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“Politico has repeatedly relied on the discredited leftwing advocacy group Media Matters for America as a source for negative pieces about Fox News in recent months”
Fox Newss Steve Doocy swaps insults with Politico blogger Ben Smith
01/28/2011
Politico and the Fox News Channel continued what has become something of a feud this week, with Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy and Politico blogger Ben Smith swapping insults. On Tuesday, Smith wrote a blog post praising Esquire magazines recent profile of Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, a piece entitled, Why does Roger Ailes Hate America? If you havent checked it out, Smith enthused, a must-read.
The next morning, Doocy struck back, reading on air some of the comments posted beneath Smiths item on Politico. Another hit piece by left wing extremist trash masquerading as official journalists in America, read one. Wow, Ben, you have some free time this afternoon obviously and youre not using it to write another smear piece on Palin, said another.
Politico and the Fox News Channel continued what has become something of a feud this week, with Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy and Politico blogger Ben Smith swapping insults. On Tuesday, Smith wrote a blog post praising Esquire magazines recent profile of Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, a piece entitled, Why does Roger Ailes Hate America? If you havent checked it out, Smith enthused, a must-read.
The next morning, Doocy struck back, reading on air some of the comments posted beneath Smiths item on Politico. Another hit piece by left wing extremist trash masquerading as official journalists in America, read one. Wow, Ben, you have some free time this afternoon obviously and youre not using it to write another smear piece on Palin, said another.
Doocy also referred to Smiths blog post as a column, something that seems to have struck a nerve with Smith, who immediately responded. I stay out of opinion journalism, but must in my life have written something harsher about someone somewhere, without provoking a news outlet to risk whats left of its reputation by reading anonymous blog comments on the air, Smith wrote.
Without sourcing anyone from Fox News, or in fact anyone at all, Smith also suggested that Doocy had been ordered by management to attack him on the air. Doocys rant, which he says he drew from reading my column yesterday, but which its hard to believe he wasnt told to do, reflects a remarkably thin skin, Smith wrote.
The exchange was not without context. Politico has repeatedly relied on the discredited leftwing advocacy group Media Matters for America as a source for negative pieces about Fox News in recent months, including a story that alleged Fox executives told editorial staff to avoid the term public option in talks about Obamacare, and another that claimed the networks management urged climate skepticism in coverage of global warming.