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Fox's "fair & balanced" coverage features "Republican spin" from contribution-soliciting Rove

November 03, 2009 10:08 am ET by Eric Hananoki

Here's a "fair and balanced" promo Fox News has been airing all week for its Tuesday election coverage: 

On his Twitter account, former Bush adviser Karl Rove writes: "I'll be on Fox & Friends tomorrow at 8 AM and most of the day for election coverage" and "Live Desk, Your World, Hannity, O'Reilly, FBN w/ Cavuto, and Fox Election Special at 10 PM."

While promoting his Fox News appearances, Rove also pushed people to contribute to candidates, writing:  "Visit www.doughoffmanforcongress.com to contribute"; "Corzine spending more than $20 mm attacking Christie. RGA is fighting back. Give now so they can stay on air http://tinyurl.com/ylruh22"; "GOP Comeback begins in NJ and VA with RGA. Give now to help them stay on air. http://tinyurl.com/ylruh22."

So let's get this straight:  Fox News' top "Fox News political analyst" is actively encouraging people to defeat Democrats.  And that top "Fox News political analyst" will participate "most of the day" for Fox's "fair & balanced" coverage.  Rove, by the way, routinely appears by himself, unchallenged, in his role as election analyst - as he's already done on today's Fox & Friends and yesterday's On the Record

No active follower of politics should see Bush's Brain as anything other than a partisan Republican hack.  Then-Fox News executive John Moody said of Rove:  "Are we getting a Republican spin? Of course. But that's what he's there for. There's no attempt to conceal that."

So there it is. Fox News' "fair and balanced" political coverage will feature self-described "Republican spin" - again, often by himself and unchallenged - from its top political analyst who also happens to be actively soliciting for Republicans and conservatives.  We report, you decide.

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    • Author by Cannonball (November 03, 2009 10:19 am ET)
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      No doubt about it. Obama is right to defend himself. Answering fact to fiction is the only way to keep the attention and Fox is no different than an attack from the Republican Party itself.
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    • Author by The_Cat (November 03, 2009 10:23 am ET)
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      Way to be 'party over principles' Rove. We already knew you were 'party over country'. I guess whoever is signing the paychecks, right?
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    • Author by Zel (November 03, 2009 8:26 pm ET)
         
      What a crock. FOX News and C-Span are two of the ONLY objective news sources. If the citizenry depended upon the major networks plus the counterfeit leftist, biased entities that are MSNBC & CNN then you have what got Obama elected to begin with: a vastly IGNORANT and UNinformed citizenry. Thankfully, some are now seeing the light and have learned what a complete inexperienced adolescent petulant crybaby sham dupe & shell-game Obama is. Period.
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