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The alternate reality of Fox News was front and center during this morning’s Fox & Friends when Peter Johnson Jr. provided a glowing testimony to his recently deceased pal Catholic Cardinal Edward Egan. While Johnson stressed the highlights of Egan’s career, he downplayed, if not outright obfuscated the lowlights.

In the middle of his praise of Egan’s awesomeness, Johnson (Catholic Knight of Malta, Cardinal Dolan pal, Roger Ailes’ consigliore, and Fox “friend”) proclaimed that Egan “cracked down on the notion of the abuse and said to the priests and the archdiocese that there wasn’t going to be internal investigation any more, he would report folks to the district attorney which, in fact, he did.” In fact, his handling of priestly sexual abuse was not quite as sterling as Johnson claimed.

The NY Times, in its recent summation of Egan’s life, tells a different story. According to…