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On Tuesday, Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends" aired at least eight segments on a purported "news" story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion.

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2sidestoeverything
April 27, 2007, 2:02 p.m.
So much for journalistic reach how embarrassing.
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TimALoftis
April 27, 2007, 2:52 p.m.
more info here...
http://www.sunjournal.com/story/209231-3/Lewist...
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ind06
April 28, 2007, 3:14 a.m.
People taking satire at face value. I'm shocked.
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KentuckyBootleg
April 28, 2007, 3:38 a.m.
So what? Netscapers are biased to high hell. Mostly stories supporting Democrats. I can't go anywhere and get straight news without running into knuckle dragging party huggers left or right.
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Ruggaboo
April 28, 2007, 3:55 a.m.
This almost makes me want to run to the libbo lovers at the Communist News Network(CNN) or even watch the Misguided Socialist News Bias Corporation(MSNBC)
Big deal... The seventh century sham that is Islam deserves some ham. Muslims need to police their own.
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Nowalive
April 28, 2007, 7:39 a.m.
Unbelievable. I suppose no other news outlet has made a mistake?
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Unashamed
April 28, 2007, 8:15 a.m.
What was it that a year or two ago Dan Rather and CBS News reported as fact a damaging news item that was totally debunked by amatures four hours after it broadcast? I believe it had something to do with forged military documents that were detrimental to President Bush. CBS even suspected the documents were fake before the airing yet chose to go with it because they believed what the fake documents supported was true but they had no real proof, so they went with the fake proof. If my aging memory is correct, didn't it ultimately lead to Rather's retirement?
My point is, FOX was the receipiant of a pratical joke and fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. A retraction and apology is in order. CBS was intentional in its deception, yet resisted retraction even after the documents were shown to be fake.
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1-2-Oscar
April 28, 2007, 8:33 a.m.
An organization devoted to uncovering the facts behind the obvious government and media cover-up is already working--check out 4/27hamtruthers.org. With their leadership, we can still be arguing over the "facts" of this incident five years from now.
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baobab
April 28, 2007, 9:18 a.m.
I just did a search of the Onion and could not find any story about anti ham response plan. I searched for many different key words that were mentioned in the Fox News report, and none of them produced any Onion spoof of the Maine Muslim ham sandwich event. Anyone have an explanation for that?
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Gatsby
April 28, 2007, 9:39 a.m.
Fox News iIS a parody
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tr1ib3f3t
April 28, 2007, 9:43 a.m.
we will learn of the second coming of hitler thru FOX, and they will bring him to us.
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sixshot
April 28, 2007, 9:45 a.m.
fox news wouldn't know the truth if it came and bit em on the a*s
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Coop666
April 28, 2007, 9:46 a.m.
At least Fox News doesn't make the news up like the New York Times, or sanitize their news to help Saddam Hussein, like CNN did.
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groingo
April 28, 2007, 10:05 a.m.
Typical FOX, masters of the art of mis-direction and lies, one network you can never trust but they can be entertaining at time.
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Rinty
April 28, 2007, 10:41 a.m.
Neophile:
Thank you for the best laugh I've had all week. I needed that.
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Natureboy
April 28, 2007, 11:35 a.m.
Parody on Fox news; who could tell the difference?
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nothingpetty
April 28, 2007, 12:01 p.m.
TV News in gerneral is a parody. Empty airheads pretending to be journalists.
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Amazing1
April 28, 2007, 12:28 p.m.
They may be empty airheads pretending to be journalists. And this story gave them the opportunity to really ham it up. At the same time, Miss Piggy in the middle couldn't keep her hands off the ham sandwich. She'd better watch it. Eating like that could turn her into a real porker.
Thanks, Neophile. Maybe should have been in the humor category.
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Dionys
April 28, 2007, 12:37 p.m.
I don't get it. Why is this news. Aren't all of Fox's news programs essentially parodies of the real stories?
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1-2-Oscar
April 28, 2007, 1:22 p.m.
Reporting poorly-done parody as "news" is not so uncommon. After all, it is done every day here on Netscape.
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Nowalive
April 29, 2007, 8:11 p.m.
As to the "debunking' comment. I have not challenged the validity of any of these comments. I mere inquired as to whether any other news source had ever made a mistake, and judging by your persistence in trying to run me down, apparently not. I stand corrected. You win sir, well played.
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OnlyTheTruth
May 3, 2007, 6:32 p.m.
FAUX will naturally jump onto anything that is anti-Islam. So, make it up and they will happily air it.