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Senator Jay "the Jerk" Rockefeller of West Virginia has never been accused of being the sharpest knife in the Senate. Plainly speaking, the guy is kinda dumb, right Elmo?
"Uhhh....yeaaaah."
This week's statement by Jay the Jerk shows how really dumb he is:
Surely, Rockefeller, who is a liberal Democrat, included MSNBC in his complaint just to make it "fair and balanced" ( no pun intended). Let's face it. His ire is really directed at Fox News.
What I find strange is why he didn't include CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC in that complaint. The fact is that we have 4 networks that at the very minimum, tilt left with one (Fox) that tilts decidely right. Yet, in my view, Fox can match up to anyone in having commentators with opposing (liberal ) views-as compared to the others. (Anyone who cares to go through all the commentators on each network and measure them according to political persuasion, be my guest.)
So Rockefeller wants the FCC to get rid of Fox (and MSNBC). Great. That would leave CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC-all to the left. What's nect, Senator- talk radio?
Final point: How many conservative voices (including mine) have you heard calling for MSNBC, Keith Olbermann and all the rest of that scurvy crew to be taken off the air? (I know I haven't.) Then ask how many times you have heard the left call for people like Fox, Rush Limbaugh and talk radio to be shut down.
Now you should know who the bad guys are.
Jay Rockefeller wasn't too bad in his day. He is a good example of why the Democratic Party needs to stop leaning on incumbents to keep it's grip on certain seats forever and ever... even Robert Byrd died eventually, Byron Dorgan sensibly retired, and Jay Rockefeller isn't long for this world. Where are resh new faces? (I have to admit, Christine O'Donnell on a good day had a kind of appealing school-girl face, even if she showed no sign of a functional brain).
ReplyDeleteThe antidote to bad news coverage is more and better competing coverage. The only ground for intervention is to make sure one doesn't dominate all the rest. Much as I cast a jaundiced eye on the way the family behind Fox is buying up a good deal of the outlets, I wouldn't shut down Fox. I might break up a monopoly or limit number of media owned in one market, like the FCC used to.