Fox and Friends apparently went and reported a parody story as real news. Liberal blog Think Progress is having a field day, but a local Portland news channel reports that the humor story, picked up from a website called Associated Content, was accidentally filed in the website’s news section:

According to the city, a hate crime investigation at Lewiston Middle School was parodied on an Associated Press look-alike website, complete with fake quotes from the school superintendent. The Lewiston Sun Journal is reporting that the fake story then aired as fact on a national Fox broadcast. The controversy stems from an incident at Lewiston Middle School in which a non-Muslim student, goaded by peers, allegedly placed a ham steak on a table where a some Muslim students were eating lunch. Pork is considered offensive to Muslims. […] Associated Content issued a statement that read “We apologize for any offense that the story may have caused. This humor piece was misplaced on our site due to a filing error. It is now in the humor section of the site, where it belongs.”

Filing errors aside, one would think the gang at Fox and Friends would have learned to vet stories more carefully after the Obama-Madrassa mess.