Can anyone really claim Fox is fair and balanced after the embattled

[smartvoter]

president, reeling from corruption and scandal, tapped one of their anchors to be his spokesperson?

Doesn't this crush any claims that Fox is legitimate?

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I cannot believe that anyone SERIOUSLY ever did.

[smartvoter]

4. Oh, same here. But doesn't this show the few who didn't get it that

the rest of us were right?

I guess they may be unreachable...

[BrklynLiberal]

12. It may win over a few who were starting to wobble.

:-)

[Bluzmann57]

2. Watching Faux for 10 minutes crushes any claims

of fair and balanced reporting. Except to the freep types. But their ranks are dwindling every day.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Yes, our fellow citizens

at free republic are so fucking concerned about fairness and balance. Too bad they sin by being so proud to admit they were wrong when they know in their heart they are. It must suck incredibly bad to be them.

[fooj]

6. "Fair and balanced"...since when is the TRUTH fair and balanced?

Isn't the truth just simply the TRUTH? What a load of bs!!!!!!

[smartvoter]

10. I agree with you on this. A thief's a thief. Screw his side of it. nt

[BOSSHOG]

11. Excellent point Fooj

I recall in my addled brain a song to that effect. Something about the truth is the truth. That line is way, way back in my addled head. In faux case it is pure marketing. They know those who depend on them for "news" are ignorant, religiously insane constitution hating citizens who kneel and consume whatever they are told to.

[smartvoter]

7. Agreed, but I was at a track and field meet hosted at a Catholic school

recently and I heard this group of rightwingers all talking about how fair it really is. I didn't engage them because I am trying to be better about containment and self-control when confronted with right wing stupidity and they were not speaking to me perosnally, but I'm telling you those people BELIEVE it. The conversation was more than absurd. It was like a bad comedy...

[LSparkle]

5. I LOVED Pelosi's take: "He used to support the President at Faux

and now he'll be doing it as the press secretary. Nothing has changed."

:evilgrin:

[smartvoter]

8. This is exactly what I'm talking about... Great line! nt

[noonwitch]

9. No, because George Stephanopoulis works for ABC

Does that compromise ABC's integrity, having a democratic strategist as an anchor? What if the next dem president hires him?

No, the problem with Fox news is not one person, it's with the whole network's ideology. They cater to a specific demographic, the conservatives, and pretend to be fair and balanced. The other networks are trying to appeal to the average american, many of whom don't even bother watching the news. I know I can't stand to watch the local news-the Detroit media fills me with revulsion most of the time. Most of them have a highly exagerrated concept of their importance in the world.

[smartvoter]

13. I think the Stephanopoulis thing is odd, myself, but it's not the same.

I agree about the whole network and such, so won't go into that, but this is someone being chosen specifically to spin for an embattled president up to his neck in scandal, and the appointee comes from the news network that critics have long been arguing is bogus. I don't see how anyone can look you in the eye after this and claim there is no slant. The rebuttal is so obvious:

"When the president was caught lying to the public and breaking laws, he turned to Fox news for help." This is exactly how the argument will play out. This, and, "Fox was already running cover for him on the outside so he brought one of them on the inside."

I don't think you can equate Sephanopoulis with this, though I admit it looks bad and I personally was surprised when he was given that seat because of his background/slant...

[woo me with science]

15. They are both commentators, not objective reporters.

Commentators are supposed to have their own viewpoints. Of course FOX is biased to the right as a network, but this whole professed shock and outrage that Tony Snow would be hired by a Republican administration after working at FOX is just silly.

He has never hid his right-leaning views, because he has always been paid to express them as a COMMENTATOR. The problem with FOX is not that Tony Snow or any other commentator expressed right-leaning views--it is that they don't hire an effective left-leaning commentator to BALANCE him.

Stephanopoulos is hired to express his opinions, too. His whole show is opinions. You would NEVER see him hired to host the evening news.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Just give me the straight news, without any slant, thank you.

Faux is a joke. They package the news to suit their brain-dead listeners.