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Article: Fox News' Criminal Pundits

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June 1, 2008
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THE SENSATIONALIST MEDIA inquest into Sen. Barack Obama's associations has cheapened the national debate. It has also exposed the hypocrisy and double standard of the conservative media.

Fox News, which has championed this "guilt by association," questions Obama's fitness for office because of his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

But if Fox News truly believed in guilt-by-association, the network would have severed ties with some of its pundits and consultants.

Mark Fuhrman-of O.J. Simpson infamy-is now one of its talking heads. Fuhrman, if you remember, was convicted of lying under ...

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