My good old friend Bill O'Reilly made me grimace when he made a comment about Fox being "vastly outnumbered in the fight against evil." Now, in the context he was speaking in, I gathered that when he said "evil" he meant MSNBC and possibly even CNN. Hell, he probably meant any newspaper, TV news show, blog, or PSA that doesn't go out of their way to mention that Obama's middle name is "Hussein" every chance they get or refers to an bortion physician as a "doctor" instead of a "baby-killer."
I don't have a problem with Fox News any more than I have a problem with pretty much all news that we have available here in America, especially on television. Most of the air waves that are used up on "News" programs are riddled with commentary, analysis and opinion. News programs no longer stick to telling us what happened, they also tell us what to think about it. They say "We Report, You Decide," but its more like "We Decide, You Repeat." After all, what is a "Talking Points Memo" other than a directive for listeners to repeat the same arguments they hear.
My point is, Bill... meet kettle.
I also listened to Ed Schultz today try to explain how it was OK to talk about Dick Cheney's heart being a political football. He said something to the effect that we should remove Cheney's heart, beat it around and put it back in his chest. I'm sure that this wasn't his best choice of words that he has ever used in his life.
I'm tired of hearing all of these political speakers try and explain how what they say isn't as bad as what the other guy is saying. Can't just one of them step up and say "Sure, what I said was offensive and I should have worded it more carefully." Finger pointing is a desparate move.
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