{"id":856,"date":"2004-10-30T14:12:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T18:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2008-03-03T21:28:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T05:28:35","slug":"hannity-colmes-to-stack-election-eve-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"‘Hannity & Colmes’ to Stack Election Eve Deck!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUNDAY UPDATE:<\/b> My highly placed source inside <\/i>H&C tells me your Emails are making a difference! Keep speaking up<\/a>! Your voice matters! If you Democrat\/Liberal\/Progressives think it makes sense to simply write Fox off entirely, please see this<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

It was announced at the end of Friday’s Hannity & Colmes<\/i> on Fox that their Monday (Election Eve) guests would be:<\/p>\n

ON THE RIGHT:<\/b> Karl Rove, Dick Morris, William Weld (UPDATE!)<\/i><\/b> Jeb Bush just added!!!
\nON THE LEFT:<\/b> Bill Richardson<\/p>\n

Obviously, this is anything but “Fair and Balanced” and on the eve of a national Election it’s simply outrageous!<\/p>\n

I have a highly placed source inside the Hannity & Colmes<\/i> show who I’ve sent Email to complain about this, and I received back a similar response to the ones I usually receive from them on the lack of balance on H&C<\/i>. Namely; the Kerry campaign is simply not as willing to help them by supplying guests as the Bush campaign is. (I wonder why!)<\/p>\n

I have tried to explain to my source that it’s Fox’s<\/u> and H&C’s<\/i><\/u> responsibility to ensure that their show is fair and balanced! Not<\/i> the responsibility of the Kerry campaign or the DNC to ensure that!<\/p>\n

No matter how much the Democrats wish (or do not wish) to supply top-level guests to H&C<\/i> it is the responsibility of the news organization<\/i>, and debate show — which claims to offer “Fair and Balanced” debate from both sides — to do everything they can to ensure that the American people whom they serve receive an equal representation from both sides!<\/p>\n

Last week, for example, Hannity had half-hour one-on-one interviews first with George W. Bush and then again with Dick Cheney. After which, both Hannity and Colmes pointed out that they had invited Kerry and\/or Edwards to enjoy the same, to which apparently they declined.<\/p>\n

In lieu of Kerry or Edwards then, H&C<\/i> should have given an equal amount of time to a Democratic representative — any<\/i> Democratic representative, if necessary! — to do at least their best<\/i> to try<\/i> and offer balance, even if they were not able to get Kerry or Edwards themselves!<\/p>\n

And now, on their Election Eve show<\/i>, such sorry excuses are simply intolerable! Having three Republican guests — two of them, Rove and Morris, who will likely be offered segments where no<\/i> balancing Democrat representative is there to supply balance — is beyond the pale on the final show before Americans go to the polls!<\/p>\n

I’ve contacted MediaMatters.org<\/a> about this issue in hopes that they can help make some noise about it. I hope you will do the same<\/b>, as well as helping to spread this word, and contacting the people at Fox News and the Hannity & Colmes show with your opinions about this outrageous example of attempting to effect the Presidential Election on the nation’s most-watched channel for Election news coverage on the night before the Election!<\/p>\n

CONTACT…
\nSean Hannity: hannity@foxnews.com<\/a>
\nAlan Colmes: colmes@foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

FOX News Channel FOX News Channel:
\n1-888-369-4762
\nComments@foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Media Matters:
\nwww.MediaMatters.org<\/a>
\nEmail<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to Email all of the above at once!<\/b><\/i><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>: If you have any question where Hannity & Colmes<\/i> — the show that claims to offer “Fair and Balanced Debate” stands, see the front page of their website<\/a> right now. Here’s a screenshot. Note all three featured stories offered to readers: Interviews with Peggy Noonan (Conservative, Ronald Reagan’s speech writer), George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

We’ve come to expect this from H&C<\/i> by now, of course, but their Election Eve coverage is even more outrageous than on most days! And, certainly more important than just any old day of the week!<\/p>\n

UPDATE 11\/1\/04:<\/b> Hannity & Colmes<\/i> now announcing<\/a> that Jeb Bush<\/u> is added to tonight’s show!!!<\/p>\n

GOOD NEWS UPDATE 11\/1\/04:<\/b> Just heard from my source: Terry McAullife now added to show for balance! Your letters are working! Keep it up! You are making a difference!!!<\/p>\n

FINAL UPDATE:<\/b> Victory (mostly)! Final lineup: 2 guests from the Right, 2 from the Left! But H&C<\/i> managed, incredibly, to skew it to the Right anyway. Click here to read how<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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