For the last two Presidential Debates, it seems that Fox News isn’t even trying anymore to even give the appearance of “Fair and Balanced”.
In both of those debates, their before and after panel of analysts consisted of…
On the Right: Host Brit Hume with Fred Barnes, Mort Kondracke and Bill Kristol.
On the Left: nobody.
Nada. No one. Not a single representative from even the Middle-Left was on the panel.
For the first debate the team was the same, but they had Ceci Connelly (Moderate Liberal) to balance the FOUR Conservatives on the panel. Apparently, they did away with her shortly thereafter.
How does Fox continue to get away with that? And continue to have folks in this country still believe that they aren’t completely in the tank for the Republicans? And continue to tell their viewers they shouldn’t watch CBS and ABC because they are biased?! Are Americans just that gullible?
UPDATE: In light of the above, it’s amazing to come across this stunningly hypocritical Brit Hume piece called, of all things, “Unbalanced Election Coverage on Networks?” on the Fox “News” website.
Yes, the majority of Americans are that gullible. You could also say that an overlapping sample of those people are either indifferent to the election, or have no plans to participate in the election anyway.
Speaking of good ol’ Bill… the ABC news affiliate here in Seattle mentioned he is the "top rated news commentator on cable" in prefacing his harrassment story. If true, that tells you all you need to know.
I couldn’t believe my eyes at the end of the debate, I noticed that Hannity was talking with another right-wing host and all they were doing was trashing Kerry and praising Bush. They were instantly giving Bush the win when clearly the polls today are showing that the debate was a close win for Kerry or a draw; either way, it looks like Kerry won.
I just shook my head and sighed….they didn’t have a single democrat on to discuss the debate. The network has lost absolutely every ounce of credibitlity. Fox must be taken down!!!! That station sucks!