[lbo-talk] Fox News' Shepard Smith boasts of patriotic bias

[Kelley]

Shep bugs the living crap outta me. My partner says that Shep always seems 
ready to conclude any statement--no, proclamations and exclamations !!!--he 
makes with something like, "And it'd make a great fondue, too! YeeeeeeeAH!" 
and this wouldn't sound absurd. I mean, it would be absurd, but that is 
what Shep is: absurd.

I was working last night, watching what used to be a show I looked forward 
to, FAUX's News Watch (media analysis), which used to have Jeff Cohen on 
it. Anyway, I'd mentioned to my partner that it was hilarious to see how 
many Weapons of Mass Distraction we seem to be finding in Iraq when you 
watch FAUX. The coverage is insanely obsessive. Switch to another station, 
and you don't much about the hunt for WMDs. Sure, there is the occasional 
report, but nothing like FAUX.

Shonuff, the guy that took Jeff's place (can't think of his name) mentioned 
this: no one batted an eyelash. Even better, no one batted an eyelash when 
FAUX was described as unabashedly pro-war and, uh, pro-American. It just was.

We regurgitate, you decide.

backtoworkily,

kelley

*sigh*