Fox’s Laughable Case for Romney

The Wednesday broadcast featured Dick Morris, Karl Rove and Dennis Miller, an a-cappella chorus humming O’Reilly’s favorite tunes: that the mainstream media is rooting for Obama; that the polls consistently misrepresent a race that is still a dead heat; that Romney will re-emerge from this autumnal swoon by winning the October 3 debate through his superior if often-invisible oratorical skills; that Romney is in decline simply because voters don’t yet understand the necessity of top-end tax cuts, the sanctity of corporate profits and the horror of social welfare spending run amok.

Across its programs, the Fox News mantra is “there’s still plenty of time.” That’s a truism, but chanting the obvious is not among the standard definitions of journalism. Institutionally, Fox is in denial about the state of the campaign. Romney is looking very weak very early. The attempt to avoid reporting this state of play in a “fair and balanced” way is producing comical results.

When my buddy at work claims that the Liberal Media is just like Fox News I point him to one fact…. on CNN, MSNBC, NY Times etc you see both good and bad things about candidates on the right and left.

At Fox news every single good thing about a left side player is ignored or spun into something “bad”. If there is national news which makes the right look bad, Fox News ignores it. If they can’t ignore it they spin it into a false silver lining.

Not like I’m telling you folks anything you don’t already know. Fuck em.