Caught Red-Handed? by Josh Marshall 10/01/04.
I don't know if Josh Marshall was the first to discover it. But what happened was, according to his account, that Fox News put an odd-sounding story, one unflattering to John Kerry, up on its Web site. It was a bogus story. Not a hacker attacks. A bogus story.
Read about it at that post of Marshall's and the ones that follow.
Fox posted a brief acknowledgement of the story being phony here. They gave Marshall this explanation:
Late this afternoon I spoke to Fox spokesman Paul Schur who told me the following ...
“Carl [Cameron] made a stupid mistake which he regrets. And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor.”
So the Fox reporter covering the Kerry campaign puts together this Kerry-bashing parody right out of the RNC playbook with phony quotes intended to peg him as [a] girlish fool and somehow it found its way on the Fox website as a news item.
Imagine that.
And we wonder why so many people show up in polls as believing completely bogus things, like the idea that WMDs were found in Iraq, or that Saddam's Iraq was directly involved in the 9/11 attacks.
Steve Soto says of this episode (Will Fox Formally Retract Its Fabricated Story On Kerry This Morning? 10/01/04):
Wasn't it just last week that the Mighty Wurlitzer [Soto's term for the Republican echo chamber] demanded that heads roll at CBS for their use of questionable documents? Well, will Fox News fire anyone or at least issue a formal retraction for the fabricated story they filed this morning about a Kerry campaign appearance in Florida? ...
Is the Wurlitzer getting so desperate today after Skippy's tank job last night that they are resorting to phony stories?
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