Opinion: John Moody of Fox News goes out on a political limb -- and apparently is still on it

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We waited patiently, wondering through the evening and into this morning whether John Moody, the executive vice president of Fox News, would modify the bold prediction he made Thursday night in a blog posting.

In case you missed the item on the Fox Forum, headlined ‘Moment of Truth,’ Moody wrote about the the young, white John McCain volunteer who, as he summarized it, ‘says she was mugged at an ATM machine in Pittsburgh ... by a big black man. She further says he threw her down, then disfigured her by carving the letter B into her face with a sharp implement when he saw that she supported McCain, not Barack Obama.’

If true, he opined, some voters ‘may revisit their support’ for Obama ‘because they suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee.’

But, he added, ‘If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Sen. McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting.’

Well, in fact, the obviously disturbed 20-year-old woman made the whole thing up, it was revealed Friday.

As a result, we thought maybe Moody would decide he was just a tad hyperbolic in his first take on the matter. But apparently not; no update has appeared on Fox Forum.

So there you have it: A Fox News honcho has declared the presidential race over, with McCain the loser.

While perusing the blog, one Friday posting caught our eye -- a brief plug for an interview that Fox’s Neil Cavuto conducted on the collapsing economy. His guest: that noted financial expert, rocker Ted Nugent, holding forth with his prescriptions for turning this mess around.

Seriously. We can attest to it, having seen the tete-a-tete live. Every fair, balanced and totally off-the-wall minute of it.

We can only assume that Joe the Plumber was already booked.

-- Don Frederick