In their zeal to preach the right wing's gospel about how evil "political correctness" is an affront to good and decent Americans, it would appear that Fox & Friends just might have created a Fox fact out of thin air or something far more earthly. During their little fun fest about how the "PC Police" are behind the Department of Education's new gender neutral designation for "parent 1" and "parent 2," a chyron appeared with this wording: "Baltimore Schools Ban Words Mother, Father." And while we assume (ahem) that Fox & Friends are meticulous in their fact checking, it appears that this Fox fact doesn't seem to be borne out by reality. What, what?

But in searching Google, using the Fox chyron as a parameter, nothing appears except a tweet from somebody who probably learned it from Fox & Friends. The closest I could come to the banning of mother and father were articles, from last year, about how the godless French were proposing to do that on government forms. The closest I could come to Baltimore was a blog thread, about the Dept. of Education form change, in the Baltimore Sun. Todd Starnes didn't have anything about this, and you know that if it were true, he would be all over it like heterosexual Jesus freaks on their Chick-fil-A.

Saturday Night Live's Fox & Friends spoofs always include a list of  "corrections." Art mirrors life? 

Seriously, the characterization of Fox & Friends as "the morning happy-talk show that Ailes uses as one of his primary vehicles to inject his venom into the media bloodstream" is spot on!