{"id":504,"date":"2004-09-09T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2004-09-09T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T20:06:38","slug":"and-on-the-leftnobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"And on the Left&#8230;Nobody."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BritHume.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Brit Hume&#8217;s <i>Special Report<\/i> panel on Fox just spent the last five minutes discussing what the supposed &#8220;Liberal&#8221; on the panel (Jeff Birnbaum, in this case) described as &#8220;Democrats really grasping at straws&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion was about Cheney&#8217;s announcement that America would be attacked again &#8220;in a devastating way&#8221; if they voted John Kerry into office. (What Cheney said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000493.htm\">here<\/a>, BRAD BLOG&#8217;s video reponse to it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/BushCheneyWrongChoice.htm\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So my question is, with a panel that consists today of the far Right Mort Kondracke, Fred Barnes and the middle-of-the-road, Right-leaning Birnbaum, all lead by staunch Conservative Brit Hume, where on God&#8217;s Green Earth is the view from the Left about <i>anything<\/i> on that show?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know that&#8217;s not a new thought. But Jesus&#8230;how do they continue to get away with not only <i>calling<\/i> themselves &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221;, but who are these frickin&#8217; Americans that actually <i>believe<\/i> that nonsense? Wouldn&#8217;t it at least be honest for them to say what they are, a Republican News Organization?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who would be purposefully blind enough believe their spin would, I guess, also think George W. Bush is either &#8220;conservative&#8221; or &#8220;effective&#8221; as a &#8220;President&#8221;. So there ya go.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Media Matters for America<\/i><\/a> has been doing a great job of calling out Fox (along with CNN and MSNBC) their a) laziness b) deceitfulness and c) continuous Right Wing slant on just about everything they &#8220;report&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brit Hume&#8217;s Special Report panel on Fox just spent the last five minutes discussing what the supposed &#8220;Liberal&#8221; on the panel (Jeff Birnbaum, in this case) described as &#8220;Democrats really grasping at straws&#8221;. The discussion was about Cheney&#8217;s announcement that America would be attacked again &#8220;in a devastating way&#8221; if they voted John Kerry into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}