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Interesting weekend, spent a little time down in our nation's capitol, took yet another classic photo of myself in front of the Washington Monument.
The only question now is, who should I twitter that to?
Anyway, I stopped by the old Fox News Sunday, said hi to my friend Chris Wallace. We, I thought, had a provocative discussion about the media. I suggested that the true bias of the mainstream news was not particularly liberal, but towards sensationalism and conflict, or as the Huffington Post put it, "YOU'RE INSANE!"
First of all, I wanna know, what font would you use when man lands on Mars? I guess in that case, Arianna just has to go door to door to people's houses, ring their bell, and go, "Click me, I have news!" By the way, we had to recreate that page, because even though it was apparently the most important news ever, they took it down like an hour later, so we couldn't get a screenshot.
Anyway, couple of things about that interview. One, I suggest you look at the unedited version online, where my emotional states don't seem to change so arbitrarily. The arguments are a little clearer, and a little less like a scene from a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Sad clown! Happy clown! Mad clown!
And two, the unedited version, which is on the web, had what I thought was the takeaway moment of the entire interview, where Chris Wallace, one of the more respected individuals at Fox, basically gives away the game.
JON STEWART: You believe that Fox News is exactly the ideological equivalent of NBC News.
CHRIS WALLACE: I think we're the counterweight.
JON STEWART: You believe that.
CHRIS WALLACE: I think that they have a liberal agenda, and I think we tell the other side of the story.
The other side of the story! We don't tell both sides of the story! We tell one side, the other side, the one we perceive is never told: the conservative side. Because as you know, news only comes in two sides. And if the conservative side isn't being told, what's being told must be liberal.
Fox News isn't fair and balanced, it's balancing the system, man! Don't you get it? The system's unfair and unbalanced! To balance the system, Fox has to be the purest form of right-wing resin, because of how heavy left-wing America is. Hollywood, comedians, every single news organization, the Internet, facts, history, science. It's all just left-wing bullshit, man! Each one of those things designed purely to shut down conservatives. But don't worry, Broseph, Fox isn't going to let that happen. Is Fox unbalanced? Yeah. Seriously, like, their ears are nearly touching the floor. But it's only 'cause the system's unbalanced!
(head explodes amid wild audience applause)
This is what I thought Chris Wallace was saying, which I thought was an interesting point.