Summertime---and the Livin' is Sleazy

Now the investigations begin about the death of Michael Jackson--and whether he will following in the footsteps needle tracks of Elvis and Anna Nicole Smith--pop icons who died of prescription drug abuse. No one has yet suggested that Michael was deliberately murdered--although the person who benefits most from his death may be Gov. Mark Sanford--who gets several news cycles off for bad bad behavior.

He joins the list of recently disgraces governors--like Elliot Spitzer, who once called Sex and the City and asked if they had take out.

Fox News has an annoying habit when it comes to covering sex scandals. Well, they would call it a mistake, but how many times do you make the same "mistake" and get to say it was unintentional? On their chyron they label the pols who stray as democrats.

When presidential aspirants were suggesting that John McCain was not a true Republican because of some of his stances on issues, Fox News "accidentally" labeled him a democrat.
After Mark Foley was caught soliciting teen aged boys for a Close Encounter of the "R" Rated Kind, it got rated "D" instead by the Fox denizens:


Before Arlen Spector decided he's rather switch than fight, he was labeled a Democrat in a Fox mistake. Joe Lieberman, after he switched from being a democrat was I.D.'ed four times as one by the network that says "We distort, You deride" or something like that. When Michael "You're Doing a Great Job Brownie" Brown was horsing around while New Orleans flooded, the FEMA head was labeled a democrat on the Fox news crawl.

In their defense, Fox points out that when John Edwards was revealed to be an adulterer, Fox never once mislabeled him as a Republican.

So it comes as no surprise that when Republican Mark Sanford's marriage and credibility went south of the border this is what came spinning out of Fair and Balancedland:




So now you see why Fox News is one of my bête no "R" s.