So eager to call CNN 'Communist News Network,' Fox fudges name of Latin American leader David Edwards and John Byrne

Published: Monday March 16, 2009





Print This Email This In the war between Fox News and the facts, the facts are always handicapped.



On Fox & Friends Monday, host Steve Doocy took time to note that a former CNN employee, Mauricio Funes, has been elected President of El Salvador. "He is from a party down in El Salvador that is essentially the communist party," Doocy explained.



"I wonder if he is just on a leave of absence from CNN, which, given his political inklings CNN could stand for the Communist News Network," he said.



But Fox was so eager to tie CNN to communism that they couldn't get the name of Venezuela's leader right when making an unsourced allegation.



A second Fox pundit pointed out that Funes' party, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, is liberal and said it was essentially communist. He then declared that FMLN "allegedly" has ties to Caesar Chavez.



Except that Caesar Chavez doesn't lead a party in Latin America. He was a Mexican-American farm worker and labor activist who died in 1993 .



It took a few moments before the Fox pundits corrected themselves -- they were accusing the former CNN employee of being tied to Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's sharp-tongued liberal president.



"Scary, guys," quipped Fox's Ainsley Earhardt.



Scary, indeed.



This video is from Fox's Fox & Friends, broadcast Mar. 16, 2009.









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Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly attributed the video. The above video is from Fox & Friends, not CNN's American Morning.





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