Comments on: An Assault on FOX News by—Howell Raines??

By: joeindc44

joeindc44 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:23:24 +0000

I think that us right wingers need to just call this stuff liberal projection and not bother to refute it; just categorize it.

Didn’t Was Post run 100 stories on Maccaca in order to destroy George Allen?

By: letget

letget — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:54:39 +0000

Well if they aren’t going after Fox, then they go after Glenn, Sarah, and Rush. They go after any firm or person who is not in lock step with this bho, team, and the d’s. The good thing, those who they go after get lots and lots of people listening to them. This is back firing big time for them!
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By: tarpon

tarpon — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:54:06 +0000

Why would anyone want to assault the only network with real truth-telling journalists. One of the modern mysteries of what remains of journalism.

By: Howard Portnoy

Howard Portnoy — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:20:00 +0000

Thanks, J.E. I certainly had to do a double take when I saw the headline and byline. As to FN Sunday, I have it TiVoed and had a chance to see the opening, which mentioned that Podesta was on. But what gives me pause about watching the show is that Robert Gibbs is first up. I find it very hard to watch that guy.

By: J.E. Dyer

J.E. Dyer — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:26:57 +0000

That is pretty hilarious, HP.

Fox News Sunday had John Podesta on the panel today, and he and Bill Kristol got into it with some heat at one point. Podesta is in some ways more left than Fox regular Juan Williams. Fox routinely has commentators from the left on its news shows — meeting the same criterion (and frequently exceeding it) that Raines would presumably use to judge “fairness and objectivity” in what is unquestionably the editorial realm.

The only opinion hour in which the host doesn’t frequently have leftist commentators is Glenn Beck’s. O’Reilly and Hannity have them all the time. They get argued with, but that’s hardly unfair, and certainly doesn’t produce an “unobjective” outcome.

Well, anyway, your point that Raines is the last guy we ought to listen to on this topic is the salient one.