BALANCE IS NOT FACT VS. FICTION

I miss Tim Russert. No one has come close to taking his place. I recently tried listening to George Stephanopoulos on ABC...but, George for the smart guy he should be lacks the honest reasoning that’s missing from news coverage we go in the 60’s and 70’s.

You would never hear intelligent reporters give credibility to any debate that pitted reason against flat out misrepresentation before the creation of Fox News. George Stephanopoulos made commentary on Fox News and MSNBC as “parallel universes” on the Sunday Show (September 20, 2009). There is no way you can label Fox for anything except what they are...involved in outright misrepresentation. When you have to listen to Sean Hannity remark on the President calling health insurance executives “bad people” when the President said just the opposite, you can’t call that anything but dishonest. The president said “insurance executives aren’t bad people...they’re just looking out after their profits.”

You can’t call these two networks parallel anything. MSNBC will correct their mistakes...Fox goes out of their way to make misrepresentations. Ed Shultz is passionate...but, accurate. Keith Oberman is entertaining...but, still accurate...and very quick to correct himself when he’s made an error, many times before the program is even over. Rachel Maddow is clearly the most intellectual program on any network.

Fox wouldn’t know the truth if is slapped them in the ass. But, yet we get George Stephanopoulos presenting them as just two extremes. They aren’t two extremes...just Fox is. There a difference in civil disagreements and carnival barkers who are out to mislead anyone dumb enough to buy facts that are so easy to confirm that intellectual laziness is the only explanation for buying their blather.

I’ve had enough with the real press giving a pass to the faux press.