Holy Joe

If Joe loses, he will no doubt be listed in the next printing of "Fox's Book of Martyrs." How touching is it that all these Rethugs suddenly care so deeply for the fate of the Democratic party?

Media Matters - Only on Fox: Onscreen graphic suggests "a Lamont win" would be "bad news for democracy in Mideast," would show Democrats have "forgotten the lessons of 9/11"

On the August 8 edition of Fox News Live, host Gregg Jarrett injected a stream of Republican talking points into coverage of that day's Connecticut Democratic Senate primary election, in which Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman was challenged by Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont. Jarrett's rhetoric was accompanied by a series of on-screen graphics that suggested a Lamont victory would be "bad news for democracy in [the] Mideast," and would show that the Democratic Party has "forgotten the lessons of 9/11" and is "soft on terror." Additionally, Jarrett repeatedly suggested that if Lamont wins, it would be a sign of Democrats "becom[ing] the sort-of modern-day [1972 Democratic presidential nominee] George McGovern, who got really creamed politically for his anti-war stance." But as Media Matters for America has previously noted, recent polling shows that most Americans believe that the Iraq war was a mistake.

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