Eric Boehlert: Fox News can't take a punch (MediaMatters)

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Fox News can't take a punch
by Eric Boehlert

The cheese has really fallen off the cracker at Fox News over the Nevada Democratic Party's decision to break its presidential debate partnership with the cable news channel because the outlet is not seen as being fair. On Saturday night, Beltway Boys co-host Morton Kondracke completely lost it while discussing the snub and compared Nevada Democrats to communist propagandists. On Monday night, Fox News talker Bill O'Reilly went one better and likened the "radical" Nevada voters to Nazis.

The bizarre outbursts were just the latest in long line of wild-eyed Fox News denunciations that always come whenever there's a high-profile, albeit logical, observation that Fox News broadcasts a conservative-friendly version of the news and that the partisan news operation does not always employ the traditional checks and balances of mainstream journalism. In fact, Kondracke's own flare-up closely followed a name-calling press release in which Fox News itself denounced Nevada Democrats for being controlled by "radical fringe" special interest groups.

Of course, a real news organization wouldn't issue a nasty statement like that, nor would it give the statement exclusively to Matt Drudge, which Fox News did. And Kondracke's wild on-air denunciation of Democratic activists simply proved the activists' point about Fox News and its purposefully slanted programming.

More importantly, the latest confrontation simply highlights the fact that Fox News can't take a punch. Then again, isn't that always the case with bullies? .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://mediamatters.org/columns/200703130004

[Bicoastal]

1. I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Criticizing MoveOn.org for beating down Fox News is like critizicing David for being too hard on Goliath.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Boy if I was a Nevadan, I'd be hot

For Bill O'Reilly to call Nevada voters, and by extension, Americans, Nazis was over the top. I hope all Nevada voters, regardless of party affiliation call him on this. POW! The sound of fox noise channel taking a direct hit.

[Richard Steele]

3. The worst bullies are the first to cry "injustice" when they don't get their way.

Fox isn't a real "news" organization, and there are damn few
people left who haven't realized that. To have allowed them to
host something like a Presidential Debate would have been ridiculously
inappropriate by any sane standard.

FOX has made itself into what it is....and now they can only
whine about the "unfairness" of everyone who has recognized
what they are. Typical cowardly bully behavior.

Fuck 'em. They made their bed, now they can sleep in it.

Eddittid fer spellin.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Amen!

[marmar]

5. More screams from the "Amen" corner....

:applause:

[blossomstar]

8. I'll second that!

[Cha]

6. Typical reThugs at fauxnoise..they're

screaming that the newschanels are Liberal so their brainwashed and washable viewers will think the same although anything left of Attila The Hun is Liberal compared to the Ugly Americans over at roger ailes body odor defending newsjoke.

[marmar]

7. "The Hun is Liberal compared to the Ugly Americans over at roger ailes body odor defending newsjoke"

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