Colbert Mocks Fox News And Megyn Kelly Over Romney-Obama Photo Mixup (VIDEO)

When Fox News recently broadcast photos of the current GOP presidential candidates but labeled a photo of President Obama as "Mitt Romney," some felt the apparent mix-up seemed a little too convenient that the hard right-wing news channel equated the moderate Romney with the current Democratic president.

But Stephen Colbert forgave the gaffe after anchor Megyn Kelly apologized for saying that the two men are not the same, "not philosophically, not ideologically, not any other way." Because if the two completely different human beings had a more convergent opinion on a flat tax, the error could be forgiven.

Colbert forgave Fox and Kelly, but only after needing a refresher on exactly who Kelly is. You know, the blonde Fox News anchor? No, not that one. No, not that one. In this clip, Colbert finally gets to the bottom of Fox's Freudian slip.

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Comments

[Dodsworth Fandango]

03:28 AM on 12/26/2011

Fox news is to journalism, what professional wrestling is to sports.

[Snides]

05:44 PM on 12/19/2011

Well, they are essentially the opposite side of the same coin.

[Richard Garrick]

05:31 PM on 12/19/2011

Thank you again Mr. Colbert for making me clean my monitor.

[lensamy]

10:37 AM on 12/19/2011

Fox did this totally on purpose. Cheap propaganda.

[So silly]

12:41 AM on 12/19/2011

The thing I notice there is when she announces the mistake she called Obama "Barack Obama". I believe they always referred to George Bush as "President Bush". Just subtle ways of influencing a gullible audience.

[baseballgal]

08:51 PM on 12/18/2011

Colbert nails Faux Newz to the wall.

[salamanca1]

08:11 PM on 12/18/2011

Fox pulls this crap all the time.

[rdk70816]

03:27 PM on 12/18/2011

Must be a tough propaganda style news day for HuffPo.

[salamanca1]

08:12 PM on 12/18/2011

Que?

[rdk70816]

08:45 PM on 12/18/2011

Colbert has a lot of material better than that which was mentioned.

[baseballgal]

08:53 PM on 12/18/2011

Since when is truth considered propaganda?

[Counterglow]

12:59 AM on 12/19/2011

Conservatives have long had the Big Brother problem. War is peace, slavery is freedom...that sort of thing. They don't merely drink the Kool Ade...they mainline it.

[rdk70816]

09:08 AM on 12/19/2011

When a non-event is a story.

[TeraWatt60]

10:59 AM on 12/18/2011

Megyn Kelly and the other blonde fembots are said by Faux Propaganda to be highly educated...so either they are lying about the education or Faux requires their brains be removed as a condition of employment...

[salamanca1]

08:11 PM on 12/18/2011

I wonder if they can shoot people with the guns in their hooters.

[edtheengineer]

08:17 PM on 12/18/2011

No, it is probable that they all fall into the "what the deity has forgotten, we stuff with cotton" category.

[Okey Umez]

08:26 PM on 12/18/2011

Their hooters serve the same function as their brains.

[Okey Umez]

09:12 PM on 12/18/2011

I am sure that Elizabeth Hasselrock is itching to join them!. She'd fit right-in.

[keeniisite]

07:31 AM on 12/18/2011

President Obama is his title you bleached blonde, spray tanned, poorly make-up'ed, mouth piece of ignorace.

[rini]

11:27 AM on 12/18/2011

Remember when Fox was constantly whining about the fact that liberals didn't "respect the presidency" because liberals politely disagreed with W on minor details such as the war in Iraq? Fox news relies on short term memory loss. That's because their viewership has an average age of 85 or so. What hypocrites. They show such disdain for Obama it's incredible. Also, it is interesting that all of the "errors" that they make, such as placing D instead of R after the name of a politician involved in a scandal, have an agenda.

[edtheengineer]

08:20 PM on 12/18/2011

Your statement may be in error. The viewers have an average age of 70, but it is their IQ that has an average value of 85.

[Okey Umez]

08:30 PM on 12/18/2011

That's why i call them Fixed Noise. They report dung, then try to fix it with their claim of "Fair and Balanced".

[Okey Umez]

08:36 PM on 12/18/2011

They keep reporting despite the fact we'd already decided.

[ali baba lol]

02:00 AM on 12/18/2011

Megan rocks

[TeraWatt60]

10:56 AM on 12/18/2011

no she is a rock...or at least a steaming pile

[edtheengineer]

08:11 PM on 12/18/2011

Yes, she is a rock ....as in "dumb as a rock".

[salamanca1]

08:13 PM on 12/18/2011

That pretty head is full of rocks.

[Okey Umez]

08:45 PM on 12/18/2011

Of course she rocks as much as Gretchen is a brain surgeon.

[vohshka]

01:39 AM on 12/18/2011

Fox news set the standards for the GOP candidates to pander to; gaffes, contradictions, lies, misinformation, hate, bigotry, religious hypocracy, mysgony, greed etc etc ... need I go on ... get the picture? This is why the GOP is finished.

[Paul Kato]

01:14 AM on 12/18/2011

this will always be my moment of zen

[JcFractal]

11:26 PM on 12/17/2011

haha! classic.

[nofriendofrepublicans]

09:43 PM on 12/17/2011

Made me laugh.