{"id":864,"date":"2004-10-31T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2004-10-31T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2004-10-31T18:38:18","slug":"update-hannity-colmes-email-campaign-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: &#8216;Hannity &#038; Colmes&#8217; Email Campaign Working!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00000855.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/HannityColmes_LeaningRight.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>If you haven&#8217;t seen my item from yesterday on this, please <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00000855.htm\">read it<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>My <i>very highly placed source<\/i> indicates that your letters are helping to encourage Fox to offer more balance on <i>H&#038;C&#8217;s<\/i> Monday night (Election Eve) show!<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already sent a <i>polite<\/i> note expressing your concern about &#8220;Fair and Balance&#8221; on their show Monday night, please <a href=\"mailto:hannity@foxnews.com, colmes@foxnews.com, Comments@foxnews.com, mm-tips@mediamatters.org, mm-actions@mediamatters.org, TheBradBlog@cville.com\">click here to do so now<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve received many <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00000855.htm#comments\">comments<\/a> from Rightwingers expressing that they are quite pleased with their guest line-up, thank you, as it was announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also received many from Liberals suggesting that since Fox is so far to the Right, what&#8217;s the point in trying to get them to level their playing field at all?<\/p>\n<p>I will remind you that, no matter what you may feel about Fox &#8220;News&#8221;, more Americans watch them now for Election &#8220;News&#8221; than any other news outlet! Those are <i>not<\/i> all Republican zombies! But <i>many<\/i> of those viewers are <i>highly<\/i> influenced by the hard-right slant that FNC offers in every facet of their broadcast day. With a race (possibly) this close, levelling the playing field in any way on FNC can only be a plus!<\/p>\n<p>CNN and MSNBC, unfortunately leaning to the Right as well these days, do <i>not<\/i> offer balance to FNC!<\/p>\n<p>You Democrats, Liberals and Progressives who are foolish enough to simply write-off Fox &#8220;News&#8221; as a lost and\/or useless cause are doing an enormous disservice to yourself and your cause and are behaving <i>precisely<\/i> as Bush supporters would like you to!<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 11\/1\/04: <i>H&#038;C<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,134671,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">now announcing<\/a> that Jeb Bush now added to tonight&#8217;s show!!! <a href=\"mailto:hannity@foxnews.com, colmes@foxnews.com, Comments@foxnews.com, mm-tips@mediamatters.org, mm-actions@mediamatters.org, TheBradBlog@cville.com\">Write those letters!!!<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>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<p><b>FINAL UPDATE:<\/b> Victory (mostly)! Final lineup: 2 guests from the Right, 2 from the Left! But <i>H&#038;C<\/i> managed, incredibly, to skew it to the Right anyway. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00000875.htm\">Click here to read how<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen my item from yesterday on this, please read it! My very highly placed source indicates that your letters are helping to encourage Fox to offer more balance on H&#038;C&#8217;s Monday night (Election Eve) show! If you haven&#8217;t already sent a polite note expressing your concern about &#8220;Fair and Balance&#8221; on their [&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,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}