Fox News Editor Pushed Emphasis On Obama 'Socialism' Ahead Of 2008 Election

In late 2008, one of Fox News' top editors escalated his efforts to have the network portray then-Senator Barack Obama as a socialist and an anti-white racist during the waning days of the presidential election.

On October 27, 2008, then news-editor Bill Sammon emailed colleagues with references in Obama's first book Dreams From My Father to socialism, Marxism and Obama's past relationship with a white woman. This wasn't a new obsession for Sammon, but he did apparently succeed at injecting this supposed controversy into Fox's news programming. Indeed, an hour and a half after he sent his email, he appeared on Live Desk to discuss the quotes he highlighted in his email.