{"id":5048,"date":"2011-07-28T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2011-07-28T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:54:20","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-on-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5048","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: On Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact checkers at Fox Nation are a notoriously incompetent crew. Today they are featuring an item that references an article at RealClearPolitics about Sarah Palin scheduling an appearance in Iowa on Labor Day. However, the Fox Nationalists don&#8217;t seem to know what holiday is celebrated on September 5:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnation-reality-palin-memorialday.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Palin\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>This error is particularly conspicuous given that there was nothing in the RealClearPolitics article about Memorial Day. In fact, they cited Labor Day very near the top of the column. There could not have been any mix-up as a result of a transposition. Fox Nation&#8217;s editors are wholly responsible for a mistake born of ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Or was it a mistake? Fox has been castigating America&#8217;s workers for years. They characterize them as thugs, leeches, and loafers looking for handouts. Is it really so surprising that Fox would seek to suppress recognition for a holiday that celebrates working people?<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Fox may not want to have associated their star political analyst with a day honoring Labor. Palin will be keynoting a Tea Party affair in Iowa and Fox surely wouldn&#8217;t want to confuse readers by insinuating that the event had anything to do with those socialists who work for a living. Palin&#8217;s reputation is damaged enough as it is by having been the subject of one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4989\" target=\"_blank\">biggest film flops<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>Try as they might, Fox News cannot do away with Labor Day. They can only insult workers by pretending that it doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact checkers at Fox Nation are a notoriously incompetent crew. Today they are featuring an item that references an article at RealClearPolitics about Sarah Palin scheduling an appearance in Iowa on Labor Day. However, the Fox Nationalists don&#8217;t seem to know what holiday is celebrated on September 5: This error is particularly conspicuous given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[527,381],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","tag-fox-nation","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1jq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4715,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4715","url_meta":{"origin":5048,"position":0},"title":"Sarah Palin Quits Bus Tour (?) 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Responding to media reports that she had bailed out of her bus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7480,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7480","url_meta":{"origin":5048,"position":1},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Cherry Picking Poll Data","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/2\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The top-of-page headline at Fox Nation today is a report that falsely declares that \"Obama Poll Numbers Drop After Court Upholds His Law.\" The poll to which the Fox Nationalists refer is from the notoriously GOP-slanted Rasmussen Reports. Rassmussen is best known as a Republican shill. He attends GOP conferences\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1543,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1543","url_meta":{"origin":5048,"position":2},"title":"Fox Nation Inadvertantly Bashes Sarah Palin","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/1\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"There may be no better source for comedy than the comments posted on Fox Nation. They appear to be a nation of town idiots. Even when the subject is something trivial, they manage to elevate their foolishness. This was the case after last Saturday night's Miss America pageant. In a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4524,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4524","url_meta":{"origin":5048,"position":3},"title":"UNDEFEATED? Sarah Palin Goes Hollywood","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/25\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Sarah Palin is about to hit the big screen with a two hour fantasy adaptation of her career in politics. Conservative filmmaker Stephen Bannon produced the crockumentary at the behest of TeamPalin. And if the comedy potential for this project weren't inherent, the title of this tale of the half-term\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6657,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6657","url_meta":{"origin":5048,"position":4},"title":"Rush Limbaugh: Digging Sarah Palin Up From The Grave","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/14\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In a desperate play for attention, Rush Limbaugh has taken to defending Fox News analyst Sarah Palin, who was recently the subject of a Democratic fundraising video. However, the form of Limbaugh's defense may be not be particularly complimentary. Limbaugh: Barack Obama is running a re-elect ad against Sarah Palin\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4901,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4901","url_meta":{"origin":5048,"position":5},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: On Sarah Palin Undefeated","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/15\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The reality challenged Fox Nationalists have done it again. 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