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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If no one signed the letter or is supporting its goals, who authored and passed it around? Are you saying Fox is improperly suggesting a letter that clearly created itself out of thin air was prepared by Democrats?
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To be serious for a moment, difficult as it is with fox -- I think their lax journalistic standards make them an easy mark. Every political professional in dc spends lots of time trying to spin the media or create a story. Some lower-tier blue dog staffer who wants to keep his job with a committee or a new member drafts up a letter, feeds it to fox, fox circulates it for him, maybe it takes off, maybe it doesn't, but now he's got some fox reporter who owes him. And who knows, maybe some enterprising member picks up the letter, and says, hey, here a chance to get a bunch of press, make some points with the right, and maybe start to win back a close district.
The stories pratically write themselves.
