Fox News Corrects False Claims About Gay Obama Education Adviser — Will Hannity Do The Same?

FAIR AND BALANCED? YOU DECIDE!!!!!

Okay, so Fox’s news division, such as it is, has now quietly issued an online correction of the false claims the outlet had been making while waging a high-profile assault on Kevin Jennings, the gay high-level education adviser who’s reviled by conservatives for his past in gay rights activism.
The question: Will Sean Hannity, who amplified the attack on Jennings from his huge platform, also correct the record, just as his own network has? For a major personality like Hannity to admit error on the air would be much a bigger deal than for the network to do it online.
Fox News and Hannity have been all over Jennings. Hannity called for him to be fired, accusing him of covering up “statutory rape.” The basis for the charge: When Jennings was a young teacher a teenager confided in him about having sex with a stranger and Jennings didn’t report it to authorities. Jennings has said he regrets his actions.
The “statutory rape” charge is based on the assertion that the kid was 15 years old at the time, a claim originally floated, wrongly, by Jennings himself, and continuously amplified by Fox News and the right even after it had been corrected.
On Friday Media Matters produced what it said was the kid’s drivers license, showing that the kid was 16, legal age of consent in Massachuttes, and also produced a Facebook exchange that seemed to show that a Fox News reporter had been informed directly by the kid himself that they’d misrepresented his age.
Fox News has now issued an online correction. But Hannity has been silent on this since Friday. It’ll be interesting to see if he corrects the record on the air. I’m checking with his producer and will keep you posted. LinkHere

Why Now Senator Graham?

Do you think these senseless attacks are hurting the Republican Party more than President Obama?

Pardon me, Senator, I hate to be cynical, but where were you during the silly season this past summer? You know, when Governor Palin accused the president of wanting to create "death panels?" Or when Beck ranted his ridiculous claims about eugenics? Or Rush Limbaugh called the president a Nazi? Or when the "birthers," fanned by some conservative members of Congress, accused the president of not being a naturalized American? Or, perhaps worse, the president was a Muslim born in Kenya?
Senator, why the sudden urge to take the high road? Do you think these senseless attacks are hurting the Republican Party more than President Obama? Or are you now speaking up because Glenn Beck has insulted your best friend, Senator John McCain. Whatever your motives, Senator, I agree it's time to knock this crap off. LinkHere