Joe Conason: “Criticizing Fox News isn’t ‘Nixonian.’ But Fox News is: Pundits are making false comparisons between Obama and Nixon. They have no idea what they’re talking about.” “In a sense, Fox News Channel has never been able to overcome its nature as the offspring of Ailes, notoriously one of the angriest, toughest Republican consultants in politics, and Rupert Murdoch, the ruthless mogul whose political abuse of his news outlets became legendary long before he entered the cable news business. The objective for Ailes, as for Murdoch, is not fairness or balance; the objective is always to win by whatever means necessary. That includes marketing himself and his employees as high-minded truth-seekers and innocent victims of snotty liberalism — much in the mode of old Nixon.” — [ Read More ]
Erick E. Burns, President of Media Matters: Fox News Channel is twisting American politics in an unprecedented way, and too many members of the press still aren’t getting it. The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war aimed at destroying the Obama administration and its progressive agenda. Fox’s Glenn Beck said so himself last Friday, predicting that he would soon “take the administration down.” [ READ MORE ]
Beck expects something he’s “working on now” will “take the administration down“
Fox Complaining About Non-Invitation To White-House
