So eager to call CNN 'Communist News Network,' Fox fudges name of Latin American leader

[MiaCulpa]

Source: Raw Story

In the war between Fox News and the facts, the facts are always handicapped.

On Fox & Friends Monday, host Steve Doocy took time to note that a former CNN employee, Mauricio Funes, has been elected President of El Salvador. "He is from a party down in El Salvador that is essentially the communist party," Doocy explained.

"I wonder if he is just on a leave of absence from CNN, which, given his political inklings CNN could stand for the Communist News Network," he said.

But Fox was so eager to tie CNN to communism that they couldn't get the name of Venezeula's leader right when making an unsourced allegation.

A second Fox pundit pointed out that Funes' party, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, is liberal and said it was essentially communist. He then declared that FMLN "allegedly" has ties to Caesar Chavez.

Except that Caesar Chavez doesn't lead a party in Latin America. He was a Mexican-American farm worker and labor activist who died in 1993.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fox_host_says_CNN_could_be_0316.html

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Full story and video at the link.

-Diane

[madrchsod]

1. they left out the most important fact in the election----

the christian evangelicals made it possible for the "commies" to be elected... facts are lost on fox

[Supersedeas]

7. democracy can be messy for the Corporate Elitists

[GentryDixon]

2. Those darn facts just get in the way, don't they?

[Alcibiades]

3. The anchor only caught it

because the producer whispered it in his ear.

[OHdem10]

4. This is why Fox News viewers are considered the most ill-informed

or have the most wrong information.

example: The number of people who believe Iraq attacked us on
9/11 is mind boggling. A survey backs this up.

[fascisthunter]

5. FOX Fascism.... labeling everyone to their left, "Communists"

what goes around comes around right wingers.... you are now your grandfathers enemy and too stupid or mental to realize it, unless your family was fascist to begin with and didn't fight against the Germans in WWII.

[LynnTheDem]

6. Most Misinformed? Fox News Viewers. By 80%.

Those who primarily watch Fox News are significantly more likely to have misperceptions
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/international_security_bt/102.php?nid=

“The extent of Americans’ misperceptions vary significantly depending on their source of news. Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions.
-PIPA poll
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2003_10/002317.php




Remember the rightwingnut "egg on your face" crap we'd all have when all them wmds were discovered? How many times will Fox News viewers willingly let themselves be lied to, duped, conned, tricked??? Stay tuned.

[Tempest]

8. The rightwingers thought Caesar Chavez was a communist too

Anyone who champions worker and human rights is a communist to them.