Fox News Regrets . . . Again

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

Is Fox News going soft? The network known for the slash-and-burn stylings of Bill O’Reilly has been full of apologies lately.

A couple of weeks ago, Fox contributor Liz Trotta apologized for her mirthful reference to how unfortunate it was that Osama Bin Laden and Barack Obama couldn’t both be assassinated.

Now Fox broadcaster E.D. Hill has apologized for her bizarre–and over-the-top offensive–suggestion that the “fist bump” Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle did recently could be a “terrorist fist jab.”

Here’s the apology (with a hat tip to Media Matters):

http://mediamatters.org/items/200806100009

Read more: http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/fox-news-regrets-again/

[mucifer]

1. That was an apology?

I didn't think so.

[Supersedeas]

13. does not look like an apology to me either

[dubeskin]

2. I just keep hoping that one day they go overboard

And get in really big trouble by the FCC and something really drastic happen to the entire station.

Just keep hoping, just keep hoping...

But there have been a lot of apologies on Fox lately. Makes me wonder if they're starting to realize all the crap Republicans have done to this country the past 8 years and are afraid Obama might fix it.

[Breathe]

6. She did get fired though

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/10/fox-news-changes-terroris_n_106306.html?page=9

And only seven years too late...

[Qutzupalotl]

12. She lost her show, but is still with the network.

IMO, Ingraham is even worse, though.

[roody]

7. Then we would be like Venezuela.

Can't be like that.

[JI7]

3. that was not an apology

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[Politicalboi]

5. Well here's another

Apology in waiting. Obama's baby mama

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/?last_story=/politics/war_room/2008/06/11/fox_obama/

[Breathe]

8. Obama's Baby Mama!?!

Unbelievable! There is no low too low for these people to stoop to.

[Rogerio Thompson]

9. yes, they are going soft

They used to never apologize.

[JerseygirlCT]

10. Waiting for the apology to Michelle Obama...

I'm guessing it will be a long wait.

Of course, issuing a big public apology just puts their intentional attacks back in the public eye. Gee, wonder if they know that?

[ohio2007]

11. A blog Op Ed isn't LBN

It's designed to get folks foaming at the mouth.
It seems to have worked on at least one poster ;)

[Supersedeas]

14. only a little less pernicious that other Establishment Media outlets that legitimize rumor by

asking the "some people say" questions