This had to have been done deliberately and with malice by the reporter and Fox News.
Could be she saw O’Reilly and concluded it is “open season” on Free Republic.
Fox News Channel (FNC) was NOT involved in this channel 5 report.
It was prepared by the local reporter for the news dept of a station of Fox Broadcasting, admittedly a subsidiary of News Corporation, which also owns Fox News (FNC).
Just wanted to make sure people don’t protest to the wrong company.
The reporter appears as a willing accomplice to a hit piece and trying to group FR (which they label "conservative") in with neo-Nazi, Klan, and Skinhead hate web sites.
All at the behest of this CASA of Maryland leader Torres, a vicious bully, who had a running feud with the Minutemen and apparently battled local citizen opposition to start a new day labor center, before FR started verbally criticizing veiled threats that Torres made against the children of Minutemen.
A timeline:
Feb 22, 2006 CASA threatens to take actions against the Minutemen including picketing schools that children of Minutemen attend. CASA leader Torres said: ‘‘Then we are going to picket their [the Minutemen] houses, and the schools of their kids, and go to their work.” Original newspaper story here.
Feb 22, 2006 newspaper article about Minuteman hit with laser as he peacefully photographed CASA operation from a distance
March 2006 leftist local newspaper columnist applauds Torres for being:
willing to meet bullying in kind. He is training a counter-force of people with video cameras who are prepared to follow the Minutemen to their own jobs, even their homes. "We will let their neighbors know who these extremists are," Gustavo says. "It will be a shame to their families."
March 8, 2006 Bully Torres backtracks on threat to picket Minutemen children at schools by claiming misunderstanding (no claim that the reporter misquoted him). Copy and paste into your browser: http://www.casademaryland.org/press/mar8-2006(5).htm (don't want to link their website)
BTW, Torres was on Md. Governor O'Malley's transition team according to a blog named Stop the Invasion.