Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] O'Reilly on Foley affair

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> > Mike Miller wrote:
> >
> > > Here's how Bill O'Reilly's people dealt with the Foley problem:
> > >
> > > http://news.google.com/news?q=foley%20%22d-fl%22
> > >
> > > They just changed his caption from "Mark Foley (R-FL)" to "Mark Foley 
> > > (D-FL)".  That washes away all the embarrassment and everything is OK 
> > > again!
> >
> >
> > Probably an honest mistake.  I cannot see Bill O'Reilly doing this to 
> > purposely mislead.  Probably he will own up to this mistake today or 
> > tomorrow.
>
>
> Let us know if he does that and you hear about it.

OK, but I'm not watching or listening to his shows right now.

> I don't think O'Reilly did it himself.  Someone else does the graphics 
> work.  I will bet that Fox News will say it was a mistake -- of course! 
> -- but it will be interesting to see if we get any analysis of their 
> error rate.  My guess is that it is very low.  My guess is that it was 
> not a mistake, but that it might not have been a conspiracy.  It only 
> takes one person to get it wrong.

So if it is not a mistake, but also not a conspiracy, what is it?


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