FOX News Issues Three Apologies in Two Weeks

FOX News is very, very sorry. According to the New York Times, the "news" division has had to issue repeated apologies related to the way they're covering Barack Obama. They called Michelle Obama “Obama’s Baby Mama,’’ they called the Obamas affectionate fist bump during the senator’s victory rally “a terrorist fist jab,’’ and Fox News analyst Liz Trotta made a joke about a possible assassination of Mr. Obama.

What I love is that FOX addressed the latest incident by noting “A producer on the program exercised poor judgment." Why not just tell the truth and say that the producer was following the network's well-known and established practice of providing slanted coverage of the Democrats.

Why is it that a network that shows a second of a nipple or bare buttocks gets fined millions of dollars by the FCC, but a "news" network or program that regularly misreports or insinuates falsehoods in a way that could adversely impact an election gets a free ride?