Another Embarrassment For Fox & Friends?

“On Tuesday, Fox News morning show Fox & Friends aired at least eight segments on a purported ‘news’ story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion,” Think Progress explains.

A local newspaper in Maine says “an obscure online parody of the recent hate incident at the Lewiston Middle School — a parody reported as news on a national Fox broadcast Tuesday — launched an immediate avalanche of angry phone calls and ugly e-mails to the school system…”

> Update: 3:24pm: Lou Dobbs also covered the story on his Tuesday show…

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