Howard Kurtz dictates quotes from Fox News execs
March 30, 2009 5:17 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
This gave us a good chuckle, reading the WashPost's Kurtz. It's in an article about Fox News and Kurtz faithfully goes through the pointless ritual of giving FNC bosses a chance to explain how the entire operation isn't really a GOP movement-driven organization:
Fox executives maintain that the channel's reporting is aggressive but not ideological. Senior Vice President Bill Shine says that "our reporters, people like Major Garrett, have been asking tougher questions" than their rivals, such as scrutinizing efforts to increase White House involvement in the 2010 Census. As for the commentators, Shine says Hannity still has some liberal guests.
Of course, Hannity's longtime liberal co-host, Alan Colmes, recently left the show* so now it's just right-wing Hannity for an hour each weeknight. But an FNC boss claims Hannity still has "some" liberal guests on, so Kurtz types it up.
We just did a three-minute search on Nexis and found Hannity's list of guests for the past week. We couldn't find a single liberal. (A couple of Dems, yes. Liberals? No.) But we did see that Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Ann Coulter, J.C. Watts, Karl Rove, Hugh Hewitt, Newt Gingrich, Judd Gregg, Dick Morris, (radio nut) Mark Levin, and the WSJ's Stephen Moore appeared on the show.
Maybe when Hannity actually does have "some liberal guests" on his program Kurtz can publish an update.
UPDATE: * Changed original language to indicate Colmes left the show on his own accord.
A Faux is "liberal" is a so-called "leftist" that will gladly sell out their party and beliefs for the sake of keeping their job.
This was posted at an earlier entry but think it is relevant to this post:
Something I noticed from today's CF media blog:
From the Hill: "Ironically, a tool that Obama keeps at the ready to avoid verbal missteps - the teleprompter - has quickly become a running gag, with a popular blog launched pretending to be the voice of Obama's omnipresent teleprompter."
Popular? Really? The blog was also described as “popular” in a column by David Gerson. It currently has the 18,085th heaviest website traffic in America. What links are located on this website? All right-wing sites such as Redstate and Powerline.
From Howie Kurtz: “The liberal advocacy group Media Matters” and “The co-founder of the liberal Huffington Post site”
When will Media Matters become a “popular media site” and Huffington Post become a “popular online newspaper” instead of just “liberal ……..”? Or at least can they call the teleprompter blog what it really is? I’ll be satisfied with a “blog popular with conservatives”. Oh yeah, Huffpost ranks 111th in the country for most website traffic and Media Matters ranks 6,446th in the country in website traffic. So the question is what defines popular as opposed to ideological? It looks like conservative is “popular” while liberal is “ideological”
It is "popular" because inside the beltway, the Villagers visit Drudge, Malkin, watch FNC & listen to Limbaugh all day. So to them, everyone hates Obama, the poll numbers are fiction and Limbaugh has 60 million listeners.