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What exactly is silly about it? Displaying that a news source which you and many others use as a reputable defense, decides to blatantly change the facts? [ENDQUOTE]

It is silly to impute some political motive to mislabeling the party of a handful of politicians . . . as though that would accomplish . . . what? And in each instance the mislabel occured in a given story, but IN ALL OTHER STORIES about the same pols, they were labeled CORRECTLY. And, as one observer pointed out, in the 23,000 broadcast hours since the first such mislabel occured, there were only a handful of these suposedly "blatant" (certainly inconsequential) mislabels. And when you examine each instance, you'ld have to stretch credulity to believe it would have some negative effect. Mislabeling McCain and Specter as Dems was suposed to do what? Mislabeling Chafee as a Dem and his DEMOCRATIC opponent as a Republican was obviously a transpositional error. And, in a story about Pat Toomey ANNOUNCING HE WOULD RUN AS A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, he was mislabeled a "D"--this was supposed to be some brilliant, secret, trick to accomplish . . . what? And to label LONG TIME Republican Senator Stevens a "D" while everyone else labels and knows he is an "R"--what kind of inane, nefarious, political strategy is this? Can you explain in any reasonable way how any of these errors could accomplish anything other than to embarras Fox. Even the AP, hardly a right wing org., in covering the Foley scandal mistakenly listed him as a Dem. And as for media conspiracy, what about how ABC, CBS, & NBC often OMIT the "D" when reporting Democratic scandals but make sure to attach the "R" when Repubs err? At the same time as the Sanford scandal was breaking, Charley Gibson made sure to identify Sanford as "R" but, in another story, failed to mention that Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers, who pled guilty to taking a bribe, is a Democrat. And when Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with felonies, neither did Gibson, nor CBS, nor NBC anchors mention he was a Dem. In a rundown of 13 political sex scandals, covered by ABC, of those that were actually identified as "R" or "D", only ONE was a Dem, SIX were Repubs. Of those that were UNIDENTIFIED, 4 were Dems, one was a Repub, the last was unclear. When the Spitzer scandal broke, NBC, ABC, CBS ALL failed initially to mention he was a Democrat. Are these left wing or right wing media conspiracies? I DON'T KNOW, AND NEITHER DO YOU! Your claim that Fox BLATANTLY changed the facts just looks like a silly attempt to find SOMETHING, other than your distaste for its programs, to make it a bogeyman.