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Fox News Joins San Francisco POA in Peddling the Big Lie
As national Republicans sought a strategic response to their colleague Mark Foley’s sexual predator scandal, the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News came up with the easiest answer: identify Foley as a Democrat. The photo on the left is not a glitch, as O’Reilly’s show identified Foley as a Democrat three times without correction. Lies work in politics, as President Bush well knows. San Francisco’s Police Officers Association appears to share Bush’s view that lies bring political success. This election season the POA is again promoting a completely misleading photo of Supervisor Chris Daly yelling at a police officer. Just as Fox News knows that Foley is a Republican, the POA has previously been informed that the only reason Daly was yelling was that the officer was twisting Daly’s arm, and he was yelling at him to stop. But like Fox News, and our President, the POA sees more political mileage in falsifying the incident for its own ends.
Republicans once argued that the President sets the moral tone for the nation. This may explain Fox News’ deceitful effort to convince viewers that former Congressman Mark Foley was a Democrat, and the San Francisco POA’s misrepresentations of the Chris Daly photo---after all, if the President misrepresents the facts without apologies, why shouldn’t they?
I was standing next to Chris Daly when the now infamous photo of him and the police officer was taken. Daly had joined our nonviolent civil disobedience against Hastings Law School’s construction of an 885-space parking garage at Golden Gate and Larkin Streets.
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3759#more
I was standing next to Chris Daly when the now infamous photo of him and the police officer was taken. Daly had joined our nonviolent civil disobedience against Hastings Law School’s construction of an 885-space parking garage at Golden Gate and Larkin Streets.
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3759#more
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