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Where's Fox News? Police Called In NY-23 Over Voter Intimidation

John Amato at Crooks and Liars noted, "The teabaggers are turning to threats and intimidation out there in NY-23 land" and cited this article from Elizabeth Benjamin in the NY Daily News: "It's getting ugly out there. I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O'Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O'Neill called it "voter intimidation") by Doug Hoffman supporters." Amato wrote, "Gee, I wonder if Fox News will cover this voter intimidation and try to make a national story out of it. OK, I was joking."

So I took a look at Foxnews.com, where they perennially worry about voter fraud (by Democrats) and... nothing. There is a headline "asking" if this is a "day for great expections." Screen grab after the jump.

Here We Go Again: Fox News Suggesting Voter Fraud In New Jersey

It's funny how Fox News only seems to concern itself with voter fraud when it's potential ammunition against a Democrat. In this case, Gov. Jon Corzine of New Jersey is in a tight race for re-election. In Virginia, where the Republican is ahead, I've not heard a peep. Near the end of the presidential campaign in 2004, you could hardly turn on Fox without hearing about potential voter fraud. Yet, as soon as George W. Bush was declared the winner, all their fears evaporated. Now Fox Nation is "asking," Will There Be Voter Fraud in the N.J. Gov Race?"

Meanwhile, "fair and balanced" Fox continues to ignore the formal voter-fraud investigations that have been launched against regular guest Ann Coulter.

Michele Bachman to O'Reilly: Night After Night, Day After Day, ACORN Offers Phony Registrations

On last night’s O’Reilly Factor (10/7/09), Michele Bachmann returned from whatever planet she normally resides on to serve as O’Reilly’s ACORN-basher of the day (specifically, how ACORN might have somehow wrested the Senate win away from Norm Coleman to give it to Al Franken), to accuse NBC of being her “personal stalkers,” and to explain why left-wingers don’t like her – and the reason isn’t because she hears voices in her head. With video.

O’Reilly Wants Gov. Pawlenty To Investigate Whether ACORN Stole Election For Franken

On Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor (10/1/09), guest Laura Ingraham baselessly suggested that ACORN had helped steal the Minnesota Senate election for Al Franken. She had absolutely no evidence that it had happened. In fact, Norm Coleman, Franken’s opponent, who had challenged the vote count, specifically told the Minnesota Supreme Court he was not making any allegations of voter fraud. Nevertheless, O’Reilly said he was going to contact Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and ask him to investigate. With video.

O’Reilly Sleight Of Hand On Sanford Affair: Make The Story About Liberal Viciousness, Ignore The Open Questions

The O’Reilly Factor took a break from the nearly non-stop Michael Jackson coverage Friday night (6/26/09) on Fox to spend three segments accusing Democrats, liberals, and the left, of “celebrating” Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R-SC) fall from grace. Cleverly avoiding the substantive issues that surround Sanford’s admission that he’s been having an affair: his failure to arrange for someone else to be in charge while he was MIA, his hypocrisy as a supposed family values conservative, and his use of public funds to visit his mistress in Argentina, Bill O’Reilly, Karl Rove (videos below) and Bernard Goldberg repeatedly smeared their fellow Americans who happen to be Democrats and then accused THEM of being vicious. It was hard not to see it as a deliberate diversion from the sorry state of affairs (pun intended) otherwise known as the Republican Party. Unless it was a deliberate diversion from the continuing outcry against Bill O’Reilly’s persistent attacks on abortion doctor George Tiller, later gunned down by an anti-abortion extremist, about which O'Reilly is obviously still smarting (from the attacks on him, that is, not Tiller's death). With video.