Fox's Gibson vs the Fact Checkers

John Gibson delivers a Thanksgiving jeremiad over all the nasty e-mail he's been receiving. Gibson, of course, plays the role of MiniMe next to Bill O'Reilly in the latter's Global War Against Fact Checkers—he proves himself as clueless as his mentor when he repeats the distortion that caused the barrage of complaints in the first place. "You wouldn't believe how many e-mails I got from people complaining that the loud and contentious Iraq vote a week ago in the House of Representatives was not on Murtha's proposal but Rep. Duncan Hunter's. "Look, it doesn't matter which House resolution was voted on. The fact is they were debating Murtha's call to pull out of Iraq. Of course the record says otherwise. Murtha's plan: "It would establish a quick-reaction force and a nearby presence of Marines in the region. It also said the U.S. must pursue stability in Iraq through diplomacy." Republican resolution: “It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.” The move flopped politically because it was such a transparent mischaracterization of Rep. Murtha's stance. Sure as one of the administration's official spokesmen Gibson was only doing his job when he equated the two positions. But he should at least have the grace not to complain when he gets called on it.