"It was a poor statement but..."

How many of those does he get?

Sorry, but your "out of context" excuse doesn't fly.

I don't watch any of the cable news stations on a regular basis. I do watch on election nights, because I am trying to get info, and I find that is often hard to do so in real time online as Sec of State sites crash or aren't updated, and blogs are full of people spouting off without knowing what they are talking about. I actually switch through all 3 of the stations, but, in all honesty, I stay on Fox more.

This is for several reasons. First of all, Fox has more knowledgable people as their experts. The have Barone, who literally wrote the freaking book on US politics, and Rove, who, while the consumate scumbag, does actully know his business. Who does CNN have, John Anderson, standing before a map of NH long after it was obvious that Hillary had won yet still droning on about how the "college towns" were going to put Obama over the top? Or Bill Schneider, who might as well be in a coma as he hasn't had an insight since. . .well, actually, he's never had an insight. As for MSNBC, they don't even have any wonky experts.

This leads to point 2, Fox gets it right and first. They call most races earliest (CNN is almost always last). And, because they have Barone and such, they don't get it wrong, like many other news outlets did about Missouri.

Third, and I know you won't buy this but I think it's true, but they are fairer than the other 2. MSNBC is simply loaded with Obama shills. While I flip through it looking for info on its crawls, I usually turn the sound off so as not to have to listen to Tweety, Olberasshole, "greatest degeneration" senile Brokaw, and the rest of them cream in their pants over Obama. CNN is a little more objective, but not much. Fox hates all Democrats. They obviously hate the Clintons. And now they hate Obama too. So, as they have no dog in the fight, they tend to present the facts. Even asshats like Cristal and Fred Barnes were saying that Hillary would probably win the Texas primary when the election hadn't been called yet. You simply couldn't get that info on CNN or MSNBC, because, as Obama rooters, they were still clinging to hope that had no basis in fact.

I obviously agree with you that Fox is a POS network run by a POS GOP scumbag and staffed with the same. But, I am going to "strike" or boycot it on election nights, as they actually do their job and do it better than their competitors.

Fox also said this morning that Hillary should quit because Obama had the worst week of the campaign.  Obvuiusly, two things were  left unstated:

1) Obama should have taken more of a dive given the news that came out.

2) As the Republican network of choice, Fox is looking forward to running the same stuff they have against Obama all the way through November.  They want him as the nominee and they want him bad.  This is just a warm up for the scum bag express.

I hate to admit it, but all Democrats owe Fox News a debt of gratitude on this count.  If they were truly as sinister as we all thought, they would have saved the Rev. Wright story until after Obama won the nomination.

Yet, they were pushing that story for weeks.  In fact, some in the blogosphere had pursued it for nearly a year.  Because of the sanitizing media coverage, many of us simply never knew.

I happen to think Obama handled the situation about as well as he possibly could have, and I wrote my own reaction to his speech here.  I'll also concede that this was the first time in his political career that Sen. Obama indicated to us that he was capable of doing something bold.

So those are two compliments from me.

But..

I have absolutely no question in my mind that this story makes him unelectable in the general election.  McCain already signaled that he intended to make this debate about "character".  Gee, why do you suppose he made that decision?  Meanwhile, very rational conservative commentators, like Newt Gingrich, will make observations like this that will completely tear him down.

How many times have we lost the White House because of some form of "swift boating"?

So, for FOX News to make us aware of what I feel is a fatal flaw in Obama's electability is a service.  We still have time to adapt to this new information.

FOX hates all liberals equally.   MSNBC and CNN only hate Hillary.   As evidence I give you below the following transcript snips from "The Situation Room" last week.   This campaign has revived in me some old and painful memories:   Liberal men hate women.   Whether it's the 60s rock musicians singing "American  Woman, get away from me" or "Under My Thumb" ("A siamese cat [spitting sound on the final 't'] of a girl who's just had her day") or whether it's Huey Newton saying "Sure, women have a role in the Black Power movement:  prone".    

From CNN (emphases mine):

CAFFERTY: Yes. Well, did I miss the announcement? Did the Democratic Party put Hillary Clinton in charge of resolving this? I must have missed the press release. No, they didn't. And this nonsense about I'm issuing a challenge to Barack Obama to do something about Michigan and Florida is pure hypocrisy.

Hillary Clinton was fine with not counting Michigan and Florida back when she was leading in all the polls and walking around like the incumbent president of the United States. Now she's behind and she's far enough behind that she can't catch Obama. So she's not going to get the nomination unless she can somehow create this idea that it's Barack Obama's fault that the people in Florida and Michigans votes didn't count.

BLITZER: All right.

CAFFERTY: So there's no way you can just go seat the delegates based on the results from January. Obama said he'll abide by the rules set down by the DNC. And this is nonsense that Senator Clinton is pulling here.

BORGER: Look, I think -- I think each campaign is doing what it has to do. I mean it's in Hillary Clinton's interests to prolong this and to have re-votes...

CAFFERTY: Why?

BORGER: ...in each of those states. Because she feels that the longer this contest goes on, Jack, that she might pick up some momentum. If she can win in a state like Florida or win in a state like Michigan or win in a future...

CAFFERTY: Yes.

BORGER: And it's in Barack Obama's interests to not have these re-votes and to continue to count the delegates. Now, having said that, I think that the DNC is in a real pickle right now because everybody looks bad.

TOOBIN: I really think this is unseemly whining by Hillary Clinton.

CAFFERTY: Amen.

TOOBIN: You know, the rules were the rules...

CAFFERTY: Yes.

TOOBIN: And I don't believe that the voters of Michigan and Florida, come November, eight months from now, are going to say well, you know, I don't really care about the war in Iraq or the economy. What I really care about is who voted in the primary 11 months earlier and whether their votes counted.

I mean I think this is all inside baseball and doesn't matter -- won't matter in the fall. I think Hillary Clinton is just behind and she's --

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And here is what I wrote in response:

Wolf Blitzer, Jack Cafferty, et al.  (Wednesday 3:40 pm PDT).   You have just crossed over into the realm of Rush Limbaugh.  You three men sit there launching character assassinations against Hillary Clinton (accusing her of political machinations and "unseemly whining").    In fact, insiders understand that it IS the Obama campaign holding up progress in Michigan.  You people are not journalists, you are opinionated misogynists who think you can say anything about a woman from your holy pulpit there on CNN and everyone will think it's just fine.  

Everyone does not.   You've just lost this viewer forever.