{"id":1311,"date":"2009-06-24T12:48:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2009-06-24T20:15:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T03:15:17","slug":"the-fox-frame-gov-sanford-not-at-a-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"The Fox Frame: Gov. Sanford Not At A Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/sanford-dem.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\"\/>The mysterious disappearance of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has now been resolved. To absolutely no one&#8217;s surprise, Sanford was not hiking the Appalachian Trail. The truth is he was trailing his Republican colleague, Sen. John Ensign, down the path of infidelity.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News, however, has stayed faithful to their deceptive mission by identifying Sanford as a Democrat in their on-screen graphics (h\/t Media Matters). At what point can we agree that this is deliberate? Fox seems to have a tough time delineating between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. And, remember, Sanford was also a big advocate of last April&#8217;s Tea Parties. His backing won him the admiration of Teabagger Supreme, Glenn Beck. Beck came to Sanford&#8217;s defense yesterday, asserting that the hoopla over his disappearance was just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/content\/articles\/article\/198\/27093\/\" target=\"_blank\">a partisan attack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>GLENN:<\/strong><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\"> I mean, this is what happens when \u00e2\u20ac\u2018\u00e2\u20ac\u2018 I mean, look. This guy&#8217;s a threat. He&#8217;s standing up. What do they do? Let&#8217;s smear him.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder what Beck will say today. <em>[Beck must be off hiking today]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mysterious disappearance of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has now been resolved. To absolutely no one&#8217;s surprise, Sanford was not hiking the Appalachian Trail. The truth is he was trailing his Republican colleague, Sen. John Ensign, down the path of infidelity. Fox News, however, has stayed faithful to their deceptive mission by identifying Sanford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,44,586],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck","tag-mark-sanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-l9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9323,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9323","url_meta":{"origin":1311,"position":0},"title":"Ann Coulter&#8217;s Advice To The GOP: Murder Unelectable Republicans","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/20\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Pretty much everyone agrees that the Republican Party is in pitiful shape. 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