Of course it was a “mistake”
Permalink +Fri, Oct 01, 2004, 8:23 pm // John Servais
FoxNews.com posted fabricated Kerry quotes today - and was caught. Of course it was a "mistake" - but it had already done some harm. The reporter, Carl Cameron, is their reporter covering Kerry and he made up quotes to show Kerry as a feminine sort of liberal.Here, read for yourself, what FoxNews.com posted today:
Rallying supporters in Tampa Friday, Kerry played up his performance in Thursday night's debate, in which many observers agreed the Massachusetts senator outperformed the president.
"Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!" Kerry said Friday.
With the foreign-policy debate in the history books, Kerry hopes to keep the pressure on and the sense of traction going.
Aides say he will step up attacks on the president in the next few days, and pivot somewhat to the domestic agenda, with a focus on women and abortion rights.
"It's about the Supreme Court. Women should like me! I do manicures," Kerry said.
Kerry still trails in actual horse-race polls, but aides say his performance was strong enough to rally his base and further appeal to voters ready for a change.
"I'm metrosexual — he's a cowboy," the Democratic candidate said of himself and his opponent.
A "metrosexual" is defined as an urbane male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.
Yep - all made up by FoxNews.com. Later today they supposedly posted an explanation that it was a mistake, but I have not been able to find that on their website The false quotes were reportedly up for hours. I wonder how few minutes the explanation was posted.
Why? Well, anyone's guess. I think the reporter was so bent out of shape by Kerry's solid showing against Bush that he couldn't help himself in filing a false report to belittle Kerry. How could Kerry hide his true nature from the American people so well. Maybe it was a joke - to suggest what the reporter thought Kerry was like.
DrudgeReport had nothing on this embarrassing post. Drudge only pretends to be objective with his exposes. The point? The Bush machine will be doing a lot of dirty tricks over the next 32 days to get Bush elected. Anything goes. Anything. And FoxNews is a loyal member of the Bush team. As is the DrudgeReport.
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