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Old 07-26-2008, 10:37 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Azure View Post
Are Hannity and O'Rielly some sort of government robot programmed to repeat whatever Bush and his 'cronies' tell them too?

Come on. They can very much have their own opinion. Just because someone agrees with Bush on something doesn't mean he's reading off talking points from the Whitehouse. Because if you want to make that claim, wait until Obama is President, and we'll see how 'fair and balanced' some of the media is in regards to the decisions he makes.

EDIT: This is not to say that Fox News isn't biased or anything, but I'm sure any politician will go to a media outlet that will paint them in a good light.
This isn't actually about "bias" per se. Plenty of media pundits are biased--in some sense all of them are. This is about repeating, by rote, talking points that were given to them by the Bush White House, and pretending they were original opinions. It really is pretty scandalous--and a sad day for journalism when that passes for news commentary. It's concrete evidence that Fox really is--not nominally, as we all knew, but officially, as many of us suspected--the Bush administration's PRAVDA. And that's pretty shocking.
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