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To: diogenes ghost
Well, you certainly like labels. Personally, if I agree with most of someone's views, I generally accept them, unless they have one or more 'unacceptable' views from my perspective.

More like a personal grading system. I'm sure you do the same; In fact, go ahead and let's see YOUR ratings. Btw, you already "labeled" me and presumed I totally disdain FOX News' entire line up, didn't you? But facts are facts. And you're wrong.

So, you like to slam FOX, but name any network that comes CLOSE to their lineup of right-leaning talkers. Nope, you can't do it.

The point is NOT about pitting FOX vs. Everyone Else, but about FOX's self-proclaimed "Fair & Balanced" meme and YOUR insistence that the network is "conservative." It's NOT. By definition, boasting of "fair & balanced" means it is NOT "CONSERVATIVE." Not nearly. Will you concede that point?

Oh, Pirro as a 'pseudo-Conservative' and Krauthammer as a 'Liberal' really makes your ratings less than reliable.

And you delusional. Kraut? The man may not be a "liberal," but he;s certainly NO "conservative." He's a social moderate, a interventionist, war-mongering neocon who would prefer American fight a perpetual war. And he was a Democrat and speech-writer for Mondale. What's that tell you?

Pirro as a NY prosecutor was a vicious fascist. These days she's demonstrated more conservative viewpoints.

What of the rest of the FOX lineup? Guess what? Many ARE moderates and liberals. Few at FOX are what I would consider "bull-dog conservatives."

And look -- NO "Conservative" network would in their right mind prominently feature Geraldo, Juan Williams, Beckel, Shepard Smith, and Colmes. O'Reilly is NOT "conservative." Chris Wallace is a Democrat. FOX also routinely features and gives flaming liberals and leftists a platform as its guests. But I guess in your world everything is relative, eh?

FOX News is NOT "Conservative"; It feature some conservatives. Some moderates. Some liberals.

54 posted on 08/10/2013 7:09:40 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: USS Johnston
BUMP and the Wall Street Journal is usually only "conservative" on its editorial page, that does not make the newspaper/website a conservative site either. I remember seeing a story that their news pages are actually a tad more liberal than the MSM. Remember how its "reporters" treated Clarence Thomas.
55 posted on 08/10/2013 7:11:47 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: USS Johnston
I never said that FOX, as a network, is conservative. I did say they are right-leaning, which they certainly are.

Do you really WANT a network that is undeniably all conservative? That would only put it the mold of MSNBC, just from the opposite perspective. Won't win many conversions with that tactic.

Judge FOX as ANY news network should be, a fair presenter of all facts...allowing viewers to reach their own conclusions.

Putting Beckel's views alongside those of Bolling, for example, is far preferable to only airing Bolling's. Sure, you and I would enjoy it more, but a network cannot survive by only pleasing FReepers.

I'm glad you rescinded the 'Liberal' label on Krauthammer. And Pirro of late has been absolutely pounding Obama & Co. I care not what she may have been in the past, she is doing a great job in her present position.

57 posted on 08/10/2013 9:55:14 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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