Fox Is Right Leaning. At Least They Admit It

I find it lovingly amusing to have to listen to major mainstream networks continuously attack Fox for being "right-wing" while maintaining they're impartial.

Yeah. Right.

For example, I consider (Fox's evil twin) MSNBC to be a closet liberal media outlet. I don't want to expand the debate further than this lest it bogs this post down.

Which is an easier ideology to rally and organize: Liberalism or conservatism? Conservatives, while far from homegeneous (think neo-cons, Christians, moderate etc.), seem (and this is just a perception) to be a tighter bunch while liberals seem far more fractured and unsure of its footing.

In any event, at least Fox has the balls to at least admit it leans right. The other networks, assuming they are partial to a side, only delude themselves. But MSNBC are full of shit for pretending to be anything but liberal.

I've noticed some interesting (and incredibly intelligent) websites I read regularly also sometimes delude (or perhaps they're in the closet too?) themselves. They call themselves "Rational" and "Balanced" yet all I see is constant breakdowns of conservative intellectual indiscretions while posting "must read" links to liberal thinkers and writers. Whenever I see someone dismantling, say, George Will and then send the reader over to David Brooks and Paul Krugman it raises my eyebrows. I mean, Brooks and Krugman aren't infallible beings, right? For example, just the other day Brooks, with a straight face I presume, asserted Ted Kennedy "never" took part in negative personal attacks.

All I needed to do was do a google search to see this is patently untrue. Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas are two cases debunking the Brooks myth.

Which begs another questions: Why do commentators on both sides engage in selective memory?

As for my blog, yeah, I take a quasi-conservative-libertarian stance on certain issues but it's a moderate stance and I do everything in my power to present opposing views in a given post. Marxists, socialists, liberals, whatever, all have been (and are) welcomed and discussed here. I believe in the theory of learning from others. If this blog can cross the great big intellectual divide. hey, then power to the people is all I can say.

And by the way, kudos to ABC for tolerating its token conservative in John Stossel. The way I see it, all networks should have as many voices as possible. I don't need to hear "preaching to the choir" punditry. Many television shows do a fair job of it but I think they can do more.