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Caught red-handed?

This morning on the Fox News website, Fox was running a post-debate story about Kerry with several apparently fabricated quotes meant to disparage the Democratic candidate.

(See the previous post for details.)

Some examples …

“Women should like me! I do manicures”

About himself and the president: “I’m metrosexual — he’s a cowboy.”

Now Fox has pulled the article from the front page without explanation. And on the article itself the passages I quoted in the post below have all been removed — again, without explanation.

[ed. note: I saved a copy of the offending article in its original form. Normally, I’d upload it to the site in .pdf format. But I’m away from my office and without my .pdf making software. I have a copy of it saved in Microsoft’s .mht format. So I’ll work on getting a copy online.]

So what’s the deal here? Where did the fabricated piece come from? Who made up the quotes? How long did it run? Why did it get taken down? What happened?

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