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Faux News Mislabels AGAIN
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:19 pm
by Doug
from
here.
Whitehouse is the Democrat, Chafee is the Republican.
From
another source:
Oct. 5, 2006 - In the increasingly binary world of American politics, Rhode Island has earned its nonconformist reputation. The state has more voters registered as “unaffiliated” than either Republican or Democrat. One of their senators, Lincoln Chafee, was the only Republican to vote against the Iraq war, opposed Samuel Alito’s nomination for the Supreme Court and refused to vote for President Bush in 2004 (he voted for the president's father as a write-in vote). But now, after eking out a primary victory last month with strong support from the national Republican Party, Chafee trails Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse by about two points, according to the latest polls.
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:33 am
by Barbara Fitzpatrick
Anything legally to be done about this? Say a "truth in advertising/reporting" rule that significantly fines actual lies (as opposed to opinion and fiction). Or would that pose a problem with their "freedom of speech" considering how much of what they report is lies.
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:25 am
by Doug
Barbara Fitzpatrick wrote:Anything legally to be done about this? Say a "truth in advertising/reporting" rule that significantly fines actual lies (as opposed to opinion and fiction). Or would that pose a problem with their "freedom of speech" considering how much of what they report is lies.
DOUG
Lying is not against the law, except in court or before Congress. And even there, lying is pretty much a matter of course.
Faux News would just say it was an innocent mistake anyway.
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:11 am
by Barbara Fitzpatrick
I'd say they are just practicing up for the election - wire the machines to label the candidates in the opposite party and keep control of Congress.