Not Good: Fox Shows Conyers Instead of Jefferson
Via the AP: Fox News apologizes for tape goof
Fox News Channel apologized on-air Tuesday for running tape of a different congressman while reporting Monday on the indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson on bribery charges.The network ran footage of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers of Michigan instead of Jefferson. Both congressmen are black.
Fox blamed the mistake on a 22-year-old production assistant hurriedly grabbing a wrong videotape. Fox’s Washington bureau chief, Brian Wilson, said he was mortified by the error.
Mistakes happen, to be sure–but for Fox News to make this one just plays into the idea that conservatives/Republicans think that all black people look alike.
Sometimes fairly or unfairly certain mistakes are more serious depending on who makes them. If Dan Quayle misspells something that has more of an effect than if Al Gore Does. Or, if John Kerry changes his mind or equivocates he looks like a flip-flopper, while another candidate can get away with it. Same deal here–if CNN had made this mistake, it probably wouldn’t have been noticed.
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They Don’t All Look Alike: Fox News got into hot water when they reported the indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson on bribery charges and ran tape of a different African-American congressman – Rep. John Conyers. (Outside the Beltway)
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They Don’t All Look Alike: Fox News got into hot water when they reported the indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson on bribery charges and ran tape of a different African-American congressman – Rep. John Conyers. (Outside the Beltway)
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Fox blamed the mistake on a 22-year-old production assistant hurriedly grabbing a wrong videotape. Fox’s Washington bureau chief, Brian Wilson, said he was mortified by the error. Who. Cares. They’re both black. Blacks all look the same to me. I bet that 90% of the viewers didn’t even notice. The other 10% of viewers were… black. No, seriously: This is, as far as I can tell, not the first time that something like this happens at Fox. I suggest they look into that. Not only is it quite
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Fox has a long history of this sort of crap. You had to love the recent voter fraud story, featuring video of, you guessed it, black voters. And only black voters. Guess white folks don’t cheat…
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Gee, Steven, looks like YOU are he one doing the assuming here. I guess that makes YOU the supposed racist.
And anjin-san jap-boy: the asserted voter fraud was about black voters not getting the chance to vote. You moron!
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Christopher,
Sorry, but you are really far too stupid to respond to.
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I’m sure this isn’t the same mysterious 22 year old that labelled Mark Foley as “(D-F)”.
In only because he or she is 23 by now.
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They Don’t All Look Alike:…
Fox News got into hot water when they reported the indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson on bribery charges and ran tape of a different African-American congressman – Rep. John Conyers. (Outside the Beltway)……
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…And spells Obama with an ‘s’ instead of a ‘B’. Busy guy.
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cian,
It was CNN that mistakenly called Barak Obama Osama, not Fox.
It was CNN who also put the big X on Cheney while speaking.
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Stupid facts!
Thanks for the correction Mark.
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Actually it was Teddy Kennedy that called Obama “Osama” although CNN may have done it too, I just know Kennedy screwed the name up as well.
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This is weird coming from you, Steven–since you spent a couple of days last week lambasting CNN for their lack of adherence to facts.
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whats the difference? If you have seen one liberal you have seen them all.
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