Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Jun 4, 2007 at 5:38 PM Pacific

FOX News must think all black people look the same

The day after FOX News anchor Brit Hume used a racist slur to describe a Democrat, a different FOX news anchor announced the indictment of Rep. William Jefferson (who is black) while running B-roll of Rep. John Conyers (who is also black).

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo is on the case:

As you know Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) was indicted today on 16 counts of public corruption. See this link for TPMmuckraker's coverage of the case.

But apparently Fox News Channel can't tell one African-American member of Congress from another, in this case Rep. Jefferson from Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee ...

Not surprising coming from the network of Brit "I like slinging racist slurs" Hume.

Update: Maybe I'm being unreasonable. After all, Conyers, on the left, is almost a mirror image of Jefferson, on the right (sic). Even their hairstyle and mustaches are similar.

Update II: Here's Fox's limp apology. I didn't expect much from them, but at least they could have explained how in the world they made the mistake.

FOX News must think all black people look the same

The day after FOX News anchor Brit Hume used a racist slur to describe a Democrat, a different FOX news anchor announced the indictment of Rep. William Jefferson (who is black) while running B-roll of Rep. John Conyers (who is also black).

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo is on the case:

As you know Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) was indicted today on 16 counts of public corruption. See this link for TPMmuckraker's coverage of the case.

But apparently Fox News Channel can't tell one African-American member of Congress from another, in this case Rep. Jefferson from Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee ...

Not surprising coming from the network of Brit "I like slinging racist slurs" Hume.

Update: Maybe I'm being unreasonable. After all, Conyers, on the left, is almost a mirror image of Jefferson, on the right (sic). Even their hairstyle and mustaches are similar.

Update II: Here's Fox's limp apology. I didn't expect much from them, but at least they could have explained how in the world they made the mistake.