Fox's Eric Bolling blamed the Center for American Progress for a statement that originated at the right-wing American Thinker website.

Bolling interviewed Steve Emerson, the executive director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, whose rhetoric was criticized in a recent CAP study on Islamophobia. After the interview, Bolling turned to his panel to discuss the report:

BOLLING: I need to point this out - I'm reading directly from this report: “The Obama-allied Center for American Progress has released a report that blames Islamophobia in America on a small group of Jews and Israel supporters in America, whose views are being backed by millions of dollars.”

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As Think Progress noted, the quote Bolling read does not appear in the CAP report.

In fact, the statement appears to have originated at the right-wing website American Thinker:

The Obama-allied Center for American Progress has released a report that blames Islamophobia in America on a small group of Jews and Israel supporters in America, whose views are being backed by millions of dollars.

This is something of a habit at Fox. In 2007, Fox & Friends ran with the false online story that Barack Obama was raised as a Muslim and attended a madrassa as a child in Indonesia. John Moody, at the time a Fox News executive, reportedly said that the hosts “violated one of our general rules, which is know what you're talking about.” Moody also wrote a memo that could be of use to Bolling:

For the record: seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC.

UPDATE 9/2/11: Bolling has issued a correction.