Discussion: Fox News Apologizes To Aretha Franklin's Family, Patti LaBelle For Mix-Up

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It’s not like the folks at Faux News think all black women look alike or anything.

I guess we can be happy they didn’t mistakenly use a photo of Omarosa.

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To Fax News all bla people look alike

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I didn’t expect anything more from them.

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I can understand Fox’s mistake, given their level of economic anxiety.

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We always knew that Fox News was striving for entertainment and not respected journalism, but they can’t even get the entertainment part accurate. It’s an organization of fakes!

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FIFY

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No! Labelle Survived!

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You DON’T think they DO?

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Our intention was to honor the icon using a secondary image of her performing with Patti LaBelle in the full screen graphic, but the image of Ms. Franklin was obscured in that process, which we deeply regret.

So the story is that they were using something “ArethaandPatti.jpg” but mistakenly used another image “Patti.jpg” instead? In what way could the “image of Ms. Franklin” be “obscured” in that way? The excuse doesn’t even make sense – let alone the fact that no one caught the obvious error.

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It’s just that they love America so much.

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Fox doesn’t even know to whom to send their “warmest best wishes”. That’s what happens when you’re a “news” station.

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At least that would have been understandable, because Omarosa is the Queen of Donald’s soul.

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:moneybag:

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now, lets be fair… the folks at FOX NEWs don’t actually know anyone who is black. They have probably never talked to a black person (that Sheriff Clarke dude does not count, and they stopped having Micheal Steel on a long time ago). How are they supposed to tell who is who?

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or a pic of Michelle Obama.
Hell, FauxNews thinks all non-white folks look alike.

Edit: Glad to see really great coverage of the Queen of Soul (and Gospel), despite Fox and Trump pathetic attempts.
DBeast had a lame bit about the Diva contest of 1998, but good singing all around

DB made up for it in a separate article with a great AF gospel number. Put it on loud while while making dinner, and come to Jesus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=52&v=Wg5PZtSTTN4

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Please tell me this is something from The Onion.

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“Our intention was to Not be racist, but we found that difficult.”

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My first reaction to that bs explanation was Yeah, riiiiiiiight.

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“Our intention was to honor the icon using a secondary image of her performing with Patti LaBelle in the full screen graphic, but the image of Ms. Franklin was obscured in that process, which we deeply regret,”

Except LaBelle and Franklin NEVER PERFORMED TOGETHER AT THAT WHITE HOUSE EVENT. THEY PERFORMED SEPARATELY SO THERE WAS NO IMAGE OF FRANKLIN TO BE OBSCURED.

Fox News lies even when they’re apologizing for lying. Scum.

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