Will the fear and loathing among the liberal press for all things Fox never cease? Posted on 08/02/2007 11:30:44 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Will the fear and loathing among the liberal press for all things Fox never cease?
In the latest outbreak of Fox Derangement Syndrome, the New York Times, the self-styled paper of record, has spent hundreds of hours researching and trying to dig up dirt on the friendship between Rudy Giuliani and Fox News Channel head Roger Ailes. This article was all they could come up with, a semi-conspiratorial bit that is more sizzle than steak and more hype than substance.
Yes, as reporter Russ Buettner discovered, the former New York mayor and Ailes are friends and have done a few activities together. Yes, Giuliani tried to get his city to carry FNC shortly after its launch when local cable monopoly TimeWarner, then in the process of buying CNN, refused to carry the channel (something it would do throughout the country, incidentally but never mind). That, however, is it as far as "dirt" goes.
Sure there's more stuff in the article but it's all innuendo coming from a paper with an agenda of its own. Did you know, for instance, that even though the Times does mention that during Bill Clinton's presidency, CNN was headed up by a friend of his named Rick Kaplan, that the Grey Lady never bothered to mention this fact at the time? The contrast is stark.
Rudy Giuliani is a candidate for president but since both he and Ailes are Republicans, any shred of relationship between the two men is automatically suspicious. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton, the actual president, had a personal friend of his overseeing the coverage of his every move at CNN and before that at ABC.
The Times's eight-year lack of interest in the Kaplan-Clinton relationship was hardly for want of material. In 1998, for instance, Vanity Fair published a lengthy article which detailed how Kaplan skewed coverage in favor of his friend. The January 14 MRC CyberAlert from that year summarized some of the more damning facts:
- How Kaplan once hired Hillary Clinton.
- How he not only advised Clinton about how to counter Gennifer Flowers, a pretty well known event, but had earlier counseled Clinton on how to recover from his too-long 1988 convention speech.
- How he had been a political operative for a liberal presidential candidate before jumping to journalism.
- How he made calls to console Hillary Clinton after Vince Foster's death and to Web Hubbell after he resigned.
- How he killed a Whitewater piece from "World News Tonight," discouraged reporters and producers from pursuing the topic and only ran an in-depth look one night in 1994 because "Nightline" was about to grab it.
Since the Clinton years, Kaplan didn't exactly disappear from the face of the earth, either. After failing at CNN, he was later appointed to be the president of MSNBC. Meanwhile, Clinton's wife, Hillary, began her own run for the White House. Nary a peep from the Times.
There's a reason behind all this. The media left views anyone with any sort of conservative reputation as inherently invidious. Liberal friendships or cooperation are either nonexistant or not worth noting at all. The paranoia and political bigotry is palpable.
Update 11:44. Thomas Lifson has a great post on Fox chief Rupert Murdoch and NYT exec Pinch Sulzberger (h/t JDW)
—Matthew Sheffield is Executive Editor of NewsBusters.
Is it true that Murdoch is supporting Hitlery for Pres.?
These people are so afraid of Rudy. Why can’t freepers figure out that if the NYTimes is this afraid of Rudy he is not a Rhino.
headed by a pro-abortion, pro-amnesty, pro-litigation, gun-grabbing, gay-rights crusading, condescending, arrogant, and narcissistic LIBERAL New York lawyer who believes in using our tax money for Federally-funded abortions,,,,
who worked in the Bobby Kennedy campaign, voted for George McGovern, who as mayor publicly distanced himself from Ronald Reagan, and who vocally supported and proudly endorsed a liberal, big-government, socialist democrat like Mario Cuomo over the Republican candidate for governor,,,,
and who was so liberal that he wasn’t even invited to the Republican Convention in ’96--after refusing to endorse (until the last minute) the Republican candidate opposing Clinton,,,,
and a Clinton-apologist--whose personal life is an absolute TRAIN WRECK (almost making Bill Clinton look like a decent family man and loving husband--if that is even possible),,,, a LIBERAL like Rudy JulieAnnie is JUST THE MAN FOR THE JOB!!!!
Yep, definitely NO RINO there../s
Oh darn, I was hoping it would be another Watergate.
Whoever gets the Republican nomination - despite any faults I would find with him - gets my vote over any of the flotsam and jetsam on the other side of the aisle.
Only one time in my life have I voted for a Democrat (he didn’t win), and that was in 1988. I will not make that mistake again.
Why don’t you ask Jim
A Democrat for the NY Times is by definition an enlightened person. A Democrat is more tolerant, more moral, less selfish, more open, more caring and more intelligent by definition. All it takes is the right investigation to prove all of the above. And you can read it in the NY Times every day.
“Rudy is a lifelong Democrat, did you know that? He switched party affiliation but not this party ideology to get elected Mayor.”
You are confusing him with Bloomberg. Rudy ws Reagans man in the district attorney office and was with the Regan justice department before that in DC. Easy mistake to make.
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