Las Vegas' Fox affiliate rips Fox & Friends' Angle interview for "inaccuracies, softball questions and poor research"
June 14, 2010 1:04 pm ET by Eric Hananoki
Fox5 (KVVU), Las Vegas' Fox affiliate, today strongly criticized Fox & Friends for doing an interview with Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle that was "rife with inaccuracies, softball questions and poor research on the part of the producers and hosts." Nevada journalist Jon Ralston also criticized Fox & Friends' interview of Angle.
While Fox5 airs Fox Broadcasting Co. programming, it is not owned by Fox News parent News Corp. Fox5 news director Adam P. Bradshaw previously criticized Fox News as having a "political agenda," adding: "We're as fair and balanced as they're not."
From Fox5's article:
Republican nominee Sharron Angle appeared on the cable news program Monday morning in an interview rife with inaccuracies, softball questions and poor research on the part of the producers and hosts.
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It must have stung when Gretchen Carlson opened by asking the four-term assemblywoman and former minority whip about the "whirlwind experience" she's having as "someone who really has not been in politics before."
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Carlson's co-host Steve Doocy also left some audience members scratching their heads when he said Angle had been endorsed by Sarah Palin. She hasn't.
Reid's team will feast on the interview, especially Doocy's final question, one of the few that asked Angle about her platform.
"Perhaps it's a misinformation or mischaracterization, but some have said you are out to get rid of Social Security. That's not true, right?" he said.
Angle called it "nonsense" and said she wants to "personalize" Social Security, so the government cannot "raid" it. Her website advocates free market alternatives and transitioning out Social Security.
She also challenged Reid to a debate on the show, which is about as likely as the Senate Majority Leader getting an endorsement from the trio of hosts.
The interview with Angle was a joke.
When you throw out inane comments you should be prepared to back up the premise of said inane comment.
However, the national Fixed News pitched a bunch of softballs to Angle.
BTW, was FOX News ever a real news organization?
Does that mean that she challenged Reid to come on Fox and debate her? Or that she was on the show when she challenged Reid to a debate? I'm thinking that Angle meant that she wanted Reid to come on Fox and debate her (because the second part of the sentence refers to the hosts of the program, thus referencing Fox). Perhaps somebody who watched the interview would be able to clear up the ambiguity for me?
Mind you, that's just for my own intellectual curiosity, to see how daft the Angle woman is. If she meant that she wanted Reid to come on Fox and debate her then she's dopier than almost any human alive. If she wanted to simply debate him (elsewhere than Fox) that's not so terrible (though for the life of me I can't imagine why somebody who has called for free-market Social Security (helloooooo thieving corporations!) and phasing it out would ever want to take the stage in real time with somebody who could zing you with that).