Comments on: Katrina Vanden Heuvel Calls Out Fox’s ‘Sycophantic’ Limbaugh Interview

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:47:09 +0000

m says:
November 3, 2009 at 3:42 pm
The Fox News Defense: It’s a prime time show. There’s no need for balance.

Which points out two things… (1) this is a perfect example of the “when we do it, it’s okay mentality that engulfs the FOX haters… it’s also known as hypocrisy. And (2) it’s not that they’re not “allowed” to be unbalanced, or that they “need” to have a counter-point… rather it’s that such a biased group, attacking someone on the other side of the spectrum, is hardly surprising or ground-breaking. A bunch of Liberals disliked something Limbaugh had to say, and dislike FOX for letting him say it. Shocking.

What would be more shocking was if they acknowledged that Rush has the right to say whatever he wants, FOX has the right to air him saying it, and not to draw goofy hypocritical conclusions based on that fact. Now that would truly be shocking…

By: Phil Bourekas

Phil Bourekas — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:20:46 +0000

I suspect Fox would be ok with that defense.

– they had another network talking about their show and even airing clips
– hearing “the other guys do it too” would make their point about offering both opinion and news in a same network.

Behar is a remora living off the efforts of bigger fish.

By: m

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:42:17 +0000

>Wow… what a balanced crew of people to talk it over.

The Fox News Defense: It’s a prime time show. There’s no need for balance.

By: Pat Doherty

Pat Doherty — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:41:49 +0000

Katrina Vanden Heuvel is perhaps the definitive champagne socialist. I remember a few years ago she was on Hardball (before Matthews came down with Bush Derangement Syndrome) and she said she understood the poor because she’d grown up in Harlem. To his credit, Matthews pointed out she grew up in a multi-million dollar townhouse.

By: Phil Bourekas

Phil Bourekas — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:26:43 +0000

Joy is attempting to attain similar success to Rush, only on the left, with her snide comments about conservatives and her choices of “sycophantic guests”. She offers neither entertainment nor insight.

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:08:20 +0000

So let me see if I understand this… Behar (a Liberal) has on Huffington (a far-left Liberal) and this Vanden Heuval woman (a Liberal) to discuss what Limbaugh said. Wow… what a balanced crew of people to talk it over.

Please, M and the rest… tell me more about the terrible FOX bias that was exposed by three Liberal women. Oy-vey.

By: StewartIII

StewartIII — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:55:20 +0000

Now, here’s a REAL softball interview.

NewsBusters: Couric Glorifies Al Gore as ‘Godfather of Green, the King of Conservation’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/11/03/couric-glorifies-al-gore-godfather-green-king-conservation

By: StewartIII

StewartIII — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:29:42 +0000

Katrina Vanden Heuvel is a far left hack. That writes for a far left magazine. She hates the fact that Rush Limbaugh wakes up in the morning. She’s just another predictable hater.

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:56:04 +0000

MIke Wallace must be so ashamed to have spawned that hack.

By: m

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:38:35 +0000

It’s so funny that FNC keeps saying “there’s a separation between our commentary shows and our news shows” and then they give the leader of the conservative movement 30 minutes of pampering?

By: ChrisNH

ChrisNH — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:21:00 +0000

Why doesn’t CNN do something constructive with their time and trumpet all the GOOD things Obama has done. Oh, wait…