They CRY, you DECIDE: Fox News Watch Panel Whines About Obama's Criticism of Fox in Rolling Stone

[Amerigo Vespucci]

October 02, 2010 07:45 PM

Fox News Watch Panel Whines About President Obama's Criticism of Fox in Rolling Stone

By Heather

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/fox-news-watch-panel-whines-about-presiden

The panel on the Fox News Watch, the weekend show on Fox News that claims to look for bias in the media, apparently isn't too happy with President Obama for telling Rolling Stone Magazine that their right wing propaganda network might not be so good for the country.

The golden age of an objective press was a pretty narrow span of time in our history. Before that, you had folks like Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints. I think Fox is part of that tradition... it is part of the tradition that has a very clear point of view. It's a point of view that I disagree with... It's a point of view that is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world.

Jim Pinkerton immediately confuses Fox's propagandized viewers to Fox itself and pretends the president said their viewers are destructive to the country. He also manages to give two whole examples of some reporting he didn't like during that “golden age” from back in the 1930's and the 1960's from Walter Duranty and Daniel Schorr. Nothing like holding some old grudges there.

I find the gripe against Shorr particularly amusing since it's for a "hit piece" he did on Barry Goldwater. Here's how the right wing rag Newsbusters portrayed the story. Looking Back at Schorr’s Goldwater-Nazi Axis CBS Evening News Hit Piece. And here's how it was portrayed in his obit in the New York Times linked above.

Goldwater had held a grudge since 1964, when Mr. Schorr, while at CBS, reported on the enthusiasm of right-wing Germans for Goldwater as he secured the presidential nomination that year. Mr. Schorr noted that a planned postconvention Goldwater trip mainly involved time at an American military recreation center in Berchtesgaden, site of a favorite Hitler retreat.

Heaven forbid someone was doing some guilt by association in their reporting. We all know the "reporters" on Fox "News" would never do a thing like that.

Rich Lowry defends Fox with this overly simplistic explanation:

Liberals hate Fox News. Barack Obama is a liberal. Obama hates Fox.

Yeah, that's the ticket. The problem is not that Fox is a propaganda network. The problem is with liberals who have an irrational hatred of Fox. And note to Rich Lowry, Obama is not a liberal and you know it.

[Drale]

1. Of course they are going to complain

what else would they do, change? That word is not in the dictionary of any republican, let alone a fox news republican.

[Enthusiast]

2. If anything there

should be more criticism of Fox.