{"id":623504,"date":"2010-01-07T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T12:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/07\/fox-news-chyron-cast-dorgan-and-dodd-as-defecting-democrats\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T12:36:26","slug":"fox-news-chyron-cast-dorgan-and-dodd-as-defecting-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/623504","title":{"rendered":"Fox News chyron cast Dorgan and Dodd as ?defecting Democrats.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/06\/fox-dem-defections\/\" >Fox News chyron cast Dorgan and Dodd as ?defecting Democrats.? \t\t<\/a><br \/>This morning, Fox and Friends hosted a segment on the retirements of Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND), both of whom will not be running for re-election in 2010. Fox News, however, cast the retirements as defections:   Dodd and Dorgan are not &#8220;defecting&#8221; from the Democratic Party. They are retiring. Rep. Parker Griffith [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This morning, Fox and Friends hosted a segment on the retirements of Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND), both of whom will not be running for re-election in 2010. Fox News, however, cast the retirements as defections: <\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/defectingdem.jpg?resize=296%2C190\" alt=\"Defecting Democrats?\" title=\"Defecting Democrats?\" width=\"296\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76174\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Dodd and Dorgan are not &#8220;defecting&#8221; from the Democratic Party. They are retiring. Rep. Parker Griffith (AL) recently announced that he was <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/22\/griffith-switch-gop\/\">switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party<\/a>, but no one else has joined him. (HT: TP Reader AC)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News chyron cast Dorgan and Dodd as ?defecting Democrats.? This morning, Fox and Friends hosted a segment on the retirements of Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND), both of whom will not be running for re-election in 2010. Fox News, however, cast the retirements as defections: Dodd and Dorgan are not &#8220;defecting&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ccw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}