It’s almost a cliche to comment on Fox News like this.  They continue to commit crimes against legitimate Journalism or News gathering.  Three items

Item #1: In a curious twist to their habit of misidentifying the party of Republicans Behaving Badly, or occasionally stepping out of the Republican line (one might be a mistake, two is a trend, three is a habit, four is a network policy), they designated Max Baucus as a Republican.

Okay.  Item #2.  Obama gave a speech before students at the University of Maryland.  A news outlet can legitimately shun it aside — all Obama was doing, frankly, was pushing his agenda.  Frankly, though, in an arena where the goal is to fill up 24 hours a day, it’s probably better than the adjunct fourth hour of some radio talk host’s three hour radio program.  Fox News didn’t run it, preferring instead overhyping Acorn — worthy of attention, and probably even worthy of an outsized attention for a conservative biased news outlet, if they wanted to be that.  But the thing here is that Fox News would have jumped to any speech from President George W Bush on the drop of a hat.  It’s just what they are.

Item #3, and the real focus of this blog post.  Fox News bought a full page ad placed in the Washington Post.  “How did ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN miss the story?”  The answer is that they didn’t.  Frankly, from what I’ve surmised, they paid the gathering of 60,000 or so (Double that figure if you wish; it’s immaterial to me) a bit too much attention.  But what they didn’t do was lay into it as a promotional vehicle.  And why should they?  This was Fox News’s crowd.  Some signs focused against all those networks and praised Fox News for “Telling the Truth”.

What the Hell was the point of this advertisement?
I guess it is a two-fold equation.  Assuage their audience.  Fox “Fair and Balanced” News stands with YOU against those other lying liberal networks.  And, to referee some against the other media outlets.

For his part, Obama is doing a full court press on the Sunday political talk shows.  He is appearing on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and Univision.  You notice a conspicuous abesnce there?

Conspicuously absent is … Telemundo.  Obama is snubbing Telemundo.

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