Chris Wallace blasts his Fox News colleagues for “Obama-bashing”
March 21st, 2008
By Gerardo Orlando
The mayhem at Fox News this morning shows that some members of that organization are becoming uncomfortable with Fox’s attempts to destroy Obama and distort everything he says.
This morning, one anchor on Fox News literally walked off the set after his two-co-anchors continuously tried to distort Obama’s statements and take them out of context.
Then, Chris Wallace came on air and said he was watching the program for two hours and expressed his disappointment that the program was basically engaged in “Obama-bashing” all morning, especially on a day when Obama was being endorsed by Bill Richardson and we have the passport controversy.
Good for Wallace. It’s nice to see he hasn’t completely forgotten the concept of journalistic integrity.
March 21st, 2008 12:19
Obama’s great speech seems to have calibrated a lot of people, myself included. I think starting with Willie Horton and spiraling downward from there, many of us have lurched downward into couching every political argument into some sort of absurd caricature.
Obama’s speech was not only addressing race in my opinion but also an appeal to stop oversimplifaction, demonisation and demogogory.
For the moment, it seems to have waken us all from our 20 year plus slumber and I think even if Obama doesn’t win the Presidency, his speech will stand, I hope, as a watershed moment in American political history.
March 21st, 2008 12:22
Interesting take on that segment….