will work

That's why they've done it before and will do it again.

Those "FauxBots" are ingnorant idiots. They don't know anything about politics or politicians much at all, only what Faux News tells them. Even if later, a correction is made (I've never seen that happen) the actual vitriol and lies have been soaked up by their hate sponge minds. Its death by a thousand knives. A few misrepresentations here...a few overblown stories there...a few non-reported stories here...and even simply the inflections and wording of how they introduce and describe some on-going story. All these little things add up over years of being glued to Faux News until they evolve into some giant blob of hate that has no basis in fact as to why it is so hateful, only that it knows it hates with a passion....anything Democrat...or liberal...or progressive..or social...or empathetic...

[Rex]

38. LOL. He paid 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS IN HUSH MONEY!

Wow, even when they lie...they lie and lie and lie.

Then again Foxnews is only around to prop up a dying breed...fuck them all I hate every last one of them!

Pathetic assholes.

[Eleanors38]

150. Sounds like some of it went to Fox and Yahoo.

[Rex]

180. Bhahahahaaa!!

[Eleanors38]

189. Have any of those stalwarts of the 5th estate acknowledged their FU?

[mountain grammy]

40. They did the same thing with some Republican party leader

in a red state who was caught with his pants down. Their viewers hear the word "Democrat" and that's enough for their small brains, even the Illinois viewers, who probably just think, well I couldn't have voted for him, he's a crooked Democrat. We're talking very tiny
minds here,

[sinkingfeeling]

41. CNN is almost as bad, implying he's a Democrat.....

"Hastert, 73, served as House speaker from 1999 until 2007, when Democrats retook the House. "

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/28/politics/dennis-hastert-indictment/

Funny, he was the longest-serving Republican House Speaker in history!

[PowerToThePeople]

60. The only party affiliation they named

Was democratic. What fucking peice of fascist shit.

[Ms. Toad]

140. No. They are implying he is a Republican

"until 2007, when Democrats retook the House." You can't retake something if you already possess it => Republicans (or at least something other than Democrats possessed it before 2007.

(It would be better if they expressly identified him as Republican - this is the second major article I've read which implies his party affiliation rather than stating it outright.)

[INdemo]

42. The same Speaker of the House that had Tom Delay as Majority Leader....Was he a Democrat?

No but he too is/was a crook

[marble falls]

43. They're cutting him loose.

[deutsey]

44. FFS

[LeftinOH]

45. Here we go again. Fox already perfected this technique:

..and there are lots more!!

[Stuart G]

56. Thank You for the above...terrific proof of the "non Intential" slanting of news..

My guess is the AP story is not a mistake..was done on purpose for just a while, a correction will be made, but the first impression will already be made on some. . And the writer and editor know it. First impressions, very important...If they are lies, well that is the way politics is, that is the way the AP has become..

Too big a detail for anyone writing this to not know the truth. I really hate to say that about AP, but must be true in my opinion. Like calling Obama Vice - President..or George Washington ...3rd President..or Lincoln presided over World War One..

... that is my point..

[treestar]

168. Whoever does it, it always happens to be the Republicans

who get into trouble around the time it comes out that they do it to.

[JEB]

62. Had to be done on purpose.

Everybody remembers the liar steeped in corruption and bigotry from the Clinton impeachment days and of course his willful ignorance in the Foley intern abuse scandal. Hastert reeks Republican. How could you not notice.

[malaise]

64. Bad Headline

You should start with more lies from the RW MEdia

[Thespian2]

66. RW News

Another day...another lie...

[GoneFishin]

67. They say he is a Democrat, you say he is a Republican, so there is no real consensus on which he is.

They are such lying sacks of shit.

[SpankMe]

68. Illinois has some of the worst corruption in the country.

This particularly true of Chicago. And a vast majority of those corrupt politicians have been Democrats. Almost all, in fact. So, I think it's possible that it was an inadvertent error by the first reporting agency that propagated to the others. (Inadvertent based on the expectation that a corrupt Illinois politician must be a Democrat because that has been the trend for decades.) It was a probably a brain fart.

[Doctor_J]

82. yeah sure. read reply 45

You're the one with the brain fart

[strategery blunder]

175. Illinois is an equal opportunity corruption state

I lived there when former Gov. George Ryan (R) was convicted on various corruption charges and sent to prison.

Of course it's easier to remember Blagojevich (D) because that was both more recent and more brazen (how stupid do you have to be to try to sell a Senate seat appointment?).

So, if I'm not mistaken (and I might be...haven't lived in the state since 2005), 2 of the 4 most recent governors (excluding the current Gov. Rauner) have been convicted of corruption charges, one D and one R. It might even be 2 of the most recent 3 but I'm not sure of that (the only other gov I remember is Quinn, but since I've been out of state I might've missed one).

I do expect Rauner will eventually be convicted for some form of corruption as well.

[PatrynXX]

69. and it still isn't fixed do'h... n/t

[valerief]

70. How very Foxian. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

160. They are all in it...

sure, stations like MSNBC allow Rachel to remain on the air, but that is just to give the illusion that there is options out there. If MSNBC were truly a liberal station, Scar and his sycophant wouldn't still be on them.

[47of74]

187. They would've gotten someone like Stephanie Miller

Not this dipshit Joe.

[Botany]

72. Liberal Media

[Zambero]

83. Then there's Rep. Tom Exterminator D-Lay

The possibilities are endless. At any rate, "honest" mistakes are bound to happen!

[calimary]

85. dennis hastert always looked, to me, like a big fart waiting to happen.

[johnnyreb]

87. Thirteen hours, still not corrected either site.

The FIRST item in their list of Things To KNOW......... ..............................

[lpbk2713]

92. Faux will run a corrected crawler across their screen.

Once.

At high speed.

About 4:30 in the morning.

[awoke_in_2003]

88. Part of me wishes

that he took the news like this

https://m.

[Flying Squirrel]

90. Great comments...

S
5 hours ago
Shame on the AP for a deliberate propaganda lie. Hastert is a Republican. Sad day for America when AP has taken to falsifying the news, sinking as low as Fox Republican Propaganda, Inc. Totally unethical and pathetic,

Johnnie
4 hours ago
Yahoo are licking and pandering to the right and doing everything to avoid agitating the dwindling wingers base. Hastert is a 'legendary' REPUBLICAN who was two heart-beat away from Presidency under W. Bush.

LeeB
3 hours ago
Even I know he's a REPUBLICAN and this still isn't fixed. I've noticed the Yahoo Insider hasn't been showing up. now I know why... smh

Jon
2 hours ago
Hastert is a REPUBLICAN, and a traitor criminal to boot. The republican criminal organization.

smtpgirl
1 hour ago
Shocker, yahoo & mind programming channel picked up the same AP feed to give the dumbed down masses they pander too. Knowing full well that hastert is a thieving lying republican turd.

T
3 hours ago
Yahoo & AP "news" specialize in dissembling - as long as it promotes their right-wing agenda and the Republican Party.

How long does it take you to correct such an egregious error, know that Hastert is a REPUBLICAN!

James
6 hours ago
What is this, Fox News? Hastert is a REPUBLICAN.

LeeB
3 hours ago
Yahoo News has often been a Fox News wannabe but this is rather low for even them.

Lawrence S
14 hours ago
DENNIS HASTERT Illinois Democrat, Nope Republican.

John
3 hours ago
11th thing to know: headline/news writers are often caught between texting and working.

If Hastert is a Democrat, I'm a Peregrine falcon.

Tony
1 hour ago
Why does the 'Liberal Media' always label scandalous Republicans as "Democrats??

[stonecutter357]

94. K&R!

[geardaddy]

95. Still not fixed!

Even though all the comments point it out.

[DFW]

98. Gee, when he was Speaker of the House, guess which party he belonged to?

One hint: it wasn't the Democrats.

[samsingh]

99. on purpose i would bet

[B Calm]

100. Selective Memory?

[DesMoinesDem]

102. This has nothing to do with Fox or Yahoo. It's an AP article.

It will be on hundreds of different websites. Blame AP. It's amazing that people here will see an AP article on some Fox affiliate and then blame FOX News. I guess ignorance is bliss when it allows you to blame something you hate.

[jeff47]

103. They aren't required to run the AP piece verbatim.

Each group publishing the story have the option of correcting AP's error. None of them did.

[PatrynXX]

109. not you but sure can tell Fox News fans from the ones that just follow it to get a migraine

do'h... both editors at yahoo and Fox whatever your fired

[DesMoinesDem]

115. You want editors fired for an AP error? Everytime AP has an error all editors are fired?

This article is on over 500 websites. That's a lot of editors to fire. And this won't be the only error made. You want hundreds of editors fired every week. LOL.

[DesMoinesDem]

113. I'm pretty sure that's not true. Why would AP allow others to edit their articles?

Do you have any proof this is true?

[jeff47]

143. Every single article that says "the AP reported..."

Just 'cause the AP puts out the article doesn't mean you have to use the AP article.

Also, the AP edits their articles in order to provide a worthwhile service to their customers. Being able to buy an already-edited article is a lot more valuable than buying an article you then have to edit. It doesn't mean you can't edit the article again, and if the AP objected to correcting an obvious error, that would be a pretty big problem for the AP.

[DesMoinesDem]

145. Well obviously anyone can write their own articles. That is not what you claimed.

You have claimed that "Each group publishing the story have the option of correcting AP's error" and "It doesn't mean you can't edit the article again". That is simply not true. Why are you repeating this lie? If you believe it is true then please provide proof. It would be idiotic if AP allowed anyone to just edit their articles. That makes no sense at all.

[jeff47]

179. Golly, if only there was a second paragraph in that post...

It would be idiotic if AP allowed anyone to just edit their articles. That makes no sense at all.

Yeah, it makes so much more sense for AP to fight tooth and nail to call Hastert a Democrat.

Even if AP has a "no editing" clause in their contract with these newspapers, do you really think the AP is gonna try to enforce that in this case?

[DesMoinesDem]

182. Just stop. Random editors can't edit AP articles and shouldn't. AP will correct their own errors

and issue a correction.

[herding cats]

104. That darn liberal meida is at it again.

I wonder what this country would be like without them?

[johnnyreb]

108. Still UN-corrected at ap.org at 20 hours

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/1/10_THINGS_TO_KNOW_FRIDAY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

... and at yahoo, and Fox, and probably all the other ah, syndicates.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

112. On the bright side, now we know who the Associated Press associates with.

[left-of-center2012]

118. Yes, but on the plus side ...

They didn't say it was Obama.

[George II]

119. Any surprise? Fox still occasionally and "mistakenly" calls our President "Barack Osama".

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

122. How are they going to blame this on Obama?

I imagine some creative writers are busy at work. I wonder if Obama was living in Illinois when the alleged child molestation occurred and he was sending out evil vibes. Donald Trump has hired a team of investigators to look further into this.

[IDemo]

123. And NBC simply avoided mentioning his party affiliation

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dennis-hastert-indictment-fed-say-cover-was-related-sexual-misconduct-n366776

[johnnyreb]

125. CORRECTED at ap.org and yahoo at May 29, 11:26 PM EDT

(Corrected in the dark of night (but still not corrected at fox))

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/1/10_THINGS_TO_KNOW_FRIDAY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

In a story May 28 about former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert being indicted, The Associated Press misidentified his party affiliation. He is a Republican, not a Democrat.

A corrected version of the story is below:

10 Things to Know for Friday

10 Things to Know for Friday

By The Associated Press

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:

1. EX-HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT ACCUSED OF PAYING HUSH MONEY

A federal indictment alleges that the 73-year-old Illinois Republican paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars, seeking to conceal unspecified misconduct.

[progressoid]

142. Yay! Now it should read,

10 Things to have Known for Friday - One of them wasn't true.

[still_one]

126. Not the first time these sorriest balls have done this

[deathrind]

128. Fox News,

Repeatedly show Mark Foley and Mark Sanford as being from the Democratic Party as well when their scandals broke out. So this is nothing new.

[cbayer]

130. The article has been corrected.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8e83c857de894081b2a6a61a0e82e5ef/10-things-know-today
In a story May 28 about former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert being indicted, The Associated Press misidentified his party affiliation. He is a Republican, not a Democrat.

A corrected version of the story is below:

[Enthusiast]

131. Lying Fox "News"?

[rpannier]

132. Another intern strikes

I think that's their answer every time this happens
Some flunky, intern is responsible

I guess faux spews has no supervisor to check these things

[blackspade]

134. I'm sure it was an accident....

Idiots.

[lonestarnot]

137. GOPers tactic on federal indictment, lie.

[PatrynXX]

144. yahoo fixed it but Fox nope still there

so you can see who controls the fake news

[DesMoinesDem]

147. This article is on over 500 websites. Could you please explain to me why you are so concerned

about Yahoo and some random Fox affiliate in Phoenix? What about the hundreds of other sites? You know a Phoenix Fox affiliate has absolutely no connection to Fox News, right?

[McCamy Taylor]

149. Obviously on purpose. Everyone knows who Hastert is and what party.

[L0oniX]

153. So when someone says Hastert is a Dem you know the idiot watches Fux.

[Eleanors38]

154. AP, Fox, Yahoo. Didn't anyone go to school around there?

[orpupilofnature57]

176. Doing their best or better than their best .

[YOHABLO]

188. FOX is not a news channel. MSM nightly 'news' is censored. This should be the ''given''.

FOX is a propaganda machine of the Right Wing GOP of this country. So everything they ''report'' is to create and put forth disinformation. They're scum and whores to the money machine. Do you expect anything less from them?