http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversiesEvery Fox news broadcast I watched over a two-day period (Fox Report, O'Reilly, Hannity, Van Susteren, their morning program, all played the Hank Williams Jr clip you mention (comparing Obama to Hitler) and laughed about how ridiculous a comparison it was. Basically saying "this is why we don't take celebrity political opinion seriously."
So, now the story is that FoxNews used Hank Jr. as fodder and denigrated him and his opinion as laughable and ridiculous to prove Gretchen's point about Rosie O'Donnell and other celebrities. Way to jump from hypocrisy to real "class act" there. That's the kind of rationalization that would make Wanky proud.
Further, this is also totally disputed by the frequent appearance of celebrities/sports stars talking politics on--at the very least--Hannity's Great American Panel.
I watch Fox fairly regularly along with MSNBC and other news outlets. Face it, Fox is just as biased as any of those organizations. It takes far too much willful ignorance or plain stupidity to argue otherwise.
Lastly, let's have a look at the recent dust up around Robert Jeffress. He was great to have on Fox when pushing the Obama is a secret muslim stuff and the "war on Christmas." But, he speaks his mind about a lot of Christians views on Mormonism and gets marginalized and accused of attacking someone's religion. Glad it matters when he is talking about a GOP frontrunner.
Totally fair and balanced.
So if I don't accept your POV, I'm "willfully ignorant"?
Nice.
I don't think it's a "plot" by Fox to either rationalize criticizing Rosie O'Donnell or scapegoat Williams Jr for making the dumb comment that was aired of Fox & Friends (who in America beyond the far left ever took Rosie O'Donnell seriously, prior to the Williams Jr thing?)
You bash Hannity, but one of the comments where Williams Jr was panned and ridiculed was Hannity's "great American Panel" (a segment I don't like, because I prefer serious political commentators, not actors, athletes, and other celebrities like Williams Jr.
There are many comments I see on Fox that are partisan, sure. But as I said repeatedly, they also have valuable coverage of things like the ACORN scandal that other networks selectively downplay or omit, and also offer plenty of balancing liberal perspective and opinion, such as Juan Williams and the others I listed.
My greatest complaint about Fox is that they have panels where people talk over each other, and there's so much crosstalk that it becomes a waste of time to discern what is being said at times. CNN likewise has this problem. I'd say the best show that has the most controlled and civil equal-time panel discussions is PBS. But as I outlined above, they too have their biases and selective omissions.
Charlie Rose is another program I value for it's in-depth and not overtly partisan spin. After 10 years of watching Charlie Rose, I still cannot discern where on the political spectum Rose's views are. Which speaks well for the facts presented on his show.
Basically, I listen to everyone at various times, and from all sides I can distill the basic facts, and various perspectives of the facts.
