Fox Exec Admits To 'Mischievous' Remarks About Obama

by David Folkenflik, NPR

Bill Sammon, a top news executive at Fox News, gave a lecture in 2009 in which he admitted to making "mischievous" on-air suggestions during the 2008 presidential race, speculating that then-candidate Barack Obama was a socialist. Sammon went on to say he did this even though he thought at the time that this charge was "far fetched."

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, March 29, 2011