Well the cowards and propagandists at Faux are up to their usual tricks.
Yesterday when writing my diary on the A.P. article that refused to mention the names "Larry Craig" and "republican" in the same sentence, burying his affiliation in the third paragraph, I checked in on FoxNews.com and was suprised to see actual party identification below Craig's picture.
Sure the text was teeenyyyy, but it clearly stated Larry Craig -- (R-Idaho)
Today? GONE.
The picture of Sen. Craig on FoxNews has NO IDENTIFICATION below it. Seriously. Blank. Nothing. Not even his name.
If you don't believe me, check it out:
http://www.foxnews.com/...
Note the empty white box under Craig's picture. That is where name and party affiliation normally go. That is where Fox News was identifying Craig as a republican just yesterday.
Here's the Fox News strategy at work on the homepage:
Craig's List
Read the Report
Police Report Documents Misdeeds
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig pleaded guilty to charges stemming from undercover cop's report of lewd behavior. (pdf)
And the article? Surely the article will tell us which party Larry Craig belongs to:
Police Report Details Craig Arrest on Lewd Conduct Charge
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Sen. Larry Craig
According to a Hennepin County, Minn., court docket, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge on Aug. 8, with the court dismissing a charge of gross misdemeanor interference to privacy.
The court docket said Craig paid $575 in fines and fees and was put on unsupervised probation for a year. A sentence of 10 days in the county workhouse was stayed.
According to the prosecutor's complaint, airport police Sgt. Dave Karsnia, who was investigating allegations of sexual conduct in airport restrooms, went into a stall shortly after noon on June 11 and closed the door.
• Click here to read the police report for Sen. Larry Craig.(pdf)
Minutes later, the officer saw Craig gazing into his stall through the crack between the stall door and the frame, fidgeted with his fingers and returned to gazing through the stall for about another two minutes.
After a man in the adjacent stall flushed the toilet and left, Craig entered it and put his roller bag against the front of the stall door, "which Sgt. Karsnia's experience has indicated is used to attempt to conceal sexual conduct by blocking the view from the front of the stall," said the complaint, which was dated June 25.
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ZERO party identification in the entire article.
Drudge, running the story at the top, also fails to note Craig's party I.D. in any of the articles he's linking to:
BROKEBACK BATHROOM: SENATOR BUSTED IN AIRPORT SEX STING...
CRAIG'S LIST: TERROR IN THE TOILETS...
His Own Private Idaho...
'I should not have pled guilty'...
*Cop Docs...
VIDEO: News Crew Reenacts Senator's Restroom Scenario...
It is almost fascinating to watch how brazen these media outlets refuse to perform even the most basic of party identifying when it doesn't serve their right wing ideological agenda.
It also speaks to the profound awareness they have of how they can influence and shape the propaganda simply in how they choose to present basic markers of information.
It is reprehensible and corrupt. And we must continue to monitor it.
EDIT: Snipped article.