FAUX NEWS DOES IT AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...

A week or so ago, I didn't bother posting that FAUX News reported that things have been going so well in Iraq that one of the provinces has opened up a KFC franchise. Except it didn't. The geniuses at FAUX didn't bother to check out the story, but the folks at MSNBC did and found that the franchise was a faux KFC, not an American franchise at all.

And just the other day FAUX was at it again. In a report on Iraq, FAUX ran a photo of the Iranian flag. Remember the Lincoln-Douglas gaffe? Reporting on possible debates between Obama and McCain, FAUX news mentioned the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates and ran a photo of Frederick Douglass!

FOX NEWS: Doing Their Best to Keep Their Viewers Stupid!

Fox News displays Iranian flag during report on Iraq.

On Fox News earlier this week, host Brett Baier reported that “Iraqi lawmakers have left for vacation without agreeing on a provincial election law.” But during his report, an onscreen graphic showed the Iranian flag. MSNBC’s Dan Abrams noted last night that “it looks like the folks at Fox are following John McCain’s lead confusing Iraq and Iran,” adding that “it can get confusing because after all, both countries do start with an ‘I.’”

Here's a partial list from Media Matters of all the mistakes, distortions, and downright lies made in just a couple of days by FAUX:

• Fox & Friends aired McCain's ad of Dems praising him, not DNC response with criticism from many of same Dems
  Friday, August 8, 2008
• Ignoring numerous speeches and statements, Hannity claims to "never hear" Obama discuss "how great this country is"
  Friday, August 8, 2008
• Gibson's guest host Krok called Obama a "steamy hot pile of crap wedged between two pieces of bread"
  Friday, August 8, 2008
• Gingrich in denial that Reagan, too, used "very dangerous" description of himself as a "citizen ... of the world"
  Friday, August 8, 2008
• Hannity distorted Bill Clinton's comments about readiness for presidency
  Friday, August 8, 2008
• Slacker Friday
  Friday, August 8, 2008
• Ignoring study of McCain's 2007 votes, O'Reilly criticized Obama ad for using McCain's 2003 statement that he voted with Bush "90 percent of the time"
  Thursday, August 7, 2008
• Fox's Kilmeade claimed Bush "never even said there's a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq"
  Thursday, August 7, 2008
• Hannity falsely claimed "Obama can't point to a single instance in which ... Sean Hannity or talk radio" has "made an issue of Obama's race"
  Thursday, August 7, 2008
• Echoing Milbank, Cavuto repeated disputed version of Obama's "symbol" remark as purported evidence of his "messianic thing"
  Thursday, August 7, 2008
• Ignoring Obama's proposed tax cuts and McCain's Social Security remarks, Rove claimed McCain "opposes tax increases and Obama favors them"
  Thursday, August 7, 2008