FOX Chief Political Correspondent Who Interviewed Bush in 2000 and Bragged that His Wife was Volunteering for George, Now -- in 2004 -- Made Up RNC Message Point Quotes That John Kerry Never Said

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

The indefatigable journalist and blogger, Josh Marshall, revealed in a series of postings that FOX News had recently posted an article on its Internet site that contained false quotes attributed to John Kerry.

Now, these weren’t just any made-up quotes; they were fabricated remarks that were completely consistent with RNC message points that try to portray Kerry as effeminate and indecisive (that’s their gender bias, not ours). And they were written, as FOX has admitted to Marshall, by none other than the Chief FOX Political Reporter, Carl Cameron.

Marshall, in astonishment, notes that Britt Hume, Fox's Washington managing editor, told the Pro-Bush Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz: "Our day-in, day-out coverage by Carl Cameron has been extremely fair to Kerry, and the Kerry campaign has recognized this," he says. You see, Cameron is not just the Chief FOX Political Reporter, he is the FOX/GOP hatchet man assigned to slice and dice John Kerry on the campaign trail.

Cameron made up the following quotations that he put in Kerry’s mouth as being uttered at a Tampa rally:

"Women should like me! I do manicures."

"Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!"

"I'm metrosexual — [Bush's] a cowboy."

And FOX published them in a story on their Internet site! They are so cheap, sleazy, and phony that a freshman cub reporter in high school would get fired for coming up with such nonsense.

But for such an amateurish fraud, FOX News’s Carl Cameron just gets a big heap of praise from Bush Dynasty Court Reporter and Loyalist, Britt Hume. FOX now claims it was all just some sort of mix-up that Cameron now "regrets." (As he snickers, snickers, and yowls!)

But if you saw "Outfoxed," you might remember this creepy scene. It involves FOX reporter Cameron preparing to interview Bush in 2000. As the sound men place the mikes on Cameron and Bush, the Chief FOX Political reporter brags that his wife is volunteering for Bush’s campaign. As one review of the film noted, "Probably Outfoxed's strongest argument against the company's lack of integrity is video footage featuring Carl Cameron, Fox News's lead political reporter. Preparing to tape an interview with then-candidate Bush in the summer of 2000, Cameron gushes unforgivably before the interview, fawning about his wife's work on behalf of the Bush campaign team, how she's been having fun ‘hanging out’ with Bush's sister. Bush seems quite pleased, and no wonder."

So the reporter covering Kerry for FOX not only fabricates the most juvenile and amateurish quotations – ludicrous remarks that Kerry never even said -- and posts them in a story, in 2000 he also boasted to Bush, before a FOX News interview, that his wife was a Bush volunteer and that she was having a grand old time with Bush’s sister!

God knows what GOP connections we DON'T know about Carl Cameron!

This is the guy FOX still has on payroll and claims is fairly covering the Kerry campaign! Why don't they just have Karen Hughes cover the Kerry campaign – fairly, of course!

Yes, we have indeed entered a parallel universe. FOX News is not a journalism outlet; it’s the unofficial RNC/Bush Cartel media outlet. It doesn’t practice journalism that is accountable by any professional standards.

It is corrupt, biased, dishonest, and unfair.

Remember that it was John Ellis, a Bush cousin, who after an evening of talking to Jeb and George W. made FOX the first station in 2000 to call Florida and the election for Boy George. It set the tone of Bush's win as being inevitable, and the "election call" did not happen by accident, you can be sure.

FOX Faux News is a farce and a betrayal of the American Revolution and our tradition of a free press.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

FOX News Biography of Carl Cameron: Chief Political Correspondent for FOX.