Posted on 10/19/2009 8:11:52 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
The White House communications director, Anita Dunn, contrasted Fox News with CNN: Fox News is just a Republican opinion outlet, she said, while CNN is a real news network. Of Fox, she said, Lets not pretend that theyre a news network, the way CNN is. She said this on CNN, of course. (In the 1990s, conservatives used to refer to it as the Clinton News Network.)
I got to thinking. Fox has some opinionists, such as OReilly and Beck. Fox also has news anchormen and correspondents.
CNN has those, too. One of the CNN anchors is Anderson Cooper hes their star, as I understand it. The hurricane guy. When the tea party protests got going earlier this year, Cooper interviewed David Gergen. Gergen said, They [Republicans and conservatives] still havent found their voice, Anderson. This happens to a minority party after its lost a couple of bad elections, but theyre searching for their voice.
Then Cooper said, Its hard to talk when youre teabagging. He said this smirkingly.
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P.P.S. Another CNN anchorman, Rick Sanchez, spread racist quotations allegedly from Rush Limbaugh. These quotes were fabrications, meant to damage Limbaugh. Do Fox anchormen engage in slander and defamation?
P.P.P.S. Anita Dunn tried to pass off her tribute to Mao as something she once heard from Lee Atwater. Has Lee Atwater become the Democrats standard the arbiter of Democratic discourse? What an interesting turn of events.
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