Every once in a while, a Fox News personality slips up and says something that reveals the whole Fair & Balanced thing is a joke, even to them. Media Matters used to like to call this the "Fox Freudian Slip".
In his "Talking Points Memo" segment last night, Bill O'Reilly had such a moment. Speaking about the election of Obama and what it all means going forward, O'Reilly stated
As for "The Factor," we will now ramp up our watchdog role........
Our focus now is to report exactly what President-elect Obama is doing and what it means to you. Let's be honest. The guy is still a mystery, so our oversight will be intense.
So in other words, now that a Democrat has been elected President, O'Reilly and his crew can "really" start to investigate what's going on in the White House again, not that such watchdogging was necessary the past 8 years or anything (Who was looking out for us then Bill?). It will be interesting to contrast what the media digs up on Obama, compared to what they ignored with Bush.
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