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Fox News apologized last week for posting a phony report on its Web site based on made-up quotes from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The article quoted Kerry gloating that he was a “metrosexual,” and that he looked terrific in his first presidential debate thanks to an excellent manicure. “Didn’t my nails and cuticles look great?” said one of the bogus quotes. A Fox spokesman said the item was just a “poor attempt at humor” by the network’s top political correspondent, Carl Cameron, and that it never should have been posted. Fox executives, whom liberals have long accused of having a Republican bias, said Cameron had been reprimanded.
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