Cliff Kincaid of AIM, Accuracy in Media, (
must stop laughing, must stop....) has got a little spat with FOX News. And among "conservatives" he is not alone. Kincaid
recently printed other "conservatives" notes against FOX.
Kincaid's personal beef was with Robert Kennedy Jr. and Bill O'Reilly?
Perhaps the most egregious example was the global warming program on Fox featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a "special correspondent." Some people who responded to our comments noted that FNC host Bill O'Reilly had bought into the man-made global warming theory long before the channel ran the Kennedy special.
How dare people buy into this man-made global warming theory!! Hey, I don't see a problem with running my air conditioner....in December!
Another writer wrote -
"Just read your recent article regarding Fox News Channel and the global warming issue and I am glad you chose to address this matter. I've forwarded to you an email I sent FNC after seeing portions of their show. I did not bother to watch all of it. I thought you might appreciate reading my email response to FNC after they aired their environmental propaganda piece."
He added, "FNC is not the cure-all broadcaster to counter liberally biased MSM. It is better than MSM, but is not perfect. Much of its regular programming fails to meet its own 'fair and balanced' mantra; your analysis of Bill O'Reilly is a good example."
First, a FOX viewer that does not watch the entire show - what a shock. Maybe I should be happy he watched any of it.
I still have to laugh, though, when even these crackpots are starting to see holes in the "fair and balanced" mantra.
Then another person wrote -
No one has even mentioned the spate of ex-CNN reporters, such as Bill Hemmer, coming to FOX...and he certainly is NOT fair and balanced. He has the Washington Post and NY Times people on more than any other sources. Wesley Clark? Conservative? I don't think so! No one to rebut him either. What has happened to Shepard Smith? Apparently he has been in NYC too long.....and New Orleans! It has gotten to him, I think. Oh well, it was too good to last...
How dare they hire people...with a brain. And how dare Shepard Smith...um...well...deal with reality.
So are conservatives abandoning FOX News?
One said, "Good article! I had to give up on Fox News about six months ago. The morning show stopped doing news, the obsession with President Bush's poll numbers over the last year. Just a continued spiral down the drain."
Still another: "I have abandoned Fox News the same way they have left the conservatives."
We can only wish. But maybe there is hope. One writer gave me hope that A) FOX News may fall and B) there are conservatives that have a brain.
It seems to me that a lot of conservative news/political junkies don't understand the nature and character of News Corp and Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch is not conservative in any true sense of the word, as evidenced by the fact that his Fox Entertainment division is responsible for some of the most vulgar, violent and indecent programming in television and film, and that his satellite division makes millions from pay-per-view porn. His news division does lean right, but this I believe has less to do with politics and more to do with business: there was an untapped market for 'fair and balanced' news, and Murdoch wisely hired [Roger] Ailes to help him capture it. Murdoch is a mogul, and he only cares about profits and whatever benefits his company, and if that means appeasing Chinese communists, Saudi princes, or left-wing politicians, so be it.
Maybe some conservatives are just waking up to the fact that they have been played like the fools that many of them are. Murdoch and the Republican Party has used them. Because at the end of the day, it isn't gay marriage or prayer in school or abortion, it is the bottom line and how much money you can get out of every sucker out there.
And guess who has been the biggest sucker of them all?