The O’Garbage Factor
Fox News isn't just bad. It's un-American.
By Jacob Weisberg | NEWSWEEK
Published Oct 17, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Oct 26, 2009
Last week, when White House Communications Director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded the way it always does. It denied the accusation with a straight face while proceeding to confirm it with its coverage.
Consider Fox's Web story on the episode. It quotes five people. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong in substance or politically foolish to criticize the network. No one is cited supporting Dunn's criticisms or saying that it could make sense for Obama to challenge the network's power. It's a textbook example of a biased journalism. (Click here to follow Jacob Weisberg.)
If you were watching Fox News Channel, you saw the familiar roster of platinum pundettes and anchor androids reciting the same soundbites: this was Obama's version of Nixon's enemies list, the rest of the news media is in Obama's corner, Obama should get back to governing, and so on. On The O'Reilly Factor, Alan Colmes, the network's weak, battered house liberal, mumbled semi-agreement while "Doctor" Monica Crowley and Bill O'Reilly lit up the scoreboard with these talking points.
Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing so as itself a test of integrity. At Fox, by contrast, complaints of unfairness prompt only hoots of derision and demands for "evidence" that, when presented, is brushed off and ignored.
(More here.)
By Jacob Weisberg | NEWSWEEK
Published Oct 17, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Oct 26, 2009
Last week, when White House Communications Director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded the way it always does. It denied the accusation with a straight face while proceeding to confirm it with its coverage.
Consider Fox's Web story on the episode. It quotes five people. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong in substance or politically foolish to criticize the network. No one is cited supporting Dunn's criticisms or saying that it could make sense for Obama to challenge the network's power. It's a textbook example of a biased journalism. (Click here to follow Jacob Weisberg.)
If you were watching Fox News Channel, you saw the familiar roster of platinum pundettes and anchor androids reciting the same soundbites: this was Obama's version of Nixon's enemies list, the rest of the news media is in Obama's corner, Obama should get back to governing, and so on. On The O'Reilly Factor, Alan Colmes, the network's weak, battered house liberal, mumbled semi-agreement while "Doctor" Monica Crowley and Bill O'Reilly lit up the scoreboard with these talking points.
Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing so as itself a test of integrity. At Fox, by contrast, complaints of unfairness prompt only hoots of derision and demands for "evidence" that, when presented, is brushed off and ignored.
(More here.)
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Un-American? You've got to be f*cking kidding me. I thought dissent was patriotic. I guess that is only true if you are a leftist criticizing a Republican administration. When it's the other way around - well, holy sh*t, it's un-American!
Remember how liberals howled when anyone questioned their patriotism over the Iraq War? Now the left attacks anyone they think is unpatriotic declaring Fox News is 'not a news organization', that the Obama acolytes at MSNBC used lies to blacklist Rush Limbaugh from an ownership group to buy the St Louis Rams for his political views, marginalizing criticism against Obama as simply racism, and finally calling Americans racism, unpatriotic and treasonous.
The left in this country and their obsequious minions in the press prostrate themselves daily over Obama and vilify any dissent speak volumes about the level of hatred these people have for others based on disagreement. It is the left in this country who are intolerant thugs and who can't stand anyone that would criticize King Barack the First.
It's people precisely like Jacob Weisberg who make me want to barf.
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