BILL SAMMON'S 'SOCIALIST' INSTRUCTIONS TO THE FOX NEWS TEAM.... Bill Sammon sure does write a lot of memos.
During the final days of the 2008 presidential race, Bill Sammon used his position as a top Fox News editor to engage in a campaign to link then-Sen. Barack Obama to "Marxists" and "socialism," internal Fox documents and a review of his televised appearances show.
On October 27, 2008, Sammon sent an email to colleagues highlighting what he described as "Obama's references to socialism, liberalism, Marxism and Marxists" in his 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father. Shortly after sending the email, Sammon -- then the network's Washington deputy managing editor -- appeared on two Fox News programs to discuss his research and also wrote a FoxNews.com piece about Obama's "affinity to Marxists" that was disseminated throughout the conservative blogosphere.
What a remarkable coincidence. Just days before the 2008 presidential election, a top editor suggested the Republican network's on-air talent connect the Democratic candidate not only to socialism, but to his "racial obsessions" while in college. I'm sure there's a reasonable, journalistic explanation for this, though I can't imagine what it is.
If I didn't know better, I might think Sammon has some kind of partisan political agenda or something. (Sammon's marching orders were sent to the network's news division, not its opinion shows, though the line between the two doesn't really exist.)
rest at http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_02/027796.php
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