This Wouldn't Happen At Fox News

We all know Fox News is extremely fair and balanced. We all know this because they tell us directly. There's no beating around the bush. They don't hide the fact that they are not biased in any sort of way. They have lineups that entirely reflect all political spectrums that often contain viewpoints from all over the board. Fox News merely reports the news and lets us all decide our own viewpoints. There is no such thing as passing off a political party's talking points onto such a fair and balanced news organization like FNC. Which is why this story about Fox reprinting word for word a GOP press release is so bizarre.
A GOP press release was turned into a series of graphics and passed off as the network's own research -- so exactly that the graphics even included the Republicans' original typo.
It's unexplainable how a news organization that has very objective hosts like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Mike Huckabee could possibly let something like this slip by and get reported as straight out news. It's a mystery.

*Update:

Fox News comes out with one of the weirdest corrections to a story I've ever seen. Instead of admitting to copying a Senate Republican press release and running it as a genuine news story, Fox admits to making a typo but says nothing about passing off a Republican press release. Interesting enough, the typo Fox News admits to making was also in the original Senate Republican press release. So how did it end up in the Fox News segment? It was copied word for word that's how.

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