Fox Spews

On the recent Fox "News" segment Weekend Report, host Brian Wilson showed a clip of an interview with Florida Congressman Robert Wexler by Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report. But Fox didn't tell viewers they had re-edited the interview to alter its context and paint Wexler in a bad light.

Here is an excellent YouTube diagnosis of the Fox smear. And here is the letter I shot off to Weekend Report:

Your editing of the Colbert Report's interview with Congressman Wexler was misleading and dishonest. You reported it as news, not as some kind of "wink, wink" joke. So now your smear of Wexler has infected the thinking of many of your viewers. Which is just what you probably set out to accomplish.

Some people know that the Colbert Report is fake news. But most of your viewers have yet to grasp that Fox is fake news. You don't need journalistic ethics because you're not journalists. You're an arm of the Republican Party and a mouthpiece for failed conservative policies. You're partisans pretending to be reporters.

Until your kind of disgraceful spin, distortion and dishonesty is taken off the air, America will remain polarized and misinformed.

What a shame that you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.