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Prince Ikari
I am in agreement with you. In just about every instance those who criticize Fox News have never even sat down and watched even a few seconds of it before. If they did they would see that they always features both conservative and liberal speakers. It only seems right-wing because all of the other news stations out there are so far to the left, where instead of a conservative and a liberal you get liberal and even more liberal. There is a reason Fox News is the most watched and trusted cable news station in America. Because it reflects the views of the average American. It shows the stories the "mainstream" media outlets will not cover, including major events. It provides a balance of both sides for greater perspectives. Stations like MSNBC though only reflect the fringe views of people living in New York City and San Francisco, the isolated bastions of liberalism within a country dominated by rural conservatism and suburban moderation. The people on MSNBC and other "mainstream" media outlets take an elitist view that their liberal beliefs are superior and that the rest of us not living in of those big cities are ignorant and backwards and need government, and their liberal orthodoxy to save us from ourselves.
I watch Fox News, and I can say that its about half-and-half. Most of the shows on FNC are pretty average, and have no agenda to them. Fox News does include liberals, but often enough on pundit shows such as Hannity, they are not treated fairly; the conservative host and second conservative guest simply gang up on the liberal one. And no, I'm not saying that's any beter than MSNBC, where the opposite is taking place, but it does need to be mentioned
I watched an entire episode of Hannity when he did a piece on the water crisis in California and he managed to present the issue in the most over simplified and right slanted I ever seen. He treat a voiceother side of coin as a "liberal loon", but in reality it was a man representing the devastated fishing industry. An industry that hurt itself by overfishing, just as the agriculture industry hurt it self with overfishing. Hannity blatantly ignored the issue that farmers where selling their water rights as well. The show episode was filmed in devastated cotton field, but the issue was food agriculture.
And the live crowd was awful, booing Democrat Jim Costa, a man working with his collegues (Nunes and some other guy, both Republican) on the grounds of that he was a democrat.
On another note, when Colmes was part of the show he was essentially a butt monkey for Hannity. (A moderate butt monkey labelled by Fox as "hard hitting liberal" )
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