If you're like me, you spent last night skimming the news channels trying to get your head around the disaster in Haiti last night. Almost every news channel devoted almost all of their programming time to the subject, all except Fox News.
Fox, as usual, spent most of their programing complaining about the President.
Maybe you've noticed this trend. Well before we reached the one year mark in this presidency Faux news and their allies on talk radio unabashedly spend their entire programing time lying, insinuating, complaining and stretching credulity. It's a broken record designed only to further their propaganda.
They use every current affair to position themselves against the President. It doesn't matter if it's true, doesn't matter if it's rational, doesn't matter if it's moral. You all heard what Limbaugh said yesterday in a current front page diary. It's despicable that they would use such an occurance to score propaganda points. When Katrina happened, the left at least waited for Bush to fuck up before we said anything.
As I was channel surfing, it was only Faux News that was covering something other than the earthquake. And every single time I stopped there, it was some sort of person or panel that was finding some way to disparage the President. Or it was Palin trying to establish credibility as a new "journalist". This "fair and balanced" approach is so far beyond real journalistic ethics that I don't understand why they are not thrown out of town by every Professor at every learning institution in the country. Why doesn't every real newspaper expose them constantly? There should be a million Media Matters watching everything they say.
All of Right wing media is concerned with nothing but getting Conservatives elected. It is a constant barrage that will not stop until they have complete control again. Then they will drop taxes for their rich freinds and deregulate their businesses. The media arm exists only to further this goal.
This shameful propaganda outlet needs to be held accountable. We need to expose all of their lies every time they utter one.