Allow me a brief excerpt from a Bill O'Reilly piece called "Calling Al Franken a satirist is a farce":
The accusation that Fox is a conservative network is pure propaganda. Poll after poll has demonstrated that Fox's audience is across the board, ideologically and demographically. The latest survey taken by Mediamark Research finds that more ultraconservative viewers watch CNN than Fox.But facts don't matter to the Fox haters who are, themselves, primarily ultraliberal. The dominance of Fox in the cable news world has shattered the stranglehold the left had on TV news for decades, and that has caused fear and loathing in some political circles.
Ok, so using the typical labels, left = liberal and right = conservative, yes? Well then, if Fox really "shattered the stranglehold the left had on TV news," then wouldn't it follow that Fox is then conservative?
Then there's this:
This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded. Now there is a wider range of thought and expression available 2-4/7. But the country is worse off because of the brutal repercussions of that success. A nation that prides itself on diversity of opinion and acceptance of differing political points of view is being subjected to an orgy of media defamation and sometimes outright hatred.
Leaving aside the "2-4/7," which I'll be charitable and assume was a typo and not an indication that Fox only provides a wide range of thought and expression 2-4 days out of the week, that brings us to the "orgy of media defamation and sometimes outright hatred" bit. For that I'd like to point out an excerpt from Ann Coulter's most recent book:
Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason. You could be talking about Scrabble and they would instantly leap to the anti-American position. Everyone says liberals love America, too. No they don't. Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence. The left's obsession with the crimes of the West and their Rousseauian respect for Third World savages all flow from this subversive goal. If anyone has the gaucherie to point out the left's nearly unblemished record of rooting against America, liberals turn around and scream "McCarthyism!"
Now what was is Dubya said about specks & logs?
Posted by Jason at August 19, 2003 04:31 PM