zappasguitar
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Let's see if Yurt can derail this one by making some ridiculous allegation regarding the thread title...
As ThinkProgress has noted for the last two days, Fox Business host Eric Bolling falsely attributed an anti-Semitic quote to CAP’s Islamophobia report. Claiming he was reading “directly” from the report, Bolling falsely asserted that the CAP authors blame “Islamophobia in America on a small group of Jews.”
We asked our readers to help us in demanding an apology from Fox Business. With your help, we forced Fox to confront the issue. Bolling finally responded yesterday, offering this correction on Fox’s website:
I want to correct something from a segment we did the other night on Follow the Money regarding Islam in America. The topic was a report from the Center for American Progress. At one point, I read a brief passage which said the group blamed Islamophobia on “a small group of Jews and Israel supporters in America”.
You need to know that I was reading aloud from an American Thinker magazine article critical of the group’s report and not from the report itself. Sorry for the confusion.
Eric Bolling,
Host
Follow the Money
Bolling’s correction reveals that he relies on a hateful, right-wing blog for his information. Bolling was citing a particular blogger, Ed Lasky, who has made a name for himself by characterizing Obama as Muslim and anti-Semitic. The specific blog post that Bolling referenced on Fox was debunked by ThinkProgress’ Ali Gharib, who explained how Lasky was distorting information to claim that Islamophobia doesn’t exist.
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011...-defamatory-remark-‘sorry-for-the-confusion’/
As ThinkProgress has noted for the last two days, Fox Business host Eric Bolling falsely attributed an anti-Semitic quote to CAP’s Islamophobia report. Claiming he was reading “directly” from the report, Bolling falsely asserted that the CAP authors blame “Islamophobia in America on a small group of Jews.”
We asked our readers to help us in demanding an apology from Fox Business. With your help, we forced Fox to confront the issue. Bolling finally responded yesterday, offering this correction on Fox’s website:
I want to correct something from a segment we did the other night on Follow the Money regarding Islam in America. The topic was a report from the Center for American Progress. At one point, I read a brief passage which said the group blamed Islamophobia on “a small group of Jews and Israel supporters in America”.
You need to know that I was reading aloud from an American Thinker magazine article critical of the group’s report and not from the report itself. Sorry for the confusion.
Eric Bolling,
Host
Follow the Money
Bolling’s correction reveals that he relies on a hateful, right-wing blog for his information. Bolling was citing a particular blogger, Ed Lasky, who has made a name for himself by characterizing Obama as Muslim and anti-Semitic. The specific blog post that Bolling referenced on Fox was debunked by ThinkProgress’ Ali Gharib, who explained how Lasky was distorting information to claim that Islamophobia doesn’t exist.
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011...-defamatory-remark-‘sorry-for-the-confusion’/
