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The ham sandwich parody that was reported on FOX and Friends April 24th as
real news (multiple times, as noted by Think Progress) has lead to a lawsuit
by a school administrator affected by the subsequent harrassment.
Boston.com reports:
"Lewiston School Superintendent Leon Levesque is seeking $75,000 in
federal court in Portland to deter what his attorney Bernard J. Kubetz
characterized as irresponsible reporting by Fox News Channel.
...The lawsuit contends that Fox reported the parody as fact on its "Fox
and Friends" show on April 23. The show's anchors repeated a comment
attributed to Levesque, that "These children have got to learn that ham is
not a toy," and that there was an effort afoot to create an "anti-ham
response plan."
..."It appears to me that Fox News acted in a grossly irresponsible way
and took some information that was really not very plausible, did not do any
substantial fact-checking, and put it out as hard news," Kubetz said.
Levesque said he was overwhelmed for days with phone calls and hate mail,
including threatening calls to his home.
Fox did a brief on-air retraction, but Levesque called it unsatisfactory.
A Fox News spokesman in New York said the company does not comment on
pending lawsuits."
One can only hope that the Boulder Valley School District takes note and
follows suit, for Bill O'Reilly's (a.k.a. Donald Duck) reprehensible and
deliberate misrepresentation of a school assembly at Boulder High School.
Bill O'Reilly (and Caplis and Silverman, who also smeared the school on
their radio show) have been asked to respond to the Independence Institute's
issue paper documenting the falsehoods; as far as I can tell neither has
yet. If and when they do News Hounds will cheerfully let you know.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/07/02/school_official_sues_fox_over_report_parody_story_in_maine/
That's why FAUX runs these stories, to use their anonymous army of
"Blackflon"'s to harass and intimidate from the shadows. But at NO COST to
FAUX just the victims of their "stories"
And of course, the nice culture of FOX lifers sent the usual death threats
as a result of the Fox bogus news reports.
On FOX. nothing of Rush,s dope bust, rest assured we will hear plenty about
al gore's son..
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