USA Today flashback: Why you can't label Steve Doocy a conservative

Thanks to this 2003 USA Today puff piece on the “down-to-earth” co-hosts of Fox & Friends - the “hottest show on morning cable” - we today learned that you can't label Steve Doocy a conservative because “years ago” he supported “a man who favored universal health care”:

Mirroring Fox News' overall style, the talk here is blunt. But the rap against Fox -- that it leans decidedly right politically -- is hard to attach to the hosts of F&F. Hill says she's a “primary-voting Democrat”; Doocy says the only time he got involved in politics, years ago in his native Kansas, was to support a man who favored universal health care. The candidate lost.

Six years later, the eerily prescient article still rings true -- it's just so “hard to attach” the conservative label to the guy who said he “supported” a candidate “years ago”:

More cut and paste: Fox's Doocy parrots Heritage talking points, claims they came “from a friend”

Doocy hosts “town hall” featuring only people “fed up” with “government's plan to take over health care”

Ignoring reality, Fox & Friends continues its health rationing scare campaign

Out of touch: Conservative media argue insured don't need health care reform

Fox at it again: Now promoting anti-health reform disruptions of town halls

Fox & Friends advances litany of health care reform falsehoods

You may also remember that “primary-voting Democrat” E.D. Hill once asked if a fist bump between Michelle and Barack Obama was “a terrorist fist jab.” (Hill is no longer employed by Fox but is available to do her Helen Thomas impersonation at birthdays and weddings).

Thanks to reader BJL for the tip.