http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/30/1374418/-Gov-Mike-Pence-s-religious-freedom-argument-destroyed-by-Fox-News?detail=email
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence spent his weekend ungraciously leaping from the path of questions on the effects and intentions of the new Indiana law allowing public discrimination against gay Americans under the general banner of religious freedom, but one of the few things he has been quite sure of is that this new law is no different from any of the 1990s-era laws, dubbed Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, that other states passed back then. This has been the preferred defense of the new law, as the good folks of Fox News and the Republican Party (but I repeat myself) try to patiently explain this to everyone through a rigorous program of repeating it as many times as a conversation will allow.
And here's Fox News personality Bret Baier, who accidentally destroys that argument in very specific, very concrete terms when he forgets to self-edit his remarks for the Fox News audience.
ERIC SHAWN: You know, the law was intended to protect personal religious liberties against government overreach and intrusion. So what happened?
BAIER: Well, Indiana's law is written a little differently. It is more broad. It is different than the federal law that it's close to, but different than, and also different than 19 other states and how the law is written. In specific terms, Indiana's law deals with a person who can claim religious persecution but that includes corporations, for profit entities and it could also be used as a defense in a civil suit that does not involve the government. That is broader than the other laws. This is where it's a little different in Indiana's case. You saw governor Mike Pence try to defend the law and say it's just like the 1993 federal law where it's just like 19 other states, but as you look in the fine print, it's not really, and it may be something that Indiana deals with in specifics to line up with the others. [...]
are these guys really that dumb or are the showing signs od conscious that allows them unconsciously to utter the truth they call them gaffes but are they just the mind saying what it really thinks admitting not a Fox host staple but every so often if you check to see what exaggeration is the talking point for that day you might get lucky and see that phenomenon. actually the jury is still out on that call, but forced to say things you know make you look foolish can cause a flashback of your once upon a time ability to be truthful and hence the gaffe. or Fox at it's best????
