O'Reilly's exec producer re: Foley Dem label: "It was an honest mistake"

[sabra]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003221594

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Once it came to our attention, we removed the incorrect chyron immediately," said David Tabacoff, executive producer of the Fox News Channel show hosted by Bill O'Reilly, who also does a newspaper column distributed by Creators Syndicate. "We didn't run a correction per se."

Foley was mislabeled on O'Reilly's Tuesday show. When the program was rebroadcast, the Democrat label was scrubbed but not replaced with a Republican one.

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Tabacoff told E&P late Thursday that "everyone knows" Foley -- who resigned his House seat after revelations that he sent sexually charged messages to teen Congressional pages -- is a Republican. So "The O'Reilly Factor," he said, didn't feel it was necessary to run a specific on-air correction on its Wednesday show. But Tabacoff emphasized that when Foley was pictured on "The O'Reilly Factor" after Tuesday, he was correctly identified as a Republican.

"It was an honest mistake," Tabacoff said of the Tuesday mislabeling.

[gully]

1. Sure it was.

:eyes:

[Red Right and BLUE]

2. Full. Of. Shit. eom

[helderheid]

12. Can we start spelling "shit" "xhit" F.ull O.f X.hit :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. It was an honest...

attempt at a smear.

[marmar]

4. Es la mierda del toro....

You could fertilize Texas with that heap.

[Missy M]

5. "It was an honest mistake"....

:rofl:

[swimmernsecretsea]

6. Honesty?!

O'Reilly and Fox News have no idea what that is.

[Hugin]

7. Time to get out the hip waders and hold my new watch high, I see.

:eyes:

[myrna minx]

8. Oh please!

:eyes:

[Chipper Chat]

9. Dear David:

The 39% of Bushbots who STILL think Saddam had WMDs - would have no trouble believing Foley is a democrat - if Fox says so.
Razzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!

[liberal N proud]

10. Honest and Fair & Balanced are things FOX does not practice

And I'm sure it was NOT a mistake.

[Webster Green]

11. Oh please!...The entire program is nothing but lies..

This dude is a liar or a crappy producer, (probably both)

[Hav]

13. .

Was that discussion an honest mistake as well?



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2314787

[Wickerman]

"Democrat label was scrubbed but not replaced with a Republican one."

Guess that shows their true intent, doesn't it?

[Botany]

14. That show is pre taped ....

... so the "mistake" could have easily been fixed
before it's broadcast.

Fox is no more an impartial news organization then
I am Bill Gates.

[yella_dawg]

15. It *was* an honest mistake.

They honestly thought they'd get away with it.

[RubyDuby in GA]

16. Honest mistake? And monkeys might fly out of my butt...

[seabeyond]

17. it happened the next day too. reid: did the dems ignore emails

instead of did the repugs....

[tk2kewl]

18. Yeah right, "Everyone knows Foley is a Republican"

... except the guy who does production for O'Reilly. I buy that. :sarcasm:

[milkyway]

25. "Everyone knows" except the morons that watch Fox.

[tk2kewl]

26. and that is exactly what they were counting on

:grr:

[stepnw1f]

19. Bullshit Propaganda Tactic.... (nt)

[kenny blankenship]

20. Which, if true, would make it the only honest thing he did all day

[KansDem]

21. Mistake?...Yes Honest?...No

Once again the Corporate Media gets it half right.

[mikeytherat]

22. If EVERYONE knows Foley is a Repub, how could Fox have erred?

!!Cognitive Dissonance Alert!!

"Tabacoff told E&P late Thursday that "everyone knows" Foley -- who resigned his House seat after revelations that he sent sexually charged messages to teen Congressional pages -- is a Republican."

If everyone knows he's a Repub, the error could not have occurred. It would have been caught before it aired because "EVERYONE KNOWS FOLEY IS A REPUBLICAN."

These guys lie like the rest of us breathe.

mikey_the_rat

[milkyway]

23. The computer glitches in Ohio all favoring bush were also honest mistakes.

[bobbieinok]

24. an 'honest mistake' BECAUSE

'everybody knows republicans are the moral people in DC; it's only democrats who engage in sex and stuff and support homosexuality. .... why he probably IS a democrat, a sleeper planted years ago in the great, moral republican party to hurt us when the time is right.'

[deutsey]

27. It was an intentional attempt to link Foley w/Democrats in the minds

(so-called) of O'Reilly's pathetic viewers, which is part of a larger strategy to implant that meme in the dullards who like their views spoon-fed to them.

[cornermouse]

28. "It was an honest mistake," ?

Foley was mislabeled on O'Reilly's Tuesday show. When the program was rebroadcast, the Democrat label was scrubbed but not replaced with a Republican one.

I don't see any hosnesty involved, do you?

[liberalmuse]

29. I speak fluent Faux...

Translation: What Tabacoff is saying is that this was a dishonest and deliberate deception and a "suggestion" from the Murdoch DRWTPF* report.

*Daily Right Wing Talking Point Fax

[hsher]

30. Very weird

I do a Daily Show comic strip for fun, and the strip predicted FOX's exact words. Weird.

www.yourmorningleibowitz.blogspot.com
The Daily Show comic strip

[hsher]

31. Oops, well sort of

Sort of the exact words. I just wish the rest of the networks would adopt the typo in the punchline.

[Bandit]

32. Mistake, absolutely,... honest does not apply to Fox News

:shrug: Listen to the wind blow...