Sunday, April 15, 2012

Unbalanced

"In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we're more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That's just a fact." The Callista the speaker, or former speaker, was referring to was his eighth wife (give or take) and the I was Newt "Slimy Reptile" Gingrich. He might have added that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, but let's stick with the facts Newt himself wanted to talk about.
"I assume it's because Murdoch at some point said, 'I want Romney,' and so 'fair and balanced' became 'Romney,'" Gingrich said. "And there's no question that Fox had a lot to do with stopping my campaign because such a high percentage of our base watches Fox." It has nothing to do with him bouncing a check that would have registered him in the Utah primary. Or his sixty-five wives (at last count). Or the moon base he wants to build by 2020. Or the wild shifts in personnel he has made on his campaign staff. Or the fifty dollars he is charging to have a picture taken with him. Or the fact that he's just not a very likable guy. Okay, that last one was an opinion, but how can this grown man continue to blame others when it is his campaign?
Rick Santorum bowed out of the race for the Republican nomination, and he didn't blame Fox News or his daughter for getting sick again. Does this make him a better person than Newt? That would be a matter of opinion, not fact. Maybe Fox News never got behind Santorum or Gingrich the way they did behind "Mittens" Romney, but we'll miss the sweater vest. That's a fact.

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