We're not making this claim. The Outfoxed gals are.

Sometimes it takes a bit of digging and research to expose the lies of the Fox haters. And then there are the cases that just present their fallacious inanity on a silver platter, all served up and ready to slice and dice. Such is the latest bit of humbug from the newshounds (another fine product of the Outfoxed mob).

We turn to newspooch deborah, who penned this screaming headline:

Fox News Sure Of Terror Attack In 90 Days

What follows is a veritable compendium of sloppiness, stupidity, and arrogance, based on the flimsy theory that the opinion of someone who wrote a column on the Fox News website is automatically the corporate viewpoint of all of Fox News (hence the screaming headline). Miss deborah's diatribe concludes in a fit of conspiratorial pique:

This article displayed as the top story on FoxNews.com,throughout [sic] the evening of June 8, is no longer there at 11:50 PM EDT.The headline story has been suddenly replaced by a schedule.

What's more, if you click on the article link provided by the anti-Fox terrier, you'll find that it doesn't take you to a schedule, but rather a story on Bill Cosby. Curiouser and curiouser.

But you'll recall we mentioned sloppiness? It turns out deborah made a slight error. She claims the story was at this link before it was "suddenly replaced":

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161062,00.html

Actually, the story wasn't replaced at all. It never went anywhere, it's right here, where it's always been. Compare the incorrect link given by deborah to the correct one:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161962,00.html

Identical, except deborah wrote 0 where she should have written 9. Oops.

We assume it's just a sloppy error on deb's part, but on reading the article we're not so sure. Because the actual text reveals a string of inaccuracies and downright falsehoods in deborah's description of how it reads:

Juval Aviv, counter terrorism expert, claims in an article for FoxNews.com,that [sic] Americans can expect a terrorist attack...nothing he writes is backed up with any verifiable fact or sources....He later wrote that there will be several explosions...

Since deb's headline attributes the opinions in this article to all of Fox News, it is necessary for her to claim that he wrote the article. But as the column clearly shows, Mr Aviv did nothing of the sort. He was simply an author who was interviewed by Fox News.

According to this Fox News expert....

Deborah ups the ante here, now elevating Mr Aviv to a "Fox News expert". Where did she get that from? She made it up! Mr Aviv is not a Fox News reporter, analyst, consultant, or contributor, according to the foxnews.com directory. His bio doesn't show him to be a "Fox News expert" either:

In addition to his speaking engagements, Aviv has been a guest on ABC “Nightline,” FOX News, CNN, BBC “Newsnight,” ZDF (German National Television) and RAI (Italian National Television) and has been featured in numerous articles in major magazines and newspapers worldwide.

He's not a "Fox News expert", he didn't even write the article--he was just an interview subject. And next thing you know, the newspoodles claim "Fox News Sure of Terror Attack in 90 Days"!

So we took this bit of hound logic and decided to see how it would play when applied to, say, CNN. Under deborah's belief system, if CNN interviewed someone and published it on their website, that becomes the opinion of the news channel itself. We didn't have to look very far; this Larry King broadcast gave us our own screaming headline:

CNN Says Alien Abductions Are Real!

Postscript: A poster on the hound comment threads ("the reasonable man") pointed out many of the issues we have summarized here. So deborah revised the headline; it now reads:

FoxNews.com: Predicts Terror Attack In 90 Days

Big difference...not. In other words:

CNN.com: Says Alien Abductions Are Real!

While deb's new headline is maybe 95% misleading instead of 100%, her article still falsely alleges that Aviv is a "Fox News expert". As "the reasonable man" aptly asks, does that mean that Howard Dean, because he was interviewed by Fox, is a "Fox News expert"? And laughably, even though the correct URL for the article was provided by trm, deborah is still claiming that the article "is no longer there".

Except, of course, that it is.