Mr. Fair and Balanced....

I wish to send out my best wishes for a swift recovery to Bill O'Reilly and the staff at Fox News. Obviously, though nothing has been made public, there must have been some type of horrific accident in their studio facilities a couple of days ago resulting in massive head trauma for the entire staff including Mr. O'Reilly. What else could explain the blatant and repeated mis-labeling of Congressman Foley as a Democrat from the state of Florida. This screen tag was posted no less than four times during the initial live broadcast of the "No Spin Zone" on Tuesday evening. Apparently, the mistake was noticed and corrected by the re-airing of the show at 11:00pm that same night, after much of Fox's targeted audience was safely tucked away in their beds.

I normally choose to make no assumptions about motive or intention when issues like this arise because I recognize the natural flaws of humanity and realize that mistakes are made. That being said, the conspiracy theorist in me wants to look at this mistake on Tuesday and scream from the rooftops the obvious hypocrisy saturating the halls of the self-proclaimed "No Spin Zone". My minds eye can envision our Nation's Vice President on the phone with executives at Fox News making comments like "...mistakes happen...I am not asking you to lie, but imagine how helpful it would be if a little problem happened during primetime to muddy the waters..."

According to reports on MSNBC this morning, there have also been reported incidents of confusion in the headline "crawl" on Fox News in which the word "Dems" has replaced "Republicans" in obvious statements about the Foley scandal. I refuse to cast blame on an entire news organization because of the actions of a few individuals, but I do believe it is possible someone at a keyboard somewhere in the studio has been drinking a little too much of the Kool-Aid.